TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

Just noticed that the Batman vs Superman film is now subtitled "Dawn of Justice". 

[Syt]

Road House/Red Dawn double feature on TV tonight.

[CountDeMoney]

Road House/Red Dawn double feature on TV tonight.

Oh hells yeah

[Syt]

I also need to watch North and South again. But not the crappy third season.

[CountDeMoney]

I duuno, 1863 was a fine year, Union-wise

[Valmy]

The Civil War was better in the 80s.

[Syt]

I duuno, 1863 was a fine year, Union-wise

Third season or "Book" was post war. It was very much a forgettable afterthought.

[Duque de Bragança]

Road House/Red Dawn double feature on TV tonight.

Dubbed in German, Achtung!

[Syt]

Road House/Red Dawn double feature on TV tonight.

Dubbed in German, Achtung!

Not on MGM it's not.

[Duque de Bragança]

Road House/Red Dawn double feature on TV tonight.

Dubbed in German, Achtung!

Not on MGM it's not.

Wow, Austria is improving!

[Syt]

MGM on cable has always been dual audio, even when I was still in Germany. Most movie channels on cable are these days, and also the serial channels of Fox, TNT and Universal.

It's confusing when they're showing 60s kung-fu movies, though, because there's not always a subtitles option.

[Josquius]

Star Trek, The Next Generation, series 5, episode:Conundrum
Ah, I remember this episode!
The Enterprise gets attacked by an alien ship which fires a beam at them and makes everyone forget who they and everyone else on the ship is. It also plants an imposter amongst them and alters the ships computers to include him on the crew.
This was one of the first Next Generation episodes I ever saw. Which was quite interesting really; I didn't realise that there was anything iffy about the imposter, I didn't know that character wasn't a normal part of the crew.

[Duque de Bragança]

MGM on cable has always been dual audio, even when I was still in Germany. Most movie channels on cable are these days, and also the serial channels of Fox, TNT and Universal.

It's confusing when they're showing 60s kung-fu movies, though, because there's not always a subtitles option.

It's not like there's an official original version (Cantonese? Not for Shaw Bros. etc.) since they were shot without direct sound.
As for France, dual audio has started to appear even on free digital terrestrial channels, including the state-owned ones which were the last to convert, but not for all material (still no Matula in OmU). The Cine-club/Cinéma de Minuit spots have always been original version only. Last year they even showed the nazi Titanic movie for Easter 
Germany and Austria are quite disappointing since they used to spearhead the movement with Zweikanalton.
As for cable or pay tv, dual audio or OV-only for select screenings from the '90s on if not earlier.

[Ideologue]

Watched The Dark Knight again.  Every time I watch the first two hours or so, I love it more and more; and then Dent gets his face burned off and the movie turns into the dumbest possible version of itself at express speed.  It amazes me that people are able to take the shit that goes down in the last half hour as extremely seriously as they did, and I imagine still do.  Sure, it's good at manipulating the emotions and has all that morality play shit that people were really into in 2008, but just look at it objectively.

First, it features the well-rendered but hilariously inappropriate zombification of Aaron Eckhart--alongside his incredibly bizarre failure to act as if he's in any kind of pain.  Then there's the Joker's turn to straight-up omnipotence, with the controlled demolition of a hospital that no doubt took weeks and hundreds of person-hours in real life to set up, yet is accomplished in the film by a gang of street crazies under the nose of increased security.  Finally, there's the questionable idea that anyone is going to buy the notion that Batman decided, a year in, to start murdering apparently random people with guns (because it totally wasn't Harvey Dent!).  Stuff like this would never amount to problem in the Burton and Schumacher pictures, but that's because those were self-evident cartoons, rather than conscious pomposities.

Still a pretty great movie though.  It just flies right off the rails because Chris Nolan continually loses his sense of proportion.

[Syt]

Germany and Austria are quite disappointing since they used to spearhead the movement with Zweikanalton.

Austrian TV does it for some series, and then only on the public channels. Commercial TV never does it. And for movies - Swiss TV seems to offer original audio. Austrian state TV will rather use the second audio channel for Dolby sound (as opposed to the stereo sound standard). As I was reminded again yesterday when I noticed "X-Men - First Class", which I hadn't seen yet, was on. Which prompted me to opt for Road House instead.