TV/Movies Megathread

[11B4V]

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.

This movie just reeks of lost opportunity. Great cast, decent script, good director, great DP. What we get are individual great performances, trapped by shitty camera work, unfocused directing, and uninspired editing to render a muddy, visually stilted film that fails to take advantage of three of the most physically expressive actors working today: Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, and Kenneth Branagh.

When you have the director and DP of Thor working on a movie set in Russia, you expect more. WTF? No wonder this thing tanked.

Yeah,I inadvertently watch that and afterwards couldn't decide if the copy-protection dvd played on my pc was causing the thing to jump and miss bits or because it was really badly edited. 

I turned it off after 30 minutes. Jack Ryan reboot.

Watching Lawrence of Arabia instead.

[Martinus]

Ok, now I found Stephen Amell is apparently a huge LGBT ally.

Arrow/Flash must be the gayest show on tv right now.

So all it take is a bit of fanservice for the female fans to make a show ghey?

That plus outspokenly pro-gay stars and openly gay actors on the shows as well. Both shows also have gay characters.

[celedhring]

For all you car lovers; can you match the car to the movie?

http://www.zimbio.com/trivia/wijTsbaTRZl/Can+Match+Car+Movie?sc=23

A very surprising 87% (I'm no car person), although I failed all Bond cars   

[Syt]

83% with some educated guesses.

[Viking]

Ok, now I found Stephen Amell is apparently a huge LGBT ally.

Arrow/Flash must be the gayest show on tv right now.

So all it take is a bit of fanservice for the female fans to make a show ghey?

That plus outspokenly pro-gay stars and openly gay actors on the shows as well. Both shows also have gay characters.

So fanservice and saying "fags iz people too" is enough to make a show ghey?

[The Larch]

For all you car lovers; can you match the car to the movie?

http://www.zimbio.com/trivia/wijTsbaTRZl/Can+Match+Car+Movie?sc=23

A very surprising 87% (I'm no car person), although I failed all Bond cars   

93%, and I'm no car guy either.

[Ideologue]

93% as well.  I'd be willing to bet El Larcho missed the same ones I did because they had no business in the quiz: the one from a John Hughes movie is completely incidental, and I have reason to suspect the one from [spoiler]The Hangover or Old School or whatever[/spoiler] is in the same boat.  "Hey, everybody, trivia time!  Do you remember what kind of car Tony le Stephanois drove home from Grutter's house?"

[Ideologue]

Incidentally, The Guest (Adam Wingard's followup to You're Next) is pretty great (and in fact better than You're Next, which I know wasn't everybody's cup of tea).  Cars were driven in the movie, occasionally.

[celedhring]

93% as well.  I'd be willing to bet El Larcho missed the same ones I did because they had no business in the quiz: the one from a John Hughes movie is completely incidental, and I have reason to suspect the one from [spoiler]The Hangover or Old School or whatever[/spoiler] is in the same boat.  "Hey, everybody, trivia time!  Do you remember what kind of car Tony le Stephanois drove home from Grutter's house?"

[spoiler]The Hangover[/spoiler] one is pretty important to the plot; so the [spoiler]Ferris Bueller[/spoiler] one (I did miss the [spoiler]16 Candles[/spoiler] one, though).

I did actually get quite few right because of educated guesses - like the landscape, for example.

[Ideologue]

Oh, yeah, I totes meant the latter JH movie, not the former.

The [spoiler]Taxi Driver[/spoiler] one was a guess--who remembers [spoiler]a cab[/spoiler]?--and honestly I'm annoyed that the guess was correct.

[The Larch]

I missed the [spoiler]16 candles[/spoiler] one and one of the two James Bond ones, IIRC.

[Ideologue]

I did get the James Bond ones.

[Eddie Teach]

87% on the car quiz; I guessed quite well.

[Admiral Yi]

83%.  Much better than I thought I would get.  Quite a few guesses (like the questions with 4 movies I'd never heard of).

[Liep]

HBO has announced plans to bring two episodes of Game Of Thrones to IMAX theaters, the first time a TV series has been screened in the immersive giant-screen format. According to Entertainment Weekly, season four's penultimate episode "The Watchers On The Wall" and season finale "The Children" will be remastered and screened in 150 IMAX theaters for one week from January 23-29, along with a full trailer for season five.

Seems odd somehow, I don't think I'd go if they did it here.