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Maniacal Foreigner
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Yeah, he's still kickin'. Hasn't really been up to much lately, aside from founding a museum that's due to open next year:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Museum_of_Narrative_Art
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Am I the only person who really hasn’t had that many bad experiences in the theater? Maybe it’s just because of a combination of where I live, the movies I’ve seen, and that I usually see movies pretty late but I really haven’t had that many bad experiences. I think the people who complain about this are just exposing that they either live in shitty areas or only see whatever slop studios put out. I’ve only had maybe two negative experiences at the movies in the past five years and I go pretty often. Also, I’m not obese so I don’t give a shit about the price of popcorn or pop.
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My worst (or possibly most hilarious, depending on how you look at it) theater experience was (fittingly) during Godzilla vs Kong where this black teenage girl started chimping out and screaming about Black Lives Matter because she wouldn't shut up and so the staff told her to leave. Her friends ultimately got her to leave but I think she flipped out even more once outside because there were police standing around in the halls afterward.
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In my experience with movie theaters, literally the only bad experiences I've had have been during horror movies. Sadly, horror movies bring out the worst crowds ever. They. Do. Not. Shut. Up. I basically don't go to the movies to see horror films anymore.
Other than that, though, my good experiences have far outweighed the bad.
Other than that, though, my good experiences have far outweighed the bad.
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The last time was in a theater was Return of the King. Went out on a high, at least
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I don't have bad experiences with other patrons and realistically, I do find it Karen behavior to be annoyed at other people looking at their phones. People look at their phones for all kinds of reasons and it's certainly none of my business to tell them not to look at their phones. My problem with theaters today is the pricing is so high I find myself obligated to pay close attention to the movie. After all, I'm spending $6.50/hour for matinee entertainment, I better not fall asleep. Which also leads me to notice the narrative flaws in movies more. Last movie I saw in the theater was Dune Part 1 and I kept thinking about how odd the pacing was; it was slow, yet trying to speed through plot points at the same time. Then I noticed the general lack of intrigue in an intrigue plot, and the flaws just kept building from there. Point being that I enjoyed the movie less and less as time went on, so that $6.50/hour gets more expensive the more I think about it.
Theater chains are checked out as a business where I absolutely suspect some kind of money laundering going on, but they're the unlucky middleman presenting movies that just aren't worth the premiums currently charged.
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Depends. If they're being generally considerate about it, that's ok. If their phone screen is bright enough that out of the corner of my eye it's yanking my attention away from the screen or even making said screen harder to see, then put that shit up!
It's even more annoying if a sequence you're watching is supposed to be dark with tension and foreboding building up then BLAH! let's switch a bright light on! That didn't kill the immersion or anything. /sarc (check your phone during a daytime sequence at least)
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A few years back there was this one girl near me (teenager, maybe early twenties?) who kept jumping out of her seat and crouching down. It was very distracting. Maybe she had dropped something, but at the time it seemed like she was full of sugar and couldn't sit still.
But yeah, I've never had many bad experiences. Also, who actually buys concessions, in my family we always brought our own, hidden so we didn't get caught by the cinema people, but I doubt they cared. The most vocal anyone got was during Endgame but I was okay with that.
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There is also an entire chapter, if not more, dedicated to the vagina of the fat chick Sonny was cheating on his wife with at the wedding. He liked her because she could handle his mythological member, and her "loose" vagina was shameful. So she moves away, gets involved with a guy, and gets her vagina doctored on. At least, that's how I remember it, it's been years since I've read the book.
The mob parts are good, and pretty consistent with the movie. But Sonny penis, Fontaines entire slog of a section of the book, and the chicks vagina are all awful. Coppola mercifully trimmed the fat away. If some weirdo desperately wants to read about the mob and dicks, I suggest just going straight to Chances by Jackie Collins instead.
editL just realized someone else mentioned the vagina thing. Yeah, the book gets really fucking weird.
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TheMonkeyMan
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I’ve always assumed that the name “Big Pussy” from The Sopranos was a reference to that character.
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All things are possible, but I always lumped that in with in-universe childish mob humor. There was a Little Pussy mentioned in the pilot episode, after all.
