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the Fet
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Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Nov 13, 2018 - 01:23pm PT
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When it came out a coworker was saying Dumb and Dumber was so stupid, and I was like you think the title would have been a giveaway huh?
My dad took me to Videodrome when I was 15. Lots of sex and violence. He made us leave. I just looked it up and it’s surprisingly well rated. Maybe I’ll finish it some day.
About the same time a friend and I went to Fantasia. Too old to enjoy it as a kid. Too young to drop acid and watch it as a psychedelic experience.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 13, 2018 - 01:27pm PT
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El Topo on acid is ,.......... well, I've heard it is wild.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 13, 2018 - 01:32pm PT
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Lawrence of Arabia captures the essence of his endeavors quite well.
If one has read The Seven Pillars then one would know, as Toker said.
He is respected daily to a considerable degree,
particularly by serious badasses...
That would be an SAS team, if you must know.
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2018 - 01:39pm PT
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You thought Dumb and Dumber was bad,
Dumb and Dumberer (the sequel) is absolutely unbearable - it makes the first one seem like a reasonable Bro comedy by comparison.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Nov 13, 2018 - 03:35pm PT
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“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
Somebody needs to read The Seven Pillars Of Wisdom.
EVERYBODY needs to read The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. It sure would have done George W. Bush some good to have read it.
"It ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language. As a narrative of war and adventure it is unsurpassable." -- Winston Churchill
About the only correct statement Sir Winston ever made.
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2018 - 04:23pm PT
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Just remembered one more: "Dead Man"
I like Johnny Depp as an actor, and liked Neil Young - so it sounded like a great combo. Robert Mitchum, John Hurt and Gabriel Byrne, too? I'm in!
The constant screeching Crazy Horse guitar finally got to me about an hour and a half in - long after the "retro" black and white had dulled my visual senses.
See ya!
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Nov 13, 2018 - 05:17pm PT
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You guys have walked out on some good ones. Alien? Great sci-fi movie. I can understand vets walking out of SPR but that movie is a classic.
I walked out of The Way of the Gun, not from disgust, just wanted to go get stoned with the girls I was with.
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2018 - 05:25pm PT
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I walked out of The Way of the Gun, not from disgust, just wanted to go get stoned with the girls I was with.
Damn it! This kind of bail never happens to me.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Nov 13, 2018 - 05:26pm PT
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You guys have missed some greats by walking out. If you ever want to see any/most of them again, bring over a 12'er and we can watch my house copies.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Nov 13, 2018 - 07:09pm PT
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Alien? Great sci-fi movie.
Good but not great. I was wrong to walk out but I had better things to do.
My idea of a great sci-fi movie is John McNaughton's The Borrower.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Nov 13, 2018 - 07:30pm PT
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I have to vote with those who think reading Lawrence's book, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, leads to enjoying Lawrence of Arabia.
I watched it for the 3rd time this fall & must admit it moves a little slowly from time to time, but it captures the essence of his endeavors quite well. And besides that, I always enjoy watching trains getting blown off their tracks, & Arabs charging on camels.
Where would we be now, if Lawrence hadn't worked as a liason between the Saudi tribes & the English, & the Ottoman Turks still ruled from the Black Sea to the southern tip of Arabia.
Hmmmmmm!
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Nov 14, 2018 - 12:27pm PT
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Moon was a great movie, Jim.
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Nov 14, 2018 - 02:36pm PT
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I'm with Aeriq:
Glengarry Glen Ross.
Didn't walk out but did turn it off--one, long, tedious f-bomb filled soliloquy after another. Gah!
Some interesting hate going down here. Alien? Star Wars? Pretty classic stuff for most folks, unless, of course, you can't handle sci-fi at all. In general, I'm having little patience for the now so common over-the-top violence. Besides being gross, it's mostly pointless and a poor substitute for real dialogue and story telling. A perfect example is the second season of the Netflix lawyer series Goliath with BB Thornton. I loved the first season about the alcoholic lawyer who crawls far enough out of the bottle to win a big case, even if there was some pretty violent scenes here and there--at least it wasn't totally in your face. The second season? Stupid, stupid psychopath dismemberment BS--an absolute failure of creativity. Skip season two. Gah.
BAd
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Nov 14, 2018 - 02:54pm PT
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I learned recently that "The Firm" is the prequel to "A Few Good Men".
I think we conceived a child after watching "Caligula". That was weird.
We were watching a double in a Drive In years ago. First up was "Mark of the Devil". Then "The Exorcist". It was too much and out we went.
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Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
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Nov 14, 2018 - 06:35pm PT
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Reservoir Dogs
The Usual Suspects
Pulp Fiction
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Nov 14, 2018 - 07:37pm PT
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Alien? Star Wars? Pretty classic stuff for most folks, unless, of course, you can't handle sci-fi
What's your opinion on Forbidden Planet 1956? I read the book but it may have been a 'novelization' of the movie. The movies Alien and Star Wars are not classic sci-fi. More like Stalker (a good movie) versus Roadside Picnic, by the Strugatsky brothers.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Nov 15, 2018 - 06:13am PT
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Forbidden Planet is good. Obviously looks a little dated by now.
Alien is a good movie by almost any standard. But it is more of a horror movie than sci-fi.
I'd argue that Star Wars is certainly a classic, as is Blade Runner. They both influenced the genre tremendously, and when folks think of sci-fi, it's probably those two that come to mind as much as any movies. That's pretty much the definition of "classic". It doesn't mean something is the best movie, more like most influential. Solaris and Stalker are good, and also influential. But not influential on the level of Star Wars.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 15, 2018 - 08:40am PT
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Fritz, I think Quinn actually stole the show as Ouda.
Too bad they didn't use the part of the book where, charging into battle, he accidentally shoots his camel in the back of the head.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Nov 15, 2018 - 08:51am PT
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Star Wars is a based on ancient myth like Homers epics, (hero gets a wizard/mentor, magic sword, sidekick, refuses the call to action, etc) with western and space opera elements. People don’t realize Lucas wanted the rights to Flash Gordon and couldn’t get them. Star Wars was always meant as a serial for kids and people take it way too seriously IMO.
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