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Also, Paul made fun of kateacola, which means she's officially one of us now.

The good news about that is that those are sitting somewhere probably completely done. They have a nice stockpile, so if their schedules get really busy, they won't have to miss weeks or delay episodes or anything like that. --- Regarding the heckling during movies, I'm generally against talking in the theater. People that do it are usually ruining it for everyone else, and I think it's some selfish-ass shit. That said, a few of my theater experiences have been made even better by people having reactions at key moments in the movie. The most recent was during I Am Not Your Negro. It was a really amazing documentary, but it was so depressing. About 2/3 of the way in, they show a brief clip of Barack and Michelle Obama. It's juxtaposed against some REALLY big downer moments, and as soon as they started the clip of the Obamas, this lady in the audience went, "WOOOOOOOOO!" really loud. The whole theater laughed and applauded. It was a much needed moment of levity in the experience. When I saw Furious 7, it was on opening night, and the whole crowd was 100% on board. When Dom and Shaw have their fight at the end, Shaw hits Dom in the face with whatever part of his car he ripped off to fight with. The lady next to me basically shrieked, "FUCK NOOOOO!" I started laughing, and she whispered, "Shit, I'm sorry. I was just into the movie." She was embarrassed, but it totally made the moment better for me. And finally, when I saw 12 Cloverfield Ln, we got to the very end scene. For those of you that haven't seen it, it goes totally off the rails in the last 5 minutes of the movies (and ultimately, how people feel about that turn generally tends to be how they feel about the movie). During the climax, there's a brief pause in the action, and someone in that half-second, someone in the crowd yelled, "WHAT?" And it was amazing. So, I do love people's reactions to things, especially when they are genuine like these.

Also because we're really just killing time until the mini drops tomorrow... Go. See. Free. Fire. It's fucking awesome and everything I wanted it to be. And yet my theater wasn't even half full

I need to know which one Taylor bought so we don't show up wearing the same one.

I think your Ghostbusters analogy would hold if it was Mr Nobody taking credit. Dom was a major part of the whole thing. He's the one that set out to kill Shaw initially. He was recruited by Mr Nobody, and Nobody brought in the team but only put them to work after Dom agreed to let them go find Ramsey/God's Eye. Also, Roman came up with where to strike in his usual obnoxious way, but Tej is the one that came up with how. And Dom is the one that came up with the escape. So, yes, it was a team effort, but it all started with Dom volunteering the team for the job. I do think it's an oversimplification, but I don't find it "insulting" to the family dynamic. If anything, Letty is the one who hasn't given up on her family. She's the one that still fully believes in Dom, while the rest of the team is either on the fence or ready to kill him. But I also didn't hate Vin Diesel in this and don't think the movie is making him the sole hero. He's always been the head of the family, so it shouldn't be surprising that he's still the most prominent.

Dom is the one who escaped with her by driving her off that cliff. And in a grander scheme, he's the one that agreed to take Mr Nobody's job, which was to save Ramsey. So it's not stretching that much.

That's playing here, and I'm planning on going to see it Saturday. I've heard nothing but HUGE praise for it.

They brought Letty back, and she "died" in basically the same way.

I think it's supposed to be .

Yeah, but the scene where Sandy and her mom are talking is two years BEFORE the final scene with Sandy. Basically, they had their letter thing, which started in Sandy B's 2006 and Keanu's 2004. Sandy goes to the lake house after the accident because her boss tells her to get away. That's on the Valentine's Day that starts this whole thing off. Then, in 2007, Keanu fails to show up at Il Mare. And that's when Sandy tells him about the accident that had happened the previous year. And of course, we know he didn't show up because he was killed over a year earlier in that accident. On Valentine's Day 2008, Sandy goes to the architectural firm that's owned by Keanu's brother. And the brother says he died exactly two years ago. That's when Sandy rushes off to the lake house to send the letter to Keanu telling him not to look for her. Keanu gets the letter on Valentine's Day 2006, which was when he was supposed to go look for Sandy and get killed (and they show Sandy and her mom having the same global warming discussion at that point). Instead, he stays home and waits a full two years. So there's two years between the opening scene where he gets hit by the bus and the ending scene where he aggressively attacks Sandy's face. Keanu didn't go straight from Daley Plaza to the lake house, so that's why his clothes were different and why they don't end at the same place.

I just wanted them to kiss...almost as badly as they clearly wanted to kiss each other.

Sadly, there were no alien hordes, though. Everyone's talking about if 9's gonna be in space, and I'm personally just holding out for a time travel movie to shake things up (which I'm sure has nothing to do with me watching The Lake House on the same day I watched F8).

