Akin to the "Musical Picks" topic, I want to hear what your all time favourite movies/television shows are. It can be anything from action to drama to sports to romance (who watches that anyway though?). Don't be shy and don't be mean to other members, even if they really did enjoy Superbaby-Geniuses or whatever that piece of crap was called

 

I'll start off with a couple of my favs; I find most of the ones I put down are great films all together, but have shining endings.

 

Blood Diamond (Thriller/Drama): Leo DiCaprio picks up a sick south african accent in this eye-opening thriller/drama. Great music but if you're a Leo fan, you can probably already guess how it ends lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtPX2kXhu7I

 

Friday Night Lights (Sports): I'm not a football guy, but the cinematography and story made this a refreshing change to the typical, predictable, sports movie. Plus, the instrumental music by Explosions in the Sky fits perfect (note: the trailer is crap, watch the film).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzyp4qOW0F0

 

The Lord of The Rings Trilogy (Fantasy): If you are on a Lego forum where Lego LOTR products are frequently discussed, you probably already know how awesome the films are. If you don't, I'll leave it up to the mods to immediately revoke your membership to BrickPicker (jk).

 

And last I'll just end with my favourite TV show, which is probably going into its final season this year, The Mentalist (crime procedeural): this murder-a-episode series focuses on a former psychic who is now tracking the serial killer who murdered his family. The show can be light and funny, but when the serial killer ("red john") gets involved, it can get pretty unnerving. The series has spent 5 years tracking down murderers so feels a bit tired, but it is still my favourite. And, I'll post a trailer for the 3rd season finally:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzejrms4YLk

 

Phew, if you got through all that... you don't get bored easily, do you? Now tell me your picks!

Amazon Prime subscribers can access boatload of HBO shows starting today.  Most of them are older shows, great for re-watch or to finally watch the whole series for cheap.   I may need to re-watch Rome.  I could not believe it was first aired in 2005

 

Sorry, no Games of Thrones episodes

Amazon Prime subscribers can access boatload of HBO shows starting today.  Most of them are older shows, great for re-watch or to finally watch the whole series for cheap.   I may need to re-watch Rome.  I could not believe it was first aired in 2005

 

Sorry, no Games of Thrones episodes

 

"Rome" was so awesome, highly recommended.  I might also start watching "The Wire", which I hear is great.  I started "Six Feet Under" years ago and only got barely into season 2. I might start it again as well.

 

Sad, tonight was another finale of "Survivor".  My wife and I have watched all 28 seasons.  It's hard to believe it's been on this long.

"Rome" was so awesome, highly recommended.  I might also start watching "The Wire", which I hear is great.  I started "Six Feet Under" years ago and only got barely into season 2. I might start it again as well.

I have all five seasons of Six Feet Under and highly recommend it. Also unlike so many series that never get an official closure this one did so at least it isn't like you watch the whole thing to the end and go "....That's how it ended?! AH CRAP!!!!"

Sad, tonight was another finale of "Survivor".  My wife and I have watched all 28 seasons.  It's hard to believe it's been on this long.

On one hand I can't believe it survived this long but then on the other I'm not surprised.

This was one of my all-time favorite films as a kid like many of the other Full Moon features and I still love it. You can order a DVD copy pretty cheap.

 

Doctor Mordrid

This was one of my all-time favorite films as a kid like many of the other Full Moon features and I still love it. You can order a DVD copy pretty cheap.

Doctor Mordrid

Looked like someone did not get the license for Dr. Strange ? ;)

I have been catching up on Deadwood on Amazon Prime. Damn good show.  Too many "c**k sucker" uttered for my taste though..  

Looked like someone did not get the license for Dr. Strange ?

Ha. That was one reason I enjoyed the movie aside from Re-Animator's Jeffrey Combs.

 

I have been catching up on Deadwood on Amazon Prime. Damn good show.  Too many "c**k sucker" uttered for my taste though..

I honestly barely could get past a single episode due to the insane amount of cussing. Too bad though because there are a lot of big players in it.

22 pages is a long thread, I'll get to it sometime, but I just wanted to pop in to see if anyone's watchin' anime...and to my partial surprise, I'm only seeing a few mentions, and of older 20th century anime!

