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>> No. 23449 Anonymous
16th December 2020
Wednesday 11:00 pm
23449 What are you watching right now?
I suppose we need a /v/ equivalent of the /e/ and /beat/ threads.

I've started watching Life on Mars again, but this time in HD on Netflix, and have only just realised it was filmed on... film. That or transferred to film and re-digitised for Netflix. The version Netflix has is absolutely covered in dust marks.
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>> No. 25092 Anonymous
27th November 2023
Monday 3:11 pm
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>>25091
Are you fucking kidding me, mate? Watching something offhand probably isn't going to influence your beliefs and behaviours, but sitting infront of the TV (or phone) for 4 hours every day, taking in primetime advertising tailored to the audience, is most definitely going to inform many of the viewers attitudes in life.
See how they stopped showing Simples on TV around the time Russia started gaining negative press? It's all about assosiations, mate.

I see this every fucking day with my fat arse sofa-bound father who all of a sudden starts thinking about sheds and preasure washers just around the time the spring adverts come in. If not that, it's a sudden bent on DIY due to ScrewFix's latest run, or even fucking life insurance.

>I don't think we have a single piece of solid evidence that it actually does that
The Bandura Bobo Doll experiement shows the influence TV and performative scripts have on children, which admittidely isn't the exact same scenario but it's well within the ballpark.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/bobo-doll.html
>> No. 25093 Anonymous
27th November 2023
Monday 3:21 pm
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>>25091
>Don't you ever question it?

No, imprinting is solid science at this stage and is immediately observable when comparing cultural norms such as colour preference. The debate is on how far this goes as part of nurture v nature discussion.

It also has an obvious class dimension. Get a new act.
>> No. 25094 Anonymous
27th November 2023
Monday 3:47 pm
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>>25092
>>25093

Alright, that's fair enough; the part you have to convince me of is that changing it so that TV has more women doing DIY or more black people being managers or whatever it might be, is actually leading to a meaningful material difference in real life. Because that's the part I question. It's still serving little purpose beyond optics.

I can get behind the argument that it's good not to imprint impressionable little kids at 2-6 years old with certain stereotypes by beaming it straight into their eyeballs for 8 hours a day, but at the same time I think that problem is a lot more readily solved by not plonking them on a tablet to watch any old shit unsupervised for hours at a time in the first place.

If anything my takeaway from that would be that we should avoid overt messaging at all in media intended for kids; we can try and avoid negative impressions but does that justify including "positive" impressions, so to speak? Isn't that ethically questionable in its own way? If we accept the argument with negative stereotypes, then we must also admit we're just trying to brainwash them in another direction with positive messaging, and sort of validating the objections of the reactionary right. Morality is only a consensus, after all, and like it or not, not everyone agrees with it.

But further than that, I don't think it has any appreciable effect on adults as far as culture goes. Moreover we can't have it both ways- We can't handwave the useless dad stereotype as harmless while upholding the girlboss fisherperson stereotype as a vital element of the fight against patriarchy. Either neither matters or both matter. I'd have much less of an issue with it if there weren't such blatant double standards there.
>> No. 25095 Anonymous
27th November 2023
Monday 6:30 pm
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I love to uphold girlboss fisherperson stereotypes. I do it every day and I see others doing so also, it isn't just a Twitter phenomenon, it's real and I love that it happens.
>> No. 25096 Anonymous
27th November 2023
Monday 7:46 pm
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>>25095
Why do you keep giving SEOs money? If you want me to be able to find your company on google then maybe you shouldn't be so bloody original by naming it after a Greek goddess. Don't try and deny it, the ads told me so.
>> No. 25097 Anonymous
27th November 2023
Monday 10:01 pm
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>>25095
im trans btw if it matters
>> No. 25098 Anonymous
28th November 2023
Tuesday 11:53 am
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>>25094
>We can’t handwave the useless dad stereotype as harmless
We don’t. That’s part of the rules. They address this specifically.
>> No. 25100 Anonymous
29th November 2023
Wednesday 9:31 pm
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Childhood is wanting Chris Carter to stop dicking around and get to the bottom of the alien conspiracy. Adulthood is knowing what you want is to watch Mulder and Scully inexplicably not spend all their time shagging and instead track down a serial killer who can turn into a pterodactyl ghost or some shite like that.
>> No. 25101 Anonymous
1st December 2023
Friday 1:51 am
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I promise I'm not going to turn this thread into my X-Files watch-a-long blog. However, it's amazing how many episodes bungle the opening. Instead of a mysterious hook they tell you exactly what's going on and then you wait half-an-hour for Scully and Mulder to catch up.
>> No. 25102 Anonymous
1st December 2023
Friday 8:20 am
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>>25098

For the advertising, but not the programming itself.
>> No. 25103 Anonymous
1st December 2023
Friday 4:44 pm
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>>25100
Dogget & Reyes were good, but didn't get a fair enough shake.

