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I'm a movie guy. If my living room will be glowing blue, I'd much rather see a feature-length than a TV show or video game. I don't get out to the cinema as often as I wish, but I try to at least stay on top of good recent movies. That being said, yes, it's not new, but I just watched In the Loop, a hilarious mostly-British satire about the decision to go to war. It involves individual characters woven together but competing for separate outcomes. It features witty, scathing, fast-paced dialogue. Power dynamics are frequently cast askew and re-thought. The characters, though seen at a glace, are exciting and eccentric, despite their unavoidable wretchedness. It's both poignant and ridiculous. Anyway, I found myself laughing out loud, literally, on many separate occasions while watching In the Loop. It's streaming on Netflix, so take a gander, eh?

So I guess the theme of this RRRR, to remove ourselves from the lard of the old, is movies. Specifically, if you could make everyone here at SSS sit down and watch a movie of your choosing, for whatever misunderstood reason, what would it be? A few of you know that I would automatically shout "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford!" Because that, too, is a good goddamned movie. Rounding it out to five, including the previous two mentioned, it would also include The Thin Red Line, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, and Deep Water. These isn't a best movie list, just movies that I absolutely love that I don't think too many people have seen. Or maybe I just find them outstanding and wish others appreciated them to the same degree. But, of course, when you over-hype something it gets brushed aside because, face it, people want to discover media items for themselves. Whatever that means.

So, share your hidden classics away. And, sure, include music and TV and the like.

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I don't watch movies very often but while Hud slumbered on Saturday afternoon

I watched Hot Tub Time Machine, yes, I know it isn’t exactly a cultural high-watermark but I enjoyed it just fine. The mindblowing fact that Cusak was enabled to visit the very decade that defined him was highly amusing. My favorite movies are A Waking Life, There Will be Blood, Pump Up the Volume, Hud, Whoops Apocalypse and a movie called Pin…yes, Pin…my dorm roommate rented it, he wqas notorious for renting shitty films no one had ever heard of…it is …insane

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 6, 2012 8:36 AM CST reply actions  

classic overstuffed college response

but Kubrick is just nuts. i got to see all of his good ones (except i skipped out on FMJ for whatever reason) in a theater thanks to a class i took in school having a deal with one of the local a2 theaters to show them. screw Lolita and Paths of Glory though.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 8:37 AM CST reply actions  

You are not full of shit

I thought I was going to hate it, but it’s absolutely wonderful. Has to be the most underrated Kubrick. I’d still take DS, TS and 2001 over it, but it’s absolute quality.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 8:25 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

Lolita

Try" Candy" instead.Same subject,better actors and cheap and trashy at the same time.

by Lil Jimmy on Feb 6, 2012 7:29 PM CST up reply actions  

the writer of in the loop, armando iannucci,

also produced and did some writing for stewart lee’s stand-up show.
the whole film is also a spin-off of ‘the thick of it’, which is a bbc political satire sitcom with a few of the same characters.

by craigws on Feb 6, 2012 8:39 AM CST reply actions  

A-HA!

of course he was also involved in “knowing me, knowing you” and “i’m alan partiride” both of which i greatly enjoyed and recommend to others.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 6, 2012 9:15 AM CST up reply actions  

that was an oversight,

not recommending those two in my list of british sitcoms in the other thread. those are excellent, i’m alan partridge in particular, is a classic.
as is ‘the trip’, another steve coogan show.

by craigws on Feb 6, 2012 9:33 AM CST up reply actions  

Nice, I'll have to check those out.

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 6, 2012 12:00 PM CST up reply actions  

if i was in a really bad mood

i would make everyone watch “bonfire of the vanities” because it is the worst movie ever made and i would want people to be as angry as i was after watching it.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 6, 2012 9:17 AM CST reply actions  

repeating comment

Zoltan: Hound of Dracula. it was so bad I was in stitches the entire time.

NAOPOS

by blackoutsox on Feb 6, 2012 1:16 PM CST up reply actions  

"The Godfather". Great business education.

And for those who have too much hope, either “No Country For Old Men” or “In The Valley of Elah”. Just to have people get used to being in the wilderness, alone with your failed hope.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 6, 2012 9:21 AM CST reply actions  

I love that the poster for "No Country for Old Men" even warns you about the ending.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 6, 2012 9:39 AM CST up reply actions  

I hate you.

For pointing out my inconsistencies.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 6, 2012 10:21 AM CST up reply actions  

You're nothing but.

But it’s cool, you’re only human.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 8:50 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

For those of you

who think murdering people just isn’t good business, I heartily recommend Glen Garry Glen Ross

fcdisbad.blogspot.com

by Carbiner on Feb 7, 2012 4:47 PM CST up reply actions  

they rely on family too much for my taste in business

my families chock full of fredos

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 8:17 PM CST up reply actions  

My list:

Star Trek II – I could do my own commentary.
Dr. Strangelove (a movie that gets funnier each time. I always notice something new).
Anchorman
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (the scene where the air traffic controllers track the UFO still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up).
Talk Radio
Frost/Nixon
The original “Taking of Pelham One Two Three.”

I’m sure I’ve left some out.

What?! I ain't no Professor Pickles!

by 67WMAQ on Feb 6, 2012 10:36 AM CST reply actions  

I loves me some rifftrax

But – it sounds strange without the original MST guys.

What?! I ain't no Professor Pickles!

by 67WMAQ on Feb 6, 2012 10:54 AM CST up reply actions  

Strangelove is the best satire of all time

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 11:16 AM CST via mobile up reply actions   1 recs

Just awesome.

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 6, 2012 12:03 PM CST up reply actions  

One of my favorites

Colonel “Bat” Guano: Okay. I’m gonna get your money for ya. But if you don’t get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what’s gonna happen to you?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: What?
Colonel “Bat” Guano: You’re gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.

We play on the "bad" side of town, we were supposedly cursed, and we wear black. Let's play.

by ChiSoxRox on Feb 6, 2012 6:25 PM CST up reply actions   1 recs

no Network?

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 6, 2012 11:33 AM CST up reply actions  

Yes!

Ahead of its time. Ned Beatty’s speech is a work of art.

What?! I ain't no Professor Pickles!

by 67WMAQ on Feb 6, 2012 12:43 PM CST up reply actions  

I really enjoyed

when he “squealed like a pig” in Deliverance.

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 6, 2012 12:55 PM CST up reply actions   1 recs

Network was a huge letdown for me

after you guys all rec’d the hell out of it

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 4:00 PM CST up reply actions  

Because you were told to turn off your TV.

Impossible for you, ain’t it.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 6, 2012 4:21 PM CST up reply actions  

the message seemed quaint, yes

DFW told me to turn the TV off and I still like him though. I would say it’s more the fact that the movie doesn’t hang together. It’s so close, but it really doesn’t in the end. There are some genius bits though, I’ll grant.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 8:27 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

Frost/Nixon is great.

I’m a sucker for some Sam Rockwell.

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 6, 2012 12:03 PM CST up reply actions  

confessions of a dangerous mind.

enjoyed that movie immensely.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 10:16 AM CST up reply actions  

probably the most underrated US actor.

no matter what i’m doing, i’ll watch Box of Moonlight whenever it’s on, which is never.

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 7, 2012 10:20 AM CST up reply actions  

very enjoyable. i love it when a movie makes you feel a bit weird when it's over.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 2:14 PM CST up reply actions  

I accidentally watched the whole thing

the opening credits caught my eye flipping channels, and I was waiting to see if it was worth recording for later.

by Trooper on Feb 7, 2012 2:26 PM CST up reply actions  

yes.

very good, made me uncomfortable, like mm said below.

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 7, 2012 2:48 PM CST up reply actions  

i was kinda disappointed in it.

it was good, but not as good as the hype made it out to be.
way to disappoint me, zowie bowie.

by craigws on Feb 7, 2012 3:02 PM CST up reply actions  

there was hype?

watching it and this thread are the only times I’ve ever heard of it.

by Trooper on Feb 7, 2012 3:04 PM CST up reply actions  

lot of talk of it being a return to the 'hard sci-fi' of the 70's.

which it was, but it wasn’t on a par with alien or silent running.

by craigws on Feb 7, 2012 3:26 PM CST up reply actions  

and movies, for that matter.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 4:14 PM CST up reply actions  

baraka

just picked up the blu-ray the other week, marking the third format i’ve owned the movie in.

I love seasons too. That's why I live in a place that skips the shitty ones.

by thatshortkid on Feb 6, 2012 11:26 AM CST reply actions  

heh. nah, it's a ridiculously awesomely shot unnarrated doc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO1nSVy8q8I

a medicate-and-marinate kind of flick. very ‘one with the human condition’-y.

I love seasons too. That's why I live in a place that skips the shitty ones.

by thatshortkid on Feb 6, 2012 4:20 PM CST up reply actions  

No worries.

Ever see how the Chicago P.D. handled the ’68 Democratic convention? They opened up a can of whoop-ass on those dirty hippies.

The “Occupy”-types won’t be a problem.

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 6, 2012 12:46 PM CST up reply actions  

The police are there to preserve disorder, after all

We play on the "bad" side of town, we were supposedly cursed, and we wear black. Let's play.

by ChiSoxRox on Feb 6, 2012 6:26 PM CST up reply actions   1 recs

One of my favorite CPD T-shirts was from '96. It said -

“We kicked your old man’s ass back in ’68… Wait ’till you see what we do to you!”

by South Side Expat on Feb 6, 2012 6:40 PM CST up reply actions  

Priceless.

Was good seeing you the other night! Glad we could take in a big Clips loss. Wish it could’ve been at the hands of the Bulls, of course.

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 6, 2012 1:56 PM CST up reply actions  

They're not Detroit!

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 6, 2012 12:24 PM CST up reply actions  

Robin Ventura Bobblehead Day

noice

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 6, 2012 2:30 PM CST up reply actions  

mental note: do not trade away giveaway for beer. again.

I love seasons too. That's why I live in a place that skips the shitty ones.

by thatshortkid on Feb 6, 2012 2:58 PM CST up reply actions   2 recs

Even if you have to end up hating Robin it can serve as a voodoo doll

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 6, 2012 4:10 PM CST up reply actions  

How is this not green?

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 6, 2012 2:36 PM CST up reply actions  

yay!

Easy chief
We’re a community - Tdogg

by Jack M on Feb 6, 2012 3:16 PM CST up reply actions  

Heck, I might be able to make that

We play on the "bad" side of town, we were supposedly cursed, and we wear black. Let's play.

by ChiSoxRox on Feb 6, 2012 6:26 PM CST up reply actions  

Sorry I've been unable to post sooner. Thanks, TP.

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 6, 2012 11:44 AM CST reply actions  

I'll go with...

1. Super Troopers (2001) – stupid and hilarious cop shinanigans, that actually has a decent plot.
2. Slapshot (1977) – I’m not even a hockey fan, but I could watch the Hanson Brothers all day long; my favorite sports movie, with The Longest Yard (1974) a close second.
3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) – Loved it as a kid and love it again as a parent, as Gene Wilder does a fantastic job messing with the minds of insufferable brats and lousy parents. Fun to watch with your children and the “boat ride freak out” scene is a must-see. Snozzberries for everyone!
4. Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986) – Loves me a good scary sci-fi adventure, especially ones with critters that have acid for blood and multiple sets of teeth. Sigourney Weaver in her undies also a bonus.
5. Fail Safe (1964) – Oops! Looks like we’ve accidentally sent bombers to Moscow to drop some nukes and we can’t call them back! Henry Fonda as the president and a young Larry Hagman as a Russian interpreter are phenomenal in this thriller.

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 6, 2012 12:28 PM CST reply actions  

The original Willy Wonka was great,

the remade version with Johnny Depp is garbage though. Way too weird.

by ceverettsdinosaurs on Feb 6, 2012 12:34 PM CST up reply actions  

Agreed. I couldn't get through it.

Gene Wilder was weird, but smart-ass, eccentric weird.

Johnny Depp was creepy weird and really shouldn’t be near children.

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 6, 2012 12:42 PM CST up reply actions  

They need to ad a van down by the chocolate river

Although the environment might reduce the attraction of offering candy from the van

by ceverettsdinosaurs on Feb 6, 2012 1:02 PM CST up reply actions  

Here it is.

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 6, 2012 2:09 PM CST up reply actions  

too subtle

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 8:21 PM CST up reply actions  

Drop acid next time. You'll love it.

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 6, 2012 2:10 PM CST up reply actions  

Re: #4

Ridley Scott is finally doing another sci-fi movie to be released this summer (Prometheus) and starring Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace. That almost has to be good.

by Yinka Double Dare on Feb 6, 2012 4:44 PM CST up reply actions  

Damn straight.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 6, 2012 5:10 PM CST up reply actions  

I would recommend "The Escapist".

