TV/Movies Megathread

[Habbaku]

The trailer for Jupiter Ascending looks really silly.

It does look ridiculous.  It's a Wachowski film, too.  Don't get your hopes up.

[Sheilbh]

Having got about halfway through the first series of Arrow, I'm delighted to see the sexual objectification of men is continuing apace

Edit: Though as a Britisher it's tough to watch John Barrowman in a role like this.

[Sheilbh]

Wolf Hall trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kT2lMkhldc

Damien Lewis is getting rave reviews as Henry VIII and MARK RYLANCE!

[Martinus]

Having got about halfway through the first series of Arrow, I'm delighted to see the sexual objectification of men is continuing apace

Edit: Though as a Britisher it's tough to watch John Barrowman in a role like this.

As I said before, for the relatively low gay narrative content (with one exception), this is one of the gayest shows on tv right now.

You also have to start watching Flash when you get to season 3 of Arrow, as the shows feature multiple crossovers (and the timeline of season 1 of Flash correlates with season 3 of Arrow).

[celedhring]

The GGs are a fraud.

Amen.  Gotta hold out for the People's Choice.

No kidding, have you seen who votes for them? It's just 90 foreign correspondents living in CA. The guys we send, wait for it, to cover award shows.

People give them legitimacy because they have been around forever.

[Eddie Teach]

The Honourable Woman. Rather grim in parts and I'm not crazy about the depiction of "the Americans" as the bad guys, but it had an interesting storyline and characters. Thing that struck me most of all though was that sleeping pod Gyllenhaal's character used, like she's living on a spaceship. 

[Sheilbh]

The GGs are a fraud.

Amen.  Gotta hold out for the People's Choice.

No kidding, have you seen who votes for them? It's just 90 foreign correspondents living in CA. The guys we send, wait for it, to cover award shows.

People give them legitimacy because they have been around forever.

Also because 90 shady Belgians in a bar generally make better choices than the Academy.

[CountDeMoney]

Bad news for Anglophiles: Thanks to an expiring contract, Netflix is dropping the vast majority of its BBC content from streaming on January 31. It's possible Netflix will come to a new agreement with the Brits before then, but, if not, say good-bye to Doctor Who, Luther, Black Adder, Fawlty Towers, Coupling, and Top Gear, among others.

[frunk]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[garbon]

I tried to watch Fawlty Towers once. I couldn't get past the casual xenophobia/racism.

[celedhring]

In the Spanish version Manuel was made to be Italian because of how offensive his character was to Spaniards. I guess we didn't care much about offending Italians

The show's great, besides that. A lot of the unpleasantness is intentional, part of the British archetype Basil Fawlty satirizes.

[garbon]

In the Spanish version Manuel was made to be Italian because of how offensive his character was to Spaniards. I guess we didn't care much about offending Italians

/I saw the edit.

The show's great, besides that. A lot of the unpleasantness is intentional, part of the British archetype Basil Fawlty satirizes.

Yeah, I figured as much. There was just something about the puerile Spanish insults that I couldn't get past.

[Josephus]

I tried to watch Fawlty Towers once. I co

uldn't get past the casual xenophobia/racism.

It's intentional though. Cleese is, as he did with Python, poking fun not at Spaniards but at the typical British middle-class.

Interestingly, or not, the Americans tried to do Fawlty Towers. The "Manuel" character was from India instead of Spain. The series didn't last more than a handful of episodes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payne_%28TV_series%29

[Martinus]

Americans do not get European humour. Film at 7, 8, 11 and a featurette at 12.

[garbon]

It's intentional though. Cleese is, as he did with Python, poking fun not at Spaniards but at the typical British middle-class.

I didn't think it was an accident - nor did I really think it was supposed to generate laughs at Spaniards from his lame jokes/comments.