TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

Ouija. High school kids play with an Ouija board, but not all toys are to be played with. Totally OK for the genre. The chicks are hot.

[Josquius]

The lupin series on netflix is surprisingly short but proved good.
I wonder if there really is a town somewhere in France full of people in top hats.

[The Brain]

The Vvitch (sic). New England settler in funny hat times gets exiled by the other pilgrims for being too annoyingly Christian, and the misfortunes that beset the family at their new farmstead cannot be entirely natural. Pretty good, I liked it. Good acting. Not a feelgood movie, you get a sense of [spoiler]the isolation, religious fever, and pressure of the fight for survival[/spoiler].

[viper37]

You're on a roll for horror movies lately?

[Admiral Yi]

The lupin series on netflix is surprisingly short but proved good.
I wonder if there really is a town somewhere in France full of people in top hats.

BUSTED!!!

How can a whole show be a series then one season of the show also be a series?

[The Brain]

You're on a roll for horror movies lately?

Yeah, I often end up there when browsing Netflix etc. Not sure why, I guess it's the fantastic elements. Also many of them are around 90 mins, which I strongly prefer over longer movies. Sitting down for a 2h30min movie is such a commitment.

[Josquius]

The lupin series on netflix is surprisingly short but proved good.
I wonder if there really is a town somewhere in France full of people in top hats.

BUSTED!!!

How can a whole show be a series then one season of the show also be a series?

Eh?

How can a burger be a lump of meat and also the whole sandwich.
How can lord of the rings be a book and contain books.
English be like that.

[Admiral Yi]

Eh?

How can a burger be a lump of meat and also the whole sandwich.
How can lord of the rings be a book and contain books.
English be like that.

A lump of meat is not a burger.  It's a patty.  Cooking and bun make it a burger.
The Lord of the Rings has three volumes.

[Sheilbh]

A lump of meat is not a burger.  It's a patty.  Cooking and bun make it a burger.

Here burger or patty works.

The Lord of the Rings has three volumes.

And six books

What about the Bible?

[Admiral Yi]

Here burger or patty works.

The same place where a series has many series.

And six books

What about the Bible?

OK.  Exception that proves the rule.

[mongers]

Is 'La Revolution' worth preserving with?

Based on the first episode I'm not sure, but the cinematography was good and [Brain] there were some magnificent horses in it. [/Brain]

[Sheilbh]

The same place where a series has many series.

You can't be going round looking for logic in English.

OK.  Exception that proves the rule.

That's just an example of how things shift - 300 years ago that phrase made sense. "Prove" meant to test - like a proof or proof-reading, now "prove" means something different. But we still have the phrase. This is the same just instead of years it's miles.

Just watched the first episode of It's A Sin, which was excellent.

I think Russell T Davies is the best TV writer in the UK - especially on the LGBT dramas he's allowed to do every five years. He also has a special place in the hearts of a lot of gays my age who remember watching Queer as Folk in our bedrooms with the volume at about 5%.

Queer as Folk was on TV 21 years ago and it was a deliberately joyous take on being gay and the gay community. There was no reference of AIDS, barely any homophobia - there were plenty of shows and movies that had, worthily, explored the darker side. Davies wanted to show the fun. But Davies has now done a show in the 80s - he did a great piece in the Guardian about this:
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jan/03/russell-t-davies-i-looked-away-for-years-finally-i-have-put-aids-at-the-centre-of-a-drama

And as with everything I've ever seen that Davies has written - Queer as Folk, Cucumber, A Very English Scandal, The Second Coming, even Dr Who - it is so good at creating fully-formed human characters in about 5 minutes of screentime. Based on the other shows he's done, because the characters are so real there'll be a lot of humour and fun, which will make the pain all the deeper.

[Admiral Yi]

That's just an example of how things shift - 300 years ago that phrase made sense.

We're not talking about meanings changing, we're talking about components of things having the same name as the thing.  The components of a meal aren't called meals, they're called courses.  The components of a regiment aren't called regiments (well, there's another where the British fuck things up), they're called battalions.  So on and so forth.

On a huge tangent, do you know what the word "remove" means in the context of British meals?  In Aubrey/Maturin he talks about a meal made up of several courses *and* several "removes," as if they're separate things.

On another tangent, drawing on your otherwise useless knowledge of Olde Englishe, why is "pease," as in pease puddinig, spelled the way it is?  You still call the vegetable a pea, right?  And two of them are peas, right?

[Sheilbh]

We're not talking about meanings changing, we're talking about components of things having the same name as the thing.  The components of a meal aren't called meals, they're called courses.  The components of a regiment aren't called regiments (well, there's another where the British fuck things up), they're called battalions.  So on and so forth.

On a huge tangent, do you know what the word "remove" means in the context of British meals?  In Aubrey/Maturin he talks about a meal made up of several courses *and* several "removes," as if they're separate things.

So I looked this up and I think it's quite interesting.

It's from 18th century and Regency period when rich British people's meals were service a la francaise - which was basically a buffet. You'd have a course but all of the dishes would be brought out at once - like we'd now do in a Chinese restaurant. In the 19th century Britain, and France, moved to service a la russe which is where individual dishes were prepared and served as each course.  This is a diagram of a small set of two courses service a la francaise from an English kitchen:


In the 17th and 18th century the French developed a sort of mid course where you would remove individual dishes from the service and replace them with something new, but these weren't the next course - so in that diagram you'd start with a pottage but then it would be replaced by Westphalian chicken. This was called a releve in French which was translated into a "remove" in English.

Edit: Looking it up this is maybe where entree comes from because the first dish in a course would be the entree, which was then replaced by the releve? And from what I can see Americans in the early 19th century definitely had "removes" but they kept the French name.

On another tangent, drawing on your otherwise useless knowledge of Olde Englishe, why is "pease," as in pease puddinig, spelled the way it is?  You still call the vegetable a pea, right?  And two of them are peas, right?

It's Middle English pease is a mass noun (like bread or butter or cheese) from which we derived the singular pea and plural peas. Pease pudding is really more like lentils - yellow split peas are used for that sort of dish or a London particular. So it's not like having peas, it's more like a dal. Again you can see it in that diagram - green pease is a green split pea pease.

[Admiral Yi]

obrigado