TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Just watched Argo. I enjoyed it, but I couldn't help myself from thinking than in a different year it wouldn't have a chance to get an Oscar.

Can't be worse than Crash.

[Tonitrus]

Finished the 5th episode of House of Cards.

This is really good stuff.  Hope it is deemed commercially successful so Netflix continues to turn out independant programming.

There was a piece on, I think, CBS Sunday Morning a week or two back that had an interview with a guy from Netflix.  The question was asked if they were pleased with the increase in subscribers from their Superbowl promos for HoC.  He wouldn't give numbers, but said they were very pleased.

[Tonitrus]

Bonus death: - The Governor's "nerd" sidekick will likely die in a similar fashion to Michael Ironside's dude-with-glasses Total Recall sidekick.  Except for the midget stripper with a knife part.

Oh, I think he's got a particularly gruesome albeit bittersweetly heroic ending in store.

Yeah, actually, consider his extreme interest in zombie forensics, and his questioning of Hershel...I could see him doing something silly, like infecting himself "for science!".

[Viking]

Bonus death: - The Governor's "nerd" sidekick will likely die in a similar fashion to Michael Ironside's dude-with-glasses Total Recall sidekick.  Except for the midget stripper with a knife part.

Oh, I think he's got a particularly gruesome albeit bittersweetly heroic ending in store.

Yeah, actually, consider his extreme interest in zombie forensics, and his questioning of Hershel...I could see him doing something silly, like infecting himself "for science!".

he'll die trying to hack his own foot off

[crazy canuck]

Finished the 5th episode of House of Cards.

This is really good stuff.  Hope it is deemed commercially successful so Netflix continues to turn out independant programming.

There was a piece on, I think, CBS Sunday Morning a week or two back that had an interview with a guy from Netflix.  The question was asked if they were pleased with the increase in subscribers from their Superbowl promos for HoC.  He wouldn't give numbers, but said they were very pleased.

[Grey Fox]

Finished the 5th episode of House of Cards.

This is really good stuff.  Hope it is deemed commercially successful so Netflix continues to turn out independant programming.

There was a piece on, I think, CBS Sunday Morning a week or two back that had an interview with a guy from Netflix.  The question was asked if they were pleased with the increase in subscribers from their Superbowl promos for HoC.  He wouldn't give numbers, but said they were very pleased.

Other than House of Cards, how's the content on Canadian Netflix?

[Barrister]

Finished the 5th episode of House of Cards.

This is really good stuff.  Hope it is deemed commercially successful so Netflix continues to turn out independant programming.

There was a piece on, I think, CBS Sunday Morning a week or two back that had an interview with a guy from Netflix.  The question was asked if they were pleased with the increase in subscribers from their Superbowl promos for HoC.  He wouldn't give numbers, but said they were very pleased.

Other than House of Cards, how's the content on Canadian Netflix?

It's ok.

[Grey Fox]

What's on it? Old ass movies ? CanCon?

[Admiral Yi]

Saw part of Battleship.  What a piece of crap.

[Syt]

Read an article the other day about streaming video in Germany vs. U.S. In Germany, internet users spend about 50% more online time watching videos compared to Americans.

At the same time there's no offering comparable to hulu or netflix, YouTube is seriously gimped by music rights organization, and iTunes movies/tv is still in its infancy.

And Germany is still lightyears ahead of Austria.

[sbr]

Brewster's Millions is on HBO. . I am just pissed I missed the first part.

[Syt]

Saw series X of Red Dwarf. Decent effort (going back to the roots, eh) - had a few laughs and interesting concepts (e.g. Dave coming to terms with being his own dad), but overall it's pretty "meh".

[Martinus]

I gotta say, after buying into the initial hype surrounding House of Cards, I am cooling off on that show. Sure, it is fun, but some of the plots/schemes of Frank Underwood are trite and unrealistic.

I am now after episode 6, where he [spoiler]provokes the union leader to punch him in the face[/spoiler], and it seemed very silly/unlikely to me.

Also, am I the only one who thinks half of this show is filler that doesn't really move the plot a lot? It seems like they are milking Kevin Spacey's acting, but it would have worked much better in a mini-series of 3-4 episodes.

[Razgovory]

I swear the mouth breathers at the local subway are trying to provoke me into doing that thing you blacked out every time I visit.

[Josquius]

Vikings- Its entertaining but...is this anywhere near historically accurate? It can't be surely..."There are no lands to the west". Even assuming these are a few especially ignorant people...coastal trade routes were well established no?  Its bizzare.