Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel - Page 23

Gemini Cricket · 01-16-2010, 08:17 PM

No one should have to sit through a Dog the Bounty Hunter commercial, much less an episode. Talk about hitting a nerve... I find his show personally insulting. A big idiot not from here trying to talk pidgin. Like Edward Scissorhand's "hands" on a chalkboard.

I can never watch feature films on TV if they're censored and cut up for commercials. I feel so strongly that I want to send GD and CP a DVD copy of that movie so they can enjoy it properly.

Stan4dSteph · 01-16-2010, 08:41 PM

I love Hoarders and Intervention.

Ghoulish Delight · 01-16-2010, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I can never watch feature films on TV if they're censored and cut up for commercials. I feel so strongly that I want to send GD and CP a DVD copy of that movie so they can enjoy it properly.

Wouldn't watch it for the first time there, but we saw Little Miss Sunshine in the theaters, so this was just a rewatch to pass a Saturday afternoon.

Alex · 01-16-2010, 09:01 PM

Hope you were inspired. You have a few years to get Theo into pageants before it'll be obvious he's the wrong gender.

Alex · 01-17-2010, 10:56 AM

Just watched the original 3:10 to Yuma. I liked the remake a couple years ago very much and I like this one very much as well, and in different ways.

I liked this bit of dialogue:

Quote:

Charlie Prince: Any strangers come in town?
Hotel Proprietor-Bartender: Not since you went to sleep, sir.
Charlie Prince: I might as well go along. She won't come now.
Hotel Proprietor-Bartender: Who was you plannin' to meet?
Charlie Prince: My wife - she ran off with a travelin' man.
Hotel Proprietor-Bartender: She did?
Charlie Prince: That's why I've been sittin' up all night. I figgered he'd bring her here.
Hotel Proprietor-Bartender: Well, whaddaya know? Mine ran off, too. I wonder why they do that.
Charlie Prince: I don't know. I've always treated mine alright - never hit her too hard.

Alex · 01-17-2010, 05:22 PM

The Evil Dead was mentioned in another thread but I'll mention it here. I saw it was available by Netflix streaming (though II and Army of Darkness are not). So I watched it since football is boring me.

Did not like it. Which isn't much of a surprise since straight up horror movies have never really done anything for me. I know the humor element is ramped up in the sequels so I'll still eventually give them a shot.

But this one was just boring screaming, splatter, and early '80s makeup effects. For people who can like that I can see why this is such a cult classic, though.

Chernabog · 01-17-2010, 05:42 PM

Part II is the best, Alex. It's basically a revisionist history do-over of part 1, but with lots more comedy

Alex · 01-17-2010, 06:29 PM

Oh, in other news, I'm usually not an idiot about what's happening in a movie.

But it was only in discussion afterward that Lani and I realized that the ending of The Book of Eli had gone completely over my head.

Also, if you think you're interested in seeing it I would recommend avoiding ANY discussion of the movie. There's an obvious movie reference to be made and simply seeing it referenced will immediately spoil the movie.

SzczerbiakManiac · 01-19-2010, 01:42 PM

MacGruber red band trailer (NSFW)

I gotta say, it actually looks like it might be funny. Assuming they didn't show us all the funny parts in the trailer....

Alex · 01-19-2010, 01:47 PM

I love when I see an old movie I'd never even heard of and it just tickles me in all the good ways. That happened yesterday with People Will Talk, a 1951 play adaptation starring Cary Grant and Jeanne Crain. A fantastic follow-up (as in next collaboration, not a sequel or anything) by Mankiewicz and Zanuck to All About Eve. Eve is, of course, far superior but People Will Talk has many of the same elements (adult adults, crisp dialog).

Plus a lot of themes and ideas that resonate well in today's world, and it is nice that the movie does not at all flinch from or condemn Crain's character for being pregnant out of wedlock.

01-16-2010, 08:17 PM	#1
Gemini Cricket ... Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13,244	No one should have to sit through a Dog the Bounty Hunter commercial, much less an episode. Talk about hitting a nerve... I find his show personally insulting. A big idiot not from here trying to talk pidgin. Like Edward Scissorhand's "hands" on a chalkboard. I can never watch feature films on TV if they're censored and cut up for commercials. I feel so strongly that I want to send GD and CP a DVD copy of that movie so they can enjoy it properly.
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Stan4dSteph Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: East Bay Area, CA Posts: 3,156	I love Hoarders and Intervention.
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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Hope you were inspired. You have a few years to get Theo into pageants before it'll be obvious he's the wrong gender.
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01-17-2010, 05:22 PM	#6
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	The Evil Dead was mentioned in another thread but I'll mention it here. I saw it was available by Netflix streaming (though II and Army of Darkness are not). So I watched it since football is boring me. Did not like it. Which isn't much of a surprise since straight up horror movies have never really done anything for me. I know the humor element is ramped up in the sequels so I'll still eventually give them a shot. But this one was just boring screaming, splatter, and early '80s makeup effects. For people who can like that I can see why this is such a cult classic, though.
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01-17-2010, 05:42 PM	#7
Chernabog Biophage Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Moon Posts: 2,679	Part II is the best, Alex. It's basically a revisionist history do-over of part 1, but with lots more comedy __________________ And they say back then our universe Was a coal black egg Until the god inside Burst out and from its shattered shell He made what became the world we know ~ Bjork (Cosmogony)
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01-17-2010, 06:29 PM	#8
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Oh, in other news, I'm usually not an idiot about what's happening in a movie. But it was only in discussion afterward that Lani and I realized that the ending of The Book of Eli had gone completely over my head. Also, if you think you're interested in seeing it I would recommend avoiding ANY discussion of the movie. There's an obvious movie reference to be made and simply seeing it referenced will immediately spoil the movie.
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01-19-2010, 01:42 PM	#9
SzczerbiakManiac "ZER-bee-ak" Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,409	MacGruber red band trailer (NSFW) I gotta say, it actually looks like it might be funny. Assuming they didn't show us all the funny parts in the trailer.... __________________
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01-19-2010, 01:47 PM	#10
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I love when I see an old movie I'd never even heard of and it just tickles me in all the good ways. That happened yesterday with People Will Talk, a 1951 play adaptation starring Cary Grant and Jeanne Crain. A fantastic follow-up (as in next collaboration, not a sequel or anything) by Mankiewicz and Zanuck to All About Eve. Eve is, of course, far superior but People Will Talk has many of the same elements (adult adults, crisp dialog). Plus a lot of themes and ideas that resonate well in today's world, and it is nice that the movie does not at all flinch from or condemn Crain's character for being pregnant out of wedlock.
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