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    Oh, let's not let Juliet completely off the hook considering her attraction to him seems to stem from the fact that Romeo is more Zac Efron, while Paris is more Crypt Keeper. They are both shallow, horrible little monsters. Yes, R&J is a tragedy, but not for the reasons most people seem to think.

     

    If anyone is in the mood for some Romeo and Juliet related comedy this week's Spontaneanation is great.

     

    http://www.earwolf.com/episode/paris/

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    Late in the movie, as Low Rent Mr. Tuttle and the police confront and arrest Jason over the theft of "The Peasant Girl," the Count descends the stairs carrying Jessie in his arms and makes it clear to all his intention of reclaiming his "property" and heading on down to Bermuda. Unfortunately for the Count, he is forced to hand Jessie over to the store manager when he is sternly reminded that they have a "contract." And while I don't know the exact details of said contract, it is a point I would like to explore...

     

    Based on what the movie shows us, the deal is that the Count provides his country's must precious artifact to be displayed at Prince & CO, which will attract the Philadelphia elite and help drive sales. In return, Prince & CO will put on a presentation that will help elavate Hauptmann-Koenig's status on the World stage. The two parties each have their responsibilities: HK will provide the mannequin, P&C will put on a " dignified" show, and provide a secure place to keep HB's priceless relic. However, let's look at this from an objective perspective.

     

    In the 48-72 hours "The Peasant Girl" has been in Prince & CO's care, it has already gone missing twice! They are currently in the process of arresting an employee of the store who has stolen this statue and taken it to his bedroom to do God knows what with it. This is the same employee who made off with her earlier only to return her after removing all her clothes (artifacts that I'm sure were just as valuable as the mannequin itself--if not more) and dressing her up in some skanked out garb he grabbed off the rack. To use an analogy from the episode, this would be like if King Tut were to be presented at a Pacific Sunwear and an employee removed all his wrappings and dressed him in some Speedos and a fluorescent Ocean Pacific tank top.

     

    So, considering Prince & CO really monkey fucked their end of the bargain, I believe the Count would be well within his rights to consider their contract null and void. If anything, P&C should be apologizing to him for their inexcusable ineptitude and be thankful as shit that the government of HK hasn't threatened to litigate.

     

    I was OK with the Count's plotting and multiple attempted murders but when he complained about the quality of The Presentation (it deserves capitalization at this point) that was really too much. He seems like a have his cake and eat it too kind of guy.

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    I thought of that, but didn't say it, because I didn't think about the idea that he might be diabolical enough to wait that long before seeking a new mate. Also, if that is true, then eww, because that would mean that Jessie and Jason were related.

     

    Going that far back I think just about all of us are related.

     

    And while he may not be diabolical Prince William is the real villain of the movie. I know he was upset about losing his girlfriend but cursing his country to 1000 years of constant rain is really taking it out on people who don't deserve it.

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    5. True love loses before true love wins. Jessie wakes up and sees Jason, and immediately starts calling him "my prince." Fair enough, he looks exactly like Prince William -- but that's (diagetically) only because he's of direct descent from Prince William, because Prince William totally gave up on her and made babies with somebody else.

     

     

    It had to be the little sister, right? Otherwise they were just playing with our emotions introducing that character and I know these filmmakers wouldn't treat their audience that way.

     

    Edit: Just to be clear I mean after the sister reached legal age in H-K. Which I think is 25.

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    This violates the 24 second rule that made this movie possible but I am curious about the power of curses by the Hauptmann-Koening royal family. The queen drops the really convoluted "1000 years OR until she meets a true love from another land" off the top of her dome and bam that is how things are. Then Prince William says "you've cursed this land for 1000 years" or something like that. He didn't deliver the line like he was the one laying down the curse, just like he was passing along information. But if not from him where did that curse come from? Anyway this family really seems to have a lot of juice in the curse department and I'm surprised they couldn't parlay that into ruling more of Europe.

     

    Also Steve was totally right to be confused by the Count being 1000 years old. This movie had it both ways he announced he was the descendant but then later said "I've been waiting for this for 1000 years."

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    Maybe fouling Jordan was a legitimate option as a Knick, sadly. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but back then, I think if you were fouled outside the 3 point line, you only got to shoot 2 free throws. So if Jordan sets up to shoot a 3 pointer, foul him and you take the 2 point loss instead of 3?

     

    Wow. I know Knicks fans have been down but I didn't know it was so bad you'd strategize a way to lose by less.

     

    I thought it was always 3 free throws for fouling a 3-point shooter? But I could definitely be wrong. As long of a google search as I was willing to commit to (less time than it took type this) said the NCAA added the 3rd free throw in 1990 but no mention of if the NBA ever made a change there.

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    Well, I don't know if that sous chef knew a lot about basketball. Earlier, he mentioned a crazy game the night before where Jon Starks was throwing around elbows? But by 1999 he wasn't a Knick anymore. So he must have been such a big Starks fan that he followed his new team? Ugh, this just reminded me of the 94 NBA finals. Still painful after all these years.

     

    I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and maybe he was still on the team while they were filming. Although having said that this movie could have been improved with some really awkward ADR.

     

    Edit: Now that I think about it I guess this movie could have been a period piece. 1997.

