Hey, I was just trying to think of a vaguely vapid, mainstream-type movie. Few popped to mind, and I chose that one. No significance to it; I haven't seen it (nor the prequel) and expect that I probably won't.

Meanwhile, I saw Kill Bill again yesterday and actually enjoyed it more the second time, which is quite a good thing as I enjoyed it jes' fine the first time.

It sure as hell wasn't for Charlie's Angels II.

[quote="Jethro Q. Walrustitty"]you'll be able to follow the movie better [i]without[/i] it.[/quote]

In the case of <i>Legally Blonde 2</i> this would not be a good thing, now would it?

Bruce

Yeah, Two Towers sounds likely. Man, I could feel my life slipping away watching the last half of that movie. On, and on, and on, and on... I can't imagine that the new DVDs are 45 minutes longer. Jeez, I hope they pack a knife in the packaging, so one can commit hari-kari during it. Otherwise, there's be an epidemic of people trying to use the corner of the cardboard to cut their wrists.

Yes, you did kick your beer during it.

As for the general concept, you have me completely wrong. Morally, I could care less if someone drinks during a theater (expect for the fact that audiences are not known for their orderliness, and all it takes is one drunk yelling at the screen and puking on the floor during "Legally Blonde 2" to ruin the movie for anyone else in the theater, even more than the ruination of watching it in the first place)...

Long parenthetical statement. Let me start over.

Morally, I could care less if someone drinks during a theater (and certainly have no problem with theaters like the Little Theatre serving booze - which I [i]think[/i] they do, they do have a bar/lounge in the same building where you're encouraged to go beforehand, and concert halls usually serve booze)...

Crap, did it again. OK, no parenthesis this time,

Morally, I could care less if someone drinks during a theater, but what I find childish and downright baby-like is the inability to go without alcohol for a couple hours. Hey, I like sitting on my couch and eating potato chips and dip when I watch a movie, but am I going to sneak in a tub of dip? No, I am not. It won't kill you to just watch a movie without alcohol, and chances are, you'll be able to follow the movie better [i]without[/i] it.

[quote="Jethro Q. Walrustitty"]No, it [i]is[/i] sad. You people are like babies, not being able to go without your precious bottle for an hour and a half. (OK, two hours with commercials.)[/quote]

Look, I buy my tickets. I buy popcorn and a pop, usually, for each show if I'm with someone. So both "Hollywood" and the guys running the theatre get their monies. I just happen to like a quick slug of the cold n' frosty while I am checking out the featured presentation. If they sold it, I'd buy it from them. But they don't because of fucking Puritans like you.

How the fuck does a religion which nobody even follow these days dictate what we can and can't do at a goddamn movie theatre? They didn't even have movies back in the 1600s. The "movies' consisted of burning some poor redheaded girl at the stake and if you had a pull from the cast-iron sipper in between catcalls and rock hurls and Friar Cockblock caught you, there was a good chance that next weekend you were going to be the main hot attraction yourself.

It's because of people like you, Walrustitty, that the bunch of us have that instinct to keep our eyes closed during sex. You know how much training one has to do in order to fight that? Do you? DO YOU? Goddammit.


[quote]Jonsey, you also kicked your beer last movie we saw together, maybe a year or so ago. [/quote]

Last movie I saw with you was the Two Towers. I know I brought a beer to it -- I didn't kick it, did I? Shit. We brought Cathy along with us, didn't we? Knowing that audience, the fact that our group consisted of one guy who was drinking alcohol, one guy who had actually touched a girl, another person who was in fact a girl and the fact that all three of us showered that day, our lineup put us in like the top .0001 percentile of all the groups that went to that movie.

No, it [i]is[/i] sad. You people are like babies, not being able to go without your precious bottle for an hour and a half. (OK, two hours with commercials.)

Jonsey, you also kicked your beer last movie we saw together, maybe a year or so ago. I do not remember which flick it was. I suspect that kicking the bottle happens [i]every[/i] time you bring booze to the theater, leaving a poor minimum-wage making schlub to pick them up and curse the savages who have so little concern for being responsible moviegoers.

Not in the military state of NY. Between not being able to smoke in bars, not being able to buy beer at most social events, and the outlawing of certain foliage, if you want to have a good time in NY you need to break the law.

Yeah, I think the "Aggie" theatre out here does serve some drinks.

I did manage to boot the bottle of whatever the hell it was that I had for "Pirates of the Caribbean" when I got back from the bathroom. Luck was on my side, however! V and I were the only two people in the theatre, so no one was injured by my attempt to spontaneously create a punt-pass-kick competition at Theatre #3 in the Longmont Twin Peaks Mall.

