AP Style tip: Capitalize film titles and put them in quotations: "Lincoln," "Les Miserables," "Life of Pi," "Skyfall" and "Argo."— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) January 9, 2013
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
Style-Guide-Burn!
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
whaaat. i was always told it's ALL CAPS or italics
― Nhex, Thursday, 6 December 2018 03:57 (five years ago) link
Journalism has its own rules based on readability (IIRC from high school and my one college journalism) above all
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 6 December 2018 04:26 (five years ago) link
I don't know of any style that says ALL CAPS - italics or underlining for everything that adheres to MLA/ALA unless impossible, then you use quotes, or the AP style where you use quotes for everything.
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 6 December 2018 04:28 (five years ago) link
The Chicago Manual of Style (which I think is better than AP) says to use italics for complete works (movie, album, book etc) and quotes for individual songs, titles of chapters, etc
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 December 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
I'm also pro Chicago style - italics always look and read way better than quotation marks, especially when you're also quoting any lines in the movie or anyone you've interviewed about it! gah underlining is the worst (written notes excepted)I watched Passengers the other day and it is also the worst
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 6 December 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
AP title style is helpful when you're dealing with a format that doesn't always allow for italic type — for example, a newswire service like AP, or some types of video captions.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
guys. what are we doing.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 December 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
does anyone know how to pronounce missouri
does anyone on the show Ozark ever say it out loud
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 6 December 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
bringing it all back home, full circle
Glad other folks gave Maniac some love, I really liked it. Not sure which genre exercise/parody was my favorite, maybe the 20s heist/comedy of manners one or the fantasy one. The mafia one definitely went a little overboard with the gore.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 December 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
mafia was my least favorite. i really enjoyed the one with the lemur...i just kind of assume that was supposed to be Jersey?
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 6 December 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
Anyone tried '1983', the alternative-history Polish series?
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 7 December 2018 03:50 (five years ago) link
^^ Cosign
Just finished Dark and Netflix is recommending that to me
― groovypanda, Friday, 7 December 2018 07:45 (five years ago) link
The Kominsky Method is pretty good. Danny Devoto as the urologist has me LOLing
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 9 December 2018 09:46 (five years ago) link
^^ yes, this was very touching and funny.
we are currently enjoying the hell out of Jane The Virgin
― sleeve, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 03:36 (five years ago) link
Has anyone watched Happy as Lazzaro yet?
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 05:04 (five years ago) link
On netflix?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 09:40 (five years ago) link
It's licensed to Netflix in North America.
― brokenshire (jed_), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 12:20 (five years ago) link
Lucky you!
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 12:46 (five years ago) link
I'm not in that category.
― brokenshire (jed_), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link
Unlucky us!
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 12:59 (five years ago) link
Watching now!
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 13:14 (five years ago) link
Marcella is a real test of my ability to tell white guys apart but I'm loving it otherwise. So angry, and so not just another bitterly angry man cop.
― mick signals, Friday, 21 December 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
Bird Box! Feel like there should be a thread because that shit was riveting. I had some issues with it but I have not been on the edge of my seat like that in a while .
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Saturday, 22 December 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
Cool! It's getting mixed notices, probably more so in Denmark because everyone hates Susanne Bier. I like her, though.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 22 December 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
The trailer for Bird Box looked really meh, but maybe we'll give it try. I just watched Cam. That was really weird.
― Yerac, Saturday, 22 December 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
I liked birdbox a lot!
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Saturday, 22 December 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
Bird Box was a heartwarming movie for the holidays.
― Yerac, Sunday, 23 December 2018 04:20 (five years ago) link
"You", the show with Penn Badgley playing a deranged version of his Gossip Girl character, is ridiculous and trashy and populated entirely by characters from the quiddities/agonies NYT thread. I LOVE IT.
― Roz, Friday, 28 December 2018 06:14 (five years ago) link
Took off my blindfold this morning to discover that 45,037,125 Netflix accounts have already watched Bird Box — best first 7 days ever for a Netflix film! pic.twitter.com/uorU3cSzHR— Netflix Film (@NetflixFilm) December 28, 2018
― Frederik B, Friday, 28 December 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
funny, that's how many people on my social media said it was terrible.
― dan selzer, Friday, 28 December 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
The movie was a lot like Unfriended.
― Yerac, Friday, 28 December 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
the trailer for birdbox made it look like a shallow Quiet Place rip off but I'm hearing much better things
― akm, Friday, 28 December 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
I thought it was better than Quiet Place but I probably prefer gore over tension.
― Yerac, Friday, 28 December 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
It was a little bit more like The Mist than the Quiet Place in terms of dynamics (excluding the end).
― Yerac, Friday, 28 December 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
whatever about their respective quality, it's a little silly to call a movie that came out in the same year as A Quiet Place (and that's based on a novel from 2014) as a rip-off
― Number None, Friday, 28 December 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
holy shit A Quiet Place came out this neverending year...
― Yerac, Friday, 28 December 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
you is hilarious
― there are no good podcasts (||||||||), Saturday, 29 December 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
has anyone else watched Afflicted?? i really wanna talk about it
― just1n3, Sunday, 30 December 2018 05:41 (five years ago) link
In the US, that Kino First Women Filmmakers series is on there now. Not sure if it's all of them though.
― MrDasher, Sunday, 30 December 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
Bird Box of was very boring
― gbx, Sunday, 30 December 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
i havent seen it yet. it just seems too gimmicky. maybe this is reductive but movies like this & the quiet ones always make me think of The Village & i fkn hated that movie. the new Vanity Fair miniseries is on Amazon Prime & it is v good.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 December 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
I liked BirdBox.
I've finally started watching I'm Sorry which I love and I wasn't surprised to find out she was a writer on Veep.
― akm, Sunday, 30 December 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
Are you surprised to now find out that she wasn’t a writer on Veep?
― sans lep (sic), Sunday, 30 December 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
a quiet place managed at least to ratchet the tension, bird box just never seemed to have anything or anyone at stake in a way that wasn't really predictable. the whole thing felt...flat
― gbx, Sunday, 30 December 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
I also have some inchoate uneasiness about the whole [SPOILER SORTA] angle w/r/t the "mentally ill," it felt a little icky
― gbx, Sunday, 30 December 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
The first 30 minutes or so were riveting. Everything from when they drive down to the supermarket was boring and predictable. It almost feels like the original writers and director were fired halfway through production and replaced with a new crew under the directive of “just finish the thing, and keep it under budget”. I don’t really watch a lot of horror movies but is it common for a two hour+ movie to leave so much unexplained? Probably does deserve its own dedicated thread, don’t wanna post spoilers here
― frogbs, Monday, 31 December 2018 04:04 (five years ago) link
no one can trick me into watching a suzanne bier movie
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 31 December 2018 04:52 (five years ago) link