Quote from: Ace on February 28, 2004, 20:52 hrs
I know that you know that I know, and that's enough for me to know, that you know.

You know?

Ace; I guess that's where smokestack lightning comes from.

Exactly! Thats what i thought!

Dude, you musta upgraded to a hunnerd watt bulb to figure that one out.

Besides, this string started out innocently enough and it's dying down to at least having given the eternal pizza poast a run for it's money.

But everyone seems to have melted away, so I guess I can't let you be the one to kill it.

Ace, we all knew you knew what you knew, and knew you'd tell us what you know. And I know that's saying a lot, you know?

This thread must live! What is the latest movie everyone has seen? I saw "Second Hand Lion" on DVD last night and really liked it. I recommend it as it is a fairly clean movie that is good for the kids to watch as well.

Mark H

Donnie Darko :D

OK, so it's not quite ready to die. Good idea Mark, the movie thing.

We might not get anyone famous close by, but movies are a different thing. Growing up, and to this day, I've seen thousands of movies.

We have a place that rents movies on Wednesdays, two for one. (4 movies for $4.23 total ain't bad!) I always get new movies, but not anything under 90 minutes. Kinda makes me feel they were pushing it to get an hour and a half out of the script. Longer is usually better. I wait for the lesser ones to come out on cable.

"Second Hand Lion" was a good movie. Got it this past week and recommend it to anyone. Good family movie, good story, good acting.

Also got "The Missing" with Tommy Lee Jones, which I also recommend to anyone. Ron Howard (Opie) has always done good movies. And as usual, his brother Clint has a part in it. He's kinda funny looking, but always does a good job with his parts.

Just got through watching the Oscar awards, and I'm going to have to see "Mystic River". I heard it was real good, so it's on the list.

I was hoping Sean Penn would take the Oscar he finally won and smack himself in the head and say "I'm so wasted!", but he didn't.

There are hundreds of excellent movies, but some timeless classics are:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Animal House
Red Dawn
Predator
The Great Escape
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lethal Weapon (first one only!)
Fifth Element
Short Circuit
Beverly Hills Cop
Scarface
Full Metal Jacket
Breakfast Club
Untouchables
Top Gun
Green Mile
Road to Perdition

Guess I better stop or this could go on for pages :-)

Those are just a few of the movies I can watch more than once and enjoy every time. I know I've left out a lot, so I'll leave room for someone else.

Well since the topic has switched to movies, I?ll take a minute here to rant a bit on The Lord of the Rings.
IMHO this is the absolute worst hack-job of a movie I have ever seen made based upon a book. Indeed it would take a trilogy of books just to point out the discrepancies between the movie and the written word. All this movie got right was the names of the characters and places.
I?ve been a fan of TLR for going on 30 years and have read it several times along with the Silmarilion, Unfinished Tales, and some of the other books and history?s put forth by other authors. It is indeed downright shameful what the producers of this movie did; I don?t doubt JRR is rolling over in his grave.
If you think you liked the movie, do yourselves a favor and read the book.

Terminator
I
II
III

And I have also seen
Matrix
I
II
(yet to see) III

I agree with 44mayg's list totally. I loved "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," "Short Circuit," "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Top Gun."

Mark H

I can certainly understand what you're talking about Pat, and you aren't ranting. I enjoyed the first two, and looking forward to the third. For that exact reason, I don't think I'd want to read the book(s).

Some books I've read more than once, and the movies I liked which followed the original writing real close are:

"To Kill a Mockingbird"
"War of the Worlds"
"The Time Machine" (early 60's)

There was a newer version of "The Time Machine" which came out a couple years ago. To me, that version sucked because I've read the book several times and also saw the original more than once.

For those who hadn't read the book, or saw the 60's version of the movie, the one that came out a couple years ago might have seemed a good movie. I could only sit there and keep thinking how bad this movie sucks. It's not even close to trying to follow the book.

Come on people, I know most everyone likes to watch movies. Lets hear from some of you others!

How about over there in England? Australia? Canada? What movies are popular there?

Mark, if your movie list is anything like mine, it's a whole bunch bigger than what I listed above :-)

Those are great movies. The early Time Machine is a classic along with War of the Worlds. The day the Earth Stood Still is another golden oldie along with Metropolis.
I?m a big fan of the early Hitchcock flicks and like a good animation.

