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SIS - Worst Movie Edition



Inspired by muffins' comment in another thread, I ask you fine people - what is the worst movie you've ever seen and why?

Star-divide

For this cinematic aficionado (yeah, that's the ticket), I nominate Serpent & The Rainbow and Wendigo, as they're the only two movies I can remember completely bailing on. I can usually zone out and amuse myself somehow.

EXTRA CREDIT: If you had to suggest one newer movie for me to watch, what would it be and why?

Please note: My exposure to crappy movies is limited as I'm not a big movie watcher. I'm also aware that this has probably been covered on the site somewhere/sometime before, I don't care. We have a lot of new folks milling around and I'd like to hear their opinion.

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Last movie I walked out on was Full Frontal

Way too much Hollywood navel-gazing for my taste. And talk about a misleading title!

by ken on Feb 25, 2010 9:12 AM EST reply actions  

Pretty much any movie on Sci-Fi (Syfy?) Saturday afternoon

Vampires: Los Muertos – staring Bon Jovi
Leviathan – best last line of a movie ever: “Say ‘ahh’ MOTHER FUCKER!”
Mansquito – best taunting of the antagonist: “Hey! Mansquito!”
C.H.U.D. 2: Bud the Chud – tremendous zombie work
Pterodactyl – starring Coolio

I could go on.

Calmer than you are.

by 3 Fast 3 Furious on Feb 25, 2010 9:20 AM EST reply actions  

I'd forgotten about 'Leviathan.'

It was bad. And IIRC it was one of those really dumb sci-fi/horror movies that never really resigned itself to being a really dumb sci-fi horror movie.

"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 9:27 AM EST up reply actions  

Yeah, it had no idea where it wanted to go.

But the guy from RoboCop kept trying to make it a respectable horror / drama movie.

Fail.

Calmer than you are.

by 3 Fast 3 Furious on Feb 25, 2010 9:29 AM EST up reply actions  

Reminds me of 'Outbreak.'

I remember thinking that it would have been a lot better movie (more original, anyway) if the A-list cast would have just gone completely campy with that script.

"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 9:33 AM EST up reply actions  

Manquito sounds like a great premise

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 9:40 AM EST up reply actions  

I'm totally looking that up in my cable guide tonight

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 9:43 AM EST up reply actions  

Did you have any luck locating Mansquito?

Saturday afternoon may be your best bet.

Calmer than you are.

by 3 Fast 3 Furious on Feb 26, 2010 9:07 AM EST up reply actions  

Nope, I looked a little bit but no luck

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 9:08 AM EST up reply actions  

I wonder if it's on Netflix.

Keep looking, because when you find it you’ll be sucked in. Just make sure you have alcohol around and someone to laugh at it with.

Calmer than you are.

by 3 Fast 3 Furious on Feb 26, 2010 9:29 AM EST up reply actions  

I have both, thankfully

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 9:37 AM EST up reply actions  

I had one on the other day while i surfed

It was a bunch of National Guard troops in a SW desert. They were being picked off by mutant looking guys living in old mines. There was a great scene where a guy is hanging off a cliff and one of the cave dudes lift one of his arms than hack it off. As his grip slips on the remaining arm, he waves bye-bye with the guys hacked off arm. How can anyone not like writing like that?

by ol Pete on Feb 25, 2010 10:59 AM EST up reply actions  

I've seen that movie!

It’s called “Cincinnati Reds at the Trade Deadline.”

"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 11:03 AM EST up reply actions   1 recs

Oh, the horror....

The aforementioned Soy Cuba and The Swan Princess would make my list in a heartbeat. I’m also still mad that I spent money to see Meet Joe Black and Can’t Hardly Wait in the same year.

But my friends and I watched a lot of Mystery Science Theater 3000 in early college, so I’ve seen some true doozies, albeit with snarky commentary included. The only specific title I remember was Manos: Hands of Fate, which a lot of people consider the ultimate worst movie ever. I also remember several movies featuring Joe Estevez, Martin Sheen’s less accomplished brother.

Aaand I also worked at summer day camps for 3 years, so I got the pleasure of seeing such quality children’s cinema as Spy Kids 2, Scooby Doo 2, and Ice Age 2. Awesome.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 9:34 AM EST reply actions  

Damnit, I forgot Meet Joe Black

I became an instant villain to the females in attendance when I laughed loudly when Pitt got creamed by the bus.

3.5 hours later I was trying to figure out a way to hang myself with licorice to end the entire experience. The things I’ve sacrificed for women in my life, jeez. :)

I think most animated films are pretty well done, I like that they aren’t limited by physical trappings.

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 9:43 AM EST up reply actions  

What?!

Brad Pitt getting hit by the bus was the only good part of that whole movie! Who says otherwise?

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 9:45 AM EST up reply actions  

I got more than a couple of dirty looks when I LOL'd

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 9:47 AM EST up reply actions  

Yes!

Morbidly funny!

That moment in that movie was supposed to have shockingly KILLED Brad Pitt and every inclination that every woman might have that this is going to be a movie about how great it would be to date and fall in love with Brad Pitt.

But Pitt screwed it all up and still spent the rest of the movie asking every woman with a ticket to date him and fall in love with him.

"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 9:58 AM EST up reply actions  

Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black

is perhaps the worst acting performance I have ever seen

by 'tHan on Feb 25, 2010 10:17 AM EST up reply actions  

Certainly one of the most misguided.

I’ll stop now.

"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 10:21 AM EST up reply actions  

I guess you've never seen

anything Channing Tatum is in.

That dude has got all the acting chops of a decking board. At least Brad Pitt was supposed to not have any emotions in MJB. This douche has no excuses

"Avoid the Clap, Jimmy Dugan. That's good advice!"

by jmgard6 on Feb 25, 2010 10:26 AM EST up reply actions  

Now that's an overstatement.

Not only have you seen a half dozen Keanu Reeves movies, but you’ve also seen more than a few episodes of Saved by the Bell.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 1:10 PM EST up reply actions  

The dude that played Belding was Money!

Keanu’s acting is always pretty awful, but I think that’s just because he’s awful.

by 'tHan on Feb 25, 2010 1:19 PM EST up reply actions  

I used to see Belding at work all the time.

It’s like he hangs around NBC so no one will forget him.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 1:25 PM EST up reply actions  

right

the “new class” was stupid. nothing at all like the original, which was a pillar of American popular art.

/sarcasm squiggle punctuation

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 25, 2010 1:27 PM EST up reply actions  

not much

my schoolmates certainly loved the show

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 25, 2010 1:35 PM EST up reply actions  

I'm 26

I think I’m the only person my age who’s never seen Saved by the Bell.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 1:39 PM EST up reply actions  

You've never seen SBTB?

GET OUT. And take that no-good ragamuffin Scrabbles with you. Commies.

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 1:40 PM EST up reply actions  

It's okay Jessie!

Caffeine pills…..pshaw.

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 1:44 PM EST up reply actions  

I remember hearing about her scene in Showgirls

First thing I thought was, “Her? Really? Not Kelly or Lisa? DAMNIT!”

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 4:10 PM EST up reply actions  

I would have preferred Lisa Turtle

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 9:10 PM EST up reply actions  

Another movie by Verhoeven.

He should stick to sci-fi.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 9:10 PM EST up reply actions  

You also told me to get out

When I admitted to not having seen Major League. I see that you have very little power around here.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 1:43 PM EST up reply actions  

No.

But I will, I promise. Eventually. And I’ll watch a Simpsons episode someday. Once I do those two things, I’ll be able to converse much better here.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 1:54 PM EST up reply actions  

next thing you know

she’ll be talking about how she’s had a Coca-Cola!

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 25, 2010 1:56 PM EST up reply actions  

Dave Parker'ed

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 2:30 PM EST up reply actions  

I didn't watch The Simpson's until I was 20

I started watching them because my then girlfriend had them on DVD, so we would waste time watching The Simpsons.

Now I am kinda hooked. What is brilliant about The Simpsons is it has crude humor that will make a mouth breather like ’Than laugh, but it also has smart humor that intelligent people will only understand.

The best episode is about the Dental Plan.

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 25, 2010 1:58 PM EST up reply actions  

The ACT is a cowincidence and irrelephant

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 2:07 PM EST up reply actions  

plant life

I did quite well on my GRE’s. How about you?

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 25, 2010 2:10 PM EST up reply actions  

oh wow

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 2:18 PM EST up reply actions  

well

i suck at slenderized tests.

I have a friend who bombed the GRE’s, much lower than mine. He is also the best scholar I know (who is a peer) and was just accepted to Northwestern’s Ph.D program.

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 25, 2010 2:20 PM EST up reply actions  

i don't know where slenderized camed from

but in all honesty; they used a number of standardized tests when they tested me for A.D.D. I was diagnosed with A.D.D. because I would score really high on a test one week, and I would take a different version of the same test 3 weeks later and score really low on it.

My tests scores tend to be like Bronson Arroyo’s pitching.

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 25, 2010 2:23 PM EST up reply actions  

they probably just assumed you were cheating

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 2:30 PM EST up reply actions  

I would imagine Justin can't do all that well on standardized tests

Since you do have to spell your name correctly

That is, unless he has someone do it for him

by Highlifeman21 on Feb 25, 2010 4:17 PM EST up reply actions  

/John Wall'd

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 4:28 PM EST up reply actions  

You don't to have GRE until your 55 or older

Check for polyps and elongated colon…

Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.

by Madville on Feb 28, 2010 11:52 AM EST up reply actions  

I can't believe

you haven’t seen an episode of the Simpsons. My office desk and home are covered in Simpsons related stuff.

If it was socially acceptable, I would wear my Homer slippers everywhere I went

by ChiDa on Feb 25, 2010 2:10 PM EST up reply actions  

A guy here has the Homer promo statue from the cinemas when the movie came out

Jealous doesn’t begin to describe me. If I could figure out a way to swipe that bad boy before I leave, I’d do it in a heartbeat.

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 2:13 PM EST up reply actions  

what? how?

i’m not a big TV person, but i’ve seen every episode of the simpsons first 15 years at least. when historians look back on the 20th century united states, the simpsons will be a defining part of the culture.

start with the baseball episode.

by Daedalus on Mar 1, 2010 7:50 AM EST up reply actions  

It took you this long to figure that out? :)

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 1:44 PM EST up reply actions  

Yes, listening to Justin is EXACTLY what she should do

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 1:46 PM EST up reply actions  

I've made it this far in life

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 25, 2010 1:58 PM EST up reply actions  

And me, this far

Your point?

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 2:01 PM EST up reply actions  

i give great advice

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 25, 2010 2:03 PM EST up reply actions  

Power Behind the Throne:

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 25, 2010 1:55 PM EST up reply actions   2 recs

rec'd

"Life is good....life is good...life is good..life is good" jch

by obc2 on Mar 6, 2010 12:53 PM EST up reply actions  

ive seen it, in bits

many a schoolyard chum would force me into it after a sleepover and i’d end up leaving the room 5 minutes in to see what the dog was up to. the dog was most often sleeping, but always far more entertaining.

and jch is a fuckface.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 25, 2010 1:42 PM EST up reply actions  

i have also never seen Saved by the Bell

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 25, 2010 1:54 PM EST up reply actions  

HEY! 'Meet Joe Black' is not a bad movie!

I’ll beat this drum until they lock me away!

Seriously, watch it again and assume the old man to be the main protagonist. He’s dying. He knows it. He’s angry about it but he’s always been a graceful gentleman and he doesn’t want his family to see him be anything but.

Ignore all those awkward/stupid Brad Pitt-eats-peanut-butter-for-the first-time ‘scene stealing’ moments. Because Brad Pitt is so likeable he gets in the way of the metaphor that (IMO) Anthony Hopkins wants him to play.. “Death is a know-nothing sombitch who’s is stealing my time with my gorgeous daughter. Her new know-nothing boyfriend better be able to take good care of her.”

Death is not her new boyfriend. Death just comes along at the same time as her new know-nothing boyfriend.

"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 9:53 AM EST up reply actions  

Nice try.

Meet Joe Black was the first movie that came to mind when I read this FanPost. The only reason it doesn’t get my vote is because of the bus scene.

by Brian B on Feb 25, 2010 3:40 PM EST via mobile up reply actions  

Also

Claire Forlani is a fox.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 3:58 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

And

When she speaks in her natural English accent, he appeal skyrockets. Check her out in Basquiat. Stunning.

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 26, 2010 12:11 PM EST up reply actions  

i like it

just watched it again the other day.

has anyone seen the original? death takes a holiday?

by Daedalus on Mar 1, 2010 7:55 AM EST up reply actions  

Monos: Hands of Fate

is awesome.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is some good stuff.

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 25, 2010 1:15 PM EST up reply actions  

Torgo!

"The USA despite its flaws and corruption and overall messiness is still a great and powerful instrument of freedom and hope for the entire world." - Madville

by bbjones on Feb 25, 2010 7:32 PM EST up reply actions  

You can call him that

But its kinda a jynx if you ask me. The actor took his own life after the movie premiered.

by Excalib8 on Feb 25, 2010 8:35 PM EST up reply actions  

Aw

I really enjoyed Can’t Hardly Wait. The moment where the mic flies up from the bottom of the screen and the nerd grabs it to start belting “Paradise City”… classic. I also feel that, “God, you’re a hottie!” should be an acceptable way to introduce yourself.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 3:53 PM EST up reply actions  

The Estevez movie was called Soultaker

I have every MST3k movie on my hard drive if anyone wants anything. just email me with your request, it’s no bother.

All time worst movie? Ramon Girl

New movie you should see? District 9 was awesome, Drag me to hell was super scary as well.

by Excalib8 on Feb 25, 2010 4:33 PM EST up reply actions  

I've heard conflicting reports on district 9, and figured drag me would be silly, a la paranormal activity

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 4:39 PM EST up reply actions  

Drag Me is supposed to be silly though

Sort of vintage Sam Raimi. Corpse vomit features prominently in it. Plus, when I was watching Avatar and trying to remember where I’d seen that one guy before, it was in Drag Me to Hell.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 4:42 PM EST up reply actions  

Dude,

that part with the old lady chewing on that girls face was by far the most disturbing thing I’ve seen in a while from a movie. And I’m a huge Raimi fan, so maybe that’s how they got me.

by Excalib8 on Feb 25, 2010 4:45 PM EST up reply actions  

It's both silly and scary

A la vintage Raimi. Whereas Emo Spidey was terrifying for altogether different reasons.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 5:04 PM EST up reply actions  

The worst.

The Room.

We watched it simply because it was such a horrible movie.

"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."

by crolfer on Feb 25, 2010 9:43 AM EST reply actions  

I've thought of more!

There Will Be Blood – I don’t know, people thought this was good. I thought it was horrendous, including Daniel Day-Lewis’s performance. No plot, no character development. All it had going for it was some pretty scenery and that “milkshake” line, which isn’t even that good in the movie’s context.
Feeling Minnesota – Cameron Diaz + Keanu Reeves = just what you’d expect.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 9:51 AM EST reply actions  

I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!!!!

wtf is that all about?

"Red Reporter - An elitist clique full of like-minded douchebags." - BK

by ZJiff30 on Feb 25, 2010 10:16 AM EST up reply actions  

I hadn't seen the movie

So I thought that skit that they did about drinking milkshakes on SNL was brilliant. Then I realized it was a line from the movie, and was much less impressed.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 4:01 PM EST up reply actions  

I disagree with you about "There Will Be Blood"

And how could anyone not like “Can’t Hardly Wait”? Ridiculous.

"aaron harnann is so aweseom" - justin

by BK on Feb 25, 2010 1:26 PM EST up reply actions  

You and a lot of people.

Sometimes I think I must have missed something big and important with There Will Be Blood. Other times I remember watching it.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 1:30 PM EST up reply actions  

youre the first person ive ever heard say didnt like TWBB

i thought it was pretty easily the best movie of 2008, and i thought daniel day lewis’ performance was one of the best id ever seen. im sure im not the first person to make that argument to you though

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 1:48 PM EST up reply actions  

or 2007 or whatever year

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 1:49 PM EST up reply actions  

Actually, no one's really challenged me on that. I'd love to hear why it's so great.