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Tangents about Barcades
Barcades are really great (as a heavy drinker who grew up in the area where arcades were where real gaming happened, like Stret Fighter tournaments), but holy shit they have their priorities a little skewed. A lot of them offer "free plays if you have a drink." That's fine, you might say, except they use the strip-club model: a drink costs about 15-20 bucks. In my experience at any of these places, even a cheap beer like a PBR 12oz (not even a tall boy) costs about 7-10 dollars... that's stadium or concert venue prices. I understand with all those arcades, and air conditioning to keep the drunk DDR nerds from stinking too heavily, that electric bill has to be insane, so they have to cover their ass financially and that's why they only last for a few years unless they employ some Dave and Busters bullshit. You know, where they have baby hours (people under 18 are allowed for most of the day, usually until 9pm), gambling adjacent token games that give out tickets to "win" some overly priced stuffed animal, and giant sections reserved for eating Denny-esq style meals at Outback Stakehouse prices that come with a card that gives you 20 free game credits or whatever.
Honestly I am very sad when I see a barcade fail as often as they, it's such a fun idea to relive some of that childhood but while still being allowed to drink heavily. But sometimes i think it also falls to how theyre marketed, almost like they promote the "my new boyfriend is a nerd, so we're going to the barcade" yuppies with big-fat, microplastic wallets that can drop a ton of cash on overpriced cocktails.
Just give me an adult arcade. I'll bring quarters (or even put in one of those token machines and ill drop as much on the games as i would on drinks in the current barcades). I'll drink cheap beer and vodka until I can't even play Tapper anymore... but I'm a mid-western minority I suppose.
Honestly I am very sad when I see a barcade fail as often as they, it's such a fun idea to relive some of that childhood but while still being allowed to drink heavily. But sometimes i think it also falls to how theyre marketed, almost like they promote the "my new boyfriend is a nerd, so we're going to the barcade" yuppies with big-fat, microplastic wallets that can drop a ton of cash on overpriced cocktails.
Just give me an adult arcade. I'll bring quarters (or even put in one of those token machines and ill drop as much on the games as i would on drinks in the current barcades). I'll drink cheap beer and vodka until I can't even play Tapper anymore... but I'm a mid-western minority I suppose.
On RLM, they have been consistently a continued watch in my household. I love their riffs on stuff even if I've never seen them. I'm not a fan of the Wizard, mainly because... well, look at him trying to hard, but even if I disagree with their review or opinions, it all seems so genuinely honest.
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I was just thinking about this the other day, trying to remember my entry points, but as near as I can figure, I started with HitB 33: Prometheus [almost exactly 12 years ago] and 6 years later realized there was BotW, probably responding to YT pushing The Last Vampire on Earth.
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I used to go to matinees once a week or so and I’d always hit up 7-11 before to pick up a soda and some m&ms or something, but when my local AMC remodeled to add the power-recliners and a bar in the lobby they also added a full kitchen with actual food that they’d bring to your seat in the theater.
I wouldn’t ever spend the $12 or whatever on a fucking popcorn, but when the ticket was only $7 I’d for sure spend the same amount on a burger and fries or some warm pretzel bites to be brought to my seat right as the previews end. Having actual food as an option at the theater was great and breathed new life into going to the movies. Of course they then got rid of matinee pricing so I stopped going as often, and then covid completely killed movies as an activity and now they couldn’t pay me to sit in a theater for two hours.
Stab You in the Back
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My movie theater is so bad, I have to go and turn off the lights myself when the film starts.
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Patreon Update:
Sorry for the lack of updates. We've all been busy with our own stuff etc, but slowly getting back to work. Rich and Jay shot a review today and some other stuff in the works, but LOOK! After three coats of liquid latex the salt vampire is alive again.... sort of... the final steps I might save for our upcoming documentary, but clearly the next steps are paint, hair, teeth. IT WILL LIVE AGAIN!!!!
Also this is happening:
Also Also Mike and Rich voiced two Aliens in an episode of Smiling Friends, this is what they looked like:
Sorry for the lack of updates. We've all been busy with our own stuff etc, but slowly getting back to work. Rich and Jay shot a review today and some other stuff in the works, but LOOK! After three coats of liquid latex the salt vampire is alive again.... sort of... the final steps I might save for our upcoming documentary, but clearly the next steps are paint, hair, teeth. IT WILL LIVE AGAIN!!!!
Also this is happening:
Also Also Mike and Rich voiced two Aliens in an episode of Smiling Friends, this is what they looked like:
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mandatorylurk
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I think they went back and edited some BOTW episodes, or Youtube went less gay about restricting access and RLM won some appeals after years. The BOTW with Faust and Blood Street just autoplayed on my TV and I don't sign in to youtube.