Not necessarily on my list, but just watched it recently (available streaming on Netflix) and it surprised me with how well made it was.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 6, 2012 12:29 PM CST reply actions  

this

I can’t begin to say how great I think this movie is. I’ll admit that it’s impossible for me to be objective about it. I was on a Chicago Public League basketball team in the 80’s, playing in many of the gyms shown in the film…but for me it’s so much more than nostalgia. it’s about love and hope and dreams and if you haven’t seen it, please see it, I dare you not to be moved by it.

by gar ridge pride on Feb 7, 2012 11:03 PM CST up reply actions  

one of my all-time faves too.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 8, 2012 11:40 AM CST up reply actions  

its not just you
for me it’s so much more than nostalgia. it’s about love and hope and dreams

Hoops Dreams falls under the category of Not Optional

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 10:30 PM CST up reply actions  

Sticking solely to 2011 releases... Drive

One of the best films of the year (next to The Descendants, in my opinion).

Drive is damn near perfect. And completely misrepresented in advertisements.

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 6, 2012 1:01 PM CST reply actions  

Agreed that it was misrepresented

THe ads make you think it is a fast and/or furious car chase movie. It is much more bleak and suspenseful. The best description I heard was it’s what would happen if Tarintino made silent movies.

by joewho112 on Feb 6, 2012 1:45 PM CST up reply actions  

Exactly. Not to take away from what Tarantino does because he's deliberately out there and I love his films too.

But this was so calculatingly lacking in dialogue, in lieu of setting up a certain suspense and realness in the situation. That tone permeates the whole film so eloquently.

And the soundtrack kicks major ass.

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 6, 2012 2:01 PM CST up reply actions  

I love Albert Brooks; and he was fantastic in this movie.

"I considered throwing a volley, but since I'm considerably closer to Ford City than Dodge City, I figure it might have been misinterpreted."

by RWShow on Feb 8, 2012 12:00 PM CST up reply actions  

Ahhh!

Still need to see that. Thanks for the reminder.

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 6, 2012 4:44 PM CST up reply actions  

Drive

was my favorite movie i saw this year.

The Descendents on the other hand…

Alex Payne is one of my top three favorite directors working (with the Coens and Spike Jonze) but I was massively disappointed by that movie. Sideways, About Schmidt, Election, and Citizen Ruth run laps around Descendents. seroiusly, I love the guys work, but how is your biggest commercial AND critical success (sideways) not followed up for 7 fucking years? and i’ve been waiting all this time for this? It’s not even funny!

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 10:37 PM CST up reply actions  

I thoroughly recommend 'True Grit',

The old one with John Wayne. Or any Wayne movie. If you like westerns at all.

by ScottyPods Ver2.0 on Feb 6, 2012 1:16 PM CST reply actions  

Speaking of westerns, 'The Three Amigos',

Might be one of the greatest, deepest, most heart-wrenchingest movies I’ve ever seen.

by ScottyPods Ver2.0 on Feb 6, 2012 1:17 PM CST up reply actions  

Young Guns too!

AND Young Guns 2!

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 6, 2012 2:31 PM CST up reply actions  

Yeah! I love Thirteen Days.

It’s not a great movie by any stretch, but for some reason it’s very enjoyable. I’ve probably seen it four or five times.

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 6, 2012 4:46 PM CST up reply actions  

Having only ever seen the box art

it makes me sad that wasn’t a softcore porno.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 8:55 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

I own most of the best westerns ever made

Not one of them stars John Wayne

fcdisbad.blogspot.com

by Carbiner on Feb 6, 2012 3:50 PM CST up reply actions  

"Blazing Saddles."

Agreed. No Duke.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 6, 2012 3:52 PM CST up reply actions  

Sadly I've never seen it

Reminds me to put it in the Amazon queue

fcdisbad.blogspot.com

by Carbiner on Feb 6, 2012 3:54 PM CST up reply actions  

Blazing Saddles is top 5 all time

No better straight up comedy.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 8:30 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

That's a pure falsehood.

You’re now John Oliver in Community.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 8:52 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

i can live with that.

i am right though. comedy is better when it has a point.
blazing saddles, whilst undeniably fucking awesome, doesn’t have a point.

by craigws on Feb 6, 2012 8:55 PM CST up reply actions  

What?!

You could only say that as a not American. Or something. The hero is a black sheriff in a Western parody.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 8:58 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

your facts, craig.

they need checked.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 6, 2012 9:01 PM CST up reply actions  

i am happy to concede oversight on that point,

but life of brian is better, and the ending is superior.

by craigws on Feb 6, 2012 9:05 PM CST up reply actions  

I can perhaps give you the ending

but it’s just not better on balance.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 9:50 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

i love gene wilder too,

but he isn’t better than the myriad of awesome scenes in life of brian.

by craigws on Feb 6, 2012 9:59 PM CST up reply actions  

Gene Wilder

Awesome in a small part in Bonnie and Clyde.
Still holds up as one of the best movies ever mad.

by Lil Jimmy on Feb 6, 2012 10:03 PM CST up reply actions  

it was mentioned earlier,

but i love him in willy wonka. he was good in everything you always wanted to know about sex (but were afraid to ask).

by craigws on Feb 6, 2012 10:11 PM CST up reply actions  

You are a "homer".

Mel Brooks’ comedy in context is greater than Monte Python’s in context. “Young Frankenstein” is better than “Meaning of Life”, too.

And we won our independence. So there. Across the Pond is all the same to me.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 9:45 AM CST up reply actions  

It's absolutely insane that a movie like that

came out in 1974. Beats out LoB by 5 years. It took Eddie Murphy and 15 years to make the whole “black person can be the lead of a movie” thing actually stick.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 9:49 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

it's also absolutely insane that a movie like life of brian

could come out. period.
i don’t think which one came first really matters one way or the other. though i’m curious why you brought up that it beats out life of brian by 5 years.

by craigws on Feb 6, 2012 9:58 PM CST up reply actions  

I think there's at least some Mel Brooks in

the MP troupe, for one. For two, like I said I see BS as superior (far, even). But I still like LoB. That BS preceded it by 5 years makes it all the more remarkable. More than anything, comedy gets dated faaaaast. BS has remarkable staying power.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 10:10 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

i dunno how much influence he had on them. i'd be interested in seeing if any of them

spoke about cross-pollination.
however, holy grail came out the same time as blazing saddles and the sort of comedy monty python did in that wasn’t too far from life of brian.

by craigws on Feb 6, 2012 10:14 PM CST up reply actions  

I wouldn't argue that there's a ton of influence

but Brooks had been big for a decade and a half by 1974 fwiw.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 11:51 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

The awesome thing about Blazing Saddles

Is that it can’t be made again. The language is so offensive that nobody can touch it, even though it works in favor of the theme of the film.

I could see Life of Brian and especially Holy Grail being remade. Remade terribly, but they could still do it.

by Jim Margalus on Feb 7, 2012 8:53 AM CST up reply actions   1 recs

Same thing with All in the Family.

No way that gets on the air. Which is really sad. Some of the best social commentary ever.

by South Side Expat on Feb 7, 2012 9:03 AM CST up reply actions  

enjoy Rob schneider and racist stereotypes in rob!

on cbs!

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 10:45 PM CST up reply actions  

I hate that CBS succeeds.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 8, 2012 11:45 PM CST up reply actions  

How do people find their comedies funny?

I sit in stunned amazement that my parents enjoy “Two and a Half Men” or that so many people my age find “The Big Bang Theory” or “How I Met Your Mother” funny.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 8, 2012 11:57 PM CST up reply actions  

of tv airing right now

i only watch nbc thursdays, downton abbey, and justified.

the rest is sports.

the only shows of cbs’s i’ve seen are big bang theory and two and a half men (just god awful) and how i met your mother (fine, but literally dozens of sitcoms ahead of it). the mike and mollys and two broke girls aren’t in reruns yet, so i haven’t seen them. Cbs gets me for nfl and NCAA basketball and that is it.

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 9, 2012 12:01 AM CST up reply actions  

I don't know about people your age

but those are enjoyable shows. your point probably still stands since those may be the only shows I’ve ever watched on cbs.

by Trooper on Feb 9, 2012 12:02 AM CST up reply actions  

*was

a few seasons ago.

"I considered throwing a volley, but since I'm considerably closer to Ford City than Dodge City, I figure it might have been misinterpreted."

by RWShow on Feb 9, 2012 8:39 AM CST up reply actions  

nah, it is still good.

the strength of the music they use alone keeps it above water. pavement, big star, george harrison, vampire weekend.
it touches me in all the right places.

by craigws on Feb 9, 2012 2:06 PM CST up reply actions  

Crime Scene: Scene of the Crime

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 9, 2012 12:06 AM CST up reply actions  

they are in for a rude awakening in 5 years

when the bulk of their 18-49 demographic turns out to be 45 years old on average.

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 11:55 PM CST up reply actions  

Poitier in drama.

Pryor in comedy.

They both, at least, disagree with you.

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 10:44 PM CST up reply actions  

they originally intended to make a movie called

‘Jesus Christ: Lust for Glory’,
but after reading the bible they realised there wasn’t much comedic mileage in what jesus says in there, so they realised what they were pissed off at was the people and organisations that fuck with the message and argue the semantics to make themselves feel better. see the sermon on the mount scene in the movie.

by craigws on Feb 6, 2012 11:45 PM CST up reply actions  

I do recall that scene.

The biggus dickus scenes are probably the funniest scenes in cinema I’ve ever seen.

by Shoeless In SC on Feb 6, 2012 11:49 PM CST up reply actions  

and fwiw...

I think space balls, while not quite as original, is funnier than blazing saddles.

by Shoeless In SC on Feb 6, 2012 11:52 PM CST up reply actions  

You have a head injury, don't you.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 9:46 AM CST up reply actions  

yeah, he really undermined me

given he was the only other one to voice the life of brian > blazing saddles opinion.

by craigws on Feb 7, 2012 3:06 PM CST up reply actions  

it's not looking good for you craig

might be time to check more than just your facts.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 4:15 PM CST up reply actions  

lest he wreck himself.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 4:35 PM CST up reply actions   1 recs

You need to examine your life

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by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 9:38 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

Such a complex theme and the cinematography is great.

I really like how it totally shoots down the whole “Noble defeated ex-confederate” mythos that seems to permeate so many westerns (or mid-westerns as we learned yesterday) Wayne is a deeply flawed, dangerous man in it.

I can’t decide if I like the Searchers or the Cowboys more, my 2 most favorite Wayne western movies. (Crap, I forgot about True Grit, the Shootist, She wore a Yellow Ribbon, Stagecoach) What about Wayne’s military movies? I love the Sands of Iwo Jima

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 2:05 PM CST up reply actions  

For John Wayne flicks, its the Undefeated first, then maybe Tie a yellow ribbon

His Rooster Cogburn is pretty good, too, but I dont think his campy western stuff can touch the spaghetti westerns.

by e-gus on Feb 7, 2012 2:34 PM CST up reply actions  

Magnificent 7 #1 ?

"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."

John Kenneth Galbraith

by Chiburb on Feb 6, 2012 5:55 PM CST up reply actions   1 recs

No love for "Shane"?

Check out Alan Ladd and young Jack Palance (Puh-lantz or Pal-ence?) Awesome dialog, excellent scenery and score. My favorite Western by far.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE3mHhpGV2A&feature=related

by oahu420 on Feb 7, 2012 10:43 AM CST up reply actions  

You missed hoodie's post below.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 10:47 AM CST up reply actions  

Then you don't own The Searchers, I guess

Or Stagecoach for that matter. I see the searchers has been mentioned, and yes, wayne was in like 40,000 shitty westerns, but he struck gold on like 5 of them. I’d throw in Rio Bravo as well, even if it has dean martin and teeny whats his face in it.

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 10:40 PM CST up reply actions  

the new version was great.

another good recent western was 3.10 to yuma.

by craigws on Feb 6, 2012 5:21 PM CST up reply actions  

agreed on 3:10 to Yuma

Elmore Leonard wrote some bad -assed westerns back in the day. Hombre was another…

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 6, 2012 8:28 PM CST via Android app up reply actions  

I liked Open Range

and The Proposition. Obviously the True Grit remake is more than worthwhile. anyone seen meek’s cutoff and appaloosa? been interested in those, but haven’t quite pulled the trigger.

for reference, my favorite westerns are the man with no name trilogy, then High plains drifter, outlaw josey wales, and unforgiven. I like that eastwood guy a lot.

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 10:49 PM CST up reply actions  

Winchester '73 makes my top 5 somewhere.

Western noir? Don’t mind if I do.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 8, 2012 11:46 PM CST up reply actions  

Speaking of John Wayne....

You should check out “Branigan.” It was one of the Duke’s final movies. He plays a Chicago cop who follows a jewel theif to London.

It was also notable for being one of the few movies filmed in Chicago during the tenure of the first Mayor Daley.

Another really obscure movie that shows off 1970’s Chicago is a blaxsploitation film called Monkey Hustle. It stars Yaphet Kotto as a con artist who teaches kids the art of the “flim flam scoot n’ scam.”. If you take the Rock Island downtown…there are a number of scenes in the old LaSalle Street Station.

What?! I ain't no Professor Pickles!

by 67WMAQ on Feb 6, 2012 6:45 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

very cool. so few high rises and skyscrapers.

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by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 1:54 PM CST up reply actions  

Mike Bilandic was quite austere. No money to build. Lots of snow.

