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That's not what I've heard.  The whole movie is on YouTube (not the best gauge of human intelligence, I know), and you should see some of the comments there.  I showed it to my mother, and, while she eventually came to marginally enjoy it, she complained that it was boring.  Of course, she also initially complained, "I hate old movies," to which I replied, "It's only three years older than you!"

Anyway, I do get something of an impression that it's one of those things film buffs "have" to see, like a textbook or bad tasting medicine, that's really good for you but not has to be forced down.  Again, I just don't get it.  Not only do I find it extremely educational and fascinating to analyze, I find it genuinely enjoyable to watch.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Gaffer Tape said:

Of course, she also initially complained, "I hate old movies," to which I replied, "It's only three years older than you!"

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Saw Citizen Kane a couple of days ago. What can I say? It's one of those films you gotta see several times a year, like taking a glass of good liquor. Which reminds me it's been ages since I last saw Blues Brothers. I'll pop the disc in the player first thing tomorrow morning.

Just finished watching "Mr. Bean's Holyday" on tv. It's rare that I see a movie on tv, the ads bother me a lot because they interrupt the movie all the time. So this just tells how much I appreciated. I Lol'd. Hard. It's way way way way way better than the first "Bean" movie (I think it's from 1997) and I got to see that in the theater.

Too bad Atkinson said this is the last we're going to see of the character. :(

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Yeah, I was down on Bean after the US movie. Then we somewhat reluctantly saw Mr. Bean's Holiday. We thoroughly enjoyed it, especially my kids. Definitely a good time.

<clever segue>:

I was always aware of Buffy while it was on TV, but I never thought I was really in the demographic for it. That, or I was somewhat near the demographic, and I felt very strongly about not actually being IN it. When I worked midnights, I saw a lot of Angel, completely out of context and it wasn't even really "watching" so much as having it on at work. I thought it looked terrible.

Then there was Firefly, which I've never really appreciated the way a lot of Sci Fi geeks do, pardner. I think they took the "Sci-Fi as Western" a little too far, lil doggie. The train robery, the houses of ill repute, the dusters... just a lil' too much for this ol' buckaroo. So, the Joss Whedon name didn't carry a tonne of cache at the xhonzi homestead.

At anyrate, when we started getting into Lost, I noticed that a lot of people who were really into dissecting it were previous Buffy freaks. That surprised me since I hadn't seen anything in Buffy worth the effort. So I picked up seasons 1 & 2 and Mrs. xhonzi and I have been enjoying what we've seen so far. Xander is pretty funny. I can't remember if this is season 2 or 3, but there's one where every woman is after Xander. Pretty funny stuff.

Smallville seems to have been cut from the Buffy cloth, which I think I knew, I just forgot until we started watching Buffy. We're in season 3 somewhere of Buffy now. Are all the seasons of a quality, or does it get better/worse as it goes on?

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"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

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xhonzi said:

We're in season 3 somewhere of Buffy now. Are all the seasons of a quality, or does it get better/worse as it goes on?

 They definitly vary.

I think it grew out of the "monsters as a metaphor for high school" schtick and got better. I thought 4-5 were the most fun. It seemed to be a bit darker 6-7, so a bit less fun for my tastes.

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xhonzi said:

We're in season 3 somewhere of Buffy now...

Haha, that's kinda funny - I'm halfway through Season 3 myself at the moment (watched 3x10 "Amends" last night, so I'm on 3x11 "Gingerbread," which will put me halfway through the 22-episode season).

So far, Season 1 was good, Season 2 was pretty freakin' amazing (makes me wish Firefly had gotten a second season, I'd love to see how batshit crazy that could have gotten), and Season 3 is, so far, fairly slow, but not bad.

I'm still not sure whether I'm going to try and watch Angel in tandem with Buffy or not.  The latter has already taken over most of my free time, and I don't know if I want to add another 5 seasons to that.

Plus a buddy of mine who loves Buffy told me that Angel sucks.

Oh, and Xhonzi, the episode you're thinking of is in Season 2.  It's up there as one of my favorites, definitely, along with the everyone's-nightmares-become-real episode in Season 1, the everyone-turns-into-their-Halloween-costumes episode in Season 2, and the adults-start-acting-like-teenagers episode in Season 3.

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ChainsawAsh said:

(makes me wish Firefly had gotten a second season, I'd love to see how batshit crazy that could have gotten)

Hell, I wish Firefly had gotten an entire first season!

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Gaffer Tape said:

ChainsawAsh said:

(makes me wish Firefly had gotten a second season, I'd love to see how batshit crazy that could have gotten)

Hell, I wish Firefly had gotten an entire first season!

