FisterRoboto

Question: how many of you non-Texas types know this song/band? I'm kind of curious because they were a HUGE deal here in the mid-to-late-90s. Most of the singles off of Rubberneck are still staples of rock stations in Texas (at least, they are in D/FW and Austin). They were big draws for Edgefest in D/FW and Buzzfest in Houston, but most of their touring was either as openers for 90s bands like RHCP and Bush. Or when they headlined, they usually played with other Texas bands like The Reverend Horton Heat. So, basically, I just wonder how big they were outside of Texas because they were a big fuckin' deal here.

Oh, fuck you, Townshend

Oh, *Jason voice* fuuuuuuuuuck you, guy.

Oh, definitely no contest. Louise Fletcher is amazing!

What the fuck, man?! That's Charles Bronson!

Maybe it's because everyone had already talked about it, so I thought it was going to be a lot worse, but I didn't find the Uncle Ernie scene all that disturbing. Like, I don't care for the idea of them using sexual assault in the way they do, but they also don't really show anything and the assault is implied. However, I do have a major problem with him reading the "Gay News" paper afterwards. To me, that was the movie suggesting that Ernie assaulted Tommy because he was gay. Remember: this was 1975, and the trope of gay characters as perverts and rapists was still a thing (hell, it still is today sometimes). It was more bothersome to me that they were suggesting that Ernie's homosexuality was what made him a pedophile than the actual act of assault itself. That said: the one scene I found MOST disturbing was the fuckin' beans (and, to a lesser extent, the chocolate) during "Champagne." I felt so bad for Ann-Margret. Here she is - a well-known actress at the time - and they're like, "yeah, wallow around in these goddamn beans." I can't believe she wasn't like, "Bitch, I was in Viva Las Vega. You wallow around in the beans." I wonder how many times she had to wash her hair to get all the beans out of it. I honestly spaced out during the last 20 minutes or so after that. I saw Tommy fly in on a hang-glider and was aware of Nora and Frank dying, but I don't even care what happened. Everything about this movie was so heavy handed. I kind of wondered if I would have hated it less if I was actually a fan of The Who, but based on the responses in this thread so far, I doubt it. From the word go, this movie was a colossal piece of shit. The opening romance was bad enough because it did nothing to build any characters. It was pretty much just, "Here was this character. Here's this other character. They're in love now. He's going to war. She's staying behind. Now his plane is going down. Now it's VE-Day. Now she's having a baby." It's feels like a catalog of events rather than a story. There's no pathos to anything in this movie, so it's all kind of like, "Oh, so that's a thing that happened, I guess." The worst offender, though, is right after Ann-Margret scream-sings "You didn't see it!" about 45 times in a row. The first lines of "The Amazing Journey" are "Now he's deaf; now he's dumb; now he's blind." How about you do your fucking job as a movie and show us that shit instead of just explaining what we're literally watching on-screen! Songs in musicals are supposed to fill in what's happening in the movie, not describe what they are too lazy to show us. Fuck. This. Movie.

I only know "Bananaphone" because it played on one of the tapes we had to play at the toy store I worked at in high school. I mostly know Raffi because of "Baby Beluga." I'm not sure where I first heard it, but it's probably his song I'm most familiar with.

I don't take a lot of stock in filmmakers' intentions, as I believe that what's on screen should speak for itself. But I did find Carney's explanation of the ending rather interesting in this interview: http://www.theverge....nce-begin-again

This played at Fantastic Fest this year, and the only chance I had to see it was a midnight show after I had been at the festival for about 17 hours for 3 days in a row. I was falling asleep waiting for it to start, so I ended up going home because I knew I wouldn't have been able to stay awake. But everyone said it was really great and very funny!

Jejus. That was my freshman year in high school.... Anyway, I grew up in a super Southern Baptist/Pentecostal household, so most of the songs I knew growing up were Christian songs. I might have owned a Carman album or two... But the first non-Christian song I really remember hearing and getting into was "Lump" by The Presidents. It was also the first CD I bought (well, technically, I bought that and Blues Traveler's Four at the same time). Since y'all are talking about Sing Street in the musical thread, though, I'll say that my first real musical awakening was a couple years later when I moved to a new city and was in a new school. My first friend gave me a cassette with Propagandhi's How to Clean Everything on it. "Anti-Manifesto" was unlike anything I had ever heard before. It was fast, loud, angry....and awesome. It's really unfortunate that the band totally changed their sound when Todd Kowalski joined. They used to be awesome skate punk and now are some kind of metal-influenced trash. Oh, and the correct answer for best X-Person...

