TV/Movies Megathread

[Ed Anger]

It is like reading the redacted Project Blue Book in here.

[Ideologue]

I am being [spoiler]polite.[/spoiler]

[Ed Anger]

I'm about to get real.

[Admiral Yi]

Bull Durham, Dances With Wolves, and Open Range are on at the same time.  What are the odds of that?

[katmai]

pretty good i think.

[CountDeMoney]

Bull Durham, Dances With Wolves, and Open Range are on at the same time.  What are the odds of that?

No Message In A Bottle? 

[CountDeMoney]

Playing WoT with katmai, and watched The Vow.

I've watched plates of pancakes less syrupy. 2 Stupid Meatheads That Couldn't Figure Out That A Wife With Insomnia Means You Can Find Another Wife out of 5 Stupid Meatheads That...well, you know the rest.

[Sophie Scholl]

Anna Karenina, the newest version with Kiera Knightley ().  Hmm... a very interesting style used in the movie.  The entirety of the movie is more or less set on/above/below a stage, with constantly changing scenery.  I quite enjoyed the visual presentation.  Having not read the book, I cannot confirm authenticity to the source material, but I found it compelling, if a touch confusing at the start.  For those of you who enjoy lavish set period pieces and interesting film making decisions, I highly recommend it.  I'd be intrigued to hear what others who have seen it thought of it.

[Sheilbh]

But, apart from the license fee not funding BBCW and the BBC having to pay taxes on BBCW profits what substantive differences are there?

BBCW doesn't have a charter setting out its purpose. Rather it's there to maximise profits for the BBC. It's not subject to review by the BBC Trust or the government for appointments. It doesn't make programs it just sells or broadcasts them.

For all of those reasons it's branched out in ways the BBC wouldn't, for example it owns the Lonely Planet guides.

[Eddie Teach]

Having not read the book, I cannot confirm authenticity to the source material,

Does she throw herself in front of a train?

[Josephus]

Having not read the book, I cannot confirm authenticity to the source material,

Does she throw herself in front of a train?

That's the only bit I remember of it.

[Neil]

BTW, Cabin in the Woods is way good but (and this is sort of a spoiler, maybe?) [spoiler]it is not really a horror movie, and is best viewed as a clever metafictional comedy, albeit less full of its own total bullshit than Seven Psychopaths, the other clever metafictional comedy of 2012[/spoiler].

You know, I just saw that on TV this morning, and I have to say that it really wasn't that bad.  Bradley Whitford and his band of merry men really stole the show.  And Sigourney Weaver was a fun little surprise.

[Sophie Scholl]

Having not read the book, I cannot confirm authenticity to the source material,

Does she throw herself in front of a train?

Yessir.  Split in half at the waist.

[jimmy olsen]

I prefer

[mongers]

Tonight's Top Gear's main sketch was about making an OAP/senior friendly car and then demoed it around Christchurch a local town a few miles from here with reputably the highest pensioner population in the country. All very entertaining.