TV/Movies Megathread

[katmai]

You're such a misogynist.  You disgust me.

I just can't stand the writing, tried watching it once and was so unfunny.

[HVC]

Watching sirens. It's ok I guess. Think it's based on a uk show. Damn imperialist Americans stealing other peoples tv shows.

[Capetan Mihali]

The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza) was marvelous.  Definitely one I'm glad I saw in theaters, there was a genuine filmic splendor to so many of the shots.

I predict Ide will instinctively want to enjoy the stunning cinematography, but will basically be incapable of engaging with this film, about and set in the milieu of the idle rich as it is.  Even though it's an acid satire of the same, and grapples with heavy questions of existence in suitably portentous/pretentious terms.

[viper37]

No one is talking about the Walking Dead, so I guess, you are all as shocked as I am.

[Queequeg]

I think I'm done with The Walking Dead.  That was an extremely manipulative, childish attempt at psychology.

[katmai]

What are you whining about now spellus?

[katmai]

No one is talking about the Walking Dead, so I guess, you are all as shocked as I am.

Not really, they just took a subplot out of comics and finally used it.

[viper37]

No one is talking about the Walking Dead, so I guess, you are all as shocked as I am.

Not really, they just took a subplot out of comics and finally used it.

I don't read comics.

[citizen k]

What are you whining about now spellus?

Need better access to mental healthcare during zombie apocalypse.

[celedhring]

The True Detective finale was watched by less than 1% of the American population - I'd get my arse on the street if I ever wrote a show with such abysmal ratings, but there it has been considered, legitimately, a hit.

You're looking at the numbers the wrong way.  This is "cable tv", i.e. pay tv, a channel for wich you must subscribe on top or your basic channels.  You got to look at it on the number of households connected to HBO to see if it's a hit or not.  I suspect Game of Thrones isn't significantly higher on its first run.

They are most likely losing money on the first season, but they will recoup their losses with a second season and sales to other network stations for a second run.

No, that's exactly what I mean. The critical mass of the US market allows for a cable network - which is subscribed and watched by only a minority of the population - to push out well funded quality shows.

Spanish cable TVs can't afford to produce their own fiction programming, because our market is so much smaller.

[Viking]

No, that's exactly what I mean. The critical mass of the US market allows for a cable network - which is subscribed and watched by only a minority of the population - to push out well funded quality shows.

Spanish cable TVs can't afford to produce their own fiction programming, because our market is so much smaller.

Yes, because spanish isn't a world language with hundreds of millions of native speakers, unlike danish.....



and that is why they can't make good tv

[jimmy olsen]

No, that's exactly what I mean. The critical mass of the US market allows for a cable network - which is subscribed and watched by only a minority of the population - to push out well funded quality shows.

Spanish cable TVs can't afford to produce their own fiction programming, because our market is so much smaller.

Yes, because spanish isn't a world language with hundreds of millions of native speakers, unlike danish.....

and that is why they can't make good tv

Spanish has the second most native speakers after Mandarin, English is only third.

[celedhring]

Latin America is very impermeable to our exports. Our accent is too silly for them. Likewise, we only buy over-the-top cheap soap operas off them, where the silly accent is expected and part of the production values. 

Actually, we sell more dubbed TV to Eastern European countries than original language programming to South America.

Our problem is that production values are too shit for selling mainstream programming to big, rich countries (UK/US/Germany, etc...). And our programming is too mainstream for the hipster, "let's watch weird foreign TV", crowd.

Fact is that people don't consume much imported non-English language TV.

[Iormlund]

Yes, because spanish isn't a world language with hundreds of millions of native speakers, unlike danish.....

It's not really the same language. The only Latinamerican dialect/accent I can tolerate is Argentinian. I'll eat my hat before watching a Mexican show.

[The Larch]

Yes, because spanish isn't a world language with hundreds of millions of native speakers, unlike danish.....

It's not really the same language. The only Latinamerican dialect/accent I can tolerate is Argentinian. I'll eat my hat before watching a Mexican show.