Ah, bad movies. They come in so many different forms. You have “So bad as to be amusing in a Mystery Science Theater 3000 way”. There’s “Bad, but also kind of entertaining”. But then, there’s also the flat out “I can’t believe I just paid $10 plus $6 for stale popcorn to see that garbage” (Think Battlefield Earth). Personally, I’ve only ever walked out of one movie in my lifetime, and that happened when I was in high school. That cinematic atrocity? Copland. Sly Stallone as a deaf-in-one-ear sheriff of a town full up with corrupt NYPD cops? Huh. Sounds nuanced. Guess what? It wasn’t. Plodding, idiotic, and confusing? Absolutely. I went with friends to see this moving the summer after my senior year of high school. We had free tickets from a friend who worked at the theater, I think. We lasted maybe an hour. What about you guys? What’s the worst, actual worst, movie you’ve ever seen?
QOTD
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Oh yeah, I love your little art-house offbeat indie comedy starring Parker Posey and that guy with the strange nose from that one Wes Anderson movie. But sometimes you just need a big-ass, big-budget epic monster of a movie. How the fuck else are you supposed to waste all of Sunday afternoon on the couch?
So for today’s QOTD…
What’s your favorite epic movie?
Good Morning Crasstalk. If you have slept through the last 12 hours, you might want to take a look at this.
It’s time to make the tough decisions in life. Who do you fornicate with, who do you take for wedded bliss and who do you pull the plug on?
Today’s question comes from a comment by SteveHoltsmtr in last night’s Open Thread. She asked obviously hip Crasstalkers for some recommendations for good podcasts. So let’s all compare notes here. What is your favorite podcast?
I know, I know, it’s so hard to pick just one. But if you got to live in an imaginary world whose universal laws of the universe were shaped by a single Onion article, which would it be?
Me I’d go with the 11-year-old masterpiece “Welcome To T.G.I. Fridays! May I Annoy The Living Shit Out Of You?”
You don’t really see them around as much anymore but about 15 years ago you suddenly started seeing shitass T.G.I. Fridays everywhere. I remember a college buddy of mine worked as a bartender at a particularly shitass TGIF and he would constantly brag about the SWEET BARTENDING TOURNAMENTS that the corporate office would throw for the shitass TGIF bartenders. We would laugh and laugh at that shit. (Give me a second here. I’m reminiscing.)
I remember it like it was yesterday. OK, not really, there has been a lot of drinking between my first date and today, but here is what I do remember.
Cellphones are ubiquitous now, but back in the day remember how big of a deal it was to own one? In 2nd grade I carpooled with the son of a big-shot Hollywood producer, and this guy had a cellular telephone! Everyone was impressed. It was the size of a briefcase and had a padded carrying strap, the damn thing weighed about 30 lbs. It was something like $2.99 a minute and the horrible microphone made it sound like a toilet was continually flushing behind you. The one time that we really did need to use the phone (flat tire on the freeway) the battery was dead. Oops. I guess you had to charge that sucker 12 hours a night, otherwise it wouldn’t work. The raddest thing about the phone though was that the guy would brag about the phone and his line was: “Yeah, so I decided to pay the extra $500 and get the touch-tone model. No biggie. Its a no-brainer!” Meaning that the other (cheaper) option was a rotary-dial briefcase cellphone!!
So what was your first “mobile” device?
Nearly everyone is having an interesting week, and not in the good way. My office is packing up to move and we’ve condensed everyone into the corner near my office. They are all LOUD TALKERS and I’m probably going to lose my mind. I am listening to good music and looking at lolcats. So tell me,
how do you reduce stress when drugs, alcohol, and porn aren’t an option?
