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Also, unless I'm wrong, isn't it virtually impossible for one sperm to break down the wall of the egg? Don't multiple sperms normally need to hit the wall trying to fuse before a sperm could actually get inside to fertilize? So, even if one lone sperm made it passed the diaphragm, went to the correct fallopian tube, and survived the journey to reach the egg, it probably couldn't fertilize the egg anyway. That really is some serious adversity to overcome.

This game me such a vivid flashback to seeing this movie that I would never have remembered otherwise. Doesn't John Travolta look at the woman's breasts then cut to Mikey saying "Lunch!"? Also, I saw all these movies as a kid but and also watched the very obvious rip off television show Baby Talk with a kid named Mickey (legally not Mikey).

While they make light of Richard Pryor opting out of his movie because he was sick, this movie was in development and probably filming the same year he had his second heart attack and had bypass surgery. He might have actually been genuinely not well at the time they were going to record him.

I say SaraK, Cam Bert and I have our own HDTGM classics show on the 12th for Sleepaway Camp just so everyone can experience this.

I would LOVE this movie if Bruce Willis did a baby voice for Mikey actually speaking. That would be amazing.

How long does everyone think the original cut of this movie was? Since the movie goes all over the place with no real connective tissue between scenes, I can't tell if they just had a barebones script or had a huge list of ideas and only left in what they consider the "best" parts. It was a rushed production so maybe they didn't have a full script and figured we can fill it out with funny baby voiceover and we have great actors. On the other hand, the movie takes place over at least a year and nine months and they cut out tons of stuff that wasn't working (which is all the movie but you know what I'm saying). I imagine the producers saying "There's only 60 minutes here. We need another 20 minimum to release this" or "This monstrosity is over two hours and nothing is funny. Cut it down to 80 minutes and we can fit in an extra showing a day to make money." I can honestly see either scenario. That would potentially explain why this seems like a series of vignettes instead of an actual movie. Or why characters come and go for no discernible reason. Or why Mel Brooks is the voice of the toilet for one scene. For example, the first scene with Kirstie Alley and her accountant friend, it's introduced with two women getting keys from someone on a fire escape who walk by Kirstie Alley eating then are never seen again. Who were these women?

Ok. I get what you're saying. I think I was too caught up in the differences between "think" and "feel". The thing I get from Apocalypse Now, at least what I can put into words, is I feel like I'm on that journey up river. I don't quite get in the mindset of Martin Sheen, but I feel like I'm right there with him. Lost in the mystery of what's to come, unable to fully comprehend what's happening. I'm not watching him on screen because I'm the unseen fifth person on the boat.

Also, if we're doing Kinski/Herzog boat movies, I'm picking Fitzacarraldo.

I wouldn't say this movie makes me think about much. Maybe when I was 18 and thought they are trying to kill this great colonel because he's using his brain and not just following orders and all that kind of stuff. Now, I think it's just a great experience. There isn't a movie that feels or makes me feel like Apocalypse Now. SynCasey basically nails my thoughts on this one. Which is really making me think that I'm looking for the opposite of you in what we want. You want to think and I want to feel. I think I find myself too detached from most movies because I watch too many movies which makes me constantly thinking while watching them: this will happen next logically...this person's acting is good... that's a well framed shot, and so forth. If a movie penetrates that and gets to me emotionally, I'm more likely to appreciate it long term.

If we're talking animated takes on Apocalypse Now, my mind immediately goes to The Critic and Apocalypse Wow!

Yeah. I appreciate that as well. I also like that Dap is intelligent but also wrong/misguided as well. He had very little respect for people he thought were multi-racial. And it shows a lot of ignorance to put that on a person. People literally can't control their ancestry but also the ignorance of going back far enough since he mentions "octoroons" that in the 1980s someone who was that racial breakdown could potentially have been the product of a slave master raping a slave. There's just something refreshing about our lead character being flawed like this where it's not a huge story point like Indiana Jones biggest fear is snakes so, of course, he encounters snakes. Dap's flaw is pride/ignorance but there's not a scene where someone calls him on it leading to a scene of reflection unless someone wants to argue WAKE UP is that moment for him.

I think that's part of the failure of the film but it's part movie shortcut because we only have two hours. I think there are a lot of reasons we speculate on. It could be Half Pint is a virgin and Gamma's slogan is "only a Gamma man is a real man". So we might be expected to interpret that as an attack on masculinity or could be a comment on Half Pint's insecurity.

I haven't watched Better Call Saul yet but I agree with you about Breaking Bad turning Walter evil too quickly. The majority of the show takes place over a year and a half? Parts of it make sense in that time frame but I guess some of it is television magic.

I wish someone had told me this before I majored in tug of war with a minor in flag dancing.

Time to delete my account and start another one now that my secret is discovered.

I'll just ask if they want to pause the session to watch a movie I think they'll all enjoy. Then they can give me witty comments to type and make me seem funnier.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't considering it. My D&D group is big enough they can play without me for one session.

Oh, absolutely. You can still enjoy the movie. But I saw it years ago knowing nothing about it and it blew me away. When certain things happen, I could not believe what was going on.

I can't do the 5th. If you haven't seen this, please don't listen to the episode before watching this. It really is a movie that needs to be experienced as it happens.

If you ever do start on The Wire, please give it three episodes. The Wire drops about 30 characters on you in the first episode and you're not going to keep track of them all. By the third episode, you'll finally kind of get what's going on and who people are even if you don't know their names.

But...but you've surely seen the masterpiece that is the music video for Don Johnson's Heartbeat featuring Giancarlo Esposito? And, he's not as recognizable in Do The Right Thing but he's definitely fantastic in it. [

You're right. This is a big difference, at least for me, in the making of the movie. I found a clip of the commentary where Spike Lee talks about it.

This is what hurts the movie most. He's trying to make three different movies: a musical, a metaphor for society encapsulated in a college, and just a weekend in the life of a college. Each of these would be great movies but not all together.

For sure. The first time I saw this, I don't think I understood how big a deal or personal identifier that was even though I'd had a black woman try to educate me when I was younger on natural hair and how it's perceived by society. My main memory of this movie was there was a sequence set in a beauty shop and, on this viewing, I was like "oh, this makes a lot more sense."

Oh yeah. He said it pretty much up top in the commentary and it really made me reevaluate that section of the story and the character.