The ’70’s were tough, man.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 1:57 PM CST up reply actions  

I'll go with Resident Evil

Before Resident Evil 5,4,3 and 2 there was Resident Evil. Starring a young Milla Jovovich, this movie showed what living in an underground biosphere was like before the Umbrella Corporation unleashed the T-virus onto the unwitting populace. Sure life hasn’t quite been the same since then but we can still reminisce about the good ol’ days when soldiers were getting sliced into cubes by lasers and Alice was fleeing from mutated zombies on a high speed train.

Just imagine the utopia we all could be living in if only the Umbrella Corporation had directed its technology towards benevolence rather than avarice and world domination. Instead of peaceful communes, the Earth is now littered with zombies and muted animals. Thanks a lot Umbrella.

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by MrBungle on Feb 6, 2012 1:18 PM CST reply actions  

Tom Cruise is almost a midget.

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 6, 2012 2:43 PM CST up reply actions  

So he's too short to be a midget?

"I considered throwing a volley, but since I'm considerably closer to Ford City than Dodge City, I figure it might have been misinterpreted."

by RWShow on Feb 8, 2012 12:14 PM CST up reply actions  

what are his sideburns like these days?

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 1:56 PM CST up reply actions  

actually, don't tell me. i don't want to tarnish his image in my mind.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 1:56 PM CST up reply actions  

Comedic genius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InF17l92Fbc

Apologies to tailgater.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 1:58 PM CST up reply actions  

i miss phil hartman.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 2:16 PM CST up reply actions  

Pee Wee's Big Adventure is severely underrated

and bears the comic fingerprints of Mr. Hartman

White Sox 2012: Helplessly rebuilding?

by greenlight on Feb 7, 2012 3:26 PM CST up reply actions  

OH MAN! Brandon Walsh!

He’s kind of a fool. Had the opportunity to bang tiffani thiessen and passed. idiot.

Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.

by KenWo4LiFe on Feb 9, 2012 12:57 AM CST up reply actions  

Holy Shit

someone else remembers lets bowl. and LIKES it no less? My buddy hasn’t paid his $70 fantasy football entry STILL and I want to bowl him for the grand prize of a 1974 Buick Skylark.

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 10:53 PM CST up reply actions  

my favorite television show of all time.

i really believe that wally is not a character.

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 9, 2012 6:28 PM CST up reply actions  

[bowler leaves 5 pins standing all over the board]

Wally: and he has the dreaded exploding birdbath split.

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 10, 2012 12:20 AM CST up reply actions   1 recs

Ah, didn't scroll down this far

I don’t even watch that much sci-fi and I know I’ll see that one. Of course, my wife watching a ton of it would mean I’d probably be seeing it even if I didn’t, but seriously, Ridley finally doing another sci-fi film, starring Fassbender and Noomi Rapace. Definitely seeing it.

by Yinka Double Dare on Feb 6, 2012 4:46 PM CST up reply actions  

I can't believe no one has mentioned Human Centipede.

What is this world coming to?

This space is available.

by MrBungle on Feb 6, 2012 3:30 PM CST reply actions  

Porn.

"I considered throwing a volley, but since I'm considerably closer to Ford City than Dodge City, I figure it might have been misinterpreted."

by RWShow on Feb 8, 2012 12:15 PM CST up reply actions  

I assume everyone here has watched the Big Lebowski

But it’s only my second favorite Coen Brothers movie. Miller’s Crossing is my absolute favorite and more people should watch it.

3 others that need to be seen more by people: Weird Al’s UHF is hysterical. Chow Yun Fat is the man in Hard Boiled, and Tampopo, which is a Japanese Samurai spoof of a Spaghetti Western of a Samurai movie. If you love food you will find it to be brilliantly funny.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 6, 2012 3:36 PM CST reply actions  

It kills me that Miller's Crossing isn't streaming.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 6, 2012 3:41 PM CST up reply actions  

I don't know U-God

do you always know why you stream things?

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 10:55 PM CST up reply actions  

Strange yes, in the sense

That it was totally made for Japan without any global considerations. It’s also where I learned that Ramen means noodle in Japanese, so daing Ramen Noodles is redundant. After seeing this, I fully understood how “Iron Chef” was made with a straight face over there.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 2:08 PM CST up reply actions  

i've wondered about that, as i've been a card carrying weeaboo for years.

could be wrong, but i’ve always suspected it was strange even for them.

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 7, 2012 2:51 PM CST up reply actions  

Miller's Crossing is the shit

Blood Simple is another Coen flick that doesn’t get rec’d enough imo.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 4:03 PM CST up reply actions  

My dad watched the second half with me without having seen the first half.

I enjoyed his puzzlement as much as the movie.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 6, 2012 4:08 PM CST up reply actions  

reminds me of the Man Who Knew Too Little

used to get high, suspend disbelief and watch it like Bill Murray knew what he was doing the whole time, like acting like an ignorant jagoff was his spy style.

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 6, 2012 4:16 PM CST up reply actions  

That's the conceit of Archer and it's amazing

so I can see the appeal

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 8:32 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

that show is on fire.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 1:58 PM CST up reply actions  

Having seen S1 in full a handful of times now and then S2 a couple less than that... and knowing where S3 has gone already...

What a beautiful evolution of that show. It’s downright hilarity through and through and just getting better.

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 2:04 PM CST up reply actions  

I guess I have to give Archer another shot then

I really wanted to like it, and for some reason it just wasn’t clicking for me, even with the great H. Jon Benjamin…who is forever Coach McGuirk to me. “Home Movies” was a great tv show.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 2:10 PM CST up reply actions  

This!

Just re-watched everything from the beginning it really hits its stride on season 2.

by Krasmer on Feb 7, 2012 4:32 PM CST via iPhone app up reply actions  

I don't understand this.

But I guess my avatar suggests my insta-love of all things Adam Reed.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 9:35 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

And that's the thing...

I was certain I would love it based on my love of Sealab 2021. It’s still recording on my DVR so I’ll check it out again.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 8, 2012 7:38 AM CST up reply actions  

if you liked frisky dingo

the transition is easier, i think.

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 8, 2012 8:43 AM CST up reply actions  

OA is right

Frisky Dingo is a lot closer to Archer than S2021. FD might still be Reed’s crowning achievement.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 8, 2012 4:13 PM CST up reply actions  

Barton Fink is my favorite Coen Bros.

though (almost) all of their films are golden.

boxcars boxcars boxcars

by soxshenanigans on Feb 6, 2012 6:37 PM CST up reply actions  

mine as well.

gloriously confusing.

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 7, 2012 9:30 AM CST up reply actions  

I love the Hudsucker Proxy too

That is some snappy dialogue!

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 2:11 PM CST up reply actions  

you know

for kids

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 10:57 PM CST up reply actions  

Jesus, Tommy

Where the white women at?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGQ-ISsDm8M

by parkernutws05 on Feb 7, 2012 11:02 AM CST up reply actions  

Eh lets see here

Top 5 varies but some of my favorites are: Unforgiven, Seven Samurai (Original cut), City of God, Josey Wales, Taxi Driver, and pretty much anything by Sergio Leone or Christopher Nolan. 80s/early 90s Arnold movies never get old either.

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by Carbiner on Feb 6, 2012 3:49 PM CST reply actions  

Jesse James is about 30 minutes too long

Other than that, a solid film.

fcdisbad.blogspot.com

by Carbiner on Feb 6, 2012 4:16 PM CST reply actions  

Reply FIAL

Have you seen this TP?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6w0r-ScEG4

I don’t know how they got the cgi to do this…

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 2:13 PM CST up reply actions  

Haha, yeah.

Seen it before, but had forgotten about it. Thanks.

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 7, 2012 2:52 PM CST up reply actions  

Those eyes are so sad!

And yet I laugh so hard.

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 7, 2012 2:53 PM CST up reply actions  

The Mattei Affair

in my view best film ever made

by hoodlight on Feb 6, 2012 4:54 PM CST via mobile reply actions  

Shane - my fav Western, love that film

that scene at the end where Shane knocks out the father and gets his buckskins on to finally go take care of business – so powerful. An awesome film.

by hoodlight on Feb 6, 2012 5:16 PM CST via mobile reply actions  

Shockingly, I haven't seen it yet.

although there are times where I walk to the end of my street and with tears in my eyes scream “Shhhhhhhaaaaaannnneeee!”

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 6, 2012 8:35 PM CST via Android app up reply actions  

Big props,

though “High Noon” is the standard.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 9:49 AM CST up reply actions  

Shane is the best.

Scroll up to my earlier comment and click the link. When Wilson (Palance) asks “What have you heard Shane?” Shane replies “I heard you were a lowdown Yankee Liar” there is a few seconds of silence that seems an eternity.
I liked Shane’s comment in that scene: “You lived to long.Your kinda days are over”. Great scene. Great movie.

by oahu420 on Feb 7, 2012 10:59 AM CST up reply actions  

Just a cursory glance through my own collection-

Spy Game
The Princess Bride
Real Genius
Clue
Kicking and Screaming (This title, not the stupid Will Ferell soccer one.) <—- probably my favorite “coming of age” movie, and probably relevant to a lot of folks here, as the subject is post college graduation.
For that matter, any movie with Eric Stoltz.
Better Off Dead
Airplane
Backdraft <- So much Chicago machismo cheese.
Good Morning Vietnam
All the Kevin Smith flicks
A Christmas Story (and just as good, the little known sequel Ollie Hopnoodle’s Haven of Bliss) <— Very relevant to White Sox fans
The Blues Brothers
Who framed Roger Rabbit

None of these are exactly high art. I dig on the high art stuff, but these movies are just straight fun, and this thread needed some of that.

by South Side Expat on Feb 6, 2012 7:55 PM CST reply actions  

you still on the kevin smith train?

i jumped that one after jay and silent bob strike back. clerks 2 wasn’t awful, i guess.
the clerks cartoon was good too.

by craigws on Feb 6, 2012 8:27 PM CST up reply actions  

He hasn't done anything that wasn't uneven

but I still like Clerks, Mallrats and Dogma.

I don’t get why people hate on Dogma.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 8:34 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

Somehow I haven't seen it

Feels kinda pointless now. I feel like I’m finally outside the target audience.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 8:51 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

is that reason enough to see it?

also I saw all of the first five min of The Town before turning it off. Something about it just irked me.

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by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 9:52 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

it's constantly on hbo and i recommend you do see it.

just very solid.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 2:02 PM CST up reply actions  

I liked The Town.

Still think it’s basically Good Will Hunting with guns, though.

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 7, 2012 2:57 PM CST up reply actions  

Finish The Town.

And see Chasing Amy. It’s Smith’s best, imo.

"I considered throwing a volley, but since I'm considerably closer to Ford City than Dodge City, I figure it might have been misinterpreted."

by RWShow on Feb 8, 2012 12:19 PM CST up reply actions  

What??

The Town was pretty good.

"Rooting for the Twins is just a roundabout way of rooting for a first-round playoff bye for the Yankees." by big_fun

by Tdogg on Feb 8, 2012 4:41 PM CST up reply actions  

Oh hell yes. Affleck was absolutely perfect and hilarious in that role.

I love that movie despite my general dislike of Giovanni Ribisi.

"I considered throwing a volley, but since I'm considerably closer to Ford City than Dodge City, I figure it might have been misinterpreted."

by RWShow on Feb 8, 2012 12:20 PM CST up reply actions  

I'm afraid I'm going to have ginger kids

My mom and her brother are gingers.

Fiancee’s mom is ginger. Her nephew is ginger.

That’s a lot of gingers in our immediate family. I think it’s inevitable.

by Shoeless In SC on Feb 6, 2012 11:46 PM CST up reply actions  

It's not a recessive gene either

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by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 11:53 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

Assuming we both carry the trait ours kids will have a 1/4 chance, right?

Looks like we’d better stop at a couple kids else we’ll be pushing our luck of having a ginger baby.

Otoh, if our first kid is a ginger then I’ll be poking holes in every condom from then on.

by Shoeless In SC on Feb 6, 2012 11:59 PM CST up reply actions  

in every condom? you're going to be married, man.

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by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 2:03 PM CST up reply actions  

what is this condom thing you speak of?

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 2:35 PM CST up reply actions  

Didnt you just finish stats?

It doesn’t work like that.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 9:30 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

I figured he was just essing with us.

Hopefully.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 7, 2012 9:42 PM CST up reply actions  

Not sure what you mean.

Although re-reading my statements, I didn’t make very clear what I was joking about. It was 1am

by Shoeless In SC on Feb 7, 2012 10:18 PM CST up reply actions  

1am?

you ought to be hitting your stride at that time man!

by craigws on Feb 7, 2012 10:50 PM CST up reply actions  

Just to clarify: if I flip a coin and it lands heads

what is the chance it lands heads the second time I flip?

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by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 10:58 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

Also no, if it's not recessive that's not how it works

but I did just read that human phenotype expression for a given gene is remarkably complex. Relative to dogs, anyway.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 9:32 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

i consider dogma his second best movie.

it’s too bad the extended jason lee monologue was cut. matt damon was simply awesome.

