Ternaugh Posted December 22, 2014 Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 "Team America World Police" on Netflix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 22, 2014 Report Share Posted December 22, 2014 Sammy Davis Jnr bio and then Sammy Davis Jnr at the BBC recorded in the 6os. Very Good indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 With my movie plans for the day frustrated (How was I to know a Sondhiem musical would sell out a 1:30 showing before the doors even opened?), I tried to catch up a little bit on some of the My Little Pony I missed. (All four seasons are on Netflix). I was sure by now it would have gotten tired. But it hasn't. I watched in a row the Season 3 finale and the first three episodes that followed. Given the major development of Season 3's finale I had no idea where it could possibly go from there. The rest of this post will be spoiler-tagged. The season 3 finale started with a basic comedy-episode plotline, with the Cutie Marks and professions of all Twilight's fellow Harmony-wielders switched around -- don't forget these are ponies who work for a living -- leaving them miserable and bad at what they do. Twilight realizes this was the result of a spell Celestia had asked to research and, after agonizing over her guilt, figures out what to do about it and saves the day with about half the episode left to go. Then the twist. Twilight promptly vaninshes from the tree-library in front of everyone, into a starscape where Celestia meets and congratulates on discovering a new kind of magic and that nothing will ever be the same for her again. Then she finds herself back in Ponyville with something she never had before. Wings, Twilight had transformed into an "Alicorn", with both Pegasus flight powers and Unicorn magic. Not only that, but because of it she had become royalty -- a Princess and the social (but not yet political) equal of Celestia and Luna despite the lack of a blood relationship. That would normally be the note on which a TV series would end, but MLP was too popular to stop there. So the next season opened with a two-parter in which the Everfree Forest starts to encroach on Ponyville while, at the same time, Celestia and Luna disappear leaving Twilight as the only available Princess. Knowing the two events are connected, she flies home (which is what she now considers Ponyville) to investigate. The ponies naturally suspect Discord is responsible, which he emphatically denies (John DeLancie sounds like he was having fun with this, and so were the animators). Only when she receives a mental time-travel potion from Zacora (the zebra shaman who lives in the forest) does she realize that the problem is that the tree from which the Elements of harmony were extracted more than a thousand years ago is dying and and no longer hold the growth of the forest in check -- and that the only way to save it and Equestria is for the Mane Six to give it back the elements. The interesting thing about it is what the time travel elements show us about how Equestria became what it is. We see Celestia's heartbreak when she is forced to exile her sister to the Moon (as well as the origin of Nightmare Moon, Luna's deranged alter-ego who nearly succeeds in murdering her sister). We also see how Discord was defeated the first time by the Princesses. Most importantly, though, we see how Twilight's new status puts the relationships she values so highly at risk, which I suspect will be an ongoing theme for the rest of the season. When the others decide to send her "home" in the middle of their mission to locate the tree because Equestria would be leaderless if something happened to her, Twilight realizes just how delicate and vulnerable her position is. So it turns out there are places for the story to go from here.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 Watching an Italian detective show online all week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted December 27, 2014 Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 "Idiocracy". Not sure if it was comedy or horror. bigbywolfe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted December 27, 2014 Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 "Idiocracy". Not sure if it was comedy or horror. Yes. Some of the best satire is like that -- it seems silly and funny until you really think about it and then it really hits you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted December 27, 2014 Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 "Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special" on Netflix. I don't think that it was meant to be seen sober (and from the behavior of some of the guest stars, my guess was they weren't when they did it). "Duck Soup". It's a spy thriller set in the small country of Fredonia on the eve of war. With the Marx Brothers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted December 27, 2014 Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 "Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special" "Duck Soup". Amazing choices, both. "Idiocracy". Not sure if it was comedy or horror. Documentary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 His Last Vow the Benedict Cumberbatch version of the Maste Blackmailer story of Sherlock Holmes. Quite good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted December 29, 2014 Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 Part one of Brave and Bold season two Detective Chimp and Bwana Beast were handled awesomely as well as Aquaman on vacation. 24 episodes of A certain magical Index. High school kid resolves problems with magicians and psychics by punching them in the face. The last three episodes of NCIS season 9 with Harper Deering as the villain. You would think with all the research he has done he would realize that most of the people who attack NCIS that Gibbs goes after winds up dead. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted December 30, 2014 Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 The second half of Season 2 brave and bold with the use of the Freedom Fighters, Batmite's strangest cases, and the Question saving the world from Darkseid. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Doctor Who Christmas Special Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 Just saw Interstellar after a long delay. There's a lot of good stuff in this movie, both visually and in terms of ideas (Actual ideas in a science-fiction movie? Inconceivable!), which makes the glaring flaws all the more annoying. Especially since it is cursed with one of the silliest endings I've seen in a long time -- an ending that nearly undoes all the smart things that have been displayed previously by its sheer wooden-headedness. I am reminded of a novel David Brin wrote called Earth. It too involved a dying planet and a question about saving the human race -- but the central question of the novel was not so much can Mankind be saved as should Mankind be saved. In other words, if Earth dies should we die with it -- especially if the catastrophe is the direct result of our own actions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeroGM Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 dark knight rises avengers x-men days of future past Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted January 3, 2015 Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 Watching part of the Scientific Railgun series that is part of Magical Index. Espers kids as police trainees, dangerous felons, and a computer program that turns Espers into component parts and an appearance by Touma from the parent series doing what he does best, annoying the Railgun, and saving the day with his imagine breaker. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCloud2k2 Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Live. Die. Repeat: Edge of Tomarrow Godzilla (2014) Both very enjoyable. Though EoT had a blatant plothole: what if Cage (Tom Cruise) dies of natural causes? Does he reset again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. MID-Nite Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Robocop(2014): Why did they bother? Battle of the Five Armies: Decent flick....ambiguous lame ending. Godzilla vs. Gigan(on blu-ray)- Typical 70's kaiju fun. Two episodes of the new Flash show- Not bad actually. 3-4 episodes of Agents of SHIELD-I'm a bit lost. I thought Cap 2 eliminated Hydra. How does the show fit in...all BEFORE Cap 2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Saw Die Hard yesterday. Still the best action movie out there. Today's fare was Sharknado. Awful, awful movie. Much hilarity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Robocop(2014): Why did they bother? Battle of the Five Armies: Decent flick....ambiguous lame ending. Godzilla vs. Gigan(on blu-ray)- Typical 70's kaiju fun. Two episodes of the new Flash show- Not bad actually. 3-4 episodes of Agents of SHIELD-I'm a bit lost. I thought Cap 2 eliminated Hydra. How does the show fit in...all BEFORE Cap 2? For Shield, depends on the episodes you saw. Some were prior, most the ones involving Hydra aren't. All Cap did was bring them out in the open, not eliminate. He cut off the heads he new of, but there are many leaders of Hydra. season 2 was basically Hydra and Coulson;s in a race to find something. I won';t spoil what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Watched Sabotage with Arnold Schwarzenegger. A DEA team steals ten million dollars during a raid, but after sitting through a review of their actions, start getting picked off. It's a decent mystery with the reveal coming in the third act after most of the team has been killed. Watched part of Iceman with Donnie Yen. Four Ming Dynasty guards are frozen in an avalanche and revived four hundred years later. The party that found them wants to get them back and find a key to time. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 The ending to Iceman was the reveal that the commissioner chasing Hei Ying was one of the four, he captures one of the others. Ying is tranqued and falls into the ocean from a bridge. The last guy jumped into the water after him. The love interest is shown committing suicide by walking into the ocean from a beach. Then Ying wakes up surrounded by water. Did he live? Did he save the girl? What happened to the third man? Where is the key to time? Is there a sequel? Watched the end of the Railgun series on youtube. The villain almost has everything in her grasp with the intention of destroying the city only to be stopped by the meddling kid heroes, especially the nonpowered one that she wrote off. Watched Tangled. Best part is the sword fight between Flynn and Maximus where only one of them has a sword and it isn't the human CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Destroy All Monsters ! in the dubbed version and then the original Japanese dialogue with subtitles. Wonderful. Also some of season 1 Agents of Shield. Dr. MID-Nite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolgroth Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Watched the entirety of Marvel's Agents of Shield, Season 1. Figured I had to give it a chance since I heard so many good things about the later episodes. Turns out the episode after I initially quit watching was the first one I actually got into this time around. Now I have the problem of not having watched any of Season 2 and it is only available from episode 6 or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 16, 2015 Report Share Posted January 16, 2015 Muse Live in Concert at Wembley and Muse Live in Concert at Rome's Olmpic stadium. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 The Amazon pilot for "The Man in the High Castle". I thought that it was extremely well done, and really hope that it's picked up. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RSGIVVO/ref=dv_web_wtls_list_pr_1_ba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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