(Luck was on my side again, as the bottle of unknown fluid had been completely consumed before it was accidently accelerated [i]by my foot.[/i])

They do have theatres where they serve it here, actually.

Sad is not bringing alcohol into movies.
Sad is that they don't serve it there.
Sadder is that I've graduated from bringing forties to bringing bottles of hard liquor.

Best part of watching "Attack of the Clones" was when my cousin's empty beer was knocked over and rolled to the front of the theatre.

[quote="Jethro Q. Walrustitty"]Sneaking booze into a theater is... well, a bit sad, really.[/quote]

????

What are you, 65 years old? Jesus.

Sneaking bottles of whatever into theatres is half the reason anyone bothers to go to the movies these days. Look it up; I swear that it is true.

It's the only way to go to the theatre.

Hell, I'd bring a bottle to an opera.

You'll get yours, don't worry about it. All the Rochester peanut gallery is lining up with their own particular brand of shots, and when you're done, you'll be [i]begging[/i] to go back to the hovel of pizza boxes, strange and disquieting odors, and spilled booze. (I was going to mention "tobaccy juice" but sounds like Brother Sherwin might not have been in the new place.)

Ya shoulda just rented the original. Sneaking booze into a theater is... well, a bit sad, really.

Here's what really happened, Jethro. ICJ IMs me and asks me which I would prefer seeing: KBVI or TCMII. I said, wow, Kill Bill will probably be the better movie, but it's the week before Halloween, we got a bottle of MD, I want to see the horror movie. You got a problem? You wanna go? I'll take you to school. You wanna fucking fight? Let's do it, J. Right now. Let's go.

I had enough sense not to see it.

(Though Mrs W wants to see it, though she expects it to be awful.)

(It never fails to confound me why people cheerfully plunk down money and walk movies that they fully expect to be bad, yet have little interest in movies that they expect to be good.)

The point still stands. Ya shoulda seen Kill Bill instead.

[quote="Jethro Q. Walrustitty"]Why would you want to see it on the big screen?

That kind of movie is pretty much made for video distribution.[/quote]

So you haven't seen it.

Thanks for telling me that the movie I enjoyed on the big screen that you haven't seen at all is better on a TV and that I should not have gone and seen it. Jesus.

Why would you want to see it on the big screen?

That kind of movie is pretty much made for video distribution.

As for a social event, you probably would have had a good time no matter what you watched. So why not watch Kill Bill, which would be at least as good from a "party" prospective (probably a lot better), have more chicks to ogle, and actually see a decent movie?

Ehh, can't change history. But geez, man, we need to work on your discrimination skills. Dropping full price to see various bad movies in the theater... paying $50 for crappy games (especially ones that you expect to be crappy)... C'mon now!

Mobius folks are hardly "oh-so-ironic" and the guy I linked to has fucking [i]cred[/i] like no one else here... as I said, he did a huge restoration to TCM eight years ago and that's what every release since then has been pulled from. Considering that his company is releasing Street Trash and The Deadly Spawn, you can't rightly call him out for being snobby.

[quote="Jethro Q. Walrustitty"]God DAMN it, Jonsey! If nothing else, will you trust my opinion on horror movies? [/quote]

What, you saw it? You saw T2CM? I had no idea.

It doesn't matter. I went because it was a social event. Shit got cut up, beverages got consumed, Biel got gazed at and blood got splattered. Is it a good movie? Of course not. Did I have a good time? Yes.


[quote]Will you also remember that the blockbuster in the movie theater is the same movie that, a year later, will be collecting dust in the corner of Blockbuster, next to a bunch of other movies that you'd never bother renting? [/quote]

I would have rented T2CM. I would also have failed to return it on-time. That brings me to $7, which is what I paid for a ticket anyway.


[quote]FWIW, some of the Mobius forum (where I occasionally lurk) were laughing at the notion that the new TCM is "disturbing" or "gruesome" - check out Audition (disturbing) or Ichi the Killer (gruesome) if you want some [i]real[/i] sucker-punch stuff.[/quote]

A bunch of sickly Eberts thinking they are oh-so-ironic because a flick that all of them consider themselves too "educated" to see do not have the right to an opinion.

There are scenes in the remake that are designed only and specifically to revolt and digust. They do that. I think they achieve that end. It was not "Citizen Kane," but it was not a waste of money. Besides, that kind of movie you want to see on the big screen anyway.

[quote="Worm"]You could always try the internet. It isn't hard to find gruesome stuff.[/quote]

Or date some, either.