What movies have you seen recently?

[Dreamaniaccomic]

I watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time last night.

I've tried bleach, windex, and soapy water in various attempts to scrub the images out of my eyes.

Does anyone have any suggestions or recipes that can remove that film from my brain?

[KWill]

a few seconds of violence vs a completely different ending/tone for the movie... pff.

Consider that it helps kill the willing suspension of disbelief. That kind of cut lasts until the end of the movie.

[Grabmygoblin]

I watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time last night.

I've tried bleach, windex, and soapy water in various attempts to scrub the images out of my eyes.

Does anyone have any suggestions or recipes that can remove that film from my brain?

damn! I wish M&M still posted regularly, they'd be full of suggestions!

[Killbert-Robby]

I watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time last night.

I've tried bleach, windex, and soapy water in various attempts to scrub the images out of my eyes.

Does anyone have any suggestions or recipes that can remove that film from my brain?

damn! I wish M&M still posted regularly, they'd be full of suggestions!

Then may I perhaps suggest a big warm dose of yaoi?

[McDuffies]

True, but they need to be careful, as the son was made up just for that gag. I see the Simpsons starting to do Family Guy-like things and I don't want to see it with Futurama.

Futurama is still my second favorite show. King of the Hill is still my favorite.

Simpsons was doing those asides back in, like, the 4th season, they just stopped doing them after a while. Family guy wallows in them like a big hippo in a pool of mud

Yeah, I remember one of Simpsons' main draws being that they dragged every joke as far as they could. Like: Chief Wiggum rolls down the hill in a barrel => Turns out that chief actually enjoys it => Barrel hits a tree and chief doesn't enjoy it anymore => barrel explodes in police-chase style. A kind of joke that they could stop in any of these steps but they decide to push it despite the risk of having a lengthy digression.
But they had a nasty characteristics to write completely meaningless episodes that started with one plot, proceeded with other, and ended with something completely unrelated again. Early in their run they occasionally had such episodes, but after they jumped the shark, 2 out of 3 episodes were like this.

Family guy is completely different though - digression doesn't grow out of the story. It's just placed there in the middle, ruining the pacing and making the show generally difficult to watch. I reckon it started when writers though of some funny-random scenes and couldn't think of the way to integrate them into the story, so they had to fake, and then after a few fan letters cheering them, decided to in future do it every 30 seconds. South Park's "Family guy" episode describes it the best: they have three words picked randomly by seals or something, and these meaningless words turn into spot-on Family Guy mock. To me it's on the level of those wacky "let's make a comic" webcomics: if it's random and meaningless, that must mean it's funny.

I watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time last night.

I've tried bleach, windex, and soapy water in various attempts to scrub the images out of my eyes.

Does anyone have any suggestions or recipes that can remove that film from my brain?

Go watch "Tromeo and Juliet", it will definitely bleach those memories out.

[Berg]

Family guy is completely different though - digression doesn't grow out of the story. It's just placed there in the middle, ruining the pacing and making the show generally difficult to watch. I reckon it started when writers though of some funny-random scenes and couldn't think of the way to integrate them into the story, so they had to fake, and then after a few fan letters cheering them, decided to in future do it every 30 seconds.

Heh. I reckon it started with Seth MacFarlane saying "Let's do what The Simpsons do sometimes, only all the time!".

[Dreamaniaccomic]

I watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time last night.

I've tried bleach, windex, and soapy water in various attempts to scrub the images out of my eyes.

Does anyone have any suggestions or recipes that can remove that film from my brain?

damn! I wish M&M still posted regularly, they'd be full of suggestions!

Then may I perhaps suggest a big warm dose of yaoi?

NO YOU MAY NOT!

[BrownEyedCat]

I suggest Reefer Madness: The Musical. It's at least equal in risque to Rocky Horror, but it's actually GOOD.

Also HILARIOUS.

[MixedMyth]

I saw Persepolis again. Such a fantastic movie.