Aside from the four people I went to see it with (2 liked it, 2 hated it— no one explained why) I don’t know anyone else who’s see it. I don’t mind a movie having very little plot, but then I need to have believable characters who either grow or reveal more about their motivations over the course of the movie. Daniel D-L’s character was revealed as a greedy, conniving bastard from the first few minutes of the movie. What was the point of those 2+ hours, then?

The parts with his kid were mildly interesting. The fact that the same actor played two characters was unnecessarily confusing.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 1:52 PM EST up reply actions  

paul dano is the worst part of the movie for me

i agree on that.

i pretty much loathe pseudo-intellectual movie analysis, but without overthinking it, i just found the whole thing really powerful. his character doesnt change at all, but i dont need that. i think you can throw it in a line of great-american-dream movies/books in which a character (SPOILER ALERT) becomes wildly rich and successful before alienating all of his friends and dying a lonely death (citizen kane, great gatsby). visually, its a beautiful movie. and i just like it

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 2:25 PM EST up reply actions  

Fair enough.

It might have worked better for me if he didn’t start out as a jackass, or if we got some insight into his motivation besides “I’m a greedy jerk and always have been.” But we’re all entitled to our opinions.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 2:39 PM EST up reply actions  

i adore TWBB

its a character study of a sociopath. its criticism of the destructive power of greed. it depicts the subtle interplay of power between two people. there is a subtext of the hypocrisy of organizaed religion. i think its one of the greatest acting performances ever. visually i find it stunning. opening a movie with 20 minutes of no dialogue takes massive balls.

a lot of people dont like this movie, i can understand. it doesnt do much of anything on the surface.

i think its the best movie of the past decade.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand

by saboscork on Feb 26, 2010 2:42 PM EST up reply actions  

Gatsby doesn't alienate his friends before he dies

If anything, he comes closest to getting an actual friend before he’s killed.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 4:03 PM EST up reply actions  

hey, i said SPOILER ALERT

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 4:23 PM EST up reply actions  

You know

There are some books that pop culture just assumes you’ve either read or already know the ending to, maybe unfairly. i had the end of Little Women spoiled for me several times before I managed to read it at, like, age 12. And Lost spoiled the end of Of Mice and Men for thousands of people last week, which sort of pissed me off.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 4:26 PM EST up reply actions  

i think of mice and men counts in that category

anything that everyone was forced to read in high school english counts

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 4:27 PM EST up reply actions  

Same here

I can’t imagine any reasonably educated adult hasn’t read Of Mice And Men.

I look forward to tackling it next week when it’s returned to the library.

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 4:29 PM EST up reply actions  

Really?

I read it in college, but on my own, never for a class. I guess that’s unusual. Whatever. I’m still annoyed, probably because of my aforementioned experience with Little Women.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 4:34 PM EST up reply actions  

yeah i know

i was joking more than anything. everyone knows the end of Gatsby. at least, those of us who have watched The Simpsons.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 25, 2010 4:34 PM EST up reply actions  

dammit!

okay, so where can I watch this show online?

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 4:37 PM EST up reply actions  

www.hulu.com

In theory. Everything works in theory muffins. Communism works in theory.

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 4:40 PM EST up reply actions  

Yeah, well

You can only watch recent episodes on hulu, right?

Netflix is great for getting DVDs of the Simpsons from when they were particularly good…

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Feb 25, 2010 4:42 PM EST up reply actions  

DO NOT WATCH THE SIMPSONS ON HULU!

They only have the last five episodes, and I cannot stress enough how shitty the Simpsons has gotten. Watch anything from Seasons 3-10 (maybe 12), and it is absolute genius. Anything after that is worse than a catjacking.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 4:44 PM EST up reply actions  

wow, ok.

I’ll refrain from the hulu-ing. Maybe the library has some DVDs.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 4:49 PM EST up reply actions  

wtso.net

(watch the simpsons online) has every episode available for streaming. Obviously illegal if that hangs you up. They usually have the syndication versions of episodes where a joke or two is cut out.

by Red Menace on Feb 25, 2010 4:49 PM EST up reply actions  

It's ok, but the show hadn't really hit its stride

It’s trying a little too hard to be earnest or pass commentary, and the animation is pretty poor. With the next season or two, it all clicked for them, and the messages would slam home with much more force and it seemed like they weren’t even trying.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 5:32 PM EST up reply actions  

yeah

Homer’s voice isn’t even at its stride yet in season I.

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 25, 2010 8:14 PM EST up reply actions  

hey, you're right!

There are 5 episodes there. Guess I’ll watch them. But, you know, I’ll kind of miss being an outsider on this.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 4:46 PM EST up reply actions  

Go with Gray/Brendan's suggestion

Early seasons on DVD is probably the best way to go.

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 4:48 PM EST up reply actions  

Yeah, never listen to jch24's recommendation.

He’s probably drunk.

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Feb 25, 2010 4:49 PM EST up reply actions  

Not yet, fuckface

See me in 5 hours.

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 5:55 PM EST up reply actions  

Don't do it, muffins!

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Feb 25, 2010 4:49 PM EST up reply actions  

megavideo.com

they have just about every episode.

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 25, 2010 8:13 PM EST up reply actions  

Worst i've seen...

Mom and Dad Save the World – starring Lovitz, Teri Garr, Jeffrey Jones (the principal from Ferris Buehler and a child molester or something now), and Kathy Ireland’s first movie role…i think.

I love stupid movies as much as the next person but this was beyond awful…this movie dragged on for what seemed like forever without one single laugh. No amount of alcohol could’ve saved me.

Bonus for worst current movie: Paul Blart – I didn’t make it past the first 10 minutes

by ChiDa on Feb 25, 2010 9:57 AM EST reply actions  

That was actually Kathy's 6th movie.

The only watchable thing she was in was the formulaic Necessary Roughness in 1991.

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 1:14 PM EST up reply actions  

crap

i was way off, don’t know why i thought it was her first movie. Oh well

by ChiDa on Feb 25, 2010 2:13 PM EST up reply actions  

I'm not sure whether I should have included Starship Troopers

Because I couldn’t quite figure out if they were taking themselves seriously or not. I hear the book is great though.

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 10:04 AM EST reply actions  

ugh. That is one of my candidates for worst movie ever.

Sad part is, my dad LOVES it. I don’t understand.

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by ZJiff30 on Feb 25, 2010 10:16 AM EST up reply actions  

I couldn't enjoy that movie, and I was drunk

Again, I offended my fellow moviegoers by laughing incredulously at several parts.

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 10:23 AM EST up reply actions  

I thought it was supposed to campy.

But I remember that not everyone else did.

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by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 10:24 AM EST up reply actions  

It's a Paul Verhoeven sci-fi movie, the guy who directed Robocop and Total Recall.

Which means that it includes:

1. Futuristic gadgets in everyday life.
2. Communal showers/locker rooms, with no one noticing. (Missing from TR)
3. The use of nudity and sudden, gory violence as a tool to shock and manipulate the audience.
4. A feeling of never taking itself completely seriously, though seldom transparently so. The man makes movies, not films.
5. Large, scary machines and/or creatures attacking over-matched humans, often winning.

He’s one of my favorites. :)

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 1:22 PM EST up reply actions  

agreed

did you see Black Book? totally out of his element, but still well-executed.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 25, 2010 1:25 PM EST up reply actions  

I haven't yet - forgot all about Zwartboek.

It’s on my hot list. First thing he’s written since Flesh+Blood in 1985. I haven’t yet seen Soldier of Orange, which is supposedly his opus. But I hate reading movies.

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 1:33 PM EST up reply actions  

havent seen either of those

i dont mind the sub-titles. it makes me feel like im in on a secret or something.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 25, 2010 1:38 PM EST up reply actions  

The book

really was pretty good. The movie was only based on it in terms of general plot lines.

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by jmgard6 on Feb 25, 2010 10:28 AM EST up reply actions  

That had a naked shower scene

and giant insects, right? Those are always two positives – wait, not always.

by ol Pete on Feb 25, 2010 11:02 AM EST up reply actions  

The nudity was the only redeeming quality, IIRC

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 11:08 AM EST up reply actions  

Two of my favorite things!

"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."

by crolfer on Feb 25, 2010 7:14 PM EST up reply actions  

the book

was one of my favorites in my misspent youth.

I’m not sure how well it holds up. It has a ’50s vibe that seems a bit outdated now.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 12:24 PM EST up reply actions  

Just saw they've remade A Nightmare On Elm Street

That’s gonna suck out loud, especially considering it’s the same people who remade Chainsaw Massacre & Friday The 13th.

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 10:12 AM EST reply actions  

I've seen neither remake, only going off what I heard

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 10:22 AM EST up reply actions  

my sources say Zombieland was the worst flick they've seen recently

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by obc2 on Feb 25, 2010 11:17 AM EST up reply actions  

when those three sources agree

they have to be wrong.

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by obc2 on Feb 25, 2010 11:29 AM EST up reply actions  

Zombieland was one of my favorite movies last year

Adventureland was another. Jesse Eisenberg has a nice little niche going.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 4:06 PM EST up reply actions  

Adventureland? Elaborate please.

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 4:08 PM EST up reply actions  

Calm down, it's not a safari porno

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by BK on Feb 25, 2010 4:09 PM EST up reply actions  

Safari porno?

FVA, would you like to chime in on this?

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 4:10 PM EST up reply actions  

Well, Adventureland won me over like Zombieland because it starts off with a kickass tune

In this case, “Bastards of Young.” But it’s about this kid that just graduated from a liberal arts college in northeastern Ohio and is planning to travel Europe before starting his graduate work at Columbia. But there’s money troubles, and he has to move back to his parents’ house in Pittsburgh instead and get a summer job. Nowhere will hire him, except for the theme park, where he works the carnival games. And then he spends the summer with the weirdos and misbegotten geniuses at the theme park, the mouthbreathing Steelers fans that visit the park, and falling intensely in love with the chick from “Twilight.”

They drink, do some casual drugs, listen to good tunes, and kill a summer in America’s sweatstain. Maybe it’s just that it reminds me a lot of my experiences, post-graduation, but I really dug it. It’s funny, it’s sweet, and is a good look at the small risks and small rewards that come when you’re not aiming real high.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 4:38 PM EST up reply actions  

Zombieland is a fun movie

that is really the best way to describe it.

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 25, 2010 4:16 PM EST up reply actions  

it wasnt as bad as i feared

I give it a B.

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by obc2 on Mar 6, 2010 12:56 PM EST up reply actions  

I almost put in the body of the SIS

“Now I’ll wait for obc to come along and disparage Zombieland in some way.”

Shoulda, coulda, woulda.

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 11:37 AM EST up reply actions  

always predicting things AFTER they occur

House Plant is 100% hindsight

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by obc2 on Feb 25, 2010 11:43 AM EST up reply actions  

Call for Mr. Pot on line 1

It’s a Mr. Kettle…….he has something VERY important to speak to you about.

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 11:47 AM EST up reply actions  

Reminds me...

‘Out of Sight’ with Clooney and JLo is a great movie that I don’t think a lot of people have seen.

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by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 10:31 AM EST up reply actions  

i saw it when it was first released on video

all i really remember about it was liking the fat guy falling on the steps and shooting himself

by 'tHan on Feb 25, 2010 10:32 AM EST up reply actions  

I was working at a movie theater (R.I.P., Centerville Cinemas) when that came out

Helped myself to the movie poster, which I imagine is still in my room back home. It was one of the first movies where George Clooney became a credible actor, and the only good thing Jennifer Lopez has ever done (she wasn’t even the best Fly Girl!). One of Steve Zahn’s better roles, too.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 4:09 PM EST up reply actions  

I think I worked with that director on a music video in 1997.

He was one of the least talented people I had ever worked with. He had NO vision, and was chronically indecisive, vegan, and coked up. He had no place being involved in post-production. He went by one name at the time: Sanji. Never a good sign.

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 1:29 PM EST up reply actions  

I recently saw "4 Christmases" with the lady

And it is the worst newer movie I have ever seen, counting like the last 10 years or so.

I remember defending Reece Witherspoon at some point on this site, and now I completely regret it.

Touche to whoever told me she sucked, because sheesh…it was terrible. Vince Vaughn too, i’m about sick of him as well.

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by jmgard6 on Feb 25, 2010 10:32 AM EST reply actions  

You cwazy.

She makes a lot of bad movies but she’s at least as good as most ‘movie star’ actresses out there.

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by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 10:35 AM EST up reply actions  

Jch, did you ever see 'Intolerable Cruelty?'

There’s one ya might enjoy. I did.

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by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 10:38 AM EST reply actions  

Pretty much.

Unless it stars Tom Hanks. Then it’s going to be mediocre.

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by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 10:43 AM EST up reply actions  

I did okay with it.

I had to sort of pretend that it wasn’t made by fellas that otherwise have proven themselves to be geniuses. Taken on its own merits it passed. But on the best-to-worst list of Coen brothers shows, it’s at the bottom and begging to fall of the page altogether.

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by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 10:51 AM EST up reply actions  

good lord!

it contains the greatest character ever in a movie.

you can’t really mean that

by 'tHan on Feb 25, 2010 3:50 PM EST up reply actions  

oh my goodness

That will be considered heresy by most, I bet. I got in big, everlasting trouble with a friend of mine because I didn’t like it enough. I liked it fine, but I think O Brother Where Art Thou? and The Hudsucker Proxy are better.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 3:51 PM EST up reply actions  

i really didn't care for o brother

thought it was a little long and kinda boring.

you can’t like lebowski enough

by 'tHan on Feb 25, 2010 3:52 PM EST up reply actions  

i agree on o brother

it had some funny lines, but mostly i was bored

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 3:59 PM EST up reply actions  

Same here...

I saw it long after it made it big and all, and kept waiting for it to get good. But I mainly just got bored.

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Feb 25, 2010 4:06 PM EST up reply actions  

O Brother is an excellent movie

Should have thrown that onto my “movies I always watch when they’re on” list.

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by BK on Feb 25, 2010 3:56 PM EST up reply actions  

And I should have included it in my quotable movies

You’d be surprised how much you can use “He’s bonafide!” and “We thought you was a toad” in conversation.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 4:00 PM EST up reply actions  

I'm with you there.

It’s my favorite. “Damn, we’re in a tight spot!”

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by ZJiff30 on Feb 25, 2010 11:36 PM EST up reply actions  

We thought... you was... a TOAD!!!

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by ZJiff30 on Mar 1, 2010 10:30 AM EST up reply actions  

You're out of your element, Brian

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by BK on Feb 25, 2010 3:56 PM EST up reply actions  

What if Tom Hanks does a Coen bros movie?

Will it be the best mediocre movie you’ve ever seen?

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by jmgard6 on Feb 25, 2010 10:51 AM EST up reply actions  

Pretty much.

"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 10:53 AM EST up reply actions   1 recs

Don't know why this pic showed up.

It was supposed to be the movie poster for ‘The Ladykillers.’

And that’s what it was when I posted it. Swear. My apologies.

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by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 11:21 AM EST up reply actions  

Check the properties, it's named hotlinked.jpg or somesuch

I giggled.

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 11:38 AM EST up reply actions  

I don't know what all that means.

Other than some computer geek somewhere thinks that it’s funny for us to see really big boobs when we want to see a movie poster.

Which it is.

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by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 11:46 AM EST up reply actions  

it means they don't want you linking their images

It steals their bandwidth, which they have to pay for.

So if you try to post a “hot link” to one of their files, it automatically re-directs it to a photo they hope will embarrass you into not trying it again.

This is fairly common, and sometimes the photos are much worse than that one. For this reason, I usually test image links before posting them.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 12:33 PM EST up reply actions  

goatse, anyone?

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 12:34 PM EST up reply actions  

Or tubgirl

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by btcoop71 on Feb 25, 2010 12:48 PM EST up reply actions  

I liked it more than most

because like Clooney’s character I’m a lawyer named Massey. I saw it with my finacee several months before we got hitched. I got a lot of mileage out of the “Massey prenup” lines. But the movie itself was pretty decent. Probably as good as a rom-com can get.

by ken on Feb 25, 2010 12:45 PM EST up reply actions  

I kinda liked it too.

