TV/Movies Megathread

[garbon]

That said, all the action/suspense bits in Argo were pretty clumsy.

Definitely

[Eddie Teach]

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1982).  It is mostly a dully-scripted, boringly-made romantic melodrama set in turn of the 20th century England.  Because the book it is based on is one of those postmodernist classics, it is, also, a somewhat livelier romantic melodrama set in 1982, featuring the actors playing the parts in a film production of The French Lieutenant's Woman.  Each story steals power the other, leaving both wan and undernourished; or, you could say that the present-day section adds 30 minutes of unnecessary runtime, destroying any chance that the schematic Victorian romance might be the remotest bit entertaining.  It's pretentious and stupid, it's also never really terrible or anything.  However, it fails to justify its right to exist.  I understand the book is much better, but everything good about it is bound up in the formal attributes of its medium. 4/10

I actually rather liked the book, but just couldn't get into the movie when I tried to watch it. Quit after 5 or 10 minutes.

[Razgovory]

Cool World (1992).  Possessed of one of the lowest ratios of quality to budget of any film that was ever made, Bakshi's perverse folly is still worth watching every once in a while just to be reminded that--somehow--it was.  1/10

My guess was that that the movie fell out of alternate reality were Pederasts were key demographic.

[Habbaku]

[Ed Anger]

Just saw the Fantastic 4 commercial. Looks gay.

[jimmy olsen]

BvS:DoJ looks like shit.

An incomprehensible sentiment.

[celedhring]

Cool World (1992).  Possessed of one of the lowest ratios of quality to budget of any film that was ever made, Bakshi's perverse folly is still worth watching every once in a while just to be reminded that--somehow--it was.  1/10

There's worse culprits in that particular metric, but yeah, Cool World is just... indescribably bad.

[Darth Wagtaros]

BvS:DoJ looks like shit.

An incomprehensible sentiment.

It does. 

[Eddie Teach]

Batfleck looks amazing!

He'll do just fine in this. He is unfairly getting a bad rap.

At least he can't possibly do worse than Clooney.

[Syt]

Batfleck is one of the few things I'm ok with. The rest just looks like they're trying way too hard to be dark, and gritty, and serious, and .... ugh.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Batfleck is one of the few things I'm ok with. The rest just looks like they're trying way too hard to be dark, and gritty, and serious, and .... ugh.

I concur.  I'm fine with Aflek. Its the washed out grey and black look that sucks.

[celedhring]

Batfleck is one of the few things I'm ok with. The rest just looks like they're trying way too hard to be dark, and gritty, and serious, and .... ugh.

I concur.  I'm fine with Aflek. Its the washed out grey and black look that sucks.

Yeah, I have to agree here.

[crazy canuck]

Tell you what, you go ask 100 people on the street what the Anabasis is and if 5 of them correctly* identify it, I'll read it. 

*without googling it on their phones first

Times are changing I guess.   The story of the 10,000 was part of our curriculum in grade school when we studied ancient Greece.

[Savonarola]

I Don't Want to be a Man (1918)

No, not the Bruce Jenner story; this is a farce by Ernst Lubitsch made in the darkest days of the First World War.  Ossi (Ossi Oswalda) is a tomboy who loves to smoke cigarettes and play cards.  She gets a stern new guardian (Kurt Goetz) so she decides to dress up as a man and go out to a ball.  She receives rough treatment from both men and women until she runs into her guardian then they get hammered and start kissing.  The rest of it played out like "The Twelfth Night."  There are some funny scenes in this; but it isn't one of the better of his German films

[Syt]

So apparently all traffic around the State Opera will be locked off from tomorrow afternoon till Friday morning to facilitate the world premiere of the new Mission Impossible movie.

Even for GWB they didn't go to such lengths.