The Screening Room - 2015-05-03

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Napoleon Wilson

12:38 AM

@Catija The OP can only do it indirectly by flagging it for moderator attention and asking for it to be migrated, which was the case with this one (assuming you're talking about this one). Unfortunately, in cases like this the asker still has the last word. As to who migrated it specifically, you should be able to see that as part of the migration notice (but any of the moderators would (or should) have done the same).

Though, in retrospect I should rather not have revive-edited it, since it throws a bad image to have a perfectly valid but migrated question which suggests that we migrate proper Daredevil questions to Comics.SE or that they're better at those. But well, since migrated questions aren't deleted, we couldn't really afford having that misplaced netflix tag on this one.

That being said, I'm glad I finally watched Layer Cake.

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6:28 AM

@NapoleonWilson Just curious... and I found it funny that, as soon as it was moved, it got marked as duplicate. Also, I did check (in the iPhone app) and it said it'd been moved but not by whom.

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10:41 AM

He better kept it here.

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Napoleon Wilson

11:52 AM

@Catija Urgh, no guarantees for any dysfunctional apps, of course.

12:09 PM

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Q: What was Joss Whedon's budget for Much Ado About Nothing?

Joss Whedon has been quoted "Whatever you're thinking, it's less", but has anyone placed a specific dollar figure on the budget of his Much Ado About Nothing? If not, can someone here make a reasonable estimate, assuming actor's scale, food costs, costume & equipment rental, etc?

production much-ado-about-nothing

12:49 PM

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Q: Friends Episode Identification

I have been wondering this for a while, but as much as I try, I can't seem to find the answer. I really would appreciate if someone could tell me what episode of the tv show Friends this snippet is from. The snippet is at 2:51 in this YouTube video. Thanks in advance. :)

identify-this-episode friends

1:27 PM

Huh, I thought Youtube videos are embedded automatically now. Any idea what I did wrong with this question's edit? Is it because of the timestamp?
http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/33916/friends-episode-identification

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Napoleon Wilson

2:51 PM

@Walt Seeing that even the link went into the void you probably just messed up the link somehow. But I reverted it to the non-embedded version anyway, since embedding seems not to be able to remember the specific timeframe and just starts the video from the beginning.

Ah no, works with embdedding and timeframe.

3:36 PM

Ah, figured I fudged it up somehow. Thanks

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6:20 PM

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Q: What movie (or TV episode) has James Earl Jones discussing "being a daddy"?

The popular parody video Vader Sessions dubs lines from other productions James Earl Jones was involved in over scenes of Darth Vader, to hilarious effect. I've been curious about the source of one of the lines, but haven't found it. At about 2:50 he says: Listen, can I explain something to ...

identify-this-movie

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7:57 PM

"Did you know that the word 'trauma' comes from the Greek for 'wound'? Hm? And what is the German word for 'dream'? Traum. Ein Traum. Wounds can create monsters, and you, you are wounded, Marshal. And wouldn't you agree, when you see a monster, you... you must stop it?" - Shutter Island

@AnkitSharma Next one should not be this long.

8:16 PM

I feel like we need to reschedule the topic challenges to start on Thursday or Friday rather than at the beginning of the week... Or not base them on films being released that week. Visit numbers over the weekends are abysmal, so (for Americans, anyway) the Avengers challenge was pointless, since we couldn't ask questions about Age of Ultron until it came out here, on Friday, when the challenge was essentially over.

@Catija It's not even over yet

Napoleon Wilson

@Catija Well, the challenge didn't start at the beginning of the week but on Saturday. And it isn't over till next friday, so... Reasonable criticism, bad example. ;-P

I didn't realize it was continuing another week... still, the point stands.

Plus, it puts Americans at a disadvantage, as Europeans and others see the film first, and have an extra week to get upvotes.

Napoleon Wilson

@Catija Well, this one was bad since the releases are quite apart, therefore the two weeks.

