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  1. Posted

    Oh this reminds me-can we talk about the baby?

     

    I would love to know what the filmmakers THINK the timeline of this movie is. Because no one acts like Neil Diamond has been away that long when he comes back from Texas. But that baby was, I think, like six months old? (Could definitely hold it's own head up.)

     

    So Molly carried the child for nine months and then raised it along for like six more and she isn't PISSED at all??

     

    Like oh the man is back so I better cater to his while now. Ugh.

    Yes! If that baby is 6 months old (I think it could even be older) then she has just gotten through a whole bunch of HARD SHIT - pregnancy, labor and delivery, the first fragile months, no sleep, etc.- presumably on her own. I would be pissed AF to see that guy waltzing back in now, and all FOR WHAT? Because his musicians weren't up to his ridiculous and sudden inexplicably high standards?? or that he got caught with his extra-marital girlfriend by his dad?? Regardless - neither is an appropriate reason to go all "walk the earth like Caine" on everyone.

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  4. Posted

    I would argue that this movie is ultimately not about his rise to be a successful/popular musician at all. That seems to be a foregone conclusion and as it was pointed out on the podcast - there are pretty much zero hurdles to make his "dream" come true. He gives it a small effort and he succeeds because of course he will.

    This movie is really about his journey to do a wife upgrade.

    Besides bar brawls over blackface, pretty much every obstacle in the movie is about his love life.

    First there's his arguing with Rivka and his father about his leaving and how long he is going to be gone ("A husband should be with his wife!") Then there's the scene where he and Rivka break up and then the scene with his father meeting Molly for the first time.

    The biggest - MOST RIDICULOUS - conflict that "sends him to Loredo" is on the surface about his recording session, but is actually him being upset over his dad's reaction to meeting Molly.

    Also -Molly is the FIRST WOMAN he meets in LA. He is so desperate to wife swap that he's like "YEP YOU'LL DO."

    This is not about his rise to fame - oh no... this is really about a 39 year old man going through a midlife crisis.

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  6. Posted

    Now, that seems true to when I was a kid but the last time I saw a movie in North America was about seven years ago and I definitely recall watching commercials and that while waiting for the movie to start. Has this changed this? Is that guy right? What plays before movies where you're from?

     

    Yes I will join in and say the American movie theater experience is just like sitting a watching a giant TV before the movie comes on. It's usually commercials, commercials disguised as short films, commercials for TV shows, "Turn off your cellphone" comedy bits, and then a little digital welcome video that advertises popcorn and stuff. Then about 5 or 6 trailers?

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  7. Posted

    Regarding the call from the "helpful" friend who was making dinner for her friend after the birth of her child, obviously I don't know exactly how close she is with her friend, but if her friend is telling her "she doesn't have to do that anymore" I would suspect that she should respect that and take a step back.

     

    According to the caller, this baby is only a month old and they also have a toddler. With the birth of both of my kids (5 and 1) there was definitely a period of adjustment where you just want to get to know the new member of your family. We didn't even want immediate family members to come by. It was our time to bond as a family and we didn't need or want some interloper butting in. I know you think you're helping, and to some extent you are, but the fact of the matter is, when you come over, it means we now have to make sure the house is clean and doesn't smell like baby poop. It means, even though we've only had a couple hours of sleep, we have to fix ourselves up. And you can say, "well you don't have to clean yourself up, I'm your friend." Well, fuck you because YOU might be fine with us looking and smelling like a couple of homeless heroin addicts, but WE aren't. And you can say, "Well, your house may be a little untidy, but I understand." No, you don't. It might look "a little untidy" to you, but that was because we used the last of our strength to make it look somewhat presentable.

     

    The caller even said something to the effect of "when I come over the toddler has been put to sleep and the baby goes down soon after so we can have a good time." In other words, she's saying that as soon as the two children are asleep, and the parents can finally get some quiet time, they now have to entertain your sorry ass. I'm sure they'd much rather do that than, I don't know, maybe get some much needed sleep.

     

    And this is all just from my cushy perspective as the father, never mind what the mother might be (and probably still is) going through! After only a month, she's most likely she's still feeling a lot of the pain from labor. Her body has gone through an incredibly painful and traumatic event and it takes awhile to recover from that. Shit, she's still got stitches for Christ's sake! Not to mention if she's suffering from postpartum or something.

     

    The fact of the matter is, newborns do three things: they sleep, they poop, and they eat. They're really not all that hard to take care of. In fact, her presence is probably keeping the baby awake! Toddler's are much harder to take care of, and the caller said she doesn't even get there until the toddler is ASLEEP!

