Entertainment things you HATE by Wishimay

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Originally posted by Wishimay:

I actually liked Cutthroat Island and The Postman and those are on a lot of people's hate list.

I own both and like 'em a lot.
I read The Hobbit and enjoyed it immensely. But I only made it through half of The Two Towers before I gave up. I mean, they walk through a FIELD and we have to hear the history of every battle ever fought there? It's a FIELD. They're passing THROUGH it. That's all.

I hate "Another Way To Die", Justin Bieber and most rap, Highlander 2, Matrix: Revulsions, & American Hot Wax are my most hated movies, Superboy was some pretty terrible TV...

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 4:03 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:

I read The Hobbit and enjoyed it immensely. But I only made it through half of The Two Towers before I gave up. I mean, they walk through a FIELD and we have to hear the history of every battle ever fought there? It's a FIELD. They're passing THROUGH it. That's all.

I was about to make a very similar post. I read thru LOTR once in college. Tried to read it again later, and bogged down in a very similar place: halfway thru The Two Towers. Put it down and walked away and never went back.

And it's worth mentioning that while Dune is one of everybody's faves, including mine, the sequels start out BAD and get worse. I got through a couple of them, and then skimmed bits of a couple of the others, but no way.

Movies, TV, music, other entertainment, Oy!. There's so much of it that's terrible, the list would take forever.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 4:33 PM

I've been lucky with books, only read one that I absolutely hated- The Yearling. UGhhh.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 7:09 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by Wishimay:

Worst movies ever? I know we did the movies you hate thing a while back btw. Who can find that stuff though??

Highlander 2, Tale of Desperaux, Deuce Bigalow 2, Grease.

In Talk Story, I started a thread about movies which surprised you, for good or bad. In keeping w/ the theme of this thread, I'll stick to the bad ones, and which I had hoped for better, Buddha only knows why.

Save for Happy Gilmore, most any Adam Sandler movie.

Grease has, and always will annoy the hell out of me ( 30+ year olds playing the role of HS kids ) ,but it's too entrenched in the society now. I can ignore it, but I have to recognize that some folks just dig it. At least Rocky Horror , though still not really my thing, has merit. Grease is just horrid.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 7:23 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:

I read The Hobbit and enjoyed it immensely. But I only made it through half of The Two Towers before I gave up. I mean, they walk through a FIELD and we have to hear the history of every battle ever fought there? It's a FIELD. They're passing THROUGH it. That's all.

I guess that's where not having the greatest attention span came in handy, I just skipped ahead. I do that with TV all the time, I'll just watch the last fifteen minutes because they do a recap in a lot of them most of the way through and I just play at guessing at the rest of the story. Drives my OCD hubby nuts though

I'll do that the other way too, watch ten minutes and guess the plotline. I even do that with books when the filler takes over the plot and there's too much blah blah blah.

Wow, I really do have a low thresh hold for boring now that I say it

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 7:50 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Rocky Horror , though still not really my thing, has merit.

You're just a sweet transvestite...

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 7:58 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Rocky Horror , though still not really my thing, has merit.
You're just a sweet transvestite...

Sorry, try again. This has been debunked. Once again, you are demonstrably in error, and ensconced in the endless anti-whom-you-hate bullshit. Feel free to go on, and prove yourself more the idiot than you have already (Heh, if that's even possible at this point).
You proved me right here.
Thanks.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 8:03 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Sorry, try again.

You're just a sweet transvestite...

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 8:09 PM

Before everyone's time:
You Send Me, Sam Cooke & Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, Brian Hyland

OK, I did see Reefer Madness, so dumb, it's classic; I barely remember it.
...........

I happily missed some of the reputed worst, Howard the Duck, Battlefield Earth.

Yeah, Catwoman was bad, but not bad enough for my worst list. I was able to
watch the whole thing.

I seriously hated Dangerous Liaisons. Maybe it was well done, but the subject
is too offensive, as it was intended.

Everyone else liked it, Puss in Boots but I only endured it cause my brother
took me to it on my birthday & he enjoyed it. Couldn't tell him it sucked.

