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What'd you think of it? I hear it's pretty good.

I've abruptly gone from not wanting to see anything that's out there to wanting to see lots of movies. Happens every fall. Still want to see School of Rock, Mystic River, Kill Bill, et cetera.

Kill Bill is not film enough to be called bad. To call it a fanboy's doodles on steroids would be an insult to fanboys and doodles. And steroids. The soundtrack's nice, though.

I still can't get excited about a new movie. I always say it's my attention span, but I don't think that's all of it. Whether it's a hollywood blockbuster or an indie flick, going to see one just seems like way too much trouble, not to mention expense.

*seethes*

I am a *huge* Joe R. Lansdale fan, ebk. I went to school in Nacogdoches and he was actually my martial arts instructor for a few years. Very cool guy.

The movie made one pass through Houston a few months back but since Bruce Campbell was at the showing it sold out lickity-split. I hope I get a chance to see it when it comes back through in December.

I laughed harder than I've laughed at a movie in a long time. Campbell plays the role 100% straight, none of his usual winks to the audience.

*kicks liam* Kill Bill was RAD RAD RAD!

liam's comments were accurate.

except that the RZA stuff is only decent in one scene, and they waste it on a freckled lucy liu walking through a restaurant.

mystic river is a solid film. penn and robbins are both really good in it.

worth seeing at a matinee, i guess.

I keep reading that "Kill Bill" leaves you feeling "empty."

I really only feel "full" on my way out of a movie if I sneak in a six-pack in my purse.

I love Tarantino, but Kill Bill looks really dumb from the trailers, and I've about had my fill of multipart movies. Can't anyone say what they have to say in two-hours-ten anymore?

Well, I'm amped for the Alien Director's Cut release, even though all the footage was on the DVD. Just to see Alien in a theatre will be so nice.

Jon, I can't get my head around not liking the movie theatre experience. I mean I understand the arguments re: price, crowds, etc, but you just can't beat the sound and, um, vision. No offense intended, just doesn't make sense to me.

And Kill Bill doesn't really interest me. Especially the rip-off factor of taking a 3-hour movie and releasing in two parts.

And 28 Days Later is out on DVD tomorrow. Oh yayyyuh.

I have no more ands.

i have an and. i have an or as well.

conjunction junction, that's my function.

that 28 days later dvd has three different endings.

I am a zombie movie afficionado (Romero faction) - 28 Days Later is worth getting?

Because I heard the zombies are just, you know, spazzy Englishmen, more than any sort of proper flesheater.

It really isn't a proper flesh eater. By the end of the film, it isn't the "zombies" who you have to worry about.

Still a great horror flick, though.

You and me both, Fes. But, yeah, like Eyeball says, not a true zombie flick, but still a great movie.

*This post was brought to you by the Unnecessary Comma Advisory Board.*

Just to see Alien in a theatre will be so nice.

A few summers ago, a theater in Tulsa did week-long runnings of classic movies. I got to see the Indy Jones trilogy, Ghostbusters, and the Princess Bride on the big screen. It was fecking cool.

LOVE ME

HATE!

*nods at the good use of HATE!*

*whips ebk's shitties*

I've decided to make some kind of official dividing line year beyond which I will watch no moveies created in, listen to no music made after, watch no TV from. I just gotta pick a year I'm thinkin 1993. If y'all have better ideas lemme know.

I'm at war with the future, but it's at war with me, too so what the fucking hell, ya know.

that's not at all close minded.

Is this a movie you need to be living in the U.S. to see?

Hell, Evil Dead 2 premiered in Europe last week! (Just kidding...but only just.)

Here are great sound clips, though.

EBK: In romantic cultures missing is the same - the proof, even! - as loving.

I miss you oh so very much.

Will this do? :)

I never claimed to have an open mind. Hell, I never claimed to have a mind.

Can I have your Zambonis albums?

I also find myself not willing to go to the movies anymore, not if it's a movie I really want to see. Both the sound and the focus is more often than not messed up in my local places, and people just will not shut up.
Technology has evolved to the point where I can get a fairly amazing movie experience on my crappy computer with a pair of earphones, and people have de-evolved to the point where a lousy 2 hours of shutting the fuck up is asking too much.

Also, get off mah lawn, you kids.

Same here, dong. And I used to be a full-time cinéphile, waking up at eight in the morning to catch the mornings-only Hungarian Film Festival; travelling everywhere in Europe to see films that would never be exhibited commercially; living in the darkness of movie theatres; watching 3 or 4 movies, irrespective of putative quality, a day.

Now I'm a DVD slut. Sometimes I watch the director's commentary before the film. No interruptions; noise; extraneous distractions are allowed. Only a lot of reviewing scenes and shots with my wife (also a movie buff) and a hell of a lot of discussion.

