TV/Movies Megathread

[Barrister]

Talking about Star Wars, I won't watch it in Imax, that shit gives me motion sickness. Should I do 3D?

I *think* the 3d is only shown on IMAX.

[lustindarkness]

Talking about Star Wars, I won't watch it in Imax, that shit gives me motion sickness. Should I do 3D?

I *think* the 3d is only shown on IMAX.

Nope. I checked my local non-imax theather when I posted the question.

[viper37]

No it wouldn't.  It'd be the dumbest thing since Midiclorians.  I'd boycott every movie Jar Jar Abrams touched for the rest of his life if that was what they came up with.

Adding some to Beeb's speculation:

[spoiler]I stumbled across a theory that the Big Bad is one of the Solo twins,  That could play into the balance thing: one of Leia's kids goes light, the other goes dark.  Plus, it seems Luke has already been seen in Jedi robes in some behind-the-scenes shots.  I doubt he would be the Big Bad in that case.[/spoiler]

that is straight from the books.  Leia and Han had 3 kids, one died in a war, one turns dark, one becomes a Jedi master hunting the other twin.

[crazy canuck]

TWD - another great episode.  [spoiler]They did a good job foreshadowing that Carl's girl was the mole.  Nice scene where she pulls out the knife and then decides to let Carl live.  Great writing this season.  But my bet is most of the audience will most appreciate the up tempo action of these early episodes after the build up which seemed to last the whole of last season. [/spoiler]

So speculation time - where did the Wolves come from.  The hint we have is that they were not given a choice but were somehow forced into living this way.  Outcasts from another larger community?  Outcast from this community?

[Savonarola]

The Chaser (1928)

Harry Langdon's second film, this one actually has jokes in it.  Langdon spends his nights out, so his wife files for divorce.  The judge instead gives a novel solution, instead of granting him a divorce Langdon will spend his time at home doing his wife's work, while she goes out and works.  Hilarity ensues.

Stan Laurel  might have been able to make this film work.  Langdon still isn't comfortable as a director.  He lingers way too long over shots.  It's okay when the camera is on Langdon, his slow brand of humor requires time.  On the other characters it just doesn't work out.  This is most notable when he's filming the wife and mother-in-law; a few seconds of one of them chewing out Langdon would have been funny; five minutes of it makes them look like a sadists.  It makes the film even more misogynistic than the premise would suggest.

Langdon would go on to direct one more film, "Heart Trouble," which is lost to us.  After that his career was over and he spent his time in bit parts and poverty row shorts.

[Admiral Yi]

Talking about Star Wars, I won't watch it in Imax, that shit gives me motion sickness. Should I do 3D?

I watched Mad Max in 3D and it didn't puke me out.  Then again it wasn't shot in 3D, and the trailers before the movie did puke me out a little.

[crazy canuck]

Talking about Star Wars, I won't watch it in Imax, that shit gives me motion sickness. Should I do 3D?

I have the same problem.  I get sick just watching FPS games.  But since Avatar, the new 3D tech does not bother me.

[Berkut]

Man, I would love to go see the new Star Wars with all you dumbasses.

That would be pretty awesome.

edit: Until one of you started spoilering TWD during the pre-views, anyway.

[Barrister]

Man, I would love to go see the new Star Wars with all you dumbasses.

That would be pretty awesome.

That would be pretty cool.   

Now I'm stuck.  I could go with Mrs B.  She's game, but not super interested.  I could take Timmy - he quite liked Ep 4 & 5 (haven't found the right time for 6), but there's a risk in taking a kid to a movie that I'm going to wind up missing a bunch of it.

I could wait till my brother is in town (or I visit him), but that could mean waiting weeks and I'm afraid it would get spoiled for me by then.

[Berkut]

Well, the odds of me being up in Edmonton again are quite low.

Ask the Other Edmonton Languishite to go with you...

[viper37]

Man, I would love to go see the new Star Wars with all you dumbasses.

That would be pretty awesome.

edit: Until one of you started spoilering TWD during the pre-views, anyway.

all you have to do is drive up to Montreal!

[Berkut]

Man, I would love to go see the new Star Wars with all you dumbasses.

That would be pretty awesome.

edit: Until one of you started spoilering TWD during the pre-views, anyway.

all you have to do is drive up to Montreal!

I would not want to watch it in French, sorry.

[Valmy]

I watched the re-release of Empire Strikes Back in French.

Yoda, je suis.

[viper37]

I would not want to watch it in French, sorry.

I did say Montreal, did I not?

Besides, it's Star Wars.  What could be so difficult to understand?? 

I'm seeing it in English, in one of these (well, the only one in Quebec, afaik) VIP cinemas where they serve food and alcohol.

[lustindarkness]

Man, I would love to go see the new Star Wars with all you dumbasses.

That would be pretty awesome.

edit: Until one of you started spoilering TWD during the pre-views, anyway.

That would be awesome.

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