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  1. Posted

    On 7/29/2018 at 10:46 PM, CameronH said:

    LANDO!!! I hope you've been well!

    I do agree with that criticism. It's not a deal breaker for me, but it would have made the movie a bit more complex.

    I have been well. I went from withdrawing from forums and the like because I was miserable at my job to not having any time to participate in forums because of starting a new, much more fulfilling job at the end of 2017. I hope you've been doing well and glad to see they've put you in charge of the Unspooled discussions.

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  2. Posted

    I think there is something to the "this was all a plan to get him to sing at The Met" theory. After Giorgio loses his voice and will not let Pamela look at him, Henry (his manager) tells him a story about another Italian opera singer that refused to let a German doctor look at his throat, but in the time it took to find an Italian doctor it was too late, the singer had lost his voice. Then later in the film it's his idea to get Pamela to convince him to sing at the Met. Henry is clearly not above manipulating Giorgio into doing what he wants. Pamela is clearly uninterested in Giorgio, she even has her suspicion confirmed that he tells everyone that a specific aria is for them and being a top notch surgeon unimpressed by his show of wealth but for some unknown reason decides to chase him across the country. I think that Henry convinces Pamela to charm him just long enough to convince him to sing in the Met. He flies her out to San Francisco and she gives the weak cover that she "drove" all the way out there, spends a "romantic" week (when she is talking to her creepy coworker she says sarcastically "it was the most exciting and romantic week I've ever had") and does fall for him. Then the moment that he proves he can sing at the Met and has overcome his fear and her task is over she doesn't even wait for the performance to end and bounces.

    I admit that the theory has a lot of holes and needs some work, but it makes a lot more sense than the plot as it is presented.

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  4. Posted

    So I just wanted to pop my head up to say that I have had the same criticism of it as Amy, that I thought it would have taken more guts as a storyteller to tell the story of a guilty man, but made you sympathetic to his plight. Having him be innocent all along just seems like too easy of a way out.

    Also, about 10 years ago there was a meme of remixing the Opera scene with Andy playing other songs for the prisoners (Phil Colins, Iron Maiden, etc,). This one is my favorite:

     

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  6. Posted

    Coming out of hiding to say "WOO HOO" to Miami Connection. If you want to see it and not buy it I think it's up on PopcornFlix, which is available on Roku and Playstation 3 (and I think 4 and I think at least XBOX360. I haven't had any time to play games so I have older consoles that are operating as media streamers)

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  9. Posted

    I got a mass email from the distributor of Miami Connection that I thought would be of interest to fans of MC:

     

    VICE spotlights Miami Connection director YK Kim

     

    VICE's series chronicling some of the most colorful talents in outsider cinema, appropriately titled "OUTSIDER," is coming soon to a TV near you. Produced by former Drafthouse Films Creative Director Evan Husney and hosted by legendary curator and programmer Zack Carlson, "OUTSIDER"s inaugural episode –– which turns the spotlight on Grandmaster YK Kim and the unbelievably strange and inspiring story behind our own Miami Connection –– will air on VICELAND this Friday, 3/17, at 9:30pm Eastern. (Check where you can tune in here.)

     

    In anticipation of his small-screen debut, Grandmaster Kim has shared his latest instructional video with us, featuring three tips to change how you approach your day –– here's the incredible "Meditation for your Daily Life."

     

    "OUTSIDER" will continue to air for the following three Fridays, with unmissable episodes featuring trash auteur James Nguyen (Birdemic: Shock and Terror), camcorder maestro David "Rock" Nelson, and sadly brilliant Laz Rojas (One-Man Showcase).

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  10. Posted

    try this one

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbhmZQqGrFE

     

    in an earlier post i said the film would be better if it was played at 1.1x speed cause it was so slowly paced ... i guess you're about to find out if i was right cause whoever posted this increased the speed to try and get around the copyright checks. i am not watching it again to find out if it's any better at this speed

     

    This is perfect, now I wish I could more HDTGM movies slightly sped up.

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  11. Posted

    Someone pointed me to this scathing clip of Paul Stanley reading from his audio book where he says that Gene traded some backup vocals from a movie producer's children for a role in a movie and that he saw one of Gene's movie and it was "embarrassing" (about 14 minutes in). I'm just assuming that this all applies to Runaway.

    I thought some of you might find it interesting.

  14. Posted

    So, I just finished the bowling scene (where young Pamela Adlon is walking home with the British dude), and I was expecting this to be much, much worse based on everyone's reactions here. Don't get me wrong; it's not good. But I am loving every second of this mess.

     

    I could listen to a whole episode just based on the "Score Tonight" musical number. I have so much to say about that whole sequence.

     

    I suspect that a lot the hate is from people who don't usually like musicals (such as myself). If you like musicals you might be more inclined to enjoy Grease 2 in a fun bad way.

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    You're lucky. I thought Joe Piscopo at first, and then was like, "No, that's...um, that's Michael McDonald. No wait! Christopher McDonald! Christopher McDonald!" But it was too late. The damage was done. Now I can't get "What a Fool Believes" out of my fucking brain. Will I ever know a life that isn't scored by the Doobie Bros? God, I hope so...but, for now, that's my reality...