 Season? What are you two talking about?

Firefly was an epic miniseries, like Root, or The Thornbirds, and it was awesome how the final episode was released to theaters. What a great mini-series.

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I think poor Boost is just a little bit in denial right now.  "It wasn't cancelled! *sob*  Firefly was popular!  It was a mini-series! *sob*  It was supposed to end right there!"  ^_~

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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actually it would be cool if it were revisited in mini-series form. As long as they could bring back Alan Tudyk in some way.

Off topic - Can't wait for the walking dead series on AMC. Frank Darabont / Drew Struzan / Bear McCreary...

 

On topic - Tank Girl.

it's wacky.

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On topic - Sunset Boulevard.

it's creepy.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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TheBoost said:

Gaffer Tape said:

ChainsawAsh said:

(makes me wish Firefly had gotten a second season, I'd love to see how batshit crazy that could have gotten)

Hell, I wish Firefly had gotten an entire first season!

 Season? What are you two talking about?

Firefly was an epic miniseries, like Root, or The Thornbirds, and it was awesome how the final episode was released to theaters. What a great mini-series.

Oh, you mean like that 23-episode Heroes miniseries?  That sure was great, wasn't it?

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Damnit, Frink.  You didn't add a descriptor in a second paragraph break.  There's an order to things!

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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I knew you could do it.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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ChainsawAsh said:

TheBoost said:

 

 Season? What are you two talking about?

Firefly was an epic miniseries, like Root, or The Thornbirds, and it was awesome how the final episode was released to theaters. What a great mini-series.

Oh, you mean like that 23-episode Heroes miniseries?  That sure was great, wasn't it?

 LOL.

I have totally said that exact thing many times. Great minds...

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Just covered a coworkers class. Health, they were watching Super Size Me.

The movie makes some decent points about commercial culture and school lunch programs....

...but the science is so bad as to just be lies. If someone force-fed themselves 5,000 calories a day of any food and took no exersise, they would have similar health problems. Can't believe it got nominated for an Oscar.

 

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Just covered a coworkers class. Health, they were watching Super Size Me.

The movie makes some decent points about commercial culture and school lunch programs....

...but the science is so bad as to just be lies. If someone force-fed themselves 5,000 calories a day of any food and took no exersise, they would have similar health problems. Can't believe it got nominated for an Oscar.
I find it very entertaining. The only documentary I own. It's not supposed to be a blast on just McDonalds, its more about how Americans eat so much food that is so bad for them. I can see dozens of people eating 5k calories a day, no problem.

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I found the movie to insult my intelligence anywhere possible and while I found Spurlock charming... I found him to be somewhat of a shyster.

It's been a couple of years since I last saw it, but if I recall- the first McDonalds lunch he has causes him to projectile vomit all over the parking lot.  I guess maybe the movie should have had a "results not typical" disclaimer on it, like other diet products, because I've had lunch at McDonalds.  I've probably had 100 lunches at McDonalds.  And never have I, or anyone I've ever seen at a McDonalds, puked like that after lunch.

Maybe if that was his 10th lunch (breakfast, dinner, etc...) there in a row... 

I also watched some of his 30 Days show.  I saw the "minimum wage" one- I can't remember if I saw any others.  It was about as scientific as a Sprite vs 7-Up taste test put on by Sprite where everything is clearly labeled and you get a free 24 pack if you say you prefer Sprite.  He set out with an agenda, and he was in full control of the experiment, and- SURPRISE! it proved everything he thought before- no couple could possibly get by with 2 minimum wage incomes.

Despite the fact that lots of families in America get by on 1 or 2 minimum wage incomes.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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doubleofive said:

 It's not supposed to be a blast on just McDonalds, its more about how Americans eat so much food that is so bad for them. I can see dozens of people eating 5k calories a day, no problem.

 But blasting McDonald's is overwhelmingly the content of the film (the lawsuit from the two fatties, the crying ronald Mcdonald art, the title) and McDonald's is the primary victrim of Spurlock's shock tactics and pseudo-science.

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On a brighter note- we put our Netflix account on hold for 3 months so we could catch up on some of the other things we've been wanting to do (read books, cure cancer, solve world hunger, and watch the new fall TV season) and we've been watching some movies that we had in shrink wrap on the shelf.

One of these that I could never convince my wife to watch with me before was the Gods Must be Crazy doublefeature.  I hadn't seen these movies in a decade and a half, and I've found that the memory cheats, and some of the movies I liked when I was younger are just plain stupid.

Both movies start out a little dry, but if you give them 10 to 15 minutes, they really kick into gear.  It's a very unique sense of humour- I haven't laughed that hard in a couple months.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!