Nobody Cares about TV and Film

[Isabeau]

Apple TV+ Offers Limited-Time Discount, $2.99 Monthly for 3 Months

Apple is offering a limited-time promotion for its streaming service, giving new and eligible returning subscribers access to Apple TV+ for just $2.99 per month for three months. The deal runs until April 24, 2025, and offers a decent discount from the regular $9.99 monthly subscription price...

www.macrumors.com

 

[Noodles]

Almost as bad as Dinklege playing the Toxic Avenger in the reboot.

Yeah, I feel like having blood spatter like that in the trailer is kind of a bad sign. It's just going to be a violent movie with cheesy jokes.

 

[Isabeau]

Has anyone else seen the series Sugar on Apple TV?

I just finished episode 6 where the sci-fi element is finally revealed. So liking this show, and there will be a second season yay!

For anyone who hasn’t seen it, it’s a very LA film noir detective story set in the present, but since it was placed in the science fiction category, I went looking for why. I wish I hadn’t since it ruined the surprise a tad, but does’t matter. Just go into blind if you can. Also, there are dogs.
And a cat. They're just extras but still.

Anyway, I have two episodes to go. Gonna save them for tomorrow.

 

[Isabeau]

I checked, and no spoilers in this trailer.

 

[Free]

I just heard about Star Wars: The Last Starfighter, and I'm really looking to seeing them finally remake this classic Sci Fi film from the 80s, and putting it in the Star Wars universe!



Oh, I got the title wrong...

 

[Noodles]

There was a Reddit Threat that suggested a fun concept might be a series that takes place entirely inside the city that exists on the Super Star Destroyer.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

There was a Reddit Threat that suggested a fun concept might be a series that takes place entirely inside the city that exists on the Super Star Destroyer.

Executor class....
Including the zoo, three-ring circus and shopping mall? ;-)

 

[Noodles]

Executor class....
Including the zoo, three-ring circus and shopping mall? ;-)

Yes.

Also, maybe make. It a surprise at the end of the first season. Like there are occasionally little Earthquakes in the city, no one really comments why, then later something happens and we learn, "THE CITY ISNON A SHIP!"

 

[Veritable Quandry]

It would be a Seinfeld like series focusing on the social lives of a group of junior officers who never get too specific about their jobs.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

It would be a Seinfeld like series focusing on the social lives of a group of junior officers who never get too specific about their jobs.

"Are we the Baddies? The Rebel trooper helmets don't look like skulls!"

 

[Caete]

There was a Reddit Threat that suggested a fun concept might be a series that takes place entirely inside the city that exists on the Super Star Destroyer.

Ah, so Macross City on board the SDF-1 then.

 

[Free]

Good news, everyone! Millie Bobby Brown and crew are returning for another Enola Holmes adventure.

Millie Bobby Brown Is on the Case Again This Year in Enola Holmes 3

The intrepid detective returns and is joined by a cast full of familiar faces.

www.netflix.com

 

[Free]

This explains a LOT. I wonder if we can enact something like this for voting in the U.S., enforce a quiz on the issues and candidates? Just spitballing here...

 

[Cindy Claveau]

This explains a LOT. I wonder if we can enact something like this for voting in the U.S., enforce a quiz on the issues and candidates? Just spitballing here...

It's been worked on in the past, I think, but they can't find a way around the idea that every citizen of the US gets an equal vote, regardless of royalty or heritage or wealth. At least, that's how it's always worked in the past until the Tangerine Toadstool. Who knows what other damage he'll do in his own interests?

So often I've wished for voting to be like a driver's license - prove you meet the minimum first without killing anyone, then you can drive. That comparison used to sound hyperbolic. Not any more.

It's a perfect example of the friction point between freedom and security.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Remember OutRun? Michael Bay and Sydney Sweeney Do—and They’re Making a Movie About It

In the latest case of Hollywood throwing a quarter into the ‘80s arcade machine and hoping for box office gold, OutRun—yes, the breezy, synth-soaked Sega racing game that launched a thousand Ferrari…

thephrasemaker.com

Outrun was a game where you drove a red convertible cross-country through different regional zones, while trying to make it through each zone in a limited amount of time. It was a "racing game" but you weren't racing any other cars, just the clock, although there was a lot of innocent traffic that you had to dodge. There was a neat thing where at the end of each zone the highway split and you took the right or left fork to enter the next zone and all of the zones were environmentally distinct, which gave the game some replayability since the next time you could make different choices and drive through different zones. But there was no plot or backstory to the game at all, you were just driving.

Which makes the idea of a movie really stupid. Because it's just going to be another cliche car-movie with a totally arbitrary plot, and literally the only connection to the game you could even possibly force beyond the title is like...adapting the game music?

 

[Noodles]

I wonder if it will end up like that Need for Speed movie where it's just a long road trip with occasional. Car chases.

 

[Casey Pelous]

This explains a LOT. I wonder if we can enact something like this for voting in the U.S., enforce a quiz on the issues and candidates? Just spitballing here...

I'm imagining the parties' submissions to the quiz committee for the last election:

1) Which candidate favors a fiscally responsible approach to funding Social Security?

vs.

1) Which dark-skinned candidate might get her period while holding the keys to the nuclear arsenal?

 

[Free]

Which makes the idea of a movie really stupid. Because it's just going to be another cliche car-movie with a totally arbitrary plot, and literally the only connection to the game you could even possibly force beyond the title is like...adapting the game music?

I predict it'll make $700 million at the box office.

 

[Isabeau]

Hank Green (@hankgreen.bsky.social)

We decided to watch “School of Rock” last night because it has “Minecraft Steve in it” (I know…It is what it is) and I decided to google a bit and, yall, the little singer girl just got married to the big security guard boy /in real life/. She’s a OBGYN sonographer and he’s a music industry lawyer.

bsky.app

 

[Caete]

Remember OutRun? Michael Bay and Sydney Sweeney Do—and They’re Making a Movie About It

In the latest case of Hollywood throwing a quarter into the ‘80s arcade machine and hoping for box office gold, OutRun—yes, the breezy, synth-soaked Sega racing game that launched a thousand Ferrari…

thephrasemaker.com

Outrun was a game where you drove a red convertible cross-country through different regional zones, while trying to make it through each zone in a limited amount of time. It was a "racing game" but you weren't racing any other cars, just the clock, although there was a lot of innocent traffic that you had to dodge. There was a neat thing where at the end of each zone the highway split and you took the right or left fork to enter the next zone and all of the zones were environmentally distinct, which gave the game some replayability since the next time you could make different choices and drive through different zones. But there was no plot or backstory to the game at all, you were just driving.

Which makes the idea of a movie really stupid. Because it's just going to be another cliche car-movie with a totally arbitrary plot, and literally the only connection to the game you could even possibly force beyond the title is like...adapting the game music?

Nah, they will just use that trappings to "freshen up and renew" an old Cannonball Run script, cast with fully untalented ensemble and an entirely new soundtrack from hip-hop/hard rap because that's what makes a movie awesome instead of good music.