Ah man. Can’t get Scott Pilgrim through Netflix until 12/7. I should have seen it in the theaters, but I wanted to be like everyone else.
Thought maybe Rocky Horror Picture Show was like Bladerunner in that I just didn’t get it when I was younger, but no, it’s unwatchable.
You have to fight corruption wherever you find it: town hall, a police station, computer files…
One year after that “movie” was made, Carter was elected President. Coincidence? Probably, but it’s still crap.
Frank, save that spot in your Netflix queue and buy Scott Pilgrim! Unless you’ve just been cultivating a nerdy online alter ego for years, you’ll love it. It’s a nearly perfect movie for our demographic (which is to say, Serenity is one of few movies I’ve enjoyed more).
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is unwatchable. I watched in some theatre full of idiots wearing customes from the movie and shouting the lines they had seen it so many times. God I hated that night. Probably thge worst movie of all time.
Carter! Ahh the good ole’ days of Jimmy Carter! I miss the old dufus compared to what we have now! Of course the 20% Prime Interest Rates and 14% inflation caused a bit of malaise but I never suspected him of being a Marxist bent on the destruction of the US. Maybe he just wasn’t capable enough…
Oh, by the way, my previous post was done at the demand of this blog. I had a gun to my head, literally! I personally love President Obama and can’t understand why everyone doesn’t support him. I think it’s like racist or something. So, anyway if the jackbooted thugs are on the way, please divert them to Utah…
Proud Infidel,
How did you see the 2012 DNC before it happened?
The only good thing about Bladerunner was Rutger Hauer.
Ahem: Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, Joanna Cassidy? DADT Jimbo?
(Coincidentally I’m currently re-reading John Scalzi’s The Android’s Dream)
FmrHostage, I think DADT round these parts only applies to USSJC.
I hope Jimmy doesn’t know anything about that. *shudder*
Begging Frank’s pardon, Blade Runner is one of the best science fiction movies, and it was a very good adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. One wonders why Dear Leader is lacking in appreciation for the movie, given his stated apprehension about androids going nuts and killing everyone.
Pretty much OT: The book and movie also inspired the most amazing screensaver:
http://electricsheep.org/
As best I can simplify how it works, it’s kind of like SETI at home but useful. When your PC goes into screensaver mode, it uses a small amount of processing power to share development of new fractal “electric sheep” designs. These complex animated designs are developed via shared processing and then distributed amongst all, so new designs are constantly being added. Suffice it to say that the designs are so amazing that some geeks have created dedicated displays for it. There are Linux, PC and Mac versions. Astound your friends!
I was going to say that in order to enjoy Rocky Horror you needed to see it in the theater with all the audience participation, but I see the Infidel doesn’t agree.
I still like that movie, I used to have a blast at the theater throwing toast and toilet paper, spraying water and shouting at the screen with all the rest of the fools.
But then, I like Howard the Duck, Hudson Hawk, Ford Fairlane and think each and every Star Wars except the first one sucked in descending order with the last one (the third one, which was made like 80 years after the 4th one) being absolutely unwatchable. Hell, Jar Jar was absolutely watchable compared to that dreck.
So maybe I’m outta the mainstream on this one.
Alternatively it could be because the first time I saw it was at the Tinker Street Cinema in Woodstock in 1979 and there was something in the air……. something chemical.
I don’t care about an actor’s lifestyle ‘preferences’ as a prerequisite to appreciating their acting skills. I usually find out about them only later anyway. With politics, it’s different. I can start out appreciating their acting, then they go public with their idiocy, and then I lose interest. An actor being gay doesn’t make me lose interest. It’s irrelevant.
You don’t need to see it in a theater – you need to consume illicit substances.
I’ve had that Scott Pilgrim flick on my Netflix list for about a month now. I’m in no rush to see it. I’ll catch it when it gets here.
Blade Runner inspired the greatest of all animes…the original Bubblegum Crisis.
Rocky Horror was popular at the midnight showings at first because people made fun of it. Kind of like live action MST3K. It is that bad. Then the freaks and gays and liberals discovered it, took it over, and ruined it. Like the economy.
“Proud Infidel,
How did you see the 2012 DNC before it happened?”
What’s really keen is I saw it in the 90s! Get this, they nominated Rosie O’Donnell over Odufus, but she didn’t make it out of the Denny’s where they will hold the convention ’cause our First Lady Wookie ripped her head off and ate it. It was/gonna be AWESOME!
“Thought maybe Rocky Horror Picture Show was like Bladerunner in that I just didn’t get it when I was younger, but no, it’s unwatchable.”
…a sweet transvestite, transsexual, from Transylvania. Pretty much the predecessor to the Edward character from Twilight. It was no easy task to out-gay Rocky, but they found a way by making Edward sparkle.
You don’t need to see it in a theater – you need to consume illicit substances.
yeah, I explored that possibility in my comment.
Only three random thoughts? Buttercup must have had a rough night.
In other news: I hate how you can’t hit the “end” button to get to the end of the comments for the “leave a reply” section. If you do, it takes you to the bottom of all those retarded awards you’ve received and you have to scroll back up. If you truly loved us it wouldn’t do that.
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Dear Friends,
I have some very sad news out of Duluth this morning to share with everyone.
This will bring about change in North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and even parts of Canada. There will be far reaching ramifications that will strike at the very core of our heritage and souls.
To those in the rest of the country and world, I must report the tragic news that Ole was shot.
He was up by the Canadian border on his 4-wheeler cutting some trees when some rangers looking for terrorists spotted him. According to the news reports, the rangers shouted to him over a loudspeaker, “Who are you and what are you doing?”
Ole shouted back, “OLE….. BIN LOGGIN’!”
Ole is survived by his wife Lena and Ole’s good friend Sven.
The only purpose to Rocky Horror is to see it in the cinema and insult it with everyone else. The film itself is pretty much useless otherwise.
Watching “Rocky Horror” has been on my “to do someday” list for years now. After seeing songs from it on “Glee”, it slipped farther down the list. And since I just had a bad “see it because it’s old and venerated” experience with “THX 1138” (not surprised it flopped), RHPS has now dropped off the list.
Unless you are in college and are viewing it at an outdoor theatre where you can throw all the junk you want after drinking copious amounts of alcohol, there really is no point to the RHPS. Unless you did too many drugs in the 60’s. In which case, apparently it never gets old.