Richard Kind gives a really heartbreaking performance as the genius brother. I thought that last dream sequence was unnecessarily vicious.
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 October 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
(well, I know jaymc left cuz watching the credits is too snobby)
What!
I left because my meter was 15 minutes expired!
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Monday, 19 October 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Usually I like to stay for the whole credits, though:
Especially with movies that are heavy or intense or draining in some way, the credits give you an opportunity to let everything settle.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, March 1, 2005 3:27 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Monday, 19 October 2009 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I was sure you once said staying thru end-credits was a transparent attempt to impress others. Apologies if I'm mistaken.
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 October 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
(I'm sure you know who actually posted that if I'm wrong, you trainspotter)
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 October 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
This, maybe?
Sneaking food into movies is classic. Sneaking booze is even better. And reading all of the credits is the lamest sort of pseudo-movie-buff snobbery unless you're just trying to ID a certain song or actor. In which case who cares if people are being noisy and walking around? If you really hate people so much that you can't deal with the natural sort of interruptions that occur in a movie theater you should really just stay home with a DVD.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, March 1, 2005 8:26 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
To which you replied, two years later:
btw, "walterkranz" needs to eat shit.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, July 25, 2007 8:46 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Monday, 19 October 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw this Friday before last at the Uptown theater in Minneapolis. The big laughs were local: the Red Owl supermarket, Embers, and real-life superlawyer Ron Meshbesher. My friend Ari played the colleague whose scenes all involved standing in the doorway of Gopnik's office.
― Squash weather (Eazy), Monday, 19 October 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Your friend (who looks eerily like Ira Glass) was great.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 19 October 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
"bound to be Lebowski fans' fave"
Thinking it had more to do with being at bar mitzvah's and wishing I was stoned, frankly.
― Alex in SF, Monday, October 19, 2009 1:53 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
for me it had to do with actually being stoned in synagogue haha
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Monday, 19 October 2009 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
"I thought the handling of Sy's death was odd -- was it clearly established it was in the same chain-reaction accident that Larry caused, or elsewhere?"
Elsewhere.
― Alex in SF, Monday, October 19, 2009 2:01 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
it was sort of retroactively established in that scene. can't wait to watch it again.
"for me it had to do with actually being stoned in synagogue haha"
I only went to synagogue for bar mitzvahs so my opportunities were more limited heh.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 19 October 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^Priceless exchange. Real-life superlawyer used to have the absolute epitome of keys-in-the-ashtray '70s parties.
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Monday, 19 October 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Ari's comedy record:http://www.arihoptman.com/index_files/dang.jpg
― Squash weather (Eazy), Monday, 19 October 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
(Did not know that about the superlawyer!)
Eazy, I'm from St. Louis Park; ma famille has lived there for three generations and I have school friends who pepper this film with their extraness. That I didn't get to see it when home last week is a major bummer for me seeing as the fam are two miles from the theatre. NB am not a member of the frozen Chosen, but my mom throws Yiddish phrases into the mix and makes seriously amazing matzoh ball soup, which she attributes to growing up there.
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Monday, 19 October 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, as with Hold Steady songs, I'm just glad to have good songs/movies/etc. that actually overlap with my specific childhood memories (born in the St. Louis Park hospital, though grew up in Burnsville, school in inner-city St. Paul and then Golden Valley).
― Squash weather (Eazy), Monday, 19 October 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah the MNness is def something I'm interested
― rad bandit (gbx), Monday, 19 October 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
would everyone agree this film does not hate Judaism, or the main character?
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I seriously don't understand that complaint. Ella Taylor's got some weird issues.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 19 October 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
That cropped up in enough places for me to get all WTF about it.
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
ppl always complain that the coens are too mean
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL remembering Minnewegian accent controversy re: Fargo and my opinion being OH YES YOU DO SOUND LIKE THAT. I mean, OH YAH, YOU BETCHA.
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
and sometimes I'm one of them, but many other films are more guilty of it. xp
suzy I like this credit of yr friend's:
"Mystery Science Theater 3000" .... Pancake Breakfast Extra
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I think that's Eazy's friend.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I did not think Fargo was mean wrt lol mn accents! Ppl talk that way!
― rad bandit (gbx), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
xp (The confusion is understandable, though.)
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
That MST3K guy is friends with my cousin - but I knew his brother Ch4d. My friend Avr0m is in the bar mitzvah scene.
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
chfourd?
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
surely you've never used a number in place of a letter, s1ocki?
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I def. agree the movie didn't hate Larry, at all. It didn't hate Judaism either, it had more of a "humans not fitting into divine systems" thing going on.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Monday, October 19, 2009 4:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
n0 n3v3r
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Esp. not when I talk about my friends Avrom and Chad.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
"humans not fitting into divine systems"
To me, it's more amused with humans expecting "divine systems" to be repair manuals, like whatever the punchline the second rabbi uses, along the lines of "Hashem doesn't tell me everything."
I wonder if the rubes will boil as much at this film's sort-of-open ending the way they did with No Country. (This won't be nearly as big a hit, obv, lacking a killer.)
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
those rubes!
― cialis morissette (goole), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Rub3s.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
lacking a killer
more importantly, lacking a bigger star than Richard Kind.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
VERY excited for this -- especially with advance notice that there are twin-cities centric joeks herein, tho maybe of a vintage i won't get
― cialis morissette (goole), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
No gentile babies were conceived during the time frame of this movie (except for me).
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Ella Taylor: "To cap it all, Larry's pneumatic pothead of a neighbor (Amy Landecker), the sole looker in sight and therefore probably a shiksa"
There was a mezuzah on her door!
― suggest friend (hmmmm), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 04:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, didn't she also say, after Larry remarked that he didn't care for the neighbors on the other side, "Goys, huh?"
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 05:02 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmm someone might want to mark this thread as full of spoilers already
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link
yes! watch movies better crazy lady! it really disproves her whole risible "ugly jew" thesis
xp
― suggest friend (hmmmm), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 05:06 (fourteen years ago) link
The hot neighbor was so obv not a goy, tho clearly derived from Mrs Robinson (even the tropical plants in her house).
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:02 (fourteen years ago) link
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:05 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
after a movie comes out i think spoilers are fair game... i mean you can assume that we're actually talking about the film and not anticipating at this point no?
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
it hasn't been released everywhere
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:40 (fourteen years ago) link
what happened to freedom of speech in this country
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
you're canadian
― how rad bandit (gbx), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, what country did u think i was referring to
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
a country with free speech!
― how rad bandit (gbx), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link