TV/Movies Megathread

[CountDeMoney]

Homeland really didn't have nowhere to go once the main question was resolved at the end of season 1; they still managed to string out some good thriller moments, but should have lasted two seasons max, imho.

So was he or wasn't he a mole?

No spoilers for ongoing shows, dammit

[Admiral Yi]

No spoilers for ongoing shows, dammit

We have spoiler tags, you ferocious knucklehead.

[Sophie Scholl]

I wonder how he will destroy at least one classic muscle car in the Star Trek universe?

Watch the beginning of the first of the reboots with kid Kirk.

[The Minsky Moment]

Joan Robinson is coming to yell at you.

She died.

From sheer disappointment, I bet.

[The Brain]

AvP is on TV. They killed off Hot Chick and left me with Ethnic Chick. I'm going to bed.

[Queequeg]

Homeland was a real let down this season.

I binge-watched The Fall though...that was pretty good.

The Fall is just awesome. One of my favorite current TV series.

It is. Though I didn't watch the second series yet as I heard it was awful.

IDK.

It kind of annoyed me.

It pretends to go for psychological realism but can't help but give in to a half-dozen cliches, and at the time I thought there was something weirdly misandrist about it. 

[Liep]

Just watched an interview with Lars von Trier about his drinking/drug problems and about "jewery". He's a fascinating and troubled man, and the interview went from really sad to very upbeat and down again a few times.

The journalist is one of the best we have and is also Jewish. The scene where he taught Lars about lightnening the Hanukkah candles was amazing. All with a proficiency of Danish should go watch it on Deadline now.

[Ideologue]

Joan Robinson is coming to yell at you.

She died.

From sheer disappointment, I bet.

Was she a Keynesian? Then probably, yeah.

[11B4V]

Divergent: an entertaining C

[mongers]

Divergent: an entertaining C

Heh, maybe I should persevered with it, only managed 5-6 minutes when I tried to watch it. 

[Sheilbh]

I agree with you on which two are the best.  [spoiler]S1 E3 was at least an interesting premise.  They should have done something more than a questioned fidelity thing with it, but I enjoyed the story anyway.[/spoiler]  [spoiler]S1 E1 didn't even have an interesting premise.  It was a standard hostage situation.  Everything that happened could have been done only slightly differently 20 or 30 years ago.[/spoiler]

But S1E1 is very, very funny. 'The Guardian are running a fucking liveblog'

I love the concept of British tv series Christmas specials.

I had no idea it was a particularly British concept

Do they not do it in the US or Poland?

[jimmy olsen]

'Lost in Translation' - Meh, an OK film, but not great.

Though in retrospect over thus subsequent 12 hours, the story has grown on my somewhat.

Not too comfortable with the whole Japanese people not being able to speak English at all well, as nearly all the ones I've know have spoken impeccable English.

Less people know English in Japan then in Korea, though those who do know it, tend to know it well. Which is arguably better than the Korean situation of everyone being a different shade of bad.

[Ideologue]

Mystery Train (1989). Forgot to say I watched this with my dad. I guess I have a least favorite Jim Jarmusch movie now. Bor-ing.

C+

[Tonitrus]

'Lost in Translation' - Meh, an OK film, but not great.

Though in retrospect over thus subsequent 12 hours, the story has grown on my somewhat.

Not too comfortable with the whole Japanese people not being able to speak English at all well, as nearly all the ones I've know have spoken impeccable English.

Less people know English in Japan then in Korea, though those who do know it, tend to know it well. Which is arguably better than the Korean situation of everyone being a different shade of bad.

Work harder. 

[Viking]

Just watched an interview with Lars von Trier about his drinking/drug problems and about "jewery". He's a fascinating and troubled man, and the interview went from really sad to very upbeat and down again a few times.

The journalist is one of the best we have and is also Jewish. The scene where he taught Lars about lightnening the Hanukkah candles was amazing. All with a proficiency of Danish should go watch it on Deadline now.

I remember his (Krasnik right?) interview with Mads Gilbert and it just goes to show the miserable state of norwegian press that Gilbert was disconbobulated by being asked to explain how he knows what he says and confronted on the consequences of is actions and statements. I sort of wish he could learn how to speak "proper" and he could come to norway from time to time and ask our politicians questions that are on the nose and require answers.