TV/Movies Megathread

[viper37]

that means you didn't like it?

Let's just say I appreciated the audacity.

Never mind, I reached the end of episode 2.  I'm not impressed.  Not at all.   

[The Larch]

I couldn't stand Life Aquatic, but Seu Jorge singing samba covers of David Bowie is awesome.

You didn't want to see Bill Murray in speedos, right? 

[Eddie Teach]

Never mind, I reached the end of episode 2.  I'm not impressed.  Not at all.   

You're 2/3 through, might as well finish it. Unless you're calling each hour an episode?

I kind of liked the big reveal at the end of night 1, it was the reveal at the end of night 3 that made me LMAO. Though if it had been a full season or longer show, I'm sure that would have pissed me off.

[Josquius]

Tennenbaums. Rushmore. - great.

Moonrise kingdom, life aquatic- meh

Bottle rocket- crap

[Ed Anger]

Caught a few minutes of "book of negroes". Turned it off after discovering it wasn't about Ebony or Jet.

[lustindarkness]

TWD: Nice punch!

[Ideologue]

My impression is that he always makes the same movie. Any truth to this?

Awkward but gifted boy finds a powerful father figure. Or said gifted boy feels the lack of said powerful father figure. With lots of pastel and travellings.

I know.  It's so great.

Since we were doing lists:

Life Aquatic
Moonrise Kingdom
Grand Budapest Hotel
Rushmore and
The Royal Tenenbaums are the greats.
Fantastic Mr. Fox is the only one that's just kind of okay,
but, then, the bottom of the barrel is shared between Darjeeling Ltd. and Bottle Rocket--Rocket definitely sucks, and I remember Darjeeling sucking quite hard also.

[CountDeMoney]

My Wes Anderson list, subject to revision and whim:

Rushmore
Life Aquatic (because of the best Wes Anderson scene ever: http://youtu.be/pfe_qwG1nyQ )
Royal Tenenbaums
Grand Budapest Hotel
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Moonrise Kingdom
Darjeeling Limited

I don't even count Bottle Rocket;  not a bad movie, just different.  First attempt at a goofball buddy/heist/love story flick.  I think.

[Sheilbh]

Mine is shorter and changeable.

Rushmore
Life Aquatic
Tenenbaums
Fox
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Moonrise

[Eddie Teach]

Before Sunset. Very talky. Not bad.

[Martinus]

Now that "Ida" is the first Polish film in history to win both an Oscar and a BAFTA award, I guess I have to see it. 

[Ideologue]

Now that "Ida" is the first Polish film in history to win both an Oscar and a BAFTA award, I guess I have to see it. 

I just watched it earlier today.  It's very good--absolutely beautifully shot, looking like a Goddamned W.C. Menzies film of all things.  Its biggest weakness is that it's either too long or two short--the ending skips through a significant span of time and feels perfunctory in a way the rest of the picture never did.  B+

Also watched The Immigrant (2014), a boring movie about the past and hence unaccountably yellow.  It basically observes its premise--Marion Cotillard comes to America in or around 1920, and is a prostitute--without really going much of anywhere for two hours.  Some things finally happen toward the end, but it's not good, and though I assume her performance in Two Days, One Night is fantastic, Cotillard is running on nothing but screen presence here, underserved by a cardboard character in the script and doing nothing to bring that character into three dimensions.  Leaf Phoenix does some interesting stuff as her pimp, but not enough to save the film.  C+

Finally, saw Need For Speed (2014), a tremendously irresponsible movie that hates women, commuters, homeless people, cops, and its own narrative.  A revenge film at heart, for some reason it tries to split the difference between some outrageously bullshit cartoon antics and a quarter-assed riff on Vanishing Point-style nihilism, and it fails to either be the fun kind of irresponsibility or to deliver a coherent and enjoyable contempt.  Ultimately it's a complete waste of no fewer than two and a quarter hours and some decent car stunts.  Worst racing/chase film since Getaway--in fact, though it's not made nearly as poorly, it's markedly worse as a storytelling device; and, to go back to that runtime, Getaway is 45 minutes longer.  D+

[Duque de Bragança]

So Marion Cottillard's performance is better in The Immigrant than in The Dark Knight rises? 

[Darth Wagtaros]

Family Guy is awful.  It needs to end.  Retroactively five years ago.

[Ideologue]

So Marion Cottillard's performance is better in The Immigrant than in The Dark Knight rises? 

  Yes.