Since there's a definite trend toward "fluff" on the board, I figure if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
What are the last three movies you saw IN A THEATER?
Mine, from the most recent:
Star Wars Episode III
National Treasure
Passion of the Christ (I think. I know I saw it, but there may have been another one in between it and National Treasure.)
But I aint!! The last movie (film, actually) I saw at the theatre (cinema, actually) was Jaws !! The first one!! Before that, it was Clockwork Orange, and before that it was 2001, A Space Oddesey - even if it's spelt wrong.
So, you might guess, I aint much of a fan of going to the CINEMA!! I liked Jaws, didn't understand Clockwork Orange (I was 15 at the time - that's a LONG time ago) and 2001 A Space Oddesey scared me - strange then, that it was in that very year, 2001, that my heart got broken....
I have seen a few DVD's at home, and in recent years, the one that sticks in my mind for being very good was The Green Mile - I think that's what it was called, about a guy on death row.
Edited to say that I never farted at the cinema xxx
Edited again cos I forgot to sarcastically point out that it's theatre not theater!!!
This message has been edited by sandy6957 on Jun 30, 2005 3:16 PM This message has been edited by sandy6957 on Jun 30, 2005 2:10 PM
Hitch is a good date movie/chick flick. I prefer chick flicks over blow up shit movies. Good sci-fi like Star Wars stuff is a close second.
Pacifier because it looked interesting and I remember Kid saying how much she liked Vin Diesel but he was not good in this movie. No one was. None of the characters got established very well.
Miss Conj. II was so so. Again they didn't established characters well. It's like a manufactured movie. See how quick we can turn it out.
Biger than the Sky was so so. The characters were ok but the story line wasn't to my taste.
Enough fluff for me. I have to go back to serious posting now.
If I'm gonna pay 10 or 20 bucks you better entertain me. I don't care what you are going to see. 30 ft characters on a flat screen aren't realistic anyways. If I want that I'll come home and watch A&E or the History Channel...which I love to watch.
Take me away from real life for awhile. I don't need to guess who the killer is( its always someone right from the beginning you barely see and makes NO impression).
I don't want adult or a (message) statement. I want Fun. Real life is adult enough. Do you think we've taken everything so seriously and everything HAS to have message we've lost tract on just fun shit? What's wrong with escaping to our youth for a few hrs? Have we all lost that it's just not cool to share it because it seems so non-adult?
Sandy, we spell it "theater" on this side of the pond. (Well, MOST of us do. Those folks across the Great Lakes still use a little of the Queen's English. But we outnumber 'em 10-1.)
Other than "Passion", I generally choose movies based on how well I can escape reality and just enjoy a good story for a couple of hours, Tex. That's my standard of what a good movie is.
A&E ran a special earlier this week on George Lucas and the making of the Star Wars movies, and it specifically pointed out that Lucas reintroduced fun and fantasy and global themes back into the movies, which had a lot of dark character portraits through the 70's ("Chinatown", "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", etc.)
Well, as you guys were crossing the pond, you must've forgotten how to spell! Cos it's theatre. You speak/write English right? Well, England knows best!!!
LOL. As a matter of fact, just before getting online this afternoon I was loading the woolens out into the van to take to the new house. I figured I wouldn't need 'em for at least four or five months.
Meet the Fockers was pretty damn funny. Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand were good together. And De Niro did a good job of play a neurotic anal retentive.
Tonight I'm watching "The Motrocycle Diaries" and 'Le Boucher".
MM, when we go into our favorite pub called the Shermans Creek Inn which everyone here calls the Shit Creek Inn (LOL), they all greet NM and I. "Here comes mother Focker and the mother Focker that she's married to. This has been an ongoing joke since the first movie.
We still have a drive in theater and they show 2 features each weekend. It costs $9 a carload. Amazing how many people some folks can cram into a car. Remember those speakers that you pulled into your car and the sound was crappy? For some reason I always thought those were so cool.
Well, now you just tune to a radio station and the sound comes through it. If your car doesn't have a radio you're just SOL I guess. Seriously though, it is kinda neat. People bring their lawn chairs or blankets and sit outside and watch the movie. And they actually show recent movies. We try to go a couple of times during the summer.
And just so Chris doesn't look down at me over his glasses, I'll stay on track with this thread.
Madagascar (I agree with Jane, not that good) Hitch, and Meet The Fockers.
GT
edited to take out an extra word.
This message has been edited by gettingthere on Jun 30, 2005 10:32 PM
I just got back from seeing "War of the Worlds".... EXCELLENT movie! They wasted no time getting to the invasion. About 10 minutes into the movie I'm thinking to myself "We're SCREWED!!!" Excellent effects, some unexpected variations on the old story, and the typical Tom Cruise cockiness was fairly minimal. Definitely a movie to see at the theatre! I enjoyed it a lot.
H2C,
> I prefer chick flicks over blow up shit movies.
> Good sci-fi like Star Wars stuff is a close second.
I used to put Sci-Fi number one, but these days I think I prefer chick-flicks too. Almost all of our personal DVD's are romantically based. My ideal is a sci-fi filled with lots of romance. A little "skin" never hurts either...
