Good recs, Vonnie!
Matilda (who is home sick but on the mend) and I are off to see Moana.
I noticed a bunch of movies I've been interested in watching have just shown up on Netflix, including Sing Street.
I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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DavidS - Dec 09, 2016 10:20:13 am PST #432 of 3455
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
chrismg - Dec 09, 2016 10:21:29 am PST #433 of 3455
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
What's the first movie you(general you) would call an end-of-the-West Western?
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 09, 2016 2:23:02 pm PST #434 of 3455
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Maybe Little Big Man?
DavidS - Dec 09, 2016 4:06:26 pm PST #435 of 3455
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What's the first movie you(general you) would call an end-of-the-West Western?
The Wild Bunch
Though it's explicitly the theme in The Searchers as well.
Tom Scola - Dec 09, 2016 5:15:47 pm PST #436 of 3455
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Blazing Saddles
Calli - Dec 10, 2016 9:14:50 am PST #437 of 3455
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
What's the first movie you(general you) would call an end-of-the-West Western?
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Fred Pete - Dec 12, 2016 5:50:46 am PST #438 of 3455
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'd say Cat Ballou, although the end-of-the-West angle is kind of underplayed.
Connie Neil - Dec 12, 2016 6:04:21 am PST #439 of 3455
brillig
Big Jake? Where John Wayne hides out in the countryside so much people think he's dead, and back home things are getting civilized, and cars and motorcycles are replacing horses.
billytea - Dec 12, 2016 9:11:37 am PST #440 of 3455
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
First one that came to my mind is Rango.
Fay - Dec 14, 2016 10:39:21 am PST #441 of 3455
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Late to the party, but I really enjoyed both Moana and Fantastic Beasts.
Fantastic Beasts is basically Wizarding!Steve Irwin mashup with Doctor Who and Mary Poppins Which works for me. I am still irritated by the casting of Redmayne instead of Nathan Stewart Jarret or indeed any other black Briton, because that was a golden opportunity on a platter to create a brand new nonwhite British icon, AND it would have made for a more interesting bit of storytelling and worldbuilding, given that segregation/racial tension is one of the themes of the movie. This movie was astonishingly, and disappointingly, white AF.
I really loved Queenie and Jacob But I thought Redmayne's character had zero sexual or romantic chemistry with, well, ANYONE on screen, so the "romantic" goodbye just felt weird. He seemed to be playing the character as rather on the spectrum, and that worked, and I quite liked the character, but I didn't really see any romantic sparkage between him and anyone - although the story seemed to be trying to convince me I should be shipping him with Tina.
Also, Colin Farrell should call me.
The reveal at the end was disheartening, because One can't unknow that Depp is an asshole, but otoh it explained why nobody was recognising that Graves was Grindelwald.
Tbh I mostly want cool worldbuilding stuff. Like - the next four movies could just be like wizarding world versions of Steve Irwin's show, with Newt travelling the world to save and protect weird and wonderful beasties and occasionally dropping in on Queenie and Jacob for tea and cake, and I would be ALL OVER THAT.