was his name micheal or michael? it kills me when people spell my name micheal.
anyway, that's some fun stuff. i guess all michaels (or micheals) are crazy. we did something like that, but we ran INTO a moving car, like in the movies, when the car drives by and you grab the door and pull yourself in. how fuckin dumb is that? we didn't think, "what if we miss and get run over?" after everyone did it, then we had to see who could do it at the fastest speed.
man, i've done some really stupid shit in my life, but it's always been a test against myself. like, could i really do it? i've done some REALLY fuckin stupid, i-could-have-seriously-died type shit during my life time, and i think what i do presently attests to my stupidity. but it's like i have to prove something to myself, that i can do it, whatever it is.
the worst thing someone can say to me is, "yeah, i dunno. i think it's too hard." i'll be the first dumbass to get'er done, injury or not.
Oops. "Michael." He's my step-brother, so I should know how to spell his damn name.
Yeah, we did that too.
I was skeptical even in my youth, and because of that, always imagining what could happen. Still, I always had fun once I got into the moment. But yeah, I did some dumb, dumb, dumb shit.
no, and i probably won't until it comes out on DVD. my wife can't really get into those types of movies. BUT come the fuck on, MACHINE GUN LEG!!!! it's, like, hotter than her real leg.
And yeah, I heard of train surfing. It sounds crazy and stupid and then I remind myself of my teen days and grimace. In college, kids would elevator surf in the towers, but I never tried that. The only thing I do now is try to not hold on to anything while I'm standing in the subway car. Today I'm too cautious to do anything crazier.
I loved reading this one. I'm going to see Grindhouse at 12:25 pm (in about an hour), because my girlfriend is out of town at some business conference. I don't work today, for the first time in like three months. Usually I'm divided between two jobs. One morning and one night.
In high school -- I think it was junior year for me -- a girl died from attempting to car surf at West Ridge Mall. She never stood up, but she was trying to when another car pulled in front of them and (brakes applied abruptly) she was thrown off. I guess she fell directly on her head, because she died instantly and it was a huge point of reference to everyone at school for a few weeks afterward. It was presented to all of us by authorities as the Vox Dei, telling us to play it safer
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My friends were pretty lucky. A lot of them ended up in jail, and one got in a DUI wreck that killed his girlfriend, but most escaped unscathed.
The knife fight thing is pretty nuts. Then again, we would light our pants and bikes on fire and jump over a little hill that we would also light on fire.
I had a lot of respect for guns and rifles, so I never fucked with them. For me, I was the dork who climbed the social latter starting in Jr. High. It's a long series of posts for some other time.
And I loved Children of Men! It was a little overly sentimental, but I thought it was amazing. Hated 300. Fucking hated it. It was beautiful and the action sequences gave me a boner, but it was so offensive and stupid that I kept getting pissed off. Black vs. white? Irish guys playing Greeks? Homophobe jokes being cracked at the Spartans?? Blacks playing Persians? WTF???? Persians as fags, and Spartans as straight guys??? WTF???? "Freedom isn't free"? "Tonight we dine in hell"? Hate, hate, hate.
Yeah, I was pretty much in love with Children of Men, and less so with Babel, which was interesting but heavy-handed and monotonous in the way that Innaritu films tend to be. Cuaron really impressed me with his vision of a not-geeked-out, recognizable future, and especially (as a former film major) with his extended takes and incredibly choreographed riot scenes. In what ways did you find it too sentimental?
I figured as much with 300.
I didn't really like Grindhouse. Tarantino's half was better -- more genuine, slightly less ridiculous, more inventive and with less of him acting in it, which is always a plus. I think Tarantino and Rodriguez are such geeks, though, I find it hard to identify with their pet projects like this. I have a boatload of reasons why, but in general I thought it was immature, prodigal, unoriginal, and not-too-interesting. There are those that will argue that everything Tarantino does is plagiarism, though, and that's not far off. He's a scholar, for sure, but he's a little bit douchey. Did you notice
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The coral music in Children of Men was completely unnecessary, and completely over-cooked, as was the scene in the manger and the over-the-top Mary references. (Making a joke about it doesn't relieve the hoary conventions.) IMO, the movie should have faded out with the protagonist's death - we were him, he was us, and leaving us in the unknown after his death would have made for a more powerful ending. But I loved it, really. (BTW, the lust for life scenes that worked for me were the shots of him opening up to the beauty of life qua life - the kitten, the trees, and eventually, the baby.)
As a friend said, "Tarrantino told Rodriguez it was a costume party, yet Tarrantino came as himself."