     

    All we as parents want is a little peace and quiet. If that means we end up living in filth and eating shitty food for a couple weeks, then so be it. And, if the mother has a decent enough partner, it won't even come to that.* They are adults who have had a child already. They've got this. Back the fuck off.

     

    *If this is a single mother situation or the partner is a deadbeat, some of this might need to be amended. Regardless, and I can't stress this enough, STOP COMING OVER WHEN THE KIDS ARE ASLEEP! THAT'S WHEN WE SLEEP!

     

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    Right on brother.

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  8. Posted

    I really enjoyed this movie you guys. I know they mentioned that the people who wrote this had never seen a F13, but it seems to me that the WHOLE movie was written completely tongue-in-cheek to the point where it is only a few Kardashian jokes and sight gags away from being a "Scary Movie" installment... I mean seriously Jason is blasted awake/alive by the sheer proximity to people having sex. How fucking hilarious is that?

     

    [Edit] It would not take much to re-cut this movie into a parody. NOT MUCH.

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  9. Posted

     

    In response to “most hated,” I honestly don’t that I have one. Or at least, I’ve never really thought about it. Oh! I just thought about it: Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid Roooooooooooock! Politics aside, fuck that guy. He sucks.

     

    He rhymes “things with things” - seems to be a common thread in the bands we hate so far.

     

    Mine is Rod Stewart. Maggie May is the worst song in rock and roll... think about it and try to sing the melody and DON’T sing the first line. Did you do it? NO because you can’t... because there’s isn’t one.

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  10. Posted

    Also found a couple stories about the "Cheek to Cheek" scene in Top Hat but on IMDb it says:

     

    For the Cheek to Cheek number, Ginger Rogers wanted to wear an elaborate blue dress heavily decked out with ostrich feathers. When director Mark Sandrich and Fred Astaire saw the dress, they knew it would be impractical for the dance. Sandrich suggested that Rogers wear the white gown she had worn performing "Night and Day" in The Gay Divorcee (1934). Rogers walked off the set, finally returning when Sandrich agreed to let her wear the offending blue dress. As there was no time for rehearsals, Ginger Rogers wore the blue feathered dress for the first time during filming, and as Astaire and Sandrich had feared, feathers started coming off the dress. Astaire later claimed it was like "a chicken being attacked by a coyote". In the final film, some stray feathers can be seen drifting off it. To patch up the rift between them, Astaire presented Rogers with a locket of a gold feather. This was the origin of Rogers' nickname "Feathers". The shedding feathers episode was recreated to hilarious results in a scene from Easter Parade (1948) in which Fred Astaire danced with a clumsy, comical dancer played by Judy Garland.

     

     

    They were right about the dress. I get why she wanted to wear it, because it can give her this lighter than air feeling and yet simultaneously is really heavy looking and overpowers her many times during the course of their number. Like here where it covers her face.

     

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    Thank god it is backless or else she would be buried under there.

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  11. Posted

    Question for those of you with kids:

     

    Has there ever been some sort of children's entertainment (movie, music, book, etc.) that you ended up enjoying much more than your kids?

     

    I don't think this is what you mean, but recently when we were viewing Mary Poppins - the scene near the end where Burt and Mr. Banks are discussing the bittersweet and fleeting nature of raising children (and childhood itself) I cried like a big dummy.

    My daughter was mostly just interested in Andrew (The dog in the movie.)

     

    Obviously, I love Tom Petty, but I never would have dreamed he would be in my Top Ten of all time. It was a very revelatory experience.

     

    So, I guess the question is: what musician or band is higher on your favorites list than you would have thought? Some of you might have an easy 10, so who’s eleven?* Or, think of as many as you can easily and then share whichever one comes next.

     

    I love Petty so much.

     

    I have that thing where I could probably come up with my 10 ALL-TIME favorite bands and 10 bands that I listen to a lot of right now. Big difference.

     

    Anyway - one that would surprise me, yet be really high on the All Time list? Probably this guy

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    Here's another one for the group in a similar vein - do you have a MOST HATED artist? I have a friend with an angry torrid passionate hate for Bob Seger. Legend has it that he shot a radio that was playing him once.

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  12. Posted

    This makes me think of how before I had my daughter my coworkers would say "Oh you're gonna HATE IT when she starts watching Callou/Dora/Barney/Whatever" and I thought then, and still think now... You're the f*cking adult, don't put that shit on for them.

     

    So far I've only turned on things that I don't mind watching with her and I've been slowly introducing my favorite kid movies like Muppets and Mary Poppins and The Shining - you know, the classics. She's mostly into it.

     

    Anyways... I know all bets are off when she figures out how to use the firestick remote.

