TV/Movies Megathread

[Josquius]

Immortals- what a mess. They jump around from place to place in the desert that is Greece without the viewer being too aware of what is going on. The villain speaks with a rasp that makes Bane seem well enunciated. Plot threads trail off without resolution. Even the battle scenes are rather underwhelming.

[Viking]

Immortals- what a mess. They jump around from place to place in the desert that is Greece without the viewer being too aware of what is going on. The villain speaks with a rasp that makes Bane seem well enunciated. Plot threads trail off without resolution. Even the battle scenes are rather underwhelming.

I'm waiting for the Iranian Film Industry to make a response to "300" of just that name.

[Syt]

Captain America: The Winter Soldier. That was actually pretty good. 7.75/10.

[Syt]

Trailer for KUNG FURY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72RqpItxd8M

More details:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kungfury/kung-fury

[Eddie Teach]

Guardians of the Galaxy. Very enjoyable.

[Tonitrus]

The cable at my parent's carries Al-Jazeera America.

Weird as it may be, after watching it a bit, I am just about ready to say it the most balanced, comprehensive, and insightful all-news channel on U.S. American TV these days.

Though that is probably mostly aided by how banal CNN/MSNBC/Fox have become these days.  That bar is definitely pretty low.

[crazy canuck]

Guardians of the Galaxy is good fun.  Worth the price of admission.

I saw About Time on the movie channel.  I hadn't heard of it before but it is very good.

[Ed Anger]

The cable at my parent's carries Al-Jazeera America.

Weird as it may be, after watching it a bit, I am just about ready to say it the most balanced, comprehensive, and insightful all-news channel on U.S. American TV these days.

Though that is probably mostly aided by how banal CNN/MSNBC/Fox have become these days.  That bar is definitely pretty low.

I blocked it on my TV. Along with the Chinese channel and MSNBC.

[CountDeMoney]

The cable at my parent's carries Al-Jazeera America.

Weird as it may be, after watching it a bit, I am just about ready to say it the most balanced, comprehensive, and insightful all-news channel on U.S. American TV these days.

Though that is probably mostly aided by how banal CNN/MSNBC/Fox have become these days.  That bar is definitely pretty low.

They're pretty good, yeah;  up there with the BBC.  But it sounds all terroristy and whatnot.

[Tonitrus]

For bring owned by Qatari  Islamo-fascists, it's amazingly western-oriented.

[Admiral Yi]

I suspect their English and Arabic versions carry a different editorial line.

[Viking]

I suspect their English and Arabic versions carry a different editorial line.

They do.

English is a BBC like lefty, liberal and progressive wannabe with a desire to be objective.
Arabic is the channel of the Muslim Brotherhood like Fox is the channel of the Tea Party.

[Josquius]

British TV has both the English and Arabic versions for some reason. 
It's odd that our only non-native language channel is in a language not many of our minorities speak

[Syt]

Captain America: The Winter Soldier. That was actually pretty good. 7.75/10.

On further thought, the action thriller plot, the stronger focus on physical effects vs. CGI overload (climax notwithstanding) give me hope that we might actually see a decent Punisher movie some day, now that the rights are back with Marvel. Hell, make it a TV series.

[Josephus]

The cable at my parent's carries Al-Jazeera America.

Weird as it may be, after watching it a bit, I am just about ready to say it the most balanced, comprehensive, and insightful all-news channel on U.S. American TV these days.

Though that is probably mostly aided by how banal CNN/MSNBC/Fox have become these days.  That bar is definitely pretty low.

I got it on free trial once for  a month and found ti quite good. Strangely, too, when I was in Israel once, someone told me that more Israelis watch it then CNN or BBC.