That and you have to like shenanigans!!!
Posted on 12/13/2006 5:40:45 PM PST by EveningStar
It happens to everyone who loves movies: You're in a conversation at a bar, or at a wedding, or online, and someone begins rhapsodizing about one of their favorite movies and you can't help but say, "Uh, that movie sucks. It's totally overrated." How two perfectly well-balanced individuals can have such drastically different views of the same film is one of the great wonders of being a film fanatic. It happens to us at Premiere all the time, enough so that sometimes we find ourselves questioning who we work with (boy, did it get ugly here when Love, Actually came out, and some of us are still snickering over our boss's love for Bowfinger, not to mention his affection for The Last Samurai). Well, we decided to let our staff go at each other regarding some of the more beloved movies of all time, and, sure enough, sobbing can still be heard coming from the bathroom stalls. Relationships have been strained. Egos bruised. Consider this a film lovers' quarrel, an admittedly rabid one.
(Excerpt) Read more at premiere.com ...
I don't hate Indiana.
I like the Hoosiers when they aren't playing Ohio State.
Don't ask me about Notre Ame though. You already know the answer.
For "Super Troopers" to work for you, you have to - HAVE TO - turn off your critical-thinking skills. Give in to the stupidity and enjoy yourself! (A few refreshing adult beverages won't hurt the endeavor either.)
what about Purdue?
Hey! B-B-Bearf@#ker! Do you need assistance!
Purdon't is ok :)
I especially like it when they beat Michigan.....
Quirky offense though and unfortunately this year, not enough defense. If they could recruit like Ohio State or Michigan or even Notre Dame, they would win their share of Big Ten titles every year with that system.
TITANIC
(Scene 1)
ROSE: Why, this is a fancy boat, isn't it?
CAL: Yes it certainly is. Here is the art you asked for. It is by an artist named Picasso. I am certain he will amount to nothing.
ROSE: Ha ha ha. That is very funny to our 90's audience, because they know these priceless paintings will sink with the boat.
JACK: Hello, I'm played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Perhaps you have seen the many girls who worship me. You are very pretty.
ROSE: Thank you. So are you.
JACK: I know. Prettier than you, in fact. I am going to put on my "brooding" face now, to ensure that women will keep coming back again and again to see this movie. Later, my white shirt will be soaking wet.
ROSE: While you're doing that, I will concentrate on standing here and looking pretty, to keep the men in the audience interested until the boat sinks and people start dying. I'll try to stay attractive by getting my dress wet. Meanwhile, for no apparent reason, I'll count the lifeboats.
CAL: Excuse me. I do not like you, even though you saved my fiancee's life. I am going to sneer at you and treat you like dirt because you're poor, and then I'll probably be physically abusive to my fiancee, and then, just to make sure the audience really hates me, and to make sure my character is entirely one-dimensional, perhaps I'll throw an elderly person into the water.
AUDIENCE: Boo! We hate you! Even though all real people have at least a few admirable qualities, we have not been shown any of yours, and plus, you're trying to come between Leonardo and Kate, and so therefore we hate you! Boo!
(Scene 2)
JACK: I'm glad we snuck away like this so that you could cheat on your fiance.
ROSE: So am I. Even though I am engaged to him and have made a commitment to marry him, that is no reason why you and I cannot climb into the backseat of a car and steam up the windows together. The fact that I am the heroine of the movie will no doubt help the audience forgive me of this, though they would probably be VERY angry indeed if my fiance were to do the same thing to me.
JACK: I agree. First, I would like to draw you.
ROSE: Can I take my clothes off now?
JAMES CAMERON: Yes.
ROSE: But can a movie with five minutes of continuous nudity be at all successful in say, Provo, Utah, where the audiences might not stand for that sort of thing?
JAMES CAMERON: I would be willing to bet that for the first three weeks the film is in release, every single showing at Wynnsong Theater in Provo will sell out.
NARRATOR: According to Wynnsong manager Matt Palmer, that is exactly what happened.
ROSE: All right, then. (sound of clothes hitting the floor)
(Scene 3)
FIRST MATE: Captain, we're about to hit an iceberg.
CAPTAIN: Great, I could use some ice for my drink. (sound of drinking)
ICEBERG: (hits boat)
FIRST MATE: That can't be good.
CAPTAIN: Bottoms up!
AUDIENCE: (silence)
FIRST MATE: That was irony, you fools.
AUDIENCE: Boo! Where's Leonardo?
JACK: I have been informed that this boat is sinking
ROSE: That is terrible
JACK: Would you like to engage in some more immoral-but-justified behavior?
ROSE: Certainly. Let's steam up some windows.
CAL: (aside) I'm getting the raw end of the deal here. To cement my morally-dubious-yet-somehow-less-annoying-than-you personality, I am going to handcuff Jack to this pipe, here in a room that will soon be filling with water, due to the fact that we are sinking, which I believe has been mentioned previously.
JACK: Why don't you just shoot me?
CAL: Because then you wouldn't be able to escape and save Rose from me. Of course, you're going to die anyway...
AUDIENCE: Don't spoil it for us!
JACK: He's right, though. I am doomed.
AUDIENCE: Aww, look how cute he is when he's doomed.
CAL: I hate you people.
(Scene 4)
JACK: We're not going to die. At least you're not.
ROSE: This water is very cold.
JACK: *glugglugglug*
ROSE: He's gone. I'll just freeze my lips to this whistle.
(Scene 5)
150 YEAR OLD ROSE: And that's when Jack rescued me from my evil fiance and helped me float on a board in the water. Of course, if it hadn't been for having to rescue HIM, I could have gotten on an actual lifeboat, and not frozen my legs off. Anyway, he's pretty much dead now, and I'm well over a thousand years old, and who's making my supper? I need a bath. Turn down that Enya music, it's making my ears hurt. You kids today, with your loud music. Why, when I was - hey! Don't you walk away from me, Mr. Snooty-Patootie! I'd turn you over my knee, if I had one. I'll beat you in the head with this huge diamond! Come back here!
(Fade to black. Roll credits, accompanied by that annoying Celine Dion song and the sound of James Cameron counting a huge pile of cash.)
Best part of that scene? The cursed-at motorists are Kevin Heffernan's parents.
The only strange part of "Beerfest" for me was that I've gotten so used to Broken Lizard's cop names, I had a bit of a disconnect seeing them as other characters.
But that lasted approximately 45 seconds.
Damn, wrong scene! For some reason, I was thinking about Farva wanting to play the Meow Game.
Wow! The play even? Dude, you seriously need to give her more excitement in her life! (just kidding) ;)
There was a recent movie that I never would have rented from Netflix had I seen Woody Allen's name on it --- but I liked that movie and as usual, I cannot recall it's title.
I am cracking up! Especially the Billy Zane parts.
STFU, Donny, you're out of your element.
These boys get that syrup in 'em, they get all antsy in their pantsy.
She's into that stuff...
in exchange for her going to plays or whatever, I get to watch football all day Saturday and Sunday :)
Now that I've seen The Big Lebowski a lot of times, I've decided it's a Free Republic live thread. You've got all the types... The stoner, the know it all hothead vet (shut up Donny you are out of your element), some other minor players who add a little spice here and there, and they're all playing Freeper Detective with their own theories and sub-stories and side arguments about what's going on.
LOL
There is a guy that everytime he walks into the locker room before men's League Hockey, he says, "Smells like sex in here." I think only 2 of us get the joke.
I love that movie.
Match Point? I hated it.
Except for the last 3 seconds.
I think anything with Scarlet Johansen (except Ghost World) stinks.
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