Regardless, I'm pretty sure most of the questions we've gotten were just asked naturally, not because of the challenge.

Napoleon Wilson

8:21 PM

It's not easy in general, too early and many people haven't seen it. Too late and you miss some of the questions that come naturally but would count against the challenge.

I was mostly thinking of it because I saw @AnkitSharma 's recommendation for Mad Max as an upcoming one.

@NapoleonWilson which was why I made the point of not having it be based on movie releases.

Napoleon Wilson

@Catija Of course, nobody friggin' cares about the challenges. Still it's good when we can count some of the questions against the challenge even if their askers couldn't care less.

@Catija That was for 15th

Napoleon Wilson

@Catija Well, at least this way we can get some natural income for the challenge. Because well, a challenge about something completely different, pessimistically speaking, results in pretty much no questions, I guess.

@NapoleonWilson Very true.

Napoleon Wilson

8:24 PM

@Catija But of course it's not a bad idea to propose some other non-release based topics, especially since after the 15th franchise challenge in a row it indeed feels a bit awful. But well, you know where to propose those ideas:

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Q: Weekly Topic Challenge - Ideas

Quite a while ago we had a so called Topic of the Week where users were encouraged to ask questions about a specific topic and compete for the best question. In an effort to revive this kind of challenge, I'll try to follow Jon Ericson's excellent guide and would like to ask for topic ideas here....

discussion featured topic-of-the-week challenge

Even if you just got some general well-reasoned points and not necessarily concrete topics you can write that as an answer to that discussion, I guess (and the points you made here are not bad).

@Catija It's also to profit from the general interest those releases generate, and the incentive for people to delve a little deeper into the respective matters. That's why it's not just tied to a single movie.

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Q: movie about a farmers wife who falls for a travelling man

Married couple living in country/ small town. She meets a travelling man who got off the train in her town and he flirts with her. At first she plays hard to get. But after she becomes intimate with him, he treats her like he doesn't want her, but she can't stop wanting to be with him. She ends u...

identify-this-movie

@NapoleonWilson Sure, and I completely understand that. :) I liked how the Wachowski one was really broad and got a lot of questions about their other works. I'll see if I can think up something that's more broad but not so broad it'd be difficult to figure out which questions apply.

Napoleon Wilson

@Catija And that being said, someone has to loose in such cases and even on a US-centric site about a US-centric topic this someone could actually happen to be the US fellows if their release policy disfavours themselves.

The UK and Indians are quite big on those sites, too, I guess. And they got the movie pretty early. That's of course not an excuse for putting a significant part of the user base in disadvantage, but as said, not everybody could win in the AoU case. Therefore the biweekly compromise.

But that's part of why the topics are open to all films in a franchise... everyone has the opportunity to ask questions about any Avengers-series film, as they're available to everyone.

Napoleon Wilson

@Catija Not really "a lot", though, but well.

@Catija I liked the idea of a time-travel challenge for the new Terminator (so we don't have yet another franchise challenge), seeing that time-travel is a prominent topic in movies and one that elicits interesting questions about the various different ways of depicting it (and given that the movie seems to do some heavy timeline manipulation shit). But I don't really like the time-travel tag.

@Catija Well, as long as it's not "movies with car chases as a prominent feature".

A better synchronized release-policy might also have mitigated that whole insane spoiler circus that seemed to have gone totally nuts this time. And that wasn't even a movie with a particularly intricate story, just a movie whose hype factor appealed to all those remote fan-fussing internet crowd people who are then the same people getting heart attacks when getting the fact that Thor doesn't die in the movie prematurely "spoiled". But nevermind.

8:46 PM

Wait... Thor didn't die? WTF?

Napoleon Wilson

@Catija I thought you had already seen the movie. (o_O)

I'm teasing. I have seen it.

Napoleon Wilson

Great, now I missed 5 minutes of Haywire and have no idea what's going on. And I thought that it's just about Gina Carrano kicking asses, hmm, probably still a Soderbergh movie. ;-(

You're watching live TV? Animal.

