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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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garbon

Quote from: Ed Anger on June 26, 2013, 07:16:47 PM
Quote from: Josephus on June 26, 2013, 05:02:07 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on June 26, 2013, 07:59:08 AM


I agree. That also goes for most British shows. Looks like rejects from a Dexy's Midnight Runners music video.

Wonder if anybody who's not aged 40-50 gets that reference.

I only play to the elite crowd, the 40+ crowd.

Come on. I'm under 30 and that reference was easy.
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Josephus

Quote from: garbon on June 27, 2013, 12:03:41 AM
Come on. I'm under 30 and that reference was easy.

Ok. maybe I misjudged it. I thought it was a big one hit wonder from the early 80s that disappeared over time. For the record, I have that album on vinyl somewhere. Or maybe my ex has it... :hmm:
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Neil

Come On Eileen has gotten enough airplay over the years that it should be recognizable to anyone who isn't a total retard with regaards to music.
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CountDeMoney

Quote from: Neil on June 27, 2013, 07:58:03 AM
Come On Eileen has gotten enough airplay over the years that it should be recognizable to anyone who isn't a total retard with regaards to music.

Fucking cold as balls morning, sun barely up, eyes still full of sleep, freezing my nuts off and dreading the upcoming school day, and I gotta listen to Dexys Midnight Runners, John Cougar Mellencamp and .38 Special bullshit on the motherfucking Bus Ride To Junior High Hell.

Goddamn.  Fucking 1982 and 1983.  Fucking J Giles Band.  Fucking Eddie Rabbit.  Fucking Supertramp.

Goddamn.

garbon

Quote from: Neil on June 27, 2013, 07:58:03 AM
Come On Eileen has gotten enough airplay over the years that it should be recognizable to anyone who isn't a total retard with regaards to music.

:yes:
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crazy canuck

Quote from: Neil on June 27, 2013, 07:58:03 AM
Come On Eileen has gotten enough airplay over the years that it should be recognizable to anyone who isn't a total retard with regaards to music.

But the reference was to the music video.  Not sure why anyone would have watched that in the last quarter century.

CountDeMoney

Some of us were alive and sentient when MTV actually played music videos.

crazy canuck

Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 27, 2013, 09:32:44 AM
Some of us were alive and sentient when MTV actually played music videos.

And that would be the demographic previously mentioned. :contract:

Eddie Teach

Quote from: crazy canuck on June 27, 2013, 09:31:49 AM
Quote from: Neil on June 27, 2013, 07:58:03 AM
Come On Eileen has gotten enough airplay over the years that it should be recognizable to anyone who isn't a total retard with regaards to music.

But the reference was to the music video.  Not sure why anyone would have watched that in the last quarter century.

It gets featured in some of VH1's Top Hundred Countdowns.
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garbon

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 27, 2013, 10:21:02 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on June 27, 2013, 09:31:49 AM
Quote from: Neil on June 27, 2013, 07:58:03 AM
Come On Eileen has gotten enough airplay over the years that it should be recognizable to anyone who isn't a total retard with regaards to music.

But the reference was to the music video.  Not sure why anyone would have watched that in the last quarter century.

It gets featured in some of VH1's Top Hundred Countdowns.

:yes:

VH1 loves to play that video - or at least did while I was growing up.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Ed Anger

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FunkMonk

Ide needs to review music videos as well, starting with Come On Eileen.
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Savonarola

The Room (2003)

Called "The Citizen Kane of bad movies" by Entertainment Weekly, this is an endlessly fascinating movie.  Johnny is a successful banker.  He and his future wife Lisa live in a nice apartment with plenty of pictures of plastic silverware in beautiful San Francisco where they have fantastic sex (it's kind of disturbing to watch, twice, but I think it was supposed to be fantastic.)  Then Lisa turns evil, seduces Johnny's best friend and everything goes to hell.

What really makes this movie fascinating is that there are a number of subplots that are introduced and then dropped.  Lisa's mother announces that she has breast cancer in the beginning of the film and then it's never brought up again.  A couple comes into Johnny and Lisa's apartment and makes out, for no explained reason.  One of Johnny's neighbors is threatened by a drug dealer, and then the subplot is dropped.  All the male characters put on tuxedos and throw around a football, but we never find out why they had gathered or put on tuxedos.

The dialogue is bizarre as well.  For instance:

Lisa: She's a stupid bitch. She wants to control my life. I'm not going to put up with that. I'm going to do what I want to do, and that's it. What do you think I should do?

Or:

Johnny: Thank you, honey, this is a beautiful party! You invited all my friends. Good thinking!

Obviously director/writer/lead actor Tommy Wisseau had a deeply personal story that he wanted to tell and obviously he didn't know anything about film making (or writing or acting for that matter.)  He managed to create a wonderfully bizarre picture along the lines of Plan 9 from Outer Space.

I've read that people gather for midnight showings and throw out their own lines, footballs and plastic forks similar to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 
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fhdz

Quote from: Savonarola on June 27, 2013, 02:10:20 PM
Lisa: She's a stupid bitch. She wants to control my life. I'm not going to put up with that. I'm going to do what I want to do, and that's it. What do you think I should do?

:lol: That's it, I must watch this film.
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Queequeg

Sav, did you go to a live showing?  I've been to multiple, one of them with Johnny himself.  I actually (supposedly-I was very drunk) asked him what languages he spoke other than French and English because "you're clearly a man of the world", but he didn't confess to anything else. 
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