TV/Movies Megathread

[Habbaku]

As for cliffhangers, that happens in serialized movies too.  (I'm a little surprised no Marvel movie has ended Empire Strikes Back-style yet.)

That's because Hollywood knows that your instant-gratification generation, of which so much of its revenue relies upon, has the attention span of methed-out tsitsi flies.  If they released a cliffhanger, they'd be excoriated in social media by Aspie Nation.

Fucking Aspie Generation infests the wargame world too. Fuckers.

It does?  Seems to me it's the olds who are fucking up the hobby.  Every young person I've met that wargames has been eager to jump into anything that comes out.

[Queequeg]

Stop body shaming.

[jimmy olsen]

I'm working again, so I picked up true dicks.  I also got True Detectives on blu ray. (sad trombone)

Formalistic question no one cares about: if a TV show isn't cut for commercials, what is the actual difference between it and a movie?  Chapter breaks?  A lot of movies have those.

Anyway, I also blind bought a particular animated film whose sequel comes out this Friday, and if you fuckshits steered me wrong--by fuckshits I mean specifically someone whose name starts with T and ends with Z with an IM ORTI in the middle, but I mean generally people all over--I'll be mad.

The dragon movie is mediocre beyond belief.

Bummer.  If need be, I can always claim it's a present for my niece.  "Why has it obviously been watched?"  "Because you're not blood relatives and because fuck you."

Don't listen to that curmudgeon.

[11B4V]

As for cliffhangers, that happens in serialized movies too.  (I'm a little surprised no Marvel movie has ended Empire Strikes Back-style yet.)

That's because Hollywood knows that your instant-gratification generation, of which so much of its revenue relies upon, has the attention span of methed-out tsitsi flies.  If they released a cliffhanger, they'd be excoriated in social media by Aspie Nation.

Fucking Aspie Generation infests the wargame world too. Fuckers.

It does?  Seems to me it's the olds who are fucking up the hobby.  Every young person I've met that wargames has been eager to jump into anything that comes out.

Naw, us olds need 5/8 counters and/or a magnifying glass.

[Ideologue]

5/8 of the way through.  'Bout to see what Mike was so disappointed about.

Also, Marty is a fucking scumbag.

[Queequeg]

Anyway, [spoiler]was really pissed that they killed Chilton just when I was really enjoying Esparza this season.[/spoiler]

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[Eddie Teach]

Somebody on Languish said he was still alive.

[Queequeg]

Somebody on Languish said he was still alive.

[spoiler]It is purposefully a bit ambiguous.  Fuller has been toying with it.  There's no spinal fluid in the shot you see, and it's carefully shot at an angle that it looks like he was shot in the cheek, like Serpico.  But given that there is no further reference to him in the present tense, even if he was part of the anti-Hannibal conspiracy, he might actually be dead.[/spoiler]

[Ideologue]

True Dicks was, overall, pretty fucking radical.

[Eddie Teach]

Babette's Feast. Not bad.

[celedhring]

Somebody on Languish said he was still alive.

[spoiler]It is purposefully a bit ambiguous.  Fuller has been toying with it.  There's no spinal fluid in the shot you see, and it's carefully shot at an angle that it looks like he was shot in the cheek, like Serpico.  But given that there is no further reference to him in the present tense, even if he was part of the anti-Hannibal conspiracy, he might actually be dead.[/spoiler]

I grasp at the fact that [spoiler]Abe Gideon was similarly "dead" and was brought back this season without much fuss.[/spoiler]

[Liep]

Somebody on Languish said he was still alive.

That was me, but only guesswork because we didn't see him dead and nothing about a trial against My Girl.

[celedhring]

Somebody on Languish said he was still alive.

That was me, but only guesswork because we didn't see him dead and nothing about a trial against My Girl.

[spoiler]She would have to face trial even if she didn't kill him outright. Don't think the writers cared much about her character, anyway, I'm up to episode 10 and she hasn't been shown again. Good to see Verger's murderous pigs back 

That said, the show's reverted to type in these past eps after Chilton died (boring procedurals and nothing interesting happening in the story arc front). The "Graham is now a psycho too" twist is sooooo obviously a trap to get Lecter to expose himself that I won't pay much heed to it. [/spoiler]

[Liep]

Well, that's true of course, perhaps they just don't care then. Though, I read that Brian Fuller thought she was a really interesting character.

[Ideologue]

Actually, How To Train Your Dragon was kinda great.  A few obnoxious parts and the ending lacks a certain element of sensicality, but it's really enjoyable once you get used to Jay Baruchel's somewhat annoying voice.