Films and TV - What are you watching?

[Iskanderia]

Yeah, I heard that. I tried watching that movie once like 5 years ago and I love the way it looks and I love sci-fi obviously, but I only got about half an hour into it before getting bored. I planned on getting back to it, but I never did.

I really should give it another shot. It's kind of shameful that as a sci-fi nerd I haven't watched Metropolis in it's entirety.

 

[Carmacao]

The 'full cut' with the 'lost' footage is better . . . it's more interesting.
I find it funny how they dumbed it down for American audiences, but by doing that butchered the plot.
And I dunno, I have a patience for things other people find tedious . . . perhaps it was a bit too long.

 

[SDjilliaRE]

"I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK"

I totally found that movie by accident last year and it is amazing. <3

I want to be watching Cannibal Girls and The Devil's Nightmare, but I can't find them anywhere.

I'm also in the middle of Sailor Moon SuperS, but the season is boring me. I just wanna get to Stars already so the outers will come back. I love Chibiusa, but she's got some bestiality issues this season.

 

[Berserk]

I find it funny how they dumbed it down for American audiences, but by doing that butchered the plot.

lol I don't think that's what happened...

It was just long-lost footage that they thought was gone forever until they found a complete negative of the film in an obscure film museum in Argentina.

 

[Carmacao]

I find it funny how they dumbed it down for American audiences, but by doing that butchered the plot.

lol I don't think that's what happened...

It was just long-lost footage that they thought was gone forever until they found a complete negative of the film in an obscure film museum in Argentina.

From the Wikipedia entry:
"Before it was shown outside Germany, however, the film was cut and re-edited, changing many key elements. American and foreign theatre managers were generally unwilling to allow more than ninety minutes to a feature in their program, during a period when film attendance figures were high . . . few people outside of Berlin saw Metropolis as Fritz Lang originally intended; the version shown to European and American audiences in 1928 was disjointed and illogical in parts. In the United States, the movie was shown in a version edited by the American playwright Channing Pollock, who almost completely obscured the original plot, which was considered too controversial by the American distributors; the Pollock version is considerably shortened."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(film)#Release

 

[Cerceaux]

it's not really a movie, but im watching that episode of aqua teen hunger force where shake gets bitten by a radioactive black man and turns black.

I...haven't seen that one. xD
I just watched the one where Shake kills himself so he can get inside Meatwad's ouiji video game, but he gets bored, so they get a chicken witch doctor to resurrect him.
"Arise, chicken, arise!"

Also, "I'm a Cyborg but That's Okay" is great. Where else can you see Rain yodeling?

And I'm watching two okay Korean dramas (I get like 4 Korean channels for some reason), "Cinderella's Stepsister", which is so melodramatic and sappy I don't understand why it's as popular as it is, and "Secret Agent Ms. Oh", which was ridiculous at first, but is actually pretty funny.

 

[Ma_cherie]

I'm watching season 3 of Battlestar Galactica. I love it, and I've never been a sci-fi/weird spacecraft stuff fan. I highly recommend it.

 

[Carmacao]

I'm watching season 3 of Battlestar Galactica. I love it, and I've never been a sci-fi/weird spacecraft stuff fan. I highly recommend it.

I love Battlestar Galactica!
It was awesome and I highly recommend it.
The last episode was kind of a cop-out though.

 

[Berserk]

Wikipedia stuff

Ok, but the footage wasn't just cut to "dumb it down" for stupid Americans. Every copy of the film except for what premiered in Berlin was drastically cut and edited.

If it had just been the American release that was altered it wouldn't have been so hard to recover the lost footage.

 

[Carmacao]

Wikipedia stuff

Ok, but the footage wasn't just cut to "dumb it down" for stupid Americans. Every copy of the film except for what premiered in Berlin was drastically cut and edited.

If it had just been the American release that was altered it wouldn't have been so hard to recover the lost footage.

True.
I wasn't dissing 'stupid Americans' (including me!) . . . my point was that they tried to make it appeal to a wider audience and in doing so convoluted it.

 

[Iskanderia]

I'm watching season 3 of Battlestar Galactica. I love it, and I've never been a sci-fi/weird spacecraft stuff fan. I highly recommend it.

I love Battlestar Galactica!
It was awesome and I highly recommend it.
The last episode was kind of a cop-out though.

Add me to the list of Battletards.

And yeah, the last episode made me violently angry.

 

[PureElegance]

I'm watching Gigli after hearing that Al Pacino and Christopher Walken were in it

And because I want to see how bad it is XD

 

[Mikal]

Let the Right One In.

So much better than Twilight.

 

[Lem]

Watching the new Futurama episodes

Oh yeah Battlestar was great and like most people, the final season was not it's best. Also Dexter!

 

[Wandering_Fox]

Let the Right One In.

So much better than Twilight.

I found it really difficult to compare those as the target audiences were so different.

But if it's any help, Let the Right One In was much better than The Little Vampire as well

 

[Amatsu]

Watching the new Futurama episodes

I've been watching those. I'm so glad Futurama is back.

 

[Wandering_Fox]

Watching the new Futurama episodes

I've been watching those. I'm so glad Futurama is back.

Ack! I forgot to watch the third movie! I loved the first one and thought the second one was alright! Are the new episodes as good as the original run?

 

[Amatsu]

Are the new episodes as good as the original run?

I think so.

 

[Mikal]

Let the Right One In.

So much better than Twilight.

I found it really difficult to compare those as the target audiences were so different.

But if it's any help, Let the Right One In was much better than The Little Vampire as well

Let the Right One In is one of my all time favourite movies, but I didn't think much of the original book. Too much filler, and there was one bit which really bothered me...

Eli is starving, yet in the book s/he sleeps in a bath of blood :/

 

[~Z e n c h o u~]

something with Dolly Parton and 2 other chicks.
I don't know, but it's cool.