What's new
Troll Kingdom

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

Where is the Random Thread of Randomness stuff that doesn't belong in other threads thread?

Volpone said:
M*A*S*H was on Movies! tonight. It's a neat movie. It's kind of a sketch comedy movie, where there really isn't a plot, per se, just a series of little vignettes, but it is nicely done. And it's interesting because...IMO the TV show was crap. It started out OK but it very quickly got preachy and woke. But watching the movie stirred up memories of how some of the early episodes stayed pretty close to the movie.

Wild, how many people are in this. It was also a demonstration of why I can no longer be a "Jeopardy!" contestant. Because my brain is too slow. Donald Sutherland as Hawkeye. Elliot Gould as Trapper John. I got the Frank Burns actor, but it escapes me now. Colors. The Great Santini. The original True Grit. --Robert Duvall! (Had to look it up this time). Recognized Duke but couldn't place him. Tom Skerritt. Probably first saw him in Top Gun, so it was a little like looking at a "Deliverance" era Burt Reynolds--"where do I know this guy from?! [checks Wiki] Ah, that's it." Odo as Father Mulcahey. I think I might have eventually came...no, I wouldn't have gotten Tom Skerritt. But as much as I knew it was Odo, I never would've gotten Rene Auberjonois.

Also interesting that, apparently you now need to bleep "spearchucker" when referring to a black person--even if they competed in the javelin. Mods, please #### out "spearchucker."
Click to expand...
Such a fun movie.

I love the scene where they're at the football game and somebody fires a starting pistol to end the quarter and Hot Lips is all "OMG they shot him" and Col. Blake replies "Hot Lips you boob, it's the end of the quarter" (or however he said it).
 
Cogitation time. I have had this amazing and yet somehow painful life along the way, but you know what? I wouldn't trade it for anything. I have these amazing friends, and even ex-girlfriends and somehow we know that as we get older it's all fucking cool. Wouldn't trade any of it for anything.
 
I increasingly suspect the purpose of new Disney films is to make the previous Disney film look good by comparison. Live action "Little Mermaid"? Lost money. So hold on, here's "Snow White," making "Little Mermaid" look like "Avatar by comparison. "So what are we going to do about 'Snow White'?" "I know: 'Elio'!" "Captain America: Brave New World" underperformed? Wait until you see the final numbers for "Thunderbolts*". And "Fantastic Four" is waiting in the wings--a movie that comes out later this month and I still don't think it has an MPAA rating yet. Why? Because they're still editing and recutting it to try to get something that will lose them as little money as possible. Or maybe, if my theory is correct, hit that sweet spot where it loses a lot more than "Thunderbolts*" but not so much that they can't make a movie that underperforms it. Their one bright spot this year has been "Lilo & Stitch."
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top