Liking George Clooney movies is my quirky thing. Maybe if he had been the Dude I would have liked Lebowski. I watched TBL drunk one night and woke up the next morning wondering how hammered I must have been to have not liked it. So I put the movie back in and watched it sober. Still hated it.

by Brian B on Feb 25, 2010 4:33 PM EST via mobile up reply actions  

Lebowski's always a movie that I get more out of the more times I watch it

After about four or five times, you’re just like, “SHIT! This is genius.” Well, maybe you’re not. Like that, I mean.

Did you see “Miller’s Crossing?” It’s one of the earlier Coen brothers movies that doesn’t get talked about as much, but holy cow is it great! 1920s mobsters. Can’t beat it.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 4:40 PM EST up reply actions  

Agreed, love Miller's Crossing

And I’ll stick up for O Brother. Great story and chemistry, and well-shot imo. But I go for the Americana stuff.

by ken on Feb 25, 2010 5:10 PM EST up reply actions  

I do enjoy O Brother as well

The soundtrack is great, and I love the flooding of the Tennessee Valley, where the water looks like it’s rising directly out of the ground. Plus, I like to buy into the whole “mysticism of the South” angle, before the time of technology and learning made things less interesting.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 5:15 PM EST up reply actions  

I saw the legendary hermit on Dale Hollow lake as a kid

A crazy old guy didn’t want to leave when the TVA came through to flood the valley and claimed one of the “islands” as his own. No one went there and he supposedly came out very rarely to get provisions.

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 6:01 PM EST up reply actions  

Oh, and I caught a huge assed smallmouth bass when I was there for camp

I share because I care.

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 6:03 PM EST up reply actions  

so how'd you see him?

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by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 7:01 PM EST up reply actions  

We canoed past the island

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 7:25 PM EST up reply actions  

and what...he was hiding in the bushes?

Sitting on his front porch? Fishing in the lake?

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by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 7:27 PM EST up reply actions  

He was patrolling the beach, doing god knows what

The camp counselor made a big deal about how he had resisted the TVA and refused to move, etc. My main concern was not flipping the canoe, which happened anyway. Man, I hate canoes.

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 7:47 PM EST up reply actions  

Wait, how the fuck old was he?

The TVA was created in 1933, and you were probably a camper in the late 80s. If he was a landowner at the time, he was at least in his 20s. What an old fucking bastard.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 7:52 PM EST up reply actions  

I was there in the summer of '87 at the ripe old age of 10

Wiki says the dam was completed in 1943, so there’s 44 years difference. He would have been in his late 60s, early 70s maybe?

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 7:55 PM EST up reply actions  

What, no further questions?

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 8:27 PM EST up reply actions  

Um...

Was he sipping a mint julep?

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 8:29 PM EST up reply actions  

Nope, this was in July. Well past Derby Day

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 8:37 PM EST up reply actions  

was he playin' a mandolin?

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by bbjones on Feb 25, 2010 9:26 PM EST up reply actions  

the dam wasn't started

until 1942.

According to Wikipedia.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 7:57 PM EST up reply actions  

See above

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 7:58 PM EST up reply actions  

Here's a list of dreck I've seen

in no particular order (and by no means exhaustive): Mama Mia, Chicago…(actually any movie with inexplicable and pointless singing), Encino Man, Look Who’s Talking (all of them), Anaconda, Chairman of the Board, Grease, All About Steve, Ali, that piece of shit with Vin Diesel as an ex-navy seal nanny, Cool as Ice, Good Luck Chuck (any and all Dane Cook vehicles, really), Appaloosa, Battlefield Earth, Batman and Robin, Blues Brothers 2000, Last Action Hero, Norbit, Gymkata, Mission to Mars, Hulk Hogan’s Mr. Nanny, The Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Arthur 2: Love on the Rocks, Mannequin, Monster In Law, and so on….

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 25, 2010 10:46 AM EST reply actions   1 recs

Batman and Robin was baaad.

Sometime soon my boys are going to discover that there is a movie called ‘Batman and Robin’ they’re going to say to me, “No way, Daddy. The movie is called Batman and Robin. It can’t be bad.”

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by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 10:55 AM EST up reply actions  

Ah, the magical summer of "Batman and Robin," "The Avengers," and "Godzilla."

Three of the worst all-time movies, EVER. Even though I didn’t pay to see any of them in the theater (thanks, employee benefits!), I still felt ripped off.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 4:13 PM EST up reply actions  

Wow, you actually like something good

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 11:08 AM EST up reply actions  

I love me some Weird Al.

And I really like his original tunes that no one hears, such as Nature Trail to Hell.

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 1:44 PM EST up reply actions  

Get a room

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 1:46 PM EST up reply actions  

Totally

I wanted Petey to show me his “Castles Made of Sand”.

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 1:49 PM EST up reply actions  

I love a good burger as much as I like a good Weird Al tune.

We have now bridged this gap more than today’s C-SPAN summit will. :P

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 1:52 PM EST up reply actions  

aaaawwwww, group hug?

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 2:02 PM EST up reply actions  

I like that one

Always good for home videos.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 4:32 PM EST up reply actions  

I've seen a few of these and mostly agree.

But I think Chicago was good, and I actually kind of enjoyed Mamma Mia. It seemed to me they knew how bad it was going to be, so they just went with it. Plus, Greece is pretty.

But then, I don’t dislike musicals on principle.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 11:14 AM EST up reply actions  

Hmm. I like musicals, too.

Good ones like The Wizard of Oz, Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof. And I liked Mamma Mia, but I still think it was bad. Grease is just waaaay overrated.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 11:23 AM EST up reply actions  

It's electrifying!

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by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 11:24 AM EST up reply actions  

I liked The Wiz

Ease on down the road, bitches!

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 11:39 AM EST up reply actions  

I liked Purple Rain better

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by obc2 on Feb 25, 2010 11:43 AM EST up reply actions  

Only if Prince in 6'6" or taller

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 11:48 AM EST up reply actions  

I played in the pit orchestra for that in high school

some of the weirdest time signatures i’ve ever seen.

It was awkward though because we had two black kids in drama, so it was a bunch of white people performing the Wiz.

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 25, 2010 1:18 PM EST up reply actions  

It's overrated compared to Grease II.

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 25, 2010 12:19 PM EST up reply actions  

I like musicals

Probably because my parents do.

You don’t see many musicals these days, except on Broadway. I confess, I have Broadway soundtracks of “The Full Monty” and “Monty Python’s Spamalot!” on my regular playlist.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 12:44 PM EST up reply actions  

I liked 'Velvet Goldmine.'

I still haven’t seen ‘Moulin Rouge!’ but I’d guess that I’ll enjoy it.

I watched part of ‘Headwig and the Angry Inch’ and was amazed at how entertaining it was.

My son enjoyed ‘Wizard of Oz’ so much that I tried to find another ‘family-friendly’ musical that he might like. I tried ‘Viva Las Vegas’ and it has become something of a family favorite. It’s verrry corny but Elvis is a race car driver and Ann Margaret is hot.

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by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 1:03 PM EST up reply actions  

Yes, yes she is.

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 25, 2010 1:04 PM EST up reply actions  

Yep.

In the right light with the perfect makeup and outfit today…almost workable.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 2:09 PM EST up reply actions  

Velvet goldmine?

You mean the movie with Jonathan Rhys-meyers, Ewan McGregor, and Christian Bale that’s all about glam rock and gay sex?

<3,<3,<3!

IAN! I'm on traain!

by andromache on Feb 25, 2010 5:01 PM EST up reply actions  

I liked it.

But I didn’t like it like it.

Have you seen ‘Headwig?’ Crazy original entertainment.

, bitches!

by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 16, 2010 11:31 PM EDT up reply actions  

You don't see many musicals these days...

and yet somehow most of the popular Broadway shows these days are based on movies.

by Red Menace on Feb 25, 2010 3:45 PM EST up reply actions  

I don't know Broadway.

But aren’t those movie-based shows pretty much there for the tourists visiting New York?

Wasn’t there a show featuring Billy Joel songs? Based on characters in Billy Joel songs? Who would see that?

, bitches!

by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 16, 2010 11:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

plus

Cannibal: the Musical. Perhaps the hardest I’ve ever laughed at any single scene in a movie is in that one. Parker and Stone just make funny movies.

by kcgard2 on Feb 27, 2010 8:27 AM EST up reply actions  

Speaking of Parker and Stone movies

I thought Orgazmo was pretty damn funny. It’s the best movie about a naive Mormon missionary turned super-hero/porn star ever made!

Don't take anything I say too seriously, I sure don't.

by RedsMasochist on Mar 11, 2010 2:24 PM EST up reply actions  

Mama Mia was awesome

Even better in person.

I forget when I saw it @ The Aronoff, but it was damn good

by Highlifeman21 on Feb 25, 2010 12:02 PM EST up reply actions  

Wow.

I first read that as “even better in prison.”

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 12:08 PM EST up reply actions  

Perfect.

Nothing I’d rather watch after a shower rape.

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 25, 2010 12:16 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

I don't dislike musicals on principle

I dislike them aurally, visually and philosophically.

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 25, 2010 12:17 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

I dislike them

because they stop acting and start singing.

I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)

by johnu1 on Feb 25, 2010 12:18 PM EST up reply actions  

There are only a handful of digestible live-action musicals for straight men:

Both Willy Wonka movies (as long as you get up for snack/bathroom during “Cheer Up Charlie”), Guys and Dolls (it’s Brando singing about gambling), the original The Producers, and The Blues Brothers.

My own personal hell will be a front row seat to a horribly-done high school version of Grease whilst I am forced to listen to an earbud of Tim McCarver doing a Reds game.

chills

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 2:05 PM EST up reply actions  

heh

my wife directs plays for a junior high. she mentioned the other day that they are thinking about doing Grease next year.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 25, 2010 2:06 PM EST up reply actions  

Well said.

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 25, 2010 2:16 PM EST up reply actions  

all that jazz

starring roy shceider, probably my favorite musical ever. i dont really like musicals either

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand

by saboscork on Feb 26, 2010 2:46 PM EST up reply actions  

Speaking of musicals

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is on Fuse tonight. I forgot about that one. One of my favorites.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Feb 27, 2010 10:27 PM EST up reply actions  

Battlefield Earth might be the worst movie made in the last 30 years.

I had to watch that monstrosity for work…it took me all friggin’ day, cuz I needed to repeatedly break away from THE SUCK. I work with clever advertising wordsmiths all day, and we were all speechless at its indescribable crapitude. It was genuinely difficult to convey.

I’ve only walked out a movie once, and it was The Two Jakes, the sequel to Chinatown. I left about 30 minutes in, after EVERYONE ELSE IN THE ENTIRE THEATER HAD ALREADY WALKED OUT. And I was only last one out because I was seeing it for free.

I didn’t make it more than a minute into Blood Diamond. Not only is Leonardo DiCaprio miscast as a bad-ass at 116 pounds, but the movie starts with the gory slaughter of women and children. I wasn’t looking for an uplifting, life-affirming flick, but don’t go all nuclear on me in the first minute.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 2:29 PM EST up reply actions  

Galaxy Quest

is the only movie I’ve ever walked out on. Probably not on many people’s worst-ever lists, which is probably because no one has ever seen it. It isn’t even bad enough to be funny, so it has absolutely no redeeming quality whatsoever – that’s the worst kind of movie.

by kcgard2 on Feb 27, 2010 8:31 AM EST up reply actions  

That's interesting to hear.

I love Galaxy Quest, but I expected to hate it. It’s the best example I can think of where the promos did absolutely nothing to promote what the movie was about. I had no idea going in that it would be a parody, or even a comedy at all.

by the finest muffins on Feb 27, 2010 9:30 AM EST up reply actions  

I liked it.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 27, 2010 11:25 AM EST up reply actions  

I love that movie

I’ve watched it multiple times, and so have my friends.

But then, we’re geeks. We go to those SF conventions they were making fun of.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Feb 27, 2010 9:38 AM EST up reply actions  

It was a parody...?

Oh

Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.

by Madville on Feb 27, 2010 10:25 AM EST up reply actions  

the only time I saw Galaxy Quest

I was still really high from having my wisdom teeth removed. I thought it was great. People tell me it’s a comedy.

by Red Menace on Feb 27, 2010 1:42 PM EST up reply actions  

Reminds me..

It’s a pretty bad movie but the opening scene of ’Lorenzo’s Oil’ is cinematic gold if you “just had your wisdom teeth removed.”

, bitches!

by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 16, 2010 11:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

There must be a movie that I'm not thinking of..

..but I always think Leonardo DiCaprio is miscast.

I don’t understand why that guy is a movie star.

, bitches!

by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 16, 2010 11:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

ideas for future OT movie threads

Movies you really like that most people don’t

Movies that you’ve watched more than a half dozen times and will still watch at least some of it when its on

Movies you like that were filmed in black and white

The corniest and/or sappiest movie you like

Movie lines that made you laugh or stick in your head – the one I’ve been using as a generic response to the old ball and chain: blah, blah, frickin blahChev Cellios

by ol Pete on Feb 25, 2010 11:12 AM EST reply actions  

I'll go

1) The Last Dragon

2) Independence Day, Shawshank Redemption, Caddyshack, Hudson Hawk, The Simpsons Movie and a slew of others

3) Clerks

4) Lilo & Stitch

5) “That’ll do, pig”

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 11:36 AM EST up reply actions  

I went

1) Ishtar

2) Bull Durham, The American President, Goodfellas, Anchorman, That Thing You Do, etc

3) too many to list

4) Zombieland

5) “Loud Noises”

"Life is good....life is good...life is good..life is good" jch

by obc2 on Feb 25, 2010 11:42 AM EST up reply actions  

What was the corniest part of Zombieland?

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 11:50 AM EST up reply actions  

The opening credits.

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 25, 2010 12:11 PM EST up reply actions  

No, I want to hear his opinion

Considering he’s never seen the movie.

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 12:34 PM EST up reply actions  

the ending amusement park scenario

why did the girls ditch the Hummer into the lake instead of driving it to safety?

only to be later trumped by getting stuck on the amusement park ride above zombie nation….

"Life is good....life is good...life is good..life is good" jch

by obc2 on Mar 6, 2010 1:01 PM EST up reply actions  

easy

it’s because girls are dumb and have to be saved by manly men!

by 'tHan on Mar 6, 2010 1:33 PM EST up reply actions  

Silly girls

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Mar 6, 2010 1:49 PM EST up reply actions  

"try to keep your mouth shut and you will get on better"

That’s exactly what Chandra tells me! It’s amazing how much times have changed in 100 years!

by 'tHan on Mar 6, 2010 9:27 PM EST up reply actions  

I thought it was, "you better keep your mouth shut if you want to get on"

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Mar 7, 2010 9:20 AM EST up reply actions  

That was what I was going for :)

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Mar 8, 2010 6:51 PM EST up reply actions  

Wow Ishtar?

Yeah, you would probably be the only person on Earth who liked that flick.

I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)

by johnu1 on Feb 25, 2010 12:28 PM EST up reply actions  

me and Annette Bening!

"Life is good....life is good...life is good..life is good" jch

by obc2 on Mar 6, 2010 1:01 PM EST up reply actions  

The Last Dragon is a Sho Nuff winner

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 25, 2010 12:10 PM EST up reply actions  

Who's the baddest?

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 12:34 PM EST up reply actions  

mo' fo'

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 25, 2010 1:05 PM EST up reply actions  

around

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 25, 2010 1:05 PM EST up reply actions  

this

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 25, 2010 1:05 PM EST up reply actions  

town?

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 25, 2010 1:05 PM EST up reply actions  

SHO 'NUF!

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 1:21 PM EST up reply actions  

SIS Movie threads always get tons of comments

1) Mamma Mia (apparently)

2) Dirty Work, Screwed, Happy Gilmore, As Good As it Gets, Shawshank, Pulp Fiction, The Departed, Adaptation

3) The Man Who Wasn’t There.

4) Corniest – UHF Sappiest – Click

5) “Carol the Waitress, Meet Simon the Fag” – Melvin Udall in As Good As it Gets. That line fits Nicholson’s character perfectly.

by 'tHan on Feb 25, 2010 11:47 AM EST up reply actions  

Movie Line:

Hello, my name is Indigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die….

