Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread • Page 21

Sense8 is incredible. Such an important show.

 

Been meaning to get around to that

 

Has anyone seen Lo and Behold (the new Herzog movie)

 

Harry Potter's Rupert Grint will star in Crackle original series based on Guy Ritchie's 2000 cult crime film Snatch - Deadline

10 episode season coming in 2017

 

Amazon and Warner Bros developing television adaptation of " The Departed " - Variety

 

BBC has listed the best films of the 21st Century: The 21st Century’s 100 greatest films

Come discuss the list here: Weekly Discussion: The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films [via BBC]

 

Baby's Day Out - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

this is easily the best thing I've ever seen

 

What sequence of events led you to the Baby's Day Out Wiki page??

 

It was referenced on a Cracked list

 

Just started Homeland and House of Cards, more out of curiosity than interest, if that makes sense.

I feel kind of weird about how I can acknowledge how good something is and still not want to watch it. I started Mad Men a couple years ago and I'm still at the beginning of the third season, but it took me only a couple days to fly through the first (and only) seasons of Sense8 and Jessica Jones. I see how good Mad Men is and have every intention of getting through it, but it's going to take me forever to finish it. On the other hand, I'm taking my time with The West Wing for the complete opposite reason? Like, I want to make it last as long as possible because I love it so much. My viewing habits are so weird.

 

Not saying that I'm looking forward to it exactly, but I have some interest in the new Lethal Weapon show coming out in Sep. I can't be alone in this.

 

Please do yourself a favor and DO NOT spoil Homeland. That show was able to do something at the end of one of the seasons that I doubt has ever been done. Really powerful and surprising stuff throughout the first 3 or 4 seasons.

 

Alison Brie in a wrestling Netflix comedy? Sign me up!

 

Yes please.

I can seriously watch that scene with her in Get Hard over, and over, and over, and over....

 

Well shit, Gene Wilder died.

 

Fuck

 

Awesome

 

Why Movies Still Matter - The New Yorker

 

Only a couple more days for this to release and I cannot wait. This movie never got the attention or praise it deserved, and while being a cult classic is still great - it deserves to be included along with the top tier animated movies ever made.

The Iron Giant: Signature Edition Ultimate Collector's Edition [Blu-ray]

 

Awesome. It really was a great film.

 

today is both Werner Herzog's 74th birthday and the 75th anniversary of Citizen Kane being released

 

Stranger Things and the Problem of “Plotblocking” - The Talkhouse

Matthews taps into a lot of why I found Stranger Things to be such a chore to get through, and taps into some differences between film and television as mediums that I think are often overlooked. I like his point about how the truly great television shows are actually harder to binge-watch, because each episode is so packed and fascinating as its own story as a part of the larger context, they need time to be digested and breathe, as I found to be the case with shows like Mad Men and Bojack Horseman. It's a reason I like a show like the Get Down, whose first episode is an hour and a half, which is almost an unintentional middle finger to the idea of binge watching. With stuff like Netflix I find it really interesting what shows will do in the future in terms of runtime and release schedule, because Netflix shows don't have to adhere to any time constraints. Horace and Pete, another show that is straight up impossible to binge, had episodes that were 40 minutes, episodes that were like, 18 minutes*, and episodes that were over an hour. I'm very interested to see the evolution of episodic visual storytelling (I guess you could still call it "tv" but I find there to be a distinction between something like That 70's Show or 24 and Horace & Pete and the Get Down), where shows let each episode be what's necessary, rather than try to fit a mandated number of episodes with a mandated runtime (something I think really hurt Stranger Things).

* - edit: I thought I remembered a really short episode but wikipedia says every episode was at least half an hour. My mistake.

 

Don't agree with any of that. Was engrossed by Stranger Things.

 

1. You can definitely binge watch Mad Men.
2. That's also a bad example because it's incredibly slow burning. That's why people don't binge watch it. Otherwise Game of Thrones would never be binged.

 

Of course you can binge-watch Mad Men. I was speaking of my experience and trying to relate it to how a lot of television is consumed. Mad Men being a slow burn is the whole point, every episode is almost its own short film, contrasted with Game of Thrones where there's a clear endgame that the show is intentionally getting you invested in. The article and my points were less about saying things should be a certain way or criticizing the concept, or even criticizing Stranger Things (it's completely fine to like it), and more about examining the changing landscape of television as a medium and how audiences consume it.