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    13 hours ago, hotironskillet said:

    He seems to have no idea how to cook for a large amount of people either. His timing is all off. He's got tons and tons of pasta cooked and ready to go but there are piles of raw meat sitting out on the counters. The meat is going to take way longer to cook than the pasta, Giorgio. Get it together.

     

    On 8/5/2018 at 7:32 AM, JammerLea said:

    I felt really bad for these two characters, but on the other hand, I paid more attention to them than anyone else in this film. They were the only ones I that really felt like characters to me and were relatable from a customer service standpoint. There's always that one person who makes ridiculous requests. I also was concerned that the food fight took place in their kitchen, in which case I was ready to throw down for them.

    I only sort of paid attention, but it seemed after that show, when Giorgio is just hanging out with people, he suddenly decides that HE wants to cook for EVERYONE. And that's the other thing that drove me nuts. This is a large crowd, and two people cooking for them seems like way too little to get that much food ready in a reasonable amount of time. But then they proceed to ruin as much of the food as possible with their stupid food fight and I'm just like... you STILL have people WAITING FOR FOOD out there!  Again, maybe this is my customer service background, but WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING??? The manager already told them the guests were getting restless with hunger. Now they're going to be at the least incredibly disappointed, and at the most very very angry.  Just... I don't know... get catering... order some pizzas... something more reliable than two people whose special skills do not seem to include cooking at any other point in the movie.

    So my take on the cooking is that Giorgio is a big child, and this was like,how kids pretend they are going to make their mom breakfast on Mother’s Day and it ends up like “Here is some burned toast? You are welcome.” And at some point he was like I am going to make real Italian dinner with authentic Italian cream pies(?) but that he was sure to eff it up somehow, hence the food fight.

    The whole time I just kept thinking, “someone has to clean this up” (probably Kwan and Mei Ling who think it is their night off). 

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    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") anddoes fall for him. Then the moment that he proves he can sing at the Met and has overcome his fear and her task isover she doesn't even wait for the performance to end and bounces.

    I find this plausible. I kept thinking there had to be more for Green Acres (Henry) to do. He didn’t seem to have a reason to be there. 

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    Okay so now I have listened to the episode. It does kind of suck that this is such a BUMMER of a movie. Because I, like June, thought maybe one day opera would be a thing I get into. Like right now I don't understand it. I know the Ruth Bader Ginsburg is really into it. I love her. She's goals. So I thought maybe when I was old like her, I'd be into it.

    After watching this movie, I am don't think it's going to happen. Maybe I am just TOO DUMB? Or maybe I'm not musical? I don't know.

    But why did we all know who Pavarotti was in the 80s? Was it because of the Three Tenors? But then that was him and two other guys. I had to Google them just now to confirm it which two other guys. Why was Pavarotti part of our cultural awareness then? I don't think I know any current opera singers.

    Was this opera's ONE chance at mainstream success? I mean, besides Pavarotti those are real singers at the Met, right? Famous people? If this movie had done better, would we know their names like Pavarottis?

    I guess I wish it had shown why he loved opera so much a little bit. Or maybe made opera more accessible somehow, like translating the plots of one of them? Wouldn't it have been more cost effective to just film the Met people doing TURNADOT?

    23 minutes ago, tomspanks said:

    Coincidentally, I'm going to see Turandot later this year and while I'm trying not to read too much about it (hello 100 year old spoilers), I've read that the story is supposed to be set in China, so June was probably right that Pavarotti was in stage makeup.   

    Okay so I CAN'T spoil it for you because I don't know. I did google how to pronounce it after getting the Olivia set. And apparently it means (dokt) daughter of Turan, which was what they called Central Asia. And there is a debate about the proper pronunciation. So I figure the woman is Turandot? The Asian princess? I don't know who Pavarotti was supposed to be. These are things I wish the movie explained, honestly.

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    3 hours ago, hotironskillet said:

    I was at this show and wanted to raise my hand and ask a question but chickened out and didn't, so I'm going to say my piece here.

    I really wanted to know more about that nun. Where was she flying to with that loaf of bread and other groceries? Did the car bring her to her plane after it dropped off Giorgio or did she get stuck there on the tarmac next to his plane? I would have preferred a movie about her travels. It was bound to be better.

    Also, Paul's Italian accent in this episode was flawless.

    I was also in the audience and I would have supported this question so hard.

