TV/Movies Megathread

[mongers]

Glad the last episode of Wolf Hall didn't end as I expected. I thought it'd be Cromwell sitting alone in state somewhere probably dark.

But brilliant series all round. Can't recommend it enough.

Indeed.

Just hoping they manage to get everyone back for a adaption of the third and final novel, when it's finished.

[crazy canuck]

John Wick: C booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring

I just didn't find it interesting.

Yeah, I also thought it was boring.  I found myself siding with the bad guys - it really was just a dog.  When the bossman phoned to apologize that was really the end of the plot and the beginning of over an hour of gratuitous violence.

[celedhring]

The Fog of War. Pretty interesting, it's pretty much just a two hour sit-down with MacNamara, but he has lots of interesting things to say (or not say). Loved his personal impressions of LeMay and particularly Johnson. He pretty much pins the Vietnam War on the latter.

[Sophie Scholl]

Best scene from The Wire so far?  The crime scene re-examination where all they say is variations of fuck.  I can totally see the cops I know doing that as well as myself.

[Ideologue]

The Fog of War. Pretty interesting, it's pretty much just a two hour sit-down with MacNamara, but he has lots of interesting things to say (or not say). Loved his personal impressions of LeMay and particularly Johnson. He pretty much pins the Vietnam War on the latter.

I dug it.  McNamara.

At some point I've gotta get around to watching Morris' Unknown Known.

[Valmy]

The Fog of War. Pretty interesting, it's pretty much just a two hour sit-down with MacNamara, but he has lots of interesting things to say (or not say). Loved his personal impressions of LeMay and particularly Johnson. He pretty much pins the Vietnam War on the latter.

I bet Johnson would have pointed at him.  Funny how everybody does that when it fails.

Anyway great film.  That was a real eye opener.  It just made me wish every major leader in the 20th century wars had gotten a film like that.

[CountDeMoney]

I dug it.  McNamara.

The man John Ralston Saul once accused of epitomizing everything that western civilization has perverted about the Enlightenment.

At some point I've gotta get around to watching Morris' Unknown Known.

Do a double feature with "The World According to Dick Cheney", and revel in the sheer unadulterated fuckedupedness of the biggest foreign policy bedshitting since the invasions of Canada.

[11B4V]

The World According to Dick Cheney

HEHE that was awesome.

[CountDeMoney]

The World According to Dick Cheney

HEHE that was awesome.

Shit all goes back to Nixon.

[Ideologue]

22 Jump Street (2014).  You know, honestly?  Phil Lord and Chris Miller have got to be the best dudes working in pictures today.  Four movies in four years, the worst one of which was just "really, really good" (21 Jump Street), and three-all time classics (LEGO, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and this one?).  That's just amazing.  A+

[Eddie Teach]

22 Jump Street (2014).  You know, honestly?  Phil Lord and Chris Miller have got to be the best dudes working in pictures today.  Four movies in four years, the worst one of which was just "really, really good" (21 Jump Street), and three-all time classics (LEGO, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and this one?).  That's just amazing.  A+

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will 't please you sit and look at her? I said
'Frà Pandolf' by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
But to myself they turned (since none puts by
The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)
And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,
How such a glance came there; so, not the first
Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, 't was not
Her husband's presence only, called that spot
Of joy into the Duchess' cheek: perhaps
Frà Pandolf chanced to say, 'Her mantle laps
Over my lady's wrist too much,' or 'Paint
Must never hope to reproduce the faint
Half-flush that dies along her throat:' such stuff
Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough
For calling up that spot of joy. She had
A heart -- how shall I say? -- too soon made glad,
Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er
She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.
Sir, 't was all one! My favour at her breast,
The dropping of the daylight in the West,
The bough of cherries some officious fool
Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule
She rode with round the terrace -- all and each
Would draw from her alike the approving speech, 
Or blush, at least. She thanked men, -- good! but thanked
Somehow -- I know not how -- as if she ranked
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
With anybody's gift. Who'd stoop to blame
This sort of trifling? Even had you skill
In speech -- (which I have not) -- to make your will
Quite clear to such an one, and say, 'Just this
Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss,
Or there exceed the mark' -- and if she let
Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set
Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse,
-- E'en then would be some stooping; and I choose
Never to stoop. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt,
Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without
Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands
As if alive. Will 't please you rise? We'll meet
The company below then. I repeat,
The Count your master's known munificence
Is ample warrant that no just pretence
Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;
Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed
At starting, is my object. Nay, we'll go
Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,
Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity,
Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!

[Ideologue]

Nonsensical.  I hate all sorts of things.

[Eddie Teach]

Well, I didn't know any poems about people going overboard about merely half the things they saw. But seriously, you just called Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs an "all-time classic". 

[Ideologue]

I sure did, buster.

[Eddie Teach]

Among the cartoons I've bothered seeing in the last 15 years, it is pretty firmly in the middle of the pack.