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    If that restaurant has been there for 70 years shouldn't it be on the National Historic registry or something? I was as bothered by that throw away line as June was.

     

    When the French chef comes into Tom's office and throws the knife into the wall the two TVs on the wall immediately turn off when the knife hits. Only a magic crab can explain that but I don't think he was around then.

     

    I thought for the belt adjusting scene they showed great restraint only using the orchestral flourish for each adjustment when they obviously wanted to do this.

     

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    There is only one thing in this movie worth discussing. When D'Angelo Barksdale (Nolan) gave SMG the basketball analogy/pep talk. He tells her that she is Patrick Ewing and she has to foul Michael Jordan while he is taking the last shot. But he also says they are up 1. So they are going to send MJ to the free throw line to win the game instead of living with a contested shot? If I am Jeff Van Gundy and I see SMG/Patrick Ewing giving that foul I am losing my god damn mind!

     

    But I understand there may be competing coaching philosophies so please everyone weigh in with some situational basketball.

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    Wait we haven't talked about how JLo knew exactly where to look for that camera. Did she picture the angle in the photo in her mind's eye and just work backwards from there? Cause it definitely just looks like she walks in the house and picks two things to look behind and oh look at that it's there for her.

     

    I think there was a deleted setup scene between J Lo and the uncle where he tells her digital clocks are the way to go and he is throwing out all his analog clocks.

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    EpiPens are indicated for exercise-induced anaphylaxis, so that boxing scene is somewhat believable. However, I think The Wiz's allergist is supplying him with counterfeit EpiPens, because that's not how they work. First of all, the needle in these auto-injectors are maybe 1/4 the size portrayed in the film. I did a double take at the needle, because it was cartoonishly oversized. Second, with EpiPens, the needle is always covered. The orange tip without the visible needle is pressed into the leg then when you pull the EpiPen away, the needle retracts and it's completely covered by the orange tip. Also, if this kid does suffer from exercise-induced anaphylaxis, you'd think the school wouldn't let him participate in vigorous physical activity. Come on, vice principal Chenoweth, I thought it was your job to look at student files.

     

    During that scene when someone off camera yells "shove it in his leg!" I imagined that was the director yelling stage directions and they just left it in.

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    I have a theory why the other car on the laptop was just "2006 minivan". I laughed out loud at that scene when the minivan crashed and immediately exploded with the force of 20 Ford Pintos. It makes the minivan look like a deathtrap. And although I believe they removed the badges from it the minivan was clearly a Dodge/Chrysler product.

     

    The other prominently featured car is the Dodge Challenger. It was featured so much that it felt like surely there was some deal between Dodge and the filmmakers. Maybe they figured Rob "Fast and Furious" Cohen would really show off their car well. But then the car executives saw a rough cut of the movie and saw their other product being shown as a rolling bomb and forced them to scrub their name off of that.

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    I know I've already thrown out a game idea earlier, but in honor of the idea of "ridiculous first editions of classic works of literature," I thought it might be fun to re-post all of our first forum posts just to see how far we've come. What I want to see is everyone's first forum post that's in response to a movie or mini-episode they've done (i.e. not a question to Paul or "favorite guest" type post).

     

    Mine was for Jupiter Ascending. That episode is special to me because I listened to it when I was trapped in the Guadalajara airport for 14 hours so it turned at least a part of the ordeal into a pleasurable experience.

     

    Omission

     

    No mention in the podcast of how even the heroes of this movie (minus Jupiter) seem to be totally on board with the idea of planet scale genocide to produce the fountain of youth serum. Even if they don't explicitly support it nobody says a word against it until Jupiter comes along. Stinger sold them out to get money for the serum for his daughter (who had a mild cough). The space cops definitely didn't appear to be cracking down on it.

     

    Lesser omission

     

    What did the word royalty even mean in this movie? It seemed like the Abrasax family was just ludicrously rich. But they were still bound by the ridiculous bureaucracy. They didn't seem to be at the top of any form of government. And the ineffective space cops tried to give the Abrasax orders but they were just ignored since they were outgunned. The "your majesty" part just felt silly. It would be like if in the US we started calling Bill Gates your majesty.

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    Excuse me for a second, everyone else, Atlanta talk...

     

    Did you find a Redbox location that has it? So far, the only places in our area have been the Walmart on Howell Mill Rd (which, fuck that) and a place in Douglasville. So...I guess I'm off to Douglasville and hope my work doesn't ask too many questions as to what I'm up to :)

     

    I am in Tucker and lucky me my local Publix redbox stocks bad movies apparently. When I was at the redbox site I did find that it looked like more locations carried the blu ray than the DVD if that helps you any.

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    Anyone having any luck finding a (legal) way to watch The Boy Next Door without having to buy it outright? If your willing to face Mr Scheer's derision, someone on Facebook has said some Redbox's still carry it, but so far, I haven't had any luck. Normally I don't mind paying full price for HDTGM movies (and will do if I don't have any luck by tonight), but I have a feeling I don't want this one just staring at me from my Amazon queue for all eternity...

     

    Same boat. I was shocked no one is digitally renting it. No way I am going to buy it and end up on some kind of watchlist so I am redboxing for the first time in my life. I am sure Paul and the gang will feel our struggle (via the normal psychic channels) and pour their heart and soul into this episode.

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