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1:04 AM
Just watched the premiere of Gotham. Very brisk story to set up the season, but I liked what I saw. Definitely going to keep up with it.
 
1:33 AM
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Q: What happened when Durant came to Bohanan while he was in jail, with a pardon

CeleritasIn Hell on Wheels does Thomas Durant own Cullen Bohannon? In the episode Durant, Nebraska Bohannon was about to be executed by federal officers but Durant saves him showing him a piece of paper that pardons him. I don't understand. Why did Durant do this and what ramifications does this have, for...

 
 
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5:27 AM
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Q: Movie title for an airplane crush - imagination of a paralel life

LaurentiuThis movie starts with a young man and a girl sitting next one each other in a plane and after landing they starts to look one for the other but they were involved in a relationship. Anyways, at the end of the movie, the script goes back in the airplane where the two young people are hugging and ...

 
 
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7:25 AM
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Q: Identify this Rom-Com about the leads on a Greek holiday at the end

KharoBangdoThis is my first identify this movie question so please be gentle. Today morning, while sipping tea, I watched a movie(few scenes) on HBO. Those were the ending scenes as HBO, rather than displaying current movie's name was mentioning the next scheduled movie. In one scene, the female lead(...

 
 
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9:31 AM
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Q: which is the mentalist final season so far. How it going on in season 7

harshawhich is mentalist final season so far and how it's response in India. How the character patric jane influenced.Do really patric jane is mentalist or who is that really influenced to create such character

 
 
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10:52 AM
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Q: Why did Walt tell Skyler he killed Hank?

Matt_Clegg159I have been thinking about this for a while now? Was Walt trying to send a message? Was he trying to protect Jack's men? Does anyone know why Walt said that he killed Hank?

 
@Walt I've never ever rated a movie on IMDb (or elsewhere), let alone compiled a list of every movie I've ever watched. While this might be interesting, this is at the current point already a fruitless effort to catch up with all those 27 years of watching every shit. Let alone the hard to assess difference how much attention is required to be counted as "watching" or if to make a difference between watching and understanding.
@MattD Haha, works for me (though, I think we even get Netflix here now, have seen a TV commercial for it recently). This link just revealed that Apollo wins the fight in Rocky (uups!).
That being said I generally find it shocking sometimes what minor things people regard as spoilers and that they let those actually spoil the movie for them, but maybe I'm just way more lenient than the general public in this regard. But well, the same applies to plot-holes, I guess (though that might as well be a lack of attention rather than an increased tolerance).
@Walt That being said it's ages since I watched this great show (Friends for the context). But I used to know those episodes by heart. But I also didn't see much of the later seasons, I think.
 
 
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12:18 PM
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Q: Test scene in Men in Black

pt18cherIn the beginning of Men in Black, when Will Smith is in the room with the other candidates for the job, they're all sitting those egg-style chairs with a table in the middle. This is where they're required to take the test. Rip Torn leaves the room so they can all take the test and the next 3 m...

 
1:17 PM
@ChristianRau While it was recently found that knowing "spoilers" ahead of time doesn't really affect people's enjoyment of a movie/TV show, I still like to be surprised. That's why I've been actively avoiding nearly every news post about Star Wars Episode VII. Until the first trailers hit, I want to know absolutely nothing about the film.
 
 
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2:55 PM
@Walt frozen is not worth going for theatre. But suited for watching over television broadcast. I have expected it a bit better.
@Walt i have rated few on IMDB...around 9-10
And sometime on my own office website too.
Rated only good and worse ones.
@MattD let me see if its started broadcasting in India or not. Very much excited to watch gotham.
 
3:13 PM
@MattD That's why I've been actively avoiding nearly every news post about Star Wars Episode VII I'm actively seeking all the news about it and I bet I know exactly 1 thing that you don't, and that's just an easter egg hidden on a prop which you could never spot in the movie
The secrecy around it is crazy, nobody knows nuffin about nuffin
 
@MrLore Actually I do know about that, due to the headline and images popping up in various news feeds I look at every day. Things like that I'm not concerned about. I'm talking about posts regarding plot details and whatnot. Casting announcements? I'm cool with that. Official news? Sure. So I guess I should say, "I'm avoiding speculative articles."
For the most part anyway. I really do want to try to only know what the trailers and TV spots show me prior to my seeing it.
 