Some say a comet will fall from the sky. Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still. Followed by millions of dumbfounded dips**ts.

by btcoop71 on Feb 25, 2010 11:49 AM EST up reply actions   1 recs

These could still be separate threads, but first thoughts for me...

1) North, Newsies
2) The Princess Bride, That Thing You Do!, A League of Their Own, Back to the Future
3) oh, tons, including The Philadelphia Story, Arsenic and Old Lace, Bringing Up Baby
4) It’s a Wonderful Life (also applies to questions 2 and 3)
5) “I have no response to that.” – from Joe vs. the Volcano. Plus, half the script of The Princess Bride.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 11:55 AM EST up reply actions  

Movies I'll watch any time they're on

Bloodsport (I’ll watch this any time I come home from a bar, no matter the time. It’s always on. Thanks, Versus!), Wayne’s World, Dumb and Dumber, Super Troopers, AVP, Predator 1 and 2 (Why is Danny Glover always sweating?!?), Saving Private Ryan, any of the Bournes

Calmer than you are.

by 3 Fast 3 Furious on Feb 25, 2010 1:20 PM EST up reply actions  

Yep

1) Clerks 2
2) The Big Lebowski, Major League, Beerfest, Super Troopers, any of the Vacation movies, Die Hard
3) Clerks, King Kong
4) Can’t Hardly Wait or Wedding Crashers
5) not sure

"aaron harnann is so aweseom" - justin

by BK on Feb 25, 2010 1:34 PM EST up reply actions  

Not better, but still damned good

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 1:42 PM EST up reply actions  

clerks 2 blows

done in by rosario dawson

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 2:01 PM EST up reply actions  

I would enjoy being done in by Rosario Dawson

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 2:02 PM EST up reply actions  

Yeah.

I don’t hate them but I think if he could have somehow only made ‘Chasing Amy’ we’d all have a lot more respect for Kevin Smith.

"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 2:06 PM EST up reply actions  

i always here that Chasing Amy is his best

but i cant bring myself to watch it. ive already sat through Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob. Chasing Amy may be good, but i’ll never know. it’s too late.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 25, 2010 2:11 PM EST up reply actions  

theres nothing in chasing amy you havent already seen in the others.

the only kevin smith movie that you could get something new out of is jersey girl. its not a good something new, but its different than the others.

i am a pretty big kevin smith fan though.

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 2:13 PM EST up reply actions  

The first half hour of Chasing Amy

Is some of the funniest stuff committed to film.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 4:20 PM EST up reply actions  

fingercuffs?

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 4:25 PM EST up reply actions  

The rest of the movie is awesome too

Though it gets a little sketchy, and not as continually strong, bit after bit after bit, as the first half hour.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 4:27 PM EST up reply actions  

What's a nubian?

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 4:30 PM EST up reply actions  

how could someone not like Dogma?

assuming it doesn’t offend you based on spirtual beliefs, it is an awesome movie.

by 'tHan on Feb 25, 2010 2:08 PM EST up reply actions  

that is precisely why i dont like it

he tries his hardest to stick it in the face of religious folks. once you look passed that initial shock, there is very little there. Alan Rickman is a fuckin’ badass though.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 25, 2010 2:12 PM EST up reply actions  

he is actually a practicing catholic

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 2:14 PM EST up reply actions  

Boobs is right.

Smith’s message from the movie is that dogma and rule systems are bad. Belief is all that matters.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 2:16 PM EST up reply actions  

right

and that message is booooooooring.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 25, 2010 2:16 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

reminds me of some of my other favorite lines

“Hans… boubby… I’m your white knight!” Pretty much anything ellis says is the shit

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 2:27 PM EST up reply actions  

that was pretty good

One of the few movies I watch over and over.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 7:11 PM EST up reply actions  

it turned inside out

and exploded.

"The USA despite its flaws and corruption and overall messiness is still a great and powerful instrument of freedom and hope for the entire world." - Madville

by bbjones on Feb 25, 2010 7:36 PM EST up reply actions  

Eh, it has its moments

There’s some really clunky exposition, and some just dreadful acting from Linda Fiorentino, Chris Rock, and Salma Hayek. And I know it’s a Kevin Smith flick, but the effects shots are amateurish to the point of distraction.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 4:21 PM EST up reply actions  

He's very hit or miss for me

But I like most of his movies. “Jersey Girl” and “Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back” are both movies I could have done without.

"aaron harnann is so aweseom" - justin

by BK on Feb 25, 2010 2:11 PM EST up reply actions  

So what if she's pretty much miscast in that movie!

I’ll not hear anything bad said about Rosario Dawson!

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 4:19 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

hear hear, rec'd

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 4:30 PM EST up reply actions  

What's all this Can't Hardly Wait talk?

Who’s in it? What’s the plot?

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 1:43 PM EST up reply actions  

SRSLY

Never seen it, only heard of it.

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 1:45 PM EST up reply actions  

it's a movie that came out in the late 90's

it had seth green and the ghost whisperer in it. it was about a house party. it was average to good.

However, it had an AWESOME soundtrack Dammit!

by 'tHan on Feb 25, 2010 1:47 PM EST up reply actions  

Plot: teenagers graduating from high school have a party

Actors: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Seth Green, other teenage actors playing teenage stereotypes

Honestly, of all those “high school” movies that came out when I was in high school, the only one I could stomach was 10 Things I Hate About You. And that was based on Shakespeare, so it had that going for it.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 1:46 PM EST up reply actions  

and was awesome

i think it was the best of those teen movies.

definitely better than varsity blues.

It made Heath Ledger a star!

by 'tHan on Feb 25, 2010 1:49 PM EST up reply actions  

Varsity Blues

I loved watching that movie when it first came out – would watch it over and over again and had some of the lines memorized

Then i watched it again a couple weekends ago and could barely make it through it – thank god for Ali Larter

by ChiDa on Feb 25, 2010 2:19 PM EST up reply actions  

Jennifer Love-Hewitt and Ethan Embry

It’s basically a teen comedy about a party. Seth Green’s best role, easily.

"aaron harnann is so aweseom" - justin

by BK on Feb 25, 2010 1:47 PM EST up reply actions  

Better than Idle Hands, with a young Jessica Alba?

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 1:50 PM EST up reply actions  

Yes.

JLH’s best work, and I liked it better all of the “high school party” movies except American Pie and Superbad.

"aaron harnann is so aweseom" - justin

by BK on Feb 25, 2010 2:00 PM EST up reply actions  

You missed my point

And I’ve never seen Superbad.

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 2:03 PM EST up reply actions  

You should see that

"aaron harnann is so aweseom" - justin

by BK on Feb 25, 2010 2:12 PM EST up reply actions  

Go see Superbad.

It’s in my top 5 of all time.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 2:17 PM EST up reply actions  

Maybe I'll pick it up at a Redbox on the way home, or see if it's OnDemand somewhere

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 2:18 PM EST up reply actions  

I didn't think it was amazing

but it was a fun movie. Definitely some funny parts. I think it was better while drinking.

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Feb 25, 2010 3:59 PM EST up reply actions  

Well, I plan on doing some of that tonight (fair warning, RR)

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 4:07 PM EST up reply actions  

What did you think of Adventureland?

Which was done by the same director as Superbad. I’m a big fan of the movie, and it seems a lot like Dazed and Confused, but in the 80s.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 4:24 PM EST up reply actions  

Didn't care for Adventureland

Seems like it was written for Michael Cera, but then he backed out and they had to scramble and hire his non-union equivalent.

by ken on Feb 25, 2010 5:12 PM EST up reply actions  

Haven't seen it yet.

Good babysitters are tough to find…

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 2:50 AM EST up reply actions  

Superbad

is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. Just another viewpoint before anyone goes and gets the idea that Superbad is a can’t-miss classic or something.

by kcgard2 on Feb 27, 2010 8:37 AM EST up reply actions  

Don't listen to this guy.

Not only is he wrong about the amazing movie Superbad, but he doesn’t even root for a baseball team that has won anything in the last 15 years.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 27, 2010 11:27 AM EST up reply actions  

Hey Petey!

I’m a White Sox fan! Take that! Now maybe everyone is thinking that that explains a lot…

But the Reds just have better message boards everywhere you go on the internet. I can’t converse with Sox fans. And I don’t think I can quit you guys (and girls) now. Heaven help me

by kcgard2 on Feb 28, 2010 8:54 AM EST up reply actions   1 recs

hehehe

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 28, 2010 11:05 AM EST up reply actions  

i think i watched that the other day

is it the one with that michael kid and two cops, one is seth mcfarlane and the other is that guy from SNL?

by Daedalus on Mar 1, 2010 8:08 AM EST up reply actions  

righto

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Mar 1, 2010 12:45 PM EST up reply actions  

Dude.

‘Dazed and Confused.’

"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 2:04 PM EST up reply actions  

I thought it was good, but it was way overhyped for me

Since I didn’t get to see it until like 8 or 9 years after it came out, all I heard about was how it was the greatest movie ever made.

"aaron harnann is so aweseom" - justin

by BK on Feb 25, 2010 2:09 PM EST up reply actions  

thats goonies for me

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 2:14 PM EST up reply actions  

I saw Goonies in the theater with my mom

I remember her telling me in the opening scene that she didn’t like police chases. Now being a parent I can see she was a bit concerned at that point.

by Brian B on Feb 25, 2010 7:04 PM EST via mobile up reply actions  

Throughout the entire run of "Six Feet Under"

I kept imagining Clare locked in a bathroom with Seth Green.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 4:23 PM EST up reply actions  

Wait a minute, I just noticed this.

In what universe is Wedding Crashers a sappy movie??? And in a totally unrelated question [sarcmark], am I the only woman posting in this thread?

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 3:36 PM EST up reply actions  

we've only got like 4

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 3:37 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

It depends

I’ve been known to don sequins and heels when the mood strikes.

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 3:42 PM EST up reply actions  

/Velvet Goldmine’d

, bitches!

by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 16, 2010 11:46 PM EDT up reply actions  

1) you got served, romeo and juliet (the one with michael from lost), cruel intentions, robin hood prince of thieves

2) office space, shawshank, pulp fiction, usual suspects, anchorman, iron fist pillage, the matrix, the jerk

3) this is like half the movies ever

4) love actually is pretty sappy. scanner cop is really corny, and i was a fan of that

5) He hates these cans!

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 2:12 PM EST up reply actions  

Also, this:
romeo and juliet (the one with michael from lost)

I’ve been meaning to rewatch Romeo & Juliet ever since I realized that was Michael playing Mercutio.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 3:39 PM EST up reply actions  

i think he was better as mercutio

i think i have less interest in michael than any other character in the show. and he’s always yelling

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 3:41 PM EST up reply actions  

Yes, but he never once yelled,

“A plague on both your houses!” That would have been fantastic.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 3:49 PM EST up reply actions  

no doubt

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 3:59 PM EST up reply actions  

so i take it you do not?

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 4:26 PM EST up reply actions  

Not especially

But, O! the days when Sarah Michelle Gellar was the hot item du jour!

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 4:28 PM EST up reply actions  

Movies you really like that most people don’t:

Shakes the Clown
Forbidden Zone, starring Hervé Villechaize: A French midget king of the sixth dimension, complete with his two battling wives and a slew of topless concubines, capture unwitting commoners, including Squeezit Henderson the Chicken Boy. Shot on handmade sets in black and white.

Movies that you’ve watched more than a half dozen times and will still watch at least some of it when its on:
Any Star Wars movie not directed by George Lucas
A League of Their Own
The Great Escape
The Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
Any of the first three Indiana Jones movies
Caddyshack
Ghostbusters

Movies you like that were filmed in black and white
Forbidden Zone
Stalag 17

The corniest and/or sappiest movie you like
Some Kind of Wonderful
UHF

Movie lines that made you laugh or stick in your head
That’ll do pig. That’ll do.
Ow, my colon!
He subsists on a rudimentary paste.
Sometimes nothin’ can be a pretty cool hand.

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 2:44 AM EST up reply actions  

Nice job Petey

and I must say that I am shocked at a Herve movie in there.

Now where’s the guy with all the chimp pictures.

by ol Pete on Feb 26, 2010 11:24 AM EST up reply actions  

Forbidden Zone is a tough movie to get through the first time.

The first twenty minutes are absurdly odd, with adults playing both parents and children, and a song in French. It’s riddled with politically incorrect humor, potty humor, topless ladies, animated segments, and tons of weirdness. It also features Danny Elfman’s very first film score, which includes him and the Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo doing a cameo song…with Danny playing the role of Satan. But unlike off-putting movies such as Eraserhead and Brazil, the plot DOES make sense…once you’re past the first twenty minutes.

Here’s a colorized trailer: (NSFW)

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 12:08 PM EST up reply actions  

Topless ladies, you say?

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 1:13 PM EST up reply actions  

Also...

I’ll leave on Jeremiah Johnson or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid if I’m flipping around, even though I own them both.

Another line I caught myself using this morning:
“I’ve got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.”

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 28, 2010 11:12 AM EST up reply actions  

hmmm

1) Star Trek III.

2) The Haunting. The 1963 version. No, it’s not as good as the book (Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House”), but it’s a lot closer than that abortion of a remake.

3) I guess The Haunting counts. I also like Go For Broke!, a movie about 442nd Regimental Combat Team. A WWII regiment made up of Japanese-Americans that become most decorated military unit in US history.

4) Remember the Titans

5) “TRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN!!!!!!!” from Stand By Me (sorry couldn’t resist ;-)

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by BubbaFan on Feb 26, 2010 6:22 PM EST up reply actions  

Recently rewatched Bill and Ted's, for the nostalgia factor

not good times. much, much, much worse than i’d remembered.

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by obc2 on Feb 25, 2010 11:20 AM EST reply actions  

I love me the original Bill & Ted!

And it’s Keanu’s best acting performance, perhaps second to Parenthood.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 2:19 PM EST up reply actions  

strange that he's the same character in both movies

point break was his best movie/performance.

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by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 2:29 PM EST up reply actions  

Keanu Reeves is like Livan Hernandez

I mean, really, why do they keep running him out there? You KNOW he’s gonna suck.

The only movies he was good in were the Bill and Ted’s, because he played a guy who was so clueless, he was only vaguely aware of the action occuring right in front of his eyes. I tend to suspect it was typecasting based on his true persona.

He was also good in the first half of the Matrix, when he was a guy so clueless he was not even aware of what was real before his eyes. Until the part when he caught on. Then he was terrible.

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by bbjones on Feb 25, 2010 7:36 PM EST up reply actions  

keanu's best acting performance?

keanu and acting don’t go together in the same sentence…

by Daedalus on Mar 1, 2010 8:11 AM EST up reply actions  

That's true...

except that he is NOT playing himself in that role and is completely convincing. You’ve seen it, I hope?

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Mar 1, 2010 12:45 PM EST up reply actions  

That could be another topic

Movies that you really liked but weren’t that good when you rewatched them later.

by ol Pete on Feb 25, 2010 11:30 PM EST up reply actions  

gone in 60 seconds

i almost cant take it

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by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 11:47 PM EST up reply actions  

Best recent flick

The Hurt Locker.

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by obc2 on Feb 25, 2010 11:20 AM EST reply actions  

I just saw Crazy Heart this weekend.

It was excellent. I also liked Up in the Air, but I understand that one’s not popular in these parts.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 11:25 AM EST up reply actions  

i'm really looking forward to seeing crazy heart

Jeff Bridges is always great and it’s nice to see him getting recognized this awards season

by 'tHan on Feb 25, 2010 11:30 AM EST up reply actions  

Rancho Deluxe, bitches

even has a jimmy buffett soundtrack. im passing out burned copies to all who request….

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by obc2 on Feb 25, 2010 11:36 AM EST up reply actions  

of course it's on my iphone

that soundtrack includes some much dirtier versions of buffett songs

by 'tHan on Feb 25, 2010 11:38 AM EST up reply actions  

I've been wanting to see Crazy Heart.

I think I’m going to go see a movie in a theatre, but I can’t decide between that and A Single Man.

