TV/Movies Megathread

[Sophie Scholl]

G.I. Joe: The Movie.  The cartoon, that is.  Good fun.  It compares unfavorably to the Transformers movie, but what doesn't?  I really liked the inclusion of such a bizarre element as Cobra-La.  A bridge that eats people?  Remarkable.

Meh.  The opening at the Statue of Liberty is great.  The rest is pretty much crap.  Watched Red, White, & Blue on Sundance tonight.  Wow.  They feture some seriously funky and fucked up movies on that channel.  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1465505/

[Duque de Bragança]

The Class.  Good.  So much better for being French than Hollywood on the same subject. 

Whoever designed the marketing should be fired.  The poster prepares you for a high school comedy.  A Jean Hugues film:

Which would be great, but The Class isn't really anything like that.

Actually, I spent most of the time laughing during this movie. The "pupils" were very good at playing themselves as dumb and ignorant. Mistakes like that would be too much for primary school, at least not so long ago. The "Imparfait du Subjonctif" sequence is comedy gold.  For the non-French specialist, that's a very formal tense, only in use in litterary settings, specially in older novels in the pre-1960s  (Camus l'Etranger is famous for doing away with it and passé simple Past historic).
As for the ghetto aspect, they are more like wannabees since they live in Paris not in a lousy and far away suburb and their area (XX arrondissement) is getting boboised as we speak Of course, when I watched on the cinema, they showed subtitles at times  For elderly people I suppose.

If you really want to hear how youths in the suburbs speak try l'Esquive or Games of Love and  Chance in the English meh title
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338977/

[Eddie Teach]

So wait, suburbs = ghetto in France? 

[The Larch]

So wait, suburbs = ghetto in France? 

Never heard about the banlieus? It's where the burn down cars as national sport. It's more like US projects or UK council estates, areas of public housing for low income families.

A suburb as an affluent neighbourhood is only so in US speak, I think.

[Sheilbh]

So wait, suburbs = ghetto in France? 

Yep.  The banlieues.

DdB, no doubt it's very funny in parts but that poster and the DVD disc made it look like it was the Breakfast Club.

You got that about them being wannabes from the conversation I think some of the characters have about whether they've even been into whichever Arrondisement

[Duque de Bragança]

Yep.  The banlieues.

DdB, no doubt it's very funny in parts but that poster and the DVD disc made it look like it was the Breakfast Club.

You got that about them being wannabes from the conversation I think some of the characters have about whether they've even been into whichever Arrondisement

Well, the Breakfast Club isn't really a comedy either.
If I remember correctly they have not travelled more than 3-4 of metro stations than their neighborhood (so 2 km at most). 

O Galego & others

There are some very affluents suburbs actually (Neuilly sur Seine, Versailles, Sceaux) or even very wide variation in the same suburban area (low rises vs high rises) even in the dreadful Seine Saint-Denis.

[The Larch]

Yep.  The banlieues.

DdB, no doubt it's very funny in parts but that poster and the DVD disc made it look like it was the Breakfast Club.

You got that about them being wannabes from the conversation I think some of the characters have about whether they've even been into whichever Arrondisement

Well, the Breakfast Club isn't really a comedy either.
If I remember correctly they have not travelled more than 3-4 of metro stations than their neighborhood (so 2 km at most). 

O Galego & others

There are some very affluents suburbs actually (Neuilly sur Seine, Versailles, Sceaux) or even very wide variation in the same suburban area (low rises vs high rises) even in the dreadful Seine Saint-Denis.

But those affluent suburbs wouldn't be called banlieus, right? What about La Haine? is that a more faithful image of them?

[Sheilbh]

There are some very affluents suburbs actually (Neuilly sur Seine, Versailles, Sceaux) or even very wide variation in the same suburban area (low rises vs high rises) even in the dreadful Seine Saint-Denis.

I'm shocked, shocked that the place Sarkozy was mayor of is affluent

[Duque de Bragança]

But those affluent suburbs wouldn't be called banlieus, right? What about La Haine? is that a more faithful image of them?

Technically, they are, so calling one of those suburban bourgeois a banlieusard is a common Parisian joke.

But yes, banlieue has negative connotations nowadays. You can say "je travaille en banlieue" (I work in the suburbs) as opposed "je travaille en centre-ville" (same thing but in the city centre) or speak of commuters as "banlieusards" (living in the suburbs working downtown). Some people use "banlieusards" as suburban scum though.

La Haine is different though the vision of skinheads vs minorities in the suburbs was already outdated in the '90s. In the '80s no disagreement though. It has aged but not as badly as I thought. The French spoken in La Haine is not bad enough to sound realistic nowadays unlike L'Esquive which I referred earlier.

As long you don't see Banlieue 13 as a new la Haine as some US cinephiles did according to an US acquaintance of mine in Paris, that's fine.

[Duque de Bragança]

There are some very affluents suburbs actually (Neuilly sur Seine, Versailles, Sceaux) or even very wide variation in the same suburban area (low rises vs high rises) even in the dreadful Seine Saint-Denis.

I'm shocked, shocked that the place Sarkozy was mayor of is affluent

The most affluent of France actually but I'll always have Paris over it
On the other hand, François Hollande went to the same posh high school in the same suburb

[CountDeMoney]

DdB, no doubt it's very funny in parts but that poster and the DVD disc made it look like it was the Breakfast Club.

lol, that's funny.

Sorta like how Slumdog Millionaire made it looks so adorable to wallow in your own piss and feces in the Ganges.

[The Larch]

DdB, no doubt it's very funny in parts but that poster and the DVD disc made it look like it was the Breakfast Club.

lol, that's funny.

Sorta like how Slumdog Millionaire made it looks so adorable to wallow in your own piss and feces in the Ganges.

As long as it has upbeat musical numbers and sexy brown ladies in saris... 

[Darth Wagtaros]

Exosquad did the bridge eating people thing better.

[Sheilbh]

DdB, no doubt it's very funny in parts but that poster and the DVD disc made it look like it was the Breakfast Club.

lol, that's funny.

Sorta like how Slumdog Millionaire made it looks so adorable to wallow in your own piss and feces in the Ganges.

As long as it has upbeat musical numbers and sexy brown ladies in saris... 

Jai ho!

[Ideologue]

There are some very affluents suburbs actually (Neuilly sur Seine, Versailles, Sceaux) or even very wide variation in the same suburban area (low rises vs high rises) even in the dreadful Seine Saint-Denis.

I'm shocked, shocked that the place Sarkozy was mayor of is affluent

I'm shocked that a Hungarian was affluent.  I guess you save up a lot of money when you only bittorrent movies and games.