I've been tricked by Star Wars and JJ Abrams before, I want to know whether it's good before I see it:P
 
@AnkitSharma If it's not broadcasting, Fox may have it up for streaming (but they may block non US sites). If it looks like it might not broadcast there for a while, or at all, then there's, you know, other things you can do.
@MrLore I've enjoyed pretty much everything JJ has put out. I'm on board with Episode VII, full sail.
 
A bounty says you didn't watch Alcatraz then xD
In other news, Person of Interest season 4 premiere tonight!
Anyone else watching?
 
@MrLore You mean Jar Jar's surprise appearance as one of the main heroes?
 
3:24 PM
@ChristianRau Oh god, I think people would honestly walk out
 
@ChristianRau & Ankit: Oh dear, I guess I'm the only nut here after all :/
 
He may even be canonically alive, you can hear him at the end of RotJ
 
@MrLore Yeah, Lucas added that with the Blu-ray release. I honestly saw it as a giant, middle finger just before, "OH NO THERE'S HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN AGAIN!"
 
@MrLore There's even a SciFi.SE question about that. But well, the writers are not idiots.
 
@ChristianRau I know this show by heart too, though I'm not too proud to admit it ;) The main reason I didn't post my answer yet is that I found another person (but only one) who mentions a similar episode online
 
3:28 PM
@Walt "I'm not too proud to admit it" - Haha, why not, it was a good show afterall, wasn't it?
 
You're all talking about Friends, right?
 
@MattD Indeed
 
Yeah, that show's one of the best shows of the 90s and early 00s. Easily.
 
It was well written in the first 4-5 seasons but a bit too frivolous. A lot of people compared it to Seinfeld back then, and I always thought it was never any match to it
Season 6 and onwards was a steep decline. Rachel and Joey was extremely awkward, and in the last couple of seasons they were merely there for a paycheck
 
@Walt What? Haha, not at all. Well, ok, maybe some guys who know each other in New York, but I guess that was it.
But that also holds for How I Met Your Mother. But ok, that's a good 21-century-successfulpeople replacement for Friends anyway.
 
3:31 PM
It was a fair comparison, I think. A group of single friends in New York who mainly chat about relationships in a flat or coffee shop
 
I only have knowledge of the show through massive syndication, so certainly not a whole first to last episode knowledge of the story, but overall I felt Friends was pretty solid throughout.
 
@Walt A more interesting comparison I heard recently was that It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is like "Seinfeld on crack".
 
It was solid, mostly. It's fun in reruns and great escapism
 
Honestly, my favorite 90s sitcom? Frasier.
 
Kramer was totally on crack already
 
3:32 PM
@MattD Definitely agreed.
 
I liked it too
 
But I might agree that the later episodes of Friends might not have been up to par. I also don't remember the whole Joey/Rachel thing with much fondness.
 
Frasier was just soooooo good. Super smart with the humor. I'm amazed it lasted as long as it did.
 
It was awful. I hear the actors begged the writers not to do it
 
@MattD I never understood all the fuss about Frasier, but admittedly haven't seen so much of it anyway. Maybe I just never got into it (but it wasn't aired here too much anyway).
 
3:34 PM
@ChristianRau That didn't really last long though, they went on a sort of "meta date" then there was the proposal confusion when she gave birth, but nothing really came of it
 
Joey was in love with Rachel since season... 8?
 
@ChristianRau I'd say it's definitely worth checking out.
 
And they were a couple for at least half a season. Yeesh.
 
@ChristianRau The thing I love about Frasier is how much character development there is, basically every character is polar opposites from the pilot to finale
 
Frasier got old too (like most shows do, really), but later seasons were still pretty solid. Just too much misunderstandings & puns and such
 
3:36 PM
I think the only real dip for Frasier was season 10 which didn't have the main writers the other seasons did
They went in a weird direction with Roz & Frasier but it got cleared up straight away when the main writers came back
 
I think Netflix has all of Frasier. I'm working my way back through 30 Rock after working through That 70s Show again, so maybe I'll go with Frasier after I binge 30 Rock.
 
@MrLore Frasier casting was genius
 
Absolutely
 
Never got on with 30 Rock. Again, maybe due to unfair comparison (this time to Larry Sanders)
 
@MattD My cousin's also a big fan of That 70s Show, but to me, meh, it works, but I don't have to see it.
 
3:39 PM
I think I've only seen 3 sitcoms, I need to try some more
 
@ChristianRau I watched the show when it was originally on, but as I entered college I lost touch with it a bit, so I wanted to watch it all again. After season 6 the show started to feel a bit haggard. They were right to end it at season 8.
@ChristianRau And yet I totally want them to make That 90s Show, with all the original actors reprising their roles as their adult selves raising their kids in the 90s.
 
