TV/Movies Megathread

[Liep]

Michael Dobbs and Adam Price (writer of Borgen) is making a political drama for BBC. Colour me interested.

[katmai]

Oh, and I bought Snake Eyes.

Why?

[Ideologue]

Netflix didn't have it on blu-ray.  I require a high definition experience.

[Ideologue]

Breaking Bad and Hannibal are visually interesting works.  That's still probably an unfair comparison due to the larger budget and competitive advantage America has in making motion pictures of all stripes, though.

An episode of Breaking Bad cost twice the amount of a Millenium episode, while also being half as short.

You could say there was a missed opportunity there to produce it as a proper film, with a more ambitious style. The theatrical cut made a killing abroad, most certainly.  But as a tv mini-series in a language with not too many speakers (which makes funding more difficult), it is very well done.

Well, I'm giving it another shot.  After I watch Dredd.

[celedhring]

Breaking Bad and Hannibal are visually interesting works.  That's still probably an unfair comparison due to the larger budget and competitive advantage America has in making motion pictures of all stripes, though.

An episode of Breaking Bad cost twice the amount of a Millenium episode, while also being half as short.

You could say there was a missed opportunity there to produce it as a proper film, with a more ambitious style. The theatrical cut made a killing abroad, most certainly.  But as a tv mini-series in a language with not too many speakers (which makes funding more difficult), it is very well done.

Well, I'm giving it another shot.  After I watch Dredd.

I'm not saying it's "great" - it is not. It's just very good for what it is.

Oh, and I bought Snake Eyes.

Snake Eyes is one of those De Palma movies which aren't really great but have so much cool visual gimmicks you just can't stop giggling when watching it. Love how the first shot pretty much contains the whole film within itself.

[garbon]

A Jem & The Holograms movie is coming!

[Razgovory]

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i don't know the context behind that discussion a year ago between you and yi, but your original comment isn't fair based strictly off what is said in those quotes. in the purge, the nation's economy does not require the purge. the economy merely greatly benefits from the purge. require and greatly benefit are very different

You are splitting an odd hairs here.  You could just as easily say the economy doesn't need money or electricity, people will still trade for stuff so there will still be an economy.  In the film they make it clear that the time before the purges were terrible times and that their economy has been saved because of it.  In fact the main character's wealth is creating because of the purge.  Without it, he'd not be wealthy.  The impression the film gives is that the economy needs the purge just as the Southern economy needed slaves.

[Valmy]

A Jem & The Holograms movie is coming!

Good.  Now the women from my generation can stop complaining that only our favorite cartoons get horrible big budget films.

[Liep]

Is Lost worth watching?

[garbon]

Is Lost worth watching?

No

[Eddie Teach]

Is Lost worth watching?

Sure. Just don't expect the central mysteries to be satisfactorily resolved.

[Grey Fox]

Is Lost worth watching?

NO

[Viking]

A Jem & The Holograms movie is coming!

that's outrageous, truly truly truly outrageous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP1VnM-r0sU

[Sheilbh]

Michael Dobbs and Adam Price (writer of Borgen) is making a political drama for BBC. Colour me interested.

But that's an interesting combo. House of Cards and Borgen don't really sit well together.

[The Larch]

Just watched "Grand Budapest Hotel", very entertaining and Tintinesque.