TV/Movies Megathread

[Habbaku]

A French film?

[Eddie Teach]

Starring Pierre De Toole.

[Josquius]

Watched the new papillon.
Yeah.
It's alright. Though the teleportation to Colombia was a moment to groan

[Malthus]

Watching Midsomer Murders - my wife is a big fan. It is very educational!

It is truly astonishing the percentage of the population of quaint English villages who die in complex murder plots ... beware of slightly arch aristocratic English ladies who have a collection of cricket bats or croquet mallets.

[The Brain]

I much prefer Morse/Lewis.

[Valmy]

Watching Midsomer Murders - my wife is a big fan. It is very educational!

It is truly astonishing the percentage of the population of quaint English villages who die in complex murder plots ... beware of slightly arch aristocratic English ladies who have a collection of cricket bats or croquet mallets.

I wonder if, at this point, there have been more fictional murders in England than real ones.

[Berkut]

I've never understood complaining about a movie being too long.

If it is good, wouldn't you want it to be longer? If you are enjoying watching the movie, then enjoying watching MORE seems like a good thing.

And if it isn't any good, then the complaint isn't that it is long, it is that it just isn't any good. If I am not enjoying a movie, then I guess it being longer would make my pain worse....

[The Brain]

I've never understood complaining about a movie being too long.

If it is good, wouldn't you want it to be longer? If you are enjoying watching the movie, then enjoying watching MORE seems like a good thing.

And if it isn't any good, then the complaint isn't that it is long, it is that it just isn't any good. If I am not enjoying a movie, then I guess it being longer would make my pain worse....

Some movies, indeed many movies I think, would have been better movies if they were shorter. They are made bad by being too long.

[garbon]

No, as has been expressed, you can like something and not want more of it.

[Sheilbh]

No, off the top of my head I can't think of any films I think I'd like to be longer.

There are films I like that I think are a bit flabby or a bit of a drag in sections - and obviously I'd like less of them, but they're still really good.

And obviously some films are perfect even though they're 3 hours long or whatever - just not every film.

[grumbler]

Some movies, indeed many movies I think, would have been better movies if they were shorter. They are made bad by being too long.

Indeed.  If you have ever seen the stuff that the editors pulled out of the first Star Wars movie (including, interestingly, Jabba the Hutt as a human character modelled after Sidney Greenstreet's gangster portrayals), it is clear that the movie was vastly improved by shortening it.

[Berkut]

I've never understood complaining about a movie being too long.

If it is good, wouldn't you want it to be longer? If you are enjoying watching the movie, then enjoying watching MORE seems like a good thing.

And if it isn't any good, then the complaint isn't that it is long, it is that it just isn't any good. If I am not enjoying a movie, then I guess it being longer would make my pain worse....

Some movies, indeed many movies I think, would have been better movies if they were shorter. They are made bad by being too long.

But that is a different complaint. No question that if you have 120 minutes of great material, then piling on another 30 minutes of bad material is going to make what was a good movie into a bad movie, but again - that isn't because the movie is too long. You could not fix that movie by removing 30 minutes of the good stuff so it was back to 120 minutes, but now has 25% of that shorter movie suck.

If the quality of the movie is consistent, then being longer should be a good thing, not bad.

[FunkMonk]

It is an interesting exercise to think of, say, a movie in which every scene is absolutely perfect and the quality is consistent for, say, a six hour run time. Would I want to sit through a six hour movie if the quality of what I am watching is consistently excellent?

Personally, I am not sure. Maybe I would do it once and then never watch it again.

[celedhring]

The episode where Qwark et al travel to Roswell in 1947 is both monumentally stupid and hilarious, which I guess sums up the entire Ferengi experience. 

Christ, I'm enjoying this DS9 binge way too much. Lots of 1990s nostalgia for me.

[The Brain]

I've never understood complaining about a movie being too long.

If it is good, wouldn't you want it to be longer? If you are enjoying watching the movie, then enjoying watching MORE seems like a good thing.

And if it isn't any good, then the complaint isn't that it is long, it is that it just isn't any good. If I am not enjoying a movie, then I guess it being longer would make my pain worse....

Some movies, indeed many movies I think, would have been better movies if they were shorter. They are made bad by being too long.

But that is a different complaint. No question that if you have 120 minutes of great material, then piling on another 30 minutes of bad material is going to make what was a good movie into a bad movie, but again - that isn't because the movie is too long. You could not fix that movie by removing 30 minutes of the good stuff so it was back to 120 minutes, but now has 25% of that shorter movie suck.

If the quality of the movie is consistent, then being longer should be a good thing, not bad.

A different "the movie is too long" complaint? Is this Socialism: Part Deux?