TV/Movies Megathread

[DGuller]

So.

Dexter.

Thank. God. That's. fucking. over.

Or is it? 

[Grey Fox]

There's going to be a spin off if rumors are to be believe.

That was a stupid ending.

[crazy canuck]

World War Z: B entertaining. Felt like it need to be longer. Felt like a two hour trailer for a four hour movie.

Yeah, I was waiting for the story to begin after all the backstory filler was finished.  Turns out we have to wait for the sequal for that.  Also completely predictable.  [spoiler]after we saw the zombies run by the street guy and run by the bald boy my son blurted out, "they dont like sick people."  and then he went on to predict how the movie would end. [/spoiler]

[11B4V]

World War Z: B entertaining. Felt like it need to be longer. Felt like a two hour trailer for a four hour movie.

Yeah, I was waiting for the story to begin after all the backstory filler was finished.  Turns out we have to wait for the sequal for that.  Also completely predictable.  [spoiler]after we saw the zombies run by the street guy and run by the bald boy my son blurted out, "they dont like sick people."  and then he went on to predict how the movie would end. [/spoiler]

Hmm, I didnt know about a squel.

Seems this would have fit better as a mini-series or something. Give Walking Dead some competition.

[crazy canuck]

Seems this would have fit better as a mini-series or something. Give Walking Dead some competition.

Agreed.  But this movie relied on special effects that wouldnt be economical in a TV series.  Plus they would have had to come up with a plot line and dialogue.

[Eddie Teach]

It fit better as a book.

[Josephus]

There's going to be a spin off if rumors are to be believe.

That was a stupid ending.

it was a stupid season.

[HVC]

There's going to be a spin off if rumors are to be believe.

That was a stupid ending.

it was a stupid season.

it's been stupid since the third rock from the sun guy season. Even that season started to go down fairly quickly.

[garbon]

Some fall tv premieres

Hostages

I don't really understand where this show can go. Dylan McDermott leads a crew in holding Toni Collette's family under house arrest in order to coerce her into killing the president during surgery. I guess it was kind of reminiscent of Funny Games (ugh) apart from the fact that there was little sense that the hostage takers were going to harm the family, particularly after [spoiler]you find out that the dog was just drugged and not killed and the hostage takers (even the cold Dylan McDermott) start empathizing with the problems of the children.  I also don't understand the power play twist where Collette delays the operation by two weeks. If she was truly afraid of what they would do to her family, wouldn't that trigger her captors to at least harm one of them? (It also made it seem like McDermott was wrong when he said they had thought of everything she might do.)[/spoiler]Oh and the other bit in comparison to Funny Games is that you unfortunately know that there is going to be some strange logic on why McDermott and crew are doing this bad thing, given that he seems so sweet around his daughter/wife.

Blacklist

James Spader plays a criminal that has long been on the run but turns himself in saying that he'll help the FBI (or whatever agency they were) catch various criminals if he gets to work with an agent who just started (and is in fact late to her first day). Had some nice twists on whether or not Spader's character was really helping out or just using the agency to his own ends.  That said, I don't think I care for shows with one character who is the mastermind pulling the puppet strings of everyone else, so I think I'll get tired of it. [spoiler]Also I'm really hoping that it doesn't turn out that Spader is the young agent's dad.[/spoiler]

[CountDeMoney]

[spoiler]Also I'm really hoping that it doesn't turn out that Spader is the young agent's dad.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]That crossed your mind as well? Glad I wasn't the only one.  [/spoiler]

[garbon]

[spoiler]Also I'm really hoping that it doesn't turn out that Spader is the young agent's dad.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]That crossed your mind as well? Glad I wasn't the only one.  [/spoiler]

It does seem like the most obvious [spoiler]pull for his obsession[/spoiler], so I'm hoping I'm wrong.

[CountDeMoney]

It does seem like the most obvious [spoiler]pull for his obsession[/spoiler], so I'm hoping I'm wrong.

It's network television.  They're actually that insulting. 

[garbon]

Indeed.

[Eddie Teach]

I think going with the obvious explanation is less insulting than going with an alternate explanation that is inconsistent or implausible just for the sake of being a surprise.

[garbon]

I say just go out and let the viewer know then and let us watch the other character figure it out.