TV/Movies Megathread

[Admiral Yi]

The Spy. Borat plays a serious actor. 

Not bad, actually.

Watching this.  It doesn't take that long to accept Borat in a serious role.  The best thing about this show IMO is the feeling of time and place.  It helps that there's never been anything else set in Syria.

[Admiral Yi]

Damn, the homosexualist in Tombstone was Jason Priestly!

Did you guys know that?

[The Brain]

No. But I haven't seen the movie.

[Josephus]

The Spy. Borat plays a serious actor. 

Not bad, actually.

Watching this.  It doesn't take that long to accept Borat in a serious role.  The best thing about this show IMO is the feeling of time and place.  It helps that there's never been anything else set in Syria.

I'm not sure fi i can accept Borat in a serious role. It's like I'd expect him to turn to his Syrian handlers and say, in his exaggerated hebrew accent, "Na, I kid you..I am Jew...ha ha...got you...ha ha...wait, why you put hood on my head, where you take me, no I kid, i kid, I am arab..."

[Berkut]

The Spy. Borat plays a serious actor. 

Not bad, actually.

Watching this.  It doesn't take that long to accept Borat in a serious role.  The best thing about this show IMO is the feeling of time and place.  It helps that there's never been anything else set in Syria.

I'm not sure fi i can accept Borat in a serious role. It's like I'd expect him to turn to his Syrian handlers and say, in his exaggerated hebrew accent, "Na, I kid you..I am Jew...ha ha...got you...ha ha...wait, why you put hood on my head, where you take me, no I kid, i kid, I am arab..."

Huh - I was surprised how quickly I forgot about him as Borat. Like, 5 minutes into the show.

[Josephus]

I'll give it a shot, cause it sounds good.

[Eddie Teach]

S9 of Walking Dead. Miles ahead of previous season. Less speeches and long scenes of people grieving, more storytelling.

[Sophie Scholl]

Huh - I was surprised how quickly I forgot about him as Borat. Like, 5 minutes into the show.

His turn as Thénardier in Les Misérables already killed him having to forever being Borat or Ali G for me.  He did a bang up job with it.

[Oexmelin]

I also found him quite good in Hugo. But both this, and Les Misérables were still overblown characters. Looking forward to seeing The Spy.

[celedhring]

Huh - I was surprised how quickly I forgot about him as Borat. Like, 5 minutes into the show.

His turn as Thénardier in Les Misérables already killed him having to forever being Borat or Ali G for me.  He did a bang up job with it.

That still was a comedic role though, and a supporting one at that. Here's carrying a drama show on his shoulders, and he pulls it off effortessly.

[Berkut]

Huh - I was surprised how quickly I forgot about him as Borat. Like, 5 minutes into the show.

His turn as Thénardier in Les Misérables already killed him having to forever being Borat or Ali G for me.  He did a bang up job with it.

That still was a comedic role though, and a supporting one at that. Here's carrying a drama show on his shoulders, and he pulls it off effortessly.

Indeed. He is excellent in the first couple episodes.

Very, very subdued. It works really well, which makes me think some casting director is truly brilliant, or really lucky.

[Josquius]

I recall he was originally in the frame to play Freddie Mercury in bohemian rhapsody but complaints from the surviving queen members, not wanting a joke to be made of it, put a stop to that.

[Eddie Teach]

He's too big for that role.

[PRC]

I recall he was originally in the frame to play Freddie Mercury in bohemian rhapsody but complaints from the surviving queen members, not wanting a joke to be made of it, put a stop to that.

I saw a Howard Stern interview with him about that.  It was well before the new movie with the other guy came out, which I have never seen so don't know if it is different from Sacha Baron Cohen's take on the original script.  He said that the surviving band members wanted to tell a story about how Freddie dies (which would be in the middle of the story / movie) and then the rest of the movie is about the band bravely carrying on.  Like they didn't get that Freddie was the star of the show here.  Stern had some derogatory comments about Brian May as well.  Cohen also said during his research he was impressed by the wild partying they or Freddie was doing, parties with midgets walking around wearing mirror hats with cocaine on them for guests to indulge in type of stuff in addition to the wild everybody fucks everybody orgies.

[Savonarola]

Batman Returns (1992)

Christopher Walken pretends to be a kind hearted businessman, but is really a villain.  His nefarious plot is to build an enormous capacitor!   Who knows what a man could do with that much capacitance?  He could overdamp an enormous machine, or...   filter out very low frequencies or...   store an enormous amount of charge?

Well I'm sure the scheme was well thought out and totally villainous.  Obviously in order to implement such a nefarious plan he needs the help of a circus freak; luckily Danny Devito shows up.  He was raised by penguins and controls the circus mob; and the movie only gets sillier from there.

Fortunately Michelle Pfeiffer is there to thwart Christopher Walken's villainous scheme by dressing up in bondage gear and whipping people.   I'm not really sure if that accomplished anything, but I'll give her an A for effort.

I thought this was supposed to be a Batman movie, but they must have written his character out at some point since I don't remember him showing up in the movie.



A much more Tim Burtonesque picture than 1989s "Batman;" complete with freaks, bizarre architecture and Danny Elfman's wacky scoring.  I thought that it was funny that Batman is a minor character and almost entirely superfluous to the story.  I'm not a huge fan of the dark, brooding take on Batman (my favorite interpretation will always be the television series); but Tim Burton manages to infuse this with enough fun to make it one of the better Batman movies.