I?d just love to here what you thought of Bowling for Columbine.

Quote from: pat on March 01, 2004, 06:25 hrs
Well since the topic has switched to movies, I?ll take a minute here to rant a bit on The Lord of the Rings.
IMHO this is the absolute worst hack-job of a movie I have ever seen made based upon a book. Indeed it would take a trilogy of books just to point out the discrepancies between the movie and the written word. All this movie got right was the names of the characters and places.
I?ve been a fan of TLR for going on 30 years and have read it several times along with the Silmarilion, Unfinished Tales, and some of the other books and history?s put forth by other authors. It is indeed downright shameful what the producers of this movie did; I don?t doubt JRR is rolling over in his grave.
If you think you liked the movie, do yourselves a favor and read the book.

The goal of the movies was not to satisfy all the hardcore tolkien fans... it was to make $$$.  Having read all of the books, I must agree with you that the movies do not follow the trilogy exactly.  But was it not entertaining? I don't think the movie was designed for a bunch of people to pick at it and look at how it is different from the book.

I must also tell you that Tolkien sucks. I'm sorry.  I know all of his works were in-depth, organized, and designed to be literary masterpieces, but the entertainment just isn't there.  You are not a fantasy reader until you read the Dragonlance and the Wheel of Time series.

You name some other good classics Pat. Too many good movies out there to be able to name them all.

I find myself watching an old black and white western, war, or space movie on occasion, depending on who the main actors are. Sometimes the cheap special effects 60's movies are also fun to watch.

The old Sinbad movies with their stop frame animation are cool. Let's not forget "Jason and the Argonauts" either. There's something about early movies that are still good even if the special effects are somewhat primitive.

Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Jimmy Stewart, Bob Hope, Fess Parker, John Wayne.......... the list goes on, are some of my old time favorites in most any older movie.

Anyone remember "The Dirty Dozen?" How about "The Bridge on the River Kwai?" Red Skelton? Father knows best? My three sons? Dobi Gillis?

You pose quite a question when you ask me about "Bowling for Columbine".

It's been playing recently on cable. I started to watch it once, but saw where it was going. I think you asked the question because of the heavy gun related theme to this so called documentary.

I've seen too much slant in the media over firearms over the years. It's a basic truth that an honest and level headed citizen could be trusted to have a hundred different full auto firearms in his posession, and not be any kind of threat to society. Same thing goes for gasoline, a car, knives, baseball bats..... you name it.

But give any one of those items to someone who has no respect for another person, and the story probably won't have a happy ending.

The problem in our society isn't with what good people own. Those who lack morals and respect for others and their property is the cause. Those minority of low life gutter sniffing imitations of human beings walking this earth are the problem. Not the inanimate object they see fit to use in evil ways.

Michael Moore's vomit is nothing less than another feeble attempt at twisting truth and reality. What little I saw of it, well, the channel was changed and I haven't attempted to watch it again. I've seen enough tripe like that over the years that there's not actually anything new in it. Same old, same old.

Tick! Tock!...............

OK, to be fair, I did a search to find a little more about it. I can't say this is factual, as I haven't watched "Bowling for Columbine". But I will venture to say there is probably some truth to it. You might find the editing of this movie to be quite interesting.

Truth about Bowling for Columbine

This wasn't the only site I looked at. I also noticed that anti gun sites thought "Bowling for Columbine" was great.

The truth is somewhere in the middle. Probably right between the editing Michael Moore did.

You can be your own judge, but my minds made up.

Mag,
Thanks for the link I?ll read it over later. My own opinion of Bowling was that it was an overly simplistic anti-shocker. What I mean by that is that it draws upon a terrible tragedy to put forth an opinion and tends to lump all gun owners under one roof and doesn?t really root out the cause of the problem. I don?t own any guns; it?s just not my bag. I don?t have a problem with those who do. Heck, I could cares less about golf, that doesn?t mean I think nobody should have golf clubs. I suppose golf clubs could be a formidable weapon in the wrong hands also.
Golf clubs don?t kill people????????..

Wade,
Sorry mate, I found the movie not to entertain me. Too busy being critical I guess.
Outside of the LOTR, I don?t think I?ve read too much fantasy work. I do like a good science fiction novel though.

