TV/Movies Megathread

[Ed Anger]

What did you do to piss your UPS guy off, Ide???????

Some of them are just jerks. On two different occasions I saw the UPS driver going up my street with the door tags already made out and stuck across the dashboard. She was just running to the doors and sticking them on without even knocking or pulling packages out of the truck.

That hasn't happened in a while though. I think it's a different driver now. The last time I got a package it was a dude.

Women are lazy. Duh.

[Tonitrus]

https://tv.yahoo.com/news/walking-deads-daryl-prepare-yourself-171100392.html

I wonder who they will kill off. 

Doesn't sound good for Beth or Carol.  Or both.

Also, it's always funny to hear Norman Reedus's normal voice.  He'd do himself a big favor to just adopt Daryls'. 

[mongers]

Started watching an old bbc adaptation of 'Day Of The Triffids', dates from the early 1980s but not a bad series, keeps the suspense going rather well.

[Ideologue]

Due to my parents being overprotective, and then later failing to find the time, I never actually saw Poltergeist, Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper's adaptation of the JonBenet Ramsey case.

Truly, it was my loss: it's really great.  Occasionally it's even genuinely scary (especially early on before it kind of loses momentum, everything gets overexplained, and it becomes very apparent it's just going to be "things happen until the house implodes, awesomely").  Perhaps best of all, it has production values rarely seen before and, indeed, rarely seen since, not in a film of this breed.  (Admittedly, the use and overuse of contemporary effects also means that its most obvious comparator is Ghostbusters, which is not--necessarily--something to which you want your genuine horror movie to be readily compared.)

Still, it's really great: I give it an A+, despite its flaws.  These flaws include: the fact that no one ever files a police report; a few tremendously abrupt scene transitions; and the weirdly disinterested idiocy of one of the paranormal investigators, who'd rather listen to music on his headphones than explore the first demonstrable haunting he's ever seen.  Oh, and also no points taken off for the title being, by the film's own defined terms, inaccurate and a lie.

[CountDeMoney]

I haven't seen any of the new Hobbit movies, and granted I am old and decrepit and haven't read the book since junior high so my memory may not be what it used to be, but when I see these commercials--how many movies is it now? Three? Five?--I simply don't recall Legolas atop a battle moose. I mean, I think I would've remembered that.

[Razgovory]

Three movies, all way to long.  I remember when the studios would get into big fights with the directors and try to cut thing out.  I guess now days they don't give a shit.  I guess Jackson's vision was one 12 hour movie and they talked him down to making three four hour ones.

[Sheilbh]

I've only watched the first. I loved it. Dame Edna as the Goblin King was a particular highlight.

[11B4V]

If this hasn't been posted before.

http://leethomson.myzen.co.uk/Battlestar_Galactica/Battlestar_Galactica_Series_Bible.pdf

[Tonitrus]

I haven't seen any of the new Hobbit movies, and granted I am old and decrepit and haven't read the book since junior high so my memory may not be what it used to be, but when I see these commercials--how many movies is it now? Three? Five?--I simply don't recall Legolas atop a battle moose. I mean, I think I would've remembered that.

Legolas wasn't even in the Hobbit.  That is one of the changes they made just to bring Orlando Bloom back and tie it in/exploit from the FotR films.

[CountDeMoney]

I haven't seen any of the new Hobbit movies, and granted I am old and decrepit and haven't read the book since junior high so my memory may not be what it used to be, but when I see these commercials--how many movies is it now? Three? Five?--I simply don't recall Legolas atop a battle moose. I mean, I think I would've remembered that.

Legolas wasn't even in the Hobbit.

  I know.

[crazy canuck]

I fell asleep watching both of the first two.

[The Brain]

I haven't seen any of the new Hobbit movies, and granted I am old and decrepit and haven't read the book since junior high so my memory may not be what it used to be, but when I see these commercials--how many movies is it now? Three? Five?--I simply don't recall Legolas atop a battle moose. I mean, I think I would've remembered that.

Legolas wasn't even in the Hobbit. 

He was now!

[lustindarkness]

He was in which hobbit? And was it consensual?

[Martinus]

He was in which hobbit? And was it consensual?

Most of them, if fan fiction is to be believed.

[Malthus]

He was in which hobbit? And was it consensual?

Most of them, if fan fiction is to be believed.

Consent level - sadly, varies.