TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

Philip Saville's production of No Exit/In Camera/Huis Clos.  Three crybabies are trapped in the Phantom Zone until Superboy develops a cure for their lead poisoning, and needle each other until they're very sad, in part because they each seem to desire to have sex with the one that doesn't want them.  So they bitch and moan and look at events transpiring on Earth, like they matter, and it never once occurs to them to do the reasonable thing, which is to agree upon a sexual compromise where Garcin, the straight guy, agrees to fuck the slutty straight girl, Estelle, if she agrees to fuck the lesbian, Inez, if she in turn agrees to suck Garcin off.

I guess I'm just smarter than Jean-Paul Sartre.

[Sheilbh]

How do you Pomegranates feel about Thatcher being played by a Yank?

There's been no worries about Streep playing Maggie and she's getting praised for it.  But the 'Hollywoodisation' of Maggie is starting to get attacked.  Lots of people who knew her have attacked it for showing her as weaker than she was and focussing on her relationship with Dennis. 

There's also quite a lot of unease about the scenes at the start of the film (which I've not seen so I can't judge) showing her struggling with dementia after Dennis's death.  She's apparently still pretty sharp and it's not in great taste.

[The Brain]

Glengarry Glen Ross. Again. Alec Baldwin is so dreamy.

[Capetan Mihali]

Glengarry Glen Ross. Again. Alec Baldwin is so dreamy.

[Zoupa]

 

[Josquius]

First episode of the new Sherlock series- I just didn't like it. Long and draggy and lost my interest too many times.

[Malthus]

My kid has been watching a show called Horrible Histories on BBC Kids. It's a sort of monty pythonesque take on bits of actual history 'with the gory bits left in', for kids.

I gotta admit - I like it too. 

My favorite is when they do music videos which are pastiches of various video styles, with semi-historical content - low budget as all hell, but I find them funny.

[Sheilbh]

I loved the Horrible Histories books as a kid. Haven't seen the show, though I've read it's got a cult adult following.

[Syt]

I like their Kings and Queens song.

[Malthus]

My favorite is the William Wallace song, done as a heavy metal version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g61xASD-24

[Syt]

Oh, and the Roman Gods bit was also pretty good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezpn8xH_XHI

[Syt]

Not to forget WW1: "Where's the British Forces":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAA9ZVgZauA&feature=related

[Malthus]

Heh, I'm glad I'm not the only one. 

I know there are some Lady Gaga fans around here - they might find this Cleopatra video amusing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWWmOQ0NaaU&feature=related

[The Brain]

After Hours. Again.

[Octavian]

Lol those videos are hilarious