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  13. Posted

    The only conclusion I can draw from this is that the film is set in a future where, in addition to future tech cybernetics, robotics, genetic engineering, and 3D printing, everyone of import is omniscient. This would mean that the training programs may, in fact, be correctly attuned to the search and apprehension of superhumans, as is apparently a problem in this movie's reality.

     

    OR they are also in the matrix.

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    Also - this might be a good time to bring up that my cat's name is Sid and he's also a total asshole.

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  16. Posted

    How does Sid's serial killer composite personality even work? How do they get the personal experiences and personalities from these serial killers and then put into this program? I'm not sure information like personality are actually stored in DNA (and for that matter where does one get Hitler DNA? I shutter to ask.) I guess you could argue that you could get that kind of info from Charles Manson since he is still living and can be profiled but you can't do that with Mussolini. I guess the computer could somehow digest "Mein Kempf" but this does not seem like a satisfying answer.

     

    I'm curious if I'm the only one who was stupid enough to think "Is Sid 6.7 also a vampire?" when this happened?

     

    The only logical conclusion is that Dracula is one of his hundreds of personalities.

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  18. Posted

    Adding to what Chunk Style and Triply Lindy said about the cops in this film:

     

    At the end of the movie they put Sid back in VR so Denzel and Kelly Lynch (hereto forth referred to as Kenzel) can get the information about there the whereabouts of her daughter. Fine, sure...But once Sid reveals her location it does not seem like anyone is standing by to help them rescue her... like you know, like the regular-ass cops? By the time Kenzel gets out of the helicopter on top of the building, there are some kind of special ops there, but no one is doing ANYTHING to help the poor girl. It seems like there should be an entire specialized bomb squad team sent out... instead they are waiting around for Kenzel to diffuse the bomb. What kind of chicken-shit operation are they running at the precinct? Is anyone else working on this case?

     

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  19. Posted

    Okay, if we go by the scene where Fat Sam throws the pie at his one crony in his office, up to that point people were just throwing pies at each other. The gun that Dapper Dan's crew was using was new. Fat Sam didn't have access to it, was confused and confounded by it. So This leads to one of two scenarios. one in the alternate world of Bugsy Malone guns weren't invented until the 1920s. The standard pie being the equivalent of bow and arrow or sword. This means no first world war, no civil war, the whole history is different! The other possibility is that pies weren't invented until until the 13th century and rather serve as a food it was a weapon. But whipped cream didn't come about until the 16th century. So again alternate histories.

     

    In this alternate history do people not grow past the age of 10? Maybe all the sugar stunted their growth as a population?

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  20. Posted

    This movie is the movie equivalent of this cheesy photography from the 80s

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    I had never heard of this movie and was baffled from start to finish. As it's already been touched on, the cream pies being a substitute for bullets, guns, blood, guts, and carnage is... just so dark in its own weird way. Especially now.

    Man... the 70's was a wild time.

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  21. Posted

     

    I found the set design for Arkadian's combo living room/office/kitchen/(bedroom?) really gross. If I spent 23 hours a day in that room like they apparently did I'd also turn out evil.

     

     

    Yes! I don't think it had any windows and seemed to have metal walls?Who-the-Hell-is-this-guy-we-didnt-order-out.jpg

    Kind of reminds me of a Sim house - where you've leveled up and have a ton of money, but haven't had a chance to move into a bigger house so you just keep filling your shitty tiny house with expensive crap.

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  23. Posted

    Nah! I'm too impulsive for that. I like them all, I'm just trying to set a certain mood for a project I'm working on. All of them work. However, I find when I buy too much new music at once, I don't take the time to really appreciate it as much as I should

     

    I should say, I've already bought Siouxie. :) So it's one for OMD and one for New Order. I was writing something the other day and New Order's "Ceremony" came on right as I was wrapping it up. It set the mood reall well.

     

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    Ooooh... I vote New Order. I was listening to them today in fact.

     

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    Brotherhood has never seemed so delicious...

     

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    (But zebras can fuck right off, amiright?)

    Like the black and white cookies of the bear world

     

     

    Look to the Panda! Peace.

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  24. Posted

    I have to add a vote for this one.

    When I was a kid, I had a friend who was obsessed with horses and we would consume any movie with a horse on the poster. We watched this one a bunch of times and I'm pretty sure even then I knew it was total garbage.

     

    I love it when they do terrible comedies, so I know I would enjoy them ripping this one.

  25. Posted

    Junior

    Mannequin 2

    From Justin to Kelly

    The Devil's Advocate

    88 Minutes

    Color of Night

    Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles

    Ernest Goes to Jail

    Hercules in NY

    Grease 2

     

    I guess I like the dumb comedies maybe a little more than the action ones... although I freaking loved Time Cop and still have sexy dreams about that JCVD grief mullet. Timecop_640.jpg

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