TV/Movies Megathread

[Duque de Bragança]

You should go for the real stuff, with Brigitte Lahaie

We have a connaisseur here!  Giscard-era muse. Very '70s reference (you/we're old) but still in active but only on radio talk shows.

[mongers]

You should go for the real stuff, with Brigitte Lahaie

It's odd, as I watched a lot of French and Spanish films as a child/teenage, but very few in adult life. 

[CountDeMoney]

I remember this movie. http://youtu.be/aXQ2lO3ieBA 

This is a great clip 

I have to watch the whole film now.

You'd appreciate it.  Kelsey Grammer is pretty good in it too.

[FunkMonk]

It's a good flick.

[Josephus]

You should go for the real stuff, with Brigitte Lahaie

We have a connaisseur here!  Giscard-era muse. Very '70s reference (you/we're old) but still in active but only on radio talk shows.

She was hot in her day.

[Eddie Teach]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I kinda thought I'd seen this before, but now I don't think I had. Two hours of Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro tripping, avoiding hotel & restaurant bills, running from cops and paranoid that cops were about to get them. It was ok, don't really get the cult status though.

[Queequeg]

I'm reading And the Band Played On so I watched the movie again and am rewatching The Normal Heart too.

It's interesting how much has changed in the approach.  Gay culture kind of had to be explained in Band, or at least translated.  Not really there in Normal.  I like The Band a lot more, but I'm endlessly fascinated by disease narratives that look at how society reacts to disease.  You could argue that Normal reflects a kind of victory for Kramer, too; his "hetero-style" monogamous or semi-monogamous relationship has kind of become dominant.    Really glad we are far enough from Reagan's death to talk about what a shit person and president he was and how shitty the 80s were, too. 

[Queequeg]

Also there's some cast overlap, which makes sense. 

[Martinus]

I'm reading And the Band Played On so I watched the movie again and am rewatching The Normal Heart too.

It's interesting how much has changed in the approach.  Gay culture kind of had to be explained in Band, or at least translated.  Not really there in Normal.  I like The Band a lot more, but I'm endlessly fascinated by disease narratives that look at how society reacts to disease.  You could argue that Normal reflects a kind of victory for Kramer, too; his "hetero-style" monogamous or semi-monogamous relationship has kind of become dominant.    Really glad we are far enough from Reagan's death to talk about what a shit person and president he was and how shitty the 80s were, too.

If this is something you are interested in, watch the "Celluloid Closet". It is a documentary showing Hollywood depictions of homosexuality throughout the 20th century and how it went from a monster to a victim ("gays are good only if they die at the end") to a "token gay" (or, in tv series, a situation where someone's non-hererosexual sexuality is never mentioned or observed except for one "special episode"). It was filmed in late 1990s so it doesn't address today's post-gay stage though.

Also, response to HIV and AIDS was one of the bright spots on Maggie's otherwise dismal LGBT record.

[Queequeg]

Seen it.

[The Brain]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I kinda thought I'd seen this before, but now I don't think I had. Two hours of Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro tripping, avoiding hotel & restaurant bills, running from cops and paranoid that cops were about to get them. It was ok, don't really get the cult status though.

It's a boring and pointless movie.

[CountDeMoney]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I kinda thought I'd seen this before, but now I don't think I had. Two hours of Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro tripping, avoiding hotel & restaurant bills, running from cops and paranoid that cops were about to get them. It was ok, don't really get the cult status though.

That's the Boomers feeding into that bullshit.  It's iconic because they say so.

Johnny Depp was good, though.  Best part was stealing the narcotics display case From the cop convention, I remember when they still used those.

[Syt]

Sherlock - The Hounds of Baskerville. Nice foray into X-Files territory, but it works.

[The Larch]

Anita Ekberg just died at 83. She was almost destitute and lived in a small village south of Rome.



Marcello, come here!

[The Brain]

La Duce Vita.