TV/Movies Megathread

[Queequeg]

The Hunt. A.

[spoiler]Almost gave a B because redemption. Luckily it didn't cop out.[/spoiler]

"I don't understand why he doesn't just *eat* the townspeoeple"----my subconscious the entirety of that movie. 

[Ed Anger]

Heard on NPR that Colbert is replacing Letterman.

Might as well.  Letterman jumped the shark sometime during the Dubya administration.

And Colbert is stale.

[Josephus]

I loved Letterman during his/my heyday of the mid 80s to mid 90s. Trouble is, not only did he start to suck (seriously, he stopped doing really wacky things like throwing watermelons off a rooftop or the "Let me see your pictures" routine or having that actress come out in  towel, or the guy in the bear suit, or whatshisname playing the guy who lived beneath the seats.)

but also, I guess as I got older, my interest in pop culture faded, so more often than not I had no interest whatsoever in  his guests, most of whom I wouldn't recognize from anything.

Colbert. Be intersting to see if he can pull it off without his Colbert persona, which is really his shtick. Might be a bit like, and i'm dating myself here, Kiss without the makeup.

[crazy canuck]

I don't understand the interest in late night TV.  It takes doing something a lot more interesting than watching TV to keep me up that late.

[dps]

I like Letterman better than Leno.

There seems to be a fairly strong split on the Leno-Letterman preference. I wonder what specifically it is that make people feel strongly one way or the other.

Leno at his best is probably better than Letterman at his best, but Leno was also at or near his best a lot less than Letterman.  I think the main problem with Leno is that he started really playing it safe after he got the Tonight Show gig.

[lustindarkness]

I never found Jay to be funny.

[Admiral Yi]

The host of The Tonight Show is not supposed to be all that funny.  His job is to make his guests look good.

Letterman, on the other hand, uses his guests as straight men.

[Josephus]

I don't understand the interest in late night TV.  It takes doing something a lot more interesting than watching TV to keep me up that late.

Well I'm no longer 25 either, so that's the other thing, I'm not up much after 10.

That said there are PVRs

[Eddie Teach]

Nowadays you can just find the best bits on youtube the next day or several months later.

[frunk]

I don't understand the interest in late night TV.  It takes doing something a lot more interesting than watching TV to keep me up that late.

The only one I watch is Craig (RIP soon) but I Tivo it, so what time it airs is immaterial to me.  That goes for all TV.

[11B4V]

I don't understand the interest in late night TV.  It takes doing something a lot more interesting than watching TV to keep me up that late.

Well I'm no longer 25 either, so that's the other thing, I'm not up much after 10.

That said there are PVRs

Damn old man.

[Ed Anger]

I'm in bed right now. RAWR

[Eddie Teach]

Bull Durham. Kinda lame. Boring as a baseball film, even worse as a romantic film, and a catcher that hit that well would have spent more than 21 days in the majors.

[CountDeMoney]

Bull Durham. Kinda lame. Boring as a baseball film, even worse as a romantic film, and a catcher that hit that well would have spent more than 21 days in the majors.

You suck.

[Eddie Teach]

Costner wasn't bad in it, it just wasn't that good a movie.