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grigorss - 2007-08-06 15:51:30
Wow! You almost got run over by PitPat! Whenever I "almost get run over" it always just by some gold-chain wearing asshole in a BMW.
Also, I'm not sure having sex with strangers -- in New Jersey -- was ever life-affirming...
Finally, Tom Kenney (of Mr. Show, and also the voice of this popular cartoon character), seems to live in my neighborhood; I see him everywhere I go -- at the drugstore, at restaurants, even at the local comic book shop, for Jeepus H Cristu's sake! If he doesn't cut this out, I'm filing for a restraining order.
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sharon - 2007-08-06 18:53:54
Paula-Your grace and equanimity in the face of a near death encounter with that scary Bimmy's Lovefood Spokesthing vehicle is remarkable.It must be the yoga!
"Something Wild" has been on my "One of the 10 Worst Films of American Cinema" for a long time! [It's right up there, or rather down there with "Towering Inferno" Ron Howard's remake of "the Grinch, and "Capricorn One" (the astronaut movie starring OJ Simpson)] There are so many things I hate about it... New Jersey as cheap shorthand for unhipness,....a woman with extaordinary physical beauty without any of the evident psycho-sexual power over all the other characters one would expect...and the dealbreaker for me--when they walk out of the restaurant without paying!! Oooh....edgy....I don't think one has to have deep working class roots to find that scene gross. I can think of a dozen ways to convey their supposed outlaw coolness without sticking a waitress for your frickin' lunch tab 'cause you're on a bourgeois lark. Wow. why am I getting so mad?
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2fs - 2007-08-06 20:52:23
"Love Made with Food" would be another story altogether.
Especially in New Jersey.
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Greg - 2007-08-07 03:40:03
I couldn't explain why but I can't deal with the words "wrap" and "panini." They are to this decade what the fajita was to the 90s. Wrap it or panini it and people will eat old socks.
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Paula - 2007-08-07 07:46:16
Sharon: I wouldn't say I hated SW, I was just surprised how it didnt work its magic on me the way it did when I first saw it.
But of course your reaction to it is totally valid. I think this demonstrates the power of film to affect people.
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Paula - 2007-08-07 07:47:14
Oh, and "bourgeois lark" = great band name!
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Greg - 2007-08-07 08:57:55
Bourgeois Lark's first album title could be called The Grand Panini.
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sharon - 2007-08-07 11:17:23
BL's first track is a disappointing cover of "Wrap it Up, I'll Take It!"
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Jens Carstensen - 2007-08-07 12:59:05
Respectively:
* I experienced similar feelings watching the first half of "Something Wild" when i saw it in the theater in 1986. So, i walked out, making it, along with "Top Gun", the only movies i've ever walked out on.
* Sean Penn sure loves Madonna more than i do!
* Though i was not nearly-hit by this truck, i did see an interesting one yesterday. It was your standard big rig, with the container being entirely white, except for one word on the side, quite small, in pink, that read, simply, "yogurt."
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Paula - 2007-08-07 13:50:48
Interesting...I hope this isn't a repeat, but I have walked out of 3 movies in my lifetime:
--Corvette Summer, which at the time was a devastating blow to my crush on Mark-Hamill-as-Luke-Skywalker
--Moulin Rouge, which was simply hideous
--Envy, because it was boring and also because it had a scene of completely gratuitous violence towards animals that made me pity the filmmakers' desperation.
As for Madonna--that's exactly my point. I don't love her, and you don't love her, and critics don't love her, and that British guy she's married to doesn't seem good for her at all. If she'd stayed with Sean Penn, who knows what kind of world this would be?
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Greg - 2007-08-07 14:29:26
I walked out of Dune, The Divine Ms. M... Moulin Rouge was truly dreadful in every way but I had rented that. Trying to think what else but I know I've walked out on a bunch of movies. I've yet to see Top Gun and if I can help it I never will.
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Paula - 2007-08-07 18:15:41
I haven't seen Top Gun, but I've seen Cocktail, which is basically the same movie.
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Greg - 2007-08-07 20:19:38
I didnt exactly walk out of Cocktail, but in effect I did because i ignored each of the 3000 times it was on HBO and never saw more that 5 seconds at a shot.
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