TV/Movies Megathread

[Barrister]

Watched a random episode of the simpsons.
An episode like tree House of horror but for valentines day. It's Meh like most recent simpsons.
Has a sex pistols segment. With a lot of swearing

Do you remember the Episode of The Simpsons that is set in the future where Lisa gets married?  At one point marge quips "You know Fox turned into a hard core porn channel so gradually I didn't even notice".

We're living in that future.  There's tons more swearing on tv than there ever used to.

It's insane how much absurdity from the Simpsons has, in fact, come true. 😄

I had to google to make sure I got the details of the scene right.  I found out that episode had Lisa's wedding date in April, 2010. 

Also when you try to google Simpsons and porn... you get some links I was NOT about to touch.

[Josquius]

Never forget president Lisas task of repairing the country after president trump.
Wasn't that 2020?

[viper37]

Finished The 100.

Unlike CC, I am not bothered by the ending.  Not the way I'd imagined it, but it works for me.
It is very strange how on in many sci-fi shows, alien planets always look like the same patch of BC forest... 

The forest scenes were filmed about a 10 minute walk from my house 

cool!  It must be a nice place to live in
I liked the end scenery at the lake, enclosed in mountains, that was very beautiful

[Syt]

Ok, this is some obsessive attention to detail. From the Pulp Fiction episode of Community's trivia:

Abed, played by Danny Pudi, talks about the time he spent the day on the set of his favorite TV show, Cougar Town (2009), and was allowed a walk-on role. On Cougar Town's episode entitled Cougar Town: Something Good Coming: Part 1 (2011), Danny Pudi can be seen in the background of an outdoor café scene; first sitting at a table and then hurrying off-camera.

Those two episodes would have filmed around the same time.

[The Larch]

Pulp Fiction episode? You mean the "My dinner with Andre" episode. 

[The Brain]

So I watched Attack Of The Killer Clones and Revenge Of The Shit. Partly just for general knowledge, and partly to enjoy any spectacular scenery (to me Star Wars movies have always been about cool environments, since the story is always silly and the characters cardboardy). My expectations were in the basement obviously, and I watched them with a very open mind, which was a good combo here. They're not as horribly awful as Phantom Menace, which is a good thing. No kids (and what kids there are get dealt with), Lucas doesn't introduce new racist stereotypes (even if the plethora he introduced in Phantom Menace of course linger a bit here for story reasons). OTOH there's the butchering of Darth Vader. The decision to make the Darth Vader story rely on a complete off-camera character change between the end of Shit and the beginning of Hope makes the whole very disjointed. Then of course there's the trademark crappy dialogue and so on (Lucas: "Hmm, Vader should convey a deep hatred for Obi-Wan here, what should he do... ah yes! He'll say "I hate you", like a kid being sent to their room. Noice! Tell, don't show!"). The birth of masked Vader scene is a mighty monument to crap, with Vader simultaneously causing and echoing the audiences pain ("NOOOOOOOOOOOO").

So all in all, bad but I've had worse. And the movies gave us the Techno Union edit, which always cracks me up: https://youtu.be/PW4OIHDsWsM

[Syt]

Pulp Fiction episode? You mean the "My dinner with Andre" episode. 

[The Brain]

So I watched Attack Of The Killer Clones and Revenge Of The Shit. Partly just for general knowledge, and partly to enjoy any spectacular scenery (to me Star Wars movies have always been about cool environments, since the story is always silly and the characters cardboardy). My expectations were in the basement obviously, and I watched them with a very open mind, which was a good combo here. They're not as horribly awful as Phantom Menace, which is a good thing. No kids (and what kids there are get dealt with), Lucas doesn't introduce new racist stereotypes (even if the plethora he introduced in Phantom Menace of course linger a bit here for story reasons). OTOH there's the butchering of Darth Vader. The decision to make the Darth Vader story rely on a complete off-camera character change between the end of Shit and the beginning of Hope makes the whole very disjointed. Then of course there's the trademark crappy dialogue and so on (Lucas: "Hmm, Vader should convey a deep hatred for Obi-Wan here, what should he do... ah yes! He'll say "I hate you", like a kid being sent to their room. Noice! Tell, don't show!"). The birth of masked Vader scene is a mighty monument to crap, with Vader simultaneously causing and echoing the audiences pain ("NOOOOOOOOOOOO").

