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    #76
    By ladybird Orwell I meant it seemed like a pass notes version of homage to Catalonia with a working class protagonist rather than Eric Blair rather than a romantic whitewash of the republican side. It is twenty years maybe since I saw it though.

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      #77
      Anything to do with frat houses, college high jinks or high school pranks. "Carry On Teacher" and "St. Trinians" being honorable exceptions.

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        #78
        I did like Old School, despite myself. I’m coming round to Ferrell being a bit of a genius.

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          #79
          Animal House is a bona fide classic. But it's a one-off. All the others of that genre are just imitations of it. And I can't really defend it. If you don't think "I state your name..." is funny, then I can't explain why it is.

          Old School has a lot of good bits, but it drags after the initial set-up is established. That's ok, a lot of broad comedies do. I especially like the wedding toast bit in the beginning.

          There aren't many good comedies about college, but Judd Apatow's cancelled-too-soon Undeclared is excellent and by far the most accurate portrayal of US college life - especially the first year - I've ever seen. It doesn't focus on hijinks, or sports, or dudes trying to become "legends" or any of that. It focuses on all the insecurity and confusion. And pre-massively-famous Amy Poehler has a small part as the painfully enthusiastic RA.

          And Fresh Meat was/is good - very similar to Undeclared, actually. But that was about UK college life, so I can't judge its authenticity.

          The short-lived Glory Daze tried to sort of do something similar set in the 80s, but it veered a little closer to trying to be Animal House - it was about a frat - and indulged a lot of 80's nostalgia. It deserved another season, though. Alas.

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            #80
            "I state your name" is classic.

            Put me down for Uncle Buck any day of the week.

            "And why was your uncle microwaving your socks?" "Cuz he couldn't get the goddamn washing machine to work."

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEt5dEOcW0I&t=23s

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              #81
              Uncle Buck. Of course.

              “You know what a hatchet is, doncha bug?”

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                #82
                Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View Post
                Animal House is a bona fide classic. But it's a one-off. All the others of that genre are just imitations of it. And I can't really defend it. If you don't think "I state your name..." is funny, then I can't explain why it is.

                Old School has a lot of good bits, but it drags after the initial set-up is established. That's ok, a lot of broad comedies do. I especially like the wedding toast bit in the beginning.

                There aren't many good comedies about college, but Judd Apatow's cancelled-too-soon Undeclared is excellent and by far the most accurate portrayal of US college life - especially the first year - I've ever seen. It doesn't focus on hijinks, or sports, or dudes trying to become "legends" or any of that. It focuses on all the insecurity and confusion. And pre-massively-famous Amy Poehler has a small part as the painfully enthusiastic RA.

                And Fresh Meat was/is good - very similar to Undeclared, actually. But that was about UK college life, so I can't judge its authenticity.

                The short-lived Glory Daze tried to sort of do something similar set in the 80s, but it veered a little closer to trying to be Animal House - it was about a frat - and indulged a lot of 80's nostalgia. It deserved another season, though. Alas.
                I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they only showed about 4 episodes of that over here. I was just getting into it on E4 and then suddenly it just wasn't on anymore.

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                  #83
                  It lasted a season. Maybe it’s online somewhere.

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                    #84
                    Aside from musical which I avoid like the plague, be it on screen or at theater (I was dragged to watch "Miss Saigon", it was dreadful...) I give most type of movies a chance. I even had great fun watch 80's US Christian movies at some point...

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                      #85
                      That’s unusual, I suspect.

                      Most people seem to want to see movies about books they liked, if for no other reason than so they can act superior when they tell anyone who will listen that they read the book at its better than the film.
                      I'm willing to accept it's unusual, but I'm less likely to watch a film of a book I've liked. I've still not seen Cloud Atlas, for instance.

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                        #86
                        I'm the same. (Except I have seen Cloud Atlas, and it is good. Not as good as the book obviously, but luckily it chooses to completely restructure the narrative (or the way the narrative is presented more accurately) so it stands apart in some way)

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                          #87
                          Frat House stuff, High School Jinks & Musicals are usually things I’d avoid like the plague, so how come I loved that soppy Grease film?

                          Some other yoof musicals, like West Side Story, also get a pass.

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                            #88
                            "unbearable" is a pretty strong word, which I would reserve for 99% of horror films, and sicko stuff. Having said that, there are one or two more character-based, non-supernatural horror films that I could imagine myself deciding to watch, like, say "Misery".

                            "Unwatchably dull" is a label I would attach to every single superhero film (Batman, Superman, Spiderman, just fucking grow up). And anything supernatural.

                            Nearly all musicals (though I'd make an exception for Hellzapoppin).

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                              #89
                              Why would anyone want to "grow up?" What's the upside?

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                                #90
                                ""Unwatchably dull" is a label I would attach to every single superhero film"

                                This is just wrong though. Loads and loads of people watch them, and very few of them are even dull, let alone unwatchably so. Plus what Warm Cola said about growing up.

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                                  #91
                                  I wish someone had made Batman Year One as a fillum. Good pulp, v little suspension of disbelief needed, atmospheric and not stoopid in story. Frank Miller before he was a total neo-con racist dick, far better than the Serious Nolan reboots that owed a lot to it. It’s about the only superhero comic I’d like to re-read 25+ years later.
                                  Last edited by Lang Spoon; 14-11-2018, 23:06.

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                                    #92
                                    I wish someone had made Batman Year One as a fillum
                                    They did.
                                    It's on Amazon Prime, btw.

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                                      #93
                                      Cool! But I’ve only got Netflix.

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                                        #94
                                        Batman Year One is the best Batman, IMO.

                                        The animated version is good as is the version they did of Dark Knight. DC’s animated stuff is pretty good across the board. They should let those people run their whole film operation.

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                                          #95
                                          Originally posted by Lang Spoon View Post
                                          Cool! But I’ve only got Netflix.
                                          It’s probably available from any of the paid streaming services - iTunes, etc. - or on DVD. I have the DVD.

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                                            #96
                                            Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View Post
                                            Me too. But it's an average. The mean is probably lower.

                                            Generally speaking, "the average" and "the mean" are one and the same thing, in these situations.

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                                              #97
                                              Not so much films (although I share others' disdain for horros and musicals), but I find there's a certain brand of misery-porn drama that's spreading across British telly like a malignant growth.

                                              This invariably involves poverty, or sexual battery of some kind, or - increasingly - a murdered child/children. Distraught parents howl at distraught police officers, the distraught police officers take it out on their own family in some way (shouting, drinking, absence) and the whole thing is designed to make the viewing public feel like slitting their wrists.

                                              ITV are the worst offenders for this, but increasingly the Beeb and C4 are jumping on the bandwagon, to such an extend that it feels like Olivia Colman - a superb actress - is wasting her whole career looking grief-stricken on desolate hillsides. Shit, they couldn't even resist giving her character a "guilt-ridden over a dead child" backstory in The Night Manager, which is a fucking espionage drama ferchrissakes.

                                              Now I'm not saying drama shouldn't tackle difficult subjects - it should - but it shouldn't be the only kind of drama on UK telly, and it shouldn't be done in such a manipulative manner.
                                              Last edited by blameless; 15-11-2018, 12:14.

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                                                #98
                                                I bought the Year One comic book today. Hope it stands up to my memory.

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                                                  #99
                                                  In other words, anything starring Sarah Lancashire, she's an excellent actress and I can understand her wanting to break away from Raquel off Corrie but she picks some grim, hard to watch stuff

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                                                    Misery porn, torture porn … do I now need to refer to pornography as sex porn?

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