TV/Movies Megathread

[viper37]

Halo is pretty darn good.

[Barrister]

Has vodka coke become a real drink?  In my day it was what idiots ordered.

I remember my parents drinking rum and coke back in the day in the 1980s.  Not that different.

[garbon]

Has vodka coke become a real drink?  In my day it was what idiots ordered.

I remember my parents drinking rum and coke back in the day in the 1980s.  Not that different.

Rum mixes well with coke.

[Jacob]

Rum and coca-cola is a classic. Working for the yankee dollar.

[Tamas]

Jack Daniels is great with coca-cola. Far better than it is neat.

[Josephus]

Rum and coke, also known as the Cuba Libre.

[celedhring]

Shardlake - enjoying it.

And RIP CJ Sansom

You know, I watched it after seeing your post and thought it was awful 

Now, there are nuggets in there of a good story - I'm sure the books are way better - but the writing was incredibly weak, full of cheap twists and non-twists, and terrible dialogue.

Are there going to be more seasons of this? If anything so Sean Bean also gets to die in it

[Admiral Yi]

Got bogged down in season 3 of Fargo, switched to Mr. In Between on Hulu.  Digging it.

Is every single couple shown in an advertisement mixed race these days?

[HVC]

Is every single couple shown in an advertisement mixed race these days?

No. Some are just gay

[Sheilbh]

You know, I watched it after seeing your post and thought it was awful 

Now, there are nuggets in there of a good story - I'm sure the books are way better - but the writing was incredibly weak, full of cheap twists and non-twists, and terrible dialogue.

Are there going to be more seasons of this? If anything so Sean Bean also gets to die in it

Ah sorry

Well the books are perhaps "better" but maybe not. I'd say they're above average historical crime fiction - although of the Cadfael variety where all the heroes are, fundamentally, tolerant 21st century secular liberals. And I'm fairly sure all the twists and non-twists are from the books.

There's 6-7 books - off the top of my head I don't think any really deals with Cromwell's downfall, but Shardlake's patron shifts through the series.

[celedhring]

You know, I watched it after seeing your post and thought it was awful 

Now, there are nuggets in there of a good story - I'm sure the books are way better - but the writing was incredibly weak, full of cheap twists and non-twists, and terrible dialogue.

Are there going to be more seasons of this? If anything so Sean Bean also gets to die in it

Ah sorry

Well the books are perhaps "better" but maybe not. I'd say they're above average historical crime fiction - although of the Cadfael variety where all the heroes are, fundamentally, tolerant 21st century secular liberals. And I'm fairly sure all the twists and non-twists are from the books.

There's 6-7 books - off the top of my head I don't think any really deals with Cromwell's downfall, but Shardlake's patron shifts through the series.

There are nuggets of good ideas there - I like that Shardlake is motivated by doing justice while everyone else just cares for expediency, but by doing so he ends up furthering an unjust cause (the greed of his patron).

But the writing has the subtlety and nuance of a sledgehammer.

[Savonarola]

I watched a series of short films by Georges Méliès that were in color.  Back in those days (1899-1910) the only way to do color was to hand taint each frame of the film; so usually they'd only color parts of the frame and leave the rest in black and white.  It's hard to imagine that much effort even for a one or two reel film; but the (restored) colors looked sharp.  "A Trip to the Moon," "The Impossible Voyage" and "Tonight, Tonight" are his best films; the other ones tend to be very stagey or quite short.

[viper37]

Has vodka coke become a real drink?  In my day it was what idiots ordered.

Vodka and gin have become real drinks.  There's, like, 300 varieties of vodka gins and dry gins to choose from at the SAQ here and we don't have them all.  Tequila seem less popular than in the US.  I don't often hear people talking about it anymore as I did 20 years ago.  Little drinks is all the rage now.  Well, it has been for a while now.

[Savonarola]

CB and I have been watching the first season of Kung Fu (ran from 1972-1973.)  On the episode we watched one of the guest stars was Jodie Foster.  She must have been about 9 at the time of filming.  I thought she did a good job, not good enough that I'd want to assassinate an elected leader (even after reading Catcher in the Rye), but still good.

[Josephus]

Oh man....I used to watch that when I was little.