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Sunday, February 01, 2004

we attended an 80's movie night last night. of the thirty-something movies the people brought, we watched two: the goonies and the shining.
it was alright except we ran out of drinks (and hawaiian punch grape juice was exactly as terrible as i thought it would be) and chris felt the need to point out facts about the movies that were really rather uninteresting.
one of my favorites was towards the end of the goonies: "they actually built a pirate ship for this scene."
really? wow...and here i thought they built a giant panda and used computer graphics to make it look like a pirate ship...NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!
there were precious few uninteresting and pointless facts about the shining that he didn't point out to us. this morning brian and max joked about feeding chris false information about the movies to see how he reacted. my contribution was this:
"few people realize that stanley kubrick was actually born in the 22nd century. oh yeah, the reason his movies are so good is that he saw them his whole life. they'er almost classics now, so of course they're classics in the 22nd century. everyone knows everything about those movies. so stanley travelled back in time and directed the films exactly as he remembered them, which is why they're so awesome. he had already seen the movie a million times before they started production!"

naturally, half the crowd left during the latter half of the shining. not teh kind of film you want to see at that hour. makes you sleepy. its very drawn out and dull at times. most everyone agreed afterward that it would have been more fun if we'd put on UHF instead, but half the people there had never seen the shining before and half the people there had never even heard of UHF, so ther was more of a demand for the shining.

simpsons did it better anyway.

4:08 PM
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