Movie thread

[MetsFan]

I know many people lease cars which saves a ton of $ on the monthly side.

Short term vs long term thinking.

Paid for car costs nothing in terms of monthly payments.

Not in monthly payments, but it sucks to pay maintenance out of warranty, as I recently found out when the water pump, thermostat, and belt tensioner failed in my car. It's still a lot less than a $500 monthly payment though.

By the way, sorry for derailing the thread

 

[Road Guy]

[SIZE=medium]A friend of ours back in Atlanta last year, he worked for AT&T, he was always kind of a blow hard but we enjoyed drinking with him and his wife, anyways they bought a serious upgraded house ($450’s & in Atlanta that’s a huge house, not the little 3500 SF spec houses here in CO) and it took them a while to sell their old house, almost a year. We always figured they were doing really well that they could float the mortgage for both houses so easily.. later we learned through our idiot realtor (who was also their realtor) that their parents had given them an early inheritance of $250,000.. During this time they also bought a new boat and had it painted “Auburn Colors” I mean they bought a brand new boat from the boat show and special ordered a paint job, bought new cars, etc.. I hope it was worth it![/SIZE]

[SIZE=medium]I would have totally understood if they had been honest and said we had some help, but when you make it sound like your just bursting at the seams with money I just lost all respect for them….[/SIZE]

[SIZE=medium]The RG family has no early (or late) inheritance coming…[/SIZE]

 

[mudpuppy]

Here's the way I like to look at this. Only 20% of households make earn more than $100k/year. Only 10% earn more than $150k/year.

And I'll be laughing at all those poor schmucks and their credit card debt when I'm retired in my late 50s and they're broke.

 

[Sapper PE LS]

The sapper family has no early or late inheritence coming either, nor does the sapper family buy $450k houses or $70k cars or take $5k vacations... ever... but we own two mortgages (errr... houses) which apparently makes us RICH in the eyes of some folks. Folks, I gotta tell ya, sapper ain't rich, sapper is a sole income family of soon to be 5 with two mortgages, sapper has no money for these fancy things called movies or lunches out with the coworkers. All that said though, we do okay. We pay our bills on time, we have food on the table, we laugh and play in the evenings, and we do activities like cub scouts... I think sapper might be rich afterall.

But anyway, all that to say that I call BS on the people who are supposedly bursting at the seams with money like RG's blowhard drinking buddy. They are up to their damn eyeballs in debt or they get family money. Most people do not make an income to afford all of the bling that they have.

 

[Road Guy]

No person is poor who has friends but I can tell you that I'm truly broke

 

[cement]

[SIZE=medium]The RG family has no early (or late) inheritance coming…[/SIZE]

all I inherited was the bar tab...

 

[envirotex]

So somewhat back on track...we are watching Man of Steel tonight in our semi-completed DYI movie room at the Tex house. Looking forward to some popcorn and bourbon and coke. There are some benefits to being able to watch movies at home...

 

[knight1fox3]

^ true that! Mine also just came in the mail. Looking forward to watching it in 3D on the Samsung 55" with DTS Master Audio surround.

 

[MetsFan]

I'll be watching that this weekend at some point too. I've been trying to convince my wife we need a 3DTV, but she won't budge. I still buy 3D movies though, just in case.

 

[Sapper PE LS]

Watched The Internship last night. Not bad, but not the best Vince Vaghn / Owen Wilson movie either. However, the Quidditch scene was absolutely one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. My wife and I couldn't stop laughing at that.

 

[jeb6294]

White House Down - Should have been called Shite House Down.

Watched Olympus Has Fallen the other night. Entertaining enough to watch, but it was also on Netflix so no real $$$ wrapped up in it.

Saw Thor last night. It was pretty good. Between all the "pop-ups" in the movie and the previews, I wonder if the whole superhero thing is going to get driven into the ground before too long.

 

[Road Guy]

We watched jack the giant slayer last night with the kids. Great family movie night movie... Plus it has Obi Wan Kenobi (younger version) and he uses the line "I have a bad feeling about this"

 

[Supe]

White House Down - Should have been called Shite House Down.

Watched Olympus Has Fallen the other night. Entertaining enough to watch, but it was also on Netflix so no real $$$ wrapped up in it.

Saw Thor last night. It was pretty good. Between all the "pop-ups" in the movie and the previews, I wonder if the whole superhero thing is going to get driven into the ground before too long.

Oh, you mean like everything that's happened since the original Iron Man?

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Breakout - Save your money. First sucky Brendan Frasier movie I think I've ever seen. Absolutely no value whatsoever. basically, he is an eco-weenie jailed for manslaughter who must breakout of jail (despite the name, this portion of the film is maybe trhee minutes and not exciting in any way) to save his kids from two psycho brothers.

Disconnect - Decent film. Three stories about the darker side of the web. Story 1 is about a reporter delving into the world of interactive online pr0n. Story 2 is about a couple who has their identity comprimised through a chatroom criminal, and story 3 is about a family dealing with the consequences resulting from online bullying of their son (through a catfishing scheme).

 

[Road Guy]

Saw this floating around the net , not sure if this is the actual movie cover or not, but looks cool!

 

[Supe]

I thought this was the new poster.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Saw this floating around the net , not sure if this is the actual movie cover or not, but looks cool!

So the empire had their own version of the HMS Hood.

 

[knight1fox3]

^ I saw that as well but not sure if it's legit or not. It'll probably go viral for at least a little while.

Definitely a cool pic.

 

[Road Guy]

I'm curious where they will start the movie off (point in time). Unlike the droid army, there will still be a huge storm trooper army to deal with that has a command and control structure (generals and such). The rebels would still be behind the 8-ball in actually taking down the rest of the empire with there surplus military ships...

 

[knight1fox3]

Well have you read any of the books? Theoretically in the SW universe they would start with "Shadows of the Empire". And a new smuggler to the scene, Dash Rendar. A bit of chaos ensues with the Empire as random rogue generals take various commands of fleets to do with them whatever they feel like.