TV/Movies Megathread

[FunkMonk]

Episode 2 of Amazon's The Man in the High Castle went up.

[crazy canuck]

TWD. [spoiler]Noooooo![/spoiler]

[lustindarkness]

I am soooo pissed at TWD right now.

[Grey Fox]

[spoiler]Is it Darryl?[/spoiler]

[Josephus]

[spoiler]Just noticed emoticons don't seem to work with spoiler tags. Anyway....WTF!([/spoiler]

[Eddie Teach]

I am soooo pissed at TWD right now.

Yeah.

[Savonarola]

I saw a collection of Farmer Al Falfa cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s.  They're similar to the Felix the Cat and Disney Cartoons from the era; though with a more sparse animation.  Today, if he's remembered for anything, it's for having the first sound cartoon, "Dinner Time," about two months before "Steamboat Willie."  It wasn't a hit though, and Farmer Al Falfa faded from memory.

[mongers]

I saw a collection of Farmer Al Falfa cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s.  They're similar to the Felix the Cat and Disney Cartoons from the era; though with a more sparse animation.  Today, if he's remembered for anything, it's for having the first sound cartoon, "Dinner Time," about two months before "Steamboat Willie."  It wasn't a hit though, and Farmer Al Falfa faded from memory.

Thanks, for that Sav.

Believe it or not, I recall seeing some of those angry farmer cartoons on tv when I was a small child. :age 

They were still showing a lot of keystone cops, Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and silent classics back then. Along with a fair amount of Stan and Laurel.

[MadImmortalMan]

There's this commercial with Rachel Maddow walking like on a treadmill and saying stuff. I usually have the TV muted, so I don't know what. But I always see it out of the corner of my eye and immediately mistake her for Peyton Manning. 

[celedhring]

Catching up with summer blockbusters I missed. Today's Age of Ultron. Pretty disappointing. They sort of have an interesting theme there; the AI that they create to seek peace decides they are an obstacle for it. But it ends up being lost in the midst of a weirdly convoluted plot. There's more half-assed plotlines and arcs in there than you could poke a stick at.

Looking forward to the release of Ant-Man next month though, everybody who's seen it tells me it's pretty great.

[Razgovory]

There's this commercial with Rachel Maddow walking like on a treadmill and saying stuff. I usually have the TV muted, so I don't know what. But I always see it out of the corner of my eye and immediately mistake her for Peyton Manning. 

She's being used to power the building NBC is in.

[Archy]

I saw a collection of Farmer Al Falfa cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s.  They're similar to the Felix the Cat and Disney Cartoons from the era; though with a more sparse animation.  Today, if he's remembered for anything, it's for having the first sound cartoon, "Dinner Time," about two months before "Steamboat Willie."  It wasn't a hit though, and Farmer Al Falfa faded from memory.

Thanks, for that Sav.

Believe it or not, I recall seeing some of those angry farmer cartoons on tv when I was a small child. :age 

They were still showing a lot of keystone cops, Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and silent classics back then. Along with a fair amount of Stan and Laurel.

I remember these also. Today's youth is missing out. They were still shown in the late eighties over here. I guess since it was cheap schedule filling because of no copyright

[Syt]

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/star-wars-the-force-awakens-ticket-sales-breakdown-gender-average-age-1201625277/

'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Tickets Bought Mostly By Older Men

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" shattered ticket sales records earlier this week.

According to theater marketing data firm Movio Media, men, with an average age of 34, were the ones who succumbed most to the force.

Movio found that 70% of ticker-buyers were males between 18 and 49 years of age, with an average age of 34. They consist of regular movie-goers, who patronize theaters once a month in groups (buying an average of 2.3 tickets per transaction). They also spend 2.6 times more at the box office than the typical moviegoer, and 67% of them catch movies within the release week, most on opening night. The majority are also drawn to tentpoles such as "Jurassic World" and "Avengers: Age of Ultron."

The "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" trailer, released during halftime of the "Monday Night Football" game, sparked the newfound fervor. It drew 112 million views in 24 hours.

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" opens Dec. 18.

So Older Men = 34?

[Admiral Yi]

Older than the average movie patron, sure.

[garbon]

I did a search for the last few minutes and this was the only top hit I got that actually mentioned average age as opposed to just distribution, and it is anecdotal.

http://demographicpartitions.org/moviegoer-demographics-rules-movie-audience-statistic/

Jim Tricarico, the chief revenue officer of Screenvision, which runs adds in thousands of movie houses, said the average age of customers in his theaters is 30.5 years — compared to the mid-50s for broadcast TV. Now, Young Adults have become the rising demographic amongst moviegoers.