TV/Movies Megathread

[Capetan Mihali]

Cropped, resized, and pasted from my very own VLC file of the film, for the hell of it.

[CountDeMoney]

Under previous, more imaginative ownership, the Senator Theater used to run the Maryland State Board of Censors' cert placard before every movie, as it was the last state film censor board in the country, ending in 1981. 

[Capetan Mihali]

  I think I remember reading about that in John Waters' first book from the 80s.

[CountDeMoney]

  I think I remember reading about that in John Waters' first book from the 80s.

You would have appreciated Mary Avara, High Priestess of Censorship.  A Maryland institution as solid as the Chesapeake Bay.

"I made up my own ratings: G for garbage and R for rotten. How else could you describe such filth?" she said.

But she wasn't a prude, she insisted. When criticized for chopping a film, she would say, "My parents had sex and it wasn't dirty."

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2000-08-10/news/0008100071_1_censor-board-maryland-state-board-film-censor

Great piece here, with even greater vids--

http://www.mdhs.org/underbelly/2014/04/24/the-grandmother-who-fought-porn-mary-avara/

What a magnificently authentic Bawlmer accent, hon.

Former bail bondsman from the '40's and '50's, by the way. 

[Capetan Mihali]

But she wasn't a prude, she insisted. When criticized for chopping a film, she would say, "My parents had sex and it wasn't dirty."

  Awesome. 

And I know this is heresy, but sometimes a strong Philly accent is very hard to distinguish from a B'more accent.  It's just the disgusting/delicious food the "hon" waitresses at the diner are serving up varies from pork roll to scrapple to creamed chipped beef. 

I guess Philly is a slightly less southern Bawlmer accent, or Bawlmer meets Brooklyn, but I always felt it was closer to Baltimore than NYC ("r" is pronounced at the end of the word, the "ohhh" is stretched out in the vowel, etc.)

[Capetan Mihali]

  I think I remember reading about that in John Waters' first book from the 80s.

She once quipped that saying his name "makes my mouth feel dirty" and that she had a special rating for his films, R.T. for "real trash."

[CountDeMoney]

And I know this is heresy, but sometimes a strong Philly accent is very hard to distinguish from a B'more accent.  It's just the disgusting/delicious food the "hon" waitresses at the diner are serving up varies from pork roll to scrapple to creamed chipped beef. 

I guess Philly is a slightly less southern Bawlmer accent, or Bawlmer meets Brooklyn, but I always felt it was closer to Baltimore than NYC ("r" is pronounced at the end of the word, the "ohhh" is stretched out in the vowel, etc.)

Took a linguistics course for shits and giggles a couple years ago;  seems to be the general consensus that the Bawlmer accent is something of a "Philly-meets-tidewater basin" mash-up.  Makes sense when you look at where it's still the thickest: in the east and southeast regions of the city and in the south, communities that are still close to the water and see no real population migration.

Scott Van Pelt hits Tim Kurkjian wiff a Bawler IED, hon.
https://youtu.be/B3hy1kGioJU

[crazy canuck]

However, if you have modifications to the texts that are done centuries later, these writing are likely to represent what those people thought the men who wrote it originaly thought.  It's not like there is one Bible left untouched since it was first written.

That's usually more of an issue with the OT rather than the NT - with a few well known exceptions.  Because we have access to pretty old Greek manuscripts.  In the case of Revelation 13, there is a Greek text preserved on a 3rd century papyrus.

I've got a Bible here that reports all iterations made to the same passages over the years, and accross different christian denominations.  Sometimes, you have near a dozen iterations for the same verse.

Those are all going to be issues of translation.  The language of the Bible itself was agreed upon by about the 4th or 5th century.

If there are differences across denominations, it is about which books to include in the Bible.  It's not about what those books said.

You should read his book, but if you want to simply listen to his lecture you can listen to this

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

[Savonarola]

On the subject of things I'm not the target demographic for:

Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

Winner of four Golden Raspberry awards:  Worst Actor (Jamie Dornan), Worst Actress (Dakota Johnson), Worst On Screen Couple (Dornan and Johnson) and Worst Screenplay.  (That it didn't win Worst Movie makes me wonder how bad the winner, Fantastic Four, actually was; though I'm in no mood to find out.)

This is one bad movie.  Critics have pointed out a number of problems: the film is rated R, so the explicit nature of the book had to be toned down; the author, EL James, had a great deal of control over the final script, even though the only thing she's written is the Fifty Shades trilogy; the acting is awful, Jamie Dornan plays his role about as well as you'd expect from an underwear model and Dakota Johnson is able to convey so little personality that, for a brief period after the film was released, she was the front runner for the Democrat presidential nomination.  Even so, a movie based on a sadomasochist fan fiction based on the Twilight saga was not going to be good.  The only possible way this could have worked out is if the studio had let Tommy Wiseau direct.  They didn't and this is a painfully boring BDSM movie.

[viper37]

(That it didn't win Worst Movie makes me wonder how bad the winner, Fantastic Four, actually was; though I'm in no mood to find out.)

Do not fail me!  I want your review! 

[Razgovory]

and you know for sure it is the exact replicas of the first texts written during Jesus' time on Earth because... ?

I don't, and that's not the issue.  I do know that's the standard copy that was used during the late roman empire, which is of course the period we are talking about.  If you have evidence that this particular line was absent then by all means post it.

[Razgovory]

However, if you have modifications to the texts that are done centuries later, these writing are likely to represent what those people thought the men who wrote it originaly thought.  It's not like there is one Bible left untouched since it was first written.

That's usually more of an issue with the OT rather than the NT - with a few well known exceptions.  Because we have access to pretty old Greek manuscripts.  In the case of Revelation 13, there is a Greek text preserved on a 3rd century papyrus.

I've got a Bible here that reports all iterations made to the same passages over the years, and accross different christian denominations.  Sometimes, you have near a dozen iterations for the same verse.

Those are all going to be issues of translation.  The language of the Bible itself was agreed upon by about the 4th or 5th century.

If there are differences across denominations, it is about which books to include in the Bible.  It's not about what those books said.

You should read his book, but if you want to simply listen to his lecture you can listen to this

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

You are still pushing this alarmist book?

[Duque de Bragança]

On the subject of things I'm not the target demographic for:

Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

Winner of four Golden Raspberry awards:  Worst Actor (Jamie Dornan), Worst Actress (Dakota Johnson), Worst On Screen Couple (Dornan and Johnson) and Worst Screenplay.  (That it didn't win Worst Movie makes me wonder how bad the winner, Fantastic Four, actually was; though I'm in no mood to find out.)

This is one bad movie.  Critics have pointed out a number of problems: the film is rated R, so the explicit nature of the book had to be toned down; the author, EL James, had a great deal of control over the final script, even though the only thing she's written is the Fifty Shades trilogy; the acting is awful, Jamie Dornan plays his role about as well as you'd expect from an underwear model and Dakota Johnson is able to convey so little personality that, for a brief period after the film was released, she was the front runner for the Democrat presidential nomination.  Even so, a movie based on a sadomasochist fan fiction based on the Twilight saga was not going to be good.  The only possible way this could have worked out is if the studio had let Tommy Wiseau direct.  They didn't and this is a painfully boring BDSM movie.

Glad to see you can write good reviews for recent films.
Tommy Wiseau?  Sure!

[Eddie Teach]

Did it have vampires?

[celedhring]

I liked Dornan a lot in The Fall, but then again his character is pretty circumspect and emotionless in there.