The 2 revival series were overall shite, but with a couple of great MOTW episodes.
>> No. 25104 Anonymous
2nd December 2023
Saturday 10:11 am
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I've started watching the Fargo TV series again. Something about it makes me come back to it every winter.

I'll save the new series 5 for after I'm done with the four previous ones. It is getting good reviews, which is a relief after series 4 kind of bombed.
>> No. 25106 Anonymous
14th December 2023
Thursday 10:33 pm
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I could watch Brian Blessed's Augustus until the heat death of the universe. It's unbelievably good acting, just excellent over and over.

I didn't make it through series 6 of The X-Files either.
>> No. 25107 Anonymous
15th December 2023
Friday 11:17 pm
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You lot watch a load of shite. Watch Sharpe. Sharpe is fucking great. The ones with Pete Postlethwaite in, absolutely class.
>> No. 25108 Anonymous
16th December 2023
Saturday 6:25 am
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>>25107
I prefer Hornblower.
>> No. 25110 Anonymous
16th December 2023
Saturday 4:06 pm
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>>25107
You can't start a post by delcaring that everyone else has awful taste and then announce Sharpe as the pinnacle of television. It's got high points, but my word, does it ever have low points as well. Also it's pathetically in love with the Duke of Wellington, who was, and this is a purely academic reading of the man, a complete cunt.
>> No. 25111 Anonymous
16th December 2023
Saturday 7:45 pm
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>>25110
Perhaps the worst thing about Sharpe is that Sean Bean is in it but never fucking dies.
>> No. 25112 Anonymous
17th December 2023
Sunday 3:03 pm
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>>25107
I might get deported for saying this but Sharpe just isn't very good. It suffers the same problems of James Bond in being too simplistic and essentially repeating the same action-hero formula over and over again but with the twist of daft officers.

It's a series I'd like to show to people who actually lived at the time it's set. Like if someone brought you into the future now and showed you a play set in pre-wasteland Britain where the hero has to foil repeated evil Prime Ministers who want to enslave everyone but also deal with various bollocks from the Labour party.
>> No. 25113 Anonymous
17th December 2023
Sunday 8:10 pm
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It's the plot to Melancholia but for a dull aging loser. To be honest it hits a little close to home after thinking I might die over the summer and having no plans but to keep living as I always have.

It took Netflix 8 minutes to shove in a bisexual interracial three-way
>> No. 25114 Anonymous
23rd December 2023
Saturday 11:27 pm
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Godzilla Minus One was outstanding to watch in the cinema. I'm not looking forward to the American one coming out soon but if you want to see post-war Japan v a huge fuck off lizard then it'll do.


>> No. 25115 Anonymous
27th December 2023
Wednesday 8:47 pm
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On this day, 30 years ago:


>> No. 25116 Anonymous
27th December 2023
Wednesday 9:29 pm
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>>25115
Seeing John Shuttleworth pop in at 1530 made me remember the pandemic. He didn't look young in 1993.

>> No. 25118 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 3:21 pm
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I'm excited to follow the continuation of this animated rap story.
The dumb trailer park trope is tiring but the rhythm and generally relatable story keep it going well.
There's also a great inversion of the modern view-inflating replay-loop technique half way through - caught me off guard and reengaged my attention, really clever.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4i6zDkrx1s
>> No. 25119 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 12:24 am
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Ted Lasso is funny and nice. However, it's made by Bill Lawrence, who also made Scrubs, and that man's poisonous influence is ruinous. Definitely watch series 1 of Ted Lasso because it's great. Series 2, however, goes the way Scrubs did, with characters having super-serious drama which evokes no sympathy whatsoever from me and is just painfully boring to watch. I like it sometimes when a comedy series has a serious and unfunny turn (like Futurama), but when Ted Lasso's characters mope around because muh girlfriend has muh feelings about muh space, I just feel nothing except boredom and hatred.

You should still watch Ted Lasso if you get the chance, though. And I'm only halfway through it so maybe there are great bits in series 3, or even the second half of series 2. (I've heard that is not the case, however).
>> No. 25120 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 12:55 am
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>>25119
Sadly the way he's holding that specific design of cup makes me want to run him through with a halberd.
>> No. 25121 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 1:04 am
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>>25119

I liked Ted Lasso, but I slightly hated myself for liking it.
>> No. 25122 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 5:38 pm
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>>25119
>And I'm only halfway through it so maybe there are great bits in series 3, or even the second half of series 2.
Just as I was giving up hope completely, they've had a completely mental episode which I really enjoyed, in which Coach Beard goes out drinking. It's like the Ted Lasso version of that episode from the new series of Twin Peaks with the nuclear bomb. It's utterly bizarre. Don't give up on it, friends.
>> No. 25123 Anonymous
3rd January 2024
Wednesday 6:34 pm
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>>25120

It reminds me of the thumbnail by this smug looking cunt that keeps coming up on my youtube.

