The Other Night: Men in Tights & Return to Me Chat

[raebates]

The Furry Guy and I watched Men in Tights the other night. I love Mel Brooks movies. Got this one for $5 at Wally World.

I'm trying to get up the nerve to watch Return to Me. We were talking about it on the Bonnie Hunt thread, and it piqued my interest in seeing it again. However, I've done so much crying lately I can't bring myself to watch it yet. I always sob through half of it and laugh til I cry through the rest.

So, what movies have you seen lately?

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Rain Man and The Pink Panther Strikes Again have recently been on our local PBS station. Speaking of Mel Brooks, I also just watched Blazing Saddles again. I love that flick - it could never be made today!

 

[ChefBeckyD]

The 2 movies that have been in our DVD player lately have been Wall-E,andHomeward Bound - love this movie, but not sure how comfortable I am now that DS's favorite phrase to repeat over and over is "you big flat-faced butt sniffer".Our 4 yr old dictates our movie choices mostly! By the time we get him to bed at night, we're too tired to stay awake for a whole movie. I was able to buy Facing The Giants for $5 at Family Christian Store a couple weeks ago, and we are trying to fit in a time to watch it. (It's produced by the same people who did Fireproof.)

 

[raebates]

I love Blazing Saddles. What cracks me up is that some broadcast stations mute out the sounds around the campfire. Censors are funny. I'll probably watch it again soon. The reference to it at the end of Men in Tights made me long for Gene Wilder.The only problem with Mel Brooks movies is that you have to watch them at least two or three times to catch all of the little comments, jokes, and sight gags. Then again, I love that about his movies.

 

[niclowther]

I hear ya. We watch Wall-E or Madagascar 2 all the time- my 3.5 yr old. I love them both. Mad 2 has great music!

 

[raebates]

Hey, Becky, I understand. Now that our baby boy is 22 and living a couple of thousand miles away he has much less sway over our movie choices. LOL!Wait. Come to think of it, he's the one who told me that he'd found Men in Tights at Wally World for $5. That's why I looked for it and, consequently, why we watched it. Dang! He's still picking our movies.

 

[candiejayne]

The last one we watched together was I am Legend. It was alright, I wasn't expecting something to scare me though. Wall-e and Airbud have been the choice of the kids lately though. We watch those quite often.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

I love Blazing Saddles. What cracks me up is that some broadcast stations mute out the sounds around the campfire. Censors are funny. I'll probably watch it again soon. The reference to it at the end of Men in Tights made me long for Gene Wilder.

The only problem with Mel Brooks movies is that you have to watch them at least two or three times to catch all of the little comments, jokes, and sight gags. Then again, I love that about his movies.

North by Northwest was just on the PBS whistle, too. Maybe it's time to see High Anxiety again.

 

[ChefBeckyD]

North by Northwest was just on the PBS whistle, too. Maybe it's time to see High Anxiety again.

I wonder why our PBS station never has the good old movies like that? There are never any movies on our station.

PBS when I was growing up is how I was introduced to, and fell in love with all of those great movies. I still remember sitting with my little brother and watching Brigadoon several times.

 

[raebates]

I must admit that I've never seen High Anxiety. I'll have to give that one a chance.Just after Christmas I watched North to Alaska for the first time. It's just hysterical. It's now my second favorite John Wayne movie. The Quite Man holds that honor. You simply can't beat John Wayne with Maureen O'Hara. Fantastic!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Didja ever see Donovan's Reef? It was one of The Old Man's favorites and became one of mine, too. It's not a great cinematic achievement but John Wayne and Lee Marvin make a pretty good team, too.The Kat Lady is also a big fan of John Wayne and McClintock. I always liked Rio Bravo.

 

[raebates]

It's been a long time since I last saw Donovan's Reef. We own it, though. The Furry Guy is a big John Wayne fan. I'm fairly certain that we own every one of The Duke's movies.

 

[chefann]

Our recent viewing has included:
Soul Music (animated, from England, based on a Terry Pratchett novel)
Wanted
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Wyrd Sisters (another animated Pratchett story)
Metropolis (from 1927!)
The City of Lost Children
Jeeves and Wooster, season 1I can tell which things on that list were my picks, and which were DH's. Can you?

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Then you are probably also familiar with Wake of the Red Witch which has to qualify as the worst movie John Wayne ever made, and has to be in the running for worst movie ever. (Although that title belongs to Plan 9 From Outer Space, no contest.)

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Metropolis is a most startling predictive movie, isn't it?

 

[susanr613]

I do Netflix and try to pick one purely entertaining movie and one that makes you think. So, for DS this weekend, it was Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. Both were excellent.

Repeat faves include Forrest Gump, Independence Day, and Ferris Buehler's Day Off.

 

[raebates]

Our recent viewing has included:
Soul Music (animated, from England, based on a Terry Pratchett novel)
Wanted
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Wyrd Sisters (another animated Pratchett story)
Metropolis (from 1927!)
The City of Lost Children
Jeeves and Wooster, season 1I can tell which things on that list were my picks, and which were DH's. Can you?

If I gave it a lot of thought I think I just might be able to it figure out.

 

[raebates]

Then you are probably also familiar with Wake of the Red Witch which has to qualify as the worst movie John Wayne ever made, and has to be in the running for worst movie ever. (Although that title belongs to Plan 9 From Outer Space, no contest.)

If I remember correctly, I didn't make it through the whole thing.

 

[chefann]

Metropolis is a most startling predictive movie, isn't it?