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 8:12 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Sorry, try again.
You're just a sweet transvestite...

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 8:38 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
I actually liked Cutthroat Island and The Postman and those are on a lot of people's hate list.

I liked The Postman as well as Waterworld. Rewatch them both regularly.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 8:52 PM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

I liked The Postman

Now I *must* hate it. My DVD will be destroyed and tossed. I cannot think for myself, only react negatively to those whom I oppose politically.

Nah, it's a good movie.

Look! Over your heads! Too late; the lesson here is wasted on you.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 9:34 PM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.

TV: Any soap opera, HIMYM
Music: I don't know, I'm not subjected to bad music much. I have an aggressive dislike for a Scottish band called Biffy Cliro, who everyone else seems to like.
Books: Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Hated that seagull.
Movies: I'll agree with Grease. Bridget Jones Diary. Existenz. Cache - despite the presence of Juliette Binoche.

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:17 PM

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Originally posted by kpo:
TV: Any soap opera, HIMYM

I'll see you soap operas, and raise you Nascar. I'm not a big fan of sports on TV, but Nascar puts me in a coma. The only way "drive fast turn left, drive fast turn left" is fun is if I'M DOING IT.

And HIMYM isn't HALF as mediocre as "Rules of Engagement" At least HIMYM is oddball at times, RoE writers had to have their fun chip removed as a condition for working there. It's about NOTHING. Seasons and seasons of monotone blah blah blahhhhhhhh. It's what they play in mental facilities to numb patients. It HAS to be!

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:30 PM

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Sam Cooke

Really???

I Luuuuv Sam Cooke. Anything he sang makes me wanna slow dance. Does it have a personal negative connotation beyond the repetitiveness? I grant the lyrics are slightly open ended and illogical, but I thought he was saying that "you send me into a daydreaming state of mind that makes me think about marrying you and taking you home" but wow is there worse lyrics out there...

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 11:47 PM

Sam Cooke was a fine singer.

"Yooooooooou Send Me" had only 3 words ... crazy-boring after
you hear it once.

And it was a huge hit, impossible to avoid it.

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I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.

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Thursday, May 15, 2014 1:05 AM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
almost any James Bond film

Oh I hope you don't lump Timothy Dalton's two (The Living Daylights/Licence To Kill) in there...

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Thursday, May 15, 2014 1:08 AM

^^ @Brenda
Except for the movies, that's right on. Too much an action fan me. Will accept stupidity
in exchange for decent action.

Sports -- Yaawwwn.
However, I am hoping to catch the Preakness this weekend, & cheer for the Cinderella horse.

I've seen almost 0 Reality TV, and already, I hate it.

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.

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Thursday, May 15, 2014 5:34 AM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:

My mother tried to get me to read The Good Earth and Grapes of Wrath and I hated them both. A Chinese guy who works his whole life to make it and get land and his kids just go and throw it all away?? Where's that get fun??

Loved the films, but I've never read the books.

Worst movies ever? I know we did the movies you hate thing a while back btw. Who can find that stuff though??

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Highlander 2, Tale of Desperaux, Deuce Bigalow 2, Grease.

I love Grease but Grease 2 sucks. I have to think about this.

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Thursday, May 15, 2014 5:41 AM

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Battlefield Earth

OOh yeah. bad

Escape from Absolom
Indecent Proposal
Anything with Madonna (except Desperately Seeking Susan which I loved)

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Thursday, May 15, 2014 9:54 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

My main HATES are on TV.

Reality competition shows - especially the backstabby, catty, mean-spirited ones. Biggest Loser was tolerable, since people were actually progressing towards a worthwhile goal, but Survivor?

Cooking competitions - Iron Chefs was Okay, but the new gimmicky stuff with baskets of stupid ingredients and the same scheming and backstabbing as reality shows - not for me.

Anything with Gordon Ramsay.

"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

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Thursday, May 15, 2014 10:47 AM

Awesome post Wish ;)

I'll do my best to offer my opinion about your opinion, but I'll skip over whatever I've not seen/read/heard without even bothering to listen because this is about crap you HATE and that's pretty much exactly the opposite of a ringing endorsement :)

1. Grapes of Wrath. Don't know why, but I never watched the movie growing up even though I do remember it being on cable when I was really little. I just hated the name. Never was forced to read the book in high school. Know nothing about it except that some people love it and some people, hate it.