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Feb 25, 2010 4:04 PM EST up reply actions  

I saw Up in the Air a few weeks ago.

I didn’t think it was that bad, but that’s after crediting my taste for George Clooney movies. My wife had to lay people off that week and didn’t want to see it all happen in her living room on Friday night.

Also, I hate when movies try to capitalize on current events.

by Brian B on Feb 25, 2010 7:36 PM EST via mobile up reply actions  

Man I hope not

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 7:48 PM EST up reply actions  

Behind Enemy Lines?

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by bbjones on Feb 25, 2010 7:39 PM EST up reply actions  

Agreed

I finally found those movies you sent me for winning* the thing last year. Maybe I’ll actually get around to watching them soon!

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 4:29 PM EST up reply actions  

Little known flick

Diggstown.

I liked it almost as much as The Sting.

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by obc2 on Feb 25, 2010 11:30 AM EST reply actions  

Love Diggstown, and I think most RR folks would.

And The Sting is tremendous.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 2:19 PM EST up reply actions  

yeah, the sting is awesome

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by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 2:29 PM EST up reply actions  

Worst:

Dumb and Dumberer….was supposed to be a prequel to the original…..didn’t laugh a single time

Best recent movie is Taken

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Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still. Followed by millions of dumbfounded dips**ts.

by btcoop71 on Feb 25, 2010 11:48 AM EST reply actions  

Dumb and Dumberer

was indeed truly awful. Which was disappointing (but not surprising) because the original is one of the best movies ever. With that said, one of the scenes that I’ve laughed the hardest at is in Dumberer.

by kcgard2 on Feb 27, 2010 8:44 AM EST up reply actions  

The worst in recent years

“Beauty Shop” with Queen Latifah and Alicia Silverstone, and an assortment of people trying desperately to be funny/provocative/sincere inside a plot that doesn’t exist.

The worst of all time was allegedly “Plan 9 From Outer Space,” and I’d probably agree.

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by johnu1 on Feb 25, 2010 11:50 AM EST reply actions  

There was also that movie where Queen Latifah was dying

Totally unrealistic. Everyone knows black people don’t go skiing.

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 11:51 AM EST up reply actions   2 recs

Beauty Shop was racist.

I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)

by johnu1 on Feb 25, 2010 11:52 AM EST up reply actions  

Or yachting

Reminds me of a joke I heard @ Brew Ha Ha in Hartford last year:

Comedian: So, I’ve found that I don’t like to read, but my wife wants me to read more so we have stuff to talk about, like I want to join a book club or something… but anyway, I found this bookstore the other day, and it had books which were only a couple pages long. One of the titles caught my eye in the travel section: “Black people I’ve met while yachting”.

by Highlifeman21 on Feb 25, 2010 12:08 PM EST up reply actions  

Zoolander

That movie absolutely cracks me up every time I watch it, and I’ve seen it at least a dozen times.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky. Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still. Followed by millions of dumbfounded dips**ts.

by btcoop71 on Feb 25, 2010 11:51 AM EST reply actions  

Very funny.

Completely overlooked hilarity.

"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 11:56 AM EST up reply actions  

Also really sucking

the Tom Cruise version of “War of the Worlds.”

Really really really sucking.

I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)

by johnu1 on Feb 25, 2010 11:54 AM EST reply actions  

Tom Cruise has never been and will never be..

..as good as he was when he listened to Martin Scorsese tell him how to follow Paul Newman around for two hours in ‘The Color of Money.’

That is one of the better movies made in our lifetimes.

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by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 17, 2010 12:00 AM EDT up reply actions  

Accept these for consideration

Battlefield Earth
Super Troopers
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Black Knight
Disaster Movie
Who’s Your Caddy?
Epic Movie
Alone in the Dark
Daddy Day Camp

by Highlifeman21 on Feb 25, 2010 11:55 AM EST reply actions  

Super Troopers is just plain awful

Just not funny at all

People that like it only like it b/c they think they’re supposed to like it b/c it’s a cult movie, and you’re only cool if you’re into cult movies.

by Highlifeman21 on Feb 25, 2010 9:05 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

good list Highlife

and I agree about Super Troopers – very overrated

by kcgard2 on Feb 27, 2010 8:46 AM EST up reply actions  

Yes, good list, HL.

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 27, 2010 11:28 AM EST up reply actions  

Super Troopers?

Come on…that’s a great movie!

by ChiDa on Feb 25, 2010 12:08 PM EST up reply actions  

Right.

I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)

by johnu1 on Feb 25, 2010 12:10 PM EST up reply actions  

Damn. You must not have gotten the memo.

You weren’t supposed to actually see most of those movies.

, bitches!

by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 17, 2010 12:02 AM EDT up reply actions  

Memo fail

You’re right, I did not get the memo.

I saw all of those gems.

by Highlifeman21 on Mar 17, 2010 2:16 AM EDT up reply actions  

Higher up on the sucking ladder

“Brokeback Mountain.”

I still don’t get it.

I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)

by johnu1 on Feb 25, 2010 11:55 AM EST reply actions  

Wow.

I hope you meant to go there with the “sucking” bit.

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 25, 2010 12:13 PM EST up reply actions  

only wherever your mind takes you on it.

I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)

by johnu1 on Feb 25, 2010 12:20 PM EST up reply actions  

My mind takes me down to the streets of Mexico

when I haven’t seen my boyfriend for ages and ages.

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 25, 2010 12:21 PM EST up reply actions  

ah that would include

that other movie, Frida with Salma Hayak,
one of the worst fake foreign accents in history.

I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)

by johnu1 on Feb 25, 2010 12:26 PM EST up reply actions  

I always think it's funny

when actors play roles of famous foreign people and think that if they talk in English with a foreign accent that it will make it more realistic. I mean, they are talking in English and are playing the role of a famous foreign person. Are we that stupid?

I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)

by johnu1 on Feb 25, 2010 12:33 PM EST up reply actions  

Uh...

Pops must have been too subtle. Salma Hayek is a Mexican actress. As in, she always speaks English with a foreign accent.

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by chesirecat on Feb 25, 2010 2:24 PM EST up reply actions  

I was not aware of that.

Sorry. I could site some other examples, however.
Who’s interested in what I have to write? Not too many on this board.

I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)

by johnu1 on Feb 25, 2010 5:30 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

rrec'd

"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."

by Fat Vegas Alan on Feb 25, 2010 12:35 PM EST up reply actions  

It's "Titantic"

with two guys and no boat.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 7:03 PM EST up reply actions  

I think I saw that one

except it wasn’t two guys and they had a cup.

(backup joke: “Did they go down?”)

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by Slyde on Feb 25, 2010 7:38 PM EST up reply actions  

I thought

he was implying Derek Jeter has…er…weak wrists.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 7:58 PM EST up reply actions  

the Reds should have a Fantasy Camp in Cuba

best of both worlds!

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by obc2 on Mar 6, 2010 1:06 PM EST up reply actions  

worst movie ive seen in a long time

Year One. my wife and i wanted to go to the movies, but she had already seen The Hangover so we saw Year One instead. we walked out 45 minutes into it and walked over to The Hangover. only movie ive ever walked out on at the theatre. Harold Ramis is dead to me. it felt like the script was 20 pages long with a rough story outline and directions for Jack Black and Michael Cera to just do what they do. and then they ate shit.

incidentally, it made The Hangover that much better for me. im still horned off that it didnt get an Oscar nom.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 25, 2010 1:18 PM EST reply actions  

Lots of bad movies, so little time.

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by Madville on Feb 25, 2010 1:23 PM EST reply actions  

This is what one esteemed reviewer had to say about the film Up

I went to see the film Up. So here’s my review. The doggie was cute, Ed Anser was not. The movie was extremely well executed…but trite and hackneyed. A one star rating…warning do not take kids over the age of 11 to this film…they’ll spend the whole movie eating p-corn and farting and making fun of the boy scout.

by 'tHan on Feb 25, 2010 1:35 PM EST up reply actions  

Up is truly one of the l;amest movies I've been forced to sit through

For some reason known only to Satan the FMM thought it wasn’t terrible and wanted to stay.

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by Madville on Feb 25, 2010 4:46 PM EST up reply actions  

aw, that's sad for you.

I loved Up. I’m not prepared to defend it against your hatred, though, so I’ll just leave it at that. Except to say the few minutes of silent montage at the beginning are brilliantly beautiful, and there’s some damn fine illustrating in that movie.

by the finest muffins on Feb 25, 2010 4:48 PM EST up reply actions  

I thought that montage was nice

but I got bored with it after 45 or so more minutes.

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Feb 25, 2010 4:49 PM EST up reply actions  

My wife brought Up home from her parents' house last week.

I said I wasn’t interested. But I spared her the reason why, which is your review.

by Brian B on Feb 25, 2010 7:32 PM EST via mobile up reply actions  

oh yeah

ive come to realize that “Madville told me so” is not a good enough reason for anything, according to my wife.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 25, 2010 7:34 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

what's wrong with being sexy?

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by bbjones on Feb 25, 2010 8:07 PM EST up reply actions   2 recs

ist. sexIST!

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Feb 25, 2010 9:00 PM EST up reply actions  

I disagree with your assessment of Up.

But that is a fantastic two sentence movie review. And that’s exactly how I felt about There Will Be Blood.

by the finest muffins on Feb 26, 2010 1:06 AM EST up reply actions  

Don't pay any attention to me

I am a film snob of the worst sort.

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by Madville on Feb 26, 2010 6:28 AM EST up reply actions  

Up was damn fantastic

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by obc2 on Mar 6, 2010 1:07 PM EST up reply actions  

The dog was awesome.

"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."

by crolfer on Feb 25, 2010 10:41 PM EST up reply actions  

Damn, good call with Jeepers Creepers

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 1:45 PM EST up reply actions  

I liked that one

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by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 4:40 PM EST up reply actions  

come on

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by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 5:18 PM EST up reply actions  

I like cheesy horror movies

I even watched the sequel.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 7:07 PM EST up reply actions  

This one's my all time fave.

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 25, 2010 2:30 PM EST reply actions  

My least favorite is

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 25, 2010 2:34 PM EST up reply actions  

A tear JERKER to be sure

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 3:02 PM EST up reply actions  

and now you scared away Puddle and Muffins

and D will flag it when she gets in the from beach.

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 25, 2010 3:29 PM EST up reply actions  

They get offended by crying?

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by BK on Feb 25, 2010 3:59 PM EST up reply actions  

Who the hell is puddles?

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by Madville on Feb 25, 2010 4:48 PM EST up reply actions  

The Day After Tomorrow

Also, there was a movie with Denzel who couldn’t get healthcare for his son because Anne Heche was a mean hospital administrator lady who didn’t take his damn HMO. So Denzel got himself a gun.

Also, Runaway Jury with lawyer Dustin Hoffman in his corduroy blazer and John Cusack.

Anyone seeing a trend here?

by Brian B on Feb 25, 2010 6:36 PM EST via mobile reply actions  

liberuls!

also, I like John Q

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by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 6:38 PM EST up reply actions  

That's it . . . John Q. Thanks.

They may be liberal flicks, but they always make the villain so disbelievable that it fails. The movie is intended to reflect real life issues, but then they crap all over their own message by throwing in the super-bitch hospital administrator who doesn’t care about people the hospital is supposed to care about.

The Day After Tomorrow was one joke after another, but the topper was the non-believer Vice President who happened to look exactly like Dick Cheney. Really?

And then Gene Hackman in Runaway Jury . . . right, that’s how jury selection works.

by Brian B on Feb 25, 2010 6:54 PM EST via mobile up reply actions  

i was also really put off by the cheney character in TDAT

and the over-the-top political message in general. that movie blew

as for john q., i think denzel still carries it. he’s such a badass in that movie. “I AM NOT GONNA BURY MY SON! MY SON IS GONNA BURY ME!” chills, baby

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 6:58 PM EST up reply actions  

Still though

The writers had complete creative control over the script and thus full capability to make the healthcare system look bad . . . and it all came down to Denzel filling out the wrong form when he was electing his medical coverages? Seriously? Those forms might make a difference some day? They’re important?

by Brian B on Feb 25, 2010 7:18 PM EST via mobile up reply actions  

You have obviously never bought private individual health coverage :)

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 7:52 PM EST up reply actions  

I saw TDAT in the theatre

Big mistake.

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 7:51 PM EST up reply actions  

I got seriously shafted

because I didn’t do a form properly in a 1 week window that occurred after a year. I didn’t see the Denzel movie, but no matter what exaggeration you imagine about hospitals, there are realities that are worse.

I don’t know about the other co-author of Day After Tomorrow, but Art Bell is a raging conservative. And no movie could be freaky and bizarre enough to match the reality that is machine gun Cheney.

by ol Pete on Feb 25, 2010 11:43 PM EST up reply actions  

Art Bell.

Wow.

Hadn’t thought about him in a long time. Guy’s brilliant. (But ultimately forgettable.)

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by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 17, 2010 12:09 AM EDT up reply actions  

The Day After Tomorrow

Roland Emmerich is one of my guilty pleasures. no one can document the destruction of the universe like he can.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 25, 2010 6:49 PM EST up reply actions  

a friend of mine

once dragged me to the NY Public Library, so she could see where they filmed The Day After Tomorrow.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 7:09 PM EST up reply actions  

nope

It was Day After Tomorrow. And a TV show called Traveler, which no one else in the world has ever watched.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 7:34 PM EST up reply actions  

I had to do the recaps and trailers for Traveler.

As my wife put it, “Shit on Wheels.”

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 10:54 PM EST up reply actions  

really?

Man, my friend really loved that show.

I haven’t watched it myself, but it sounded very different. She said they were planning to kill off 2/3 of the cast by the end.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 11:56 PM EST up reply actions  

Another odd case of Hollywood casting a bunch of tiny boys as bad-asses.

Traveler starred a 5’3" guy who likes like E from Entourage and is somehow able to kick ANYBODY’s ass. Add in horrible acting and an amateurish production…ick.

I’ve been about par on getting assigned to shows that stick. Only 1 out of every 4 to 5 shows lasts more than a season. Since ’06 our studio has assigned me to Pushing Daisies, Big Shots, Eastwick, Traveler, Fringe, and Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles. I loved Daisies and grew to appreciate SCC & Fringe, but the other three were doomed by bad writing and/or acting.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 1:46 AM EST up reply actions  

you really think the acting was bad?

My friend really liked it. And they seem to be getting work.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 26, 2010 1:57 AM EST up reply actions  

Matthew Bomer was OK.

But Logan Marshall-Green is a transparent hack, and Aaron Stanford was as believable as a bad-ass like Wily Mo Pena would be convincing in the title role of Annie. Anthony Ruivivar has never been good. I’ve never seen Steven Culp deliver a convincing line. And Neal McDonough is far more interesting to look at than he is interesting as an actor.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 2:58 AM EST up reply actions  

heh

I’ll have to ask my friend which one was her favorite. I think it was Bomer, but I’m not sure.

FWIW, the creator said in his blog that Traveler was supposed to be a runt. That was a big part of what made him who he is.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 26, 2010 6:32 AM EST up reply actions  

Yeah...that comes across in the show ZERO percent.

We found out almost NOTHING about Traveler’s character during the whole series.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 12:12 PM EST up reply actions  

it was supposed to come out later

The third season, or something like that. He was a scrawny little runt, and a martial arts master took pity on him and taught him how to beat up guys much bigger than he was.

They did seem to have it all planned out. (Unlike, say, Chris Carter and “The X-Files.”) When “Traveler” was canceled, the show creator posted what they had planned for the entire series, including Traveler’s true identity. Just to give closure to the fans. I thought that was really neat. He had moved on, all the actors had moved on, but they wanted to do right by the fans who were left hanging.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 26, 2010 12:21 PM EST up reply actions  

I DO like it when writers share their unproduced story plans for the fans.

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 12:41 PM EST up reply actions  

you worked on pushing daisies?

man, im jealous. i LOVED that show. one of my favorites over the past couple years. also, kristen chenowith is a colossal hottie

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by boobs on Feb 26, 2010 2:11 AM EST up reply actions  

Agreed. That show was special.