Yep. The one we got has been restored, with titles to indicate where there is still missing footage, although one of the special features indicated that there was additional footage discovered prior to the mastering of the DVD (in Argentina of all places) that will be restored and inserted into a future version. This one also had the original music, although played by a modern orchestra, of course. DH and I had fun picking on the continuity errors (spiral staircases that turned opposite directions depending on whether the scene took place at the top or the bottom, etc.). But it was definitely a "brain on" movie.

DH found a list somewhere on the web of the top 25 (maybe 50?) dystopian movies, and Metropolis and The City of Lost Children were from that list. Lost Children was weird - another "brain on" movie.

 

[pamperedlinda]

DS is into Star Wars right now so we watch that a lot. And he also likes the teeny-bopper musicals - 'Spectacular' is currently playing over and over on the DVR....at least it is a cute movie

 

[raebates]

i like brain-on movies. I also like movies that require absolutely no thought whatsoever. My SIL once commented about a movie we liked but she didn't, "Well, I guess it's okay if all you want is to be entertained." I said, "Well, yeah, that's pretty much my main requirement for movies."She was not amused. I, however, was.

 

[chefann]

DS is into Star Wars right now so we watch that a lot. And he also likes the teeny-bopper musicals - 'Spectacular' is currently playing over and over on the DVR....at least it is a cute movie

But can your DS recite every line with the movie, including those in Huttese?

That's what I get to hear whenever we watch any from the original trilogy.

 

[raebates]

But can your DS recite every line with the movie, including those in Huttese?

That's what I get to hear whenever we watch any from the original trilogy.

I think of you and your husband every time I watch the original Star Wars trilogy.

 

[chefann]

And the next discs in our queue are:
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Firefly, entire series
Serenity (a movie sequel to the the Firefly series)
Jeeves and Wooster, season 2 (young Hugh Laurie - YUM! :love: )
Hogfather (another Pratchett, but live-action this time)

 

[pamperedlinda]

But can your DS recite every line with the movie, including those in Huttese?

That's what I get to hear whenever we watch any from the original trilogy.

what's a huttese?

Give him time - he'll have them memorized.

btw - he can recite pretty much word for word Top Gun (except the bad words ) AND he knows that mommy's favorite part is the volleyball scene - he stops the movie everytime it gets to that part and comes to get me

 

[chefann]

I think of you and your husband every time I watch the original Star Wars trilogy.

Not surprising. We get weird looks when people hear DH referenced as "Uncle Darth" by the nieces/nephews.

 

[pamperedlinda]

Not surprising. We get weird looks when people hear DH referenced as "Uncle Darth" by the nieces/nephews.

Doesn't he have a picture to back that one up?

 

[raebates]

Not surprising. We get weird looks when people hear DH referenced as "Uncle Darth" by the nieces/nephews.

The Furry Guy has four brothers. Three of them are big Trekkers. (Never call them Trekkies.) The youngest, Neal, not a Trekker, is only a few years older than our son. Our little guy always looked up to his youngest uncle as the epitome of cool. One day Neal told Shawn, "Star Trek is for nerds, but Star Wars is cool." Shawn claims that's the day he realized that his Uncle Neal wasn't really cool.

 

[ChefBeckyD]

Our recent viewing has included:
Soul Music (animated, from England, based on a Terry Pratchett novel)
Wanted
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Wyrd Sisters (another animated Pratchett story)
Metropolis (from 1927!)
The City of Lost Children
Jeeves and Wooster, season 1

I can tell which things on that list were my picks, and which were DH's. Can you?

I don't know if there are others, but I'm pretty sure these were your picks?

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Doesn't he have a picture to back that one up?

I think I do...lemme go see...

 

[pampermejolene]

That pic is too funny!!I've recently seen
Zack & Miri make a Porno
Swing Vote
Yes man
and am still watching the first season of weeds on netflix.
and I'm always watching episodes of Gilmore Girls...

 

[Crystal Patton]

My DH is home so we are working our (his) way through Band of Brothers.
Personally I like to unwind by watching a Seinfeld. I have all 9 seasons and the game and the Puffy Shirt.

As for movie movies we are ruled by the kids - Ice Age, Over the Hedge, etc.

 

[chefann]

The Furry Guy has four brothers. Three of them are big Trekkers. (Never call them Trekkies.) The youngest, Neal, not a Trekker, is only a few years older than our son. Our little guy always looked up to his youngest uncle as the epitome of cool. One day Neal told Shawn, "Star Trek is for nerds, but Star Wars is cool." Shawn claims that's the day he realized that his Uncle Neal wasn't really cool.

Neal was absolutely correct.

I don't know if there are others, but I'm pretty sure these were your picks?

Yep. I also picked out Wanted, but with DH in mind. We have a season of Farscape in our queue, but that's for both of us. We had been watching them on cable, but the channel took the reruns off the schedule (and then we had our channel lineup cut). We know how the series ends, but wanted to catch some of the episodes we missed.

 

[troggt]

The Librarian (curse of the Chalice, Judas cup and rturn to King Solomons mine or something like that) have been a favorite this jpast week with my daughter

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

The Librarian is a series made for TNT, sort of like the old Saturday morning serials. Quest for the Spear was the first in 2004, followed by Return to King Solomon's Mines in 2006 and Curse of the Judas Chalice in 2008.Don't let your kids learn history from them, either. Mayans in Brazil? Well, that's a change in pre-Columbian history.

 

[raebates]

Then again, if you're relying on any general-release movies for your history education, you're in big trouble.

 

[pcchefjane]

Since most of my viewing is stuff my 2 yo grandson likes right now, we watch Finding Nemo every week! LOL! I think even he knows most of the dialogue! LOL! We need to get Space Buddies for him to see. He wants to see it every time the commercial comes on! LOL! He loved Wall-E! We thought it was cute too! We watched Dumbo yesterday! I can't believe it was made in 1941!