I believe you mean he's cool but rude.

WELL THEN YOU CAN DESIGN YOUR OWN FUCKING HOWDY VAN

There is, at best, one Secret of the Ooze. The still frame preview was enough to get me singing the theme. Then you wrote out the sounds. Now this will be in my head for days, but that's okay because I loved that intro. I would not suggest revisiting the show as an adult unless you are a fan of REALLY shitty animation.

That's incredible! The first time I had heard of him was on an episode of 8 Out of 10 Cats (I kind of LOVE British quiz shows). He was on Jason Mamford's team, and Uri Geller was on Sean Lock's team. Geller did his stupid-ass spoon-bending nonsense, and Tim just said, "Oh that is such bullshit" and it gave me one of the best laughs of my life. Then I looked him up and heard "Storm" for the first time, and he's been one of my favorite comedians/musicians/performers since. I hope he's as genuinely excellent in real life as he seems on TV/in his acts, because I think he's fantastic. This makes me sad for your children. Everyone should know this is the correct answer. Also, Cameron, what kind of monster would use that version of the Turtles and not this one? ETA: Michelangelo was my favorite when I was a kid, but when I became a man, I put away my childish things and realized Donnie was actually the best.

Starring an 11-year-old Fairuza Balk! I was always weirded out by her in, like, The Craft and American History X, and I could never figure out why. Until I realized she was Dorothy in that movie. Then it all made sense.

I just tweeted at both HDTGM and the Paramount to see if there's been any update. I haven't heard anything. I signed up for the email updates (mostly to notify my stupid slacker friends) and haven't gotten any update there either.

Oh fuck, Dan! You have struck gold. Did they ever open up more tickets from moving to the bigger theater? Or are we still waiting for more updates on that? Because I know Taylor Anne will do that shit with me if she can get tickets.

You're married, bro. Also, just to beat Taylor Anne to it...

Good choice, Vern. Also, with all this talk of camembert (mostly from me, but a little from Cam Bert), I just want to share Tim Minchin's Cheese song for anyone that hasn't seen it. We'll just call that Fister's Pick of the Week. It's a song about cheese featuring a keytar solo and several dozen cheese puns.

Haha. I saw you started following me. I was going to tell you just to add Cameron and then follow everyone he follows and you'd get all of us

I pronounce it Camembert and just assume he misspelled it.

To be fair, the trailer fucking ruins part of the ending. They . But I hope you'll still love it! Side note related to the Jurassic Park thing: ummm...the kind of corny mating dance thing with Newt was some shit that could have straight up been in Colin Shitterow's Jurassic World. Another side note: Highlander 2 (and Highlander) is directed by Russell Mulcahy, who also directed The Shadow. More importantly, he directed one of Denzel Washington's first movies, Ricochet. It's completely bonkers, and I think it would be one of the most perfect HDTGM movies.

Apparently, hitting "quote" on mobile erases everything you've already typed out, so half of my previous post is missing.... Soooo anyway, I'm moving next week, and I literally packed up my movies last night, even though I knew next week was going to be Highlander 2. Conundrum: do I dig through the boxes I packed yesterday? or do I just take this as an opportunity to buy it on Blu-Ray and retire the DVD? Life gives you hard choices sometimes, man. Edit: my DVD is the American theatrical cut, so maybe this is an opportunity to buy the Renegade version.

Yeah, Endgame was their lame attempt to tie the film and tv show story lines together, but it mostly focused on Duncan MacLeod, who is about as interesting as a sack of oatmeal.

Carpenter is just a curmudgeonly old bastard (and has been since he was a curmudgeonly young bastard), and I totally love him for it. If y'all haven't read Guillermo Del Toro's series of Tweets about Carpenter from last year, I highly recommend them. I think my favorite part of it is when Del Toro says he told Carpenter how amazed he (Del Toro) was that The Thing had found an audience over time. And Carpenter just said, "What fucking good does that do me?"