     

     

    And now it is YOURS!!!! BWA-HA-HA-HA!!!!

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKYQNtF11eg

     

     

    That would be an improvement. We discovered this YouTube channel called "Little Baby Bum" that CGI animates children's songs and our son loves it (nothing else seems to do it for him). We use it sparingly, but the songs have been rotating through my head for the past week. I would welcome Yah Mo B There.

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  17. Posted

    Yeah the only reason I noticed something was wrong with my cat was he started the process of hiding to die, unfortunately right under my bed, where he'd sleep atop at night. By the third day of him hiding I noticed something was up and found him and took him to the vet. They gave him fluids for the day but he was so out of it it was too late, which led to the longest night of my life as he had one more night at home with me leading to putting him down the next morning.

     

    And at this point I want to give a big fuck you to Sarah McLachlan for those goddamn Arms of an Angel commercials. Those things would depress even the peppiest of people. Here's a free tip, if you want people to watch your damn ads, don't show them abused animals and a sad sounding song, show fucking Youtube clips with animals being funny or awesome, that way people don't change the channel to avoid the ad and your message.

     

    So sorry to hear. (I'm never quite sure how to react online to a post like this, I "liked" it as a show of sympathy and not as a "like" of what happened.)

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  19. Posted

    I don't think I have paid this little attention to an HDTGM movie since Sharknado 3. I can't think of too many movies where I have cared less about the characters. The school could have exploded and every character would have died and I really wouldn't have cared. I honestly enjoyed The Apple way way more than Grease 2 (and TBH I probably liked The Apple more than most popular musicals). That said, I am trying to decide whether "Reproduction" or "Coming" from The Apple is the more subtle metaphor for sex.

     

    a couple of lines had me really scratching my head, did they think these were supposed to be clever?

    "Are you free on Saturday?"

    "Of course I'm free. It's in the constitution"

     

    "I gotta write an essay on the fall of Rome. I didn't even know they were in trouble."

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  22. Posted

    My anger almost came to a head when I was taking my cat to the vet for annual shots and this fucking asshole walks in with a beautiful golden retriever. He tells the clerk that he is coming in to have the dog put down and I start looking at the dog from where I'm standing to see what's wrong, and can't see anything. The clerk asks why and the dude actually says "well he jumps on the kids and has ruined some furniture and can't take instruction." The clerk looked at him dead eyed while I'm trying my best not to punch this cunt (a word that describes this man to a tee) of a person in the face for being so devoid of a soul, especially since I had recently had to put my cat of eleven years down because his kidneys had failed him and he was slowly dying a painful death. The clerk just looks at him and says he needs to leave because they don't kill animals at that vet, only euthanize animals near death, and that he needs to go to the shelter to put the dog up for adoption. The guy looked at her incredulously like she was insane and then just stormed out. I honestly would have taken the dog off of his hands if I would have been able to care for the dog in my current living situation, but I just had to hope that the piece of shit did one right thing by the dog and took it to a shelter.

     

    That pisses me off so much. Back in July we had to euthanize our 13 year old beagle mutt because the signs pointed to him having a brain tumor and got to the point where he was in really bad shape. It was a big adjustment getting used to life without him, however, this past weekend we adopted an incredibly lovable schipperke mix who is missing his hind leg. Apparently the previous owners didn't take the best care of him and he got hit by a car and didn't get to a vet until 24 hours after he had been hit and had to have the leg removed. It makes me sad to think that this lovable creature would be neglected like that, but he is now with us and has quickly become a member of the family. (I didn't want that to sound like a humble brag, it is a bit of a covert news drop though and we really are happy to have him in our home)

    Here's a picture of our new boy Hank:

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  23. Posted

     

     

    I like CakeBug Tranch. I fucking hate Jimmy Fallon. I've never heard a single syllable of Hamilton, I hate him for separate reasons.

     

    Unrelated: I kind of knew the voraphilia comment was going to be the comment of the week.

     

    I have always hated him too, but I thought he was beloved (much like Grease).

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  24. Posted

    It just amuses me to no end, especially the premeditation of it. I just like to think of some dude standing alone in a recording booth like, "No, no, guys. Just roll. I got something I have say..." I find that shit so fucking cheesy. Like, just imagining he's reading it off a piece of printer paper like it's fucking gospel. It's fantastic.

     

    It's like this part of Van Halen "Unchained"

    Woo hoo! Take a look at this!

    Hey man, that suit is you!

    Woo-whee! You'll get some leg tonight for sure!

    Tell us how you do! Hoo hoo hoo!

    (Come on Dave, gimme a break)

    Hey hey hey hey! One break, comin' up!

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  25. Posted

    Yes, Lando!! And the theme was an awesome "Swinging On A Star" redo. And the mom was Donna Pescow! And Burt Reynolds was the voice of someone, but I can't remember who.

     

    Whatever happened to Evie...

     

    Wasn't Burt the voice of the dad, who talked to Evie through a plastic tesseract? As a kid, Buzz Belmondo was the height of comedy, I'm sure he holds up poorly.

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