Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread [ARCHIVED] • Page 899

yeah I went to universal for 3 days in 2018 and didn't even bother with it

 

The Jimmy Fallon ride was sort of a way to honor the NBC-Universal merger.

It replaced Twister, which was so fun. It was a "ride" where you stood there and watched a small town get destroyed by a tornado. We went there on a 5th grade field trip and when the cow flew by the computer teacher yelled hey that's Joey's mom and Joey was so mad the whole day and it is one of those things I will never forget.

 

Damn the computer teacher didn’t have to do Joey that dirty.

 

Twister was fun.

 

District 9 and apartheid

Godzilla and weapons of mass destruction (I suppose the American versions aren’t really about this but it’s probably still relevant)

Wizard of Oz and populism (not new obviously, but it’s probably still timeless?)

Edit: I guess if you were teaching today this is probably too late

 

The Jaws and Earthquake rides scared the shit out of me as a kid. The ET is cool. It said by to me and my stuffed Barney when we exited the ride.

 

The newest Japanese Godzilla movies are about the collective national trauma of the Fukishama disaster, while the originals were about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

I was curious I know some some studios like A24 can still film during the strikes, but for those non-AMPTP studios who made agreements with SAG that have films that are already completed before the strike and awaiting release are actors going to be able to promote those?

 

Nope. I think that’s the main reason Challengers and Dune 2 were pushed back.

 

It's a small world is the worst ride at Disney cmon now

 

I don't know you were being facetious about Spaceship Earth, Tetra, but that's for real my favorite thing in Disney that isn't the Haunted Mansion.

 

I only went to Disney once in second grade and I barely remember it. I know I loved it at the time, though.

My childhood was defined by going to Canobie Lake Park in NH (or "Cannibal Lake" if you listen to my dad's Massachusetts accent). Usually multiple times a year because I was like 15 mins away and it was only like $24 to go in for the longest time

 

It is a great ride and perhaps more importantly the wait is never very long.

 

The Twister ride/experience was sweet because a tanker went flying and exploded and I remember it being so hot.

 

Friggin don’t like theme parks that much

 

Then why are you in the theme park thread

 

check yourself here bucko

 

I watched Galaxy Quest for the first time last night. The movie slaps.

 

"By Grabthor's hammer, what a savings!"

Almost eerily prescient of where culture was headed, tbh.

 

Same. As did the Terminator 2 ride/experience thing. The terminators come in and start shooting and it's loud as shit

 

Oh yea I know. Shin Godzilla is easily the best modern one and definitely approaches the origins and evolution from a different time period. But you could still use the modern versions of Godzilla to talk about how the original was made in the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

I loved the Terminator show but one time I was sitting in a row right where The Terminator and John Connor run through the audience and up close it was very clear John was a middle-aged woman in a wig and it ruined it.

 

When I think of Drew or Ashton/Mila

 

One of the few movies I vividly remember seeing in the theater as a kid, it’s such a fun movie