2. I'm trying to think if there are any songs I actually and truly hate these days. I've actually "forgiven" a lot of songs for their atrocity and can tune them out as if the radio wasn't even on.

Wow.... Seriously.... I've sat a minute here and tried to even remembe........ NEVERMIND.... I got it.....

WORST SONG EVER: REO Speedwagon's Keep on Loving You. Most pathetic damn thing I ever heard.

3. Worst movie is pretty hard for me too. I LOVE movies that are so bad that they're good. I have plenty of movies on my hard drive that other people would probably give me shit about wasting 1.5 hours of their life by showing it to them.

I got it...

As much as I love John Carpenter's movies, even though he is so arrogant to put "John Carpenter's" before every movie title he makes...... This movie here is the worst movie I've ever seen.

John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness.

I seriously LOVE camp. Leprechaun in the Hood is one of my absolute favorite bad movies. This movie is just plain awful and a complete waste of time.

Another two runners up are Wes Craven's They

and....... OH SHIT! I got the PERFECT MOVIE to hate!!!!

The Never Ending Story III. Period.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Thursday, May 15, 2014 7:22 PM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I liked "The Living Daylights". Not too keen on "Licence to Kill" though. And I like the first Bond movie that Pierce Brosnon did.

Like Meatloaf said, two out of three ain't bad.

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Thursday, May 15, 2014 7:56 PM

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Escape from Absolom
Indecent Proposal
Anything with Madonna (except Desperately Seeking Susan which I loved)

Madonna was in A League of Their Own, yes, with Gina Davis & Tom Hanks; it's great!

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I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.

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Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:06 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Not sure if this fits in the category of this thread.
I have been reading through the Jack Reacher series (Lee Child) and Mitch Rapp (Vince Flynn) and keep getting bothered by the timeline errors. Both series keep having U.S. Presidents elected in years which are even but not divisible by 4. For me these things obliterate the suspension of disbelief. Does anybody know if the literary world uses this as code for something, if this is intentional for some reason?
I'm talking about the fictional timeline, not the publishing dates.

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Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:40 PM

JONGSSTRAW

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Madonna was in A League of Their Own with Gina Davis & Tom Hanks; it's great!

Yep ... great movie.

And ... I don't "hate" any movie or tv show, because I wouldn't have watched them long enough to hate them. This thread is very revealing. Some people here hate ... Grease?? ... Sports?? ... WTF??

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Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:55 PM

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Escape from Absolom
Indecent Proposal
Anything with Madonna (except Desperately Seeking Susan which I loved)

Madonna was in A League of Their Own, yes, with Gina Davis & Tom Hanks; it's great!

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.

Yep, I admit you are right. I think she did okay playing bit characters but sucked in the lead and when she got creative control.

I give you Body of Evidence.

I generally am able to avoid stinkers, but a friend of mine used to get free tickets, so I got to watch a lot of crap in the 90's. Now I just say 'no'

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Friday, May 16, 2014 2:54 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

I know this is a little offtrack but worst movie I've seen ever..

The Room... Written by! Produced by! Directed by! Starring! Tommy Wiseau. Friends at work LOVE this movie because of the depth of its awfulness ... the script (WHAT script? They made it up as they went along), the acting, the dialogue, the production values... wow. SO impressive, but not on a good way. The friend loaned it to me, but I scanned forward a lot.

Female Trouble. John Waters. Stuck in the middle of a row full of crazed movie-goers. There are some movies that are a waste of time, and others I actively regret having seen, and this is one of active regret.

Killer Tomatoes. Borderline between awful and funny.

Princess Bride. One of hubby's favorites, and one of the few movies we disagree on. I know a lot of guys love this movie, but the lead character's perpetual smirk (which he used to great effect in Twister and X-Files) drove me up a wall. Also, the princess' extreme passivity... yoiks

A great movie, but one that I regret seeing- Brazil. Jonathan Pryce, Robert deNiro, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins.

