TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

Above picture reminds me of a porn film I saw in which...erm, never mind...move along. 

[Kleves]

Captain America. It was ok. The Captain's team was nice and PC; must have been the only unit in the American army to include whites, blacks, asians, Brits, frogs, and women.

[Admiral Yi]

Outsourced.  Not a great movie, but has its charms.  I particularly enjoyed the scene where the Indians practice their American diction by reciting movie lines, then the white boy boss is forced to dance like a Bollywood actor.

[Sophie Scholl]

Captain America. It was ok. The Captain's team was nice and PC; must have been the only unit in the American army to include whites, blacks, asians, Brits, frogs, and women.

Did you see it in 3D?  If so, was it worth the bump in price?

[dps]

Did you see it in 3D?  If so, was it worth the bump in price?

It never is.

3-D gets trotted out every once and a while as the technology that's going to save the movie industry.  It causes a stir at first, then the public comes to realize that it's just a cheap gimick, and starts ignoring it.  The industry quits making films in 3-D until another cycle 10-15 years later. 

This is the first time that they've actually tried to get away with charging more for the gimick, which probably means that this time the cycle before it comes back is going to be longer than normal.

[Josquius]

Come on. Modern 3D is totally different stuff to the old green and red sort of 3D which was trotted out every so often.
Most films don't really use it of course. For Green Lantern the pre-film adverts had awesome 3D, the film...meh.

[Tonitrus]

I tried out the 3D TV they had at Costco once....reminded me of old 3D.  Not truly three dimensional, but that kinda "2D objects in a 3D space" kinda feel...like a diorama.

[Neil]

I wanted to like Green Lantern, but the story was too unfocused.

[Kleves]

Did you see it in 3D?  If so, was it worth the bump in price?

I saw it in 2D. IMO though, 3D is rarely worth it.

[Grey Fox]

Come on. Modern 3D is totally different stuff to the old green and red sort of 3D which was trotted out every so often.
Most films don't really use it of course. For Green Lantern the pre-film adverts had awesome 3D, the film...meh.

Not really no. Unless you mean after the fact 3D.

[Sophie Scholl]

Did you see it in 3D?  If so, was it worth the bump in price?

I saw it in 2D. IMO though, 3D is rarely worth it.

Yeah, I'm going of off that assumption as well.  At the moment, the local theater only has it in 3d, so I plan on waiting till it hits the small locally owned one in 2D.

[garbon]

I've been watching True Blood lately and it is amazing how over the seasons, they've managed to make me dislike almost all of the characters.  Kind of like Pam and Alcide but that's about it.

[Malthus]

I saw Herzog's Cave of forgotten Dreams in 3D - the 3D was indeed used well, to illustrate the cave art and the prehistoric artists' use of the contours of the cave as part of the artwork.

[Syt]

I saw Herzog's Cave of forgotten Dreams in 3D - the 3D was indeed used well, to illustrate the cave art and the prehistoric artists' use of the contours of the cave as part of the artwork.

I read a preview in a magazine of that one - sounded great, but it seems it's only released here in November.

[Josephus]

I've been watching True Blood lately and it is amazing how over the seasons, they've managed to make me dislike almost all of the characters.  Kind of like Pam and Alcide but that's about it.

True Blood is getting to the point where it's becoming unwatchable.