imaginary friends to fill the void that is your gaping gash.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
It's tough to take seriously a movie review by a 30ish guy who thinks the movie Stripes was so cool he's using it for his avatar. Hint: there' a reason why Amazon tell you on its Stripes page that other dorks who bought Stripes also bought Fletch and Caddyshack.

Something's Gotta Give sucked it.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Nice of you to stick up for the Southern boy.

It's reflexive. Until the family geneaologist rules conclusively on the matter, we are to assume that we're probably related to the boy.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
It's tough to take seriously a movie review by a 30ish guy who thinks the movie Stripes was so cool he's using it for his avatar. Hint: there' a reason why Amazon tell you on its Stripes page that other dorks who bought Stripes also bought Fletch and Caddyshack.

Ah. I see. You're an idiot. So, I guess the proper response to you is, "Nevermind."

TM

[Diane_Keaton]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
About Schmidt was one of those "take a look inside the life of an ordinary guy" movies, where the only real goal seemed to be to make it look as real as possible. The problem is, if you knew the main character in real life, you would ignore him. If someone told you any of the stories shown in the movie, you would yawn and change the subject. If that's the case, why the hell would anyone want to sit through it? Seeing how "real" the director can make the story seem is pointless if there is no story.Have you seen it?

I'm not putting this movie in my top 10 list or anything. But I do not see the movie as trying to be a documentary or real at all. On the contrary, I thought the assorted characters were symbols of the silly values and traditions Americans treasure (the awkward toast at the wedding where the speaker says how great the couple is, the annoying lady in the Winnebago who overanalyzes a stranger as a "sad sad man", that nobody else cares for a description of how your childhood house was set up -- tire store scene -- the pathetic "retirement dinner.")

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
I'm not putting this movie in my top 10 list or anything. But I do not see the movie as trying to be a documentary or real at all. On the contrary, I thought the assorted characters were symbols of the silly values and traditions Americans treasure (the awkward toast at the wedding where the speaker says how great the couple is, the annoying lady in the Winnebago who overanalyzes a stranger as a "sad sad man", that nobody else cares for a description of how your childhood house was set up -- tire store scene -- the pathetic "retirement dinner.")

There's nothing like a movie about the pointlessness of one's existence to make one feel better about the pointlessness of one's existence.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
I'm not putting this movie in my top 10 list or anything. But I do not see the movie as trying to be a documentary or real at all. On the contrary, I thought the assorted characters were symbols of the silly values and traditions Americans treasure (the awkward toast at the wedding where the speaker says how great the couple is, the annoying lady in the Winnebago who overanalyzes a stranger as a "sad sad man", that nobody else cares for a description of how your childhood house was set up -- tire store scene -- the pathetic "retirement dinner.")

About Schmidt (the book upon which the movie was based) was written by a truly evil little man, who also happens to be a senior partner at a certain NY firm. Schmidt (the character) was a NY lawyer who retired to the Hamptons, not to a Winnebago. Anyway, this doesn't add anything except my boycott of the movie (didn't want my hard-earned $ going anywhere near that fucker)

[Diane_Keaton]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Ah. I see. You're an idiot. So, I guess the proper response to you is, "Nevermind."

TM

DK: "I recommend the movie..."
TM: "The Movie Sucks
DK: Your Avator Sucks
TM: You're an idiot.

This is as funny as that movie Stripes!! Captain Stillman, sir, I am ROTFLMAO.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
I'm not putting this movie in my top 10 list or anything.

Then why are you so offended that you make an uninformed comment about my avatar and fail to exercise your command over the understanding of the word "genre" as it applies to Stripes and About Schmidt?

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
But I do not see the movie as trying to be a documentary or real at all. On the contrary, I thought the assorted characters were symbols of the silly values and traditions Americans treasure (the awkward toast at the wedding where the speaker says how great the couple is, the annoying lady in the Winnebago who overanalyzes a stranger as a "sad sad man", that nobody else cares for a description of how your childhood house was set up -- tire store scene -- the pathetic "retirement dinner.")

Well, that's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that someone took what was probably a good book (where the nuances of the main character and the story could be given the attention they deserve) and made a movie out of it, in which the most important thing was capturing the actual feel of this man's life. Capturing the feel of something boring might be impressive to movie-makers and some movie-goers, but it remains categorically unimpressive to me.

That's what I took from it and until I read the book, that'll be my opinion of the movie.

TM

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
That's in my ever growing to-be-read pile. I'm slogging through Prague, by Arthur Phillips. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't. It's taken me forever to finish, though.

After I read Prague, I read The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart. Instead of being told from the perspective of whiney annoying 20-something American expats, it is told from the perspective of someone who makes fun of whiney annoying 20-something American expats.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
DK: "I recommend the movie..."
TM: "The Movie Sucks
DK: Your Avator Sucks
TM: You're an idiot.

This is as funny as that movie Stripes!! Captain Stillman, sir, I am ROTFLMAO.

I love your body, Larry.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
DK: "I recommend the movie..."
TM: "The Movie Sucks
DK: Your Avator Sucks
TM: You're an idiot.

This is as funny as that movie Stripes!! Captain Stillman, sir, I am ROTFLMAO.

Because I pointed out that you can't stay on topic? Or because you compared About Schmidt to silly comedies thinking you had made an actual point?

TM

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
After I read Prague, I read The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart. Instead of being told from the perspective of whiney annoying 20-something American expats, it is told from the perspective of someone who makes fun of whiney annoying 20-something American expats.

Simply because of one sentence in that ridiculous Amazon review ("For who would not love the good and unaffected, in the confusion, opportunism, and irony that characterize fin-de-siècle Europe?"), I would avoid Prague (the book, not the city, in case the italics don't make it clear) ... say it with me now ... you know you want to ...

like the Plague!!!!

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Simply because of one sentence in that ridiculous Amazon review ("For who would not love the good and unaffected, in the confusion, opportunism, and irony that characterize fin-de-siècle Europe?"), I would avoid Prague (the book, not the city, in case the italics don't make it clear) ... say it with me now ... you know you want to ...

like the Plague!!!!

Now I want to pronounce Prague like "prayg". Very sneaky of you.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Have you seen it?

No, Nicholson usually annoys me these days. Just trying to tease out what you didn't like about realism/faux-documentaries & why.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Now I want to pronounce Prague like "prayg". Very sneaky of you.

I'm going with "plogge." It sounds more European, hence, more sophistimicated.