Movies

[deepdarkblue]

I attempted to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail last night, but I couldn't get through it. It may have been because I was really tired, or maybe I just don't get the humor. I think I'll try again sometime.

Do you like Monty Python?
I love all their stuff, but you either love them or hate them. "Holy Grail" and "Meaning of Life" are two of my all time favorite movies. I personally prefer "MoL", because it made fun of so many of the sacred cows that I was making fun of at that time.
Oh, smoking dope helps a lot.

 

[bfactor]

I love it. You have to be in the right mindset going in and sort of embrace the irreverence. If you're looking for deep meaning, go somewhere else. It's sort of like reading TDD, only in this case it's actually intended to be funny.

 

[rhfarmer]

30 Minutes or Less is cracking my old ass up!

 

[rome8180]

Monty Python is sort of The Beatles of humor to me. And that's their best movie too. So many amazing parts. (Though the end of Life of Brian might be their greatest moment.)

Unrelated, but didn't Cloud Atlas open today? I am going to see it ASAP, but I hear it's 168 minutes so it will take the right mood. Not the fan of the book that NCCU is, but I think it's a great postmodern experiment in genre-melding even if it only sometimes gripped me as a story.

 

[rhfarmer]

Back to Monty Python.

It has become one of the purposes of my life to educate my young employees to the merits of Monty Python films. I pull up youtube clips of Life of Brian and Holy Grail, and they humor their insane boss by pretending that it's funny to them.

There are so many moments in life where Monty Python movie quotes are the perfect comment.

 

[deepdarkblue]

Back to Monty Python.

It has become one of the purposes of my life to educate my young employees to the merits of Monty Python films. I pull up youtube clips of Life of Brian and Holy Grail, and they humor their insane boss by pretending that it's funny to them.

There are so many moments in life where Monty Python movie quotes are the perfect comment.

The whole if-it-weighs-the-same-as-a-duck thing sums up about half the political arguments I've ever witnessed.

 

[ZackM]

Back to Monty Python.

It has become one of the purposes of my life to educate my young employees to the merits of Monty Python films. I pull up youtube clips of Life of Brian and Holy Grail, and they humor their insane boss by pretending that it's funny to them.

There are so many moments in life where Monty Python movie quotes are the perfect comment.

The whole if-it-weighs-the-same-as-a-duck thing sums up about half the political arguments I've ever witnessed.

I did get a good chuckle out of that scene.

 

[rhfarmer]

"Burn her!"

 

[bfactor]

That and the swallow debate. "Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?"

Also, the People's Judean Front vs. the People's Front of Judea conflict in "Life of Brian". "SPLITTERS!!!"

 

[rhfarmer]

That and the swallow debate. "Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?"

Also, the People's Judean Front vs. the People's Front of Judea conflict in "Life of Brian". "SPLITTERS!!!"

I love the absurdity in Grail when Arthur and his Knights reveal their quest for the grail to the Frenchmen in the castle, who reply,"We've already got one."

 

[deepdarkblue]

I finally got around to watching Expendables 2 today. It was the kind of over-the-top action schtick I like, but these really old dudes need to quit trying to pretend they aren't old. Stallone's face has had so many lifts and so much botox, it looks like an animal hide that's been stretched out in the sun to dry. I'm pretty sure he is no longer capable of blinking, his skin is pulled back so tight. Van Damme is in it, too, and he must have called Roy Williams to get some tanning tips, because he looked like a fucking orange Oompah Loompah. Seriously, guys, you aren't fooling anyone except maybe yourselves. You need to look at somebody like Clint Eastwood or Tommy Lee Jones and just roll with being old fucks. Right now, you look like fucking cartoon characters.
Um, but I liked the movie in all it's shitty glory. They shot up lots of stuff and killed probably a thousand bad people in really spectacular fashion. It made me feel safer, and proud to be an American.

 

[bfactor]

That and the swallow debate. "Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?"

Also, the People's Judean Front vs. the People's Front of Judea conflict in "Life of Brian". "SPLITTERS!!!"

I love the absurdity in Grail when Arthur and his Knights reveal their quest for the grail to the Frenchmen in the castle, who reply,"We've already got one."

That kind of touches on the significance of Monty Python humor for me. You see these absurd situations in the movie and upon reflection start drawing all of these analogies with things you see every day in real life. Like Idiocracy, just less in-your-face and with many layers.

 

[Topher]

Saw Perks of Being a Wallflower and really liked it. Not an exciting movie just a lot of gravity and meaning that hit home for us.

 

[DukeNukem05]

Tossed A Few Good Men in the old dvd player. Good stuff.

 

[rome8180]

Saw Perks of Being a Wallflower and really liked it. Not an exciting movie just a lot of gravity and meaning that hit home for us.

The number of people who have come in looking for that book in my bookstore lately = infinity
The number of copies of that book we ever have = 0
The number of copies we will have once the "Oh look, it's a movie!" factor goes away = infinity

Snob gloss on this: people only read fiction if it's being made into a movie.

 

[JohaadDBC]

Saw Perks of Being a Wallflower and really liked it. Not an exciting movie just a lot of gravity and meaning that hit home for us.

The number of people who have come in looking for that book in my bookstore lately = infinity
The number of copies of that book we ever have = 0
The number of copies we will have once the "Oh look, it's a movie!" factor goes away = infinity

Snob gloss on this: people only read fiction if it's being made into a movie.

Wait a minute, are you saying they have fiction books that aren't also movies?!

 

[bfactor]

I go to Barnes and Noble, a huge movie script store just down the street, and browse all the time to get Netflix ideas.

 

[bfactor]

Just saw my first commercial for Lincoln

 

[deepdarkblue]

Saw Perks of Being a Wallflower and really liked it. Not an exciting movie just a lot of gravity and meaning that hit home for us.

The number of people who have come in looking for that book in my bookstore lately = infinity
The number of copies of that book we ever have = 0
The number of copies we will have once the "Oh look, it's a movie!" factor goes away = infinity

Snob gloss on this: people only read fiction if it's being made into a movie.

Wait a minute, are you saying they have fiction books that aren't also movies?!

I think he's just making shit up.

 

[bfactor]

Well, I guess that some books don't get picked up by movie producers. Those shelves will definitely have some failures on them.