TV/Movies Megathread

[viper37]

Since the source material is supposedly quite good, I blame poor acting skills.

I think the problem is they are departing from the source material, so the problem lies with poor writing.

[Sheilbh]

I don't think the source material is that rated.  All the comic geeks I know say the first set (or whatever) is great but after that not very good.  They're all happy the show's departed from it.

[garbon]

Since the source material is supposedly quite good, I blame poor acting skills.

I think the problem is they are departing from the source material, so the problem lies with poor writing.

I don't see how they could have stuck faithfully to the comic book series.  From what I've seen about the comic, it seems the comic suffers from that which comics often suffer from - overblown plots that wouldn't really be that believable in other media.  Sort of like how the Watchmen movie dropped the giant squid that would have felt like a wtf in an acted script.

And then there is just odd stuff like a character proposing a three way marriage. Really?

[Sheilbh]

And then there is just odd stuff like a character proposing a three way marriage. Really?

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[Ideologue]

Gross, I voted for a furry.

[Eddie Teach]

What happened to that elephant's neck?

[garbon]

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While he might like to, Gingrich doesn't currently reside in a land overrun with zombies.  Besides I can see, wanna have a three way in such a scenario, but a three way marriage?

[Sheilbh]

While he might like to, Gingrich doesn't currently reside in a land overrun with zombies.

I think you've missed this year's primary

I just love that picture

[garbon]

While he might like to, Gingrich doesn't currently reside in a land overrun with zombies.

I think you've missed this year's primary

Funny!

[CountDeMoney]

Since the source material is supposedly quite good, I blame poor acting skills.

You must be watching a diff zombie show. Havent noticed bad acting in Walking Dead.

Remember, Zoup's French.  Life ees sheet.

[HVC]

The younger suicidal sister would count, but she's not a main and so passes. Aslo, if it possible, she over acts with her browline. it was distracting lol

[Josquius]

I've watched the first few episodes of Grimm.
Its....alright you know. Its not terrible....but....you can just feel the sheer cheapness and childishness. Its so...by the book. It is almost background TV.
One thing I don't get about it.....how come all these supernatural cases suddenly show up for the guy after he learns of his powers? Bloody coincidental is that....

[Habbaku]

Just finished watching the pilot episode of Awake on Hulu. The show doesn't actually premiere until tomorrow night (March 1st), but they gave a full preview of it ahead of time.

The basic situation is that a detective (Jason Isaacs--Lucius Malfoy, Colonel Tavington) gets into a car wreck with both his wife and son as passengers. He awakens from the wreck to find one of them dead and the other alive and proceeds with his life. The only trouble? Every time he goes to sleep, he wakes up with the deceased/living reversed.

In addition to the topsy-turvy situations that's creating with the psychiatrists he's being forced to go to in each reality, he also has different partners and different cases...only, information from a case in one world is starting to bleed over in small ways into the other.

I thought it was excellent for a pilot and can only hope that the rest of the season holds up to the standard.

Amusingly, the first episode is directed by the same guy that directed one of the Twilight movies. Wut.

Fortunately, the showrunner is none other than Howard Gordon--one of the main writers/showrunners of Homeland.

[Admiral Yi]

Saw Lawrence of Arabia on TMC tonight.  TMC being TMC, they left the musical interlude and the entre 'e acte in.

[Scipio]

Saw Lawrence of Arabia on TMC tonight.  TMC being TMC, they left the musical interlude and the entre 'e acte in.

Best.  Movie.  Ever.