TV/Movies Megathread

[FunkMonk]

Can't Get You Out Of My Head. Adam Curtis docs are always a trip. 

They are all the same film - but I love them

I just enjoy it when someone plays cheerful yet eerie music over canned footage of people in the 1950s awkwardly dancing. 

[Eddie Teach]

Coming 2 America. We really didn't need this. I mean, it's watchable, but why did I bother?

[KRonn]

I recently saw Mission Impossible: Fallout. I don't think I've seen all of them but while watching Tom Cruise doing stunts I kept in mind that he does all or most of his stunts in the movie series. Some of the stunts, car and motorcycle chases and other stuff looked damned dangerous! Cruise stopped his insurance in order to do stunts. Pretty good movie too.

[Malthus]

I watched a series of cartoons by Winsor McCay.  His most famous one, Gertie the Dinosaur, was done before there were cells, so he hired a neighborhood kid to redraw the background over and over on rice paper (something like 2400 times).  This causes the background to jump around a bit as the cartoon progresses.  Gertie seems to possess weight and moves like a living creature, plus McCay manages to give her personality.  None of the cartoons of the era could do that, the world would have to wait for Walt Disney to pick up where McCay started.

McCay had a vaudeville act and had a couple comic strips (Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend and The Slumbers of Little Nemo); so he could only work on cartoons during his free times.  His other major cartoon, 'The Sinking of the Lusitania" took him 22 months to complete.  He had started shortly after the Lusitania had been sunk; by the time he finished the United States had entered the First World War, so it did remain timely propaganda.

Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend is very trippy indeed! He had an ability to give his comics a real feeling of weight and depth, even when depicting very hallucinogenic scenarios. Great stuff.

[Josquius]

Map of tiny perfect things - Groundhog day for teens. Meh. It's OK.

[mongers]

Is 'Snowpiercer' on Netflix worth persevering with?

I found the train setup quite intriguing.

[Valmy]

Coming 2 America. We really didn't need this. I mean, it's watchable, but why did I bother?

My wife watched it. I walked by and watched for a few minutes and just thought "but why though?"

She hasn't said a word about it since so I don't think she thought much of it.

[Maladict]

Is 'Snowpiercer' on Netflix worth persevering with?

I found the train setup quite intriguing.

Heh, I was just considering watching the movie. I dismissed it when it came out, but apparently the reviews are very positive.
Don't know about the tv series though.

[The Brain]

Aurora Snow?

[Sheilbh]

I really liked Snowpiercer the movie. Haven't watched the show.

[celedhring]

The movie is way more insane and over the top than the show - which imho is the only way that premise can work. I quit the show halfway through, the whole whodunit side they added to it was really boring. But it's been successful so your mileage may vary.

[garbon]

I really liked Snowpiercer the movie. Haven't watched the show.

Same. Still have show in list of things to one day watch.

[Eddie Teach]

I liked the show better.

[Josephus]

Is 'Snowpiercer' on Netflix worth persevering with?

I found the train setup quite intriguing.

I watched the movie, and thought it was OK. Started the series, but couldn't make it past ep. 3 or 4.

[Josephus]

Aurora Snow?