My Wife Scores Big Time

[Dixon Carter Lee]

In the last week she's brought home a ton of tapes: Adaptation, Signs, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Wild Thorberries, About Schmidt, 8 Mile, Road to Perdition, Catch Me if You Can, and more. (She's got a bud voting on the SAG Awards this year.) It's movie heaven at my place. Woo-hoo.

Adaptation was excellent, but wholly unenjoyable. I "got it" just fine, and I related to all the screenwriter stuff, and Meryl Streep's long take before saying what she says in Act III to take the movie in an unexpected direction was wonderful to watch, but, I gotta tell you, I didn't have a bit of fun watching this flick.

About Schmidt was fun all over the place, and the last scene is a great payoff.

Potter was enjoyable, but hollow.

The Thornberry thing was surprisingly excellent. Decent animation, some interesting new songs by Paul Simon, an okay story, and really entertaining characters.

Signs was everything a movie is supposed to be.

I think we'll do Catch Me if You Can tonight. Looking forward to that one.

This is great. I NEVER get out to the movies anymore, so for my wife to dump all this on my lap and give me permission to play couch potato for a week --! Well, hell, you just gotta love her.

You're all invited. PC, bring nachos. Yayati's got the beer. I gave BusyBody a fake address. I told Todd it was "costume only". Should be fun.

 

[intrigued]

Sounds like a tiny slice of heaven to me.
I've been buying movies too, heck at Walmart I found a bunch for $6 each. Last night I watched "Lake Placid"...about this 30' croc that was terrorizing the locals, and there were times I had to leave the room. It is one damn scary movie.

Enjoy!

 

[Problem Child]

I hate nachos.

Can I bring a couple of Thai prostitutes instead?

 

[Azwed]

Catch me if you can was very cool saw that this afternoon.

 

[HeavyStick]

Nachos are safer to eat.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Can I bring a couple of Thai prostitutes instead?

Great. Then I can do my Yul Bryner impression all night. "Ah! Your head is higher than King's, etcetera, etcetera."

 

[freakygirl]

Now I remember why I miss owning the video store...

I loved getting screener copies of movies way before they ever hit the shelves (sometimes we got them before they hit the theater even).


DCL... can PC bring me instead of the nachos?

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

costumes only? can I come as an atheist then

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Sure. Just show up with better glasses than everyone else. Viola!

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

Sure. Just show up with better glasses than everyone else. Viola!

i thought a better tie was called for as well

 

[Darkthought]

Now I remember why I miss owning the video store...

I loved getting screener copies of movies way before they ever hit the shelves (sometimes we got them before they hit the theater even).


DCL... can PC bring me instead of the nachos?

Damn, that's scary.. I used to own a video store, and was thinking the same thing when I read this thread.... except for all the other crap that went along with owning it.

Watching the movies early was the only good thing... then again you had to watch all those crap movies too.

Nevermind...

I remember all the reasons I sold it all too clearly.

 

[freakygirl]

Damn, that's scary.. I used to own a video store, and was thinking the same thing when I read this thread.... except for all the other crap that went along with owning it.

Watching the movies early was the only good thing... then again you had to watch all those crap movies too.

Nevermind...

I remember all the reasons I sold it all too clearly.

Oh yeah.. I remember all the reasons for getting out of that business. I miss the pre screening of movies.. not the dealing with the public part of the business.

 

[Spinaroonie]

What?

How come you're SAG but you don't get the tapes? You've boasted about them before. How did you get on the s-list?



It's ok, you're still in my book.

 

[sexyguy2]

"Gave busybody a fake address"

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Everybody in SAG doesn't get the tapes, only the people voting (I can nominate, but not vote this year). Who gets to vote year to year is a crapshoot. I did it once, it was fun.

We're getting the tapes from a high up muckity-muck in SAG, so we can get them every year, no matter who's voting. Besides, we know people who regularly vote for the Oscars and the Emmys, so we get eveything that way, too. Want a DVD of this season's "Buffy"?

"Catch me if you Can" was very good. I liked the family subplot -- good motivation.

LAst night we watched "The Two Towers" with my son alternately hiding under a blanket and running into the bedroom. I told him, "This is grown-up Pokemon".

My wife and I saw Lord of the Rings in the theatre, and, as nice as it is to have the tape, it really isn't the same. Seeing it on TV, even wide screen, isn't half the experience it was in the theatre. And it annoys me that most people do their votiing based on the tapes. I have friends who insist on going to the screenings, and won't use the tapes, and other friends who never go to the theatres. And then there are the people who don't watch all the tapes. IF you think the Presidential election needs overhauling, you'd be surprised how carelessly entertainment awards are thrown around.

 

[RawHumor]

IF you think the Presidential election needs overhauling, you'd be surprised how carelessly entertainment awards are thrown around.

But the Presidential elections actually matter.

 

[sunstruck]

Ok this is the first time I've been jealous of anyone working in Hollywood.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

We have nice weather, too.

 

[sunstruck]

One word: SMOG

So what's the deal on copying these tapes for loyal loving friends?

 

[RawHumor]

I went to college (a Midwestern engineering school) with a guy from California. You wouldn't believe how many times people asked him if he was afraid that California was going to split off of the US and wind up in the ocean because of an earthquake.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

So what's the deal on copying these tapes for loyal loving friends?

It's illegal, punishable by banishment from all studio premieres, all helicopter car chases will be deleted from your Television Screen, and you won't be able to get your out of town friends "Leno" tickets for a year.

 

[sunstruck]

Damn, that's harsh.

 

[fuzzel]

It's illegal, punishable by banishment from all studio premieres, all helicopter car chases will be deleted from your Television Screen, and you won't be able to get your out of town friends "Leno" tickets for a year.

...and that's a "bad" thing????

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I went to college (a Midwestern engineering school) with a guy from California. You wouldn't believe how many times people asked him if he was afraid that California was going to split off of the US and wind up in the ocean because of an earthquake.

I never understand that. How can California "fall" into the ocean? We're connected to the Earth's crust. Where are we going to "fall" from?

These were engineers asking this? Can I have their names so I can avoid "falling" off bridges they design?

 

[RawHumor]

I never understand that. How can California "fall" into the ocean? We're connected to the Earth's crust. We are we going to "fall"?

These were engineers asking this? Can I have their names so I can avoid "falling" off bridges they design?

It's (or maybe was) a pretty common Urban Legend in the Midwest. Maybe people think that we're all just floating and if states separate from the contiguous body they'll just drift off.