The Screening Room

Q: Billy Bibbit's age 1975 drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

2:07 AM

0

Sure we all know he was young, but what about something more specific? How old was Billy in Cuckoos' Nest movie?

drama

0

Q: The old sci fi movie "Eye To Eye"

Anyone know where to find this online? I did a google search and movie search with no results. It's an old , probably 50's, 60's sci fi movie and in it the man asks the creature "Let me see you eye to eye" Title of movie says "Eye To Eye" on the 5 second piece of the movie..Thanks

science-fiction

Q: I need help identifying a movie

6:01 AM

0

I can't remember much at all from this movie, even though I read about it about a week ago. It was a horror movie put into two movies. In the beginning, there was this couple that was having difficulties in their relationship, and they were thinking of breaking up. In the sequel, it was a few yea...

horror

Q: Movies Like "olympus has fallen"

9:53 AM

-2

Can anyone suggest me the best actions movies like "olympus has fallen" or "white house down".

olympus-has-fallen white-house-down

A: Weekly Topic Challenge - Ideas

11:39 AM

Noone want to talk about time travel?

0

Seeing that Terminator Genisys seems to get down to some serious timeline manipulation stuff, instead of yet another franchise challenge, we could make a more general challenge concentrating on questions about the intricacies of time travel in movies and TV-shows. From plot-explanations of weird ...

Ankit Sharma

@NapoleonWilson hhehehheheh....

You can still say "with the popular demand"

And nobody going to question that

:D :D

12:14 PM

Meh, +1 is the minimum to make a challenge, though. If noone votes on it and I still make a challenge the query thread loses its validity and it becomes a purely personal endeavour.

Q: Want to watch some slasher movies, please suggest some

0

I have watched Wrong Turn 1-5, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (every movie from 2003), Hills have Eyes 1 & 2, Friday the 13th, Inbred, House of 1000 corpses and its sequel whose name I don't remember, Cabin in the Woods and Piranha. Can any one suggest more movies on similar theme? P.S.: I am not into ...

horror slasher

Q: How to properly close recommendation questions?

Even if it largely is already. ;-(

Duh, maybe we should really think about a canned recommendation close-reason.

Ankit Sharma

1:11 PM

@MovieReel come to chat, i will give you.

But some of them are not going for the soft hearted

Meta Reel

1

As of recent there were quite a few questions asking for movie recommendations, which are currently off-topic on this site, and those questions arise now and then and are usually closed quite fast and unargued. However, I find myself writing more or less the same custom off-topic reason again and...

discussion featured close-reasons

1:44 PM

Now how did I miss that Sunny question... ;) Nice one

@Walt There are many great questions about that show on the site afterall!

That being said, I don't think I even noticed that this True Detective scene was a continuous shot. I'm largely blind about such cinematographic things. I heard the fuss aftwards, though (or even beforehand?).

2:07 PM

@NapoleonWilson Yeah, but I remembered that episode ;)

I like the show, kinda despite itself. ;) I like that it feels improvised, like Curb

@Walt "despite itself"?

Hey, I also said I liked it, don't bite my head off :P

@Walt I wasn't arguing about it, I was merely grasping for comprehension.

It's a bit over the top, s'all

But Charlie Work is great, and at their 10th season no less, so they must be doing something right

I love it. Even though I agree it might have lost a little bit (even if really just a tiny little bit) as of late. But well, there's hardly a show that does not lose it a bit after 10 seasons.

That being said from the overall feel of the whole episode the much nearer comparison is indeed Birdman.

2:15 PM

TBH Birdman didn't exactly pioneer that style either

@NapoleonWilson If anything, the zaniness is a plus. Most characters are Flanderized by season 10, but on Sunny, they were already like that almost from the start :)

@Walt Yeah sure, I know, tracking shot and all that. But with all the confined set of the bar and all that. But maybe it was just so near to it's release that it seemed so naturally connected. Did I even hear a drum-based soundtrack in that episode or am I really mxing things up now?

Yeah, I think there was some frantic jazzy tune

@Walt What's "Flanderization"?

It requires a trip to a site you don't really like IIRC

But I guess I can imagine how it is meant anyway.

2:19 PM

Can't really help you with your other unanswereds in the Sunny tag. The one with the cameos... because they were lucky enough to book them all? Hard to say now.

@Walt Well, I don't entirely dislike it. I only dislike when people start treating it as some kind of totally authoritative source. (And as not a big meme and internet fuss enthusiast, I just hate this friggin' "oh, don't go there, it wastes your entire day" meme. Dafuq, I never spent more than 10 minutes there.)

@NapoleonWilson Homer gradually gets dumber and sociopathic, the Seinfeld gang becomes more cartoonish etc.

@Walt Yeah, they might not be that great questions afterall. Maybe there also was a bit of a desparate urge to ask questions about this show. ;-) And the one about the awards interpretation is admitedly quite a bit of unprovable "I got this cool theory, 'snit great?" non-question that already answers itself.

@NapoleonWilson Probably because it combines the appeal of hypertext navigation with that of pop-culture lists.

@NapoleonWilson It's an interesting theory, but I doubt they give 2 s#$%s about awards :P

FX have Louis for that anyway

Uhuh.

2:34 PM

Speaking of shows that don't care much about a coherent narrative :P

To all the "script and character snobs" by the way, you might like Bosch. I watched it on sunday (literally the whole season the whole day) and it was really good.