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  5. Posted

    Here is the post I wrote after being in the audience. I haven't listened to the episode yet.

     

    This is going to be a long post. I was in the audience for this show and I have been stewing on this movie for like a month now. I wish I could forget about it like June because the more I think about it, the more frustrated I get.

     

    I will give the film two props.

     

    1. I was thinking about some of the other starring vehicles we have seen, like the Hulk Hogan movies, and I appreciate that Pavarotti (may he Rest In Peace) was willing to play a flawed character it might be very close to his actual life—I am not sure.  But he’s like “yep I cheat on my wife and I am kind of dumb and chauvinistic.” And thought I found him very stiff in most of the movie I did have A feeling (just one) when he performed the final song and was sad.

     

    2. I was happy that Pamela left. It wasn’t treated like she was going to be unhappy forever without him or anything. She’s a hot lady doctor that other men took time out of their day to sexually harass. She had other options. She had an important job to go back to. She’s gonna be fine, guys.

     

    What I did object to was, as the gang mentioned, her just dropping her IMPORTANT job to cater to him. She is a lady doctor who performs surgery on children. Maybe tonsillitis isn’t the most dangerous of ailments but if she froze during surgery like he did on stage, someone could die.

     

    So when they initially mention something awful happening at the Met, I thought the stakes would be high. You know that this important lady doctor needs to take time out of her life to fix him. When it was revealed during the food fight that it was just a wardrobe malfunction and he was mainly concerned that people laughed at him? I. Was. Furious.

     

    What I really WANTED him to say was, “The Met killed my wife.” Like Richard Kimble in “The Fugitive” or something.

     

    How great would it have been if we don’t talk about Carla because she was  murdered by that dragon or something? Or maybe a rival pushed her off a balcony?

     

    Some more of my nerd notes:

     

    — Pavarotti did not speak English very well. I read a trivia big on IMDb that said he was surprised that changing the words around meant changing the entire meaning and he had trouble with it. That made me laugh. Yeah English is a real language with meanings. I found the way he pronounced “Pamela” most confounding. It was like “Pah-meh-la.” And initially because the dubbing was bad I thought he said “Karnilla,” who is a villain in the Thor universe. I call her Karnilla in all my notes.

     

    — I thought the comedy vignettes (nuns, hat lady, Asian couple, food fight, etc) were all poorly placed. The more I think about it, the more I like the nun in the opening. The Mother Superior is a trickster and gets him to do her bidding by pretending she doesn’t recognize him. But in the second scene? We don’t know why he deserved that. If that had come AFTER the mistreatment of the poor Asian couple, Kwan and Mei Ling, I think she’d be the hero of the movie.

     

    Also, the she had the Italian equivalent of a baguette in her hand bag. It was up by her face in the car ride scene. Why she is taking bread on the plane? Did she being a whole meal? I have a lot of questions about her life.

     

    — The Kwan and Mei Ling scenes were the most uncomfortable for me to watch. I hate when people treat service workers (or were they friends? Wait, that makes it weirder.) like slaves. I was really upset by it. And I was concerned that place they had the food fight might be the same set, which would mean they might have to clean up that mess? I was ready to start a GoFundMe for them.

     

    — I also found that scene way more offensive than the “yellow face” mentioned by the audience in the final scene. I don’t know much about opera but I do have Il Teatro Olivia, a little play set for the picture book character Olivia. It is for her to wear fancy costumes and be the center of attention. All I know about Turandot (the opera being performed in the end) is that Olivia also wears elaborate robes like the African American opera singer. Not that this makes it okay but I think it is standard for a production of Turandot and not an invention of the movie. Also, Olivia is a pig so I don’t know if that is yellow face or not? 

     

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  7. Posted

    2 hours ago, sycasey 2.0 said:

    Paul was apologizing for Yes, Giorgio being too long in the minisode, but according to IMDb it's only 1 hour and 50 minutes. That's not all that long. Does it just FEEL really long?

    By comparison, Blues Brothers 2000 is 2 hours, 3 minutes.

    It feels SO LONG. It is not just the unnecessary singing but the weird structure of the film where there are episodic comedy bits (nuns, old lady hat, Asian abuse, random Latino dancing, food fight) that rarely have anything to do with the plot.

    I watched it on Google play movies. It wasn't on Amazon. I was so mad I paid for it when it is free on YouTube.

