TV/Movies Megathread

[Barrister]

I rewatched The Social Network and something that called itself to my attention was that both the adverse parties were across the table from one another at the depositions.  It's about as far away from my job as you can get, so I have no practical experience, but that is bullshit, right?

No, I don't believe so.  Both parties are in the room for depositions.

[Valmy]

I think the question is why it hasn't changed. I mean, Europeans rarely explain some social phenomenon with "oh, we have been like this for the last 500 years, you know". We had this thing called Enlightenment.

Like hell you don't.

But, ok I'll bite.  What does the Enlightenment have to do with that?  Voltaire printed porn on all of his tracts?  Wait he probably did, didn't he.

Anyway our frontier heritage combined with our Calvinist one gives us a yummy mixture.  But, of course it has changed a lot.

Huge parts of the world thinks we are way too loose with our sex stuff as well.  OMG our culture is not exactly like everybody else's!

[Eddie Teach]

Did Eastern Europe even participate in the Enlightenment?

[Sheilbh]

Yes. The Poles were partitioned and colonised by Frederick the Great

[Martinus]

I don't know about Voltaire, but some of Diderot's novels are outright pornographic.

[CountDeMoney]

I rewatched The Social Network and something that called itself to my attention was that both the adverse parties were across the table from one another at the depositions.  It's about as far away from my job as you can get, so I have no practical experience, but that is bullshit, right?

Sometimes they are, sometimes just their lawyers.

[crazy canuck]

I rewatched The Social Network and something that called itself to my attention was that both the adverse parties were across the table from one another at the depositions.  It's about as far away from my job as you can get, so I have no practical experience, but that is bullshit, right?

No, that often happens. 

[viper37]

GoT should end after its 7th season:
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/11/game-thrones-end?asdf

[Valmy]

GoT should end after its 7th season:
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/11/game-thrones-end?asdf

In the game of HBO you either get an 8th season or....you don't.

[The Minsky Moment]

Ide's question:  It is permitted unless a motion for protective order is made to exclude the adverse party.   Check out FRCP 30(b) and the related advisory committee notes, and the protective order section of FRCP 26.

[jimmy olsen]

Watched Justice League: War last night. It was really an uneven movie with some really great things about it and some really terrible ones.

Lets start with the great. The art and character design was fantastic. The fight scenes were unbelievably well animated, the best I've ever seen from western animation. I could wax rhapsodic over them for hours. Wonder Woman was an unbelievable badass. The scenes where she rescued the President and stabbed Darkseid in the eye were off the hook amazing. If WB portrays the live action WW like this on the big screen we are in for a treat. Superman was appropriately a cut above the rest of the team in unbridled power and Shazam and his lightning powers was well differentiated enough from him not to feel like a Superman knockoff.

Unfortunately of the 79 minutes of run time, at least 60 were battle scenes. They were beyond great, but everything holding those scenes together was paper thin. The only one to get decent character development was Cyborg, whose origin story was shown. Now Superman and Batman don't need to be explained to the audience, but Superman here was quite a bit more brooding and reckless than one usually sees, especially when compared to the stoic one you saw on all the DCAU shows of the 90s and early 00s. It's clear that it's very early on in the career of all these heroes, but I would have liked to see that disposition explained. 

Hal and the Flash were paper thin, the former was a jock/douche whose personality clashed with Batman, while the later was CSI Batman fanboy. Wonder Woman was very Thorish in her I've just discovered the wonders of civilization (ice cream!), but it's just so limited to one or two small scenes.  Billy Batson is a rebellious little preteen, who seemed to cross the line of being a little too childish rather than heroic as Shazam too often. It was part of his character arc, with him needing to mature, we just needed more of his back story for it to be meaningful.  Batman was appropriately badass, mysterious and clever.