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 7, 2012 9:32 AM CST up reply actions  

Straight fun movies?

Definitely Blues Brothers. I love me some Deep Blue Sea. Independence Day. Jurassic Park. Scream. I’ll second Super Troopers, Anchorman and Old School. And I’m sure it’s just me, but in honor of that camptastic halftime show: Mamma Mia.

…not exactly a definitive list.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 8:37 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

what in the holy hell??
A Christmas Story (and just as good, the little known sequel Ollie Hopnoodle’s Haven of Bliss)

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 7, 2012 9:34 AM CST up reply actions  

I like it tons of movies

my ‘I think these are really good but never hear mentioned’ category I have at least The Conversation and Equilibrium.

by Trooper on Feb 6, 2012 8:26 PM CST reply actions  

i'm generally not a big movie guy (don't remember the last time i was in a theater to see a "regular" movie)

i often like documentaries though. recently the art in champaign had a little documentary film festival. page one, el bulli, and tabloid were all very good. everyday sunshine, about the band “fishbone”, i really, really liked. (it may be difficult to find at the moment though. it’s pretty new. i think it may have played on some pbs stations recently.)

two all time favorites are brother’s keeper and man on wire.

all time favorite comes with a warning: if the sound of an entire movie that consists of nothing but a very flamboyant gay man sitting in the back of a ‘57 sedan de ville (he calls it a “pussy wagon”) telling outrageous stories doesn’t sound good to you, you probably won’t like it.
(also, it may be very hard to find. i used to rent it (VHS!!) from that’s rentertainment it finally came out on dvd not long ago and i think you can buy it from the link i am going to provide, but first, a couple snippets of reviews.

a tour of a wild, low-life gay existence

cross hank williams sr. with jack kerouac and truman capote

like a flamboyantly gay spalding gray

it is called… american fabulous
has anyone seen this? if you do, let me know.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 6, 2012 8:37 PM CST reply actions  

i saw it.

and dug it.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 6, 2012 9:13 PM CST up reply actions  

I like my beer cold,

my TV loud, and my homosexuals fa-laaaaming.

- Homer Simpson

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 7, 2012 9:01 AM CST up reply actions  

i just caught that fishbone doc the other day on PBS, it was good.

PBS has had some really good documentaries recently.

I really enjoyed Black in Latin America: Cuba with Dr. Henry Luis Gates. I think it was the first in the series with Brazil next presumably for Black History month.

I didnt like the PJ20 one on Pearl Jam though, way too self indulgent on the part of the film maker.

by e-gus on Feb 7, 2012 2:29 PM CST up reply actions  

Fishbone is criminally underrated

They are so good. I was certain they were going to be huge, like the Red Hot Chili Peppers. But alas, it wasn’t to be….

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 2:32 PM CST up reply actions  

they cover that pretty well in the doc

with the red hot chili peppers saying the same thing you just did.

by e-gus on Feb 7, 2012 2:39 PM CST up reply actions  

Now I really have to see this.

Sounds so good.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 2:43 PM CST up reply actions  

say anything?

you’re really on a roll lately.

the voice
pinterest
yes to the dress

yeesh.

by e-gus on Feb 7, 2012 2:56 PM CST up reply actions  

As someone who has his fair share of trips down the wedding aisle

and would have first hand knowledge about resiliency, do you have any kind words of advice for those of us who are about to foolhardily venture into this holiest of institutions?

This space is available.

by MrBungle on Feb 7, 2012 3:47 PM CST up reply actions  

I do

Don’t plan your wedding the same weekend your city hosts the G8 Summit

@gpierce112

by joewho112 on Feb 7, 2012 3:48 PM CST up reply actions   2 recs

Put her first.

And think of this word – “stewardship”. If you love her, man up and be the steward of your family.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 3:49 PM CST up reply actions  

Ignore WU's reply. You need only remember 1 rule:

It’s cheaper to rent.

"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."

John Kenneth Galbraith

by Chiburb on Feb 7, 2012 5:24 PM CST up reply actions   2 recs

and here i thought you were enjoying the recipes i was pinning. i don't know what to believe any more.

those are nice abs, though.

I love seasons too. That's why I live in a place that skips the shitty ones.

by thatshortkid on Feb 7, 2012 3:35 PM CST up reply actions  

She only had one hand on the remote?

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 9:29 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

I did not know what Pinterest was until I felt compelled to research it after seeing this photo

AND OH MY GOD AM I ADDICTED! What really happened was I found out my wife has been using Pinterest for a while now.

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 8, 2012 8:13 AM CST up reply actions  

Dug "Say Anything" a lot in the day.

Love John Cusak, though he plays himself a lot. Not wild about Joan. Too screechy.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 3:07 PM CST up reply actions  

Best Movies

Bell Book and Candle
One from the Heart
Ground Hog Day
Defending your Life
Romeo and Juliet 1968
The Wild Bunch
The Producers

by Lil Jimmy on Feb 6, 2012 9:32 PM CST reply actions  

Defending Your Life

Just about anything with Albert Brooks is golden.

“Real Life” (1979) was a real visionary movie. Little did they know how prominent (and common) reality TV would become.

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 7, 2012 9:14 AM CST up reply actions  

oh yeah, another.

the 7 up series. groundbreaking and fascinating.
56 up should be coming out in about three months.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 6, 2012 9:35 PM CST reply actions  

Am I just totally biased

or does the West Coast lack for music taste?

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 6, 2012 10:12 PM CST via mobile reply actions  

I guess it depends on what you're into. Here's a short list:

The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, The Surfaris, Dick Dale, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe and the Fish, Santana, The Charlatans, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Grateful Dead, Moby Grape, The Flaming’ Groovies, The Byrds,
The Doors, Love, Buffalo Springfield, The Seeds, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Iron Butterfly, Country Joe and the Fish, Blue Cheer, The Eagles, Poco, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Brown, War, Santana, Sly & The Family Stone, Tower of Power, Sparks, The Runaways, The Tubes, Journey, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Quiet Riot, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Black Flag, The Circle Jerks, Bad Religion, The Offspring, Suicidal Tendencies, The Dickies, Dead Kennedys, The Bangles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane’s Addiction, Camper Van Beethoven, Stone Temple Pilots, 30 Seconds to Mars, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Exodus, Tupac Shakur, Snoop Doggy Dogg and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 7, 2012 8:59 AM CST up reply actions  

Yeah it's not a historical problem

more like a recent one.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 11:18 AM CST via mobile up reply actions  

though actually I don't care for a lot of that

list either

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 11:20 AM CST via mobile up reply actions  

Joni Mitchell?!? Or did you mean the West Coast of Canada?

Saskatchewan as I recall.

"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."

John Kenneth Galbraith

by Chiburb on Feb 7, 2012 12:51 PM CST up reply actions   2 recs

Yes, she was a Toronto busker

but didn’t get famous until 1968 when she moved to southern CA.

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 8, 2012 8:53 AM CST up reply actions  

Bangles forever!

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 11:16 PM CST up reply actions  

their best song wasn't even written by them.

only came about because of prince’s pure-hearted desire to get into the lead singer’s pants.

by craigws on Feb 9, 2012 12:20 AM CST up reply actions  

Prince didn't write eternal flame.

he didn’t even write walk like an egyptian. In what universe do you live in where manic monday is their best song?

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 9, 2012 12:26 AM CST up reply actions  

Manic Monday sucks.

"I considered throwing a volley, but since I'm considerably closer to Ford City than Dodge City, I figure it might have been misinterpreted."

by RWShow on Feb 9, 2012 8:41 AM CST up reply actions  

your face lacks for music taste.

I love seasons too. That's why I live in a place that skips the shitty ones.

by thatshortkid on Feb 7, 2012 9:16 AM CST up reply actions  

holy shit.

The west coast has the best rappers (Dre, Cube, Eazy E, Snoop) and motley crue. I just saw them in Vegas. They put on the best show out there. All other rock bands look lame in comparison. I’ve seen aerosmith, van halen, metallica, poison, motley kills them all. and its not close.

Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.

by KenWo4LiFe on Feb 9, 2012 1:04 AM CST up reply actions  

i'm a pretty big crue fan, maybe not so much after dr feelgood.

saw them at the world (tweeter, whatever the hell it’s called now) with ozzy, and they were really disappointing.

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 9, 2012 6:33 PM CST up reply actions  

i dunno man... i've seen them the last 3 years and each time was awesome.

Cruefest 2 was great. they played the entire dr. feelgood album plus other hits. This vegas residency is fucking incredible. its like motley meets cirque. fireworks, trapeze artists, stilt walkers… amazing stuff.

Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.

by KenWo4LiFe on Feb 9, 2012 6:48 PM CST up reply actions  

i don't know if it was their acoustics or what.

halford was great, lamb of god and ozzy all sounded good. their sound was just off or something.

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 9, 2012 6:57 PM CST up reply actions  

Classic films question.

What’re your top 3 Hitchcock films?

I’ve only seen 6, but I’ve not seen a bad one yet. I’d go with Psycho, Rear Window, and North by North West.

by Shoeless In SC on Feb 7, 2012 12:03 AM CST reply actions  

Jesus, Vertigo was horrible. Horrible and ponderous.

And I love Hitchcock. NNW was the best, To Catch a Thief, and Psycho.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 10:12 AM CST up reply actions  

I just watched Vertigo last night (my 6th Hitchcock film)

and I thought it was a bit overrated as far as Hitchcock movies go. Shot well, especially the kissing scene in front of the water, but it was my second least favorite of all his movies, after The Man Who Knew Too Much, which I thought while good, wasn’t at the same level as Psycho, NNW, To Catch a Thief, and Rear Window.

by Shoeless In SC on Feb 7, 2012 1:05 PM CST up reply actions  

love me some vertigo.

rope, the 39 steps and rebecca are all very good.
and the birds is spielberg before spielberg.

by craigws on Feb 7, 2012 3:14 PM CST up reply actions  

Never really liked Jimmy Stewart in Hitchcock.

Cary Grant – now he fit the bill. Always liked his smart-assed comments.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 3:23 PM CST up reply actions  

Love Jimmy, sure.

“Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” are top 20 faves. Also dug “Anatomy of a Murder”. But not in Hitchcock, for some reason.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 3:38 PM CST up reply actions  

maybe cuz he's a little too hammy?

i don’t agree, but i could see it.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 4:21 PM CST up reply actions  

WU with his moons, colin with his hammy's

Looks like its Denny’s tonight

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 4:22 PM CST up reply actions  

Mrs. Driveway

its going to snow tonight right?

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 4:26 PM CST up reply actions  

inanimate object roleplay man!

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 4:29 PM CST up reply actions  

I think it's because I liked Cary Grant more

and wanted to see him in more of Hitch’s movies.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 4:22 PM CST up reply actions  

CG is better regardless of director, imo.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 4:29 PM CST up reply actions  

I'll cede the point if you will

…maybe

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 9:28 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

Philadelphia Story

Macally Conner,Newspaper Reporter who gets the girl.

by Lil Jimmy on Feb 7, 2012 4:09 PM CST up reply actions  

Strangers on a Train, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Dial M

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 10:29 AM CST up reply actions  

Stranger on a Train

is my favorite by Hitchcock. I grew up on Hitchcock. twss

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 1:17 PM CST up reply actions  

Vertigo was Hitchcock's love letter to Grace Kelly

He conceived it for her and it would have easily been his greatest if she didn’t stay in Europe after meeting and marrying the prince.
Can’t believe no one’s mentioned ‘Notorious’. just about perfect – Bergman and Grant.
my others are Strangers, NNW and Dial M (which was filmed in 3D and shown as such at the Dearborn Theater in the 80’s.)

by gar ridge pride on Feb 7, 2012 10:46 PM CST up reply actions  

The theaters are always full of crap. You just don't remember the crap when you look back

No reason to waste memory on the Along Came Polly’s and Starsky & Hutch’s of years gone by.

by joewho112 on Feb 7, 2012 9:43 AM CST up reply actions  

Really hatin on Ben Stiller there, pal!

“There’s Something About Mary” excuses the rest of his career.

Also, though Along Came Polly was certainly bad, Phillip Seymour Hoffman was fucking hilarious in it.

"I considered throwing a volley, but since I'm considerably closer to Ford City than Dodge City, I figure it might have been misinterpreted."

by RWShow on Feb 8, 2012 12:28 PM CST up reply actions  

permanent midnight.

stiller’s had some other good stuff, none of which i can remember right now.

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 9, 2012 6:34 PM CST up reply actions  

greenberg

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 10, 2012 12:22 AM CST up reply actions  

Envy

Very funny.Ben Stiller Show.1993 on Fox.Great cast,wildly creative.

by Lil Jimmy on Feb 11, 2012 8:31 AM CST up reply actions  

i don't think I agree with that

sure there will always be “absolute horseshit” (they’re really making a ghost rider 2 with nicolas cage), but there have been some quality films in the recent past:

Inception, Black Swan, King’s Speech, Midnight in Paris just to name a few

Easy chief
We’re a community - Tdogg

by Jack M on Feb 7, 2012 10:05 AM CST up reply actions  

Nic is one of the worst actors ever.

