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Average!? AVERAGE!!??
(it’s the nicest day earth has ever seen)
(Doesn’t the fact its Universal make it International am)
(Rando!!)
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And I have received permission from the wife to go see it this month. IN A REAL LIVE THEATER! SQUEEEE!
Also: Doesn’t it seem that EVERY THREAD becomes a game, sooner or later?
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Are you taking other people, or do you just like your space?
Oddly enough… I (ahem) am Being Taken.
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Hope to god the seats are good, since I didn’t pick 'em. If it’s the main Chinese auditorium, I go with sixth row center. Those seat numbers give me pause, though.
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CSB: one time at about 1 am I walked last that theater, and one of those Mexican hotdog bacon carts was parked in front of it. Feeling maudlin, hungry, and a little flush I bought a dog and tipped twenty bucks.
She almost passed out, it actually made me feel kinda bad. But wicked good dog though.
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Row 412 sounds a long way back…
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Unless it’s 4th row, seat 12, in which case it’s slightly too close (but acceptable).
What could be pretentious about a David Mamet film, you little fucking shit?
Whoops. PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN, you sunnuva bitch.
The job of mass entertainment is to cajole, seduce and flatter consumers to let them know that what they thought was right is right, and that their tastes and their immediate gratification are of the utmost concern of the purveyor. The job of the artist, on the other hand, is to say, wait a second, to the contrary, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let’s reexamine it.
– DAVID MAMET
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.
– DAVID MAMET
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Why did you watch it so many times?
I used to be in the film world (not production). Plus, I kept thinking that maybe this time I would finally join the club.
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Now, if only “the critics like it more than the general audience does” had anything to do with pretentiousness.