About the painter?! Oh please oh please (he's delightfully bonkers)

Oh, a crime show.

@Walt But he has the same name at least (for whatever reason someone would call his son *Hieronymous*(?), though).

Still, they can pay an homage by featuring a giant ear pooping on a headless duck in the backround of some crime scene

@NapoleonWilson Hey now, I resemble that remark :P

@MetaReel TL;BWRL

@Walt What is your affiliation with the Buffalo War Resisters League?

3:00 PM

@Walt Which isn't a bad question at all, even if it will likely just amount to a book question, since the show never mentions the background of his name.

3:59 PM

Wuuut? Denzel's already over 60?

Q: Who was Dignam working for?

5:15 PM

0

At the end of The Departed, Dignam kills Sullivan after finding out that he was the rat all along and responsible for Billy Costigan's death. Did Dignam do this on his own accord? Or was he part of something bigger?

plot-explanation the-departed

Q: Leslie Nielsen(?) and "molten steel"

5:32 PM

0

Several years ago I was on a plane and they were playing a movie, and I don't remember very much of it now, but I remember a running gag that one of the characters--I think he was played by Leslie Nielsen--would repeatedly find ways to shoehorn the term "molten steel" into whatever he was talking...

identify-this-movie

Q: Question about Batman and the truck driver

5:48 PM

0

Batman wasn't supposed to kill anyone but during the climactic scene of Dark Knight Rises he shoots the truck carrying the bomb with his batpad in an attempt to reroute the truck and the driver is killed. Did Nolan make a mistake here?

the-dark-knight-rises christopher-nolan

6:01 PM

@MovieReel Is there some Batman back story that he won't kill people? I mean, I'm sure he does it all the time.

@NapoleonWilson Thanks for answering my question on that. I debated removing the nolan tag because he does mention Nolan but I was pretty sure that didn't matter... but ugh.

@Catija Uh, actually that's the major aspect about his character and the "one rule" he talks about so much in The Dark Knight and that the Joker is set to turn him breaking (and why he laughs so much when he supposedly falls to his death), and what gives the ending of The Dark Knight so much significance, and what spurs pages of discussion. Sorry to tell you but DUH! ;-)

I'm pretty sure that a lot of people have died due to his actions. Whether that's intentional, who knows but the beatdown he gives (at least in the films) pretty much means that normal people die.

Anyway, if he had to choose between one truck driver possibly losing his life and thousands of people doing so, I'm pretty sure he'd take the risk.

@Catija Well, yeah, afterall most of the people the Joker killed just died because The Batman inspired the Joker. But a central motive is that he never intentionally kills bad guys as that is what separates him from the bad guys (especially the League of Shadows in the Nolan movies). And the recurring tragedy of his relationship to the Joker is the fact that he can't friggin' kill that asshole, even if it meant to prevent thousands of deaths from the Joker's future actions.

"shoots the truck carrying the bomb with his Bat" With his "bat"? What is that? I haven't seen it since it came out so I don't remember... I'd assumed it was like his batarang or something... but yeah.

It's pretty much a primary moral dilemma of his whole character and the Joker couldn't die any happier than by the hands of the Batman as that would mean having finally broken him and dragged him into the madness that he fights against all the time.

@Catija That's what they called this flying helicopter-whatever-thing he has in that movie.

6:18 PM

@NapoleonWilson Ah, ok. I changed it to make it a bit more clear and added a link to explain what "The Bat" is.... and it is called "The Bat"

Urgh, with a dubious wiki link? Quotes might have done, too. But well, nevermind. At least people edit stuff.

@Catija Yeah, the fact that the question has the word "Nolan" in it doesn't make that tag valid. Afterall that "Did Nolan make a mistake" line comes across a bit strange anyway.

@NapoleonWilson Yeah. Honestly, when I went to edit, my main goal was to remove the tag, then I saw the grammar mess and ... ugh. But I guess it sort of made sense because Nolan is so much of an auteur for these films, he has so much control.

Yeah, sure. That's why I didn't change it either. Afterall it would have been Nolan's (and Goyer's) mistake.

Which is also why the few stories where he actually does kill the Joker, or is thought to do so, or causes his death, or can be intepreted to have killed him, are especially interesting.

Still I agree that this truck driver question isn't particularly engaging, though. But well, let's see what people answer.

Yeah. Ah, time for lunch. Catch you later.

Ankit Sharma

6:37 PM

@Catija lunch?

Ahhhh timezone

<----- American. :D

Q: 90s era post apocalyptic almost western style movie but with swords I think

-2

Saw this movie like 10 years ago on Encore action. Main character had white hair, a trench coat I think. He was older.

identify-this-movie

Q: Rewards for the best answer from the 2nd quarter of 2015

7:07 PM

"please explain"? - No, please don't.

Meta Reel

0

We are starting a bounty reward quarterly event by taking inspiration from favorite question/answer, I'd ask the community for their favorite answers from the past quarter: Please link to your favorite answers which were created from April 1st 2015 through June 30th 2015 for the reward. Only one...

discussion answers bounty

Q: What Horror movie is this quote from?

9:12 PM

0

I was listening to a metal band with my friend and the band had a film sample from a horror movie in it. The sample was a man telling how he killed his son as a sacrifice. Some of the quotes are "Because my son was the sacrifice..." And "If I could do it all over again, I would kill them. I wou...

identify-this-movie dialogue