I'm not a big fan of violence just for the sake of violence. I hate war movies, crime/cop shows, etc. On the other hand, War of the Worlds was rather violent, but it seemed "justified".
> Pacifier because it looked interesting
> liked Vin Diesel
I don't care for Vin Diesel myself, but I've rented Pacifier to watch this weekend...
Tex,
> If I'm gonna pay 10 or 20 bucks you better entertain me.
Yep, that's the worst part of going to the movie these days. WAY too expensive... We always catch the bargain hours, and go to the local small town theatre when we can. It still costs a small fortune.
> 30 ft characters on a flat screen aren't realistic
We generally reserve the theatre for "effects" movies. For instance, "Twister" just doesn't have the same effect on our 20" TV as it did on the big screen...
I was hoping someone would ask "whatcha readin' this summer" next.
Hint, hint.
Chris.
ps. Nothing at all wrong with sharing fun. There weren't many dark and brooding conversations while we were in Dallas, RW, but I remember lots of love and laughter.
Aint no fluff on my computer, I dust it once a year whether it needs it or not.
Whats SOL, GT?
Did anybody like Ghost? Cos I did - I get a lot of stick for saying that over here!
"I was hoping someone would ask "whatcha readin' this summer" next.
Hint, hint."
Well I can tell you exactly what I've been reading and it ain't no fun!!!!!!!!!! Astronomy 101 - ughh. I'm learning more about planets, stars, spectra, and the goop in between them, more than I even wanted to know.
This class it literally killing me, it's 20 chapters (a whole book)(hard to get thru technical crap), 20 quizzes, about 30 essays or more, I've lost count, and 18 labs and all that in just 8 weeks. Calgon, take me away!!! I just finished another lab and it took me 5 hours.
I should have taken BIO instead.
Why am I on here? Cause I'm so sick of looking at this crap that I need a break! Alright, I'll stop my crying.
Charlie
How was that for light Chris? LOl
This message has been edited by charlie288 on Jul 1, 2005 1:32 PM
That's why I don't like acronyms or abbreviations, they mean different things to different people.
LOL means "Laughing Out Loud" to most net folks, but back when I was doing in-home service calls, LOL on our paperwork meant "Little Old Lady". It took me a while to figure out why everyone online was following up their jokes with little old ladies...
There is one acronym on the rec.woodworking newsgroup I see a lot. It took me a while to figure out what it meant, but now it cracks me up....
I've never been a big fan of profanity, so I'll keep thinking of it as "Sorry Outta Luck".
My wife is the potty mouth around our house. Every conversation, no matter how mundane, is filled with SH*T, D*MN, and so forth. It's kind of a running joke around here. She'll come home from work and tell me how she "got the SH*T cleaned off her desk". I'll reply back, "you mean STUFF"?
Of course, my 16 year old daughter always replies "I hear a lot worse than that on my school bus..."
Don't get me wrong, if I stub my toe or smash my finger with a hammer, I can spout off the CR*P, SH*T, and F*CK words as well as anyone!
On the rare occasion a profane word slips into my conversation, my wife will just look at me and laugh. It's obvious I am a complete amateur...
this last post made me LOL .... I am the potty mouth around here.... call it "lack of vocabulary" ahaha and it goes faster...
I have known my H for a little over 14 years and have heard him say "shit" twice....bear in mind he is a retired Drill sgt and has worked in the dept of corrections for many many moons... not the kind of couple one would expect LOL LOL
haha, the first time i heard my father swear was in my early teens when we went sailing and he said the f word, i nealy died, in shock and laughter. then he said "dont tell your mother" which made me laugh even more, my mum used to say she never swore before she had the kids hahaha.
books, i am half way through the book father joe about a priest, a true story, another is a horror short stories book and the next i am to pick up is the broker by john grisham.
"my mum used to say she never swore before she had the kids hahaha."
Yeah, my mom said the same thing when we were younger but I don't think she can say it anymore. My youngest son collects a couple dollars every time she's around. As a matter of fact down in Florida on our vacation playing cards, he was cleaning up with her. We've got this thing goin that every time she swears in front of him, he gets 5 cents and I think he might get rich off of her:>) The only thing is that every time I say crap, darn, dangit or something to that affect, he thinks he's collecting my money - ouch. I tell him those words are okay just don't use them in school. LOL
"charlie, why are you reading about astronomy???"
Because I needed to take one last science before I transferred to a University and the kids are home for the summer so I needed a science I could take online (which is painful by the way) I also thought astronomy would be more interesting than, say ameobas (not even sure I speeled that right - its late ha) LOL and I must say it is but NOT learning it at the speed of light
I think I've heard my husband say no more than 2 or 3 off color words (that's what we call them in the south) in 25 years of marriage. And surprisingly none of them were directed at me.
I probably use them more than I did in the past, but still not in front of our kids. Our oldest son replied to something his brother did the other day with...... what the hell were you thinking? He immediately looked at my raised eyebrows and started trying to back track. I said, don't be trying to get out of it, if you're big enough to say it, be big enough to own it. He hates when I say things like that. LOL
