TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

If AMC's doing it, it'll probably be good.

[Syt]

I guess I'm less worried now (Preacher is one of my favorite series) that they're pulling a Walking Dead, i.e. taking the premise and characters of the comic but doing something different with them. A straight up adaptation would have been difficult and likely very disappointing.

[Syt]

Since the Simpsons debuted in December 1989, hasn't the show already made an 80s couch gag?

We've come full circle.

[celedhring]

I guess I'm less worried now (Preacher is one of my favorite series) that they're pulling a Walking Dead, i.e. taking the premise and characters of the comic but doing something different with them. A straight up adaptation would have been difficult and likely very disappointing.

The first eps of Walking Dead were reasonably close to the comic, I thought. Then it became its own thing.

[Josquius]

Game of Thrones spoiled us on the accurate adaptation front I think. Its changes tended to be minor and more simplifications than massive alterations.

[garbon]

Game of Thrones spoiled us on the accurate adaptation front I think. Its changes tended to be minor and more simplifications than massive alterations.

Well GoT has a multitude of minor differences rather than major story arc changes at least with as much as we know now.

Below is an aspie list of all differences. Below that is a link with 'big' differences, some of which could have major implications but again not really with story to date.

http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Differences_between_books_and_TV_series

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/05/20-big-differences-between-the-game-of-thrones-tv.html

[Josquius]

This Simpson's 80s couch gag makes me want to play Vice City again. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZu5iDTtNg0

"Push it to the limit!"

Well that's cool.

What would you call this sort of...animation? Style?
The car zooming towards the gleaming sky scrapered city sort of thing... It's very common in old anime too. It is quite wonderful but oh so very 80s.

[Admiral Yi]

Watched Star Trek Into Darkness the other night.  There were parts of this movie that did not make sense to me.

[Barrister]

Watched Star Trek Into Darkness the other night.  There were parts of this movie that did not make sense to me.

Beginning, middle and end parts?

Most infuriating part was when the ship was spinning and falling to earth, and the characters are tumbling around inside.  We're a bunch of Star Trek nerds - we know that THAT IS NOT HOW GRAVITY WORKS!

[Syt]

Oh dear lord, be still my nerdy little heart. WWE Network has launched here. For $9.99/mth you get their stream (think NFL network stream), access to TV shows, and - which is rather amazing - on demand access to their PPVs. Which ones? All of them, from Wrestlemania I onward. Oh, and the PPVs from WCW and ECW, too.

I'll sign up for the trial month, and after that will see if it's worth it.

EDIT: Main downside seems to be you don't get the current shows of Raw and Smackdown? They seem to be a month behind.

[Berkut]

I know it isn't fair, given my own delight in pretty geeky stuff...but when someone admits to being a professional wrestling fan, I can't help but mentally drop them a few rungs down on the mental acuity ladder.

[garbon]

[Berkut]

I SAID IT WASN"T FAIR!

[Syt]

I know it isn't fair, given my own delight in pretty geeky stuff...but when someone admits to being a professional wrestling fan, I can't help but mentally drop them a few rungs down on the mental acuity ladder.

Also, I've done a few wrestling AARs on the forums in the past.

[Barrister]

I know it isn't fair, given my own delight in pretty geeky stuff...but when someone admits to being a professional wrestling fan, I can't help but mentally drop them a few rungs down on the mental acuity ladder.

Also, I've done a few wrestling AARs on the forums in the past.

I went through a 2-3 year phase where I was deep into wrestling.  Don't follow it now and don't care to, but there is definitely a more intellectual way to appreciate wrestling if you dig into the behind the scenes/kayfabe side of things.