Terminalcoffee discussion

Sweeter is watching American Grafitti right now. This movie just doesn't do it for me. Maybe it is Richard Dreyfuss, maybe it is that dorky dude driving around in someone else's car. Maybe it is the drag racing. Maybe it is The Wolf Man simultaneously at the radio and at the drive in.
Maybe the music is just too far before my generation.

Anyway, I'd rather do just about anything other than watch this movie.

I started thinking about what other movies everyone else lauds as fantastic that just don't light my fire.
Blade Runner also fits the bill.
Do I have a problem with Harrison Ford? maybe.

What movies can't you stand/stomach that have some kind of fantastic reputation you don't get?

Titanic. I am probably being a bit unfair because I haven't watched it. Just watching the shorts is enough (I think I know what happens). If you don't want Harrison Ford toss him my way!

Really? You don't like Titanic?
What about it turns you off? I thought it was so neat how they were able to make sets that looked like the ship, the sea, the drowning masses.

And I lurv Kate Winslet, so I was able to kind of just focus my eyes on her and ignore Leo.

That's a good one, Gail. EVERYONE likes Titanic.

the boys in my house called it Boretanic. we couldn't wait til the dude fell and hit the propeller

Another thing I like about Titanic, which is purely personal, is that it came out when I was in Spain, so the catch phrase of the film is instead dubbed in my memory: "estoy volando, Jack! Estoy volando!"

I luv Kate Winslet as well (I loved her in Sense & Sensability).
Re MSG 3. As I haven't watched Titanic I can't really say (I'm probably the only person on the planet). I just have a 'Meh' sort of reaction to the shorts and Leo leaves me a bit cold.

anchorman. meh. just not as pee-your-pants hilarious as everyone let on. plus i am not crazy about will farrell

Yeah, I knew there would be some Avatar hate spewn on this thread.

And I too don't really think Leonardo diBlahtired of typing his name is all that great either. Talented, maybe, picks lame movies, absolutely. And I don't think he can pull of an accent like he or Scorsese thinks he can.

Barbara wrote: "Avatar ... I just don't get into blue men flying dragons."

I really liked Avatar. It is about time some aliens finally got to kick some human butt.

Oh, man, is that how it ends?


SPOILER! SPOILER! GAIL SPOILED THE MOVIE.

Ha!

Sorry sorry sorry. I thought everyone had seen it.

I have not seen it. But I wasn't exactly in suspense about the ending.

But that's just me.

Larry wrote: "I have not seen it. But I wasn't exactly in suspense about the ending.

But that's just me."

Yeah, I'm with Jones on this one. I didn't expect the evil humans to prevail. No spoiler guilt necessary.

I didn't even know enough about it to know that they would. I thought it would turn out the way the story it is based on did: the native people would be slaughtered and their land turned to a commercial/industrial wasteland.

PS:
Sweeter is now watching the making of American Grafitti. Now I have to listen to the sound of Dreyfuss and Ron Howard discussing endlessly the movie's every nuanced detail. BLECH.

i love love love special features now on DVD's. i watch all of the making of crap. there is hours and hours on the LOTR discs.

OMG. Another reason I'm considering never watching a movie with you Kevin. Not only do you talk the whole way through, but you watch the @^@%!$ special features. The worst are the deleted scenes.


News flash:

They're deleted for a reason.

I don't like actor/director commentary tracks. They're inevitably boring. Like they're not sure what to say and they're nervous and crack stupid jokes. Or say things like "Oh, here's the scene in the restaurant. We filmed this in a restaurant." Um...yeah...I can see that...

no prob sals. can you fix me and sweeter a sandwich so we can watch the "behind the scenes" featurette?

That movie made me laugh until I snorted, but I was also eating pot cookies that weekend.

Then we went to the theater to see Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and I fell asleep.

I hate the commentary tracks, because instead of saying what they want to say about the movie in a reasonable length of time, perhaps illustrated with clips, they stretch it out the whole length of a movie I've likely JUST WATCHED.

They don't have enough content to justify that, and the slow pace and the inanity of what they say when they don't really have anything to say puts me to sleep. Literally. I've dozed off to almost every commentary track I've listened to.

The exception was Gosford Park, which had SO much going on that the commentary was essential to unlocking all the different storylines. So, kudos to Robert Altman and his screenwriter.

Robert Altman is tres kudos worthy, this is true.

the cast commentary to Willie Wonka was fun

Doctor Who. Commentary, fantastic.

Gail wrote: "Doctor Who. Commentary, fantastic."

Dang I missed it.

I don't believe you watch Doctor Who.

i don't. too intellectual for me. i have seen lil suzi who though

I watched a fuzzy headed Doctor Who in the 80s with my dad on PBS. I can't abide any other version.


oooooweoooooo! dooo de doooo -- oooooeeeoooooo!

Yeah I watched the old one, too.

My kids are addicted to it. I'll use any excuse to watch it myself. :) David Tennant makes a great Doctor.

Okay I gotta check it out. Is it available online?

I've tried to get into Dr. Who, but always felt like I was trying to catch up to a storyline in progress.
Probably just as well, with my Star Trek obsession. One enthusiasm for a SF show with lame special effects is enough.

Now he's watching the trailer for American Graffiti.


*bangs head against wall*

Here's my Don't-Do-Drugs story about the extra features CD included with some movies: My GF came over to my house for "Let's Get High And Watch A Movie" night and we put the special features disc into the DVD player accidentally, and spent a good 20 minutes trying to figure out how to skip all that director-talk and get the actual movie to play, then we gave up and made brownies.


Yeah, weed makes me stupid. One reason why I don't smoke it no more.

ahhhahaa.

I never thought "American Graffiti" was all that, either, Sally. I think it works for people who lived during that era, but not for the rest of us.

Yeah not young people like us.

isn't it odd how so many people from that era are still so into that stuff? '57 chevy, jukebox, elvis and such. they are the same ones who hyperventilate when a motown song comes on. i grew up in the 70's and am really over it all

Now we're watching The Natural. This is another movie that I just do not get. Baseball, meh. Robert Redford, meh. Glenn Close, triple meh.

I was going to suggest Tom Baker, but I thought I was wasting my energy on a bunch of heathens.

I am madly in love with David Tennant. *sigh* Skinny, white guy that wears glasses is totally my MO. I'm a bit worried about Matt Smith. He seems a little jazz handy.

Yes!! He's fantastic!!

Thanks girls you have made my day.
David Tennant, was always going to be hard to replace. They have gone a bit gothic with Matt Smith. It will be interesting to see how he goes. I'm not going to write him off just yet.

Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "anchorman. meh. just not as pee-your-pants hilarious as everyone let on. plus i am not crazy about will farrell"

Same. I like Will Farrell but I just don't get "Anchorman." My husband is always quoting lines to me and then getting annoyed when I don't laugh. If it wasn't funny the first 50 times it's not going to suddenly get funny. I feel the same way about "Dumb and Dumber".

Sometimes I call my wife into the room to watch something on television I found funny (e.g. the pictionary scene in Community) and she doesn't laugh, and I end up saying things like "c'mon! Don't you think that's funny?"

Sweeter tells me entire scenes from the Office, just short of acting them out, and then looks confused when I don't laugh.

That's really funny, Sally.

Sally wrote: "Sweeter tells me entire scenes from the Office, just short of acting them out, and then looks confused when I don't laugh."

My husband does this too. Sometimes I fake it.

Gretchen wrote:

My husband does this too. Sometimes I fake it."

You should never have written this in public.

As if he didn't already know it. He's probably just in denial like the rest of us.