Watched a lot of 70s Show (due to weird work hours) and hated it. :) So many idiot jokes (a dumb person says something stupid and the others make fun of him). It's like half the cast is Joey
 
@MattD Oh my, age shows when I wish for a nostalgic view of the 90s. Wasn't this just yesterday?
 
@ChristianRau That's OK, you're not alone ;)
They tried making That 80s Show but that died
 
@Walt That was just bad. I honestly feel if they got the original actors back for a 90s version it could work.
 
3:43 PM
Might as well, 80s now taken by that Goldbergs thing
 
@Walt Well, for 80s there's always Miami Vice! Though that is far from comedy (apart from some awful episodes) and might be too overstylized for people having lived through the real 80s.
 
And ALF, of course :P
 
@Walt Urgh! ;-(
 
Or the Twin Peaks ALF (NSFW, kinda)
Sick, sick minds at work
I didn't see the point in rating movies I knew, but discovered an old IMDb account, spent a few manic hours with it and somehow got to 4 digits (!)
It does have its benefits. I came across many old flicks I forgot about. I discovered I have a certain taste, which I didn't know before. :) It's also easy to go through - I recently decided to see which musicals I saw and liked and it was a cinch
 
@Walt I'm not sure I'd like to rate, since like comparisons or best-of-lists it is extremely hard to assess a reasonable value out of 10 (ten!) different levels.
 
3:52 PM
It is hard sometimes, yes
 
@Walt Sure, some list of all the movies watched might have some very nice statistical and collectomanic qualities to it.
 
I wish they had half points
Found out the only 'real' musicals I ever liked were Singin in the Rain, Little Shop of Horrors and BTVS's OMWF (though I did like Wizard of Oz as a kid)
 
I liked the Schumacher version of Phantom of the Opera with Gerard Butler. And I also enjoyed the recent Les Miserable (and probably am the only one who found Russel Crowe amazing). But I haven't seen many musicals in reality at all, let alone those two.
 
Yeah, can't sit through them either. Bursting into song and having to rhyme your dialogue... not getting it
 
@Walt Well, it's not that I don't like them. It's rather a matter of just not going to see them, I'm not of a big theatre guy anyway. But I still like me a good musical movie.
What I can't stand is this whole musicalization going on nowadays. Take a famous movie and turn it into a musical. Or even worse, take a big star's hits and construct some stupid pseudo-story around them.
 
4:02 PM
Some films have camp value, I guess
Oh wait, I liked Hair too :)
I have a question about a musical, actually. Maybe I'll put it up
 
Though that doesn't count as musical in the strictest sense I guess, I'm a huge fan of the Blues Brothers (haven't seen the 2nd (or 2000th) movie though, but don't have a big incentive to do so either).
 
Hell, if that counts too, we're up to 5 that I like. :) I think I gave it a 10 on IMDb
One of those rare instances where I went, screw the plot. Great jokes, great music and about 500 cop cars smashing into each other. What more do you need
Never bothered with 2000 either
 
Anyone remember the show Out of This World? With the girl who could stop time by touching her index fingers together? Her dad was this extra terrestrial being that communicated to her through some kind of space candy dish, voiced by Burt Reynolds?
 
@MattD Haha, yeah! Man, that was ages ago. But I watched that as a kid.
Wasn't there also Doug McClure appearing now and then?
 
Never seen it. Sounds nice and bonkers :)
 
4:11 PM
@Walt It's actually probably one of the most tame 80s sitcoms.
But you watch the show and you're just like, "Okaaaaaaay."
 
@MattD Fair point ;)
 
@MattD Like an 80s Sabrina (oh my, watched that, too).
 
@ChristianRau Holy shit that's probably the most apt way to describe it. Also, now I want to watch Sabrina.
 
I think Friends jumped the shark when Ross & Rachel got married (so... end of season 5 I think?) Ross married, again? Ross in love with Rachel and vice versa, again? Started treading water
 
Man, I totally miss ABC's TGIF lineup. Those were good times.
 
4:16 PM
Networks had friday lineups once? Woah
 
@Walt I know, right?!
 
I always break out the tissues when a show I like is dumped there
 
Gah, just thinking back to the TGIF block gives me major nostalgia. Family Matters, Sister Sister, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Full House, Step By Step, Perfect Strangers, Boy Meets World, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, such good shows all in one block.
 
