TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

Florence Foster Jenkins: Meryl Streep plays the worst soprano in the history of opera, and Hugh Grant his (cheating) husband that tries to shield her from the fact that she's a laughing stock. The movie is pretty harmless, decent but not great, but it's certainly elevated by Streep's performance. She takes a character that could easily be ridiculous and injects her with such infectious eagerness - which hides a life tainted by tragedy - that turns Florence into a hugely relatable character. She's simply stellar in it.

[Eddie Teach]

I don't understand what they're saying sometimes.

Like what?

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

[Syt]

Vienna Comic Con this year has Jeri Ryan (7 of 9), John Rhys-Davies, Kristian Nairn (Hodor), Mark Pellegrino (Supernatural), and Gemma Whelan (Yara Greyjoy).

Apparently, for 350 bucks you can have dinner with Jeri Ryan (10 tickets available). The dinner with John Rhys-Davies is already sold out.

Overall, not much of an interesting program online (an Independence Day: Resurgence panel? ), so I don't feel compelled to pay €20+ entry fee per day (or €50 for the weekend).

[celedhring]

Warcraft. I expected it to be bad (it is, but no more than your average dumb blockbuster), but not to be so... boring. The CGI orcs seemed to have more life to them than the entire human cast.

[Josephus]

Westworld.

Bit of a twist from original movie already. 

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah, good episode.

[Syt]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/04/guardians-of-the-galaxy-deadliest-film-83871-deaths-jrr-tolkien

Guardians of the Galaxy, the tongue-in-cheek superhero movie starring Chris Pratt, has comprehensively topped a study of the deadliest blockbusters, thanks to an especially bloody finale.

The film sees the killing of 80,000 Nova Corps pilots in one of its closing scenes, which takes its estimated on-screen body count to 83,871 – that's 78,184 more than its nearest rival.

The study was conducted by financial services comparison website Go Compare, and totted up the casualties in the best-performing Hollywood films since the 1940s.

It found that the average number of deaths in movies has risen through the decades. In 1940, there was just one film with 50 or more on-screen deaths, rising to four in 1950, 33 in 1960, 44 in 1970, 84 in 1980 and 119 in 1990. Four films from 2014 made it into the top 10.

Family films such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy were also found to feature an enormous amount of bloodshed. The combined body count of the second and third films in the series feature 4,512 deaths.

The top 10 deadliest Hollywood movies
1. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) – 83,871 on-screen deaths
2. Dracula Untold (2014) – 5,687
3. The Sum of All fears (2002) – 2,922
4. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003) - 2,798
5. 300: Rise of An Empire (2014) – 2,234
6. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) – 1,741
7. The Matrix Revolutions (2003) – 1,647
8. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) – 1,417
9. Braveheart (1995) – 1,297
10. The Avengers (2012) – 1,019

I have no idea how they arrive at these numbers. Full list is here: http://www.gocompare.com/life-insurance/directors-cut

Apparently, Independence Day had 897 deaths, Man of Steel 134, and Day After Tomorrow 130 (2012 isn't on the list).

[celedhring]

If the ships shot down during the GOTG finale "count", then the billions dead in Alderaan should.

[11B4V]

Binged Season 5 Longmire.

Sackhoff
Hot Injun broads.

B+

[11B4V]

Might be worth a watch.

http://www.sho.com/video/50058/weiner-trailer?autoplay=true&s_cid=?s_cid=pse-docs-5025

[mongers]

Trying to watch a bbc documentary about type 2 diabetes, but struggling, grim stuff, I'll have to FF around the amputation scenes. 

[Eddie Teach]

Finished off Luke Cage. [spoiler]Claire is quite the superhero groupie, ain't she.[/spoiler]

[Eddie Teach]

Trying to watch a bbc documentary about type 2 diabetes, but struggling, grim stuff, I'll have to FF around the amputation scenes. 

[Scipio]

I don't understand what they're saying sometimes.

Like what?

Tyr is just a jive-ass turkey.

[garbon]

I don't understand what they're saying sometimes.

Like what?

Tyr is just a jive-ass turkey.

It is odd as I don't recall anyone talking with a crazy amount of slang. I mean, I guess they do reference Nicki Minaj (Or Nicki Minidge as Apple's pronunciation called her on my old iPod).