[McDuffies]

I suggest Reefer Madness: The Musical. It's at least equal in risque to Rocky Horror, but it's actually GOOD.

Also HILARIOUS.

I love it. Specially how it goes gruesome near the end for absolutely no reason. I mean, ripping the heart out, wtf Or how Mary Jane turns into a total s&m loving slut after only one whiff. Liked the tunes too, and that comes from a guy who generally doesn't like musicals.
Creeping like a communist
washing to our shores
Turning all our children into
hooligans and whores

[BrownEyedCat]

I suggest Reefer Madness: The Musical. It's at least equal in risque to Rocky Horror, but it's actually GOOD.

Also HILARIOUS.

I love it. Specially how it goes gruesome near the end for absolutely no reason. I mean, ripping the heart out, wtf Or how Mary Jane turns into a total s&m loving slut after only one whiff. Liked the tunes too, and that comes from a guy who generally doesn't like musicals.
Creeping like a communist
washing to our shores
Turning all our children into
hooligans and whores

The Mary Jane thing was a make-or-break moment for me that the movie passed with flying colors. The attempted rape was in the original movie, so I was sitting there thinking 'They've done really good so far, but I don't know how they're going to twist this to make it not terribly, terribly creepy . . .' But then they did!

A surprising number of full musical sequences for this are on Youtube. It's the least threatening of all possible songs in the movie, but Romeo and Juliet will always be my favorite. It's just too silly.

[McDuffies]

dunno, I thought that the hell verse from the "Murder" song was terribly creepy.

[Dreamaniaccomic]

Had my first day of school.
And got assigned three hours of physics homework.
I know its that long cause I just finished it.

[BrownEyedCat]

You mean Mary's verse in that song?

Yeah, that was pretty creepy.

EDIT: Oh, and apparently the guy who plays Ralph the 'college' guy was the voice of the Cryptkeeper! Damn, he's got an amazing voice. Creepy, but amazing.

[CaptainClaude]

fucking hell but wall e was amazing.

[Prettysenshi]

I just saw the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 last night. I really enjoyed it, but I'm a sucker for shit like that. It was a nice break from all the superhero movies that I've been seeing this summer.

[McDuffies]

Bee movie:

1) A social outcast, a dreamer unsatisfied with his ordinary life, trying to break social conventions
2) His curiousity makes him do something terribly wrong so everyone disowns him
3) He turns everything right in the end and he's a hero
4) Human society scereotypes constantly applied to animal grupations in a light satyrical fashion
5) "Humans are bastards"
6) Cooky indi chick character
7) Breakneck action with roller-coaster camera every ten minutes or so

How hard can it be to write something different? You don't even have to be original, you just have to find something different to rewrite.

[Yeahduff]

Keep the kooky indie chick, though.

[CaptainClaude]

dunno how much of an indie chick she was...

I mostly just enjoy the strangeness of Ray Liota's private blend of honey.

[McDuffies]

Keep the kooky indie chick, though.

Not if it's faked, which many actresses try to do. I could never believe in Drew Barymoor as indy chick, although she constantly tries to be one.
I notice how these animated movies suddenly started having cute chicks in them as soon as animators figured how to make a model that isn't grotesquely looking.

dunno how much of an indie chick she was...

I mostly just enjoy the strangeness of Ray Liota's private blend of honey.

I admit that it's not as perfect example as one in "Finding Nemo" is, but for so long ideal Hollywood woman has been unnacessible, cold and perfect in one way or the other, that they are now going too far in trying to escape from that - making them bumbling, all confused, nearly disfunctional. Remember "Bedazzled" with Brendan Frazier - how in the end of the movie he meets a girl and instantly loves her, and to portray how loveable she is, writers make her trip over stuff, talk incoherently and generally be a walking disaster - and I'm supposed to think that's wonderful.

The piece with Ray Liota and Sting could have been funny, but the whole court sequence definitely ruined the moment. I suspect that the makers never even so much as watched an episode of some court series.