But the writers strike killed it, as the previous strike killed Moonlighting.

Kristen is a mega sweetie, and has a smokin’ body. I saw some cutting room footage that amazing.

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 2:14 AM EST up reply actions  

i want to hug you and kick your ass right now

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by boobs on Feb 26, 2010 2:15 AM EST up reply actions  

but yeah, "special" is a good way to describe it. never seen a show like it before.

my favorite aspect of it was that despite the beautiful lollipop sets and sugary dialogue, the content of the writing was cleverly adult.

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by boobs on Feb 26, 2010 2:19 AM EST up reply actions  

Agreed, quite clever.

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 2:30 AM EST up reply actions  

kristen chenowith is beautiful

she was great on that show, and i was rooting for her to actually get the piemaker.

also, the episode of glee she was on this season was excellent.

by 'tHan on Feb 26, 2010 8:47 AM EST up reply actions  

yes, yes and yes

It was a beautiful show. I can’t imagine how much you’d miss by watching Pushing Daisies on a SDTV.

I was hooked on it from the first voiceover. It was a very very fun show. I knew it was too good to not get canceled.

by 'tHan on Feb 26, 2010 8:46 AM EST up reply actions  

Well done

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 7:52 PM EST up reply actions  

Hey, there is another idea

what place that was used in a movie do you want to go visit? I’d like to see the pub where Lovejoy used to hang out. That show would probably also be a winner in a shows that you like that nobody else does.

by ol Pete on Feb 25, 2010 11:46 PM EST up reply actions  

You mean the British show?

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by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 11:57 PM EST up reply actions  

yeah

it used to play here

by ol Pete on Feb 26, 2010 11:30 AM EST up reply actions  

I'd love to visit the site of Stalag Luft III from The Great Escape.

Also:
Fenway Park (Field of Dreams) – never seen a game there, Babe Ruth played there
Cooperstown (Cooperstown)
Top of Mount Rushmore (North by Northwest) – how bad-ass would that be?
Eiffel Tower (Team America: World Police)
Vanuatu (Among the Cannibal Isles of the South Pacific) – nighttime volcanic eruptions!
Monuriki (Cast Away) – it’s beautiful down there
Alcatraz (Escape from Alcatraz) – I’d love to go again
Eastern State Penitentiary (Twelve Monkeys)
Ohio State Reformatory (The Shawshank Redemption)
The Moon (Apollo 13)

I sometimes eat lunch at a Cuban joint across the street from the quickie mart they used in Superbad. It tickles me every time.

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 2:29 AM EST up reply actions  

I used to live near Eastern State Pen.

They’ve done a really good job of preserving it without making it feel like a museum, like Alcatraz. Also, Steve Buscemi narrates the audio tour.

by ken on Feb 26, 2010 6:19 AM EST up reply actions  

aweskum!

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 12:12 PM EST up reply actions  

We have not mentioned the worst movie of all time

Judge Dredd.

When a lousy plotline means bad writing and terrible “acting,” crap ensues.

“I AM da law.”

Boy, that was bad. Still gives me nightmares a decade later.

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by bbjones on Feb 25, 2010 7:32 PM EST reply actions  

maybe

my brain blocked most of it out as a defense mechanism.

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by bbjones on Feb 25, 2010 7:39 PM EST up reply actions  

i enter into evidence

the linked quote page. If these are the best quotes, imagine the worst?

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by bbjones on Feb 25, 2010 7:43 PM EST up reply actions  

No, that was Demolition Man

I got the movie poster from Taco Bell, which was supposed to be the only restaurant in existence by now.

by ken on Feb 25, 2010 8:26 PM EST up reply actions  

What about the racing movie he was in, or Cliffhanger?

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 7:53 PM EST up reply actions  

or rocky 5

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by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 7:55 PM EST up reply actions  

That never happened!

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 7:58 PM EST up reply actions  

cliffhanger was good

john lithgow makes a great bad guy

driven had burt reynolds in it. i never saw it but i bet it sucked

by 'tHan on Feb 25, 2010 8:03 PM EST up reply actions  

John Lithgow was on my tour of the Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin!

True story. He was in Ireland filming a movie with Amy Adams and decided to see the sights. He’s really tall.

by the finest muffins on Feb 26, 2010 1:10 AM EST up reply actions  

Oh he did such a great job in Dexter.

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 26, 2010 1:29 AM EST up reply actions  

we like referring to JCH as "House Plant"

that is something

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 26, 2010 9:45 AM EST up reply actions  

For some reason I saw 'Cliffhanger' after have my wisdom teeth removed.

And I remember thinking that it could have been a pretty good silent movie.

, bitches!

by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 17, 2010 12:17 AM EDT up reply actions  

i think you just did

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by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 7:49 PM EST up reply actions  

'Crash' from Cronenberg?

Or ‘Crash’ that rooked ‘Best Picture’ from "Brokeback Mounatin’?

, bitches!

by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 17, 2010 12:18 AM EDT up reply actions  

just overheard in the newsroom

“OPS is a made-up stat. It’s random. It doesn’t mean anything. What you need to look at is WSR: World Series Rings.”

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by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 8:21 PM EST reply actions  

Agreed

Unless something is cooled but not frozen.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 25, 2010 8:25 PM EST up reply actions  

what if they are dead?

then is it okay?

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by bbjones on Feb 25, 2010 9:28 PM EST up reply actions  

i was just going to say that!

that’s not what “random” means, fuckface!

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 25, 2010 8:23 PM EST up reply actions  

I don't watch movies that often

And when I do, they tend to be really cheesy horror flicks on Saturday mornings on the Sci-Fi Channel. There are probably a lot of movies I really hated, between friends and family dragging me to the theater, movies watched for classes, etc. But I don’t recall them very well (not least because I usually fall asleep before it’s over).

One movie that I remember as being really, really bad was “The Big Chill.” It’s supposed to be a good movie, and I know a lot of people found it hilarious, but I found it mind-numbingly dull. Just a bunch of boring people having boring conversations. Near as I can tell, nothing actually happened. “Infested,” a parody of the"The Big Chill" where killer insects show up to liven things up, was awful…but better than the original. (And it starred Robert Duncan McNeill, AKA Tom Paris of Voyager.)

Under the “so bad it’s good” category: a movie called “Python.” A snake the size of a 747 gets loose and begins terrorizing teenagers, as such monsters are wont to do. It starred Jenny McCarthy, Wil Wheaton, and Chris Owens (Agent Spender from “The X-Files”). Wil Wheaton quickly died an ignominious death – a moment Trek fans had long dreamed of. It really was a ludicrous movie. The heroine is attacked in shower, and the giant snake very helpfully allows her to get a towel and wrap it around herself before attacking. She spends the rest of the movie running about over hill and dale…dressed in nothing but a towel. It was obviously glued into place, because there was no way it would stay on otherwise. Another funny moment: a bunch of young people jump on their bikes to flee the speeding snake (which can outrun cars), and they stop to put on their helmets first. I’m as safety conscious as the next person, but common!

The “that’s racist” award: A movie called “Dr. Black and Mr. White.” A scientist invents a potion that turns black people white. Unfortunately, it also makes them homicidal maniacs. Lots of tedious scenes where a former LA Ram who’s been dipped in flour staggers around hospital corridors.

Foreign film award: I can’t remember the name of this movie, but it was a horror flick that involved penises that detached themselves from their sleeping owners and went around raping people.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 9:29 PM EST reply actions  

tl;dr

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by jch24 on Feb 25, 2010 10:15 PM EST up reply actions  

s'okay

I didn’t recommend any movies for you.

I do recommend this book, however. There’s supposed to be an accompanying film, but it doesn’t seem to be available yet. Probably doing the film festival circuit or something.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 26, 2010 12:00 AM EST up reply actions  

I was kidding, I read it

I read everything, for better or worse. Except train comments. :)

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 8:22 AM EST up reply actions  

Shut up

I read occasionally.

“….case against defendant is hereby dismissed as a result of negative buccal swab test results.”

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 9:01 AM EST up reply actions  

he read my post!

That should count for something.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 26, 2010 10:28 AM EST up reply actions  

it's a short book

Even kids read it.

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by boobs on Feb 26, 2010 12:56 PM EST up reply actions   2 recs

it's a short book

Even kids read it.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 26, 2010 10:15 AM EST up reply actions   1 recs

The Big Chill was classic meh.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 25, 2010 10:52 PM EST up reply actions  

then why is it so acclaimed?

I just don’t get it.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 25, 2010 11:57 PM EST up reply actions  

Kevin Kline was by far the best part of that movie.

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 26, 2010 12:18 PM EST up reply actions  

Damn another funny by Petey

You ever think of doing stand up

Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.

by Madville on Feb 26, 2010 12:27 PM EST up reply actions  

Shit, fucked up my own joke.

I meant Kevin Costner was the best part of that movie

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 26, 2010 12:40 PM EST up reply actions  

I really liked the Big Chill

I think it may have too many references that are specific to an age group, which sadly I am a member. A pretty remarkable job of casting.

by ol Pete on Feb 25, 2010 11:50 PM EST up reply actions  

man, you're old

you should say so in your name.

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by Slyde on Feb 26, 2010 8:41 AM EST up reply actions   1 recs

I’m waiting for my joints to actually creak after all the recent snow although, hey, I’m still able to shovel snow. I even do it for people older than me!

by ol Pete on Feb 26, 2010 11:33 AM EST up reply actions  

Where were two weeks ago?

Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.

by Madville on Feb 26, 2010 11:57 AM EST up reply actions  

uuummmmm.......two weeks ago

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 1:14 PM EST up reply actions  

I love The Big Chill!

Your foreign film mention (which sounds fantastically awful, by the way) reminded me of another “it’s acclaimed, but I hated it” movie— La Belle et la Bete, the 1940’s French “Beauty and the Beast.” It’s supposed to be this paragon of cinematic excellence, but I found it barely watchable. Which reminds me for some reason that I also hated Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

by the finest muffins on Feb 26, 2010 1:17 AM EST up reply actions   1 recs

I didn't like Close Encounters, either

Actually, with only a few exceptions, I’m not that wild about Spielberg in general.

And another strange foreign film I somehow ended up watching: a Japanese anime called “Boku no Sexual Harassment.” Which I gather means, “My Sexual Harassment.” About a pretty young man who sleeps his way to the top. His boss is mean to him, rapes him, and pimps him out to other men to secure business deals. (Let’s just say I’ll never look at an ear of corn the same again.) And yet, you’re supposed be happy at the end, when the boss proves he really cares about the guy he’s been harassing.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 26, 2010 1:36 AM EST up reply actions  

Why would you do that to me?

Corn on the cob is one of the few things that I imagine to be on everyone’s list of simple pleasures.

Kinda like TIgger.

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by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 17, 2010 12:27 AM EDT up reply actions  

La Belle

Some of the f/x they came up with are pretty killer in that, like reversing film to have the gloves appear to jump onto hands.

by Red Menace on Feb 26, 2010 3:11 AM EST up reply actions  

Naw ....
Foreign film award: I can’t remember the name of this movie, but it was a horror flick that involved penises that detached themselves from their sleeping owners and went around raping people.

Nobody really made this film, right?

I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)

by johnu1 on Feb 26, 2010 2:30 PM EST up reply actions  

Hm, a few worth mentioning...

The absolute worst movie I’ve ever seen is Adam Sandler’s 8 Crazy Nights. I should’ve expected that going on, but it truly brings nothing to the table.

I also can’t stand any of the Lord of the Rings movies, though I don’t know that they’re really the “worst” movies, just dreadfully boring.

I just saw Legion a couple of weeks ago and it was an absolutely abysmal movie.

Other piles of shit I’ve seen recently include The Informant, The Goods, and Gamer.

Honestly, it’s hard for me to come up with a list of bad movies, since I tend to only see them once then generally expunge them from my mind.

by Geki on Feb 25, 2010 10:43 PM EST reply actions  

another adam sandler flick

little nicky. def. in my top ten worst list

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by boobs on Feb 25, 2010 10:48 PM EST up reply actions  

Oh, good call.

That movie is an abomination. I’m embarrassed to say I owned it on VHS and watched it all the time when I was younger. I tried to watch it again a couple of years ago and couldn’t get fifteen minutes in.

by Geki on Feb 25, 2010 11:00 PM EST up reply actions  

I've never seen any of the Rings movies

I’ve also never seen Jurassic Park or any of the new Star Wars movies.

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 8:25 AM EST up reply actions  

guess what?

you aren’t missing anything.

i envy that you have the option to continue not having seen those movies

by 'tHan on Feb 26, 2010 8:50 AM EST up reply actions  

That's kind of the way I look at it too

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 9:02 AM EST up reply actions  

if the boy is a Star Wars nerd

why havent you seen the new SW flicks?

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by obc2 on Mar 6, 2010 1:10 PM EST up reply actions  

He's seen them

But I honestly have no interest in them.

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by jch24 on Mar 6, 2010 1:20 PM EST up reply actions  

We do plenty together

Like eat applesauce.

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by jch24 on Mar 6, 2010 1:50 PM EST up reply actions  

applesauce is a good start

but nothing can replace watching 12 hours worth of shitty movies!

by 'tHan on Mar 6, 2010 9:28 PM EST up reply actions  

Lord of the Rings'd

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by obc2 on Mar 6, 2010 11:06 PM EST up reply actions  

We're watching those now...

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by crolfer on Mar 6, 2010 11:49 PM EST up reply actions  

I saw the first Lord of the Rings Movie

I was really bored and kept hoping Frodo would die.

I might be interesting with the aid of hallucinogens.

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by justin007000 on Feb 26, 2010 9:47 AM EST up reply actions  

I give Jurassic Park a thumbs up

but then I get a kick out of large critters.

by ol Pete on Feb 26, 2010 11:42 AM EST up reply actions  

Jurassic Park was one of my favorite movies growing up

But the sequel might make this worst movies list.

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by BK on Feb 26, 2010 11:43 AM EST up reply actions  

Jurassic Park was such a disappointment to me when I saw it

The book was amazing, and to me, the movie just didn’t compare. Looking back on it now, I can enjoy the movie more because the book isn’t so fresh in my mind.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 26, 2010 11:44 AM EST up reply actions  

I think that Jurassic Park is a REALLY well-made movie.

And it’s one that I leave playing if I’m flipping channels.

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 12:21 PM EST up reply actions  

one part I got a kick out of

was when BD Wong says, “Females don’t just turn into males!” I burst out laughing the first time I saw that scene.

(And speaking of “based on a true story” – M. Butterfly has got to be one of the most unbelievable.)

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by BubbaFan on Feb 26, 2010 12:46 PM EST up reply actions  

I liked the dinos

At the time, they looked incredibly realistic.

Didn’t like the Spielbergisms.

And now, of course, we realize that a lot of the dinos should have had feathers.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 26, 2010 12:28 PM EST up reply actions  

Jeff Goldblum should've had feathers as well.

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 26, 2010 12:29 PM EST up reply actions  

I've always thought

Most people prefer any book over the movie, especially if they read the book first.

I figure it’s because each person sees the scenery and characters slightly differently in their mind and are inherently disappointed when the director’s vision doesn’t match their own.

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 1:17 PM EST up reply actions  

not forrest gump!

that book was turrible.

no matter what you think of the movie, the book is worse

by 'tHan on Feb 26, 2010 1:19 PM EST up reply actions  

thats racist

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by boobs on Feb 26, 2010 1:19 PM EST up reply actions  

what's wrong with being racy?

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by bbjones on Feb 27, 2010 12:27 AM EST up reply actions   1 recs

NASCAR's racist, too. :P

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 27, 2010 12:35 AM EST up reply actions  

Shrimp is the fruit of the sea

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 1:20 PM EST up reply actions  

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 26, 2010 1:23 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

I don't recall Yul Brynner playing a gay pirate.

