TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

A Million Ways to Die in the West. Pretty stupid, but it has its moments.

[Queequeg]

How the hell has there been no talk of the Man in the High Castle pilot?

[Ed Anger]

Nobody cares, that is why.

[Josquius]

Never Let Me Go- A perfectly serviceable story about clones and body part harvesting ruined by a sappy coming of age/love story. It's OK but The Island was better.

[Eddie Teach]

A Walk in the Tombstones. This is exactly what one expects today with Liam Neeson in the lead.

[Ideologue]

A bored, tired, perfunctory performance?

[Tonitrus]

How the hell has there been no talk of the Man in the High Castle pilot?

I mentioned it, as part of an article on Amazon TV productions.  There was little interest then too. 

[FunkMonk]

Nobody cares, that is why.

[Eddie Teach]

A bored, tired, perfunctory performance?

It was a comment on the subject matter & dialogue as well. Keep remaking Taken until audiences get tired of it.

[celedhring]

Whiplash. Loved it. Simmons is immense and the film doesn't let you go form start to finish; an onslaught of sound and sensation. It's a movie about people becoming cunts because of love for their art, and well-written and acted cunts are always interesting to watch. Easily my favorite movie among the Oscar candidates, although I have yet to see Birdman.

[Norgy]

Watching a drama about the Rjukan operation in 1942/43. Made by Norwegian state television. It's brilliant. Never had so much patriotic wood.

[Grey Fox]

How the hell has there been no talk of the Man in the High Castle pilot?

I liked it, altho I want more background on how the Nazis won the war.

[Martinus]

Really enjoying this season's "Looking". Read an interesting analysis of this show recently, where the author argued that the series shows that even with full acceptance, gays will not have exactly the same lifestyle as heteros. There is some truth to that.

[Caliga]

where the author argued that the series shows that even with full acceptance, gays will not have exactly the same lifestyle as heteros.

Elaborate.

[Martinus]

where the author argued that the series shows that even with full acceptance, gays will not have exactly the same lifestyle as heteros.

Elaborate.

Well. I don't know if you are familiar with the show, but it shows the lives of three gay friends from San Francisco. One of them is late 30s/early 40s guy living with his partner who is 10-15 years his senior. They have an open relationship, which means that, mainly, the younger guy has a bit of casual sex on the side. Another is having an affair with his boss, who is himself in a gay marriage. The third one has a lot of casual sex. Generally, I guess, these guys represent how most of my gay friends behave.

The point that the article was making is that even when you get to the point when gays are no longer shunned or discriminated against (the characters on the show live in San Francisco; they work in gay friendly industries, have more or less successful careers, are all openly gay etc.), it is an illusion to assume gay men (especially) want the same as straight couples. Gay marriage is all fine and dandy but at the end this is not exactly what most of us want. It's just with two guys, sex is much more casual (and while HIV is still a thing, we have more or less put the genie back in the box - even though one of the characters on the show keeps having hypochondriac panic attacks about it every time he gets a rash - he reminds me of myself ).