And I loved “Moonstruck” and “Raising Arizona”. But he is God-awful.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 1:53 PM CST up reply actions  

I loved Adaptation.

I like to think Cage is like Donald Kaufman in real life.

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 7, 2012 2:09 PM CST up reply actions  

I am not a big fan of Cage although Leaving Las Vegas is a good one

I am ashamed to admit I love the National treasure movies. I know they are bad and I think it is the utter absurdity that draws to the movies. I can’t wait for another installment.

Where the white women at?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGQ-ISsDm8M

by parkernutws05 on Feb 7, 2012 2:20 PM CST up reply actions  

i love national treasure. also liked gone in 60 seconds, the rock, windtalkers.

He’s in a lot of good movies.

Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.

by KenWo4LiFe on Feb 9, 2012 1:06 AM CST up reply actions  

Agreed.

Like Ray Liotta and Bill Paxton, I enjoy their movies, but they play the same guy (badly) every time.

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 7, 2012 2:29 PM CST up reply actions  

Field of Dreams? Goodfellas?

and he was fantastic as Tommy Vercetti in GTA: Vice City

by e-gus on Feb 7, 2012 2:42 PM CST up reply actions  

a ray liotta movie can be great. it just means its true rating was 'really great' and my hate for him knocked it down a peg.

field of dreams didn’t have enough of him to matter, but man, I do not see how he was cast there.

by Trooper on Feb 7, 2012 2:50 PM CST up reply actions  

copland.

possibly stallone’s best movie too.

by craigws on Feb 7, 2012 3:17 PM CST up reply actions  

Forgot about that one.

Could be his best

Where the white women at?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGQ-ISsDm8M

by parkernutws05 on Feb 7, 2012 3:18 PM CST up reply actions  

Copland was a piece of shit.

I was extremely disappointed in that role – huge build-up, very deflating.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 3:19 PM CST up reply actions  

Something Wild

Crazy good movie and he is great in it.First time I ever saw him.

by Lil Jimmy on Feb 7, 2012 2:53 PM CST up reply actions  

His "accent" I guess you would call it in Con Air was priceless

I watch that movie just so I can hear it.

Where the white women at?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGQ-ISsDm8M

by parkernutws05 on Feb 7, 2012 2:58 PM CST up reply actions  

matchstick men, kick-ass

and bringing out the dead (way underrated) were all good performances.

by craigws on Feb 7, 2012 3:18 PM CST up reply actions  

kick ass

forgot that one, but i felt like he was parodying himself somehow

by e-gus on Feb 7, 2012 3:42 PM CST up reply actions  

i'm okay with that.

a nicolas cage/adam west parody is a good thing.

by craigws on Feb 7, 2012 5:55 PM CST up reply actions  

damn I couldn't even make the first AW reference

of this thread? My assmar. Sucks to it.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 9:27 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans

Werner Herzog film. And its incredibly awesome with cages performance a big part of that.

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 11:21 PM CST up reply actions  

Few and far between.

That was an okay movie. So was The Weatherman. But Cage deserves the bees.

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 8, 2012 11:47 PM CST up reply actions  

The archery range scenes in The Weatherman were filmed by my house.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 8, 2012 11:48 PM CST up reply actions  

i really gotta see the wicker man.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 9, 2012 10:33 AM CST up reply actions  

Original=terrifying.

Remake=terrifying for different reasons.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 9, 2012 10:48 AM CST up reply actions  

yeah, i'm talking about the remake.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 9, 2012 1:31 PM CST up reply actions  

Yeah, that and The Room.

Both look so terrible.

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 9, 2012 1:55 PM CST up reply actions  

Wild at Heart was probably his comedic masterpiece

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 2:36 PM CST up reply actions  

no love for Wild at Heart?

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 3:37 PM CST up reply actions  

"Blue Velvet"

is one of the weirdest and satisfying movies ever. if you are on meth.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 3:50 PM CST up reply actions  

Inland Empire

holy christ was that just about the grimiest piece of polished, million dollar, antique roadshow heirloom there ever was

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 4:02 PM CST up reply actions  

oh, it is!

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 4:20 PM CST up reply actions  

Fuck that shit!

PBR!

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 8, 2012 7:41 AM CST up reply actions   1 recs

F that sh**!

Pabst Blue Ribbon?

Wanna go for a ride, neighbor?

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 8, 2012 9:10 AM CST up reply actions  

* Pabst Blue Ribbon! (it's a statement, not a question)

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 8, 2012 9:11 AM CST up reply actions  

It is creepy yet hilarious

one of my favorite movie scenes is when he says “Uh Oh” on the stairs.

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 4:00 PM CST up reply actions  

Its february

the movies are always shit every year for forever at this time.

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 11:18 PM CST up reply actions  

I do enjoy

Glengarry Glen Ross, Giant, Patton, the usual suspects,Schindler’s list, Matrix, and I have an unhealthy man crushes on Harrison Ford and Matt Damon movies (my wife worries).

Where the white women at?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGQ-ISsDm8M

by parkernutws05 on Feb 7, 2012 11:20 AM CST reply actions  

You are a genius.

Good choices.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 11:55 AM CST up reply actions  

GGR is fantastic. i've told a lot of people to see that.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 2:08 PM CST up reply actions  

Mamet

From the Untouchables.Lawyer coming out of court and the other guy is complaining.
Lawyer says "Hey … Learn to loose.

by Lil Jimmy on Feb 7, 2012 2:11 PM CST up reply actions  

GGR

Saw it at the Blackstone with Peter Falk and Joe Mantegna.Mantegna was born to perform in Mamet’s work.

by Lil Jimmy on Feb 7, 2012 2:21 PM CST up reply actions  

i havent

adding to netflix now

by e-gus on Feb 7, 2012 2:56 PM CST up reply actions  

Fucking A.

Training video for any type of sales.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 3:08 PM CST up reply actions  

I told someone in my office just last week, that coffee was for closers

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 3:11 PM CST up reply actions  

Always be closing!

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 7, 2012 3:22 PM CST up reply actions  

3rd prize

You’re fired!

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 3:28 PM CST up reply actions  

Haven't read the whole thing....

I have a stupid question: what is RRRR?

I am not too much a TV/movie guy. I rather listen/play music than watch TV, but my favorite movie of all times could be: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring (A Korean movie). I have a weird taste in movies. I generally dislike the typical hero movie that bullets never reach, that always win, that is always good looking, the girl of the movie…and the predictable end…pfffft so boring. Example: Avatar: I almost felt asleep in that crappy movie. I prefer more movies with real human content. I recently watched this Australian movie “The Square”…pretty good. “The Italian”, another good movie (Russian), “Strawberry and Chocolate” (Spanish, from Cuba) is another of my favorite movies of all time.

I also like animes a lot….so “Spirited Away” is a must have. Outstanding all the movies from Hayao Miyasaki.

For 2012 season: ALEX RIOS is my new TONY PENA.

by JofpGallagher on Feb 7, 2012 11:25 AM CST reply actions  

it means Right Rail Rumpus Room

it is for off topic shit

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 11:28 AM CST up reply actions  

Outstanding movie as well!!!

Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind are also solid.

For 2012 season: ALEX RIOS is my new TONY PENA.

by JofpGallagher on Feb 7, 2012 1:04 PM CST up reply actions  

Spirited Away is fantastic.

Howl’s Moving Castle is good as well. I didn’t understand Akira.

by Shoeless In SC on Feb 7, 2012 1:08 PM CST up reply actions  

akira was katsuhiro otomo.

i don’t think akira had a real “meaning” except the futuristic decay thing. i think they just wanted to make something completely different, and technically unbelievable for the time. it still doesn’t look that dated to me.

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 7, 2012 1:20 PM CST up reply actions  

Read Akira instead.

They had to cut a lot of things out for the anime. Tons of plot is missing.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 7, 2012 1:37 PM CST up reply actions  

ah yeah, forgot about that.

ha, one more for the massive backlog.

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 7, 2012 1:49 PM CST up reply actions  

6 parts, each the size of a phonebook.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 7, 2012 1:59 PM CST up reply actions  

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring (A Korean movie)

I’ve only seen the first part where he tortures animals and is chastised for it.

I adored it.

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 11:23 PM CST up reply actions  

You seen Funny Games?

Seems right up your alley.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 7, 2012 12:03 PM CST up reply actions  

Are you a fan of Happiness?

Just trying to gauge what types of weirdness you’re into

@gpierce112

by joewho112 on Feb 7, 2012 12:25 PM CST up reply actions  

I'm a pretty open-minded guy,

but I had to turn that film off. Jesus. Some art should not be made.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 1:34 PM CST up reply actions  

never seen it - looked it up though

seems a mile away from the abstraction of Stalker. All Tarkovsky work is worth watching

by hoodlight on Feb 7, 2012 1:53 PM CST up reply actions  

Are you talking about the Todd Solondz movie?

That is a good one and Welcome to the Dollhouse is a great movie also

Where the white women at?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGQ-ISsDm8M

by parkernutws05 on Feb 7, 2012 3:08 PM CST up reply actions  

That is the same one

He made Welcome to the Dollhouse. Check that one out. Way lighter in subject matter.

Where the white women at?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGQ-ISsDm8M

by parkernutws05 on Feb 7, 2012 3:12 PM CST up reply actions  

Welcome to the dollhouse

was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay harder for me to watch than happiness.

Like, so much more hard to sit through. made precious look like, well, happiness.

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 11:25 PM CST up reply actions  

Agreed

Geoff Dyer’s new book is all about it.

by Sox-35th on Feb 7, 2012 2:42 PM CST up reply actions  

just thought of The Minus Man.

and speaking of owen wilson, any wes anderson film. life aquatic especially. somewhat of a weak ending though.

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 7, 2012 12:08 PM CST reply actions  

I love Wes Anderson films

The Royal Tennebaums is my favorite. Even though I cry every. single. time. I actually cry a lot at movies. I’m secure like that.

List of movies that made me cry
1. Glory
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. The Outsiders
4. E.T. (I was 4 and scared to death)

Ok, there are more, I just am blanking. I’ll be back to continue…

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 2:24 PM CST up reply actions  

My Life. mercy.

and on the other end of the spectrum, Paulie.

by Trooper on Feb 7, 2012 2:31 PM CST up reply actions  

Some more for the list

5. Brian’s Song (DUH, how could I forget that!)
6. My Girl
I didn’t see Marley and Me, but I cried reading the book.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 2:35 PM CST up reply actions  

i was a little choked up with marley and me, but i occasionally get a little sentimental.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 2:39 PM CST up reply actions  

But then you strangle a hooker to shake the feeling.

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 2:48 PM CST up reply actions  

MM is Wolcott from Deadwood!

It all makes sense now!

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 2:54 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

callgirl?

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 3:01 PM CST up reply actions  

Of course I knew where the book was going

and I knew it was a cheap sentimental ploy. And I still fell for it. Big Time.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 2:57 PM CST up reply actions  

i saw it on a plane

and had no idea it was coming. hit me like a ton of bricks!

Easy chief
We’re a community - Tdogg

by Jack M on Feb 7, 2012 2:58 PM CST up reply actions  

I am not rational

when it comes to animals. No matter what, I get weepy.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 3:00 PM CST up reply actions  

i'm with ya.

i’ve made myself familiar with the most horrifying acts in existence, but when it comes to animal stuff, i can’t deal.

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 7, 2012 3:35 PM CST up reply actions  

We're in the same boat.

I hardly flinch at human violence (at least movie violence) but if you shoot the dog in the movie. I will cry, then I will get murderously angry with the character.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 8, 2012 7:44 AM CST up reply actions  

oh man, finding neverland hit me with surprise plane tears.

guy in headphones uncontrollably sobbing had to be awkward.

by Trooper on Feb 7, 2012 3:02 PM CST up reply actions  

I do not envy you people and your ability to feel.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 7, 2012 4:16 PM CST up reply actions   1 recs

ah yes, the UG philosophy:

kill em all, let nothing sort em out.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 4:24 PM CST up reply actions  

Let the guys at the crematorium sort em out.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 7, 2012 4:30 PM CST up reply actions  

like the end of the Adam West Batman movie!

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 9:24 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

This is why

You will make an awesome vet. Sometimes, animals gotta be put down. No matter how cute, cuddyly, or beloved.

My wife was pre-vet at UIUC and they make you euthanize your own pig for discetion. That’s not an accident. They gotta weed out the “I just Loooove animals and would never hurt one ever!” kids.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 8, 2012 1:35 PM CST up reply actions  

The movie about the parrot?

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 7, 2012 2:48 PM CST up reply actions  

Jesus H., Troop.

Jesus H.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 3:08 PM CST up reply actions  

the old lady dies!

people never think about what animals go through when their owner dies.

by Trooper on Feb 7, 2012 3:11 PM CST up reply actions  

I do. It kills me too, Troop!

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 3:12 PM CST up reply actions  

You are a woman. Acceptable behavior.

But Trooper? Jesus H. A parrot movie???

