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Posted on 6/6/26 at 6:58 pm to Kafka
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The two stories are not contradictory
The version I read is the success of the HS yearbook (much of which was written by Doug Kenney) started talk of a movie based on it. The yearbook owner and the AH frat pledge have the same name: Larry Kroger.
The locale was moved to college by the studio. Miller at this point adds his frat experiences at Dartmouth.
I'm going by what Harold Ramis wrote. He wanted to do a college movie, but Doug was a big deal and Doug did high school so they deferred to his area, then realized that it needed to be college.
I'm not an Animal House officianado or anything, I was just given Chris Miller's book as a gift. Mainly because my experience in the 80s wasn't too terribly far from Animal House.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 7:06 pm to Flats
quote:The stories still aren't necessarily contradictory, for the most part. There still could have been separate studio interest for the the yearbook movie.
I'm going by what Harold Ramis wrote. He wanted to do a college movie, but Doug was a big deal and Doug did high school so they deferred to his area, then realized that it needed to be college.
I will always believe the studio changed it to college to sex it up
Note that the names Wormer and Havermeyer appear in the yearbook memorium I posted up top
Posted on 6/6/26 at 7:44 pm to UFFan
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The Adolescence series on Netflix was the single worst TV series in the history of television. And I’m not exaggerating one tiny bit when I say that.
Everybody lost their mind over the filming of it and “I’m sitting there saying, wasn’t this based on an immigrant kid that stabbed a bunch of white English girls, not some incel?”
Posted on 6/6/26 at 7:46 pm to WheyCheddar
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Nolan is a hack. He is nothing more than McG with a bigger budget.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 8:23 pm to Cregg
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Jackie Brown is Tarantino's best movie
You & I could be bff
And most rewatchable
Posted on 6/6/26 at 8:26 pm to 3nOut
I don’t think Adolescence is really based on one specific true real life case. With that being said, they made the offender white for pretty obvious PC reasons.
But, really, the fact that they made the perpetrator white is the least of my problems with Adolescence. Even the show’s anti-male sexism is fairly low on my list of complaints with the show.
The biggest problem is that it’s a show where absolutely nothing happens. About 95% of the show is just of people doing absolutely nothing. Episode 1 is made of people saying absolutely nothing as he gets arrested. Episode 2 is of people walking around school saying almost nothing. Episode 3 is of the boy saying nothing as the therapist unsuccessfully tries to get him to say something. Episode 4 is of the family saying nothing as they drive to Home Depot.
But, really, the fact that they made the perpetrator white is the least of my problems with Adolescence. Even the show’s anti-male sexism is fairly low on my list of complaints with the show.
The biggest problem is that it’s a show where absolutely nothing happens. About 95% of the show is just of people doing absolutely nothing. Episode 1 is made of people saying absolutely nothing as he gets arrested. Episode 2 is of people walking around school saying almost nothing. Episode 3 is of the boy saying nothing as the therapist unsuccessfully tries to get him to say something. Episode 4 is of the family saying nothing as they drive to Home Depot.
This post was edited on 6/6/26 at 8:51 pm
Posted on 6/6/26 at 8:52 pm to Kafka
quote:Agreed.
Meryl Streep sucks
quote:The mystique around him outside of movies and his, what I think to be, pompous personality, elevates him.
as does the male Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis
Gary Oldman is a far better actor, IMO, and has only 1 Oscar to DDL’s 3.
quote:I don’t think it is that bad, but the original does have pretty terrible acting. It improves over the trilogy.
Aside from Guinness and Cushing, the acting in Star Wars is on the level of a 1950s industrial film,
quote:I completely agree.
Robert DeNiro is great at playing 2 things: psycho, and about to go psycho, He's unremarkable at anything else
I will add that I think Al Pacino is a terrible actor.
quote:I think it works just fine.
Gene Wilder does not work as The Waco Kid.
Disagree with this.
quote:Disagree with this too.