Haha.. you're exactly like half of my friends ;) and thats what I tell them every time

Quote from: pat on March 01, 2004, 16:23 hrs
I suppose golf clubs could be a formidable weapon in the wrong hands also.

At least that is what an airline inspecter will tell you. ;)

Mark H

;D how true!

Golf clubs dont kill people ... guns dont either.

No joke.

They kill when some idiot stops thinking and decides he will misuse either one of them.
Who would think a toy airplane would be a weapon?  This 20-year-old lady brutally impaled her young son with one of his toy airplanes, jabbing it through his chest several times.. the unfortunate thing is that she is elgible for parole every X number of years.  

Where is this going? Well.. many things can be used as weapons, taking guns out of the hands of the public is the dumbest thing the government could do.... This will only make the criminals in our country more confident about what they are doing; if the house they are breaking in to doesn't have any guns, what do they have to worry about?

The shotgun is remaining under my bed no matter what people think.  Warning: after breaking into my house you might not be walking out.. one leg will surely be missing... shotguns dont miss.. i guarantee it

Golf clubs don't kill people.

Golf balls do.


Ace; what's your favorite knife?  Mine is a pointy one that's sharp.  

Well I suppose we could touch on the weather a little here. March roared in like a lion last night. Up here in Northern Michiana, we had some great thunderstorms roll through. I found them very refreshing after all the snow and cold of last winter.

It is in the 60's here in West Virginia. It is interesting to know the weather in other US states, as I could end up in any of them. My best job leads are in Mississippi, Missouri, Indiana and Massachusettes.  If we have to move out of West Virginia, Indiana is the best case and the location is the closest to West Virginia, where our parents live. As some know, my plant is closing and May 31st is my last day, so I am looking pretty hard right now.

One place that I refuse to live is Michiana as that would put me with Ace. :o

Mark H

No, that wouldn't put you "with Ace."  It would put you "In Michiana."  

Ace; at least Indiana and Michiana are easier to spell than Massassachusettes.

I'm in Houston... that should be self-explanatory when it comes to weather

They Live - GREAT MOVIE!!!! Has anyone seen it? Its VEEEERY RARE! I have it and I love it, I highly reconmend it if you can find it :)
John Carpenter's   "They Live" - 1988 - Rated R

Who lives?? What are you talking about?  

Judas Priest, Travis, (or "Iron Maiden, Dude") you come barging into the dang poast chain, when we were talking about golf and moving to Michiana, and start blurting out "They Live!" at people.  I don't know what the heck got into you.  

Pat's a carpenter; sure.  John, I don't know.  He lives, in Michiana, just like me.  Pat, that is.  And probably the weather's worse than Houston, for the most part.  I don't know; I'd probably have to ask Neon.  Although if they have penquins running around, it might not be that much nicer than here.

I bet if you combined the Return Of the King with Houston, you'd get:

The Alamo.

I saw the original with John Wayne et al.  I even had a model set of it.  I'm looking forward to the new one, although Billy Bob is sure having a bad hair day in it.

Ok, then.  Let's get back to talking about movies, and knives.  Like Jim Bowie, in the Alamo.  And Dude; try to stay on topic, willya??  Geez Louise, the poast isn't just about pizza anymore.

aCe; that woulda been something if it was David Bowie defending the Alamo.  I bet it wouldn't have taken as long, if he was.

Thirty more replies and we will have attained the 174 replies that the eternal pizza poast attained to date.

I now have an official interview in Indiana, so I need to get out some filters just in case Ace is within a 200 mile radius of me due to the jam dripping panda feet of Ace.

How did we get from weather to movies again? Travis, you have mixed things up and that is not cool. Now see how I was able to get a weather term in that sentence (I'll give you a clue, the term was "cool").

I think I keep hearing that Elvis is the one who lives. Last I heard, he had left the building.

Getting back on weather, what is the worst storm you have ever been in? I would have to say I have been lucky so far. We did have a tornado locally to me in West Virginia, but it was several miles away from me. The accompanying storm was pretty bad, which was where I live.

As for winter storms, it would have to be the 18 inches of snow we recieved in late March 1993. What made it the worst storm is that it was during my spring break from college. I did get my senior project done before everyone else due to being snowed in.