Rodriguez didn't really make a 70's b-movie. He made an 80's b-movie, which were already parodies of the 70's films - think of Evil Dead, Dead Alive, Reanimator or even the later 80s giallo. The other 80s films were always cheaper copies of 70s films, fun, faster and gorier. The original 70s films had a formal beauty and inventiveness that was
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Loved it, but it was tailor made for ME. I love grind house films (although I never heard that term before). I think a lot of them are art and Tarrantino and I speak the same language (although he's a better scholar than I am).
Re: WHAT YOU GONNA DO? GHOST RIDE IT!vengeance_is_meApril 10 2007, 19:39:27 UTC
hahaha. i was trying to find a "ghostride the whip" animated gif but i lazily gave up.
p.s. did you see the clip of some stupid kid ghostriding the whip and sitting on the trunk, only to have some guy run up into the open car, with the kid still sitting on the trunk, and steal it? classic.
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anyway, that's some fun stuff. i guess all michaels (or micheals) are crazy. we did something like that, but we ran INTO a moving car, like in the movies, when the car drives by and you grab the door and pull yourself in. how fuckin dumb is that? we didn't think, "what if we miss and get run over?" after everyone did it, then we had to see who could do it at the fastest speed.
man, i've done some really stupid shit in my life, but it's always been a test against myself. like, could i really do it? i've done some REALLY fuckin stupid, i-could-have-seriously-died type shit during my life time, and i think what i do presently attests to my stupidity. but it's like i have to prove something to myself, that i can do it, whatever it is.
the worst thing someone can say to me is, "yeah, i dunno. i think it's too hard." i'll be the first dumbass to get'er done, injury or not.
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Yeah, we did that too.
I was skeptical even in my youth, and because of that, always imagining what could happen. Still, I always had fun once I got into the moment. But yeah, I did some dumb, dumb, dumb shit.
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And yeah, I heard of train surfing. It sounds crazy and stupid and then I remind myself of my teen days and grimace. In college, kids would elevator surf in the towers, but I never tried that. The only thing I do now is try to not hold on to anything while I'm standing in the subway car. Today I'm too cautious to do anything crazier.
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In high school -- I think it was junior year for me -- a girl died from attempting to car surf at West Ridge Mall. She never stood up, but she was trying to when another car pulled in front of them and (brakes applied abruptly) she was thrown off. I guess she fell directly on her head, because she died instantly and it was a huge point of reference to everyone at school for a few weeks afterward. It was presented to all of us by authorities as the Vox Dei, telling us to play it safer ( ... )
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The knife fight thing is pretty nuts. Then again, we would light our pants and bikes on fire and jump over a little hill that we would also light on fire.
I had a lot of respect for guns and rifles, so I never fucked with them. For me, I was the dork who climbed the social latter starting in Jr. High. It's a long series of posts for some other time.
And I loved Children of Men! It was a little overly sentimental, but I thought it was amazing. Hated 300. Fucking hated it. It was beautiful and the action sequences gave me a boner, but it was so offensive and stupid that I kept getting pissed off. Black vs. white? Irish guys playing Greeks? Homophobe jokes being cracked at the Spartans?? Blacks playing Persians? WTF???? Persians as fags, and Spartans as straight guys??? WTF???? "Freedom isn't free"? "Tonight we dine in hell"? Hate, hate, hate.
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I figured as much with 300.
I didn't really like Grindhouse. Tarantino's half was better -- more genuine, slightly less ridiculous, more inventive and with less of him acting in it, which is always a plus. I think Tarantino and Rodriguez are such geeks, though, I find it hard to identify with their pet projects like this. I have a boatload of reasons why, but in general I thought it was immature, prodigal, unoriginal, and not-too-interesting. There are those that will argue that everything Tarantino does is plagiarism, though, and that's not far off. He's a scholar, for sure, but he's a little bit douchey. Did you notice ( ... )
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As a friend said, "Tarrantino told Rodriguez it was a costume party, yet Tarrantino came as himself."
Rodriguez didn't really make a 70's b-movie. He made an 80's b-movie, which were already parodies of the 70's films - think of Evil Dead, Dead Alive, Reanimator or even the later 80s giallo. The other 80s films were always cheaper copies of 70s films, fun, faster and gorier. The original 70s films had a formal beauty and inventiveness that was ( ... )
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I had a hell of a lot of fun, and the Tarantino part is one of the best things he's ever done.
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p.s. did you see the clip of some stupid kid ghostriding the whip and sitting on the trunk, only to have some guy run up into the open car, with the kid still sitting on the trunk, and steal it? classic.
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