Movie/TV recommendations

[miffy495]

A Scanner Darkly is an excellent movie and you should watch it whether or not it is cyberpunk. Now I want to watch it real bad. I think I lent my copy to someone like a million years ago and never got it back though.

[Patrick R]

Blade Runner is not an action or horror movie. I kinda has a thriller structure, kinda, but the momentum of that movie is really weird and not at all your typical "sci-fi thriller".

[Roderick]

Now I want to see Farscape again, and Blade Runner, and A Scanner Darkly (bizarre film, that).

[Twig]

I am going to finish my rewatch of Farscape (starting from season two) after I finish up SG:U. I'd started it some time ago, just like Stargate, but then Netflix took it all down. |:

 

Netflix. |:

 

Amazon Prime has all of this available, which is why I've finally gotten back to it!

[Roderick]

By the Yods!

[clyde]

Bladerunner is a good example because it feels more like a procedural. I can see why A Scanner Darkly would be included; there is a relationship between low-income drugs-use and surveillance-tech. It also has corporations mixing with political power.

The reason I'm avoiding thrillers and horror movies us because I don't want to experience disturbing paranoia, so Brazil is out. That movie fucked me up. I remember Paparika freaking me out in a similar way.

I guess I'm looking for something more Slice-of-Life in that setting, like Amelie or Daguerrotypes. Now that I typed it, I realize that it's an unreasonable request.

[seamus2389]

I am going to finish my rewatch of Farscape (starting from season two) after I finish up SG:U. I'd started it some time ago, just like Stargate, but then Netflix took it all down. |:

 

Netflix. |:

 

Amazon Prime has all of this available, which is why I've finally gotten back to it!

 

I started watching Farscape for the first time, currently on season 2 and really enjoying. That show is not afraid to go really weird and Areyn Sun growth as a character is really interesting to watch. Also Ben Crowder plays crazy really well

[Hermie]

Have people watched A.G.E.N.T.S.O.F.S.H.I.E.L.D. yet?

 

I'm torn. The pilot had more cheese than Switzerland, and the characters spent most of the time snarking knowingly at each other, and the one character that did have an emotional journey, felt flat and generic.

 

On the other hand, Whedon has shown several times that he is really good at setting up a slick, stylized, over the top story environment, and then slowly seeding in an emotional core that has you weeping when he eventually and brutally kills off a character, and there's definitely the possibility of pulling that off here. On the other OTHER hand, Dollhouse.

 

Am I alone in seeing the hope for this? Or is it just stockholm syndrome?

[Roderick]

I returned from Riddick. I had a splendid time. Apart from the one storyline with Dahl (really now, that was awkward), it was fun and executed perfectly upon everything it set out to do.

 

I can understand not liking this if you don't like the Riddick character, but I don't really get the overall negative feedback I'm reading.

[Twig]

Like I said before, everything about it was great except for Doll. But she was so bad it brought down the entire movie.

[BigJKO]

You might even say Twig came away satisfied.

[pabosher]

[Twig]

dang

[Roderick]

"I like your toe nails. They remind of the color of your nipples." That's an actual line Riddick used to flirt with Dahl. It worked. It succeeded in turning her straight. Because all it takes to cure homosexuality is someone coming onto your very strongly and probably smelling right.

 

But then there was also the beheading, and dog. I liked Riddick. Gonna write a big old Filmadeus review about it in the coming days.

[Twig]

That's pretty much exactly how I feel, but I guess Doll bothered me more than you.

[Twig]

Is TJ ever NOT crying? Geez. I feel like every single scene she's in, her eyes are all watered up like she's about to burst into tears.

 

(Stargate: Universe, still.)

[Merus]

I got what I wanted out of Riddick but I did not want very much from it (I wanted: something that sort of reminded me of Pitch Black) and it probably wasn't up to the task of anything more. Yeah, it was weirdly sexist and the idea of having a hero that you then turn into a slasher movie villain briefly is not especially effective considering it's basically what the fourth movie in a slasher franchise ends up doing to itself and people generally don't enjoy those.

 

I saw it for gift vouchers, so I am not particularly disappointed.

 

 

Farscape is probably fourth, maybe fifth, on my list of TV shows to watch. I have a pact with my housemate: The Wire first, then Breaking Bad. I want to watch Babylon 5 because he has it and speaks highly of it, and we have similar taste, but Farscape probably after that because it's an Australian sci-fi show that worked and I haven't seen it all yet. (I suspect the bits where they take Australian bush and paint some of it blue doesn't seem quite so alien to me as it would to foreigners.)

[Frenetic Pony]

Bladerunner is a good example because it feels more like a procedural. I can see why A Scanner Darkly would be included; there is a relationship between low-income drugs-use and surveillance-tech. It also has corporations mixing with political power.

The reason I'm avoiding thrillers and horror movies us because I don't want to experience disturbing paranoia, so Brazil is out. That movie fucked me up. I remember Paparika freaking me out in a similar way.

I guess I'm looking for something more Slice-of-Life in that setting, like Amelie or Daguerrotypes. Now that I typed it, I realize that it's an unreasonable request.

 

Oooh, ooh! Go watch "The Conversation" ok, joke.

 

Rush is quite good, us Merican's aint seein none of it cause they drive them there cars in sometin dat aint a circle. Which just ain natural I tells ya! But for all the racing behind it there's not actually a TON of racing on screen. It's a lot more about the people behind the cars and their relationship than it ever is about the racing itself, not that the racing isn't fun to watch when it shows up as well.

[ihavefivehat]

Just watched The Act of Killing, the new Joshua Oppenheimer documentary.

 

It's one of the those things that's not easy to watch, but you will be glad you did. Highly recommend it, but make sure you set aside a few hours for the bout of brooding depression which will follow.

[Frenetic Pony]

Pacific Rim: It's too bad that such cool robot fights and Charlie from It's Always Sunny (Charlie Day) as one of the greatest movie scientists ever adds up to so little. There's no plot to speak of other than some idea to make vague copies of ideas from anime, independence day, and etc. without ever understanding anything about what makes those ideas tick. Hell if it wasn't for Del Toro's at least competent directing even the giant robot fights could have disappointed, and even then the finale did anyway.

 

Also, I don't know why I think about it every once in a while. But Skyfall is both not as good as Casino Royale and in some ways the best James Bond ever made. It's... epic in its own way, in a way that few movies ever manage. To bad it's not very GOOD in some parts.

[tegan]

Did anyone else see the Godzilla teaser before it got wiped off the face of the internet? I'm really happy that it seems like the nuclear warfare metaphor from the original movie is fully intact.

[Gormongous]

Suffice to say, I could not be more pleased that Gravity is so good (and it is very, very good). I really need another hard sci-fi movie to put on my shelf alongside Moon, the first half of Sunshine, my faint memories of Apollo 13, and... uh, what of 2001: A Space Odyssey isn't monkeys or trippy alien space magic? It's a very full shelf, you see.

[brkl]

But the monkeys are hard sci-fi.

[melmer]

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D more like Agents of C.O.M.P.L.E.T.E.A.N.D.U.T.T.E.R.D.O.G.S.H.I.T amirite

[elmuerte]

What Hollywood movie isn't dogshit these days?