Movies and TV

[housepicks]

Currently watching Silent Night, Deadly Night

Wow, this is one steaming pile of trash

Not that it came as a surprise, but still

It has possibly the worst soundtrack of all time

Is that like a 25 year old horror movie?

 

[roguejuror]

Thanks, from 06 to 14 it ran, it's in French, I'll check it out

 

[Mudcat]

New season of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver premiers tonight.

 

[MrMonkey]

New season of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver premiers tonight.

TY!

 

[MrMonkey]

most interesting new show... Fortitude

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3498622/

1st 3 eps...tip top

Thanks RR! On some obscure channel called PilotTV but we get it! One reviewer said if it was on HBO, it would get a Game of Thrones share audience!

 

[RayRay]

Thanks, from 06 to 14 it ran, it's in French, I'll check it out

yeah french... my bad .. i see it skips some years, but gets good reviews

 

[Mudcat]

I didn't watch an inch of TV last night so I got a shitload of sitting on my butt for tonight.

Better Call Saul (x2)
Downton Abbey
Shameless
Simpsons
Family Guy
John Oliver
not sure if 60 Minutes was reruns or wut

New episodes of Jeopardy and Jon Stewart ---> tomorrow.

TV ---> it's a thing

 

[bacon]

Muddy have you tried house of lies?

Tidbit of dialogue from last week:

"What do you have planned?"
Kristen Bell: I'm going to put on a strapon and fuck your mother what the fuck does it matter?

 

[Matty]

I bet Kanye West yells out Beyonce's name during sexy time with his wife.

What a beautiful clown.

 

[Mudcat]

I went about a season with House of Lies as I recall. It was okay but I drifted away from it.

 

[Matty]

The West Wing is fonny and clever but it's clearly the work of one man who projects himself into all his characters. Everyone is the same on the show.

 

[Mudcat]

Spoiler alert - and every other show he has created.

As much as I have watched, every character in every Aaron Sorkin show is the same somewhat clever, quippy, glibby, prone to shrillness, recognizing of the exact same references no matter how obscure.

Wears me down. It was amazing how little I cared about the characters in The Newsroom, and who was hooking up and who was dying, by the time I ditched it. They aren't people. They're awkwardly wielded instruments.

 

[IAG]

The West Wing is fonny and clever but it's clearly the work of one man who projects himself into all his characters. Everyone is the same on the show.

I will have to think on that. I can see that from the standpoint that everyone has the same kind of quick clever retort style and that just doesn't happen in real life.

What episode are you on? Season 1 won more Emmys than any other series on television I believe. I wonder if it's all downhill after season 1...I'm somewhere about 13 or so.

 

[Matty]

I'm just on episode 4.

Martin Sheen is a great POTUS.

 

[bacon]

IAG how tall are you?

 

[Matty]

It's not just the speech similarities. It's also the fact that Sorkin uses all the characters as sock puppets to express random ideas about life in general, in a preaching kind of way. It feels unnatural when he does that.

I'll have to find an example. BRB.

 

[Matty]

Well, take "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc" for example. It's just Sorkin flaunting his classical education and using his characters as puppets to boost himself.

You can see the metaphorical strings too often in The West Wing, I guess is what I'm saying.

 

[Matty]

The show is still good enough.