Thank God for technology. I hope I'm still alive when I can get stop watching them on a TV and see them in the size they were meant to be seen in.

I just wanted to say hello.

whooo! I just got to see Evil Dead II (again!) tonight at the watering hole. What a great movie. And beer! And damn fine free popcorn! (shit, I think I've had the week's allotment of carbohydrates.) Can anyone tell me a good reason that the Tick live-action show was cancelled?

If by "tell you a good reason", you mean "blame it on Chairface Chippendale", then yes.

(oh, and is this a good time to admit that I missed a midnight movie screening of Rock and Roll High School" on the lamest of excuses. Yeah, that's right, I had to work. Forgive me, O Ghost of Joey Ramone!)

(also, from now on, my love affair with the question mark is over. naaah, i've met a coupla foxy twins who curve in exactly the right way. parentheses, yeah baby!)

I've found that when the rare film comes along that deserves the Big Screen Treatment, something Lord of the Rings-ish, I have to go catch it on the last show of a school night or it just becomes one big misanthropy fest.

The appearance of an Alamo Drafthouse near my place has changed this point of view somewhat because you can get drunk.

The Zambonis are an exception, because they're just a buncha local guys and not really part of mainstream entertainment or alternative really.

I'm still thinkin' 1993 is when it all petered out, finally.

and I don't rent movies either. And I've been more or less rereading old books I like rather than getting new ones for the past couple years for the most part.

As a wise man once argued "No Future, No Future...."

I make it a point to go see movies in the theatre every once in a while, and a ballet, symphony, opera, or real-live play at least once a year. It reminds me that I'm not dead yet, that I take pleasure in these wonderful things, and that I ought not just turn into an old fart.

Yes, it's easier to stay home and have a glass of wine but that's surrendering to inertia, and I won't let myself do that - not yet, anyway.

inertia is my friend.

inertia hogs the covers.

Movies in the theater are still lots of fun. 'Course I say this now that I live in NYC and don't often have to deal with the dreaded multiplex. I also don't hear people talking in movies nearly as much as I used to when I live in Atlanta, and there are certain theaters in Noo Yawk that really seem to pride themselves on proper exhibition...framing, brightness, sound. Seeing a restored 70mm print of "Lawrence of Arabia" in the mammoth (4K+ seats) Ziegfeld Theater last year was practically a religious experience (and the only time I've actually gone up to the booth to thank the projectionist afterwards.)

Chico and I just saw Kill Bill last night, and we both enjoyed the hell out of it. I thought it was exhilarating and fun, and I really liked the soundtrack. I had some v. v. minor quibbles with the editing, but the cinematography and especially the art direction were fantastic. Plus it was fun playing "Spot the Reference."

Oh, and not only do I want to go drinking with Miguel, I want to watch movies with him.

Once, during an intermission after Bartok's Violin Concerto #2, inertia followed me into the can, peed on my shoe and then turned out the light.

Inertia only has one real enemy: the leafblower.

Hell, Evil Dead 2 premiered in Europe last week!

In Wes Craven's original Nightmare On Elm Street, he has a scene with teenagers watching a horror movie -- the 1982 cult classic Evil Dead. To tip the hat back, in Evil Dead 2 Freddy's glove is hanging up in the root cellar and is clearly seen.

I always thought that Evil Dead 2 was the gem in that series. The first couldn't decide whether it was horror or comedy. The third was all comedy. The second was a nice balance.

My hand's been doing wierd things lately, kinda like the guy in Evil Dead 2. Only, my hand's been compulsively ordering coffee despite my intentions of going without it for a week.

I started yesterday morning, but the streak ended at 10:30 AM.

Yesterday morning.

help!

You could always do what Ash did.

*fires up chainsaw*

I like the first Evil Dead. It scared the bejesus out of me.

Another scary movie that required me to have a light on while I was sleeping and driving and any other night time activity, Nightmare on Elm Street.

The only movie that really had me checking under the bed was The Brood. Cronenberg is always a nightmare ride, but that one always gave me the twitches.

Homunculi!

The doll-face killer in Nightbreed is no Pippi-fucking-Longstockings either.

Re: Movies in theatres.

I had a great time watching School of Rock at a 3pm showing on on Friday... mainly because there was one other person in the theater.

My brother had the exact opposite time when he went to see Kill Bill the next day. There was a lady who brought her 3 kids aged about 10, 11 and one that was still nursing.

This movie is pretty fucking horrifying.

WHAT
THE
FUCK
VIDIOT!?

I clicked on that link. I'm fucking blind now. I'M FUCKING BLIND!

ain't nothing wrong with a little Kristoferson/Streisand tryst.

