Movie/TV recommendations

[ThunderPeel2001]

So, Tron was weird, had a very sudden, jerky start and then made a jarring, absolute transition to the virtual world in the second act. But, I liked it! It had a real charm to it. It felt almost like an experimental animation from eastern Europe, with the quality of the visuals shifting dramatically from one scene to the next.

It has made me rather curious for the upcoming Tron, though I heard it had a bad story. I'm thinking, perhaps the people who say that hold Tron from 1982 in too positive a light. It wasn't all the good storywise to start with!

Ha! I just saw it for the first time, too. Had the same feelings you do. Really enjoyed it, despite its glaring faults (abrupt beginning, empty ending - for starters). There was something uniquely charming about the whole thing.

I saw Tron 2 and have to say that, for the most part, it was pretty equal to the original in terms of quality. The story is much better than in Tron 1 (what story! the entire film is just a chase sequence) but I do admit to getting bored... But since the first film was so flawed, it's hard to get too angry with it. I'm ambivalent about it, but I think that if you loved Tron, you'll find it's a worthy sequel... although maybe lacking a teensy bit of the charm.

[circadianwolf]

The third season of Fringe is amazing. :tup:

Season one also has one of the best mindfucks ever in its finale (which doesn't get fully explained until the latter half of the second season).

It is, however, much like Lost and Alias in that the overarching plot generally isn't coherent at all. Third season has been better about that, though.

[ysbreker]

Fringe got better every episode. This last season has been amazing so far! :tup:

Sadly Fox decided to move fringe to the friday night death slot. So I fear this will be the last season

I just saw Wristcutters: a love story. Go see this!

A dark comedy/romance movie about a guy who kills himself and wakes up in an afterlife where everything is the same except shittier. Filled with people who killed themselves. The trailer tells it better:

It's also got Tom Waits in it!

[Ben X]

Sadly Fox decided to move fringe to the friday night death slot. So I fear this will be the last season

Fox has been playing promos and doing interviews saying that this is deffo not the case (warning SPOILERS for all Fringe so far):

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Hopefully this means they'll be too proud to turn around and say "hey look the ratings suddenly crashed, welcome to cancelledville".

[DanJW]

I just saw Wristcutters: a love story. Go see this!

A dark comedy/romance movie about a guy who kills himself and wakes up in an afterlife where everything is the same except shittier. Filled with people who killed themselves. The trailer tells it better:

It's also got Tom Waits in it!

That's one of my favourite movies ever. I watch it at least once a year.

[Orv]

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (years late on this, I know.)

Steampunk.

Sci-fi.

Film noir(-ish).

Above all else: What the fuck did I just watch?

[Sleepdance]

Because it is awesome?

[Orv]

Because it is awesome?

It's actually quite good stuff (save for Jude Law) and I'd recommend it to pretty much everyone here.

[Nappi]

Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs worked really well as a Christmas movie. What a charming film.

[JonCole]

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (years late on this, I know.)

Steampunk.

Sci-fi.

Film noir(-ish).

Above most else: What the fuck did I just watch?

Above REALLY all else: What happened while I was asleep 50% of the movie?

That was honestly one of the worst movies I've ever bothered to watch. If it wasn't for the unique (though ultimately gimmicky) art style and existence of actors who I'd normally like, I'd say there were no redeeming elements of watching Sky Captain.

[Kolzig]

Watched Scrooged again like I do every Christmas. Now that is one weird movie that just doesn't get old. Solid directing from Richard "Superman" Donner.

Bill Murray is a guy that some people just don't like, but for me he is one of the funniest guys around and in this movie he is real bastard. Like all corporate executives of the world.

I wonder if anyone actually started to sing during the end credits when this was in movie theaters, I doubt it...

[Orv]

Above REALLY all else: What happened while I was asleep 50% of the movie?

That was honestly one of the worst movies I've ever bothered to watch. If it wasn't for the unique (though ultimately gimmicky) art style and existence of actors who I'd normally like, I'd say there were no redeeming elements of watching Sky Captain.

Keep in mind I'm the kind of person that loves being tortured by horrendous voice acting in video games.

Uh. . .This.

I enjoy really horrible things, for some reason. I wouldn't call myself a masochist, but I find things like that hilarious.

(I may be crazy.)

[Ben X]

Watched Scrooged again like I do every Christmas.

I wonder if anyone actually started to sing during the end credits when this was in movie theaters, I doubt it...