A few good surprises: Mona Lisa with Bob Hoskins, My Dinner with Andre (getting thru the first 20 minutes was awful), Breaking Away.

Breaking Away (yes that is Dennis Quaid, very young)

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Friday, May 16, 2014 3:14 AM

Why do you regret Brazil?

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Friday, May 16, 2014 3:25 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

There many horrific scenes from the movie that stuck with me many years later...

"I had a complication of my complication"

Torture by electric drill

Driving thru a wasted jungle, with decorate billboards by the side of the road to take the place of the landscape beyond.

It was a great movie, and made its points brilliantly. Perhaps a little too brilliantly.

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Friday, May 16, 2014 9:31 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Princess Bride. (which he used to great effect in Twister and X-Files)

Breaking Away (yes that is Dennis Quaid, very young)

Wait, Cary Elwes was in Xfiles?? Oh, that's after I stopped watching when it became more about bureaucracy and less about fun conspiracies. And I think everyone likes that movie because it had a sexy couple, pirates, and fun one liners, not because the characters were perfect people. It's also a good example for kids to show them that sometimes they may think they might not like a book or movie, but to keep an open mind, because you never know...

I can't tell you how many times hubbs and I have used the line "NEVER MESS WITH A SICILLIAN WHEN DEATH IS ON THE LINE!" when we serve each other drinks

P.S. Luuuv Dennis Quaid!

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Friday, May 16, 2014 1:04 PM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:

I hit the umpteenth page of Grapes of Wrath where they talked about how dry and dusty is was for page after page after page and JUST COULD'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!! We GET IT. It was dry and dusty and horrible..

I will stick up, briefly, for Grapes of Wrath. The novel, not the film. It is a novel driven by its politics-- in terms of influence it's right up there with Uncle Tom's Cabin. And Steinbeck does an amazing job of manipulating his readers' emotions (and isn't that what any novelist's job is?)-- if you're not radicalized by the end, there's something wrong with you.

But I get your point-- in college, I had a prof who loved, and assigned, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the book that the film Apocalypse Now is based on. About 300 pages of a trip up an African river, thru the jungles, while nothing happens. And then about 10 pages of resolution-- the guy they were looking for had "gone native", and was either dead or they killed him. SO boring I had managed to forget the entire thing. And the prof argued that the boredom was the whole point.

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Friday, May 16, 2014 1:15 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Oh yes, in the lab, when something goes terribly wrong, we sometimes say "INCONCEIVABLE"!

I liked Andre the Giant, I liked Montoya (Patinkin), Vizzini (Shawn), and the grandfather (Falk). I guess it's only the two main protagonists that I dislike. You're right- it had its moments!

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Friday, May 16, 2014 1:16 PM

I didn't see the movie till I was at least 26. It was probably 4 or more years after I read Brave New World and 1984. It scared me. [Brazil]

How old were you when you saw it sigs?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Friday, May 16, 2014 1:28 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh yes, in the lab, when something goes terribly wrong, we sometimes say "INCONCEIVABLE"!

I liked Andre the Giant, I liked Montoya (Patinkin), Vizzini (Shawn), and the grandfather (Falk). I guess it's only the two main protagonists that I dislike. You're right- it had its moments!

Seriously, no love for Cary Elwes, Sigs?

Have you never seen "Robin Hood: Men in Tights", some of the most entertaining episodes of "Psyche" ever made... or even better, the very little known "Comic Book Villians" also starring a bunch of aging people who starred in every teen movie in the mid-to-late 90's and were still kinda cool in 2002.

Seriously Sigs.....

If nothing else, you gotta see this movie.

In a role very unlike anything I've ever seen him do, Cary is only a supporting character, but he's the guy I related the most too. This movie was Cary Elwes' "Number 23".

It's too bad nobody else noticed since nobody else ever saw it.

Seriously, I'm the only person who's ever seen this great movie.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Friday, May 16, 2014 2:14 PM

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
[ SO boring I had managed to forget the entire thing. And the prof argued that the boredom was the whole point.

