TV/Movies Megathread

[HVC]

Also...and this probably was explained last year; but I'm a bit of a zombie newb.
What's up with the dead people in the cars? How come they're not zombies? One imagines they were killed by zombies. So what makes some zombies and others not? Don't quite understand that bit.

Except for the first episode with that half decomposed chick the cop finds when he get out of the hospital it does look like the zombies do die eventually. Lack of food or desecation or something. My guess is that dumb zombies couldn't get out of the cars and died died.... that or people freaked and locked themsleves in their cars and just died.

Finally...not sure if my PVR cut out the last minutes or not. Did it end with the deer shooting?

i think so. but i changed the channel and when i came back the second showing was on, so i'm not the best one to answer

[Ideologue]

Also...and this probably was explained last year; but I'm a bit of a zombie newb.
What's up with the dead people in the cars? How come they're not zombies? One imagines they were killed by zombies. So what makes some zombies and others not? Don't quite understand that bit.

Except for the first episode with that half decomposed chick the cop finds when he get out of the hospital it does look like the zombies do die eventually. Lack of food or desecation or something. My guess is that dumb zombies couldn't get out of the cars and died died.... that or people freaked and locked themsleves in their cars and just died.

And this is why zombies are no threat, and all zombie movies which are not comedies are bad.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Also...and this probably was explained last year; but I'm a bit of a zombie newb.
What's up with the dead people in the cars? How come they're not zombies? One imagines they were killed by zombies. So what makes some zombies and others not? Don't quite understand that bit.

Except for the first episode with that half decomposed chick the cop finds when he get out of the hospital it does look like the zombies do die eventually. Lack of food or desecation or something. My guess is that dumb zombies couldn't get out of the cars and died died.... that or people freaked and locked themsleves in their cars and just died.

And this is why zombies are no threat, and all zombie movies which are not comedies are bad.

Its more the global outbreak that I have trouble believing.  World War Z had a premise that was cool, but the entire world being overrun in a week and a half by slow, shambling corpses is too silly to make for good theater.

[Habsburg]

I think one has to completely turn off the realism meter to watch The Walking Dead.

Too many plot holes, but otherwise kind of scary.  I think they do an effective job of "the very few vs. the great mob" thingy.

You want to sink into depression over the end of the world genre, watch The Road.     Still have nightmares.

[Tonitrus]

It's no fun when you never really know why the world ended.

[Octavian]

Watched the part of Armadillo with the 5 dead Talibans on Youtube. Pretty intense. Perhaps I should watch the entire documentary.

Part 1:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F2dO1LveM0&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL8AC686C04ED0ED0D

Part 2:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqLG2LGrCQQ&feature=related

[Admiral Yi]

Watched an episode of Enlightened last night.  Another HBO original series.  Boy they sure crank em out.

The premise is Laura Dern is a midlevel exec for some generic corporation that gets shitcanned after she has an affair with her boss, he transfers her to another department, then she flips out on the job.  She flies off to some lovey kumbayah retreat/therapy center in Hawaii and comes back all tree huggy and progressive, asks to be rehired and gets tossed into the basement data entry Siberia.

The best part of the show is the people she works data entry with.  They did a good job of casting some really funny looking people.

The worst part (for me) is the discomfort of having to look at Laura Dern's scrawny gawky unattractiveness for the whole show.

[Slargos]

So you support keeping all prisoners on 24 hour lockdown?  Because that's the only way to 100% protect the personal safety of inmates.

Would 95% be enough?

Why do you americans insist on raping and mutilating eachother in prison anyway? Even our muds don't behave the way you people do in prison.

[Eddie Teach]

Why do you americans insist on raping and mutilating eachother in prison anyway? Even our muds don't behave the way you people do in prison.

Because it makes for gritty television/movie drama.

[Barrister]

So you support keeping all prisoners on 24 hour lockdown?  Because that's the only way to 100% protect the personal safety of inmates.

Would 95% be enough?

Why do you americans insist on raping and mutilating eachother in prison anyway? Even our muds don't behave the way you people do in prison.

Has nothing to do with race Slargy.  I've seen whites and natives with tear drop tats.

And apparently the Somalis and the Jamaicans keep to themselves on the inside.

[Neil]

Oh, and also I can think of at least one method even under our current regime that would increase inmate safety.  It's pretty simple, and would create jobs.

More jobs means more expense, and so it's bad.

The only justifiable use for more money is the construction and maintenance of dreadnought battleships.

[Razgovory]

So you support keeping all prisoners on 24 hour lockdown?  Because that's the only way to 100% protect the personal safety of inmates.

Would 95% be enough?

Why do you americans insist on raping and mutilating eachother in prison anyway? Even our muds don't behave the way you people do in prison.

Has nothing to do with race Slargy.  I've seen whites and natives with tear drop tats.

And apparently the Somalis and the Jamaicans keep to themselves on the inside.

What are tear drop tats?

[Ed Anger]

So you support keeping all prisoners on 24 hour lockdown?  Because that's the only way to 100% protect the personal safety of inmates.

Would 95% be enough?

Why do you americans insist on raping and mutilating eachother in prison anyway? Even our muds don't behave the way you people do in prison.

Has nothing to do with race Slargy.  I've seen whites and natives with tear drop tats.

And apparently the Somalis and the Jamaicans keep to themselves on the inside.

What are tear drop tats?

IIRC, they killed somebody

[MadImmortalMan]

Watched an episode of Enlightened last night.  Another HBO original series.  Boy they sure crank em out.

The premise is Laura Dern is a midlevel exec for some generic corporation that gets shitcanned after she has an affair with her boss, he transfers her to another department, then she flips out on the job.  She flies off to some lovey kumbayah retreat/therapy center in Hawaii and comes back all tree huggy and progressive, asks to be rehired and gets tossed into the basement data entry Siberia.

The best part of the show is the people she works data entry with.  They did a good job of casting some really funny looking people.

The worst part (for me) is the discomfort of having to look at Laura Dern's scrawny gawky unattractiveness for the whole show.

She looks like that annoying HR bitch who tries to pressure you into signing up for the company's United Way autodeduction.

[garbon]

Midnight Cowboy

Odd seeing Voight looking attractive and similar to his daughter.  I wanted more of that homosexual frame of reference although I suppose it was more blatant than the contemporary film Reflections in a Golden Eye.