(Disclaimer: I've never watched any of this his videos nor do I know who he is in general, but all of his thumbnails make him look like a right smug punchable cunt so I refuse to on principle.)
>> No. 25124 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 5:43 pm
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>>25123
Wow that bill is for five whole pound signs!
>> No. 25125 Anonymous
4th January 2024
Thursday 9:04 pm
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>>25124
It is just after Christmas, so most people have only got two or three pound signs to rub together right now.
>> No. 25126 Anonymous
7th January 2024
Sunday 10:28 am
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Watched Father of the Bride. Absolute shite. Steve Martin is a terrible narrator. Was he ever actually funny? I liked Three Amigos as a kid, but I don't know whether it was good or if that's just nostalgia talking.
>> No. 25128 Anonymous
8th January 2024
Monday 1:47 pm
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>>25126
Well I recently rewatched LA Story and it was quite good.
>> No. 25129 Anonymous
14th January 2024
Sunday 6:37 pm
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For some reason I avoided it when I came out, but I'm now working my way through Friday Night Dinner. It's funny enough, although it does feel like the kind of thing that if it was on TV ~30 years ago it'd be the warm-up comedy show to get you in a good mood before the main one was on.
>> No. 25130 Anonymous
14th January 2024
Sunday 7:13 pm
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>>25129

I really enjoyed Friday Night Dinner, but I've always been a huge fan of Robert Popper.

Also Aunty Val gives me the horn. 10/10 AILF material.
>> No. 25131 Anonymous
18th January 2024
Thursday 12:13 pm
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Anyone remember the name of that Sky One show from the 00s where each episode was a complete brown trouser moment? It was something like 'Terror Alert: How would you Survive' and gave you tips on surviving various scenarios that mostly had nothing to do with terrorism. I still think about it every now and again but it might have been a couple of shows that were on at the same time.

From what I remember:
- Nuclear attack: get in car and flee to the Western Isles or stay put and it showed you all the stuff to do in the immediate aftermath like filling up as much water as you can before it becomes contaminated and ripping off the internal doors to your house to make improvised shelter.
- Carrington event: In 3 days social order breaks down and we all start looting. It went mental with this showing some old pensioner stuck at home listening to some woman screaming for help from a nearby car park while his dog wonders off and leaves him. You survive by building small communities of your neighbours.
- Smallpox attack: Where some bloke spreads it everywhere and you survive by becoming an anti-social recluse.
- Youth revolt: The young people get sick of paying taxes to pay for all the old people. We elect a mocha-coloured communist who fixes everything somehow.

I think there was one on energy too where Russia tries to dominate Europe by cutting off our energy but that seems a bit unrealistic if you ask me.
>> No. 25132 Anonymous
18th January 2024
Thursday 2:00 pm
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As someone who recently experienced a conflation-related false-memory event, it would be remiss of me not to mention the existence of the BBC show Crisis Command, where a group of people were tasked with handling a crisis event, with support from experts in the field. In one episode, a hijacked plane is flown into Westminster, killing a large number of politicians and government figures which I think we can all agree was the correct option.
>> No. 25133 Anonymous
21st January 2024
Sunday 9:25 pm
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>>25130
Just watched the wedding episode, Aunty Val was tip-top in that purple dress.
>> No. 25134 Anonymous
21st January 2024
Sunday 10:20 pm
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>>25129
Friday Night Dinner always irritated me. I don't know why, the writing was seemingly fine, but the immature feuding of the protagonists and the wacky dad just weren't funny, and every time Mark Heap's character interrupted in order to be even less funny it made me want to switch off.

>>25132
Yeah that post made me think of Crisis Command too. I remember the one where an infectious disease broke out in a suburb of Manchester and the morons decided to immediately quarantine the entire northwest of England.
>> No. 25135 Anonymous
24th January 2024
Wednesday 9:12 pm
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Watching the 156-minute cut of Terminator 2 on my recently inherited Onkyo surround system.

It's pretty badass, but watching movies this way, I'm starting to feel like I need a bigger screen than my 32'' Panasonic smart TV.

Do you really need to spend £800-£1,000 to get a decent quality HD projector and something like a 100'' pull down screen? Because you also see systems for less than half that.
>> No. 25136 Anonymous
24th January 2024
Wednesday 10:00 pm
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>>25135

I remember when we got a massive fuckoff widescreen CRT in the early 2000s and it felt like having a cinema screen at home, but 32" seems tiny nowadays, funny how times change.

I bought my 55" telly about 6-7 years ago for about £250, and honestly, for just watching movies, I really can't fault the picture quality. I wish it was more responsive for gaming, and typically that shows up the shitty black levels/contrast more too, but just watching stuff it's absolutely fine. Sitting about 5-6 feet away from it on the sofa, I don't think I'd need much bigger either.

