August 24, 2007

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:13 pm

Congrat Rabid!

QOTD:
There are a lot of good ones I liked, but my favs are all con game movies like Ocean's 11, or Matchstick Men, etc, which you already know a twist is going to happen, but you are trying to figure out what/how.
So the only one I can think of off the top of my head that really caught me off guard is "The Others"

wages · Post by **wages** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:21 pm

Niveous wrote:QotD: The Usual Suspects.

Yeah, mine is a tie between Sixth Sense and The Usual Suspects. The key is that you MUST have no clue what's going to happen. Memento, Fight Club, ESB (the movie, not the beer, though that's good too) and Seven too had great twisteroonies. As to "The Others", I did actually figure it out about 1/2 way to 2/3 of the way in. It was cool but I felt it could have been way better.

Rabid Garfunkel wrote:In real life: 6 hours to marriage

Come to think of it, you should be getting married right about now! Congrats my man! It's been around 12 years since we met, 12 years on Xmas when we first hooked up, and 8 years, 3 weeks, and 3 days since I tied the knot.

Advice? Run. Run like Hell. NO, no, just kiddin'! As long as you both understand the need for balance (between each other AND between the relationship and other shit), it'll be great.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:24 pm

30 minutes. Cheers all, and thanks!

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:36 pm

30 minutes before the nuptials and he's posting on the forum. That my friends is dedication.

or insanity? I forget.

The Sleestak · Post by **The Sleestak** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 6:52 pm

This may be out in left field but the last 15 minutes of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - I hadn't read the book yet and I was hoping McMurphy would somehow get out of there with Chief Bromden...

"mmmmm juicy fruit"

jack · Post by **jack** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:01 pm

i'd read cuckoos nest first, but yeah, if i hadn't, it would have been pretty unexpected.

while on the subject of nicholson, easy rider had a pretty twisted ending.

Heather. Redmon. · Post by **Heather. Redmon.** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:06 pm

Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Rabid Garfunkle! Phil and I have been married 8 years, together for 11! It's been a wonderful ride and I can't wait for the rest!

QotD: I'd have to agree with the Usual Suspects and the Sixth Sense. I figured out the Others before the twist happened, but it was still a good movie.

Tomorrow we're taking the kids to the Minnesota State Fair! We're all so excited!

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:31 pm

i am in motherfucking San Francisco right now
woo yeah

now to find some dinner

qotd: who Kaiser Soze is. most movie plot twists don't surprise me. that one did. (i presume several other people have already posted this. i was just driving for like 10 hours and, after that, learning how to handle stop-and-go traffic on steep hills with a stick shift. gimme a break.)

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:35 pm

rdurand wrote:I also love the spot in Memento where he's at the girls house, she's being really nice, then she goes out to here car, sits ther for two minutes and comes back in as a queen b**ch. great twist - that's whent he movie really starts to spin.

oh yeah, that was awesome too. also the twist at the end. (also untangling the clues to figure out who actually killed his wife. the clincher is only visible for literally three frames.)

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:06 pm

Niveous wrote:30 minutes before the nuptials and he's posting on the forum. That my friends is dedication.

or insanity? I forget.

Dedication would be if he posts and says, "SHE SAID I DO!....errr, SHE DOES! I'M ABOUT TO KISS HER!"

wages · Post by **wages** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:10 pm

Billy's Little Trip wrote:
Niveous wrote:30 minutes before the nuptials and he's posting on the forum. That my friends is dedication.

or insanity? I forget.
Dedication would be if he posts and says, "SHE SAID I DO!....errr, SHE DOES! I'M ABOUT TO KISS HER!"

rotfl! I can see it. The people in the aisles are looking at their watches waiting for him to get done typing a text message to say that. Classic!

Post by **Spud** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:17 pm

The Prestige

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:20 pm

Spud wrote:The Prestige

...yeah... yeah. You know, I was thinking the Crying Game, although it suffers in retrospect because it is so known. At the time though... wwhhhhoooaa.

...but the Prestige DID catch me off guard... creepy, and strangely realistic.

P.S. Congrats Rabid!

... blow our minds with a twist ending to the wedding... C'MON MAN!!

(enjoy!)

blue · Post by **blue** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:41 pm

Spud wrote:The Prestige

too improbable. ruined the movie for me.

blue · Post by **blue** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:43 pm

Rabid,

congratufuckinglations, my man. have a beer for me.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:02 pm

Niveous wrote:30 minutes before the nuptials and he's posting on the forum. That my friends is dedication.

Man, I posted about 3 hours before mine, and you guys gave me crap about it... Rabid beat me!
-bill

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:40 pm

Spud wrote:The Prestige

Yeah, good flick, but way too predictable. But it is fun to guess everything before it happens. Makes me look like a genius to my wife.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:42 pm

Paco Del Stinko wrote:Best wishes and good luck, Rabid!

QOTD - I remember all the hullaballoo around the Crying Game, but have never actually seen it. .

Don't bother. This is another one that I just don't get. To me it was so painfully obvious from the get go. This is one of the few movies I've walked out on. It was so obvious to me that it took me a while to realize that other people weren't getting it... especially the ones on the screen. That movie was a waste of frickin' time. Welcome to the 20th century... 80 years too late.

Rabid is prolly spooning right now.

Fluffy, I wish I was em effing SF right now. I'm in Tampa trying to stretch my Friday night so that it seems like I have a whole weekend ahead of me when in actuallity I am going to waste 3 hours on a football game and another 3 hours on band practice before I have to work 8 hours at my other job on Sunday before going back to work M-F at my full timer.

/whine
/moan

Post by **Spud** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:49 pm

Billy's Little Trip wrote:
Spud wrote:The Prestige
Yeah, good flick, but way too predictable. But it is fun to guess everything before it happens. Makes me look like a genius to my wife.

Really? I watched it four times in a row before I fully took it all in.

There are several possibilities here.

1. You really are a smart mother.
2. I am thick as a brick.
3. You didn't catch all the twists, but think you did.

blue · Post by **blue** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:48 pm

oops, i was confusing it with "The Illusionist."

Post by **Spud** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:13 am

4. You are confusing it with "The Illusionist".

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 1:22 am

Rabid Garfunkel wrote:In real life: 6 hours to marriage!

All the best Rabid. I got married on this day on the Brooklyn Bridge 9 years ago and it's worked really well.