TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

People watch Homeland over here? Is the 4th season any good? Think the series jumped the shark after the first season but I still enjoyed all the CIA counter-terrorism spy plots.

[lustindarkness]

TWD, [spoiler]who bites it next? Father Gabriel? And why do our survivors still trust others?[/spoiler]

[Viking]

Attack on Titan = Excellent

[11B4V]

Saw three movies in the last 24 hours:

Interstellar - solid A, misses A+ because it plays too fast and loose with hard science. But a very, very good film. Kind of nice to watch a movie that doesn't assume you are a moron.

Mockingjay, Part 1. My kids orthodontist every year takes all his patients and their families out to the movies. It's worked out that the last few years have all been the Hunger Games movies, so that is what we saw along with 40 other families with kids with hopefully straighter teeth. My daughter was very impressed that he would take us to a movie for "free". I told her that I paid him $10,000 for a free movie every year, and he throws in orthodontia for my two kids for free.

Anyway, solid flick. Not great or anything, but pretty much what you expect. B- or so. Didn't regret the time.

American Hustle. Finally picked this up to watch. Uggh. Very disappointing. Just did not care about these characters at all, and in a movie driven by dialogue, not caring kind of doesn't work. I was expecting a very good movie, got something that was ok - hard to believe it won a bunch of awards. Very pedestrian.

The Orthodontist bit: 

Good to hear about Interstellar. Cool story with the Dentist.

[Ideologue]

$10k a year? Are you a narwhal?

[Josquius]

One of the first Christmas gifts I remember was a wooden Wild West fort with walls, towers and a few buildings. I must have been 4 at the time. Again, my parents were poor, and that was a cheap gift, with some plastic Cowboys and Indians.

15 years later I saw a comparable wooden fort, and the price was ridonculous, because suddenly wood = quality = triple the price of what plastic costs.

Heh, yeah, I had such a thing too.
I think my dad may have made it.

I recall the cowboys and soldiers were the goodies and the indians were the baddies.

[celedhring]

Oh well, I went through a few episodes of Homeland and it looks like *again* it's about Carrie losing her shit. I'll pass.

[viper37]

$10k a year? Are you a narwhal?

orthodontist.

[Josephus]

Oh well, I went through a few episodes of Homeland and it looks like *again* it's about Carrie losing her shit. I'll pass.

The last episode was the best one yet (last week's not yesterdays) but by and large, yeah, it's jumped the shark.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

$10k a year? Are you a narwhal?

"$10,000 for a free movie every year", not "$10,000 a year for a free movie".

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Attack on Titan = Excellent

Surprisingly, yes.  I didn't think I was going to like it.

I can't watch it without thinking about the solution to their problem being a hot drop with an Atlas lance, though.

[Berkut]

$10k a year? Are you a narwhal?

"$10,000 for a free movie every year", not "$10,000 a year for a free movie".

Two kids, basically $5k per kid.

[celedhring]

Oh well, I went through a few episodes of Homeland and it looks like *again* it's about Carrie losing her shit. I'll pass.

The last episode was the best one yet (last week's not yesterdays) but by and large, yeah, it's jumped the shark.

One of my personal pleasures in Homeland was watching Mandy Patikin owning it as a wily CIA chief. [spoiler]Now he's not CIA anymore and just got kidnapped like an amateur, meh.[/spoiler]

[Ideologue]

$10k a year? Are you a narwhal?

"$10,000 for a free movie every year", not "$10,000 a year for a free movie".

Two kids, basically $5k per kid.

Ohh, ok.

[Josquius]

Attack on Titan = Excellent

Surprisingly, yes.  I didn't think I was going to like it.

I can't watch it without thinking about the solution to their problem being a hot drop with an Atlas lance, though.

I came in expecting a science fiction piece set on Titan.
But I enjoyed it.
They missed a trick with not killing off the cliched main character a few episodes in though.