@MattD Evil! You're evil!!!
 
@Walt >:)
 
4:21 PM
(Clutching chest, mumbling in Latin)
 
@MattD Meh, in retrospective there's much that is really just a big "MEH" when thinking about it now. I wouldn't want to watch much of Step by Step or Family Matters now, let alone Full House which never attracted me that much.
 
@ChristianRau I could watch Family Matters and Full House from start to finish any day. Loved those shows. Step by Step I could give or take.
Family Matters especially was super huge in my house. There was also our Saturday night favorite: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
 
(Chanting harder, frothing at the mouth)
 
Ugh! Perfect Strangers? There's really 8 seasons of that crap?
 
@ChristianRau 'MURICUH
 
4:24 PM
Anyone ever see Twitch City? Weird little tweaky show
 
One of the biggest 90s TV show nostalgia bombs I like to drop now and then: Anyone remember SeaQuest: DSV?
 
@MattD Haha, yeah! But didn't have many episodes, no? I should even have the pilot on VHS somewhere (recorded, not bought, of course). From the times when you recorded every piece of crap on VHS for whatever later viewing enjoyment.
 
@ChristianRau Only lasted 3 seasons.
@ChristianRau Yeah, I think my parents still have the season 2 premiere on VHS in their house.
The whole series may still be on Netflix actually.
 
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Q: "Nothing Important" short film

SebastianI think its title is "Nothing Important" but I could be mistaken. It starts with dialoge that pilots of a plane are unconcious and some steward or pansanger is trying to land the airliner but they will patch him to the real pilot over the cell phone 'cause his driving to airport right now. After ...

 
I also liked Sliders. It reran some one or two years ago and I really enjoyed it again.
 
4:30 PM
@ChristianRau Barely watched that show but I want to so bad.
Scott Bakula is just awesome. He's like a 90s Nathan Fillion.
 
@ChristianRau Totally. I have like the first 200 episodes of Dr Who on VHS propping up furniture in my attic
 
Oh, ye good olde 90s entertainment stuff, screw that serial drama crap! ;-) Viper, Seven Days, ..., amazing!
 
Eh, TV has just evolved. I definitely like that we have better long form dramas than we used to. Large story arcs and good character development.
But I also feel like I'm being spoiled. Shows like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones are just setting the bar so high for me.
 
@MattD Haha, sure. But sometimes I just want to be able to miss a single episode without being unable to watch any further.
 
@MattD Always favored shows that (perfectly) combine serial+procedural the most
Not a lot of them that do it right
 
4:35 PM
To me Burn Notice was a good rendition to the good olde action shows from the 90s. But I somehow got out of it in later seasons.
 
@Walt If you're serious, the BBC will give you a life-size dalek if you have a missing episode
 
Nah. Now I'm being evil. ;) (Barely know the show, but do know that most of the first 6 seasons are missing. or something)
 
I don't know if it's most, but it's a bloody lot of them
It's unbelievable that they didn't think people would want to watch anything twice
 
Can't fans recreate them? (If they have the scripts, that is)
 
A few have been re-created as audio dramas or crude images + narration, but I don't think a lot of the scripts are around either
I'm crossing my fingers that we'll invent FTL travel and develop the technology to intercept the TV signals which escaped from earth and re-capture the broadcasts
 
4:42 PM
@MrLore Haha, back when TV-shows were actually, well, TV-shows, I guess.
 
Bummer. Would've been fun, like SW fan edit
 
@MrLore Haha, and prevent the aliens from seeing Hitler as earth's first embassador? ;-)
 
@ChristianRau That would be pretty embarrassing. Especially if his speeches happen to be alien-ese for "Fuck you, squid things!"
 
 
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7:23 PM
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Q: **SPOILERS** The Guilty Remnants purpose in 'The Leftovers'

pt18cherI think I semi-understand what the GR's ( Guilty Remnant) motivation is. They know what really happened on the 14th and are upset that the people who are left refuse to acknowledge it. Episode 9, "The Garveys at Their Best" started to clear things up. It is basically saying that everyone that da...

 
 
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9:27 PM
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Q: trying to identify 1980s tv horror/drama mini series

radsomething is going around tearing people apart.a woman,a camper on the moor.a bunch of lighthouse crewmen.a detective is on the case trying to track down what seems to be a monster lurking out on moors.could have been late 1970s.as a boy i found it scary,but remember being a bit disappointed when...

 

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