Mark H

OK, if we're gonna give the Eternal Pizza Poast a run for it's money, I guess we gotta spice things up a little. Well, no spice, but lotsa little.

A lunatic rambles on:

Sarah Brady - not cool
Hitting your target - cool

Broccoli stinks - not cool
A fresh apple - cool

A headache - not cool
Giving someone else that headache - cool

Stubbing your toe - not cool
Barefoot walk on fresh cut grass - cool

Broken records - not cool
Records broken - cool

Bills in the mail - not cool
Cards in the mail from your kids - cool

PMS - not cool
GPS - cool

Lemon pie - not cool
Chocolate pie - cool

Firecracker going off in your fingers - not cool
Firecracker in a fresh cow pattie - cool

Running out of gas - not cool
Blowing the doors off a Ford with my Chevelle - cool

Broken kite string - not cool
String bikini - cool

Blown speaker - not cool
A good concert - cool

Mondays - not cool
A day camping - cool

Old age - not cool
New underwear - cool

Bad drivers - not cool
Flippin' those drivers the bird - cool

Toilet running over - not cool
Lit M-80 in that toilet - cool

Obnoxious neighbor - not cool
Hitting that neighbor with a water balloon - cool

Your best friend dies - not cool
New puppy - cool

More rambling. Rambling Rose.

We hate to interrupt this program. This is only a test.  If this had been a real emergency, you'd have been instructed to tune to your local radio station for information on how to kiss your butt goodbye.

Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you. (Yeah, right)

Don't pull the mask off the 'ole Lone Ranger. His horse might kick you.

Dang it! I forgot what I was gonna say.

Geez Louise, Chevy, not all 30 in one poast.  

I agree with MarHK that we should discuss Best Weather Movies.

"Twister" would have to be right up there; wasn't about anything else.  Maybe "Perfect Storm" although I didn't see it; had a feeling of what it was about.  "Waterworld" would have to be the worst; I don't know where all that rain came from but it sure didn't make it interesting.  Pat noted the Michiana storm front from the other night; we spent 3 1/2 hours at South Bend Regional waiting to see if United Express would actually attempt O'Hare.  Chicago was getting hit big time.  And not that United would ever tell anyone if they actually planned to run those flights; they put "on time" when they're delayed and "delayed" when they're cancelled.  Actually went from "3 hour wait" to IT'S BOARDING NOW RUN in seconds.  Criminy.

I don't think "Chicago" had any weather, as the whole movie was indoors from what I remember.  But "Moulin Rouge" was on the roof, for awhile.  "Alien" had some lousy weather, on that planet.  Probably shoulda stayed out in it, though.  And "Pitch Black" and "Darkness Falls" makes you wish it'd stay light out, longer.

Yikes.

I'd say "Saving Private Ryan" makes you think a nice sunny landing wouldn't have made a lot of difference.  Same with "Pearl Harbor"... nice day.  Not.

Ace; "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "Jurassic Park II" makes you glad you're not out on a ship, in the rain.  

So weather and movies? I?ve always wondered about the ending of the ?Thing? there they are sitting there looking at each other.
So who?s human?
Who?s a thing?
Both?
Neither?
Do they freeze to death?
Get rescued?
Infect the planet?
Perhaps they moved to Michiana and opened a shop where you make your own pizza to take and bake at home.


As for real storms, I can remember the Blizzard of 70 something. Snowed in for three days until the big-front end loader came down the road and dug us out. Drifts as high as the tops of the telephone poles. That was fun.

Yes; '73.  We were inundated.  This year it was above the bottoms of those same poles.

I think in "The Thing" they all looked at each other and yelled "They Live!! They Live!!"

Ace; or something like that.  Stupid dog.

OK, weather and movies?

I vote for The Blob. Maybe the new version, maybe the old version. Either one. That was some of the worst weather there could have been. After all, they did come from the sky. Kinda like weather. Fell from the sky. Like a not so perfect storm.

War of the Worlds too. Them guys really came from high in the sky. Way up there. I think NASA's rovers are gonna wake them up again. Probably live in the canals. When I was a kid, there were canals. Well, that's what they said anyway. Really!

Snow - cool
Aliens that suck blood - not cool

Rain - cool
Falling shuttle parts - not cool