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  9. Posted

    When are we gonna get a "dirty balcony people" or "balcony monster" shirt?

     

    This is me asking as a dirty balcony person from Austin!

    As already pointed out, there already is one. My sign in New York said "We are ALL Balcony Monsters." (Paid for by the Society for the Protection of Balcony Monsterish Welfare and Fans of Harry Potter References)

     

    But people already had the Balcony Monster t-shirts and I felt they upstaged me. Also footnote jokes are good for signs. Alas.

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  10. Posted

    Wikipedia actually says Jim Belushi agreed to do it but was forced to drop out because of a production deal with ABC (some show I never heard of). But that makes it extra crazy b cause it had been 18 years, why not just wait for him to be available.

     

    Or did they think of the title first and say, "it's called Blues Brothers 2000 we have to get it out in 1998!!!"

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  12. Posted

    The Brooklyn shows are tomorrow and I have my signs ready. My sister is fed up with me. She tried to watch the movie and said she got bored two minutes in. I might be in a lot of trouble tomorrow after this is over. But she is the BAM member who got me tickets early.

     

    If I can ask a question, should I? But I'd kind of want to ask Paul if he still has his My Buddy doll and his kids call it Uncle Buddy. That isn't movie related. (And also I am sure June would not allow it even if I find the mental image amusing.)

     

    Anyone else going??

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    Well if Paul loves reading this forum so much, I will be the girl holding the Balcony Monster poster this week at BAM. Sister and I are in row AA. I dunno if that is cup size?

     

    Anyway sister has not heard the podcast really (except when I listen to it and she is like what is this?) and when the email announcing the movie came she texted me that she was “skeptical” about this.

     

    I was bummed that I couldn’t go to both shows, since I have a flight to VT for work the next morning. But when it was announced it was “Beastly” I was relieved. That’s another shitty Ya that I have read and we will cover on our still forthcoming “How Did This Get Written” spin-off podcast.

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    I read the beginning of the book on Amazon Look Inside to see if it gave any clues as to why Erin was fired. It did not. It does contain the yogurt/cockroach scene though (no mention of hair being blown off).

     

    And, yes, the name is "Erb."

     

    I am so glad I didn't watch this movie. I'm busy trying to think up a good sign for the BAM show.

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  15. Posted

    Who is this Brandon person sending books? I feel personally attacked for some reason. I work at a Literary agency. I have never sent books. Should I send books? I mean, I don't know Paul and June's kids. Do they want my books? Maybe I should send Jason some of our YA on audio.

     

    Keeping with the book theme, I am pretty sure I read JUDE THE OBSCURE in college and did not enjoy it.

     

    Too bad the "Gymkata" book isn't in the public domain. I really want to do that one for our hypothetical How Did This Get Written spinoff.

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    Oh. I wanted to talk about dumb weatherman names because Jason was mad that it's a hurricane movie with a character named "Breeze." I'm actually just surprised that HE wasn't the weatherman. My weatherman in NY was literally named Storm E. Field. If you are named a dumb storm name you are required to become a meteorologist.

     

    Actual weather person names (look 'em up, nerds)

    Amy Freeze

    Dallas Raines

    Larry Sprinkle

    Sunny Haus

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  18. Posted

    I'm going to make a grand statement and say that it is very attractive to me that Jason knows this much about Harry Potter. The true ideal amount of HP knowledge.

    Agree. I like a man who appreciates Cedric Diggory. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory!!!

     

    I also really appreciated June's "Who Jackie" reference. Well done. I tip my hat.

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  19. Posted

    For those that love Paul's stories about his job at Blockbuster, he is on Brooks Wheelan's podcast "Entry Level" today where it's all about the jobs you had before you could quit and do comedy (or other shit) full time.

    I will listen to this immediately. I love the Blockbuster stories.

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  20. Posted

    I am so excited they are coming to BAM! It's within walking distance from me and my sister is a member so I'm going to force her to buy me cheap tickets (If someone of you want cheap tickets... maybe message me. I'd like to go with someone. She seems uninterested. I don't know how we're sisters.)

     

    I will say we saw Hannibal Buress do stand up at BAM the other day and his intro is videos from his DJ (they kind of went on too long) with a lot of bad movie footage that I recognized. She was like "HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS STUFF?" I was like "I listen to How Did this Get Made!" I remember there being Over the Top., Gymkata, some ninja movies. But not Last Dragon, so what gives?

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