TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

I think it's cute how people don't think Crystal Skull was a hit.

Out of curiosity, what aspect of it do you consider it being a "hit"?  The ticket sales gross?  The reviews?

Roughly fourfold return on investment, as a purely objective measure. 

OK but why should we care about that.

Because it made an obvious, quantifiable impact, i.e., "was a hit," thereby disproving (or at least calling into question) the thesis that Spielberg hadn't made a hit since Date X?

I mean, one can certainly dislike something that other people wanted to see, and which made a lot of money.  Hell, that's kind of your thing.

[frunk]

Meryl Streep to star in Florence Foster Jenkins.  Damn this should be awesome.

If you are wondering why I'm excited listen to this.  Probably the worst singer to ever play Carnegie Hall.

[garbon]

I don't think the world needs a Goosebumps film...

[celedhring]

A couple of friends of mine have got a SyFy series greenlit:

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/incorporated-syfy-series-matt-damon-ben-affleck-1201696096/

(and no my friends aren't Damon and Affleck )

Are those friends of yours Matt and Ben?

I wish...

My friends created the show and directed the pilot.

[katmai]

I don't think the world needs a Goosebumps film...

Uh....hate to break it to you.

[Liep]

So this is from the Danish Girl, the shot is supposedly from Vejle. Spot some very tall mistakes:

[viper37]

So this is from the Danish Girl, the shot is supposedly from Vejle. Spot some very tall mistakes:

they simply used the same set as Vikings to save money. It's ok, we all think Denmark looks like Norway now

[Liep]

It's ok, we all think Denmark looks like Norway now

I wish.

[celedhring]

So this is from the Danish Girl, the shot is supposedly from Vejle. Spot some very tall mistakes:

Like we the world can tell/care about the difference

[Liep]

But we're famously flat. If it had been Holland people would be in uproar and yet Holland's tallest points is much taller than ours.

[garbon]

I don't know anything about Danish geology.

[Liep]

I don't know anything about Danish geology.

"Until 1847 people thought that Himmelbjerget ("Sky Mountain") was the highest point in Denmark, but it's only 147 metres above sea. At that time Ejer Baunehøj was declared to be higher, and in 1874 it was measured to be 170.95 metres above sea level. Nevertheless Yding Skovhøj, only 3 kilometres away, was declared to be even higher, due to several new measurements in the middle of the 1900's. This was a great disappointment for people involved in Ejer Baunehøj. The Danish authorities finally decided in 1953 that a burial mound on Yding Skovhøj from the bronze age didn't count. That reduced Yding Skovhøj to 170.89 metres, and means that Ejer Baunehøj wins this height competition by only 6 centimetres! In 2002 the heights were adjusted due to the new general measure method DVR90. Ejer Baunehøj has sunk 6 centimetres to now 170.89 metres, but the same applies to Yding Skovhøj measured at 170.83 metres."

[Eddie Teach]

Jutland's the peninsula. Sjaelland's the part with Copenhagen. Skane is the part in Sweden. 

[celedhring]

What about Greenland? Gotta be some tall mountains in it

[Ideologue]

I can dig that Danes would have a problem.  There's an 80s movie called The Philadelphia Experiment (shitty time travel flick) based on the conspiracy theory surrounding the USS Eldridge, allegedly utilized in anti-radar experiments during WWII which wound up turning it invisible.  (The stories are likely based on ordinary degaussing and maintenance, but anyway.)  The film, which was rather cheap, strikes out for a coup by using Patriots Point in Charleston, SC, as a Pennsylvania naval base.  Insofar as I have been to Patriots Point and surrounding locations in Charleston (but unlike LA and Vancouver residents, I'm not immunized to the effect), it took me right the fuck out of the movie.

It doesn't help that in a relatively long take, you can clearly see the jet on the USS Yorktown, squatting on the deck in the background.  Nor does it help that The Philadelphia Experiment sucks in many other ways.