TV/Movies Megathread

[Syt]

Kay.  What's "un" then?

I presume you mean the sentence "Du laberst mich an?" an belongs to labern - full verb is: anlabern. You can translate it as "Are you talking to me?" (as in the original) but "anlabern" has a different connotation - more towards someone mouthing off at you, or provoking you through talk.

[Admiral Yi]

That's totally fucked.  You guys need to ditch that language and start again from scratch.

[Josquius]

However, given that American English hasn't changed nearly that much since the '70s I'm quite doubtful that British English has either

Are you sure?
Watching old American movies and modern American movies I can see some differences.
British English has definitely changed a lot since the war, its pretty well observed.

[jimmy olsen]

However, given that American English hasn't changed nearly that much since the '70s I'm quite doubtful that British English has either

Are you sure?
Watching old American movies and modern American movies I can see some differences.

Vocabulary has evolved sure, lot of new words, especially tech related have been coined.

But "intonation and everything"? Not so much

[dps]

However, given that American English hasn't changed nearly that much since the '70s I'm quite doubtful that British English has either

Are you sure?
Watching old American movies and modern American movies I can see some differences.
British English has definitely changed a lot since the war, its pretty well observed.

Might be more about acting styles and direction than actual language change, though.

I remember years ago watching something on TV--I think it was a segment of Candid Camera--where the setup was telling people that they had just been left a significant sum of money by an unknown stranger.  In addition to filming the reactions of regular people to the news, they also filmed a bit where they hired an actor to improve his take on how people would react.  While the actual content of what the people who were actually being pranked said varied a lot, their tone and such was very, very, different from the improv. 

[Admiral Yi]

Was it Sav and Syt that were talking about "The Room," the best bad movie ever made?

If so, you might be interested that the lead actor has come out with a book about it.  Just read a review.

[Razgovory]

However, given that American English hasn't changed nearly that much since the '70s I'm quite doubtful that British English has either

Are you sure?
Watching old American movies and modern American movies I can see some differences.

Vocabulary has evolved sure, lot of new words, especially tech related have been coined.

But "intonation and everything"? Not so much

There are shifts in intonation from movies made in the 1930's to the modern ones.

[Ideologue]

Gonna go see Gravity again.

Wrote it up: No poets need apply

[Eddie Teach]

Anyone been following Low Winter Sun?

[spoiler]That confession was an interesting turn of events. Also, I'm glad they killed off small time douchebag.

Frank was all over the place. Kinda hard to believe he could restrain himself from killing Geddis.[/spoiler]

[Razgovory]

Gonna go see Gravity again.

Wrote it up: No poets need apply

This movie stopped me from suicidally ideating.

Aww.  I was all stoked to light you on fire.  You need to watch some more European films to get back on track.

[Josephus]

Watching Low Winter Sun, but am about 3 eps behind.

[CountDeMoney]

Watching Low Winter Sun, but am about 3 eps behind.

Yeah, me too.  I like it.  Could be stronger, but it's good enough.

[Savonarola]

Was it Sav and Syt that were talking about "The Room," the best bad movie ever made?

If so, you might be interested that the lead actor has come out with a book about it.  Just read a review.

My wife got it for me as a birthday present.

[Josquius]

Pacific Rim- The buzz was that whilst World War Z was surprisingly decent this was shit. That was wrong. This was actually pretty alright.
It passed rule of cool with flying colours. The plot has a lot of holes and idiocy in it (so they had this awesome sword  but they decide not to use it except as a last resort?) but the kaiju/mecha battles are great.
Though they shouldn't have given away Elba being a pilot in the trailer like that. The film seems to intend it to be somewhat unexpected.

[Liep]

Django Unchained. Much better than what I expected after reading reviews here and on other sites. A solid Tarantino, but not near his best stuff.

8 is-that-seriously-Samuel-L.-Jackson...-it-sounds-like-him,-but... out of 10