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 3:14 PM CST up reply actions  

This is goddamn fantastic.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 4:20 PM CST up reply actions  

We've gotten more than a few parrots at the shelter when the owner dies.

Those fucking things live forever.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 7, 2012 4:16 PM CST up reply actions  

I saw that in theaters when it came out.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 7, 2012 4:30 PM CST up reply actions  

I was 10.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 7, 2012 4:57 PM CST up reply actions   1 recs

...aaaand scene.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 5:03 PM CST up reply actions  

I cannot for the life of me believe

this is not green. Troop, the Universe is a cold place. No one cares.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 9, 2012 4:40 PM CST up reply actions  

That Earth After People "documentary" I saw said that parrots would continue talking like humans for years.

That would be incredibly creepy, if one were to be the only person left alive.

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 7, 2012 4:55 PM CST up reply actions  

Parrots will talk like people for generations after we're gone (as long as we don't kill them all off first)

Parrots “teach” their young specific calls mostly to identify their clan or family network. And mimics of human sounds are part of it. How creepy will it be to hear a car alarm in the post-apocalypse jungle, nowhere near a city. Oh wait, not creepy, we’ll all be dead!

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 8, 2012 1:31 PM CST up reply actions  

Dude… anything that involves a sad animal or a beloved dying animal

is unwatchable. I can totally handle people dying in movies, but take out the family dog and I’m a puddle (not poodle).

I suck.

"I considered throwing a volley, but since I'm considerably closer to Ford City than Dodge City, I figure it might have been misinterpreted."

by RWShow on Feb 8, 2012 12:34 PM CST up reply actions  

Yes!

It looks to be the most “Wes Anderson-y” of them all! And I will probbably cry over a wistful scene of unrequited love set to a obscure Danish pop song played on an old Califone record player while being lovingly shot in 35mm with a sepia filter…. I looooove Wes Anderson. (Said in my best Hawk Harrelson)

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 2:50 PM CST up reply actions  

Oh yes indeedy.

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 2:59 PM CST up reply actions  

he don't use sepia filters

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 11:28 PM CST up reply actions  

have you chosen this night to down a pbr

for every time alex rios threw to the wrong base last season?

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 11:30 PM CST up reply actions   1 recs

I have chosen to down a stroh's

every time my last stroh’s was empty

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 11:31 PM CST up reply actions   1 recs

dear god

edward norton and bruce willis in a wes anderson movie. not sure what to do now.

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 7, 2012 2:59 PM CST up reply actions  

You know you cried at the end of Armageddon

Where the white women at?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGQ-ISsDm8M

by parkernutws05 on Feb 7, 2012 3:00 PM CST up reply actions  

With Honors when I was younger.

I just can’t stomach the thought of Joe Pesci dying.

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 7, 2012 3:02 PM CST up reply actions  

nice

Where the white women at?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGQ-ISsDm8M

by parkernutws05 on Feb 7, 2012 3:04 PM CST up reply actions  

ooh, how did i forget 'old boy'?

i mean, ffs, this scene.

I love seasons too. That's why I live in a place that skips the shitty ones.

by thatshortkid on Feb 7, 2012 12:41 PM CST reply actions   2 recs

Wow.

That was fantastic. The music was a great complement.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 1:14 PM CST up reply actions  

Hell yeah.

And even though I know the ending, it’s still has high re-watch value.

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 7, 2012 1:42 PM CST up reply actions  

Does that movie have a happy ending?

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 7, 2012 2:31 PM CST up reply actions  

Paul Thomas Anderson's 'The Master' is being released this year I think

That will be the next movie I see in theaters. He had a lot of trouble getting that made. I also read an early screenplay of it a few years back that was embedded somewhere in mediafire and it was exxxxcellent. Should be interesting to see what he had to change in order to get it made. For Pynchon fans, there are rumors of PT Anderson directing ‘Inherent Vice’ with Robert Downey Jr. playing Doc Sportello.

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 1:22 PM CST reply actions  

I can confirm these PT rumors, yes yes.

The Master should be epic. I have a great t-shirt from one of the post-production parties for that film and I hesitate to wear it because I don’t want anyone to think I’m a Scientologist (the symbols are similar).

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 2:00 PM CST up reply actions  

You were at the post-production party!?!

As someone who isn’t all that keen on movies, I really really dig PT Anderson. That must have been a fucking bad ass party.

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 2:39 PM CST up reply actions  

Joaquin Phoenix, Phillip Seymour Hoffman (presumably as "L. Ron") and Laura Dern? ooohhhhhhh yeah

and that isn’t even mentioning the moving art of PT…sheesh. Love Laura Dern, her character is fuggin creepy.

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 2:41 PM CST up reply actions  

No, I was not. My friend attended and gave it to me.

PT Anderson is one of my favorite directors too. When I found out he was working with this production company for which my friends are the ‘creative department’, I pooped my pants with delight.

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 2:52 PM CST up reply actions  

Just cool

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 3:12 PM CST up reply actions  

Magnolia

My fav from Anderson.Seen it three times.

by Lil Jimmy on Feb 7, 2012 2:07 PM CST up reply actions  

Three times isn't typically that much for seeing a film. But seeing Magnolia three times is a different level of commitment.

The hours I spent analyzing that film after leaving the theater on January 23, 2000… mercy.

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 2:12 PM CST up reply actions  

And you didn't even have to write a paper about it

Dude did you know that the frogs represent a point of deconstruction that dissolve the network of signifiers theretofore established as meaning-providers for the film? I bet you didn’t.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 9:23 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

8:2, man. 8:2.

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 8, 2012 11:06 AM CST up reply actions  

3 times is about as many as are humanly

possible. Great flick though. Unless you’re
TP, in which case it’s interminable.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 9:18 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

Yeah, I've seen it probably three times as well. I love it, but I may never see it again.

It’s a bit of a chore.

"I considered throwing a volley, but since I'm considerably closer to Ford City than Dodge City, I figure it might have been misinterpreted."

by RWShow on Feb 8, 2012 12:35 PM CST up reply actions  

For those in need of something new, I suggest checking out the films of Rian Johnson.

Brick and Brothers Bloom were both very entertaining. Also has a film called Looper coming out this year that’s about time-traveling hitmen.

by Ozzie Montana on Feb 7, 2012 2:06 PM CST reply actions  

2nd Brick

Very rewatchable too

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 2:56 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

Tis fantastic.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 7, 2012 4:18 PM CST up reply actions  

Brick is spectacular

I want to take Gordon Levitt behind the middle school and get him pregnant

@gpierce112

by joewho112 on Feb 7, 2012 3:06 PM CST up reply actions   1 recs

Ooh! Nearly forgot that's in my mailbox right now!

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 3:10 PM CST up reply actions  

Is it butt cancer?

If so, I’m a fucking geyser.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 9, 2012 4:39 PM CST up reply actions   1 recs

Thanks for the visual.

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 9, 2012 5:09 PM CST up reply actions  

Tears, dear.

My tears are like a geyser.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 9, 2012 5:11 PM CST up reply actions  

yeah, that was nothing.

now if that dog had died, it woulda been on.

by Trooper on Feb 11, 2012 12:30 AM CST up reply actions  

Fell asleep in the first 10 minutes of Brick a few weeks ago

’ll have to give it another shot

This used to be my playground

by The Cheat on Feb 7, 2012 3:08 PM CST up reply actions  

I for one have never been happier that you were purged

JK LOL

I fell asleep about 20 minutes into Insomnia.

@gpierce112

by joewho112 on Feb 7, 2012 3:12 PM CST up reply actions  

i think informant is criminally underrated.

i’ve seen it 5+ times and i laugh at new stuff every viewing. damon is just gold and the writing is amazing. when people tell me they didn’t get it or it didn’t do anything for them i feel like they must not have been paying attention.

all things jason statham are great, too. i make it a point to see anything he makes, and he never turns anything down apparently, so it keeps me busy. crank was excellent, but it would be foolish to pick a favorite.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 2:13 PM CST reply actions  

Informant

Very brave film.Normal in no way.

by Lil Jimmy on Feb 7, 2012 2:14 PM CST up reply actions  

I love the Informant!

That’s my hometown, good ol’ Decatur. It was surreal to see it on the big screen. The thrift shop where my parents volunteer in their retirement got all of the furniture from the movie as a donation. They still sold the stuff at regular price, because “It was ugly 80’s stuff” per my mom. I told them they could have raked in the cash on Ebay telling everyone Matt Damon’s butt was on that sofa. These non-profits have no vision, I tell ya.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 2:30 PM CST up reply actions  

sometimes i can smell decatur from my house

depending on the wind direction.
the smell of money.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 7, 2012 2:43 PM CST up reply actions  

Agreed

It’s an acquired scent to be sure….

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 2:44 PM CST up reply actions  

surprising how?

because of all the shitty matt damon movies? or all the shitty soderberg movies?

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 11:32 PM CST up reply actions  

Whoa whoa whoa.

Are you really defending Cage but picking on Damon? How is that possible? Stroh’s?

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 8, 2012 11:50 PM CST up reply actions  

well i don't care what anyone says.

informant literally stunk.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 11:55 PM CST up reply actions  

that's another thing.

i used to be a big soderbergh fan. contagion was the last straw.

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 9, 2012 6:44 PM CST up reply actions  

oh it did something for me... it enraged me. i despised that movie. not sure if i even made it past halfway.

i read the book and thought it was incredibly fantastic. i pretty much knew i wouldn’t like the movie because that’s the way i am.
you know the book the movie is based on is non-fiction, right? something about the way books are (often) turned into movies is irritating to me. (especially when taking something non-fiction and then adding some fiction to it.)

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 7, 2012 2:36 PM CST up reply actions  

i'm aware of it's origin. have been meaning to read the book since i saw the movie.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 2:41 PM CST up reply actions  

the book's good. i wonder if you read it if it would affect your perception of the movie. maybe not.

anyway, i didn’t mean to so aggressively poop on a movie you liked. i just get a little carried away sometimes.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 7, 2012 2:47 PM CST up reply actions  

oh, no worries. my feelings about the informant won't be swayed.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 3:03 PM CST up reply actions  

I didn't read the book

I lived it. The Lysine scandal was pretty much everyday news down there for like 4 years. I thougth it was a fascinating way to get some really dry stuff into the movies…. I mean, they can’t all be “The Insider”

I agree, that it can be irritating to see embelishments. Very few movies turn out as good or better than the book. That’s a fact.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 2:42 PM CST up reply actions  

yeah, i understand. i'm just a crank.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 7, 2012 2:44 PM CST up reply actions  

Didn't read the book or see the movie

But the This American Life about it was amazing

@gpierce112

by joewho112 on Feb 7, 2012 3:07 PM CST up reply actions  

Can't speak for the book, but the movie is a decent compliment to the This American Life episode

But if you’re lazy and only want the story once, go with the TAL version.

This used to be my playground

by The Cheat on Feb 7, 2012 3:12 PM CST up reply actions  

The TAL didn't seem as zany as the movie looks

Was the movie less zany than the previews?

@gpierce112

by joewho112 on Feb 7, 2012 3:14 PM CST up reply actions  

the book wasn't zany either.

sure, the story in the book is insane and absurd but also real. i had trouble with the zany-ness of the movie.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 7, 2012 3:18 PM CST up reply actions  

it's the yakety sax, no? it makes it feel more zany.

but i loved the pathological liar who could never shut up. just think it’s a great concept.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 4:44 PM CST up reply actions  

TAL was more of a character study, who the F is this guy?

The movie makes him out to be wacky more than just out-of-his mind, in-over-his-head in a combination of lies and hubris.

This used to be my playground

by The Cheat on Feb 7, 2012 3:34 PM CST up reply actions  

Damn, The Informant was enjoyable.

It’s one of the rare movies I liked a lot when seeing and then like even more upon reflection. Usually when I see something I like in the theaters, I’ll tear it down over the next couple days. I need to watch The Informant again, though.

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 7, 2012 3:08 PM CST up reply actions  

thank you.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 4:44 PM CST up reply actions  

I'm coming to town around May 18th and staying through the meth-up the following weekend.

My trip dates were dictated (albeit quite conveniently for when I’d normally be visiting home) by the bachelorette weekend for my best friend since I was 9.

Her sister sent out some ideas of what to do and suggested going to Wrigley for the Cubs/Sox game on the 19th. She warned it would be about $80-100 per ticket.

I wrote her back saying I’d prefer not to do that and I chose something else she suggested doing involving a brewery and pizza and karaoke and stuff.

I sure hope she goes with the other thing because I don’t think I could actually pay that kind of money to go to fuggin’ Wrigley for a crosstown game.

I just…man… no longer need that kind of atmosphere in my life. I’m all down for drunken debauchery at times (see: May 26th, 2012). But with a bunch of fucktards at Wrigley?

Come on!

I’d rather chew on glass.

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 2:25 PM CST reply actions  

yyyyyyeea....no, thanks.

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 2:53 PM CST up reply actions  

I would enjoy that.

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 3:09 PM CST up reply actions  

That where you are doing it?

