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Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 11:23 am
by AndyDufresne
autoload wrote:I am NOT gonna read the backlog.
You can just read this wooden log, and you'll be caught up:
Who J and M are...is a mystery.
**Munches on a banana**--Andy
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:18 pm
by AndyDufresne
And the mystery still remains...
**Munches on a banana**
--Andy
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:34 am
by Dukasaur
Wow, I don't think I've ever found this on Page 2 before!
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:19 am
by strike wolf
It was on page 2? That's what I get for not paying attention to it over the weekend.
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:03 pm
by AndyDufresne
This will lighten the mood.
[spoiler=United States of Banana]
[/spoiler]
**Leaves behind a bowl of national-bananas**--Andy
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:59 pm
by strike wolf
So I've watched a few 60s movies recently...I've noticed a trend and I'm wondering why some of them seem to start like they are already 5-10 minutes into the film? Like during editing the director's going "No no no this movies 2 hours. It needs to be 1 hour 50 at the most." and everyone replied "no problem. We'lll just edit out the first 10 minutes. No one wants to see how the couple met anyways. They just want to get to the good stuff where their lives are spiraling out of control from drugs."
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 11:36 pm
by Victor Sullivan
Ah, the 60s...
-Sully
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:43 am
by TA1LGUNN3R
strike wolf wrote:So I've watched a few 60s movies recently...I've noticed a trend and I'm wondering why some of them seem to start like they are already 5-10 minutes into the film? Like during editing the director's going "No no no this movies 2 hours. It needs to be 1 hour 50 at the most." and everyone replied "no problem. We'lll just edit out the first 10 minutes. No one wants to see how the couple met anyways. They just want to get to the good stuff where their lives are spiraling out of control from drugs."
Well you could argue that we (Hollywood) have actually dumbed down cinema. American movies now have to explain everything or the viewer doesn't get it. No one has to draw conclusions or actually think about the movie, as long as there's pretty colors and some tits then the movie sells. For instance, in your example, in might make sense in context when you think about what was going on in the '60s. Drugs were a common theme, and backdrop in these cases would probably be typical stories, so why waste the time to reiterate what someone has seen or experienced before? Film is expensive.
-TG
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:17 pm
by Dukasaur
AndyDufresne wrote:This will lighten the mood.
[spoiler=United States of Banana]
[/spoiler]
**Leaves behind a bowl of national-bananas**--Andy
Is that a banana republic?
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:57 pm
by AndyDufresne
strike wolf wrote:So I've watched a few 60s movies recently...I've noticed a trend and I'm wondering why some of them seem to start like they are already 5-10 minutes into the film? Like during editing the director's going "No no no this movies 2 hours. It needs to be 1 hour 50 at the most." and everyone replied "no problem. We'lll just edit out the first 10 minutes. No one wants to see how the couple met anyways. They just want to get to the good stuff where their lives are spiraling out of control from drugs."
What films have you watched from the 60's?
**Munches on a banana**--Andy
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:33 pm
by strike wolf
AndyDufresne wrote:strike wolf wrote:So I've watched a few 60s movies recently...I've noticed a trend and I'm wondering why some of them seem to start like they are already 5-10 minutes into the film? Like during editing the director's going "No no no this movies 2 hours. It needs to be 1 hour 50 at the most." and everyone replied "no problem. We'lll just edit out the first 10 minutes. No one wants to see how the couple met anyways. They just want to get to the good stuff where their lives are spiraling out of control from drugs."
What films have you watched from the 60's?
**Munches on a banana**--Andy
Rosemary's Baby, Panic in Needle Park, Bullitt, The Great Escape, The Graduate, Dr. Strangelove. I know there's a couple others but I can't think of them right now.
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:50 am
by Quirk
BPotW
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:19 am
by Quirk
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:42 am
by AndyDufresne
Quirk wrote:BPotW
Endorsed.
**Munches on a banana**Here's to the almost weekend.
--Andy
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:02 pm
by strike wolf
Here's to the belated first day of March.
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:08 pm
by AndyDufresne
Here's to a trailblazer, exactly 100 years to the day:
According to Wikipedia wrote:Captain Albert Berry is one of two people credited as the first person to make a successful parachute jump from a powered aeroplane. The other contender is Grant Morton, who is reported to have jumped from a Wright Model B flying over Venice Beach, California sometime late in 1911. Morton's pilot was Phil Parmalee.
On 1 March 1912, Berry jumped from a Benoist pusher biplane from 1,500 feet (457 m) and landed successfully at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. The pilot was Tony Jannus. The 36 foot (11 m) diameter parachute was contained in a metal canister attached to the underside of the plane - when Berry dropped from the plane his weight pulled the parachute from the canister. Rather than being attached to the parachute by a harness Berry was seated on a trapeze bar.
According to Berry he dropped 500 feet (152 m) before the parachute opened.
First, scary at this point I bet.
Second,
**Munches on a banana** I remember when I went skydiving...it was quite fun.
--Andy
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:11 pm
by AndyDufresne
[accent] What is this, no new post Friday? [/accent]
**Munches on a banana**
--Andy
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:47 pm
by autoload
Quirk wrote:autoload wrote:I am NOT gonna read the backlog.
It's almost been two years. How's it going, man?
It's been. Just by reading the two pages since my last post, I can see this place has become much too sophisticated for a ham and egger such as myself.
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 2:22 am
by Quirk
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 1:39 pm
by jonesthecurl
Not much ham and egg activity in here.
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:05 am
by Quirk
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:56 pm
by AndyDufresne
jonesthecurl wrote:Not much ham and egg activity in here.
Maybe if autoload supplies the ham, you can supply the eggs?
**Leaves behind a bowl of bananas**--Andy
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:06 pm
by Quirk
I'll supply what I usually bring to the table. Wookie love or whatever you want to call it.
I should be able to post more often this week as I am on vacation.
Thus satisfying Andy's request for more frequent posts.
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:16 pm
by Pirlo
Holy crap
Haven't posted here for ages!!
Re: the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:19 pm
by Victor Sullivan
Word.
-Sully
Words.
