TV/Movies Megathread

[Josephus]

Sounds like a plan.

[Tonitrus]

That's true, that's true.

I also got the feeling that [spoiler]they're going to kill off Rosita (Abraham Ford's chica sidekick) this season mostly based off a few scenes from the trailer video(namely Ford falling to his knees crying), but also that they're not developing her character at all.  Tara seemed like a likely eventual casualty at first, but I think they're going to keep her around instead.[/spoiler]

[Grey Fox]

Rick, Carl & Daryl are safe. Everyone is fair game but I doubt that Tara, Glenn, Maggie bit it this year.

[spoiler]Bob is going to die, WD can only ever have 1 black dude & currently that's Tyrese[/spoiler]

[celedhring]

I don't know why*, but I just watched "Double Jeorpardy". It's a rather stunted revenge thriller, but it got me thinking... I guess the premise is implausible? It's about a guy that fakes his own death and then frames his wife. Wife gets out on parole several years later and finds out he's still alive; since she (allegedly) can't be convicted again for his murder, she sets out to do it for real.



*Besides the fact it stars Ashley Judd at her hottest

[garbon]

I don't know why*, but I just watched "Double Jeorpardy". It's a rather stunted revenge thriller, but it got me thinking... I guess the premise is implausible? It's about a guy that fakes his own death and then frames his wife. Wife gets out on parole several years later and finds out he's still alive; since she (allegedly) can't be convicted again for his murder, she sets out to do it for real.



*Besides the fact it stars Ashley Judd at her hottest

Yes you just summarized the plot of Double Jeopardy.

[celedhring]

I was just curious about the premise being legally sound. I assume it's not this being Hollywood and all. The wikipedia page of the film cites some law scholar claiming that it would be two separate crimes, despite the "victim" being the same person; one of which she'd been wrongfully convicted, where she would be able to claim compensation; and a different one where she'd be guilty and thus subjected to another conviction.

[Malthus]

I was just curious about the premise being legally sound. I assume it's not this being Hollywood and all. The wikipedia page of the film cites some law scholar claiming that it would be two separate crimes, despite the "victim" being the same person; one of which she'd been wrongfully convicted, where she would be able to claim compensation; and a different one where she'd be guilty and thus subjected to another conviction.

Yup. It isn't the "same crime", hence no actual double jeopardy issues are involved.

Edit: this is part of the unfortunate tendency in fiction to treat laws as, basically, magic mumbo jumbo entirely devoid of sense, so that if only you can seize the right loopholes, or invoke the right 'magic spells' by using the right forms or language, you can literally get away with pretty well anything. In non-fiction, the same tendency results in "freeman" nonsense. 

[The Minsky Moment]

Edit: this is part of the unfortunate tendency in fiction to treat laws as, basically, magic mumbo jumbo entirely devoid of sense, so that if only you can seize the right loopholes, or invoke the right 'magic spells' by using the right forms or language, you can literally get away with pretty well anything.

Another name for this phenomenon is the "rules of civil procedure"

[Malthus]

Edit: this is part of the unfortunate tendency in fiction to treat laws as, basically, magic mumbo jumbo entirely devoid of sense, so that if only you can seize the right loopholes, or invoke the right 'magic spells' by using the right forms or language, you can literally get away with pretty well anything.

Another name for this phenomenon is the "rules of civil procedure"

Walked right into that one.

[11B4V]

X-Men: Days of Future Past; B+

[Eddie Teach]

The Way, Way Back. Some of the parts at the water park were pretty fun. The parts with the kid's family were really dull. Overall, I'd say it's not really worth bothering with.

[Viking]

Carol and Daryl are my two favorite characters and TWD right now. Given that they are characters that are either already dead (Carol) or created for the series (Daryl) and not in the comic so they are eminently expendable for any comic book related story lines. Carol is really stealing the show imho.

A Single Childless Middle Aged Woman isn't usually depicted in this way in tv or other media.

[Syt]

It appears Renee Zellweger has changer her looks a tiny bit.

Before:


After:

[garbon]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/21/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/renee-zellweger-new-look/index.html

Renee Zellweger thinks all of the conversation about her face is "silly."

The actress told People magazine in a statement that "I'm glad folks think I look different! I'm living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, and I'm thrilled that perhaps it shows."

The chatter started after Zellweger appeared on the red carpet Monday at the Elle magazine 21st annual Women in Hollywood event. The actress looked so different from her "Jerry Maguire" and "Bridget Jones's Diary" days that some questioned whether it was really the same person.

"The Academy Award-nominated actress is virtually unrecognizable," MoviePilot.com wrote.

Gawker simply posted present and past photos of Zellweger with a note that read, "Since a few people are asking, allow us to be explicit: These are 100 percent photos of Renee Zellweger (the one you are thinking of -- the famous actress), from Getty photos, correctly identified as Renee Zellweger. Other than that, there is nothing remarkable about them."

The speculation about why she looked so different reached such a fevered pitch that Zellweger decided to face it. She said, "It seems the folks who come digging around for some nefarious truth which doesn't exist won't get off my porch until I answer the door."

Zellweger chalks her new look up to a healthier lifestyle.

"My friends say that I look peaceful. I am healthy," she said. "For a long time I wasn't doing such a good job with that. I took on a schedule that is not realistically sustainable and didn't allow for taking care of myself."

[lustindarkness]

She does not look healthy to me, but whatever, to each his own.