You just don't seem to find tellies that cheap any more, weirdly. This one doesn't have any smart nonsense built in, and doesn't need it because I have a (very quiet) computer attached to it, but you can't seem to buy them without it any more.
>> No. 25137 Anonymous
24th January 2024
Wednesday 10:42 pm
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>>25135
Just get something like this:

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hisense-43e7kqtuk-qled-uhd-4k-smart-tv-4286110

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hisense-50e7kqtuk-e7kq-50-qled-uhd-4k-smart-tv-4285924

It'll be a big upgrade on what you have at the minute.
>> No. 25138 Anonymous
24th January 2024
Wednesday 10:51 pm
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>>25135

Think carefully about whether you actually want a projector. They're fiddly and annoying in all sorts of ways that TVs aren't - they're a pain to install and align, the room needs to be very dark to get decent contrast, they have a fan that runs constantly and they need an expensive lamp replacement every 3000 hours or so. Cheap projectors aren't as bright and have more limited optical adjustment features, which exacerbates the first two issues. Unless you go for a very expensive ultra-short-throw projector, you'll probably have to hang it from your ceiling and there's a good chance that you'll have to re-jig the arrangement of your room to fit around it.

Unless you only want to watch movies and you've got a larger-than-average living room, you'd probably be better served by a TV. A 100" projector in a normal living room is just unpleasant for most people, like being in the front row at the cinema. You can get a decent 65" TV for about £500 these days if you shop around, which is a really fucking big telly in most rooms.

If you're sure that you want a projector, this is probably the best deal going at the moment:

https://www.richersounds.com/epson-eh-tw6150-white.html
>> No. 25139 Anonymous
24th January 2024
Wednesday 11:24 pm
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>>25138

>Unless you only want to watch movies and you've got a larger-than-average living room

Just measured the livingroom and it's roughly 270 sq ft and almost exactly square shaped. From the sofa that's all the way back against the wall, I'd have about 15 feet distance. Which would be enough for a 100'' screen, although it would probably still look massive.
>> No. 25140 Anonymous
25th January 2024
Thursday 12:18 am
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The UK version of Jeopardy is weird. It's superficially almost identical to the US version, but there's something eerie and unsettling about it. It's really slow and awkward, like one of those clips of an American sitcom with the laugh track edited out. Everyone involved seems like they're being held against their will, apart from the autistic trans woman contestant who is clearly in her element.
>> No. 25141 Anonymous
25th January 2024
Thursday 1:46 am
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>>25140
I haven't watched it, but it's the biggest gameshow in America and we presumably haven't tried copying it till now. That suggests that the British people just won't get it for whatever reason, and to try and make a UK version just smacks of being completely out of ideas. The format has always seemed a little contrived to me (why do you have to answer with another question? What's that about?) and we already have difficult and prestigious gameshows of our own.

And I know I'm about to quote earlier in this very post here, but
>just smacks of being completely out of ideas.
The new Wheel of Fortune with Graham Norton is awful too.
>> No. 25142 Anonymous
25th January 2024
Thursday 3:35 pm
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>>25141
>I haven't watched it, but it's the biggest gameshow in America and we presumably haven't tried copying it till now.
This would be the fourth time we've tried it. Here's an episode from the second run:

>> No. 25143 Anonymous
25th January 2024
Thursday 6:28 pm
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>>25142
£500 in 1991 is £1,100 in today's money.
>> No. 25144 Anonymous
25th January 2024
Thursday 10:21 pm
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>>25143
That'll barely buy you a Freddo these days.

Besides this being the 9.25 slot rather than prime time, so offering a lower prize pot generally, at the time UK game shows were still highly regulated. This is presumably also why the players aren't told anyone else's score until after they've placed their final bet, to prevent the strategy common in the US where the leading player can choose their bet in such a way as to render the whole thing irrelevant and guarantee victory, and the IBA/ITC might not have regarded that as a proper contest of skill.

Game show prize limits are why Family Fortunes used to have the rule that the Big Money prize had to roll over and why The $64,000 Question slow-played the top prizes.
>> No. 25145 Anonymous
25th January 2024
Thursday 10:41 pm
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>>25141
I don't really get the gimmick of the answers being a question. I hate Stephen Fry, but I think other stuff in that timeslot (Ben Shepard's Tipping Point, Warwick Davis' Tenable, Adil Ray's Lingo) is significantly worse so I can tolerate the pseud cunt.
>> No. 25149 Anonymous
4th February 2024
Sunday 8:58 pm
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Watched the new Wonka film. It wasn't bad, but it felt rather pointless and I didn't really care what happened next. Always nice to see Dobby and Big Suze though.

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