TV/Movies Megathread

[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.

[celedhring]

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.

As much as I would love it to happen, Punisher doesn't lend itself well to the megabudget action extravaganzas that Marvel deals in. He's best when dealing with street-level crime, not supervillains. I hope they do something with him at one point, though, he's Marvel's non-pussy version of Batman.

[Ideologue]

Dig it: Nicolas Winding Refn's The Punisher.  He's only two letters away.

Or maybe John McTiernan's The Punisher.  He's out of jail now after all.

[Eddie Teach]

Or maybe John McTiernan's The Punisher.  He's out of jail now after all.

Yippee kiyay.

[celedhring]

Wasn't the main character in the first Pusher film named Frank, too? 

That's the only one I've seen.

[Gups]

Watched the Butler with the missus and 12 year old on Saturday. Enjoyed the first hour but it gradually descended into mawkish setimentality. The kid liked it a lot.

[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.

As much as I would love it to happen, Punisher doesn't lend itself well to the megabudget action extravaganzas that Marvel deals in. He's best when dealing with street-level crime, not supervillains. I hope they do something with him at one point, though, he's Marvel's non-pussy version of Batman.

While I agree in general there would be some big budget stuff in Garth Ennis' Punisher MAX series.

[celedhring]

Michael Clarke-Duncan isn't around to play Barracuda though

[CountDeMoney]

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.

Didn't know you knew Arabic.

[Sheilbh]

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.

The same is true with Al-Jazeera English. It's very, very good.

It's odd that our only non-native language channel is in a language not many of our minorities speak

There's hundreds you just don't get them in your area. I remember about 10 Bengali channels alone in Whitechapel.

[crazy canuck]

There's hundreds you just don't get them in your area. I remember about 10 Bengali channels alone in Whitechapel.

Yeah, there are lot of non French and English channels here.  They cater mostly to our large Asian and South Asian communities but there are also channels catering to obscure languages.   Polish for example.  Welcome back Marti.

[CountDeMoney]

A-J's smartphone app is very good, too.

[The Larch]

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.

As much as I would love it to happen, Punisher doesn't lend itself well to the megabudget action extravaganzas that Marvel deals in. He's best when dealing with street-level crime, not supervillains. I hope they do something with him at one point, though, he's Marvel's non-pussy version of Batman.

So, an Arrow style TV show? If Marvel did Agents of SHIELD they're not alergic to the small screen.

[Josephus]

Under the Dome is getting sillier by the hour