I'd rather hear Kris sing his own songs than babs sing anything. Though Ms Steisand was was tolerably funny in "what's up, doc?".

That was scary. But not as scary as this one.

Wow, 2 other Tick fans (scroll waaaaaay back up there).

The live action show had nothing on the cartoon. I blame the cancellation of that on the Evil Midnight Bomber (What Bombs at Midnight!)

I wish that ESPN classic would start showing reruns of The White Shadow again. I've also been digging the Sanford & Son and Barney Miller reruns on TV Land, although they could do with more Partridge Family.

Seriously, with shows like that already made, who the hell needs new TV or movies?

All Hallow's Eve comes!
Art thou yet trepidatious
o'er the disk Swap?

Dost thy conscience nag
o'er thy offerings not
sent? (Jon! Thou slack Knave!)

Send thy fear packing!
With each autumn cometh a
Swapper's amnesty!

Gentlemen? Declare
thee for the Swap! and Fair Ones,
bringeth thy sweetness

hither, and bless all
with the glory of thy fey
harvest tunesmithy.

Ten days! And those turns
of Sol, Luna, and ebon
night, shall pass quickly.

Before the bells of
All Saints' hath rung, must thou all
claim: Master, I have!

Then commenceth the
Swap properly; thence dispatch'd
are thy couriers.

E're the Giving of
Thanks, shall each sweet simian's
hut ring mightily!

Declare thee but soon!
The Swapinistratator
aids not the tardy.

Barney Miller. Now that's a quality show. Remember the "hash brownies" episode? Me and a friend devised a game one time (well, okay, Melvin did the devising, I just played along) in which you each load a fat bowl of whatever the kids are calling it these days, and each time you see someone eat one of those brownies, you take a toke.

I don't remember much at all after that.

my haiku finger
doth itch! also disturbing?
same finger smelleth.

Repulsed yet intrigued,
the o'er-ripe digit toward
I lean, nostrils flared.

Ach! 'tis worse than thought!
Citrusy funk on not one
but two phalanges.

:D

Sir Jon sayeth to
the ER doctor: "From my
ladder I've fallen!

"And thus, gravity's
fickle hand hath guided this
Maglite up my bum!"

The insouciant
physician replieth: "If
I had a nickle

for each incidence
in which a pervert transgressed
his own fundament

and laid the blame at
the feet of fate, or mischance,
sleep on gems would I!"

It's as if Shakespeare and the Marquis de Sade made love and produced the above dialogue.

Dearest Valerie:
forgive me please, if I doth
offend. When the Muse

taketh me, sometimes
she tickles; but other times?
out comes the horse-crop.

Ask me not, of those
evenings, when the Muse comes
bearing a ball-gag!

I didn't say the consentual meshing of two great writers was good or bad. I just it WAS.

I am not offendethed.

A nighttime trollop
once approached me: "Prithee, sir!
Wonders I perform!"

I replied: "How much,
thou tartlette, shall my coin-purse
be lightened by thee?"

"Almost nothing!" she
lithe as an angel opined.
"And for this, I get?"

"Anything," she spake
smiling. "Anything at all??"
"Indeed, yes, good Sir."

Happily, I paid.
"And what dost thou wish?" she asked.
I spake: "Paint my house!"

Verily, I am
gladdened, dear Valerie, that
I do not offend :)

Seriously, with shows like that already made, who the hell needs new TV or movies?
...so that's why reality TV exists; no new Sherwoods today heh?

Ok, I have to leave work now.
Good night!

Hey! There's a new baby monkey! What a cutie pie.

Verily. That's hot.

Who let the chimp out?
Monkeys should take care not to
Play in the traffic.

I see the primate
Lives in Fairfield County
In Connecticut.

(Former domicile
of a different monkey
Pure chance? I think not.)

You know....I saw a monkey this weekend, yielding a knife and holding a severed hand. He had glowing red eyes and I instantly thought of you guys. What's happening to me?

one of us!
one of us!

Fetch the branding iron and the mayonnaise!

*brings out the gimp*

If I have a choice, I'll take the gimp.

even if the gimp is....

*cue dramatic music*

Mini-mc?

Mini-mc?

Ebk claims it's his birthday today. Personally, I don't trust him, the man tells lie after lie.

So happy birthday, maybe, you pathological liar!

Affirmative, salmon. Someone fire up a birthday thread (even if it is late in the day). Who's the social chair? Someone needs a lashing.

fire one up, we are in EBK's thread, maybe that was his hint:P

Happy Birthday, EyeBallKid with candles on top of whatever floats your boat...Cheers!!! . Figure you'll have your sweets next week.

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