The Screening Room

iandotkelly

00:06

@ChristianRau - you will have to remind me a little bit about the comments - like which question/answer it was, as I don't remember. I recall declining obsolete flags, because I read them and decided that they might be important for people understanding the flow of how the answer arrived at where it was.

If you remind me of the comments - or reflag them, I'll take another look.

Christian Rau

00:30

@iandotkelly Yeah, nevermind, was on one of those Interstellar questions.

Movie Reel

02:49

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Q: Need the name of an old film

All I can remember is there is 2 brothers, kids, maybe a few friends. They are jumping in to a lake/river and the younger brother is afraid to jump. His older brother persuaded him to jump but just as he jumps a log/tree trunk floats under the bridge and the boy lands on it on his neck and become...

identify-this-movie

MattD

@ChristianRau Wait, it already came out in Europe?

MattD

03:57

This is what we have to deal with in America. slashfilm.com/fox-news-frozen-problem

Ankit Sharma

05:32

@MattD it released in India too.

Movie Reel

07:18

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Q: A woman comes out of a mirror and kills a man in jail

I think this was at the end of the movie. A woman is seen running from a man in the woods. Above them is a helicopter. The woman runs until she sees a body of water. She jumps in and sees a little girl in the water with her. They both smile. The next scene shows a man in jail. There is a mirror i...

identify-this-movie

Movie Reel

08:18

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Q: Asian film where man finds corpse in apartment, runs to the country, sex drugs and nothing ensue

I think I saw it in 2004-5 and that it was made in the late 90s or early oughts and I think it was Korean--maybe. The man is a young depressed office worker living in the city and comes home to find a man dead in his apt and he realizes he needs to leave. I remember there was blood and he was fre...

identify-this-movie asian-movie

Christian Rau

10:09

@MattD It came out everywhere. Are you saying it didn't come out in the US yet?

chaitanya89

11:09

I have a doubt, couple of weeks ago, I was able to edit questions or answers of new users and the changes are reflected right away, but recently, it says that my edit needs to be peer-reviewed. You guys have any idea about this change?

Ankit Sharma

@chaitanya89 privileges in graduate site are different then beta sites

You might lost that privileges after movies and TV got graduated

chaitanya89

Ahhhh, your answer completely makes sense. Thanks.

Ankit Sharma

@chaitanya89 compare here

hinduism.stackexchange.com/help/privileges

movies.stackexchange.com/help/privileges

chaitanya89

Got it, rep moved up to 2000 to get the changes applied immediately.

Ankit Sharma

yup

Even i have lost trusted user privileges.

chaitanya89

11:19

sorry about that.

Ankit Sharma

But this can be earned back with time

@chaitanya89 not a big deal trusted user privileges are rarely used ones.

chaitanya89

okay. Just saw the conversations about Jupiter Ascending. I'm kinda upset that Andy and Lana aren't doing good anymore. Those guys are full of talent.

Ankit Sharma

I was also interested in that film

But reviews are too bad

I don't know why i feel this but TV series in Hollywood this days are becoming good and strong but movies are more bounces.

chaitanya89

yes, So, I'll save my movie money to Furious 7. Really looking forward to it. But there's a lot of negativity on this movie on youtube.

Ankit Sharma

Left that long before....last one for me was Tokyo drift. The earlier watch i can think of is terminator

Oops missed Avenger

chaitanya89

11:28

yes, Avengers will be another movie that I'll save money to watch it in theaters.

Ankit Sharma

So where you from?

chaitanya89

especially in 3d

Currently staying in Bangalore.

Ankit Sharma

me too...in banglore

chaitanya89

originally from AP

where in Bangalore?

Ankit Sharma

Jakkur

n u?

chaitanya89

11:31

Near Silk Board.

Ankit Sharma

ohh...

chaitanya89

Tea time for us, see you soon.

Ankit Sharma

i am going to soon

chaitanya89

Okay, then meet you on monday when I'm at office :).

Ankit Sharma

BYE

chaitanya89

11:35

buh-bye

Movie Reel

12:50

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Q: Did Archer cause the elevator to break?

In Archer S06E05, "Vision Quest", did Archer cause the elevator to break? I didn't quite understand what happened. Ray called Mallory using his cell phone and instead it called the elevator phone. Archer was trying to prevent Ray from calling Mallory obviously because he know it would call the el...

archer

MattD

14:42

@ChristianRau Nope, comes out in US theaters today.

iandotkelly

@ChristianRau - so much comes out later in the USA than Europe now .... a complete change from when I lived in the UK and had to wait for stuff to come across from the USA >:(

MattD

@iandotkelly I know, it's so weird, right? Actually, that may be a good question to ask on the site....

iandotkelly

@MattD - Yeah - I'd quite like to know a definitive answer to that. They do it to build a momentum behind a movie - but why the direction has changed I don't know. I wonder if it relates to different distribution technology - digital vs film.

