Favorite movie/show?

Battlestar Galactica........

I just finished watching the final season of BSG from the DVD set.

I just can't apply the superlatives that I would like to this series, I'd be accused of gushing.

I've been a fan of almost every Sci-Fi movie or TV series for more than 40 years, but this show has managed to integrate the vastness and complexity of the human experience, mysticism, and mythology better than any other format I've contacted, be it written, feature, or TV serial. Perhaps even musically.

All the people involved in the creation and execution of this story, have brought a reality to the ugliness and the eclecticism of man, in way I believe never before achieved.

But just for good old, down home, storytelling, this show makes Beowolf look like a nursery rhyme.
 
I got into BSG late, somewhere around the start of 2.5 or 3. Watched them all from the beginning, I was impressed. Although I think season 2.5-end of 3 or beginning of 4 was kind of weak.


For summer I've been watching:
True Blood - HBO
Hung - HBO
Weeds - SHO
Nurse Jackie - SHO

Weeds isn't near as good as it once was, but I just watch it out of habit now. True Blood is decent, Hung is pretty good, and Nurse Jackie is alright. Dexter comes back in about a month so I'm excited about that.
 
SNGX1275 said:
I got into BSG late, somewhere around the start of 2.5 or 3. Watched them all from the beginning, I was impressed. Although I think season 2.5-end of 3 or beginning of 4 was kind of weak.
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The section I think you're referencing, revolved around the humans starting a colony on a planet they called, "New Caprica", which was then subjected to a Cylon occupation. I've heard that particular section of the story called, "the most depressing show on television". I took it as part of the story that needed telling. It was hard to take though, no joy as it were. But, occupations in wartime are most definitely based in fact. That said, I've watched every PBS documentary on the holocaust and Auschwitz I've known about. Those weren't your basic, "NBC Comedy Thursday" fare either.

The beauty of the BSG saga, is that it was allowed to complete, and it coupled into back into the human experience. The most difficult part of creating a successful Sci-Fi show, is creating a mythology that compliments our hopes, psyches, beliefs, and value systems. This show borrowed from, and melded with, the beliefs and values already present in all of us, in a comprehensive way, that prior to BSG was never done.

After watching the fifth season of Andromeda deteriorate into incoherence fueled by Kevin Sorbo's ego, by comparison, and even in its own right, BSG went out in a blaze of glory.

True Blood has a similar ambience to one of Quentin Tarentino's "Grindhouse" movies, at least the teaser episode that aired on network TV did. But with no cable, no joy on that one for me. I keep meaning to open a Net Flicks account, to catch up on some of the cable series, albeit an season late. Stargate Atlantis Season 5 comes to mind as a must see also.
 
I haven't seen them in so long I can't say with any certainty that this is true, but I think that those episodes just didn't have anything in them to make you say "wow" or "awesome" or "holy ****". I don't mind sadness/depressing stuff if the story is good, the story was good throughout. I just think it became less awesome for a period.
 
I Got the "Blues"........

Well, I saw Avatar, and right after the conclusion I flaty stated that it was, "the best movie ever".

Then my son partly ruined it by explaining it (the plot) was actually an animated feature, "Fern Gully"! OK, but the live people and over the top FX, did help quite a bit. Oh, the 300 million dollar budget may have helped also.

Still I gotta say, this is probably be the movie that causes me to buy a Blu-Ray player.

Blue people, Blu-Ray, you gotta love the irony
 
captaincranky said:
Burt Lancaster, is the world's biggest ham.
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Sorry, Cap'n, maybe you're thinking of "From here to Eternity". South Pacific was a fantastic musical starring Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi.
It's a WWI movie with an anti-racism theme that was very daring for its time.
Picking the best movie of all time is really hard, given the thousands of choices, but I've been a sucker for this on e since I first saw it in thew '50s.
I never thought of Lancaster as a ham. He made some very good movies, but movies have changed a lot. You won't find a single boob or swear word in any of Burt's movies, and I can't help but think that's a good thing. (Although, I always appreciate a little "hint' of boob).
 
hughva said:
Sorry, Cap'n, maybe you're thinking of "From here to Eternity".
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You're absolutely correct. Thanks for coming up with that. Now it won't nag me why I made that connection. Lancaster was in the beach scene, yes?
hughva said:
Picking the best movie of all time is really hard, given the thousands of choices, but I've been a sucker for this on e since I first saw it in thew '50s.
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Wow, you must be at least as old as me. I suppose it could be said that the more movie choices you're exposed to, the harder it gets.
hughva said:
I never thought of Lancaster as a ham. He made some very good movies, but movies have changed a lot. You won't find a single boob or swear word in any of Burt's movies, and I can't help but think that's a good thing. (Although, I always appreciate a little "hint' of boob).
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Actually, "ham" might be a little strong, but I stand firm at, "over actor". Movie acting in the style of a stage actor. I am referring this back to, "The Rainmaker". In fairness, the part was intended to be over the top, but Lancaster saw to that and more.

As to "hint of boob", I think the contemporary term for that is "nip slip". (Yes, 'hint" requires a bit more exposure in 2010).
 
Loved this one : My Cousin Vinny (1992)

Directed by Jonathan Lynn. With Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei.
 
Favorite tv show would have to be Arrested Development. Yea it was only on for 3 seasons and is cancelled now, but still hilarious.
 
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So where did this post go ?
 
captaincranky said:
Well, I saw Avatar, and right after the conclusion I flaty stated that it was, "the best movie ever".

Then my son partly ruined it by explaining it (the plot) was actually an animated feature, "Fern Gully"! OK, but the live people and over the top FX, did help quite a bit. Oh, the 300 million dollar budget may have helped also.

Still I gotta say, this is probably be the movie that causes me to buy a Blu-Ray player.

Blue people, Blu-Ray, you gotta love the irony
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Oh no man, I saw this forum tempting me with new posts for weeks, but I resisted. Finally tonight I gave in and checked, only to see you say this?

Really? It was an OK movie, but it wasn't great. And to top it off I have seen the rewrite script comparisons of it vs pochantas. Really? I don't know/care if they are fake, but holy crap, if someone can 'fake' some script and have it play out to those 2 movies, then maybe they are a rehash of each other.
 
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