Movie thread

[Orchid PE]

Excuses excuses.

 

[Dleg]

I finally convinced my son to watch Alien. We had to take a break right before the alien busts out of the guy's chest at dinner, but by the next evening he had built up his courage to finish the movie. What an excellent movie. It really holds up after all these years. My son really enjoyed it, so we watched Aliens the next night. I loved that movie back when it came out and saw it in the huge theater at least twice, in packed crowds. I haven't seen it in probably 20 years. It's still pretty good, too, but just not as "big" as I remembered it. 

 

[Road Guy]

Does Paul Riser die in the 2nd one? Those were good- I don’t know if the family has watched them- will put them on the list for the holidays!

im currently watching a classic...

 

[Dleg]

Of course Reiser dies. He's a total weasel.

I gave an assignment to two people junior to me to watch Stripes, after I told them I am their Big Toe. And they had no idea what I was talking about. One of them watched it last night and reported back that it's a terrible movie, but he did think Sgt. Hulka was redeemed. 

 

[Road Guy]

We quoted stripes a lot in basic training,  mainly the lighten up Francis, any of you ____ touch my stuff, I'll kill you, and all blowed up! lines

 

[MA_PE]

“.....aarrrrmmmmyyy training sir!”

 

[Violator]

Just saw an ad for a horror movie with Vince Vaughn.
 

Why did they release this after Halloween?

 

[Dleg]

Wow, this thread was at the end of the 2nd page... I'm not ready to give up on the movies! They will return!

Speaking of which, we watched Soul on Disney+ over the weekend. One of the best Pixar movies. Cool music, interesting and entertaining metaphysical model of existence, and a pretty deep and uplifting message about life that even got my depressed, autistic son feeling optimistic about things.

 

[Road Guy]

We watched Soul last night also, it was pretty good, although the beginning was a taf slow and a little iffy until it had its "Olaf" moment (when he became a soul)

We also watched Alien and Aliens last weekend - Alien was really slow - I had not seen them in a while so I had them mixed up in my mind.  -  Aliens defin was a little more lively for sure.  Most of the family was asleep for Alien or scrolling on the phones, I had to push to make them watch the sequal, which is where all the classic lines came from ( NO Way Man Game Over)





Also the smoking on the space ships was funny to me, but I guess it was 1979

 

[Dleg]

We watched both of those recently, too. I have been trying to school my son in 1980s movies so he understands all the references in Family Guy, etc. 

Next on the plan is Ferris Bueler's Day Off, Better Off Dead, Breakfast Club. Got some 80s teen movies to catch up on. Then work up his courage to watch The Thing....

 

[MA_PE]

My son’s gf is visiting with us for the holidays.  She didn’t watch tv/movies much growing up.  (She’s late 20s).  Kind of amazing to me the classic movies she’s never seen.  (None of the Rocky films, Christmas Story, none of the Vacations, etc.).  We watched Christmas vacation on Christmas Day.  Watched Silence of the Lambs last night.  She was not enamored with Smokey and the Bandit (fell asleep).  We”ll introduce her to more classics.

 

[jeb6294]

“Wonder Woman 1984” gets a solid...meh. I actually fell asleep there for a bit in the middle and didn’t even bother to go back and watch what I missed.

 

[Violator]

We watched the Call of the Wild today. Wasn’t too bad. Worth checking out if your scrolling and scrolling.

 

[Dleg]

I just noticed today that the movie schedule board at one of our local theaters is still configured for March, 2020 when everything shut down. Still has the last movie we saw in a theater: Onward, March 15. I remember that vividly.  We all knew it was coming.  There was maybe only 5 families in the theater, dead quiet and seated as far apart from each other as possible. 

 

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[Supe]

I just noticed today that the movie schedule board at one of our local theaters is still configured for March, 2020 when everything shut down. Still has the last movie we saw in a theater: Onward, March 15. I remember that vividly.  We all knew it was coming.  There was maybe only 5 families in the theater, dead quiet and seated as far apart from each other as possible. 

I genuinely wonder if we will ever see real movie theaters return.  I'm dying to know how direct to home video sales are comparing to brick and mortar sales.  You're likely only making one sale for every four brick and mortar (pay for one stream vs. family of four movie tickets), but you'd have to think so many more people are streaming it as a new release who would otherwise just wait for it to hit Netflix/Amazon?

 

[jeb6294]

The one theatre here is starting to get some of the new movies, but this summer they were doing movies on weekends as soon as they were allowed to. Since there were no new movies out, they would do their "comeback classics". This week it's "Batman Returns", Daddy's Home 2" and "Paul Blart 2". They've definitely gone downhill now that new movies are starting to come out. The old movies used to be much better choices.

 

[Dleg]

I think movie theaters will come back. Once vaccines get established I think (my opinion) that will be the final straw for almost everyone, regardless if repeated vaccines or new variants evolve that keep COVID going. The overall risk will be reduced so much that people will just start treating it like the flu, government health departments included. 

And once people feel free to go about doing what they used to, there's going to be a huge demand for theaters, Chuck E Cheeses, amusement parks, bars, nightclubs etc. just from all the pent up demand.

But I don't think this is going to happen until at least the summer, and maybe later. Unless vaccination programs can really get moving. 

 

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[snickerd3]

we watched Soul on new year eve.  good movie, lotso f laughs, good music, good story.  If you have sheltered your little ones from all things death however be ready to talk about souls, heaven, etc.  

We also watched the Classic movie Flight of the navigator.  My kids LOVED it.  So happy.  Now they want one of these guys, like I did when I was a kid.