MattD

@iandotkelly The only ones I've noticed lately that can kind of make sense are the ones with primarily foreign actors, even if they're playing characters that are definitively American. But there has to be more to it than that, right?

iandotkelly

I would think it would have to be more than that. It would be a good question.

MattD

14:50

Yeah, I'm compiling examples now.

Christian Rau

@MattD Yeah, I didn't consider it on that granularity, +-1 day so to say. That's largely due to cultural differences, I guess. Here new movies are usually released on Thursdays, I guess in the US it's Fridays (or are you more flexible over there?).

Then again other things we only get later. I think this especially applies to the current period of time, often we get stuff from the US autumn in January/February (e.g. John Wick, Fury). Much of the (supposedly) good Oscar stuff is currently running here or not yet released (e.g. Birdman, those Turing and Hawking flicks, American Sniper), while in the US this seems to be a time of qualitative shortness.

MattD

There are some movies that have been released in other countries nearly a month before they hit the US, though.

Christian Rau

I even was as far as asking if there's a particular pattern in releasing US autumn stuff at the German (or European?) start of the year. But I'll need a bit more examples to actually back such a question with substance.

iandotkelly

@ChristianRau - Interesting ... I wonder if weather has something to do with that particular part of the pattern, January & February are particularly cold and snowy for a big part of the north and east of the US.

Much colder and snowier than much of northern Europe

MattD

The other thing I'm finding are that all of my examples seem to be comic book or toy franchises.

iandotkelly

15:05

I think that digital distribution has freed them of many physical constraints of duplicating and distribution - so I think the current patterns are indicative of marketing and maximizing profit.

MattD

Yeah, there's lots of possible answers, but I'm wanting to see what someone comes up with, or if there's another reason that maybe none of us is aware of or thinking of.

Nearly done compiling my list and writing the question.

Christian Rau

@MattD Hmm, I'd be interested to see what actual question you come up with, cause I guess this can very easily become quite broad and unanswerable.

Oh, and right while we're talking about distribution a question about The Guest gets reactivated. I wonder when (or if) that ever comes here, wanna see that so much.

MattD

So this could end up being some kind of list question, but more along the lines of others I've answered such as, "Why wasn't Cold Hands in the latest season of Game of Thrones?" and that other one about why the story for The Walking Dead TV show is different from the comic books. It's a list, but a list of reasons.

Christian Rau

@ChristianRau Maybe they're even waiting with the release for Oscar nominations/wins for increased marketing effect (at least on the movies where a nomination/win is highly anticipatable).

@MattD Hmm, those examples don't sound to me like list questions the slightest, anyway.

MattD

Well, they involve making a list of reasons, but yeah, not really a list, but kind of like a list.

I'm about to post it.

Christian Rau

15:17

Well, every question involves making a list of answers if you really see it that way.

MattD

Posted.

Christian Rau

Yet wehn thinking about this, I have a gut feeling we already had such a question before.

MattD

I didn't see anything overt in the suggestions the ask template brought up

Stuff about titles in foreign countries, but nothing specific about why movies seem to be released in foreign markets before US markets

However, if there's a duplicate the system missed, mark it as such and I'll close my question.

Christian Rau

Though, Jupiter Ascending is an amazingly bad example to start with, since that is really a movie that is released exactly at the same time nearly everywhere. Those +-1 days are as said simply cultural noise.

MattD

Right, but there are other movies that released in European countries several weeks to nearly a month before they hit US theaters.

Jupiter Ascending was just the movie that got the ball rolling on the question for the site.

Movie Reel

15:22

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Q: Why are more American movies are coming out in foreign countries first?

While chatting about the movie Jupiter Ascending in the chat room, I learned that the movie is apparently already out in many European countries, whereas the movie comes out today, 6 February 2015, in the United States. Over the last several years I've noticed that this trend seems to be increasi...

film-industry distribution

Christian Rau

@MattD Sure, but still. ;-)

MattD

Eh, I'm gonna leave it up to the community to decide. We were bitching about the lack of good questions and the inundation of ID, so I'm just doing my part to try and make things better. :D

Christian Rau

Many of your examples seem quite below a week anyway, which I'd regard highly insignificant. But this may be just me and the question is concerned about a much finer granularity.