Good place, I went to a wedding there a few years ago. And I love their little 9 hole course. Sucks that you have to use CPD approved vendors though. That was the biggest reason we stopped looking at park district venues early on in our planning.

by South Side Expat on Feb 8, 2012 8:57 AM CST up reply actions  

Yep.

CPD approved vendors do blow. It sucks having to spend $10,000 on shitty food no one will enjoy or remember.

@gpierce112

by joewho112 on Feb 8, 2012 8:59 AM CST up reply actions  

its not so bad...

yes it is.

Easy chief
We’re a community - Tdogg

by Jack M on Feb 7, 2012 2:36 PM CST up reply actions  

Brewery, pizza and karaoke = Piece in Wicker Park?

Saturday night there is live band karaoke, which is pretty fun if you enjoy doing karaoke. Also, the brewery makes good beer, which is nice. The place is co-owned by Cheap Trick’s lead guitarist.

by Yinka Double Dare on Feb 7, 2012 3:45 PM CST up reply actions  

I believe that's the one!

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 3:53 PM CST up reply actions  

Bring mace

or a taser

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 4:02 PM CST up reply actions  

Whaddabout the glock I carry standard?

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 4:04 PM CST up reply actions  

You can't carry concealed weapons in Chicago!

Now that every creep who lurks SSS (AND the regulars!) knows where you are going to be that night, you might want to do the Wrigley thing

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 4:06 PM CST up reply actions  

Underrated sports movies

I really enjoyed “Any Given Sunday” and the Nick Nolte/Shaq “Blue Chips” regardless of how preposterous it was in regards to recruiting…

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 2:38 PM CST up reply actions  

craig grebek said "hoop dreams".

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 7, 2012 2:39 PM CST up reply actions  

also "slapshot" and "longest yard" have been mentioned.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 7, 2012 2:39 PM CST up reply actions  

OK.

Should have said “baseball movies”.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 2:45 PM CST up reply actions  

I can't think of a single baseball movie that I would consider "under-rated"

Well, Ok “Mr. Baseball” is pretty funny. But it turns the stomach to see Big Frank Thomas in a Yankees uni…

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 2:47 PM CST up reply actions  

Yes

He’s the rookie who beats out Tom Selleck for the 1b job thus sending Selleck to Japan…

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969

by zevsenesca on Feb 7, 2012 3:26 PM CST up reply actions  

C'mon man...Bad News Bears!

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 7, 2012 3:50 PM CST up reply actions  

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings

Field of Dreams
Don’t Look Back
Bad News Bears
Major League
The Natural
The Fan
Fear Strikes Out

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 2:49 PM CST up reply actions  

Sigh. Bang The Drum Slowly.

"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."

John Kenneth Galbraith

by Chiburb on Feb 7, 2012 2:55 PM CST up reply actions  

I haven't seen it, I will look into it thank you

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 3:09 PM CST up reply actions  

Yes, watch it along with

Pride of the Yankees, Brian’s Song and Old Yeller.

Good times.

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 7, 2012 3:59 PM CST up reply actions  

I've seen the other ones

I don’t watch many movies any more so i am not going to spend the little time that I do watch movies, watching something that will make me feel like shit; so maybe I won’t watch it.

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 4:03 PM CST up reply actions  

BTDS made DeNiro a star. Reason enough.

"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."

John Kenneth Galbraith

by Chiburb on Feb 7, 2012 5:30 PM CST up reply actions  

I'll have to see it

right after I rent “Paulie”.

I assume it’s about Konerko, right Trooper? You puss.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 3:15 PM CST up reply actions  

I am cracking up now.

Picturing you with a Miller Lite (or 6) in your belly, arm around your baby, tears rolling down your cheeks as a fucking talking parrot flits about the screen.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 3:20 PM CST up reply actions   2 recs

One of the best recent performances in a supporting role I have seen is

Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Charlie Wilson’s War”. Gust Avrakotos character is funny and acerbic as hell. Wonderful rapport with Hanks.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 3:18 PM CST reply actions  

Best Hoffman movie (not really) was the gas huffing one

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 3:41 PM CST up reply actions  

Sorkin

I was waiting for Pitt to have a hammer-through-the-new-glass, “Go fuck yourself, you fucking child!” moment in Moneyball. Was disappointed.

This used to be my playground

by The Cheat on Feb 7, 2012 3:42 PM CST up reply actions  

he's proto ron swanson

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 11:37 PM CST up reply actions  

This.

Devastatingly cruel. Man, I have never felt the hate in a theater more than when I walked out after that movie. Women were PISSED, man.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 3:22 PM CST up reply actions  

Get your story straight, buddy.

Just how many moons were there!

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 3:59 PM CST up reply actions  

Hey! Cloaking is not a tool for covering your reply fials, wu!

Now my comment makes a no sense.

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 4:05 PM CST up reply actions  

Didn't cloak -

comment was posted twice (same with one above) – so I deleted one and it killed ’em both.

Screwy Internets.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 4:08 PM CST up reply actions  

Get your story straight, buddy.

Just how many comments were there!

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 4:12 PM CST up reply actions  

Oh the grandeur!

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 3:58 PM CST up reply actions  

green

well done

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 4:04 PM CST up reply actions  

Good God!!!!.....

For 2012 season: ALEX RIOS is my new TONY PENA.

by JofpGallagher on Feb 7, 2012 8:33 PM CST up reply actions  

The lack of an edit button on here is driving me nuts

So I don’t know if I’ll stick around here. Nice meeting you all and Go Sox!

We play on the "bad" side of town, we were supposedly cursed, and we wear black. Let's play.

by ChiSoxRox on Feb 7, 2012 5:18 PM CST via mobile reply actions  

You sit yer ass down!

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 7, 2012 5:28 PM CST up reply actions  

why would you need an edit button?

I love seasons too. That's why I live in a place that skips the shitty ones.

by thatshortkid on Feb 7, 2012 6:42 PM CST up reply actions  

yeah, i've heard this before and didn't understand it then either.

the preview button works perfectly well. or just be like WU and randomly hit keys then just post it.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 7, 2012 6:44 PM CST up reply actions  

In terms of entertainment value that'd be worth it

but CSR should just stop posting whilst drunk. Or come to terms with it.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 9:20 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

edit buttons are great

you can start a poll with the question ’ Who likes ?’ – then wait a few hours for all the responses and edit the question to ‘Who likes wearing women’s underwear?’.

by hoodlight on Feb 7, 2012 6:58 PM CST up reply actions  

hey, the other day i saw a car that had a license plate holder that said "get a haircut".

i thought to myself “how do they know i need a haircut?”

anyway, that got me to thinking. i’ve been to ireland many times but never to england. i don’t recall seeing many bumper stickers on cars in ireland although i may just not remember. are bumper stickers common over there? and do you call them bumper stickers? and also, what do you call license plates?

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 7, 2012 7:05 PM CST up reply actions  

registration numbers

and it’s illegal to interfere with them in any way. And no one really bothers with crap in the back of the cars – you get the odd football colours but that’’s about it

by hoodlight on Feb 7, 2012 7:09 PM CST up reply actions  

thanks.

yeah, you can’t mess with license plates but some people get a metal frame for the plate that has room at the edge where they have clever sayings like “vulcan on board” or “time for a moustache moment” or “we’re spending our kids’ inheritance” or “if you’re going to ride my ass at least pull my hair.”

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 7, 2012 7:26 PM CST up reply actions  

and then there's the one moroots has

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 7, 2012 7:37 PM CST up reply actions   1 recs

deep mob rec

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 9:13 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

I keed you not, mang. A couple weeks ago I was behind a Beamer (because he cut me off) with a license plate frame that read,

“Straight Edge Means I’m Better Than You”

’the fuck is wrong with people?

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 8, 2012 11:15 AM CST up reply actions  

maybe you can find one that reads

“straight razor means i’m going to cut you”.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 11:29 AM CST up reply actions  

they're the worst.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 8, 2012 11:44 AM CST up reply actions   2 recs

The difference between a cactus and a BMW?

On a cactus the pricks are on the outside.

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 8, 2012 12:21 PM CST up reply actions  

we recently overtook somebody with the license plate 'JESUS',

my wife was hoping they would subsequently crash into us just so she could say she was rear-ended by jesus.

by craigws on Feb 8, 2012 1:51 PM CST up reply actions  

3600+ comments and NOW you get the lardy part? On the RRRR?

Iowa, indeed. ;)

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 7, 2012 7:22 PM CST up reply actions  

I wouldn't worry about an edit button.

Everyone here lives in their parents’ basement. Except for me of course, I live in the room above my parents’ garage.

This space is available.

by MrBungle on Feb 7, 2012 7:32 PM CST up reply actions  

pffft.....
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

I love seasons too. That's why I live in a place that skips the shitty ones.

by thatshortkid on Feb 8, 2012 7:10 PM CST up reply actions  

I've seriously never wanked at work

And I think you are insane, I think most were just trying to be polite.

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 8, 2012 8:33 PM CST up reply actions  

How hard is it to just wait til one is home?

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 8, 2012 8:53 PM CST up reply actions  

And green!

"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."

John Kenneth Galbraith

by Chiburb on Feb 9, 2012 5:26 PM CST up reply actions  

thanks

almost had to go all rhubarb and declare that ‘underrated’

by e-gus on Feb 9, 2012 10:51 PM CST up reply actions  

He really likes his job.

We're all here because we're not all there.

by winningugly on Feb 9, 2012 4:03 PM CST up reply actions  

~

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 9, 2012 10:19 AM CST up reply actions  

I was the only lifeguard at a small pool

i beat off in a bathroom on rainy day once when no one was there. does that count?

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 8, 2012 11:47 PM CST up reply actions  

repeat: may 26th.

in case you thought he said june 2nd.

by Trooper on Feb 8, 2012 11:54 PM CST up reply actions   1 recs

Just to break it up
Keith Bogans, who recently signed with the Nets, wasn’t pleased about the way the Bulls released him this preseason, as K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune writes. “I put everything on the line each night,” said Bogans. “I played with a hurt knee 82 games. I took a pill 82 games to get that (release) in return. Every time I play them for the rest of my career, it will give me something added.”

"Rooting for the Twins is just a roundabout way of rooting for a first-round playoff bye for the Yankees." by big_fun

by Tdogg on Feb 7, 2012 6:04 PM CST reply actions  

yeah I'll be terrified

Bulls vs. Nets, the revenge of Kieth Bogans. Rose might as well as not play and hide for his own safety.

NAOPOS

by blackoutsox on Feb 7, 2012 8:11 PM CST up reply actions  

Ha! He showed us.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

by MarketMaker on Feb 7, 2012 9:01 PM CST up reply actions  

<>

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 7, 2012 7:23 PM CST reply actions   2 recs

nice

"Rooting for the Twins is just a roundabout way of rooting for a first-round playoff bye for the Yankees." by big_fun

by Tdogg on Feb 7, 2012 7:55 PM CST up reply actions  

That's Luis, by the bye.

The lords of dawn are men such as Mr. Lucy.

by Uribe Down on Feb 7, 2012 8:22 PM CST up reply actions  

Just made an Ennio Morricone station on Spotify.

Sooooo good.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 7, 2012 8:27 PM CST reply actions  

Netflix instant stream suggestions, imma gonna watch me a movie

Go

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 8:31 PM CST reply actions  

That sounds good to me

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 7, 2012 8:46 PM CST up reply actions  

chris morris is a genius.

i think you’d enjoy his work.
if you like the movie look up ‘brass eye’.

by craigws on Feb 7, 2012 9:55 PM CST up reply actions  

brass eye was the funniest fucking tv I have ever seen

morris is a one off, anyone get on youtube and look at some clips it’s so funny. The way he gets uk slebs to say the most ridiculous things just so they can join some cheesy moral campaign is wonderful. Lookout for Cake – it’s a made up drug, funniest thing ever.

by hoodlight on Feb 9, 2012 5:08 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

my favourite was bernard manning:

‘If someone offers you cake, shove it back in their face and tell them to fuck off!’

by craigws on Feb 9, 2012 5:22 PM CST up reply actions  

whats up with the hawks?

they just gave up 2 goals in about 30 seconds

by e-gus on Feb 7, 2012 9:05 PM CST reply actions  

they aren't as good as the Wings

is their major problem

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 7, 2012 9:13 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

If it weren't for moving to the burbs when

I was 6, I wouldn’t be a Sox fan. I’m not a huge NHL fan though, so I’m a Hawks sympathizer. And I know how heinous that concept is, but you guys are much nicer to be around when they win.

So fast he could hit a ball up the middle and it would hit him in the ass sliding into second.

by colintj on Feb 8, 2012 3:02 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

anyone ever see the spongebob episode "hall monitor"?

where spongebob and patrick are trying to catch the open-window maniac (though neither of them know it is actually spongebob) and patrick sees spongebob and mistakes him for the maniac (which he actually is) and tells spongebob on the walkie-talkie to look out and spongebob starts running all around to try to escape but patrick keeps telling him where the maniac is and where he is going, which of course is exactly where spongebob is and where he is going?

well apparently that scenario has essentially just played itself out in real life. (only not with spongebob and patrick but with a police officer and a cctv operator)

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/cctv-police-officer-chased-himself-after-being-mistaken-for-burglar-3014269.html

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 8:53 AM CST reply actions  

i pretty much always think of spongebob.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 9:03 AM CST up reply actions  

Love Spongebob

One of my favorites is when he’s dropping (censored) f-bombs, believing that such words are “sentence enhancers.”

