TV/Movies Megathread

[Malthus]

Maybe the licenses of the music the astronauts acquired did not allow for transfer to another device or planet.

IP lawyers ... in Space!!

[crazy canuck]

Malthus - each astronaut had his or her own data stick for use on the surface, only filled with what they were interested in.  The protagonist IIRC lost his own so had use the ones left behind by the others.

Why does it make sense to store data in personal physical data sticks, on a mission to Mars? Why not store it in weightless bits on the computers they are using anyway?

Because by the time it makes sense to send all those people to Mars that small amount of extra weight won't matter.

It also makes little sense. There simply isn't any good explanation I can think of for having some music stored, but not all music stored (which basically takes the exact same weight/storage room). Even today, storage of music is basically endless - an iPhone can take thousands of hours. Presumably, computers won't get worse in the future.

Because it would really suck to be stranded on Mars with no tunes because some jerk, worried about extra weight, made you keep all your tunes stored on the onboard computer. 

[Eddie Teach]

In the Bedroom. Not as kinky as it sounds.

[Malthus]

Malthus - each astronaut had his or her own data stick for use on the surface, only filled with what they were interested in.  The protagonist IIRC lost his own so had use the ones left behind by the others.

Why does it make sense to store data in personal physical data sticks, on a mission to Mars? Why not store it in weightless bits on the computers they are using anyway?

Because by the time it makes sense to send all those people to Mars that small amount of extra weight won't matter.

It also makes little sense. There simply isn't any good explanation I can think of for having some music stored, but not all music stored (which basically takes the exact same weight/storage room). Even today, storage of music is basically endless - an iPhone can take thousands of hours. Presumably, computers won't get worse in the future.

Because it would really suck to be stranded on Mars with no tunes because some jerk, worried about extra weight, made you keep all your tunes stored on the onboard computer. 

Or forced you for some reason not to store your tunes on your laptop, wristband computer, or anywhere except on a data stick ... that you then lost? 

[crazy canuck]

Spoilers!     

[frunk]

It also makes little sense. There simply isn't any good explanation I can think of for having some music stored, but not all music stored (which basically takes the exact same weight/storage room). Even today, storage of music is basically endless - an iPhone can take thousands of hours. Presumably, computers won't get worse in the future.

Electronics used in the space program generally are "worse" than equivalent terrestrial electronics due to the need to be significantly more resistant to radiation.  It makes it tougher to have ultra small electronics that can store a whole bunch of data.

I haven't seen the movie, but it's certainly possible that electronics on Mars would have worse performance than an iPhone.

[Ideologue]

Malthus - each astronaut had his or her own data stick for use on the surface, only filled with what they were interested in.  The protagonist IIRC lost his own so had use the ones left behind by the others.

Why does it make sense to store data in personal physical data sticks, on a mission to Mars? Why not store it in weightless bits on the computers they are using anyway?

Because by the time it makes sense to send all those people to Mars that small amount of extra weight won't matter.

It also makes little sense. There simply isn't any good explanation I can think of for having some music stored, but not all music stored (which basically takes the exact same weight/storage room). Even today, storage of music is basically endless - an iPhone can take thousands of hours. Presumably, computers won't get worse in the future.

It's so they can make all those jokes about disco music, silly.

[celedhring]

Maybe the licenses of the music the astronauts acquired did not allow for transfer to another device or planet.

I kid you not, I have signed rights contracts with provisions for exactly that. Never EVER underestimate the unholy combination of lawyers and corporate greed.

[katmai]

Oh we know all about the wickedness of lawyers.

[Savonarola]

Conductor 1492 (1924)

It's hard times in Ireland so Terry O'Toole (John Hines) comes to Americky to be a trolley conductor.  Hilarity ensues as our Irishman adjusts to life in the United States, becomes embroiled in a plot to raise rates on the trolley and wins the girl.

It amused me that the Jewish pawnbroker in such films as "Safety Last" is now a vile stereotype; but the pugnacious, drunken Irishman today is the beloved symbol of the University of Notre Dame.

The man who plays Terry O'Toole's father, Dan Mason, starred as the conductor on the "Toonerville Trolley," shorts in the 1920s.  ("Toonerville Trolley" was a newspaper comic from the era.  A number of the funnies were animated at the time, but "Toonerville Trolley" was live action.)

[Savonarola]

Speaking of cheap, I watched Robin Hood (1922) on Amazon Prime.  It's already a pretty direly misconceived film (the name "Robin Hood" first appears at one hour and seven minutes into the movie, and Douglas Fairbanks doesn't start climbing on shit for several more minutes still), but what was even worse was the awful public domain ragtime score.  You know what goes just swell with a 12th century period piece, particularly scenes of a knight being thrown into a dungeon, or of a lady-in-waiting tortured by a would-be usurper prince seeking information?  Scott Joplin.

Was it a Televista print?  Those are awful; Netflix just got a bunch of new ones, so I've been subjecting myself to them.

For the 1938 version of Robin Hood they were worried about being sued by the owners of the 1922 versions copyright holders; that's why almost none of Errol Flynn's adventures are the same as Douglass Fairbanks'.  Flynn's version became the standard and the influence on all future Robin Hoods.

[Josquius]

It amused me that the Jewish pawnbroker in such films as "Safety Last" is now a vile stereotype; but the pugnacious, drunken Irishman today is the beloved symbol of the University of Notre Dame.

Damn holocaust

The stupid Swede stereotype meanwhile just dissapeared. Wonder why.

[The Brain]

 

[Razgovory]

It amused me that the Jewish pawnbroker in such films as "Safety Last" is now a vile stereotype; but the pugnacious, drunken Irishman today is the beloved symbol of the University of Notre Dame.

Damn holocaust

The stupid Swede stereotype meanwhile just dissapeared. Wonder why.

Yeah, you Brits didn't exactly cover yourselves in glory dealing with the famine.

[Eddie Teach]

The stupid Swede stereotype meanwhile just dissapeared. Wonder why.

Immigration from Poland displaced it.