Napoleon Wilson

@Catija No, Amazon Prime, which is why I can fortunately just rewind, but that won't help if I still get entangled in chat. Not that it is a bad thing to actually see someone in chat.

@Catija Then you realize the great duality that the Paul Bettany character in his beyond-mechanical form could actually do to his creators' spirit and culture what his purely physical brother could only do with a mere city of them.

8:55 PM

@NapoleonWilson Oh, ok. You had me worried for a minute. :)

Yeah, I'm not disappointed at Paul's transformation, which I'd mentioned being worried about before. Overall, I'm happy... though Friday will be interesting.

Napoleon Wilson

@Catija But to not disappoint your low opinion of me, I still watch quite much actual TV.

@NapoleonWilson Hmmm. I think the last thing I watched on TV was the Oscars, which I watched with all of you lovely people. This of course is excluding TV airing at restaurants/bars.

Napoleon Wilson

Hmm, I actually reduced my weekly TV consume quite a bit. There's only very few series I actively follow (if even more than one) and the occasional movie every other day. I've reduced it veeery much with the advent of streaming services and such things. But the lack of a proper schedule is just annoying. With on demand stuff I have to be 100% in the mood for watching something to say, "yes, I'll watch that now". When it's on TV, though, I just tune in and enjoy.

I guess I just need a proper schedule to tell me when and what to ~~think~~ watch.

9:14 PM

Hmmm... we watch: Agents of Shield, Castle, Arrow (lower priority), Daredevil (Netflix, so it was binge-watched), The Daily Show, Elementary, Grim (when we're in the mood), Archer (when airing), Big Bang Theory (tend to watch in spurts) ... and I watch NCIS and Once Upon a Time. We have stuff coming into a central system that tells us when new episodes are ready to watch, and we watch them whenever we feel like it.

Napoleon Wilson

Hmm, I only currently follow Person of Interest and Game of Thrones by streaming, and Arrow on TV (Flash and Gotham are in mid-season break unfortunately). But I have other stuff on the radar to possibly start, like Elementary or Justified or Agents of SHIELD season 2, and of course others which I just wait for new seasons, like Ripper Street, Walking Dead or House of Cards.

Ah, we do watch GoT, actually, forgot about that because we haven't started the new season yet. The episodes end in cliff-hangers so often that we usually wait a few weeks so that we can watch two if the cliff-hanger is really bad.

Napoleon Wilson

What the? So who's actually all in this friggin movie that got sold to me as a Gina Carrano action flick?

@Catija I made the error of watching all the leaked episodes at once and then I had to wait 4 weeks for new stuff, still another week to go. ;-(

Oops!

@NapoleonWilson There was a film we watched recently with some huge star... Bruce Willis, maybe? on the cover art and when you actually get into the film, he's only in about 10 minutes of it. They were just using him to draw audience.

Napoleon Wilson

@Catija Like Steven Segal and Executive Decision.

9:26 PM

Actually, that may have been it... but I'm not sure.

Napoleon Wilson

But it's not that movie doesn't feature enough Gina Carrano, I'm just baffled at each new A-liner that comes around the corner in a small supporting role.

Oh, but everyone wants to be in a Soderbergh film, so it doesn't surprise me that much.

Napoleon Wilson

And of course, the mixture of simultaneous chatting and Ocean's-like non-exposition still keeps me wondering what the hell is actually going on in the movie. But well, maybe that's even intended.

I think I even watched that movie once a long time ago but was just half-asleep, which didn't help the matter either.

I should rather have stayed with Iron Man 3 on TV.

Much easier to follow, yes. But, then, I half-watch most of what I watch.

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11:06 PM

@NapoleonWilson Why do some Youtube links work and others do not? What did you change that I missed?

Your link is different and it's not https://

But it's also youtu.be, not youtube.com

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