I get enough boredom IRL, I guess. Entertainment is supposed to be an escape only lightly marred by morality.

Maybe I'll try the movie when I get to the end of my Netflix list this summer...

And yes I like Cary Six, but I can see why others might not. I see a wry smile, not so much a smirk, but I can see both ways. Some have said he was too good looking, like a Ken Doll, and I feel that way about a lot of female actresses...

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Saturday, May 17, 2014 4:58 PM

A little something for Cary Elwes fans:

Cradle Will Rock,

a mostly true story, the film by Tim Robbins. Cary plays John Houseman, at the time a chubby closeted homosexual who was producing a play for the Federal Theatre Project with Orson Welles. The government sent the U S Army to shut it down, because it was so radical. So they paraded up the street to a vacant theatre and did a performance on the bare stage, with the actors singing from the audience. (And all that much of the story is absolutely TRUE.)

Cary looks entirely different, but gives a brilliant performance. And the film is an " all-star" deal, LOTS of great actors in excellent performances in all the roles.

One of the great moments of 20th century theatre history, and one of my lifetime Top 20, maybe Top 10, films.

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Saturday, May 17, 2014 5:06 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh yes, in the lab, when something goes terribly wrong, we sometimes say "INCONCEIVABLE"!

I liked Andre the Giant, I liked Montoya (Patinkin), Vizzini (Shawn), and the grandfather (Falk). I guess it's only the two main protagonists that I dislike. You're right- it had its moments!

And Miracle Max and Valerie... "Have fun stormin' the castle..." "You think it'll work?" "It would take a miracle."

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Saturday, May 17, 2014 6:55 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
There many horrific scenes from the movie that stuck with me many years later...

"I had a complication of my complication"

Torture by electric drill

Driving thru a wasted jungle, with decorate billboards by the side of the road to take the place of the landscape beyond.

It was a great movie, and made its points brilliantly. Perhaps a little too brilliantly.

Oh yeah, its a very disturbing movie. Partilarly the ending.

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Saturday, May 17, 2014 6:58 PM

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh yes, in the lab, when something goes terribly wrong, we sometimes say "INCONCEIVABLE"!

I liked Andre the Giant, I liked Montoya (Patinkin), Vizzini (Shawn), and the grandfather (Falk). I guess it's only the two main protagonists that I dislike. You're right- it had its moments!

And Miracle Max and Valerie... "Have fun stormin' the castle..." "You think it'll work?" "It would take a miracle."

So many great quotes from that movie. It's a favourite in our household.

The supporting characters are all sensational, and the two leads are sweet and funny, particularly cary elwes.

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Saturday, May 17, 2014 6:58 PM

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh yes, in the lab, when something goes terribly wrong, we sometimes say "INCONCEIVABLE"!

I liked Andre the Giant, I liked Montoya (Patinkin), Vizzini (Shawn), and the grandfather (Falk). I guess it's only the two main protagonists that I dislike. You're right- it had its moments!

And Miracle Max and Valerie... "Have fun stormin' the castle..." "You think it'll work?" "It would take a miracle."

So many great quotes from that movie. It's a favourite in our household.

The supporting characters are all sensational, and the two leads are sweet and funny, particularly cary elwes.

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Sunday, May 18, 2014 1:57 AM

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Sports -- Yaawwwn.
However, I am hoping to catch the Preakness this weekend ...

California Chrome wins Preakness = 2 legs on the the Triple Crown.

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

All I suggest is a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. ~Paul Simon

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Monday, May 19, 2014 11:01 AM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
And yes I like Cary Six, but I can see why others might not. I see a wry smile, not so much a smirk, but I can see both ways. Some have said he was too good looking, like a Ken Doll, and I feel that way about a lot of female actresses...

He still has it now Wish, and I seriously doubt anyone would blame it on his Ken-Doll looks...

Maybe Husky Ken that shops at Barbie's Big and Tall.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, May 24, 2014 2:38 AM

The music that plays when they put me on hold ... forever.

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Lighten up, Oonj.