 

ok bored again with tv.  looking for some obscure anime (as seen a lot) with great story.  calling out TOK but any suggestions welcome

So if brickcrazyhouse is still looking (and perhaps TheOrcKing and others too), here's two big recent animes I know are good that I've seen, with the story intros taken from MyAnimeList. I'll put up others another time, bch, the latter probably doesn't fit your criteria exactly, but still, take a look:

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Undeniably one of the best and a great, balanced story. The pacing is great, few fillers, great plot (albeit gritty, but the balance of humor and other sections is great). Just want to mention that FMA:B is better than FMA, because the original got a little wonky and wasn't as well set up.

In this world there exist alchemists, people who study and perform the art of alchemical transmutation

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Oh no, you went and mentioned the alchemist. Get ready for Darth Raichu to come here going over in great detail with how awesome it is!

 

Panty and Stocking as reference by TOK earlier, which I've heard is best described as NSFW Powerpuff girls on steroids), but because of that it makes it enjoyable to watch.

Damn right! :D

You have absolutely no idea how long I have been searching high & low for this stop motion clay animated short from ages ago. Considering it was made back in 1984, the video definitely has seen better days but what can you do? I found this one in a tad higher resolution however the brightness is higher than it should be so the picture appears bleached out or as if bad lighting was used therefore the one embedded is better all around I guess.

 

Sundae in New York

Thankfully from the clip above I found a couple classic claymation goodies like this next one from 1975 animated by Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner.

 

Closed Mondays

Another Will Vinton short this time animated by Barry Bruce in 1982.

 

The Great Cognito

One last clip from way back to 1975 that unfortunately I really can't find a better uploaded version but it is mostly musical anyway.

 

Mountain Music

22 pages is a long thread, I'll get to it sometime, but I just wanted to pop in to see if anyone's watchin' anime...and to my partial surprise, I'm only seeing a few mentions, and of older 20th century anime!

 

So if brickcrazyhouse is still looking (and perhaps TheOrcKing and others too), here's two big recent animes I know are good that I've seen, with the story intros taken from MyAnimeList. I'll put up others another time, bch, the latter probably doesn't fit your criteria exactly, but still, take a look:

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Undeniably one of the best and a great, balanced story. The pacing is great, few fillers, great plot (albeit gritty, but the balance of humor and other sections is great). Just want to mention that FMA:B is better than FMA, because the original got a little wonky and wasn't as well set up.

In this world there exist alchemists, people who study and perform the art of alchemical transmutation

Every once in a while the internet actually helps one to find that certain something you have been looking for in a long time. Like earlier with those classic 'claymation' shorts, I found another bit of nostalgia from my childhood. It is a rather well animated feature produced and written by Paul McCartney. I believe there were a couple other tales for Rupert but this was the one I remember seeing. It is lengthy running at roughly fourteen minutes to give a fair warning.

 

Rupert & The Frog Song

This video making a comparison between "Army of Darkness" to "Oz: The Great & Powerful" was actually amusing with some side by side shots. Regardless of his opinion about the Oz movie at the end though, I still thoroughly enjoyed it.

I've always preferred this one.

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I've always preferred this one.

Ah yes, the classic "The Dark Side of the Moon" to "The Wizard of Oz" legend. I will admit some parts in the film do seem to fit well with the album but for a band to create 43 minutes of music that somehow was bizarrely made from inspiration to the film is one tough store bought cookie to swallow. I'm trying to recall but didn't VHS tapes come out later in the mid to late 70s and later still for home releases?

Well anyway, it's funny how much 'Pink Floyd fever' seems to be going around lately. Speaking of which....

Oobi's like me, Oobi's like you

 

I love corny horror films like this off-the-wall series.

The Gingerdead Man

Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust

Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver

You ever see this one?

You ever see this one?

Yes. Have you seen this one?

Freddy on the receiving end? Say it ain't so.

All this Ghostbuster talk between the sets and sometimes movies led me to the original promo episode for the animated series of The Real Ghostbusters. This was the one they showed to the executives to get the greenlight for the TV series so the general public never saw it. You can see a lot of changes occured before the actual series was syndicated such as Peter Venkman's likeness, their suits, and the firehouse.

Are you ready?

 

Are you ready?

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