So all in all, bad but I've had worse. And the movies gave us the Techno Union edit, which always cracks me up: https://youtu.be/PW4OIHDsWsM

Addendum: making Obi-Wan kick Vader's ass was a weird choice I think. I haven't seen Hope in a while, don't remember if there is given a reason why Obi-Wan doesn't simply kick Vader's ass again.

[frunk]

Ok, this is some obsessive attention to detail. From the Pulp Fiction episode of Community's trivia:

Abed, played by Danny Pudi, talks about the time he spent the day on the set of his favorite TV show, Cougar Town (2009), and was allowed a walk-on role. On Cougar Town's episode entitled Cougar Town: Something Good Coming: Part 1 (2011), Danny Pudi can be seen in the background of an outdoor café scene; first sitting at a table and then hurrying off-camera.

Those two episodes would have filmed around the same time.

Community is full of little bits like that.  There's an S1/2 long joke about [spoiler]saying Beetlejuice with Beetlejuice appearing in the background on the third utterance[/spoiler].  In S2 Episode 8 [spoiler]Annie's Boobs can be seen grabbing the pen that Annie freaks out about, and is later revealed to have hoarded all of her pens.[/spoiler]

[Tonitrus]

Watched a random episode of the simpsons.
An episode like tree House of horror but for valentines day. It's Meh like most recent simpsons.
Has a sex pistols segment. With a lot of swearing

Do you remember the Episode of The Simpsons that is set in the future where Lisa gets married?  At one point marge quips "You know Fox turned into a hard core porn channel so gradually I didn't even notice".

We're living in that future.  There's tons more swearing on tv than there ever used to.

Or even violence.  Would an A-Team of today have former special-forces guys in a gun battle with semi-automatic weapons that turn into fist fights and end up with no deaths or gunshot wounds? 

[crazy canuck]

Not to mention nudity

[viper37]

So I watched Attack Of The Killer Clones and Revenge Of The Shit. Partly just for general knowledge, and partly to enjoy any spectacular scenery (to me Star Wars movies have always been about cool environments, since the story is always silly and the characters cardboardy). My expectations were in the basement obviously, and I watched them with a very open mind, which was a good combo here. They're not as horribly awful as Phantom Menace, which is a good thing. No kids (and what kids there are get dealt with), Lucas doesn't introduce new racist stereotypes (even if the plethora he introduced in Phantom Menace of course linger a bit here for story reasons). OTOH there's the butchering of Darth Vader. The decision to make the Darth Vader story rely on a complete off-camera character change between the end of Shit and the beginning of Hope makes the whole very disjointed. Then of course there's the trademark crappy dialogue and so on (Lucas: "Hmm, Vader should convey a deep hatred for Obi-Wan here, what should he do... ah yes! He'll say "I hate you", like a kid being sent to their room. Noice! Tell, don't show!"). The birth of masked Vader scene is a mighty monument to crap, with Vader simultaneously causing and echoing the audiences pain ("NOOOOOOOOOOOO").

So all in all, bad but I've had worse. And the movies gave us the Techno Union edit, which always cracks me up: https://youtu.be/PW4OIHDsWsM

Addendum: making Obi-Wan kick Vader's ass was a weird choice I think. I haven't seen Hope in a while, don't remember if there is given a reason why Obi-Wan doesn't simply kick Vader's ass again.

Obi-Wan spent 15 years in the desert practicing his krayt dragon call while Darth Vader spent 15 years practicing his lightsaber skills all over the Empire

[Eddie Teach]

Also, time wasn't on Obi-wan's side.

[Syt]

Finished season 2 of Community. The two part paintball season finale was fun, but I didn't think it was as good as the original - as Abed said, sequels are rarely as good as the original. Great season overall. It had some absolutely amazing episodes - others were still great, but IMHO suffered from the show's peaks so far setting some pretty damn high standards.

[Sheilbh]

New series of End of the Fucking World on Netflix