Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread [ARCHIVED] • Page 468

Nope, can't do it anymore! Ruined forever.

So, is the consensus that doing a year per week would be most fun, in a similar format to the threads @Henry has been making lately? And @phaynes12, any thoughts on how to do the Excel sheet thing to keep track? Was it a pretty straightforward system y'all did? Since I'm the weirdo who calculated how much of a TV screen a couple different aspect ratios can cover, lol, I have no problem doing that part.

If people like it as an ongoing thing, I kinda like the idea of starting with 1999 & moving backwards. We'd be in the 70s by the fall & the 50s at the start of next year (if everyone doesn't get bored a couple months in, lol).

 

I'll pin any thread you guys make. I think it is definitely a fun idea.

 

Wonder if it’s a countdown to when they’ll apologize to me for locking me out of my account

 

Having Moviepass 3 or so summers ago (when it was all unlimited) was soooo awesome! Living right across the street from a Megaplex, my (now) wife and I would go to the theater constantly. We saw good movies, bad movies, and it didn't even matter, haha. If Moviepass comes back from the dead, it most likely won't be THAT great again, but I'm looking forward to seeing what this countdown is all about and if it will be something enticing.

 

I feel like trying to revive MoviePass is a bit like past attempts to revive MySpace, in that it does have a lot of name recognition & for some people nostalgia, but a lot of that name recognition actually works against it.

Except... in a lot of ways it's even worse, 'cause it was so infamously an awful business model that made a ton of super dumb mistakes along the way to become sustainable. Remember when it still existed, but you couldn't see basically anything? Remember when they tried to produce movies & started with Gotti? Remember the hijinx with kicking people out randomly who were costing 'em too much? Remember that email where they called some dog the head of "barketing" or whatever? lol.

I guess if you're ever gonna try, now's the time, when the COVID situation is looking rosier than ever (but still far from over), and theaters & studios wanna bring things back to life. But, still... lol.

 

I remember registering for MySpace v2 with @wade and Lueda in an attempt to see Justin Timberlake at SXSW many moons ago but it was a cluttered mess that I did not care for.

Also didn't get into that show, so I might have been a little bitter.

 

Sounds like you guys need to check out SpaceHey — a space for friends. (you're welcome)

 

Ah that's actually a good point. I wonder if moviepass approached theater companies and said "hey, I think you guys might need us" (maniacal laugh).

Best movie watching year of my life. I miss going to theaters and its true, maybe this would get me back.

 

Watching Scream today in class. Part of the reveal requires the audience to know who Sharon Stone is...I might have to pause and explain

 

How are you allowed to show that?

 

On the syllabus with a disclaimer, babyyyy! I got in some trouble for Texas Chainsaw Massacre (a much less violent film), fought it, and got a new rule at the school passed regarding controversial films being shown. For whatever reason, no one fought Halloween or Scream being shown, two movies with more mature material (although not as disturbing, I guess).

 

Every year I show Saving Private Ryan and every minute I am worried each time the door opens. There used to be a rule that films had to be G rated, even for high school kids.

 

You've talked about the music taste of your students before, but what do they like/are most familiar with in terms of movies/tv shows? Have YouTubers and Twitch streamers just completely overshadowed those things at this point

 

You don’t need to know who Sharon Stone is, the first half of the sentence does the explaining.

 

Uhhh general apathy, haha?
Every year I'll have a kid or two that catch references or has a deeper interest in film/tv, but for the most part it's apathy. I don't even know if Youtubers/Twitch streamers are that popular with them. There were a decent amount of kids in this class who had seen most, if not all, of the movies that I show, which was cool. Modern horror (Conjuring, Anabelle, It etc.) is pretty popular with them. In terms of shows, I hear Grey's Anatomy, All American and On My Block a lot. Marvel stuff, "Netflix" as a monolith. One kid really likes John Taffer/Bar Rescue, which is incredible.

 

Some bullshit how many L’s I took trying to get into anything not called Fader Fort

 

Haha, Billy does clarify after Stu drops the Sharon Stone line, but I'd like to imagine them being completely lost or having to google Sharon Stone to understand the motive.

 

Should probably say "P.T. Anderson" so nobody confuses him with fellow auteur Paul W.S. Anderson

 

I think I saw Scream 2 first. Such humble beginnings for Raylan Givens.

 

ah yes another legend

 

I think you have those flipped.

 

i think the girl next door was the first time i saw olyphant

 

Haha I was watching as I typed out my post, I submitted during Billy's clarification

 

1960: Breathless
1961: West Side Story
1962: To Kill a Mockingbird
1963: 8 1/2 / The Sadist
1964: Band of Outsiders
1965: A Charlie Brown Christmas
1966: Au Hazard Balthazar
1967: The Graduate
1968: Night of the Living Dead
1969: Easy Rider

1960s: 8 1/2
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1970: El Topo
1971: Harold and Maude/A Clockwork Orange
1972: The Godfather
1973: Mean Streets/Badlands
1974: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1975: Jaws
1976: Taxi Driver
1977: Suspiria
1978: Halloween
1979: Apocalypse Now/All That Jazz

1970s: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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1980: Raging Bull
1981: Thief
1982: The Thing
1983: Risky Business/Valley Girl
1984: Stop Making Sense/Friday the 13th The Final Chapter
1985: Come and See
1986: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
1987: Evil Dead 2
1988: Brain Damage/Sleepaway Camp 2
1989: Road House

1980s: Come and See/The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
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1990: Goodfellas
1991: My Own Private Idaho
1992: Reservoir Dogs
1993: Dazed and Confused
1994: Pulp Fiction/Hoop Dreams
1995: Billy Madison/Tommy Boy
1996: Scream
1997: Boogie Nights
1998: The Big Lebowski/Can't Hardly Wait
1999: American Movie/Go

1990s: Dazed and Confused
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2000: American Psycho/Bring it On
2001: Josie and the Pussycats
2002: Punch Drunk Love/The Rules of Attraction
2003: House of 1000 Corpses
2004: Before Sunset
2005: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2006: Jackass 2/Behind the Mask
2007: There Will Be Blood
2008: Step Brothers/In Bruges
2009: Inglourious Basterds

2000s: American Psycho/There Will Be Blood
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2010: Jackass 3/MacGruber
2011: This is Not a Film/The Tree of Life
2012: Spring Breakers/The Master/Holy Motors
2013: Inside Llewyn Davis
2014: It Follows
2015: Anomalisa
2016: The Edge of Seventeen/Everybody Wants Some
2017: Finding Frances
2018: Thunder Road
2019: The Irishman
2020: Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

2010s: The Master