Never quite understood how Bikini Bottom actually has beaches and oceans…under the ocean.

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 8, 2012 11:04 AM CST up reply actions  

yes. "sailor mouth".

in my top five episodes for sure.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 11:08 AM CST up reply actions  

My top five

are all “Ripped Pants”.

by 3E8 on Feb 8, 2012 11:36 AM CST up reply actions  

a classic.

“how about ripple? no thanks, already got one!”

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 11:50 AM CST up reply actions  

believing that such words are "sentence enhancers."

belief is not a fucking fact.

DUNK HIS ASS

by obnoxious american on Feb 9, 2012 6:50 PM CST up reply actions  

Someone please explain why I'd wake up this morning and have "Electric Avenue" in my head.

First words out of my mouth while still laying in bed, “We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue…”

And how.

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 8, 2012 12:17 PM CST reply actions  

Thank you for putting that in my head.

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 8, 2012 1:22 PM CST up reply actions  

same

said precher with a shovel was not a troy mcclure film. it apparently is.

"Sportsmanship is just loser talk for losing."

by boyonthedock on Feb 9, 2012 12:02 AM CST up reply actions  

me too!

I just picked the ones I recognized as Troy McClure ones. Must have forgotten about that one.

NAOPOS

by blackoutsox on Feb 9, 2012 12:08 AM CST up reply actions  

i worded it badly

i figured if they are all terrible movie titles, given my extensive Simpsons viewing, if I felt like I heard it before, I just assumed it was from Troy McClure because I really don’t know any terrible movie titles from real life.

NAOPOS

by blackoutsox on Feb 9, 2012 2:16 PM CST up reply actions  

for some reason I am not allowed to reply to anything

Muhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuh MY SHARONA!

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 8, 2012 1:57 PM CST reply actions  

i seriously was going to type "my sharona" a while ago in response to hsa as that is my go to song to stick in people's heads.

as far as not being able to reply to anything, well, you may just want to consider what you have done to bring that upon yourself.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 2:08 PM CST up reply actions  

He's on "Evening at the Improv"

“I have a lot of crazy ideas. Like…what if Yackov Smirnoff was on the Starship Enterprise. I think it would go something like this….”

What?! I ain't no Professor Pickles!

by 67WMAQ on Feb 8, 2012 7:47 PM CST up reply actions   1 recs

Robin "Dice" Ventura

“Little Boy Blue…he needed the money!”

“Woah!”

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 9, 2012 9:30 AM CST up reply actions  

Dice is the man!

Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.

by KenWo4LiFe on Feb 9, 2012 11:35 AM CST up reply actions  

while i know a quantifiable buttload about soccer now

i am still lacking in historical knowledge. for example, i know little of capello’s reputation and managerial record. with that said, my perception of him as england manager is that he has bordered on incompetent. his communication skills (with players and the media) has seemed awful.

the FA shouldn’t have let terry still be on the team if they think he’s not qualified to be captain. and between the FA waiting so long to do anything and the fact that the courts keeping on delaying things the whole thing is stupid.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 3:16 PM CST up reply actions  

capello has an excellent reputation as a club manager.

i think he may have been the last guy to win the league with real madrid. but they got rid of him because the team was too boring to watch. which is probably fair. very italian in his tactics. i think that was his second time at madrid, actually. might have won the league with them in the 90’s too.
he’s best remembered for being in charge of the early 90’s milan team though. van basten, gullit, baresi, maldini, costacurta. it was some team. that midfield was sweet as could be: albertini, donadoni, boban, desailly. baggio and george weah were there later too. speaking of weah, this goal has always stuck in my head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt49QZwpru4
he was in charge at juventus when they were winning too, about 6 years ago, but those titles were stripped because they were a bunch of cheating cunts.

by craigws on Feb 8, 2012 3:48 PM CST up reply actions  

BM, did you happen to be at the Brass Rail when someone fell out ot if today?

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 8, 2012 4:05 PM CST reply actions  

dyslexics untie!

White Sox 2012: Helplessly rebuilding?

by greenlight on Feb 8, 2012 4:20 PM CST up reply actions  

yep.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 4:58 PM CST up reply actions  

no. what happened?

i think my friend usually bartends there wednesdays 11-6. i would text him but i don’t have a phone.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 4:58 PM CST up reply actions  

Just something I heard from an old friend.

Said he literally saw someone fall out of the bar today.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 8, 2012 5:01 PM CST up reply actions  

probably someone i know

or at least know of. i’ll find out.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 5:05 PM CST up reply actions  

he wasn't working there today.

if anything unusual happened i’ll probably find out this weekend.
(but somebody falling out of the rail is not necessarily unusual, though i would say it usually occurs at night as opposed to during the day.)

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 8:57 PM CST up reply actions  

I hate these new servers.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 8, 2012 4:45 PM CST reply actions  

Fantastic.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 8, 2012 4:45 PM CST up reply actions  

Back from a long weekend in South Florida.

Observations:

1 – Drivers are even worse now than the last time I was there.
2 – The sun was out for four minutes and I got sunburned. :::ginger’d:::
3 – The gf admitted to checking out the asses of some female models we encountered while walking down Collins on South Beach. I appreciated that.
4 – Jerry Owens.

"I considered throwing a volley, but since I'm considerably closer to Ford City than Dodge City, I figure it might have been misinterpreted."

by RWShow on Feb 8, 2012 4:45 PM CST reply actions  

i do my observations of florida from long range.

florida is a godforsaken hellhole.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 4:59 PM CST up reply actions  

from a dew point standing or some other metric?

I love seasons too. That's why I live in a place that skips the shitty ones.

by thatshortkid on Feb 8, 2012 5:04 PM CST up reply actions  

the buehrleman godforsaken scale™

is all encompassing.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 5:07 PM CST up reply actions  

Has anyone read this Coover novel? Its basically about BMO or fantasy baseball

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 8, 2012 10:37 PM CST reply actions  

no, not me.

but i read “fantasyland” by sam walker. that was non fiction. pretty entertaining.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 10:55 PM CST up reply actions  

For those too lazy to look up the summary

A guy develops a dice based baseball league in his basement and it consumes all his time, in the 56th season an 18 year old rookie phenom, the son of one of his favorite players from past season, tosses a perfect game, an improbable event. The guy races through all the games to get to the kids next start and in that start a more improbable event happens, one in a million. The kid is killed by a line drive. This event affects the man’s real life horribly as his life spirals out of control. Sounds cool

It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity

by Rhubarb on Feb 9, 2012 8:59 AM CST up reply actions  

ok, this has something to do with soccer but it isn't necessarily about the game of soccer so maybe someone will consider it interesting and/or amazing.

chelsea FC let their manager and his staff go after the end of the last season. the cost of them doing that, plus the cost of hiring the new mnager, was £28,000,000 (that’s about $44,000,000).

over the last four years the amount of money paid by chelsea related to the hiring and firing of managers is approximately $101,000,000.

that doesn’t seem like such a great business model.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 11:20 PM CST reply actions  

russians be crazy.

"michael gilhaney is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principal of the atomic theory. would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?" ~~ sergeant pluck

by BuehrleMan on Feb 8, 2012 11:56 PM CST up reply actions  

In crazy, Russians be you

This used to be my playground

by The Cheat on Feb 9, 2012 12:02 AM CST up reply actions   1 recs

In you be crazy Russians.

"I considered throwing a volley, but since I'm considerably closer to Ford City than Dodge City, I figure it might have been misinterpreted."

by RWShow on Feb 9, 2012 8:47 AM CST up reply actions  

I just saw a movie called "Tortilla Heaven"

A guy sees the face of Jesus burned into a flour tortilla and things get crazy. Not exactly “Citizen Kane” but pretty darn funny.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBxGF2g3r2M Check it out on The Movie Channel this month.

by oahu420 on Feb 9, 2012 1:50 PM CST reply actions  

Late once again...

I’ve been out with work garnering all my time, so I’ll apologize of I’m repeating what’s been said above—-I don’t have time to read all of the comments. Some good stuff up there & sorry I missed.

Anyway some of my favorites: to preface, I love comedy 1st of all. I really love to laugh but I also like to have my thoughts provoked &/or twisted by movies. I’ll classify by stating these are movies I’ll typically watch when they come on the tube.

Blues Brothers
Shawshank Redemption
Blazing Saddles
The History of the World (part 1 I think)
Tombstone
The Life of Brian
Forest Gump
Silverado
The Bourne Trilogy
Field of Dreams
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Saving Private Ryan
Star Wars-the original 3. Although I liked The Revenge of the Sith.
8 Men Out

A few movies that surprised me:
Pulp Fiction-NOT a Tarantino fan, but I love the Samuel Jackson diner scene.
Away We Go-one of those, "eh OK I’ll watch" that I really liked.
I just watched Sin City & the move was OK. The special effects were pretty cool.
The Boondock Saints—Dafoe’s character was a bit weird but this was way better than I thought it would be.
American History X—Very polarizing movie.
Life is Beautiful.
The Kings Speech-Geoffrey Rush is awesome.

Too many to list. My wife was on a Foreign Films kick for the last couple of years & we watched some very good movies. Y Tu Mama Tambien is great to get the old heart revved up.

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we have a full tank of gas, 1/2 pack of cigarettes...it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.

by lastof12 on Feb 9, 2012 2:01 PM CST reply actions  

lots of 'connection reset' errors, no non-rec'd FPs even though my settings say 10

am i the only one seeing all this banjaxing or should a bug report be filed?

I love seasons too. That's why I live in a place that skips the shitty ones.

by thatshortkid on Feb 9, 2012 2:26 PM CST reply actions  

Yes.

"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."

John Kenneth Galbraith

by Chiburb on Feb 9, 2012 5:28 PM CST up reply actions  

So I'm two weeks ahead of schedule in shoulder recovery.

Which I find pretty neat.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 9, 2012 7:30 PM CST reply actions  

the nightmare is over

new hard drive is installed and working properly.

despite having 850 gigabytes free on the terabyte hard drive the cpu was running like a dial up dinosaur.

Q! bless western digital and their 5 year warranty

by sside gus on Feb 9, 2012 10:46 PM CST reply actions  

haha who is sside gus?

i think that was the handle i switched to when the sight first switched to sbn then lost the password for. who new it was tied into my main email address.

brb

by sside gus on Feb 9, 2012 10:47 PM CST up reply actions  

ahhh

thats more like it.

by e-gus on Feb 9, 2012 10:50 PM CST up reply actions  

and i didnt move my bookmarks

SOB, good thing I didnt mail the crappy one back yet

by e-gus on Feb 9, 2012 11:00 PM CST up reply actions  

legend!

Easy chief
We’re a community - Tdogg

by Jack M on Feb 9, 2012 11:24 PM CST up reply actions  

I had to get a new hard drive over winter break

the only thing I forgot was the tabs. I really needed those. Also I saved about 300 by getting all my software free online the second time around so that was nice.

NAOPOS

by blackoutsox on Feb 10, 2012 1:23 AM CST up reply actions  

you know, this sside gus character is probably why I could never

get my original comments under ‘gus’ to sync up with my sbn account.

by e-gus on Feb 9, 2012 11:43 PM CST up reply actions  

ooof. yeah. good thing for your warranty.

Hard drive prices are still insane cause of the flood. Thankfully I laid in a stock of a few 2 gig drives for builds right before it happened. Got ’em for like $55/each at the time. Just used the last one. Now I gotta pray nothing happens to one of my own for at least another 8 months to a year. Lesson learned kids- foreign manufacturing can have its downfalls.

by South Side Expat on Feb 9, 2012 11:20 PM CST up reply actions  

tell me about it

i paid $80 for the terabyte a year and a half ago.
the exact same caviar black is $145 now. wtf?
I wanted to upgrade to 2 TB but screw that, I’ll take the freebie.

by e-gus on Feb 9, 2012 11:37 PM CST up reply actions  

Carl Everett doesn't believe in Terabytes

"I wouldn’t say I’m hitting five days a week…some weeks we won’t go at all." – Adam Dunn on his preparation routine for the 2012 season (1/24/12)

by tailgater on Feb 10, 2012 11:03 AM CST up reply actions  

so I'm coming down with something that is making me sneeze

for the life of me I can’t stop holding them in. I got part of one out, but it felt like something clamped shut in the back of my throat (and it did not feel nice).

by Trooper on Feb 10, 2012 12:56 AM CST reply actions  

I'm afraid I'll have to put you down.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

by U-God on Feb 10, 2012 8:07 AM CST up reply actions   1 recs

I'll get a new RR up today. No, frealz!

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 10, 2012 10:55 AM CST reply actions  

The Artist was fantastico, by the way.

"Don Cooper, to the O.R! We have a bleeder!" - SkanchoDanza

by homesickalien on Feb 13, 2012 6:31 PM CST reply actions  

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