L. Marcus Posted March 19, 2015 Report Share Posted March 19, 2015 Which song? They're all briliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 19, 2015 Report Share Posted March 19, 2015 Terence and Philip's song about a family member. That is pure evil genius. So catchy and you left the cinema anting to sing it. But couldn't for obvious reasons. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 19, 2015 Report Share Posted March 19, 2015 One can at least hum it. See who recognizes the tune. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 Fury. Shia Labeouf in decent acting role shock. I enjoyed the film. It had the only working Tiger tank and late model Shermans which was nice. Watched Kelly's Heroes again last night for a change of pace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 men in black 3- Time travel hijinks and an invasion of flying jelly fish battleships. The internal monsters for Boris was a whole lot of yuck. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 World War Z -- I watched it on Netflix, and still think that I overpaid. Victims go from living to zombie in 12 seconds after a bite ("hero" characters get a few extra seconds to discover the bite), which makes a throwaway line about airliners being the perfect vector a bit ridiculous. Zombies in the movie tend to exhibit a fair degree of bad video game ragdoll physics, and in a later sequence, we find that the special effects people can't count (18 zombies in an enclosed area are somehow multiplied into about 50). From Time to Time -- It's a bit of a time travel/ghost story, which I really liked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 Machete Kills Again. Mel Gibson has fun as does Carlos Estevez. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 Watched Beyond the Boundary on youtube. Boy meets girl, falls in love with her, boy has a demon living inside of him. Girl has cursed blood. Hijinks ensue CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 Watched Pacific RIm. Monsters vs Giant robots. It's awesome CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 Been watching ITV's the Chase. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. MID-Nite Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 Season 6 of Glee(final season of the show) Flash Theory of Everything Snowpiercer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 One of the big things in anime right now is "short-form", with episodes only a few minutes long. I mention this because one of the shows I've seen talked about a lot is in that form, and uses it pretty well. I Can't Understand What My Husband is Saying is a domestic comedy about newlyweds who have a bit of a culture clash. The wife is a mundane office lady. The husband is an anime critic/blogger and full-fledged otaku. Despite this they're a close-knit couple -- but her friends aren't sure what to make of him, and his brother (a high school boy who writes pornographic fan-comics about him which have sold 30,000 copies) is a source of decided discomfort. It's funny, if a bit close to home for those of us who are in the various fandoms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. MID-Nite Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 Imitation Game Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 1 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ghostbusters Interstellar Battle of the Five Armies I blame my plane trip to Japan and back for this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 Crusade Got through the first 4 eps. Some interesting going on that furthered some of the ideas in Babylon 5. Some things that make me go "Wha?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 Just watched Battle of Britain recently and it was brilliant. The first 2/3rds of the film was pretty standard WW2 stuff with some nice historical bits about the war from England's side before Germany attacked and it was fine. But then came a section about ten to fifteen minutes long with only incidental dialog and music, showing scenes and pieces of air combat over London and it was incredibly powerful. The scene with the officers sitting down for dinner silently with missing spaces at the table and candles burning was so powerfully sad and gut wrenching. By the end of the film it was overwhelming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 25, 2015 Report Share Posted April 25, 2015 The first half of Spiral, season 5 Season 3 finale of Vikings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhd Posted April 25, 2015 Report Share Posted April 25, 2015 Other Space. Yahoo's sci-fi comedy that isn't quite sure what it's supposed to rip off most and has a captain more annoying that Zap Brannigan. But on the other hand: Joel & Crow are back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 One of the most brilliant anime concepts of recent months is also one of the most bizarre -- and for once it isn't too fetishy for my comfort. In Assassination Classroom, the lowest-level class of a prestigious prep school has been exiled to a dilapidated campus in the country where they all have an extra-credit assignment -- murder their teacher. Given that none of them had handled a weapon in their lives before the start of the school year, it poses a bit of a challenge. Additionally, he's an excellent teacher -- knowledgeable, kind, observant, and very supportive of the students who are trying to make him dead. The problem is that Koro-sensei is an invulnerable, super-fast octopus-thing who rivals Nyarlathotep in raw power and inexplicability. He had announced his awakening by vaporizing 70% of the moon instantly, and has cheerfully promised to do the same to the Earth unless his class can kill him with special weapons and ammunition they have been issued that are apparently the only things in the Universe that can actually harm him. The problem, of course, is hitting him with them -- in one of the very first shots of the series, he withstands a full-scale barrage from all forty students with automatic weapons. What is Koro-sensei? What does he really want? What is the purpose of his insane gesture? IS it really possible for a group of middle-school students to take the life of a being powerful enough to destroy the Earth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolgroth Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 World War Z -- I watched it on Netflix, and still think that I overpaid. Victims go from living to zombie in 12 seconds after a bite ("hero" characters get a few extra seconds to discover the bite), which makes a throwaway line about airliners being the perfect vector a bit ridiculous. Zombies in the movie tend to exhibit a fair degree of bad video game ragdoll physics, and in a later sequence, we find that the special effects people can't count (18 zombies in an enclosed area are somehow multiplied into about 50). And the worse sin that I can give it is.....boring. I never once thought Brad Pitt's character was in any real danger. That was one of the movies I watched last weekend when I was sick. I didn't feel up to anything, video games included, so I just sat and watched movies. The November Man - Decent action/spy movie. Not my favorite to be sure, but still an overall positive experience. