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#31

Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...

Last post by Duque de Bragança - December 29, 2025, 10:20:07 AM

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1190353686540728

Ora pro nobis 

#32

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by celedhring - December 29, 2025, 10:00:06 AM

I have just learned it is going to be 2-3 years before Pluribus Season 2. That is ridiculous, I would not have bothered watching season 1 knowing this. What the hell.

That's pretty standard for a high budget show nowadays. These things take time to prepare, shoot, and post. Looking it up, the first season had 7 months of shooting.

Better Call Saul already had 2-year gaps in the later seasons (granted, Covid interfered).

As the reddit thread put it, the same time it will take to get 18 episodes of this, they made 65 Breaking Bad episodes.

And I wouldn't be surprised if a single Pluribus episode cost nearly the same as an entire BB season. My guess is that they shot for 2-3 months, which was the standard for TV (and still is for non big budget stuff) for a show of that length.

The important thing to look at is the shooting schedule. Seven months is a lot, but it's what I see nowadays for big budget TV shows. And the very quick and very dirty rule is that every month of shooting adds one month of prep and one month of post.

#33

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Josquius - December 29, 2025, 09:58:50 AM

Its also funny to see all the outrage and demands for him to be barred from the country based on saying stupid shit 12 years ago.
People who actively in the here and now call for direct murder?... No no that's different. That's fine.

#34

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Tamas - December 29, 2025, 09:39:00 AM

Re. This Egyptian opposition figure, it is a bit funny when every once in a while it is exposed that the level of acceptable anti-semitism is REALLY low in (Western) Europe compared to the rest of the world. I remember that lady in the US who really got under Trump's skin running into this a few years ago, tweeting stuff normal around Somali tables during family dinners.

#35

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Tamas - December 29, 2025, 09:35:59 AM

I have just learned it is going to be 2-3 years before Pluribus Season 2. That is ridiculous, I would not have bothered watching season 1 knowing this. What the hell.

That's pretty standard for a high budget show nowadays. These things take time to prepare, shoot, and post. Looking it up, the first season had 7 months of shooting.

Better Call Saul already had 2-year gaps in the later seasons (granted, Covid interfered).

As the reddit thread put it, the same time it will take to get 18 episodes of this, they made 65 Breaking Bad episodes.

#36

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by celedhring - December 29, 2025, 09:28:19 AM

I have just learned it is going to be 2-3 years before Pluribus Season 2. That is ridiculous, I would not have bothered watching season 1 knowing this. What the hell.

That's pretty standard for a high budget show nowadays. These things take time to prepare, shoot, and post. Looking it up, the first season had 7 months of shooting.

Better Call Saul already had 2-year gaps in the later seasons (granted, Covid interfered).

#37

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Tamas - December 29, 2025, 08:47:38 AM

I have just learned it is going to be 2-3 years before Pluribus Season 2. That is ridiculous, I would not have bothered watching season 1 knowing this. What the hell.

#38

Off the Record / Re: What are you listening to?

Last post by Duque de Bragança - December 29, 2025, 08:20:04 AM

Tribute to Brigitte Bardot, by Therion.

Initials B.B

#39

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Duque de Bragança - December 29, 2025, 08:15:10 AM

I don't know if the extras on the blu-ray confirm it, but French wiki quotes Raoul Coutard, director of photography stating that the US producer Joseph E. Levine demanding extra nude scenes.

« Non, non, ça ne va pas, je veux voir le cul de Bardot ». »

#40

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by celedhring - December 29, 2025, 07:54:36 AM

Since Brigitte Bardot just died and we got the new the Odissey trailer, found it fitting to revisit Le Mepris.

I feel I'd rather watch Lang's version 

So you don't like her buttocks.
Nothing more to say. 

IIRC, isn't the story (might be urban legend) that half the budget of the film had gone to her and the producers wanted their money's worth so they strongarmed Godard to have her show some skin and he shot that scene? The camera is pretty damn lecherous indeed, even mockingly so.