TV/Movies Megathread

[Syt]

Speaking to a friend about it and I am embarrassingly hyped for Wuthering Heights

Although I absolutely loved the Andrea Arnold adaptation which is the bar for me.

It's also one of those books I read at like 17 and was like "this is what love is!" and then I read it in my 30s and was like "these people are unhinged", so I might read it again before the film. (I have this with Jane Austen too - she is the only author I regularly re-read and part of it is just because the characters/perspectives I sympathise with change every single time.)

I think Monty Python already had the definitive version.

[grumbler]

A new Bob Mortimer appearence on 'Would I Lie to You' :

Would I Lie To You Series 19 Programme 2

Not available in the US. It'll soon be on youtube, though, I am sure.

[mongers]

A new Bob Mortimer appearence on 'Would I Lie to You' :

Would I Lie To You Series 19 Programme 2

Not available in the US. It'll soon be on youtube, though, I am sure.

Yeah I don't know how you guys get around iplayer uk restrictions, VPNs?

[Norgy]

The BBC is quite generous on YouTube, I've found. Same with Channel 4.

Oh. And GBNews. 

[celedhring]

For pretty random reasons I rewatched the first movie of the Abrams Star Trek reboot. It's an ok entertainment - and I think the movie has the best post-Voyager Star Trek theme, but it has this annoying Abrams thing of plot fireworks and trying to be too clever by half, as ineffeectual replacements to a good sense of adventure and human emotion.

Anyway, the basic conceit of the film - that a nonmilitary vessel traveling back in time two centuries would be a formidable threat to the navies back then - I always found to be intriguing.

How realistic would that be in reality? I assume our merchant vessels only carry small arms, but an oil tanker in 1850 would absolutely dwarf everything, and with a double hull and I presume a million other safety measures to avoid spills, it might be impervious to cannon fire from that era?

[Norgy]

"Wake Up Dead Man".

The first Knives Out movie was quite funny, I thought. This one, well, not so much. It was long-winded and the humour did not hit home here.

[grumbler]

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How realistic would that be in reality? I assume our merchant vessels only carry small arms, but an oil tanker in 1850 would absolutely dwarf everything, and with a double hull and I presume a million other safety measures to avoid spills, it might be impervious to cannon fire from that era?

It certainly would not be impervious to cannon fire of the era (even Warrior was not). CSS* Virginia is generally considered to be the first vessel to be proof against the cannon of its era.


* Yes, I know "CSS" is an anachronism, but it's a useful one.