Jolt Country

Yeah, I dunno. I mean, sure, when I smoke up, I just sit back and relax but there are a lot of people who like to smoke up and go do something somewhat challenging like play pool or something. I bet there are a fair amount of people who do truly make themselves more productive when they're high.

I cannot believe they give this shit to children. I have taken 2, and these should be illegal.

A couple weeks ago, my allergies were absolutely killing me at work. I ran out of Kleenex the day before, so went to Wegmans (best supermarket in the world) and picked up some more tissues as well as some generic dyphenhydramine - "compare to the active ingredient of Benadryl"! It should be noted that I very, very rarely take even legal drugs, even headache medicine is pretty rare for me, so this was fairly unusual.

The non-drowsy stuff was probably 5x the price, so I figured - hey, I'll be at work, I'll be fine. So, I drive to work, and I'm a mess - my nose is running like Rodney King. Recommended dosage for "adults and children 12 years and over - 1 or 2 tablets." I figure that I'm in really bad shape, so I'll take two.

I damn near fell asleep on my fucking keyboard.

I was absolutely and completely useless for the next, oh, four hours or so. I pretty much sat in my cube and battled to keep my eyes open. But, I wasn't sniffling!

Since then, I haven't taken any more, despite being pretty snuffly other times. If/when I do take more... one tablet only!

Thread hijack complete.

I miss this thread. These were the good old days. =(

Boy, I sure wish that Pinback was around to call me a name because I had some take on Magnolia that he disagreed with.

Ah, well. Ever onwards.

Caught Tron last night, for what it's worth. Tron is actually one of the least interesting characters in the movie. He is notable because he runs his disc through a lot of people. It should have been called "Flynn," but that doesn't sound geeky enough.

Very true. Tron was also one of those very special moments where Bruce Boxleitner's cardboard acting skills actually helps the character, like how Keanu Reeve's non-acting works well enough in the original Matrix.

Roody_Yogurt wrote:Very true. Tron was also one of those very special moments where Bruce Boxleitner's cardboard acting skills actually helps the character, like how Keanu Reeve's non-acting works well enough in the original Matrix.

I bought some of that wire that the Milker was talking about in order to get the "Tron effect" going and so forth, but yeah. Halloween should ultimately give one an opportunity to say a little something about one's personality, and aside from fucking shit up, there isn't anything in the character's personality that particularly speaks to anyone.

And Alan didn't even like video games. He scoffed at them. Scoffed! Jerk.

Heeeeeey, guess what I'm watchin' right nooooowww?

Lysander wrote:Heeeeeey, guess what I'm watchin' right nooooowww?

Oh great! Lysander is so excited to be watching tron that he had to take time to find an old thread about tron to let us all know about it. Thanks, Lysander.

I request a banning of Reality Check until such times as he can come back and post in a manner befitting a true "reality check."

I just request a banning of Reality Check. Sullying this classic thread with that sort of thing. Shameful.

Okay, movie over.

I...

I don't know, man.

I mean, it's good.

No question about that, it's good.

But it's not "brain-shattering."

But!

I think that most of this is due to confusion as to what was actually happening on my part as opposed to any problems with the movie--which, naturally, is my problem.

SO!

I am going to read the rest of this thread, and then I am going to read the script. And then I will come back here and write up a real review of this thing.

Oh, one last thing, before I go:

Pinner, Frank T.J. Mackie is an asshole. If you live your life like he suggests then you deserve to get left.

Lysander wrote:Pinner, Frank T.J. Mackie is an asshole. If you live your life like he suggests then you deserve to get left.

What are you talking about?

When did I say I was going to live my life like he suggests?

When did I "get left"?

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT???

Needs more Reality Check.

(thread-reading complete) Nothing, really. I just got a flashback to the "army of love" days and thought I'd say it, just so that it was, somewhere on the internet, said.)

Well, I don't know why you'd choose to take the time to read the entire script, when you have a resource like myself, the world's foremost expert on all things Magnolia, at your disposal.

It's like saying, "Hey, Kasparov, can you hand me that copy of Chess For Dummies over there? Thanks, Gar."

Exactly. Well, it'd be like that if I was completely new at Chess--that is to say, if I didn't even know how to play the game. I'm rying to get as much out of the movie itself as I can without asking anyone else to interprit for me. I wanna work all this out for myself, you see. Anyway, I'm all done now.

