The Late Night Rambling Thread

[James]

I'm taking a day off today.

[ThePhanastasio]

Today, I'm putting in a hellacious amount of job applications to fund my need to go to more concerts...and to save up for the Gretsch Electromatic Hollowbody guitar.

[Bloozcrooz]

Originally Posted by zachsd

I love Bill Murray, he just seems like such a nice guy.

I'm starting to organize my room. This is what I always do when I start feeling manic, take a xanax and start organizing shit. Better than getting addicted to heroin or something.

Wow xanax motivates you? Seems like it would be the opposite effect and calm you down. I get anxiety as well sometimes. Usually i can just smoke a few cigarettes and calm myself down. Im pretty lax most the time now..not being married anymore is probaly the biggest reason for that.

On a different note im not all that into the Bourne movies either. Just your choices at this hour arent the best in the world. I couldnt take another episode of groundhog day.

[ThePhanastasio]

Um. I just noticed that my 12-year-old sister has The Room listed as one of her favorite movies...should I be concerned?

[Bloozcrooz]

Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio

Um. I just noticed that my 12-year-old sister has The Room listed as one of her favorite movies...should I be concerned?

Ive never heard of the room..whats it about??

[ThePhanastasio]

Originally Posted by Boozinbloozin

Ive never heard of the room..whats it about??

Probably the worst movie ever.



That about sums up the entire "plot". I'm still not entirely sure there was a coherent plot.

[Bloozcrooz]

Yeah doesnt look like something id wanna watch. I thought the options here were bad. Looks like maid in manhattan is on next..yey!! There's a real blockbuster late night thriller.

[Freebase Dali]

Originally Posted by James

I never could get into the Bourne movies. Always felt dull to me.

One of the tricks to tolerating Bourne movies is having grown up as a boy playing in the yard and pretending you were 007. Even only for the fact that you are relieved that Matt Damon is not 007 (and hopefully never will be) and get satisfaction from slowly shaking your head throughout the movie and thinking "Roger Moore makes a cooler spy than you'll ever be".
Different movies with different motives, yes, and that's when Bourne movies become likable enough even to simply entertain wandering postulations about whether it's the only movies he's been in besides that remake of The Talented Mr. Ripley, without his drab buddy whats-his-name... who's apparently so uninteresting all I can think about is when he got with J-Lo, who's another topic altogether, but equally uninteresting. (But I always wondered... did she actually get an ass reduction? I never cared enough to check for myself. But if so, that's pretty fucking hilarious.)

But yea, apart from the cliches and actors and all, I'd think the Bourne movies at least appeal to the guy part of most guys. The same part of guys that think of Days Of Thunder when they zoom past ordinary citizens on the road to work. Or the same part of guys that sometimes yells that something is Sparta. We don't really care who plays in it, as long as there are gadgets, fights and a near limitless measure of human ability in context with the reality we actually believe in when we're not drunk, we're good.
We don't need it to be a masterpiece. We just need it to make us want to break things with style.

[djchameleon]

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

One of the tricks to tolerating Bourne movies is having grown up as a boy playing in the yard and pretending you were 007. Even only for the fact that you are relieved that Matt Damon is not 007 (and hopefully never will be) and get satisfaction from slowly shaking your head throughout the movie and thinking "Roger Moore makes a cooler spy than you'll ever be".
Different movies with different motives, yes, and that's when Bourne movies become likable enough even to simply entertain wandering postulations about whether it's the only movies he's been in besides that remake of The Talented Mr. Ripley, without his drab buddy whats-his-name... who's apparently so uninteresting all I can think about is when he got with J-Lo, who's another topic altogether, but equally uninteresting. (But I always wondered... did she actually get an ass reduction? I never cared enough to check for myself. But if so, that's pretty fucking hilarious.)

But yea, apart from the cliches and actors and all, I'd think the Bourne movies at least appeal to the guy part of most guys. The same part of guys that think of Days Of Thunder when they zoom past ordinary citizens on the road to work. Or the same part of guys that sometimes yells that something is Sparta. We don't really care who plays in it, as long as there are gadgets, fights and a near limitless measure of human ability in context with the reality we actually believe in when we're not drunk, we're good.
We don't need it to be a masterpiece. We just need it to make us want to break things with style.

You know what though, Bourne is pretty top notch when it comes to breaking things with style so I would class it as a masterpiece or pretty close to it as far as Action Movies go. Unless you want to call them Spy Thrillers but that's just semantics.

i love the Bourne movies for the fact that it is partly a mystery as well. We are trying to find out WITH Bourne what the hell is happening while he is wrecking stuff in the process. I also have to give the Bourne movies a big heads up for their car chase scenes that remind me of The French Connection.

[Bloozcrooz]

Yeah I think your pretty accurate in your descrition of youthful imagination. Using the most primitive of tools to emulate the sophistication of 007 type reenactments. The building of forts and creek bed barriers serving as the foundation for the Bat Caves and what not. Growing up in the country there was never any shortage of open range and rough terrain for the most vivid of imagination. For me more so than Bond type movies were the Young Guns type flicks. With your single pump daisy air rifle that crapped out after 15 feet of flight. Probaly at a whopping 3 feet per 3.5 seconds. There was nothing you coudnt go up against in the wild wild west. Setting out across the plains and through the woods to meet up with the villan and his gang(usually Dr.Pepper cans or empty beer bottles) At any rate were made short work for your all to keen ability for hitting your target. Till you discovered your b.b. gun didnt have the power to break or shatter the glass. Of course thats until you graduated later in life to the more high powered of air rifles.