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Saturday, May 24, 2014 8:28 AM

I heard a wonderful story on NPR about a guy who spent ten years trying to track down a piece of music from his insurance people and why he liked it so much. I'll save you the whole story, but it's actually on youtube. An HOUR of it

Oh and here's some vaguely interesting hold music/chatter, while I was looking for the other one...

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Saturday, May 24, 2014 9:37 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Interesting. I hated Grapes and the others like it, and not only read LOTR several times, I re-read Fellowship MANY times, even one Summer aloud to my best friend while we lazed at the local reservoir. All a matter of taste.

And "ditto" in spades what NewOld said about Dune, which I ADORED, but gave up after slogging through the first half of the third follow-up, only having gotten that far by sheer determination and a prayer it would be better than the second.

I'm with Brenda about "anything by Ernest Hemmingway"--ESPECIALLY "Lord of the Flies"! Why do they DO that to young children??? With her, too, about the TV genres she listed…have never seen more than fifteen minutes of any reality show except "Project Runway" which, I freely admit, hooked me perversely for a couple of seasons.

Magons and I are in perfect agreement about Grease and Grease 2. Totally corny, a guilty pleasure.

Along with Wish, I adore Princess Bride and quote from it frequently, as I see others here do as well. I mark that partly down to having instantly developed a mad crush on both Elwes and Patinkin, and following both for years after. Elwes still pops up all over the place; makes me feel old every time I see how he looks now. But thank you, NewOld; I saw and deeply appreciated Cradle long, long ago, didn't remember it was Elwes, will have to dig it up again.

But to list the movies, TV, music I hated MOST would take thinking, there's so many. One thing comes to mind: Psych. I tried to watch it, having respected Dule Hill for his work on West Wing; it was so awful it was embarrassing and I just had to be happy for him that he's earning a steady paycheck and try to forget it…and STILL it went on for years ("is still going on?"). Vague memories of laughing at Waterworld… Oh, and I wouldn't be caught dead watching anything with Mel Gibson; his adoration of maximum violence and gore makes me wonder about his mental health (well, I don't actually wonder, that would take a minute, and given his other "mental-health" indicator (Scientology), obviously be futile…).

As to books I hated, I can say one thing: Vampires! There may be good books out there, but I'm not interested, so when two of my most trusted authors climbed on the bandwagon with stand-alone books to make a quick buck off the "fashion", I was shocked and angry. One of them being David Webber (many, MANY thanx to Frem, we have his every book and they are the ONLY books I don't put up on Paperback Swap when we finish them!).

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Thursday, October 13, 2022 7:07 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

I dislike most mainstream entertainment,

I really disliked 'reality tv' when it came out, now I just mostly ignore it or manage to avoid it all

tired of the superhero Superman, Fantastic4, Aquapants, Spiderman thing now

but of late anything with that whole Antifa, pro-islamic, gay homosexual lesbian, BLM, pro BLM that constantly wants to take a crap on traditional US values messages.

The Grapes of Wrath and Good Earth are good books, if Wishiway had listened to her mother when growing up maybe she would not be so crazy.
But then again didn't a writer once say All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy and No man does, and that is his. Not that I would place much value in the Homosexual writings of an Anglo-Irish Pervert who had perverted predatory 'affairs' with a boy? Alfred Douglas the son of the founder of the rules of modern Boxing.

Music? I hate most music on the radio but much of it, almost the same shit no matter where you go in the world, the pop rock stuff does have form or chords or basic composition or some kind of harmony, so I guess it is 'musical' but Rap is Low IQ moronic noise filled with dumb hate that rhymes, 'mumble rap' is just brainless and the industry overall it is very plastic auto these days with very few people playing their own instrument.

Tale of Desperaux a kids toon animation with mice, didnt watch

Highlander a tv show and movie, seen some not sure which eps or movies but a franchise where immortals chopped each others heads off but at least the men were still men and not pushing some monkey pox message.

Deuce Bigalow too dumb degenerate probably wouldn't even have watched it in my teenage years

Grease dumb but better than Steven Spielbergs West Side Story 2021 ... oh! criticism of Spielberg ...HOW DARE YOU !

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Killer Tomatoes. Borderline between awful and funny.

a fine line between 'So bad its good' genre of movie

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