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 26, 2010 2:07 PM EST up reply actions   2 recs

Impossible

Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.

by Madville on Feb 26, 2010 2:35 PM EST up reply actions  

True enough

It’s definitely better to read the book after seeing the movie. The one case where the movie was definitely better was Forrest Gump. Not that it was a good movie, but the book is just that much worse.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 26, 2010 1:20 PM EST up reply actions  

Ok

L.A. Confidential is also better as a movie than a book.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 26, 2010 1:25 PM EST up reply actions  

High Fidelity

It’s not like there are a lot of nuances from the book that are lost in the movie. Black and Cusack make those characters really shine, more so than in the book.

by ken on Feb 26, 2010 1:30 PM EST up reply actions  

Eh

I was never really on board with the movie (I liked Grosse Pointe Blank better), and really enjoyed the book more. So I guess that makes my list.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 26, 2010 1:33 PM EST up reply actions  

I disagree.

Since the book is (almost) always better, I’d prefer my unspoiled, no-preconceived-notions experience to be with the book.

Best case scenario: read the book, then wait at least 6 months to see the movie. By that time you’ll only remember characters, themes, and the basic plot, which is what the movie’s most likely to keep anyway.

by the finest muffins on Feb 26, 2010 1:53 PM EST up reply actions  

Another possible topic!

Movies better than books → Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep wasn’t all that good, at least that’s my recollection.

by ol Pete on Feb 26, 2010 1:26 PM EST up reply actions  

Two books better than movie

Exorcist and Godfather.

I like Godfather to see if the characters were like I imagined them. In nearly all cases, right on (except Luca Brazzi.)

I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)

by johnu1 on Feb 26, 2010 1:58 PM EST up reply actions  

movies better than books

fight club
godfather
deliverance
there are some more on this list for me, but im blanking

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand

by saboscork on Feb 26, 2010 2:52 PM EST up reply actions  

I did not care for The Godfather

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 3:09 PM EST up reply actions  

Ditto

Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.

by Madville on Feb 26, 2010 3:38 PM EST up reply actions  

You're going to not care for me in just a minute

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 3:43 PM EST up reply actions  

Bridges of Madison County

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by obc2 on Mar 6, 2010 1:11 PM EST up reply actions  

you mean Binges in Madison County

Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.

by Madville on Mar 6, 2010 2:37 PM EST up reply actions  

I hate that movie almost as much

as I hate Clint Eastwood for making it.

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by PeteyHendrix on Mar 12, 2010 2:00 AM EST up reply actions  

The Princess Bride.

The book’s good, but the movie’s a masterpiece.

Also, I doubt any of you are Jane Austen fans, but the BBC recently did a version of Northanger Abbey which was fantastic: kept all the good parts and fixed all the dumb parts of the novel.

by the finest muffins on Feb 26, 2010 1:57 PM EST up reply actions  

pride and prejudice and zombies was better

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by boobs on Feb 26, 2010 2:00 PM EST up reply actions  

Pride and Prejudice might be watchable...

…if zombies roamed the English countryside, tearing the bustles from their voluptuous bodies while viciously devouring the brains of anyone snooty.

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 5:28 PM EST up reply actions  

Northanger Abbey

contains possibly the earliest written reference to “base-ball”.

by Red Menace on Feb 26, 2010 11:04 PM EST up reply actions  

yes it does!

It’s right in the first chapter. I’m pretty sure I cheered out loud when I read that, even though it takes place in England and probably isn’t referring to baseball as we know it. I think the movie shows her playing cricket.

by the finest muffins on Feb 26, 2010 11:09 PM EST up reply actions  

Not a movie

but the TV series of Dexter is much better than the books. The plots, character depths, and overall writing of the show is much superior to the books.

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 26, 2010 3:04 PM EST up reply actions  

What do expect from British prig?

Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.

by Madville on Feb 26, 2010 3:38 PM EST up reply actions  

One movie that I put on equal footing with the book

was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The movie was presented in different character perspective than the book but each works well.

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 26, 2010 2:09 PM EST up reply actions  

Jurassics

Alexandra DuPont makes a pretty compelling case here that the Jurassic Park sequel is the superior movie.

by Red Menace on Feb 26, 2010 11:02 PM EST up reply actions  

interesting

I confess, I don’t really care about the plot, acting, etc. I just like to watch the dinosaurs. So I guess better animation is better.

I never really liked the trailer over the cliff scene, though. It just seemed over the top. I liked the T-rex chasing the jeep in the first movie. And the way they know she’s arriving when the ground starts to shake, causing ripples in the puddle.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 26, 2010 11:28 PM EST up reply actions  

rec'd

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Feb 26, 2010 2:53 PM EST up reply actions  

I like his older stuff

Sleeper is good stuff.

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 26, 2010 3:05 PM EST up reply actions  

i heard he's into stir fry

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 27, 2010 12:07 AM EST up reply actions   1 recs

That's racist!

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by PeteyHendrix on Feb 27, 2010 12:36 AM EST up reply actions  

Seriously...

Have any of you seen The Room?

"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."

by crolfer on Feb 25, 2010 10:46 PM EST reply actions  

Almost every Kevin costner movie sucks warm turds

Especially Robin Hood and The Postman etc.etc.etc.

Dances with Wolves a decent film despite Costner’s monotone delivery…Bull Durham was perfect for him.

Man Thongs - The perfect male skater uni.

by Madville on Feb 25, 2010 11:05 PM EST reply actions  

PoT, Postman, and Waterworld sucked

but I like almost everything else with him. Dances, Guardian. Bull Durham, Field of Dreams (top 5 movie on my list.)

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by ZJiff30 on Feb 25, 2010 11:38 PM EST up reply actions  

Favorite Costner movies

Bull Durham, No Way Out and Silverado (although he was a supporting character in that one).

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by cesarhernandez on Feb 26, 2010 2:07 AM EST up reply actions  

Silverado is another underrated flick

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by obc2 on Mar 6, 2010 1:12 PM EST up reply actions  

did you watch swing vote?

i didn’t see it, but i can’t imagine that it was any good

by 'tHan on Feb 26, 2010 8:51 AM EST up reply actions  

Nope never saw it

Looked like crap

My fantasy football team this year? Lippincott's Shorts

by cesarhernandez on Feb 26, 2010 11:57 AM EST up reply actions  

Never watched it, never will.

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by ZJiff30 on Mar 8, 2010 11:53 AM EST up reply actions  

you never know

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Mar 8, 2010 12:02 PM EST up reply actions  

Most monotone delivery of all time

→ Kevin Spacey – he reads every part exactly the same.

by ol Pete on Feb 25, 2010 11:53 PM EST up reply actions  

But Edward Norton can dunk

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 9:02 AM EST up reply actions  

except when Edward Norton played the guy from Spandau Ballet

on Modern Family. That was, uh, different for him.

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by Slyde on Feb 26, 2010 9:25 AM EST up reply actions  

yeah

he was totally one-dimensional in primal fear

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 26, 2010 1:00 PM EST up reply actions  

But... but...

“If you build it, he will come,” Madville!

by the finest muffins on Feb 26, 2010 1:19 AM EST up reply actions  

Good Lord

Field of Drivel – I had hoped that it was just a very bad dream… creepy

Man Thongs - The perfect male skater uni.

by Madville on Feb 26, 2010 6:35 AM EST up reply actions  

But better than Die Hard 3

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Feb 26, 2010 10:38 AM EST up reply actions  

Waaaaaay better than Die Hard 3.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 12:23 PM EST up reply actions  

Suck Hard With a Vengence

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 26, 2010 12:23 PM EST up reply actions  

whaaa?

no way 2 is better than 3. not e’en close!

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 26, 2010 12:26 PM EST up reply actions  

They're all formulaic tripe.

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 26, 2010 12:27 PM EST up reply actions  

well, yeah

but some tripe is better than others. and 3 is better than 2. and both are waaaaay better than 4.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 26, 2010 12:33 PM EST up reply actions  

See Patterson vs. Taveras 2

“This time it’s personal!”

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 1:18 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

die hard is not at all formulaic actually

because it wrote the formula

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand

by saboscork on Feb 26, 2010 2:54 PM EST up reply actions  

the first one is really good formulaic tripe

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 26, 2010 1:01 PM EST up reply actions  

Incredibly late to this party

I just skimmed the comments, and didn’t see my worst movie pick…

Blair Witch Project.

My fantasy football team this year? Lippincott's Shorts

by cesarhernandez on Feb 26, 2010 2:06 AM EST reply actions  

i saw that movie in theatres with my brother

afterward he said “So what do you think? Was it real?” That’s much more a comment about my brother than the effectiveness of BWP

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Feb 26, 2010 2:14 AM EST up reply actions  

That's great

Reminds me of hearing someone mention in casual conversation “You know, paranormal Activity was based on a true story!”.

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 8:27 AM EST up reply actions  

there's one i liked when i first saw it

but now cannot stand. i saw it in the theatre and thought it was real (i know, i know). but i was just a kid, and my friend who was older than me had me convinced. a few days later when i saw an interview with the actress i said, “wait a minute…”

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 26, 2010 8:32 AM EST up reply actions  

"....but I was just a kid"

Damn it all, I’m old.

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 8:48 AM EST up reply actions  

a lot of my friends believed it was real

And refused to be convinced otherwise.

I thought it was real, too, based on their marketing materials. It’s the kind of thing I’m interested in, so I did some Googling. And realized it was a “mockumentary.” But a lot of my friends insisted that it was real. (There’s now a whole series of such fakes, called “Lost Tapes.” It’s turrible. But I still watch if I happen to surf by while it’s on. Like a train wreck, I can’t look away.)

However, The Blair Witch Project is still better than Blair Witch 2. Which isn’t saying much, admittedly.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 26, 2010 10:24 AM EST up reply actions  

They made a second one?

What was the plot, did the girl start sharing her toys when she got to come out of the corner?

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 10:31 AM EST up reply actions  

My buddy was the director of photography on Blair Witch.

He was the only casaulty when a small Cessna plane carrying four crew members filiming scenery for another film crashed into the sea surrounding the Dry Tortugas islands of Florida.

Weird.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 12:25 PM EST up reply actions  

I never saw it

Some say a comet will fall from the sky. Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still. Followed by millions of dumbfounded dips**ts.

by btcoop71 on Mar 1, 2010 8:21 AM EST up reply actions  

quote from this movie

 but Joe Versus Volcano no redeeming quality
2) Blade Runner, Bull Durham, It’s A Wonderful Life

by oklahoma red on Feb 26, 2010 2:33 AM EST reply actions  

It has SOME redeeming quality...

Meg Ryan is young and hot in it.
Abe Vigoda is in it, and is awesome.
The montage where Joe is on the raft that is set to “Good Lovin’” by The Rascals is really nice.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 2:47 AM EST up reply actions  

FTH happened to Meg Ryan?

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 8:27 AM EST up reply actions  

Plastic Surgery Expense Account.

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 26, 2010 12:21 PM EST up reply actions  

The woman is 48, that's what happened.

And she lost a lot of her appeal for many when she left her kid and husband of ten years (Dennis Quaid) to have a fling with Russell Crowe.

Interestingly enough, she turned down the Sharon Stone role in Basic Instinct (directed by Paul Verhoeven) – a role she could not have served well, IMO.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 12:30 PM EST up reply actions  

Age isn't the issue for me

She was and always would have had a cuteness to her, but the surgeries have left her rather odd looking IMO.

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 1:20 PM EST up reply actions  

My favorite Sharon Stone story

is her boinking Clinton after his second inaugural ball. Just perfectly ’90s.

by ken on Feb 26, 2010 1:20 PM EST up reply actions  

Rec #2,000 for me right there

Well done sir.

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 6:53 PM EST up reply actions  

wait...

Clinton never married Sharon Stone…

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 26, 2010 1:36 PM EST up reply actions  

Yet he insists that he never got stoned.

Inhaling is underrated.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 5:30 PM EST up reply actions  

This is where I admit

that I watch You’ve Got Mail every time it is on. It’s not a great movie, but for some reason, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

Oh, and I’m a Tom Hanks apologist. So, screw you if you don’t like him.

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by Slyde on Feb 26, 2010 8:45 AM EST up reply actions  

I loved Tom Hanks in The Simpsons Movie

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 8:49 AM EST up reply actions  

Don't you have to be a someone to become a has-been?

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 12:32 PM EST up reply actions  

Funny anecdote:

Jay Mohr was talking to producer Joel Silver (Die Hard, Predator, Brewster’s Millions), and Silver asked why Jay hadn’t done more films. Jay countered that he had an upcoming independent film coming out.

Silver bellowed at him, “Who are you, Parker FUCKIN’ Posey?!? I make BIG movies!”

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 12:38 PM EST up reply actions  

and Dave Chappelle playing a white guy.

And Dabney Coleman. And Steve Zahn.

Solid cast.

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by Slyde on Feb 26, 2010 9:28 AM EST up reply actions  

you are wrong

it is a great movie.

how can you watch you’ve got mail and not smile?

by 'tHan on Feb 26, 2010 8:53 AM EST up reply actions  

immediately after i watch You've Got Mail

i spin some REM’s “Shiny Happy People”.

Life is good.

"Life is good....life is good...life is good..life is good" jch

by obc2 on Mar 6, 2010 1:16 PM EST up reply actions  

That was the original theme song to the Friends pilot.

It was changed before air.

It doesn't matter what you think, or what I think. It's what Dusty thinks that matters, and he's a knucklehead.

by PeteyHendrix on Mar 12, 2010 2:01 AM EST up reply actions  

Consider me screwed then

Actually, I’m a big early Tom Hanks fan…loved him in Bosom Buddies, Joe V. Volcano was good.
It all turned for me when Forrest Gump happened. Most overrated movie……ever. What a steaming pile of crap. Then he wins back-to-back Oscars with Philadelphia and gets all arrogant and full of himself. I went on a Tom Hanks boycott after that. I think “You’ve got Mail” is the only Hanks movie for which I’ve broken the boycott. Never seen Castaway, The Green Mile, Saving Private Ryan, etc.

My fantasy football team this year? Lippincott's Shorts

by cesarhernandez on Feb 26, 2010 11:49 AM EST up reply actions  

I like Saving Private Ryan

but not because Hanks is in it. His performance was good, but not a standout. I just thought it was a good tribute to WWII soldiers.

Band of Brothers was better though.

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by Slyde on Feb 26, 2010 4:25 PM EST up reply actions  

i like it too

but i have to turn it off prematurely. i cant watch the last 5 minutes. it ruins everything the first 2.5 hours accomplishes.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 26, 2010 4:51 PM EST up reply actions  

It is a great tribute

seeing how many soldiers get slaughtered in an effort to save one?

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 26, 2010 5:11 PM EST up reply actions  

Hmmph. "I have no response to that."

Except I do. Joe Versus the Volcano is underappreciated genius. The scene with Joe’s spiritual awakening is hauntingly beautiful, on top of which the movie is hilarious and quotable (“I’m not arguing that with you!”). And the luggage! How can you not love the luggage? I kept wanting that to show up in Castaway.

by the finest muffins on Feb 26, 2010 11:02 AM EST up reply actions  

It hasn't been mentioned yet

but I saw about 40 minutes of The Love Guru. FTW

by Red Menace on Feb 26, 2010 11:33 AM EST reply actions  

You are truly a brave soul

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 1:27 PM EST up reply actions  

Well, it did have Heather Graham in it.

That’s good for about 3 minutes, assuming I’m on my game.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 5:31 PM EST up reply actions  

I don't know the names of any of them

but you can flip on the Lifetime Network and see the same movie with a different title that hurts my brain. The li’l woman doesn’t watch them, but she often has something like that on. I walk in the room and ask what’s going on in the show.

Her: talking
Me: about what?
Her: relationships
Me: pained face and move on to the kitchen…

by ol Pete on Feb 26, 2010 11:48 AM EST reply actions  

Upon further review I would like to nominate

The Lady in the Water. Utter shit. Painful. Also, Sex and the City made me want to kick a puppy.

A Pete Rose by any other name would still smell of cheap hookers and pinetar.

by Pops Daniels on Feb 26, 2010 12:25 PM EST reply actions  

The SaTC movie

and 500 Days of Summer both made me want to kick main characters, hard.

I mean, Jesus. You didn’t get married, Carrie! Get the fuck over it! You don’t need to mourn for a year!

And that guy in 500 days…ugh. That movie certainly didn’t redeem itself by being one big setup for perhaps the worst final line of all time.

