TV/Movies Megathread

[garbon]

How do you people find time to watch tv series ?

I manage to catch the news one or twice a day and that's about it.

We don't bike everywhere so we have time to catch some shows. Also, Americans seem to DVR everything these days.

I also use a toilet rather than biking to find a ditch to shit in. Saves me time that.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Limitless - is a slick ride at a theme park kind of movie, good pace (if a bit too much CSI style montage-y at times)  Bradley Cooper was really good, and Bobby D. seemed at least interested in what he had to do. Not much to complain about imho. I liked that they left out the fake science aspect... no need for much technobabble in this other than as background noise.

8.1111 schmucky self loathing narcissists who can't be bothered to groom until they find the right medication outta 10

[mongers]

How do you people find time to watch tv series ?

I manage to catch the news one or twice a day and that's about it.

We don't bike everywhere so we have time to catch some shows. Also, Americans seem to DVR everything these days.

I probably only spend about 30 hours a month cycling, I save time from not having to go to a gym and I never waste time in traffic jams.

[garbon]

How do you people find time to watch tv series ?

I manage to catch the news one or twice a day and that's about it.

We don't bike everywhere so we have time to catch some shows. Also, Americans seem to DVR everything these days.

I probably only spend about 30 hours a month cycling, I save time from not having to go to a gym and I never waste time in traffic jams.

You can watch tv at the gym.

[mongers]

How do you people find time to watch tv series ?

I manage to catch the news one or twice a day and that's about it.

We don't bike everywhere so we have time to catch some shows. Also, Americans seem to DVR everything these days.

I probably only spend about 30 hours a month cycling, I save time from not having to go to a gym and I never waste time in traffic jams.

You can watch tv at the gym.

Good grief, hell to the power of two. 

[MadImmortalMan]

DVR and netflix. Nothing else.

[Slargos]

I've been watching Switched at birth, premise being pretty self-explanatory in the title.

Pretty interesting premise, and relatively good acting. Switchees being hispanic/ginger makes it hard to swallow the disbelief, but if you can get past that it's an interesting show. White parents are the kind of self-righteous people I get an intense desire to slap until they come to their senses, while the 'rican mother is painted as the villain of the show.

It raises the old question "would you love a child any less if you find out it's not biologically 'yours'?"

Frankly, while we've discussed the topic before and I've come down on the side of the betrayed father in cuckold cases (exclusively based on the tremendous betrayal), this would certainly be different by order of magnitude. The notion that you could just "switch back" after three years of caring for a child on the basis of a genetic connection is so strange to me as to become utterly revolting.

A provocative, even if sentimental and sometimes retardedly written, show.

[Viking]

I've been watching Switched at birth, premise being pretty self-explanatory in the title.

Pretty interesting premise, and relatively good acting. Switchees being hispanic/ginger makes it hard to swallow the disbelief, but if you can get past that it's an interesting show. White parents are the kind of self-righteous people I get an intense desire to slap until they come to their senses, while the 'rican mother is painted as the villain of the show.

It raises the old question "would you love a child any less if you find out it's not biologically 'yours'?"

Frankly, while we've discussed the topic before and I've come down on the side of the betrayed father in cuckold cases (exclusively based on the tremendous betrayal), this would certainly be different by order of magnitude. The notion that you could just "switch back" after three years of caring for a child on the basis of a genetic connection is so strange to me as to become utterly revolting.

A provocative, even if sentimental and sometimes retardedly written, show.

deaf culture FTL

[Slargos]

I've been watching Switched at birth, premise being pretty self-explanatory in the title.

Pretty interesting premise, and relatively good acting. Switchees being hispanic/ginger makes it hard to swallow the disbelief, but if you can get past that it's an interesting show. White parents are the kind of self-righteous people I get an intense desire to slap until they come to their senses, while the 'rican mother is painted as the villain of the show.

It raises the old question "would you love a child any less if you find out it's not biologically 'yours'?"

Frankly, while we've discussed the topic before and I've come down on the side of the betrayed father in cuckold cases (exclusively based on the tremendous betrayal), this would certainly be different by order of magnitude. The notion that you could just "switch back" after three years of caring for a child on the basis of a genetic connection is so strange to me as to become utterly revolting.

A provocative, even if sentimental and sometimes retardedly written, show.

deaf culture FTL

If there's one thing I've learned from that show, it's that deaf people are fucking assholes with entitlement issues. "Deaf culture" seems to consist of a misplaced sense of superiority and the mockery of the people who don't fully understand the Deaf and the challenges they face, or simply don't work hard enough to appease their deaf overlords.

Deaf people are cats in a world full of dogs.

Granted, the only deaf person I've had personal interaction with was actually a full on retard (I guess that's not the politically correct term, but he was mentally challenged. Go ahead, Raz, make your move.) so my perception of them may be skewed.

Oh, and that American WASPs are horrible, horrible people that should probably all be rounded up and placed in extermination camps. The pool of people who qualify to stay out of the camps is depressingly enough growing ever smaller. 

[Ideologue]

That Mitchell and Webb Look sure is swell.

[Admiral Yi]

I'm looking for a new show to watch.

Weeds iz good?

Haven't seen much of Sopranos or OC, but the entire yay-hay-criminals-are-cool genre typically bores me. Is it a mistake to give them a pass?

Or should I just download the entire run of Friends again.. 

Monster mistake to not catch The Sopranos.  For my money the best television series ever made.

Oz puts me to sleep.

[Slargos]

That Mitchell and Webb Look sure is swell.

"Hans. Are we the baddies?" 

[Slargos]

I'm looking for a new show to watch.

Weeds iz good?

Haven't seen much of Sopranos or OC, but the entire yay-hay-criminals-are-cool genre typically bores me. Is it a mistake to give them a pass?

Or should I just download the entire run of Friends again.. 

Monster mistake to not catch The Sopranos.  For my money the best television series ever made.

Oz puts me to sleep.

Perhaps I shall give it a try.

[Kleves]

Strike Back on Cinemax. Kind of like a British 24 but without Kiefer whispering all the time. I enjoyed it.

[Eddie Teach]

Oz puts me to sleep.

Too much "been there, done that"?