not sure Nick Hornby is intentionally humorous
― a Rambo in curved air (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
Indiana Jones is basically everything the bad guys describe him as, and a cantankerous git to boot
― a Rambo in curved air (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:25 (six years ago) link
Not a movie but maybe timothy treadwell in grizzly bear only bc herzog seems dumb enough to think he is actually a good guy?
― circa1916, Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
High Fidelity the movie is very aware that the protagonist is a cock. The book far less so.
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
The movie takes its time during moments where he's brushing women off or treating them callously to linger on their reaction for an extra beat. Key shot is probably when he says goodbye to Lili Taylor and merrily monologues away while she stands by the door clearly breaking down a bit but he completely ignores it.
― omar little, Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
Mrs. Robinson is the hero of The Graduate
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 31 December 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link
^^Reminds me of this bit from Barcelona:
Fred: You think wedding vows are going to change everything? God, your naivete is astounding! Didn't you see "The Graduate"?Ted: You can remember "The Graduate"?Fred: Yeah, I can remember a few things. Apparently you don't. The end? Katharine Ross has just married this really cool guy - tall, blond, incredibly popular, the make-out king of his fraternity in Berkeley - when this obnoxious Dustin Hoffman character shows up at the back of the church, acting like a total asshole. "Elaine! Elaine!" Does Katharine Ross tell Dustin Hoffman, "Get lost, creep. I'm a married woman"? No. She runs off with him - on a bus. That is the reality.
Ted: You can remember "The Graduate"?
Fred: Yeah, I can remember a few things. Apparently you don't. The end? Katharine Ross has just married this really cool guy - tall, blond, incredibly popular, the make-out king of his fraternity in Berkeley - when this obnoxious Dustin Hoffman character shows up at the back of the church, acting like a total asshole. "Elaine! Elaine!" Does Katharine Ross tell Dustin Hoffman, "Get lost, creep. I'm a married woman"? No. She runs off with him - on a bus. That is the reality.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 31 December 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
I think it's a rite of passage when you're rescreening Fast Times At Ridgemont High, and you go from identifying with one of the kids to identifying with Mr. Hand.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 31 December 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
Lots of 80s movies want you to root for someone who totally doesn't deserve rooting for, obv. Ferris only one of a thousand.
I've always felt this way about Reality Bites - not so much that it needed to be told from a different (Stillerian) perspective, just that it worked hard to lionize bad people.
True challops is: I felt the exact same way about Frances Ha.
Also about Harold and Maude. Gah.
Some terrible movie people are not terrible in the ostensibly-cute-terrible-people way like Rushmore or N. Dynamite or whatever.
― sympathy for the tasmanian devil (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 31 December 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link
Colossus is the hero of The Forbin Project
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 31 December 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
OK, Paddington Bear's turn...
― Mark G, Sunday, 31 December 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link
Revenge of the Nerds, Zapped!, Farmer Ted in 16 Candles, Blaine in Pretty in Pink, Can't Buy Me Love...
― Yerac, Sunday, 31 December 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
The whole point of the book seemed to be his realization of his dickishness, I thought? How else could you read the meeting with Penny?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 31 December 2017 22:34 (six years ago) link
Revenge of the Nerds
Yeah rape and spycams are HILARE
― sympathy for the tasmanian devil (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 31 December 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
Are horror and especially giant monster movies too obvious for this?
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Monday, 1 January 2018 22:47 (six years ago) link
Cliff Curtis' character from Live Free Or Die Hard needs his own franchise.
― Wes Brodicus, Monday, 1 January 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
in the disney continuity, scrooge mcduck is still a stingy guy -- i thought he was supposed to be reformed?
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, December 31, 2017 6:39 PM (yesterday)
scrooge mcduck isn't supposed to be the same character as ebenezer scrooge, he's got a whole epic backstory about earning his money from striking gold in the klondike, etc etc, plus he seems to know the origin story of every coin in his money bin so that's why he's so attached to it all
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 1 January 2018 23:22 (six years ago) link
also the junior woodchuck patrol v frequently show him the bounds of his narcissism and venality, he just resets every time(nb I have no idea about "Disney continuity," only stories by his creator)The whole point of the book seemed to be his realization of his dickishness, I thought? How else could you read the meeting with Penny?I said less so, not "not at all"! It's been decades but Hornby seemed to find his protagonist far more adorable than Cusack, Pink and DeVincentis (though it could be argued that theirs was more charming)
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 00:12 (six years ago) link
Reminds me that one of my terrible thread ideas was a poll of tv shows adapting A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life for their own purposes.