Animal House sucks, and was horribly damaging in its influence on movie comedy.
quote:Agreed.
Speaking of SNL and the "Golden Age cast", Belushi was overrated, Chase was a one trick pony (watch his audition tape - he can't do anything but fake sincerity), Aykroyd had no personality, Gilda Radner was as overrated as Belushi, and the other women were dull
This post was edited on 6/6/26 at 9:30 pm
Posted on 6/6/26 at 8:55 pm to magildachunks
This may not be controversial, but Sean Penn Is a horrendous actor.
Hate or love his politics, his acting is fricking horrendous.
Leonardo DiCaprio exists in the Robert DeNiro school of every character is the same. Heavily overrated.
Hate or love his politics, his acting is fricking horrendous.
Leonardo DiCaprio exists in the Robert DeNiro school of every character is the same. Heavily overrated.
This post was edited on 6/6/26 at 8:57 pm
Posted on 6/6/26 at 9:18 pm to magildachunks
Tombstone is a laughably cartoonish western that embraces caricature and western film cliche with costumes and acting that looks like theater kids were catering to closeted homosexuals.
That’s probably an unpopular take.
That’s probably an unpopular take.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 9:24 pm to Cregg
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Jackie Brown is Tarantino's best movie
Elaborate on why.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 9:34 pm to Willie Stroker
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Elaborate on why
I love Elmore Leonard and it's the best adaptation of one of his books ever by an all time director.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 9:38 pm to magildachunks
Jerry Maguire failed to establish the relationship between the 2 leads. Jerry was never in love with Dorothy.
Jerry never did anything for Rod that the original sports management company could not have done.
If Jerry had never existed the ending would still be the same. Dorothy would have still married an a-hole that didn’t love her. Rod would have still been injured, and would still get paid a big contract.
Jerry never did anything for Rod that the original sports management company could not have done.
If Jerry had never existed the ending would still be the same. Dorothy would have still married an a-hole that didn’t love her. Rod would have still been injured, and would still get paid a big contract.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 9:40 pm to Cregg
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I love Elmore Leonard and it's the best adaptation of one of his books ever by an all time director.
I can relate. I love when a great book is accurately captured on film. Now I wonder if that’s the common reason why others think it’s Tarantino’s best.
This post was edited on 6/6/26 at 9:43 pm
Posted on 6/6/26 at 9:53 pm to Kafka
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AH has essentially nothing to do w/NL
I was an avid reader of NL magazine in the 70s and I thought Animal House shared a lot of the same type of humor. There were some raunchy things, but there were also some clever humor that could have come straight out of the magazine.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 9:54 pm to BabysArmHoldingApple
quote:such as what?
I was an avid reader of NL magazine in the 70s and I thought Animal House shared a lot of the same type of humor. There were some raunchy things, but there were also some clever humor that could have come straight out of the magazine.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 10:13 pm to Kafka
Off the top of my head… the class-based mockery of Marmalade and Babs, Niedermeyer as a pre-Vietnam character seen through post-Vietnam perspective, the subtle racism of the bar scene (NL was not racially PC at all), the ruse of using an obituary to trick and seduce Fawn’s roommate, “Senator and Mrs Blutarsky”
Posted on 6/6/26 at 10:32 pm to magildachunks
The Sopranos was just “good to very good”. It’s not one of the best shows ever.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 10:36 pm to magildachunks
Lost is a complete waste of time. And not necessarily because of the ending but for the numerous story lines that go nowhere.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 12:08 am to Willie Stroker
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ombstone is a laughably cartoonish western that embraces caricature and western film cliche
I argue all the time that Tombstone is not a Western, it is an action film that takes place in the Old West. Copland, however, is a Western.
The setting doesn't define the genre. The Western Genre was defined best by Akira Kurosawa: The Western is the greatest contribution America has given to the Arts. It is an unheroic display of heroism.
Tombstone is an action film that takes place in the Old West, while Copland is a Western that takes place in modern day New Jersey.
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