JohnT's random thoughts about the movies thread...

[Japher]

Striker, I scoff at your choice when Smokey & The Bandit 3 is clearly the standard of excellence for the past 25 years of cinematic effort.

I will have to agree. The greatest cinematic acheivement of the past 25 years has to be BJ and The Bear

[JohnT]

Looks like I'm the only one who cared for Passion. I wonder why?

[Solomwi]

Now there's a concept I can't get enough of... a man and his monkey.

[JohnT]

Btw, if I may withstand the pummelling, I would like to declare once and for all:

The Princess Bride is an overrated piece of dreck.

Thank you.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by JohnT
Looks like I'm the only one who cared for Passion. I wonder why?

Because you had a huge momentary lapse in your normally excellent judgement?

[Boris Godunov]

I was thinking more because he's a closet snuff film pervert.

Speaking of movies, Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle is lame as hell, and I lost a bundle on it at the Hollywood Stock Exchange. Like, $500K.

[JohnT]

Naw, I thought The Passion to be one of the more artistically honest American films of all time. Like it or dislike it, you definitely left the theater knowing exactly what it is that the director was trying to say, what his take on the subject was. To Gibson, the central message of Christianity is that Christ suffered for our sins... not that he was miraculously born of a virgin, not that he was resurrected into heaven, but that he suffered. I can allow as to how the film isn't for everybody (hell, it isn't even really for me, given that I'm not a Christian, don't like True Believerism in any ideology/religion, and don't enjoy watching people suffer), but the fact remains that the film definitely got its message across, a message untainted by studio execs, script doctors, and the like.

[Agathon]

Anyone else who says anything bad about BJ and the Bear is going on "the list".

[Dis]

speaking of movies, Falling Down is on HBO right now.

[MRT144]

Re: JohnT's random thoughts about the movies thread...

Originally posted by JohnT
Preferring to view myself as a pain in the a55 cineaste, I refuse to rent a film that is pan and scan (full screen) preferring to see the whole movie, not some chopped up remake of it.

dude, you rented Undercover brother which automatically excludes you from this category

[Boris Godunov]

Undercover Brother is a fun movie, although Chris Kattan almost totally ruined it (as he does everything he touches).

Regardless, JohnT has what I would generally consider bad taste in movies.

[MRT144]

pootie tang is a fun movie. ub is a wannabe pootie tang

[monkspider]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I was thinking more because he's a closet snuff film pervert.

Speaking of movies, Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle is lame as hell

Bah, blasphemy! It was a masterpiece. Whatever happened to the cultured, intellectual Boris Godunov who listens to Brahms and Ludwig Van? That Boris I once knew would have appreciated Harold and Kumar's genius.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Undercover Brother is a fun movie, although Chris Kattan almost totally ruined it (as he does everything he touches).

Regardless, JohnT has what I would generally consider bad taste in movies.

[Adagio]

/me ignores most of the posts in this thread (too lazy to read them all at this time)

From what I read, here's what I've got to answer:

1) I never rent movies... I either buy it or "find" it
2) When I buy, it's always DVD
3) Groundhog Day is a "Shame-on-you-if-you-haven't-seen-it-yet" movie... I wouldn't say this movie is to guys only, but it's certainly not to girls only
4) Weekend at Bernies 2 is defently fun, but go see the first one first
5) The best movie for this year (of what I've seen) is The Day after Tomorrow