MattD

Yeah, I may look for some larger examples, but even still, a 10 to 20 years ago those movies would have likely hit the US weeks or even months ahead of any other territory, so it's still interesting that the gap seems a lot smaller.

Christian Rau

@MattD Sure, definitely, maybe I have just expected something else from the question's title and wording.

MattD

15:29

Feel free to suggest edits or ways to make it better. I'm not so egotistic as to feel I'm above reproach in not asking good questions here.

Christian Rau

@MattD Meh, it's generally fine I guess. Anything else requires far more thorough assessment.

MattD

Awww damn, I guess we did have this before. movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2172/…

Even funnier is @iandotkelly provided an answer. :P

Christian Rau

Well, in that case I'm afraid it's a pretty exact duplicate.

MattD

Yep. Closing it as a duplicate now, or should I just delete it entirely?

Christian Rau

@MattD Meh, don't know, for the sake of New-To-IT and his not so bad answer, close-voting might be enough (and might even be followed by merging his answer into the other question).

MattD

15:40

Right, and I know about the whole, "Dupe questions can act as a sign-post to the correct answer," and all that. So yeah, I'll vote to close as it's a dupe.

Well this has been a lovely waste of my morning. :P

Christian Rau

Well, blame it on iandotkelly and his awful memory. ;-)

MattD

Yeah, thank's a lot, @iandotkelly. :P

Christian Rau

Oh wait, we have an academy-awards tag now? While retagging that single question should be easy, the cleaner variant would probably be to make the existing oscar tag a synonym of that, as the new one seems quite more formal (i.e. better). Well, back to the awfully non-functioning synonym voting system.

iandotkelly

@ChristianRau Ha. Well it was nearly 3 years ago

I would say that things have changed in that 3 years - its more likely now that (some) movies open later in the US

@MattD @MattD - oops - sorry, but it was 3 years. I can't remember every answer I've given.

Christian Rau

@iandotkelly Oh, I probably can (but Ok, I guess you also have a non-movies.se life, apparently)! ;-)

iandotkelly

15:57

I'm also probably older than you. :)

Christian Rau

@iandotkelly Oh, "Its not ideal, and the user has done worse recently, but this example was at least posted a day apart when no answers received on first one." - Still the proper approach in this case seems to be migration rather than cross-posting. Hmm, but I see it's not that easy/clear to decide:

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Q: Is deliberate cross posting allowed?

We've had two questions recently that were flagged for cross posting with SciFi. The examples are: Guy comes back to life to watch his own murder investigation Vampire stake prevention Is cross posting between sites allowed?

discussion

MattD

16:11

@iandotkelly I'm just giving you a hard time.

iandotkelly

16:32

@MattD :)

Movie Reel

17:39

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Q: Reunion of group captured & tortured in WWII

Can anybody identify this TV episode, probably from the 1950-1960 era? In WWII, a group of people had gotten captured by the enemy. They had agreed among themselves not to reveal any secrets if this were to happen. Each one is tortured. Subsequent events prove that somebody talked, but they a...

identify-this-episode

Movie Reel

18:07

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Q: A man rescues a woman from a man with a nail gun

I think this was at the end of the movie. A man enters what seems to be a warehouse. He sees a woman bound to a chair and tries to rescue her. The man with the nail gun appears and tries to kill them but they escape. I think the word "rainbow" was in the title, but I'm not sure.

identify-this-movie

Movie Reel

18:36

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Q: Why did Matt Damon opt out of the Bourne Legacy?

Why did Matt Damon opt out of the Bourne Legacy? I read on the Wikipedia that he decided not to make himself available for playing the lead role in the fourth film of the series. Is there any indication why not?

casting bourne-legacy

MattD

19:05

So hey, pretty sure it's a mod that has to do it, but can we change the tagline for the chatroom from the Edge of Tomorrow refference to something more in line with the fact we've graduated? I'm thinking the tagline from the poster for The Graudate: "This is Benjamin. He's a little worried about his future." Or something along those lines. Just feels like it could use a change.

Ankit Sharma

@MattD any room owner can do it but fortunately/unfortunately our room owner are all of our three pro temp mods. :D

Christian Rau

19:39

Here are some first tries, gonna post some of them when I tried a little more:

MattD

I like the top one best of those two.

Christian Rau

@MattD Yeah, that white background in the 2nd is a bit annoying. The bad thing is, you can't put just that icon onto the light brown background, as then you don't see the popcorn anymore, so either a white background or some kind of spot.

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