tv or movies

oh shit I was zinged bad

seasons, gotta write that one down

y'all

2 1/2 men was not in my top 50 shows fwiw

sorry for being unnecessarily sarcastic but that was a pretty silly point. people keep talking about the same tv shows because new episodes come out with new things happening so there's new stuff to talk about.

"new" things "new" stuff

tv turned into sweary soap opera so slowly i never even noticed

i always forget about tv show, that i watch them, i usually enjoy one episode and forget to ever watch it again. i mean there are exceptions but

movies are art but tv is more fun to argue abt on the internet

well most movies arent art really but at least a couple a year seem to manage it

movies usually only waste 2 hours of yr time

tv is incapable of beauty is really the problem, some shows tell interesting stories tho like

i like long movies i do get the appeal of #sustainednarrative, also the way that you can argue w/ppl abt w/e this weeks spinning top is, did it fall or not blah blah blah

i think movies are better at showing you worlds, like 'margin call', despite the reduced time is probably more 'informative' but tv can be better at 'telling', letting oyu live inside the world it creates

i liked buffy

i voted tv but i am blind to/suspicious of cinematic beauty tbh so i think i'm just missing the thing Lamp's talking about

I think the problem w/ sustainednarrative tv is that there are usually so many writers involved that someone ends up fucking it up along the way, it's a lot easier for a movie to be perfect than a tv series

this is like the novels v poetry debate that kept rearing its head when i was in grad school, except novels and poetry are better than tv and movies.

nah modern novels are about as bad as modern movies

or about as good

haha now i get why the movie partisans are all mad at you

i actually kind of agree that movies are theoretically better at being beautiful and perfect than tv shows but i honestly can't remember the last time i saw a movie that was actually beautiful or perfect

xpost lol

novels are tv in this analogy anyway. movies are poetry.

what does 'modern novels are abt as bad as modern movies' mean

proportionally about as likely to make you feel/think something amazing

which isn't really true, novels are better than movies in that sense. i don't really want to drag novels/poetry into this tbh

i liked middlemarch

sorry it just seemed similar to me. the thing people say about novels is that they're character driven but baggy and imperfect and poetry is about the pure beauty of language or whatever. that argument is annoying.

xp <3

by "people" i basically mean "this one professor"

novels are also stuff girls like/write, whereas poetry is the important stuff dudes like/write

obviously that's not actually true it's just the stuff that creeps into the argument

stuff

i actually kind of agree that movies are theoretically better at being beautiful and perfect than tv shows but i honestly can't remember the last time i saw a movie that was actually beautiful or perfect

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yeah this is how i feel.

i also think its interesting the way both are/were (pre internet/vhs/whatever) communal experiences, but in different ways. tv shows and the water cooler and movies and everybody alone together in the dark. i mean i'm drawn more to that, the dark room, the whirring projector, the laughter or sobbing or gasps of the rest of the audience kindof piercing into the isolation of the cinemagoer. the way tv shows force you to stay with them to keep coming back, they pull on your time, whereas a movie burrows into your brain in a different way. its singular maybe because its a single thing. i think of that shot in texas chainsaw massacre where hes spinning around with his chainsaw or the red coat in don't look now or i'm not sure, but just the way the images burn without needing to increasingly reveal themselves.

man we need to get some mcluhan in here

voted movies, if you want a long and engaging story w/ a complex plot and multidimensional characters go read a book

peace

TV would be my answer for most of the reasons already mentioned and also because I really love good comedy - most of the good stuff is on TV; there is very rarely a truly funny movie out, for whatever reason. I find a lot of incidental everyday stuff funny (Peep Show, etc) which would not suit the movie format.

the everyday world is also all around you though i mean

like right there

and also over there

eh mcluhan

also with tv you can pretend it's going to go on forever and conquer death etc.

also ad breaks

well most movies arent art really but at least a couple a year seem to manage it

"a couple," or 40 or 50 I saw this year

(that admittedly mostly don't play in huge swaths of America, but u know discs/downloads etc)

u would consider 40-50 movies from this last year "art"?

it could be so. i don't know if i've ever even seen that many new movies in the year. seems like a huge number tho

I'd say about 600 feature films were exhibited for a week or more in NYC this year.

for sure, but that means that something like 6% of movies are art

film as an art form exists outside of those 600 feature films

tv does not exist outside of tv

tho it can be show outside of tv

I think it can be summed up like this for me: I love my favorite movies more than I love most good TV series (w/probably the exception of, like, Larry Sanders or Kids In The Hall...which, incidentally, I remember Morbs also adoring!), but I think there might be more television that I love than movies that I love. And I daresay that the television I love has been far more impactful on a number of levels.