Omar, you gotta start that thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaBDE_8DLag
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 00:52 (six years ago) link
Chasing Amy
― flappy bird, Sunday, 22 July 2018 06:57 (five years ago) link
What's a Nubian?
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 22 July 2018 10:55 (five years ago) link
Surprised that Simon Pegg’s within the first few replies but that no-one has mentioned How To Lose Friends And Alienate People.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 22 July 2018 10:57 (five years ago) link
If it ended with the TY based SP scrote-agonist getting slowly eaten by a Komodo dragon I'd have watched that!
― calzino, Sunday, 22 July 2018 11:06 (five years ago) link
The Incredilbes is a parable about a revolutionary who wants to redistribute from the powerful to the powerless, and the arrogant aristocrats fighting to keep their elevated status. I hate that film.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 22 July 2018 11:14 (five years ago) link
any movie where someone has to lower themselves briefly into the horror of normal working life before they realise they are superspecial above it and succeed
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Sunday, 22 July 2018 11:31 (five years ago) link
I've seen people say Daniel is the bad guy in Karate Kid but I don't see it
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal)
Try watching Cobra Kai.
― oder doch?, Sunday, 22 July 2018 11:40 (five years ago) link
― Centipedes? In this economy? (wins), Sunday, 22 July 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link
incredibles prompted it but like this is every movie tbh
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Sunday, 22 July 2018 12:44 (five years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Y%2BT2wdGWL._SL1126_.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 22 July 2018 12:45 (five years ago) link
Jack Black deserves severe sanctions and probably some jail time at the conclusion of School of Rock. The more interesting character arc belongs to Joan Cusack’s principal although she definitely should lose her job.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 22 July 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
Haha yes otm
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 22 July 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
Lol
― Isora Clubland (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 July 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link
as a teacher I agree 100 pct
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Sunday, 22 July 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
Yeah agree on School of Rock. I was part of a live read of the script last year and we all were like “...let’s change some lines”
― flappy bird, Sunday, 22 July 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
Listening to 2112 for homework = quality education.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 22 July 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
flappy which role did you take?
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 22 July 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
I was given the role of the obnoxious drummer kid. it was fun
― flappy bird, Sunday, 22 July 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
I assume there has been a court case and a suspended sentence between the concert and the end credits in School Of Rock
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Sunday, 22 July 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
And the judge is some kind of indiscriminate fan of both Rush AND Led Zep? Not likely
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 22 July 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
yeah good luck finding an older white man who loves those bands
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 22 July 2018 22:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHVjs4aobqs
― Isora Clubland (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 July 2018 22:51 (five years ago) link
I found Ferris Bueller more insufferable than anyone else in the film
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 23 July 2018 00:57 (five years ago) link
Lost in Translation
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 23 July 2018 01:13 (five years ago) link
ScarJo's husband wasn't a bad guy, he was just trying to work. That's why you're in Tokyo to start with!
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 23 July 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link
viewing humperdinck, count rugen and vizzini as the 'good guys' of princess bride is up there with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92yHyxeju1U
― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Monday, 23 July 2018 01:15 (five years ago) link
There was nothing particularly likeabke or sympathetic about the lead characters in Lost in Translation. Being a bored spouse who moved somewhere for their partner’s high paying job is v 1% problems.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 23 July 2018 03:06 (five years ago) link
uh
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 July 2018 03:11 (five years ago) link
Ok I barely remember the plot of that movie so if that’s not a totally accurate rendering for some reason w/e. It was boring.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 23 July 2018 03:13 (five years ago) link
It was a long time ago that I saw it but were we supposed to think that Charlotte's husband was a bad guy or even that she was especially 'good'? I didn't really see it that way.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 23 July 2018 03:24 (five years ago) link
he wasn't outwardly dickish but he was thoughtless and selfish iirc
― call all destroyer, Monday, 23 July 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link