TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

Murphy's Mysteries is on the Catalan telly every afternoon. My mother loves it.

What was that Canadian show with the hot sucubbus girl and the whole underworld of mythical characters? I used to watch that one, plenty of hot chicks.

EDIT: Lost Girl it was called.

[Queequeg]

You guys are crack heads.  Independence Day is Mars Attack! played straight.

Sort of.  That whole 'computer virus for alien computers' was hard to take seriously.

I took it as a homage to War of the Worlds, where a real virus kills the aliens at the end; this is the "modern age version" where a computer virus kills the aliens. The whole film is full with homages/ripoffs to other alien flicks.

Yep. And also who cares? It does its job.

That's always my first point in why people who notice plot holes just shouldn't watch films

Honestly my main complaint is that most of the aesthetic for the Aliens is lifted from better movies and indistinguishable from Stargate. 

[viper37]

Critics can't determine a market if they are out of touch with consumers.  Maybe the problem is that Canadians as a whole have shitty taste.

given that as a whole they love the same shows as their US cousins, I fail to see the relevance here 

Critics are critics.  They like stuff that nobody likes just to pretend they are better than the average viewer.  Disliking a tv series/movie because it's popular is just as dumb as liking it because there are only a thousand people accross the world would have heard of it.

[viper37]

What was that Canadian show with the hot sucubbus girl and the whole underworld of mythical characters? I used to watch that one, plenty of hot chicks.

EDIT: Lost Girl it was called.

last season (5) is not as good as the other ones imho.  But we'll see, still 8 episodes left, should come back any time now.

[Malthus]

Critics can't determine a market if they are out of touch with consumers.  Maybe the problem is that Canadians as a whole have shitty taste.

Canadians on the whole like the same stuff Americans like. 

Not sure you got the point I was making ...

[Admiral Yi]

Canadians on the whole like the same stuff Americans like. 

Not sure you got the point I was making ...

I thought I did.

Canadians like the same stuff that Americans do, plus some shitty Canadian shows, apparently.

[crazy canuck]

Critics can't determine a market if they are out of touch with consumers.  Maybe the problem is that Canadians as a whole have shitty taste.

If that were the case we would watch more Canadian content.

The other factor which has considerable impact is most of the talent in Canada goes South to work on US based productions, writers, producers, actors etc.  Also most of the local technical talent is used by US production companies who produce their product here. 

[Grey Fox]

Canadians on the whole like the same stuff Americans like. 

Not sure you got the point I was making ...

I thought I did.

Canadians like the same stuff that Americans do, plus some shitty Canadian shows, apparently.

Fixed.

[Admiral Yi]

It seems *some* Canadian shows get aired.  Does no one watch them?

[Malthus]

Canadians on the whole like the same stuff Americans like. 

Not sure you got the point I was making ...

I thought I did.

Canadians like the same stuff that Americans do, plus some shitty Canadian shows, apparently.

I was making a comment critical of the production of Canadian shows. How you got from that "Canadians like shitty shows" I do not understand.

[Admiral Yi]

I was making a comment critical of the production of Canadian shows. How you got from that "Canadians like shitty shows" I do not understand.

It was an alternate theory to explain why Canada produces shitty shows.

[Grey Fox]

It seems *some* Canadian shows get aired.  Does no one watch them?

The CBC aires them, that's our BBC public owned mothercorp. The private channels air American shows.

Something like the top 19 shows on Canadian TV are American.

[Tonitrus]

One of my favorite guilty pleasure shows (I mentioned it in that recent thread we had) was a Canadian show. 

[mongers]

Still very much enjoying 'Wolf Hall' and Damien Lewis's portrayal of Henry VIII is revealing itself perhaps brilliantly, I mean I think it'll be a brilliant performance once the full traits and motivations of his Henry are evident.

[crazy canuck]

It seems *some* Canadian shows get aired.  Does no one watch them?

They get aired mostly because broadcasters here have to meet Canadian content rules.  There is some good stuff every now and then (Corner Gas, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Murdoch Mysteries come to mind) but generally speaking the audience is low.  We mainly watch the same shows viewed in the US.