Honestly, the only thing I didn't like about it was how much they just had Charlize basically standing in a room saying reaction lines to everything going on. Otherwise, this is probably my 3rd favorite of the movies (my order: 5 > 7 > 8 > 6 > 4 > 1 > 2 >>>>>> 3). All the set pieces are wonderful. I loved the opening race and . The zombie car thing was probably the weakest set piece, but even that was all right because it set up the Dom vs Familia fight, which I loved. I don't dislike her, but I wish the series could find something for the women other than Letty to do. It bummed me out that they haven't used Elena since Fast Five and then . If they actually wrote something for her to do, I'd like her a lot more. Everything about this movie is the exact kind of over-the-top nonsense I love about this series.

The biggest problem for me was how much fun it was and how much I absolutely loved it.

I meant to mention this the other day but forgot, but both of those are in Austin, and the "I love you so much" one gets vandalized about every six months. It's painted on the side of Jo's Coffee Shop on S Congress, and they have it fixed every time because it's basically a big tourist trap for them. (I used to work just off of S Congress, and you can barely walk past it during the summer because of the dildos taking up the whole sidewalk to get their goddamn pictures with it)

I had the same thought as the gang, though. The moment that Paul Tabachneck brought up about Keanu trailing off and Sandy urging him to continue led me to be like, "WHAT THE FUCK? ARE THEY TEXTING?!" (Although that would STILL be weird texting behavior) I didn't even notice this. That's fucking grooooossssss. Also, the scene at the restaurant was giving me major anxiety, and I couldn't figure out why, and then I remembered...

Well, that's some misleading-ass bullshit, and I refuse to watch this movie now. I was in band and played trombone for almost 10 years. I wanted to be in drama/theater in middle school, but my parents were like, "That's a stupid waste of time."

Maybe this will be my Rosetta Stone for finally understanding Zac Efron.

That makes sense. When I noticed you weren't posting, my first thought was, "Were we serious about having Cam Bert be the only one posting? Am I being the asshole that ruins everything?"

I think the introduction of the tree would alter the space within the timeline. It wouldn't just pop up out of nowhere; its growth would cause a domino effect, and ultimately, if someone were standing where the tree was previously, they would be standing somewhere else because it would exist in the full timeline. This is what I find most troubling about the magic of the timeline shift. In most stories involving time travel and such, people only recognize the consequences of their actions once they have been removed from the timeline. It's why Marty McFly can see the results of the changes he made in 1955 when he returns to 1985, but no one else notices because this is just how their timeline is (it also creates a bit of a paradox in BTTF2 when Biff changes the timeline and nothing changes in 2015, but Marty notices that 1985 is different, but I digress...). I think this might have been what Paul was trying to get at, but I couldn't follow his logic entirely (although that could totally be my fault because I was working while listening). In The Lake House, no one would notice the changes that were made in their timeline, INCLUDING Sandy B. If he plants this tree, it wouldn't be weird for her because it's always been there. But that creates a whole different paradox, right? If he changes one thing, it affects all of the timeline, potentially INCLUDING their previous conversation. In other words, he only plants the tree because she complains about the rain. So when he plants it, it changes the timeline. But now that there's a tree there, she wouldn't complain about it. So he wouldn't plant the tree, and we'd be back to where we started. It would create a state where the timeline is in flux between tree and no tree. The same goes for her telling him not to find her in the end. She only tells him that because she finds out he died. So once she tells him not to come, he wouldn't die, so she wouldn't be aware that he had died in the previous timeline. So she wouldn't tell him not to find her. And then he would try to find her and get hit by the car. And so on. That could potentially be explained by the lake house itself being a temporal anomaly that allows them to see the outcomes of their actions and thus be aware of the changes around them. But, again, they would ONLY notice changes that were made while they were at the lake house (so anything Keanu did while Sandy was at work wouldn't be seen as a change to her). I feel like I'm talking in circles and none of this makes any sense, but it's hard to describe, so I hope it's at least somewhat coherent.

Oh, I don't find that hard to believe at all (especially given some of his songs like "Rock and Roll Nerd"). Totally still love the dude.

I have never seen this before, and it's such a different thing from what we've already done. Totally on board. Great pick, JammerLea! Nice! As soon as I heard "If I Had My Time Again," I was like, "Oh, this is perfect." The other two songs don't grab me as much, but I've ordered the soundtrack anyway based on my faith in that weird little man.

If you haven't, you should go listen to the three songs released from the soundtrack to the Groundhog Day musical (written by your homie Tim Minchin).