My guess is she limited herself to movie, because otherwise the effort and time required to sift through TV show would have been too great.

And as a Comcast customer, let me tell you that I'd kill for that kind of speed.

Not necessarily. ISPs have been known to throttle you simply for using too much bandwidth. I've been told by Charter to keep my streaming down once, else they'd threaten to throttle my speeds after I reach a certain limit (250 GB per month in my case).

Thanks, Obama.

You cable connection won't run at advertised speeds when the whole node is online. It's not just the household sharing your speed then. Especially when they oversell their capacity. I've been on FIOS for a few years but with Cable every day at 6-8pm speeds would drop off as people got online.

Anything the telecom companies don't like, I immediately and fully support.

The telecoms don't want the speed requirement bumped up so high so fast. They want it to go up incrementally, so they can charge more for each little bump. Then when the current high speed becomes standard, they upgrade and charge a new fee for the increased speed, and so on. One big jump, and they can only upcharge…

Thank you for taking the time to spell this out for non-techies. Even still it will be tough to push back against the "It's the Obamacare of the internet!" types of misinformation that are sure to follow.

Just by virtue of the fact that the NCTA (and the companies they represent, like TWC and Comcast) means that this should happen.

Now that I have tended to my niece, more info. If it is oriental martial arts fighting from no-suit Batman versus the assassins, I would recommend older films where No Kill Bill. That scene of the Bride versus the 88 is, well, as an experienced historical fencer, it is ridiculous. So keep it gritty. Kurosawa is better…

Search on YouTube for clips of Zatochi the blind swordsman, that should give you some starting points. :)

A friend of mine is a nationally ranked fencer, and he once explained the difference between stage sword fighting and real fencing. On stage you want the audience to see every detail of your moves, as it adds to tension, drama or just coolness. In real fencing the goal is to hide your moves from your opponent so you…

You know, sword fights are another great thing to think about in a story. Not so much the writing detail, or the actions, or the proper wording used to put such a thing in someone's imagination...but how real it can feel.

I watched a whole season of Homeland before I realized that Saul Berenson was Inigo Montoya! D'oh!

The duel at the end of Rob Roy is so good because movies rarely have a means to show adequate.

The Dread Pirate Roberts would win. He has skill, smarts, strength, and the power of true love on his side.

Oh, I also have to add some praise for The Duelists being in that mix. We see single combat with various swords in that film, and skm glimpses of nasty wounds. A bit closer to reality than most flicks when it comes to historical fencing. Yay!

To really have that conversation, we should really ignore the fact that a lightsaber would pretty much automatically beat any conventional sword, 'cause that would make it too easy.

This is brilliant! Great list.