Dan and I did when we went to watch it a week ago! No one else did, though, although everyone clapped along.

I liked the Silent Hill movie, apart from the exec-forced Sean Bean bits.

[ysbreker]

Just saw the other guys. Not as funny as anchorman or Tagadella Nights. But the info graphics in the credits are actually very good.

If you don't want to see the movie, but do want to see the credits: click here

[juv3nal]

I liked Sky Captain. It has undead Laurence Olivier and hokey banter in it. Plus robots.

What's not to like?

[Kolzig]

Dan and I did when we went to watch it a week ago! No one else did, though, although everyone clapped along.

Is it still in theaters somewhere? Was it a special Christmas screening or something like that? After all that is from 1988.

We went to see Narnia 3 yesterday at the theaters. I really hate those Xpand 3D glasses. Makes my nose seriously hurt and it's gives red marks for the rest of the evening. I've written about this before, but I really hope that if this 3D is here to stay (I hope not) then they create a way to look at movies without the glasses like Nintendo with 3DS and Toshiba with their tv's.

Also the movie was pretty bad. It's like a poor man's Lord of the Rings, even though Narnia book series is slightly older than LotR. The first Narnia movie was actually pretty ok and I remember that the second one was watchable a few years ago, but this third one was just waste of time. I get why Disney wanted them to lower the budget.

[MrHoatzin]

I have to geek out here and point out that C. S. Lewis and Tolkien were actually friends and that the latter never really appreciated how artlessly the former had razed his as of yet unpublished manuscripts (which he was nonetheless privy to for all the decades that it took Tolkien to write the books) to churn out a book after book of relatively ham-fisted Catholic propaganda for children.

[DanJW]

Yeah Tolkien spoke at least once about how he disliked allegory. And Narnia is about 75% allegory.

Narnia is specifically for children though. Other than The Hobbit, Tolkien was writing for an adult voice. (even then I think adults get a lot more out of The Hobbit than they do from Narnia).

[circadianwolf]

Technically, Lewis said that Narnia wasn't allegory... because Aslan actually *is* Christ, in a different form in an alternate universe.

[MrHoatzin]

Black Swan

It is basically the remake of The Wrestler as a cheesy horror film. I suspect I am starting to realize I don't really dig Aronofsky's films. Maybe I have not reflected much on them since Requiem For A Dream, which is a kind of high water mark. I am not sure if know what it is he is trying to do any more if I ever were...

[miffy495]

Saw the Town last night. I don't really understand why it's getting as much buzz as it has been. I believe I'm becoming a big fan of Jeremy Renner, and Jon Hamm was good, but overall the movie was so simple, the dialogue was clunky as all hell, and aside from the two actors I mentioned I can't think of anything memorable aside from cringing at Pete Posthelwaite's Boston-Irish accent. What a bummer. Oh well.

[syntheticgerbil]

Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs worked really well as a Christmas movie. What a charming film.

Goodness, I need to see that on home video someday soon. There was so much cause and effect type stuff that I was missing seemingly important links of logic by blinking or looking away. Incredibly jam packed and I think all of the associations from where the characters follow one clue to the other weren't paid enough attention by me on first viewing.

I just saw Wristcutters: a love story. Go see this!

A dark comedy/romance movie about a guy who kills himself and wakes up in an afterlife where everything is the same except shittier. Filled with people who killed themselves. The trailer tells it better:

A friend asked me to buy that for him two Christmases ago and it was pretty great. I think probably the cult thing got somewhat meandering, but I love the way the main characters play the story out. The whole thing was pretty sweet overall suprisingly.

[Thyroid]

Doctor Who Christmas Special. :tup: A little silly, but that's OK.

I haven't seen Blade Runner yet. I might do it this weekend. Hopefully.

Kromsy movie year score so far: 3/12

[brkl]

Rare Exports was a bit of a let-down after the surprising praise from foreign sources. Nice to see Finns doing something a bit different, but the script didn't make much sense at all, especially towards the end.

[Nappi]

Goodness, I need to see that on home video someday soon. There was so much cause and effect type stuff that I was missing seemingly important links of logic by blinking or looking away. Incredibly jam packed and I think all of the associations from where the characters follow one clue to the other weren't paid enough attention by me on first viewing.

Yes, Micmacs was definitely a bit hard to follow, mostly because the characters weren't very vocal about their intentions and decisions. I think I noticed most of the links, though, as I was able to watch it without (m)any distractions. Definitely a movie where you can discover lots of new things on the second viewing.