TV/Movies Megathread

[Admiral Yi]

The Man Who Kidnapped Eichmann, 1960s film directed by Robert Duvall.  Not a great flick. 

The movie makes it seem as if Eichmann was complicit in his own kidnapping.

[katmai]

?? you mean the mid 90's film starring Duvall?

[Admiral Yi]

?? you mean the mid 90's film starring Duvall?

Well shit.  Pretty crummy production values for a 90s TV movie.

[Capetan Mihali]

 

[Ideologue]

Jupiter Rising is better than Snake Eyes.

<Insert any movie other than Snake Eyes here>  is better than Snake Eyes.

Hyperbole is fun, but is it useful?  Let's ask Berkut.

[11B4V]

Jupiter Rising is better than Snake Eyes.

<Insert any movie other than Snake Eyes here>  is better than Snake Eyes.

Hyperbole is fun, but is it useful?  Let's ask Berkut.

Twilight is better than Snake Eyes.





What's Snake Eyes about?

[celedhring]

Shakespeare in Love is a lot better than Saving Private Ryan.

Damning with feint praise.

Saving Private Ryan is a LOT better than The Breakfast Club.

The first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan maybe, the rest of the movie, not so much.

Yeah, never a good sign when the best scene of a film is the opening...

Begs the question... last legitimately great Spielberg film? Catch me if you can, I guess.

[Eddie Teach]

TBC is one of the best movie ever made.

It's serious without being thoughtful and tries to pass off the notion that the characters not being the caricatures they started the movie as was a great profundity.

[The Brain]

DAT PROFUNDIS

[Liep]

True Detective 2.  Entertaining cop drama, disappointing ending.

[The Minsky Moment]

The Martian, to my understanding, has a very solid basis for its screenplay;

Based on a cultish procedural Sci-Fi novel that became a hit via the amazon self-publishing lottery
Read it a bit ago - not going to win any literary prizes but a funnish beach sort of read for nerdy trekky sort of folk.

[Ideologue]

I'm only going by thirdhand reports.

Of course, The Counselor had a screenplay by one of our most celebrated authors, so who knows?  I mean, I liked it, but most didn't.  (And that one I do get why it was met with bemused hostility.)

[The Minsky Moment]

Things I've learned about katmai lately:

1)He doesn't understand or like ambitious formalistic exercises, probably because all he knows is it would make his job harder.

Nothing wrong with an ambitious formal exercise, as long as one understands it's an exercise.  Yeah the Snake Eyes opening shot is impressive technically, but the in the context of an actual movie it was contrived.  And then followed by a ludicrous script with one-dimensional characters and a badly directed Nick Cage hamming it up without control.

[The Minsky Moment]

SPR and The Breakfast Club are both pretty great, too.

Still is must be admitted that some well-placed machine gun fire and an amphibious assault would have improved the TBC

[Eddie Teach]