TV/Movies Megathread

[CountDeMoney]

Seriously, where's your new cut of Barry Lyndon?

Barry Lyndon needs no further editing.

[viper37]

Book of negroes.

CBC's attemp at Root-like saga.  So far, we have evil blacks carrying poor blacks to the sea to be sold to American merchants, then to rapist american farmers, than to slightly Jews, and I expect the slave will eventually find its way in a loving Canadian community, away from the Evil Americans rebelling against the Crown (it starts in 1761-63 IIRC).

[viper37]

Finished the Spartacus, blu-ray.

Highly recommended.  Better sound & image quality.  A few edits here&there, a few special effects enhancements here&there, and voilà, a superior product.   Too much male nudity for my tastes, but I think they added a couple of the girls too, some I did not remember seeing nude.

Anyway, if it was only for the eye candy it'd be worth it, but it's superb series, as most of you know.

[CountDeMoney]

So far, we have evil blacks carrying poor blacks to the sea to be sold to American merchants, then to rapist american farmers, than to slightly Jews, and I expect the slave will eventually find its way in a loving Canadian community, away from the Evil Americans rebelling against the Crown (it starts in 1761-63 IIRC).

John Brown raided two farms in Missouri and got the liberated slaves to Canada through the Underground Railroad in 1858, and they were probably goddamned glad he did, despite the hockey and weirdo football.

[Barrister]

So far, we have evil blacks carrying poor blacks to the sea to be sold to American merchants, then to rapist american farmers, than to slightly Jews, and I expect the slave will eventually find its way in a loving Canadian community, away from the Evil Americans rebelling against the Crown (it starts in 1761-63 IIRC).

John Brown raided two farms in Missouri and got the liberated slaves to Canada through the Underground Railroad in 1858, and they were probably goddamned glad he did, despite the hockey and weirdo football.

Nobody needs more than three downs!!!111

[Josephus]

So far, we have evil blacks carrying poor blacks to the sea to be sold to American merchants, then to rapist american farmers, than to slightly Jews, and I expect the slave will eventually find its way in a loving Canadian community, away from the Evil Americans rebelling against the Crown (it starts in 1761-63 IIRC).

John Brown raided two farms in Missouri and got the liberated slaves to Canada through the Underground Railroad in 1858, and they were probably goddamned glad he did, despite the hockey and weirdo football.

Nobody needs more than three downs!!!111

Yeah. if you can't carry a ball 10 yards in three attempts, you really should try another sport.

[Liep]

The Lego Movie was robbed at the Oscars nominations.

[Malthus]

Book of negroes.

CBC's attemp at Root-like saga.  So far, we have evil blacks carrying poor blacks to the sea to be sold to American merchants, then to rapist american farmers, than to slightly Jews, and I expect the slave will eventually find its way in a loving Canadian community, away from the Evil Americans rebelling against the Crown (it starts in 1761-63 IIRC).

Heh, if it follows the book, you may be in for a surprise. 

[Eddie Teach]

Yeah. if you can't carry a ball 10 yards in three attempts, you really should try another sport.

Well, typically if you haven't gotten 10 yards in three attempts, you punt. Do Canadians punt on third down? Cause then you really need to get the yardage in two tries.

[Ed Anger]

Canada sucks

[Eddie Teach]

The Lego Movie was robbed at the Oscars nominations.

It got a nomination for its crappy song though.

[celedhring]

The Lego Movie was robbed at the Oscars nominations.

What makes no sense to me is how they nominated Foxcatcher for Actor, Supporting Actor, Director, Script, but *not* best film. 

[celedhring]

The Lego Movie was robbed at the Oscars nominations.

It got a nomination for its crappy song though.

They need some catchy stuff to lighten up that long and dull ceremony.

[Josephus]

Book of Negroes was a good book. So far been less than thrilled with TV adaptation.

[Malthus]

Book of Negroes was a good book. So far been less than thrilled with TV adaptation.

Apparently it has a different title in the US - "Someone Knows My Name".

"I used The Book of Negroes as the title for my novel, in Canada, because it derives from a historical document of the same name kept by British naval officers at the tail end of the American Revolutionary War. It documents the 3,000 blacks who had served the King in the war and were fleeing Manhattan for Canada in 1783. Unless you were in The Book of Negroes, you couldn't escape to Canada. My character, an African woman named Aminata Diallo whose story is based on this history, has to get into the book before she gets out. In my country, few people have complained to me about the title, and nobody continues to do so after I explain its historical origins. I think it's partly because the word 'Negro' resonates differently in Canada. If you use it in Toronto or Montreal, you are probably just indicating publicly that you are out of touch with how people speak these days. But if you use it in Brooklyn or Boston, you are asking to have your nose broken. When I began touring with the novel in some of the major US cities, literary African-Americans kept approaching me and telling me it was a good thing indeed that the title had changed, because they would never have touched the book with its Canadian title."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Negroes