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on Feb 26, 2010 1:34 PM EST up reply actions  

500 Days of Summer was utter bullshit

its the only time i can remember the imdb viewer ratings has failed.

8.1 my ass.

"Life is good....life is good...life is good..life is good" jch

by obc2 on Mar 6, 2010 1:18 PM EST up reply actions  

You have to give those ratings at least a year to stabilize, I think.

When a movie first comes out in theaters and then on DVD, the only ones taking the time to rate it online are the fans. After awhile, a more balanced viewership weighs in.

by the finest muffins on Mar 6, 2010 7:46 PM EST up reply actions  

OOOO I just thought of another really stupid movie

With one of theworld’s worst actresses ever to be so popular….
Striptease…Demi Moore falls even farther from her heights in Blame it On Rio - another piece of trash.

Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.

by Madville on Feb 26, 2010 2:45 PM EST reply actions  

Reminds Me

Charlie’s Angels is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen

by 'tHan on Feb 26, 2010 2:46 PM EST up reply actions  

Striptease was an epic fail

i had big expectations, have all of Carl Hiaasen’s books.

I think Demi’s best flick is a Crichton book, Disclosure.

"Life is good....life is good...life is good..life is good" jch

by obc2 on Mar 6, 2010 1:19 PM EST up reply actions  

Ahem

St. Elmo’s Fire?

(“I’m gonna be your man in motion! All I need is a pair of wheels. Take me where my future’s lying, ST. ELMO’S FI-IRE!”)

by Brendanukkah on Mar 6, 2010 3:28 PM EST up reply actions  

St. Elmo's Fire!!

Epic. My friends and I watched that my senior year of college because it was supposed to be this classic movie about a bunch of college friends post-grad. It ended up fueling most of our running jokes for the next few months. Rob Lowe carrying that saxophone around, stalker Emilio Estevez, absolutely CRAZY Demi Moore. Awesome.

by the finest muffins on Mar 6, 2010 7:54 PM EST up reply actions  

No shit Muffins

What a presumptuous self righteous piece of fluff…I watched about 15-20 minutes of it before I left the theatre. They wouldn’t return my money so I went into the alley peed on the Theatre Wall…I not ashamed…I did and only wish I had had the actual film to piss on..I much preferred Up over St. Blowme’s Pyre

Gleet:The chronic morbid discharge as from the nostrils of horses.

by Madville on Mar 6, 2010 10:12 PM EST up reply actions  

Also, The Tombs (which St. Elmo's Fire bar is based on)

is like the one bar in Georgetown that I actually enjoy. Even though it’s full of Georgetown kids.

by Brendanukkah on Mar 6, 2010 11:42 PM EST up reply actions  

I don't know Madville is pretty snarky himself.

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Mar 7, 2010 2:47 AM EST up reply actions  

alright, ima lay it down

worst movie of all time:
Tremors 2
Walking Tall (the original)
Action Jackson
Freejack
Sharky’s Machine
Grand Canyon
Money Train

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand

by saboscork on Feb 26, 2010 2:58 PM EST reply actions  

most overrated movies of recent memory

boondock saints (the undisputed champion of this category)
the hangover
sleepless in seattle
notting hill
legally blonde
the ring

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand

by saboscork on Feb 26, 2010 3:00 PM EST up reply actions  

my favorite movies of the decade

there will be blood
the squid and the whale
children of men
inglourious basterds
traffic
matchpoint
sexy beast
a christmas tale
lost in translation
in the bedroom

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand

by saboscork on Feb 26, 2010 3:02 PM EST up reply actions  

some honorable mentions

city of god, memento, little children, pan’s labyrinth, idiocracy, sideways, i heart huckabees, closer, brokeback mountain, eternal sunshine, babel, the pianist, the assassination of jesse james . . ., no country for old men, punch drunk love, kill bill, the constant gardner, apocalypto, bad santa, 21 grams, the door in the floor, adaptation, the 25th hour, y tu mama tambien, the new world

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand

by saboscork on Feb 26, 2010 3:06 PM EST up reply actions  

Ever?

Ever?

I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)

by johnu1 on Feb 26, 2010 3:10 PM EST up reply actions  

I bought it. Then I was so bored to tears that I couldn't finish it.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 5:33 PM EST up reply actions  

I watched Apocalypto again recently

I love that little girl in the clearing. Do you want me to tell you how you will die?
.

by ol Pete on Feb 26, 2010 9:30 PM EST up reply actions  

Bad Santa is a 10.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 27, 2010 12:38 AM EST up reply actions  

Boondock was a decent movie that was highly overhyped

And you’re wrong about the Hangover

"aaron harnann is so aweseom" - justin

by BK on Feb 26, 2010 3:04 PM EST up reply actions  

well, as overrated flicks go

… Titanic was really a chick flick with a big budget. The movie was decent, well acted, but vastly overrated.

I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)

by johnu1 on Feb 26, 2010 3:06 PM EST up reply actions  

definitely

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand

by saboscork on Feb 26, 2010 3:07 PM EST up reply actions  

I found it really dull

I was rooting for the ship to sink, and for Leo to drown, just to put me out of their misery.

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by BubbaFan on Feb 26, 2010 3:17 PM EST up reply actions  

or rooting for the house in 21

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 26, 2010 3:54 PM EST up reply actions  

Are you referencing the movie?

Or is that what you think that game is called?

by Brendanukkah on Feb 26, 2010 5:31 PM EST up reply actions  

do you prefer the term blackjack?

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 26, 2010 5:38 PM EST up reply actions  

If you're talking about the game...

…yes. If you’re recycling decades-old Sports Guy jokes, I’m agin’ it.

by Brendanukkah on Feb 26, 2010 5:41 PM EST up reply actions  

there are two good things about both of those movie from my perspective

and they are willem dafoe and zach galifianakis respectively

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand

by saboscork on Feb 26, 2010 3:08 PM EST up reply actions  

no he's not

the hangover was not nearly as good as it was built up to be.

he’s actually right about all of those movies

by 'tHan on Feb 26, 2010 3:08 PM EST up reply actions  

Best drunk in a movie

gotta be Shooter.

“Run the picket fence!”

I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)

by johnu1 on Feb 26, 2010 3:09 PM EST up reply actions  

You can't really hold the movie responsible for your friends building it up too much.

You would have likely loved it if you saw it in a vacuum. Provided you emptied the canister or bag first.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 5:35 PM EST up reply actions  

watching it in a vacuum would be interesting

i wouldnt be unamused by all the recycled kind of jokes that proliferate the movie

but then i also wouldnt get any of the stale pop culture references

that movie is dreck, todd phillips should be neutered

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand

by saboscork on Feb 26, 2010 6:29 PM EST up reply actions  

Screw you

(in the nice way- but not the sexual way)

Boondock Saints is freaking awesome.

"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."

by crolfer on Feb 26, 2010 3:05 PM EST up reply actions  

im sorry

but i will never understand how so many people feel this way about that movie

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand

by saboscork on Feb 26, 2010 3:27 PM EST up reply actions  

Us vigilante killers like the recognition.

"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."

by crolfer on Feb 26, 2010 3:55 PM EST up reply actions  

The Peach and the House Plant

gave me Boondock for Xmas. Not sure when that’s hitting the dvd player. They swear by it with furious emotion.

"Life is good....life is good...life is good..life is good" jch

by obc2 on Mar 6, 2010 1:21 PM EST up reply actions  

thank you

Boondock Saints was one of the most bizarre experiences of my college life. everyone loved it but me. i started questioning my own sanity.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 26, 2010 3:15 PM EST up reply actions  

I've been questioning your sanity for a while now

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by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 3:18 PM EST up reply actions  

anyone who likes boondock saints should watch "overnight"

its a documentary about troy duffy, the writer/director and what i collosal prick he is. its very interesting

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand

by saboscork on Feb 26, 2010 3:29 PM EST up reply actions  

anyone who doesnt like it should watch overnight also

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand

by saboscork on Feb 26, 2010 3:30 PM EST up reply actions  

I liked the original Walking Tall, as well as Grand Canyon.

I liked Freejack when it came out, but I don’t think I’d like it now.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 26, 2010 5:32 PM EST up reply actions  

grand canyon is the “sequel” to the big chill

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand

by saboscork on Feb 26, 2010 6:30 PM EST up reply actions  

So long ago

but I have a vague positive recollection of Sharky’s Machine and I’m not a big Reynolds fan. Wasn’t there a song with something like that as a refrain or a title?

by ol Pete on Feb 26, 2010 9:23 PM EST up reply actions  

maybe

i havent seen it in a couple of years. that movie is so terrible. it was DIRECTED by burt reynolds. true story

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand

by saboscork on Feb 26, 2010 10:22 PM EST up reply actions  

wow

Local woman celebrates 106th birthday.

From the article:

When asked what her biggest regret was, Ms. Kolb replied “The time that cad Madville Del Rio stood me up on prom night.”

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 26, 2010 3:39 PM EST reply actions  

I thought he was making a joke...

Then I read the article, and that quote was really there! Wow!

"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."

by crolfer on Feb 26, 2010 3:44 PM EST up reply actions  

I believe her quote was actually:

“That handsome cad Madvile Del Rio stood me up on prom night.’

My mistake she was bitchin’ hot

Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.

by Madville on Feb 26, 2010 3:47 PM EST up reply actions  

I enjoyed this
She enjoys playing cards, eating shrimp at Red Lobster and watching “The Price is Right” and “Wheel of Fortune,” but says, “If I had my way, I’d discard the TV and cell phones.”

TV, because “the commercials are terrible.” And cell phones, because people “don’t need to be riding in a car and listening to a telephone.”

One day I am going to be old and people will make fun of me…

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 26, 2010 3:57 PM EST up reply actions  

There's something to be said for having it done to you before you get old.

I just knew that I would now be having train sex with a very odd broad in no time. I didn’t expect the bitch to shoot me though. (Pops Daniels)

by johnu1 on Feb 27, 2010 1:55 AM EST up reply actions  

Johnny is the best.

Plus, he could probably beat up every dude I know.

IAN! I'm on traain!

by andromache on Feb 26, 2010 4:31 PM EST up reply actions  

You must know some weak dudes

I see Johnny as more of a lover than a fighter

Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.

by Madville on Feb 26, 2010 8:11 PM EST up reply actions  

I'm late to this party but

the worst movie I saw at the theatre was called Hawmps. It was billed as a “Mel Brooks style comedy”. Denver Pyle is the only guy i remember in it. Just terrible. Something to do with the US Army having camels out west.

"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
—Rogers Hornsby

by Caleb on Feb 26, 2010 11:25 PM EST reply actions  

Wasn't Jenna Jameson in that too

Yu Na...if I were 40 years younger and single.

by Madville on Feb 27, 2010 6:24 AM EST up reply actions  

OK, OK,

800+ posts and no one has mentioned Twilight for worst movie ever. I mean really, of all the movies that all terrible that aren’t trying to be, this one takes the cake. Maybe not the worst movie ever, but easily, easily my least favorite movie ever.

by kcgard2 on Feb 27, 2010 9:17 AM EST reply actions  

My wife got that on Netflix a couple of weeks ago

We have about 30 minutes into it before turning it off. My God is was brutal.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky. Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still. Followed by millions of dumbfounded dips**ts.

by btcoop71 on Mar 1, 2010 8:24 AM EST up reply actions  

have = got

How I got those words confused is beyond me

Some say a comet will fall from the sky. Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still. Followed by millions of dumbfounded dips**ts.

by btcoop71 on Mar 1, 2010 8:25 AM EST up reply actions  

Hard to vote for something you've never seen

And if ‘than hasn’t seen it, probably no one here has. ;-)

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Feb 27, 2010 9:39 AM EST up reply actions  

(gulp)

I’ve seen it.

AWFUL.

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 27, 2010 12:30 PM EST up reply actions  

Homer Bailey’s team…

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 27, 2010 2:07 PM EST up reply actions  

One of the local morning drive-time FM shows had a "team" contest right around the time the latest Twilight debuted

And I never understood the whole “team” thing, so I did some research, and then was inundated with teenybopper bullshit and was like “wtf, mate?”

So then I realized that I hadn’t seen the 1st Twilight movie, and now had decided that I would never see any of them. Ever.

by Highlifeman21 on Feb 27, 2010 9:17 PM EST up reply actions  

It was not of my own volition

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 27, 2010 4:08 PM EST up reply actions  

Horseshit.

You got dragged there by some tail, and we all know it.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 28, 2010 12:38 AM EST up reply actions  

ive seen that total eclipse 2 or 3 times

its her Go To Song.

"Life is good....life is good...life is good..life is good" jch

by obc2 on Mar 6, 2010 1:22 PM EST up reply actions  

She did it at least twice last weekend

"aaron harnann is so aweseom" - justin

by BK on Mar 6, 2010 2:49 PM EST up reply actions  

I don't think those are the right lyrics

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Mar 7, 2010 9:21 AM EST up reply actions  

of all people

YOU should know the lyrics to that song…every now and then i fall apart!

"Life is good....life is good...life is good..life is good" jch

by obc2 on Mar 7, 2010 12:11 PM EST up reply actions  

Chinua Achebe - Things fall Apart

Or maybe you are referring to I Fall to Pieces – Patsy Cline.

Gleet:The chronic morbid discharge as from the nostrils of horses.

by Madville on Mar 7, 2010 4:02 PM EST up reply actions  

wait, i get it

Alway the optimist...I like your think kid...

by boobs on Mar 7, 2010 1:37 PM EST up reply actions  

NOT true story

Get yer shit straight, dumbdick.

Can you honestly believe that she would want to watch Twilight?

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 28, 2010 1:55 AM EST up reply actions  

well

We already know she has questionable taste. ;-)

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Feb 28, 2010 6:20 AM EST up reply actions   2 recs

touche, madame

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 28, 2010 10:17 AM EST up reply actions  

This is true

Although it was not as described below.

The tail involved had 50% less vision and 5,3824% more issues than the current msjch.

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 28, 2010 1:57 AM EST up reply actions  

Him:

?

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 28, 2010 1:59 AM EST up reply actions  

In retrospect, I'd rather have been fucking him

"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod

by jch24 on Feb 28, 2010 2:12 AM EST up reply actions  

don't sell yourself short. Go for the big money!

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 28, 2010 2:21 AM EST up reply actions  

He's fun to watch now that he has no political future.

He’s an informed, experienced insider who is shockingly candid.

But I wouldn’t sleep with him. You can tell by his name that he doesn’t swallow.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 28, 2010 11:07 AM EST up reply actions  

And unlike Blago

this guy was actually somewhat competent and is intelligent.

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 28, 2010 12:45 PM EST up reply actions  

that is anti-Semitic?

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Feb 28, 2010 3:44 PM EST up reply actions  

I'm way too straight and have way too much taste to watch Twilight.

Few 12-year-old girls post here, so I am sure not a lot of folks can offer an informed opinion.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. - Satchel Paige

by PeteyHendrix on Feb 27, 2010 11:30 AM EST up reply actions  

I found a good review.

Check it out.

"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."

by crolfer on Feb 27, 2010 5:54 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

Thank you for that

I haven’t laughed that hard in a long while.

Don't take anything I say too seriously, I sure don't.

by RedsMasochist on Mar 11, 2010 3:00 PM EST up reply actions  

Unfortunately

I have a sister in the twilight demographic, and decided to watch it with her. And the only possible informed opinion of Twilight is that it’s the worst waste of your life, ever. You can’t have a worst movie ever thread without Twilight, sorry.

by kcgard2 on Feb 28, 2010 9:02 AM EST up reply actions  

Also- For you Avatar lovers/haters/others

F*** You Skybitch!

"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."

by crolfer on Feb 27, 2010 6:16 PM EST reply actions  

good lord

i just read all 800+ of these comments. and it’s still only 3:30.

by Daedalus on Mar 1, 2010 8:33 AM EST reply actions  

made it thru all these comments, finally

still have to read the 11 mods identities listed at the bottom of the page.

"Life is good....life is good...life is good..life is good" jch

by obc2 on Mar 6, 2010 1:24 PM EST reply actions   1 recs

This looks awful!

Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.

by justin007000 on Mar 9, 2010 2:59 PM EST reply actions  

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