Time to drink your gin-and-tonic-ah

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Sparklehorse

Isn't this mostly a result of clever cross-marketing with Legos and things like that?

Chicken, meet egg.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Absolutely. I loved it. I was ten.

Yes. And now that you're older, you can look back on it and realize how truly awful it was. Whatever.

This is a stupid conversation to have. The story is a good one for science fiction. There was a bunch going on and it was put together well. In comparison to Avatar, it is fine literature, which is my point.

TM

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

I watched The Guns of Navarone with Sidd Jr. the other day. Now that's a good kid movie.

I made the mistake of promising to watch The Good, The Bad and The Ugly with my eight-year-old. I've been stalling until I can come up with a plausible explanation of why Eastwood is The Good. The Awesome is more like it.

[barely_legal]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Yes. And now that you're older, you can look back on it and realize how truly awful it was. Whatever.

This is a stupid conversation to have. The story is a good one for science fiction. There was a bunch going on and it was put together well. In comparison to Avatar, it is fine literature, which is my point.

TM

Star Wars was entertaining, but it was no Jersey Shore.

Seriously, who else is watching this craptastic mess with me? I'm hooked, and I just got a partner at my firm hooked too. I've never seen an episode of The Real World in my life, but is this what TRW was like back when it was popular and culturally relevant?

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Caught this movie on Friday. Basically the whole story is just a delivery device for the technology behind this movie. It's not a boring story and it's not a memorable one. Visually, it is amazing. Saw it in Imax 3-D. Anybody else see it? Would love to know what people think.

TM

The most visually stunning movie I have ever seen.

I saw it in 3D.

As far as the "story" I thought that if I closed my eyes I was hearing Disney's Pocahontas.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

I made the mistake of promising to watch The Good, The Bad and The Ugly with my eight-year-old. I've been stalling until I can come up with a plausible explanation of why Eastwood is The Good. The Awesome is more like it.

I'm reminded of a great Far Side cartoon..... "And I want you to apply yourself. I'm tired of everyone calling you 'Alexander the Pretty Good.'"

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

It's kind of sad that Avatar will be the younger generation's Star Wars. While watching it, that's all I could think about.

TM

There's no chance. The most compelling thing about Star Wars was the whole Luke/Vader dynamic and the transformation of good to evil. That's what made this franchise different from everything else. You start with a wonderchild and transform him into Satan without real justification.

Way more interesting than "big bad corporations suck because they are cutting down a few trees."

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

I watched The Guns of Navarone with Sidd Jr. the other day. Now that's a good kid movie.

I watched Godzilla (1956) (the Raymond Burr version with most of the footage taken from the 1954 Japanese original) the other day with my Star Wars-loving children. They were enthralled. And then that night they couldn't sleep.

[1436]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I watched Godzilla (1956) (the Raymond Burr version with most of the footage taken from the 1954 Japanese original) the other day with my Star Wars-loving children. They were enthralled. And then that night they couldn't sleep.

I just want to note that the Bad News Bears does not have the uplifting ending that would be required by modern theater marketeers. My kids loved it.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

I realize we're supposed to say the Star Wars trilogies were pre-digested pablum, but if you had told me in 1977, 1980 or 1983 that my kids (okay, sons) were going to form their lives around the mythology of these movies, and that they would still dominate the schoolyard imagination 33 years after coming out, notwithstanding the release of hundreds of movies with better writing and special effects, I would have told you you're nuts.

They're like Hank's mom -- you know you really deserve better, but they go down real easy.

I highly recommend the Family Guy Star Wars specials. See also: Robot Chicken.

Related: Jawa Garden Gnomes at the Star Wars shop.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by barely_legal

Seriously, who else is watching this craptastic mess with me? I'm hooked, and I just got a partner at my firm hooked too. I've never seen an episode of The Real World in my life, but is this what TRW was like back when it was popular and culturally relevant?

I just started. Watched episodes 1 & 2 on Hulu.

Real World was better because there was a mix of people looking to get drunk and fuck. This is just Real World Guido.

TM

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

I highly recommend the Family Guy Star Wars specials. See also: Robot Chicken.

Related: Jawa Garden Gnomes at the Star Wars shop.

You should get one of these for the Displaced Dog

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I watched Godzilla (1956) (the Raymond Burr version with most of the footage taken from the 1954 Japanese original) the other day with my Star Wars-loving children. They were enthralled. And then that night they couldn't sleep.

your kids should all see:

The clash of the Titans
Jason and the Argonauts

and

King Kong vs. Godzilla.

Mothra movies are also a good option, but the above three are required pre-10 viewing.

[PresentTense Pirate Penske]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

I just started. Watched episodes 1 & 2 on Hulu.

Real World was better because there was a mix of people looking to get drunk and fuck. This is just Real World Guido.

TM

2. It's more or less like every family wedding or funeral that I have ever attended, except without incestual sex, or at least as far as I can tell......

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Fugee

You should get one of these for the Displaced Dog

The thing that makes me hate Dick Cheney with the fire of only 9,999 burning suns instead of 10,000 is that he dressed their black lab in that costume for Halloween a few years back.



The Displaced Dog hated all costumes. Given that his dreadlocks touched the floor from the time he was about three until he died last year at 16, his argument that he was already pretty adorned were generally persuasive. The puppy just turned a year old, and her dreadlocks are just forming. Our six year old'sdreadlocks aren't as long as the DD's were, but she doesn't really like stuff on her. At any rate, my boyfriend is adamantly anti-pet-costume, and I tend to agree with him when it comes to my own pets. I was more than happy to give my sister's Lab a snuggie for Christmas, though.