I used to be a movie guy. My TV was pretty much limited to The Simpsons for several years. But as I watch more things on my iPhone these days, I find that TV translates better to the very small screen. Also, I don' usually have more than 20-30 minutes to watch at a time, so a downloaded netflix episode of something is perfect.

Seems like you only need to listen to TV shows, but movies are much more visual. Moves have much better musical soundtracks, but if you're not watching it on al large screen TV, you're not getting the full effect.

So what makes TV different from movies? They both have actors being filmed saying someone else's lines, but the movie is a longer episode with only 120 minutes to tell the whole story. I can stream either one at any moment on my iPhone or TV. Big shows like Game of Thrones really blur the lines.

Whatever... its hard to beat an episode of The Office when you only have 20 minutes and you want some solid entertainment.

TV for now.

Movies by a mile

Movies

Movies.

TV is better than movies now, IMO. I think the last movie I came out of with a "that was amazing" feeling was maybe the first Matrix. There may have been a more recent one, but I can't think of it now. Yet there have been plenty of TV shows that left me with that feeling. Breaking Bad was like watching modern Shakespeare, IMO. Movies are just too short, and they feel like they need to jam pack them with so much action that the stories are typically lackluster.

i like them both. the scope of a tv series is nice. but I also like that with a movie, I can invest around 2 hours and get a fully wrapped up storyline. I don't have a lot of time to binge, so it's nice not to have to come back to something 3-4+ times to get a resolution.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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It used to be movies and it wasn't close. Now, it's a lot more even for me.

I watch and enjoy both almost equally, though I still get more excited for big movies, and for the theater experience.

There's blurred lines these days, though. Like the Breaking Bad movie. I'm super hyped for that and would have loved to see it in the theaters. Is it considered a movie, or tv?

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This is an interesting point, and I think that shows like GoT (where you can have episodes approaching feature film length) or even something like Sherlock (where each episode is in itself a 90 minute self-contained film) blur that even more.

I'm definitely a movie guy, but there's an appeal to longer form episodic storytelling that offers the best of both worlds.

TV. The experience of going to the movies is just not fun anymore. I can't remember the last time I went to a movie and thought "I'm really glad I paid for this."

fig96 said:

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aTmAg said:

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TV is better than movies now, IMO. I think the last movie I came out of with a "that was amazing" feeling was maybe the first Matrix. There may have been a more recent one, but I can't think of it now. Yet there have been plenty of TV shows that left me with that feeling. Breaking Bad was like watching modern Shakespeare, IMO. Movies are just too short, and they feel like they need to jam pack them with so much action that the stories are typically lackluster.

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You haven't seen a movie that you thought was amazing in 20 years? Yikes.

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In hindsight, my statement there is flawed. I was thinking the last time I literally came out of a movie theater. I don't go to theater's much since I have kids and whatnot. So that's not a fair comparison. And come to think of it, I forgot about Rogue One and that was great (but that may be more about nostalgia than anything). Not to mention Hacksaw Ridge, Nolan's first 2 Batman movies, Inception, Zero Dark Thirty, and probably a few more I can't think of now.

Except for Nolan's batman movies, I do not like super hero movies. And they have been suffocating the box office as of late. And except for the Matrix, I am tired of movies that depend on lots of martial arts, so that's a bunch more off my list.

I remember back in the "old days" TV sucked and movies were great. Magnum PI was probably my favorite show back in the 80s. It was good, but compare that to the movies that came out back then: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, First Blood, Terminator, Red Dawn, Top Gun, The Thing, Aliens, Ferris Buellers Day off, etc. The list is basically countless. I remember coming home amazed at all of those movies. I can only think of a couple episodes of TV ("Ivan, did you see sunrise?").

I can't put my finger on why. Initially I was going to say that movies are too short for any sort of deep story, but those movies above were plenty deep. So I'm not sure. Maybe it's just too many superhero movies.

Tv

All movies can't be as good as The Big Bang Theory...maybe if movies added laugh tracks or had a vote deciding who would leave the movie immediately.