Okay, Pinner. Since it's obvious that no one else is interested in talking about Magnolia, I will do this with you, in this very thread. It's abou the content, Pinback. It's about the content.

So. Movie impressions.

This is, most deffinetly, on my top list of movies. it's a moving work of art and a just excellent overall, a vivid example of how things can go so horribly, horribly wrong in today's society. Furthermore, I would go so far as saying that the movie pulls off what Sarandipity was trying to do, only in this case Magnolia succeeds with it far better than that movie did, for a morass of reasons I will get into if desired.

However. I really can't say that it affected me personally that much at all. For one reason it's because I just couldn't quite get into the"zone" where you are looking for symbolism with your own life when I was watching Magnolia, probably because I don't resemble, like, anyone in the movie, but also because--well, that's it exactly, I just touched upon it again. I don't have any of the problems that anyone else does in the movie. I think I've never cheated on anyonee, I don't have cancer and I don't take drugs. That's basically it. Those are the three big problems that everyone except for the nurse and Jim (as far as we can tell) have. But even those two characters are not much like me at all. Jim's somewhat thick-heraded, especially for an LA cop. And the nurse is a gigantic pulsating vagina. I understand that it has immense personal value for you, and that's fine. But screeching endlessly for months because other people don't have the same emotional experience while you watch the movie is kind of, I don't know, immature. I mean, that's what the word means, personal. It works for you. You can't expect taht anyone who watches the movie will have a profound experience watching the movie, because every person is different. People have different problems, diferent passions, different oppinions. And while I agree that anyone who thinks Magnolia is crap is watching the movie with his eyes scotch-taped shut, that doesn't mean that everyone--or, even, anyone--that you ask about it will have had a "moment" about it, because to some people it just doesn't apply.

Here, I'll take an example from my own life, since talking about personal experiences kind of demands that you get personal. Adam Cadre's Ready, Okay. I know that a whole bunch of people claim to be the main character of books they read, but to me, Alan Mockery *is* *me*. I had Echo for a sister, too, although in truth it would be Echo's number-multiplying trick fused into the head of Peggy Kailan. I have a stepdad like Bobbo. Nearly everyone I know in high school has at least characteristics that are dead ringers for those from other characters in RO. (Yes, even Sarah and Carver Fringie. Unfortunately.) So RO interacts with me on a very personal level, and it is that reason why I have, just the way you have with Magnolia, only read it three times so as o not spoil the effect of the book. And yet, even though I( have only read it three times, I have already committed to memory entire swaths of it. If I started quoting the book I probably wouldn't stop until page 50 or so. I've handed the book around to various friends of mine (one of whom, a frighteningly intelligent girl who is frightening because even though she is so intelligent she is still a Carver Fringie victem, has had the book for five months and refuses to give it back because she loves it so much) and they all enjoy it a whole hell of a lot, and they draw the paralels between the book and their own lives just as easily as I do. But I wouldn't go giving this book to just anyone and expecting them to be personally effected by it. I mean, I'd ask people what they thought, but I wouldn't expect them to have a catharsass about it. That's because it doesn't speak to *them* the way it does to me. Magnolia speaks to you, Ben. And that is excellent. Finding things that can move you so deeply is one of the great treasures of life, after all. But you shouldn't expect other people to feel the same way just because the movie is awesome.

Lysander wrote:And the nurse is a gigantic pulsating vagina. I understand that it has immense personal value for you

Why don't you go ahead and celebrate Saint Suck My Big Fat Fucking Sausage.

But you shouldn't expect other people to feel the same way just because the movie is awesome.

"I'm not sure I hear a question in there." - F. T. J. M.

That's your review? Your review of the movie is that this thread (up until the point that Jack Straw started trying to ruin it intentionally) is stupid? You sat there for three hours and eight minutes, and the best thing you can rally yourself to come on here and post about it is that "Ben is immature"?

You know what I give your post? I give it THUMBS DOWN. I'm going to go ahead and hold my THUMB DOWN right here in front of me for the rest of the day, and you'll know that I'm out there doing it, and that if thumbs pointing DOWN could actually be pointing AT someone, it would be pointing DOWN... at YOU.

That was definitely the "The Crow" of posts. Overhyped, lots of sanctimonious dribbling, and really really weak underneath.

PHPBB ate this post.

Reader's Digest it for us.

It was a "real" review of Magnolia. And it was good. Goddammit, and now I'll have to write it all out again.