The real failing was with Darkseid. Don't get me wrong, he's an unstoppable murder beast in this, but that's all he is. He's Doomsday with an alien army, and that's a fundamental misunderstanding of who Darkseid is. He's a machiavellian schemer who wallows in evil both great and blatant, as well as the mundane, petty and subtle cruelties of everyday life. He's a much more complex character than presented here.

Basically, this movie need another 40 minutes of characterization and world building to tie all the gratutiously awesome action together. I will give the movie props though for earning that PG-13 rating through a combination of appropriately placed profantiy and alien gore.

[Ideologue]

Ide's question:  It is permitted unless a motion for protective order is made to exclude the adverse party.   Check out FRCP 30(b) and the related advisory committee notes, and the protective order section of FRCP 26.

Fair enough.  Maybe it was just weird seeing this billionaire come to his ex-pals' depositions for the (dramatic) purpose of snarking and sniping at them, rather than, you know, running his huge company and sending a stooge.  (On the other hand, I suppose the infringement lawsuit would've been leveled at Zuckerberg personally as well as toward Facebook, the corporation.)

Thanks for the info, all.

[jimmy olsen]

Ide's question:  It is permitted unless a motion for protective order is made to exclude the adverse party.   Check out FRCP 30(b) and the related advisory committee notes, and the protective order section of FRCP 26.

Fair enough.  Maybe it was just weird seeing this billionaire come to his ex-pals' depositions for the (dramatic) purpose of snarking and sniping at them, rather than, you know, running his huge company and sending a stooge.  (On the other hand, I suppose the infringement lawsuit would've been leveled at Zuckerberg personally as well as toward Facebook, the corporation.)

Thanks for the info, all.

Nearly five hundred words from me on a Justice League movie gets nary a peep out of you in response?

I don't even know who you are anymore. 

[mongers]

Ide's question:  It is permitted unless a motion for protective order is made to exclude the adverse party.   Check out FRCP 30(b) and the related advisory committee notes, and the protective order section of FRCP 26.

Fair enough.  Maybe it was just weird seeing this billionaire come to his ex-pals' depositions for the (dramatic) purpose of snarking and sniping at them, rather than, you know, running his huge company and sending a stooge.  (On the other hand, I suppose the infringement lawsuit would've been leveled at Zuckerberg personally as well as toward Facebook, the corporation.)

Thanks for the info, all.

Nearly five hundred words from me on a Justice League movie gets nary a peep out of you in response?

I don't even know who you are anymore. 

He gets regular sex* now.




*as in with someone else.

[Ideologue]

Ide's question:  It is permitted unless a motion for protective order is made to exclude the adverse party.   Check out FRCP 30(b) and the related advisory committee notes, and the protective order section of FRCP 26.

Fair enough.  Maybe it was just weird seeing this billionaire come to his ex-pals' depositions for the (dramatic) purpose of snarking and sniping at them, rather than, you know, running his huge company and sending a stooge.  (On the other hand, I suppose the infringement lawsuit would've been leveled at Zuckerberg personally as well as toward Facebook, the corporation.)

Thanks for the info, all.

Nearly five hundred words from me on a Justice League movie gets nary a peep out of you in response?

I don't even know who you are anymore. 

He gets regular sex* now.




*as in with someone else.

That's actually no joke, Tim.  I wanted to post a quick thanks to the lawyers, and finished it very shortly before my girlfriend came over.

It actually sounds pretty rad.  I'll check it out.  One day, if I can ever find a few weeks off (where I'm getting paid or have been paid sufficiently to afford some luxury) I want to watch all the DCAU stuff front to back.  I've enjoyed everything in it I've ever seen, although the stuff I've seen from JLU did seem a little crowded.  (It's a pro and a con at the same time.)

Bummer they decided a couple years back to officially change Captain Marvel's name.  What is Mary now?  Mary Shazam?  Is there a Shazam Jr.?  What's the wizard's name?  I also hate Hal Jordan and Barry Allen.

Also: Darkseid is.