TenuredVulture wrote:Direct TV guy came out this morning for the installation, but trees are blocking the line of sight. Which means I'm stuck with a cable provider that doesn't offer the NFL network.

Chainsaw. Problem solved. Eff nature.

My girlfriend is in Europe for 10 days. She made me a lasagna before she left so I'll have something to eat.

That's a lot of lasagna.

Just don't forget to soak the casserole tray. Of all my domestic fuck ups over the years it's the crusted casserole tray that haunts me

Well I was away the first weekend she was away, so it's more like 7 days. I'll order out a couple nights or maybe even cook if I get sick of the lasagna. But yeah, I'm gonna be like Garfield this week.

Oh and I told my mom she did that and now my mom's bugging me to save up for a ring.

Grotewold wrote:Just don't forget to soak the casserole tray. Of all my domestic $#@! ups over the years it's the crusted casserole tray that haunts me

I commit dishwashing-related fuck ups about once a week.

I suppose this belongs more in the movie thread than here, but, two years after the movie came out, my thought/complaint is kind of random:

I know that "nuke the fridge" has become a phrase like unto "jump the shark" for describing when a film franchise passes its peak, but, for my money, and quite ironically, that was the one and only moment in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that captured something of the magic and sense of fun from the original movies. I got a genuine laugh from that bit. Of course it was wildly implausible, but no more so than any one of a number of other things from the original movies; indeed, it's implausibility was part of its charm. I also took it as kind of a comment on how much more sturdy things like refrigerators used to be: my grandparents had a fridge not unlike the one used in the film for that scene for years, and indeed it is still in their house (where my uncle now lives); it hasn't been plugged in in a long time, but, when it is plugged in, it still refrigerates things quite nicely.

Modern appliances are much less likely to be so durable.

Anyway, I found that bit to have something of the old magic. It was the REST of the film that ranged from "forgettable" to "downright awful."

Anyone with me on this?

mozartpc27 wrote:I suppose this belongs more in the movie thread than here, but, two years after the movie came out, my thought/complaint is kind of random:

I know that "nuke the fridge" has become a phrase like unto "jump the shark" for describing when a film franchise passes its peak, but, for my money, and quite ironically, that was the one and only moment in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that captured something of the magic and sense of fun from the original movies. I got a genuine laugh from that bit. Of course it was wildly implausible, but no more so than any one of a number of other things from the original movies; indeed, it's implausibility was part of its charm. I also took it as kind of a comment on how much more sturdy things like refrigerators used to be: my grandparents had a fridge not unlike the one used in the film for that scene for years, and indeed it is still in their house (where my uncle now lives); it hasn't been plugged in in a long time, but, when it is plugged in, it still refrigerates things quite nicely.

Modern appliances are much less likely to be so durable.

Anyway, I found that bit to have something of the old magic. It was the REST of the film that ranged from "forgettable" to "downright awful."

Anyone with me on this?

I'm with ya Moz. You're absolutely right.


That did belong in the movies thread.

WheelsFellOff wrote:

mozartpc27 wrote:I suppose this belongs more in the movie thread than here, but, two years after the movie came out, my thought/complaint is kind of random:

I know that "nuke the fridge" has become a phrase like unto "jump the shark" for describing when a film franchise passes its peak, but, for my money, and quite ironically, that was the one and only moment in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that captured something of the magic and sense of fun from the original movies. I got a genuine laugh from that bit. Of course it was wildly implausible, but no more so than any one of a number of other things from the original movies; indeed, it's implausibility was part of its charm. I also took it as kind of a comment on how much more sturdy things like refrigerators used to be: my grandparents had a fridge not unlike the one used in the film for that scene for years, and indeed it is still in their house (where my uncle now lives); it hasn't been plugged in in a long time, but, when it is plugged in, it still refrigerates things quite nicely.

Modern appliances are much less likely to be so durable.

Anyway, I found that bit to have something of the old magic. It was the REST of the film that ranged from "forgettable" to "downright awful."

Anyone with me on this?

I'm with ya Moz. You're absolutely right.


That did belong in the movies thread.

I guess I should re-post it there. But I only thoguht of it cause I saw that "nuke the fridge" meme again out there, and it seemed kind of random to be commenting on a brief scene I saw in a movie two years ago and that I have no plans ever to see again.

never heard "nuke the fridge"

now I know

So in Crystal Skull a fridge is actually nuked? And presumably survives?

phatj wrote:So in Crystal Skull a fridge is actually nuked? And presumably survives?

Near the very beginning of the film, through some chance of circumstance, I forget how, Indy finds himself in a town that looks normal at first, but, upon closer inspection, is obviously peopled by mannequins of people, rather than actual people. Kind of a little Twilight Zone moment, which was nice. He thinks it over, then realizes that what this is is a mock town that is being used for a-bomb testing by the government. Worse, they are about to send off a test nuke.

So, off he goes into one of the houses they've erected for damage-assessment purposes, looking for some place to hide. Inside, he finds a refrigerator of the sort they had in the 1950s, and, seeing his best chance to be insulated from the radiation from the bomb, climbs inside. The nuke hits, blowing the refigerator, with Indy inside, clear into the sky; it lands some distance away. Miraculously, Indy is not hurt in this process.

Describing it, of course, points out the hopeless absurdity of it. But, if you watch the scene, it has a little of the old "Indy needs to find a make-shift solution to coming doom RIGHT NOW" magic, and at least it was a problem he hadn't had before.

Is it silly? Yes. Is half the second and the entire third movie also silly? Yes. No one had a problem with those, though.

The rest of the movie is poorly written, poorly acted, and poorly executed, with wooden performances from all the leads (but, sadly and especially Ford). Mostly, it was unforgivably DULL; the few minutes it wasn't being dull, it was being sappy, hokey, and sentimental.

Except for the fun little refrigerator bit. Sure, it's not plausible. Who cares about plausible? There's no such thing as light sabers either!

never happened. like rocky 5-6. never happened.

dollop is a weird word.

dollop

Sending Kendrick down isn't waiving Eaton levels of happy, but I did consider putting the roster bot message in my signature

td11 wrote:dollop is a weird word.

dollop

I know. How much is a dollop anyways? Did you know it is a transitive verb as well as a noun? I'm not sure what a transitive verb is but nouns rarely are any good as verbs so I'm skeptical.

A few pages ago you mentioned Marylin Monroe being quoted a lot. The only thing I can think of is her sayin "Happy Birthday Mr. Pwesidant" when she was drunk/high as hell at the presidential thing with Jackie sitting right there.

Also I never really though much of Audrey Hepburn. That's probably wierd but I just never saw the big deal with her. Probably I'm not into long skinny necks all that much.

Now these are some random thoughts that don't belong in no movie thread.

idk, i always see marilyn monroe quoted on a bunch of my female friends' fb profiles. i think she was the first one to say the diamonds are a girl's best friend thing.

i think it bothers me more when good things happen to crappy people than when crappy things happen to good people.

I keep waiting for Canyonero to break out of that Bridgestone tire commercial