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit - Another decent but "nothing to write home about" sort of movie. If the characters would have been anybody but Jack and Cathy Ryan, I might have been concerned for their safety and thus more engaged. 3 Days to Kill - Get the idea that I like action/spy movies yet? This one somehow managed to balance a family comedy with an action/spy thriller. It wasn't perfect but was my favorite of the three. The Last Stand - An Arnie film. Filled with implausibilities and over the top, crappy action. Cliche ridden. Waste of some truly amazing talent (like Forrest Whitaker) on a lame movie. Still had a modicum of fun with it so not all bad. Odd Thomas - Based on the book from Dean Koontz. The film is very faithful to that novel and well crafted. Even knowing the punchline, this movie delivered it well enough that even my cold heart was touched. My one observation is that it played out more like the pilot for a TV series that it did a feature film. I find myself wanting to go look up when the TV show starts, even knowing that there is none. Salem (Season 1) - Yup. Binged watched the entire first season last Sunday. At first I was not interested and then my wife told me that it was "too dark" for her. Sounded like it was up my alley and, for the most part, was. I can't say that it was the best cable network show I ever watched (that still falls to Walking Dead or maybe Daredevil if Netflix originals count) but it was enjoyable enough to keep me interested for the entire season and to look forward to Season 2. Mostly it sparked just a bit of nostalgia for a game I ran in a similar setting. I even got to the point where I started researching colonial era America and the Salem witch trials themselves. And, for the record, the show is not a documentary. It is a very fantasized retelling of the events. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted April 27, 2015 Report Share Posted April 27, 2015 The scene with the guy in the trunk was borderline hilarious "I'm trying to have a talk with my daughter. Do you mind?" CES Nolgroth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 27, 2015 Report Share Posted April 27, 2015 A few programs that will be aired on an online network Kaboul Kitchen Un village français (if you've watched Spiral, you'll recognize a couple of cast members) Fjällbackamorden: Havet ger, havet tar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 It's hard finding work if you're a panda. It's even harder if you aren't even trying. That is the situation faced by Panda, a protagonist in one of 2104's more interesting anime series, Polar Bear's Cafe. Panda wants to relax all day and eat bamboo, but his mother wants him to get a job and will suck him up into her vacuum cleaner if he doesn't. So he reluctantly goes out looking and stumbles upon a cafe run by Polar Bear, who is in fact a polar bear. after a reluctant and unsuccessful attempt to apply for a part-time job at the cafe, Polar Bear takes a strange sort of pity on him and directs him to the perfect job for him -- at the zoo, acting like a wild panda for the benefit of children who are blown away by seeing pandas. Now the world of Polar Bear's Cafe is decidedly odd. Wild and exotic animals who are just as smart as people walk among us and nobody bats an eye. The human woman Polar Bear ends up hiring to work for him doesn't mind working for a massive Arctic carnivore, nor is it a problem for his many human customers.. Lots of animals work at the zoo (some are regulars at the cafe) but apparently few if any live there. Polar Bear himself has a fondness for puns and non-sequitur that always annoys his best customer, a sardonic penguin who is always in the cafe and doesn't seem to have a job or much of a social life. One of the most interesting things about the series is the drawing style, which is detailed and astoundingly realistic. The animals look like the real thing if the real thing were walking on their hind legs and making espresso drinks. The rest of the drawing style is very painterly and Miyazakiesque, which is surprising for a TV comedy. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Saw Interstellar on blueray just now. Almost as mindblowing as in the cinema. The only thing that bothers me about the movie is the love-as-a-fundamental-force crap - otherwise, it's one of, if not the, best films of 2015. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 Oh why is "love as a fundamental force" crap? (That is currently the best reason for me to see it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted May 4, 2015 Report Share Posted May 4, 2015 Kamichu! is from a while back, but I got to see a couple of episodes again and it reminded me why a show that could only be made in Japan doesn't necessarily mean the ultra-weirdness people claim. During the lunch break at a rural junior high school, a shy girl named Yurie matter-of-factly tells her best friend that she's a god now. Sometime overnight she somehow became a divinity. The immediately attracts the enthusiastic interest of a classmate who runs the nearby shrine, who begins an attempt to find out just what sort of god Yurie has become. It makes a lot more sense if you know even a little about Shinto. Shinto has millions of gods, which inhabit just about everyplace. A human becoming one during their lifetime is rare but not unthinkable. A Westerner would probably have sent Yurie to a psychiatrist. As it is, Yurie finds that she can now see and interact with the hundreds of minor gods with whom mortals share the town. But in this case Yurie is absolutely right. She's a god, but doesn't know what she's doing. An effort to create a breeze resulted in a typhoon with her face in its eye almost laying waste to the town. Afterwards her new friend seizes on "the god of junior high' as an opportunity to save the shrine from bankruptcy, a quest which becomes more earnest when they discover that the god who had previously inhabited the shrine has been gone for three months. Again, it falls to Yurie to resolve the situation by traveling to the plane of the gods, locating the missing god, and gently persuading him to come back. It's really very sweet, innocent and oddly fascinating. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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