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AnalogRocks
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Yeah cool isn't it? I haven't seen it start to finish in a long time. I watched it so many times when it first hit video I think i wore out 6 or 7 VHS/Beta tapes. Little snipets here and there.
I use to have it playing constantly on the weekends. It was really cool when I got it on Laser Disk. I could watch a side over and over. At one point the disk got stuck in the player for 3 years or so. I was fine with that. I hade more than one LD player. I put that player in my bedroom and fired it up before bed every night. 
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Phil Smith
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | Yeah cool isn't it? |
I don't know if it is or not AR. I'm still in shock. 
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| Clarence wrote: | I don't know if I've ever seen any movie 17 times, much less in a commercial movie theater.
Some "classics" I've maybe watched 10-12 times... Rocky Horror, Monty Python, Stripes, Fast Times, The Wall, Star Wars, Matrix, Indiana Jones, LOTR, etc. |
Yeah, I went a bit overboard on SW. It was a landmark movie, and it appealed to the geeky space fanboy in me. A significant number of those viewings were in an "altered state" so they probably qualified more as an "experience" than as a re-run.  Then there was the time I watched it from the front row of a Cinerama theater, just to see what it was like...
The details of the first SW movie are sufficiently burned into my brain that it's a bit distracting to watch the "new improved" version. Every digitally-enhanced doodad that Lucas added causes this "hey, that wasn't there before!" reaction in my subconscious.
Funny how everybody's got their own list of the "classics." I never would have put "Stripes" on that list. And believe it or not, I've never seen "Fast Times." I keep intending to but there are so many movies and so little time. Especially "so little time."
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AR: Wow man, I thought I was a geek hehe
eCrabb: Well said, as always.
Phil: I started my own business 7-8 years ago. For the first few years I didn't watch any movies at all, listen to music or read a book. I've been bed ridden for the last 3 1/2 years now, so yes - not much time to do anything else but music, read or movies!
When I was much younger, we had a regular (every Friday night) showing of Blues Brothers - if you turned up dressed up as a BB you got in for free. It didn't take long to learn every line by heart..
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Ah yes, I've got to add BB to my list of classics. Full Metal Jacket is another flick with a hundred classic quotes I've memorized from repeated viewings. And T1/T2. Plus all of my QT favorites: PF/KB1/KB2; I watched Reservoir Dogs last week for the first time in years. And just to go further OT, I just watched Robocop a couple of nights ago for the first time in probably 20 years... not as good as I remembered.
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Ahhh you guy's are all full of $hit. Admit it porn freaks. And what about the Fifth Element. I'm gonna puke if I see any more screen shots of that 
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I do not get it, sure you walk in the door with the lights on and it looks cool, but for movie watching experience it will just be distracting. Leave all that crap out in the Lobby (I'm sure with type of money they have them) where the guest not watching can enjoy the stuff and make the actual theater functional.
It almost seems like the screen is a after thought. "Oh! thats right, we are going to need one of those screen thingys".
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| stefuel wrote: | | Ahhh you guy's are all full of $hit. Admit it porn freaks. And what about the Fifth Element. I'm gonna puke if I see any more screen shots of that |
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| oliverg wrote: | | Phil: I started my own business 7-8 years ago. For the first few years I didn't watch any movies at all, listen to music or read a book. I've been bed ridden for the last 3 1/2 years now, so yes - not much time to do anything else but music, read or movies! |
I'm sorry Oliver! I didn't know that. I'm sure you're one person that really does make good use of a massive collection.
The rest of you collectors are just nerdy as hell! Get a grip! 
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HEY!! I don't resemble that remark.
I AM that remark!
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LOL!
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Oh dear.. the idea of Mila having a raging orgasm
I need a cold shower
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| Dave Lister wrote: | If somebody that had not seen the Fifth Element looked at those screenshots of Lilu they would swear that they came from porn, it looks like she is having a raging orgasm.
"Bada boom, big badda boom"
"Lilu Dallas, mutli-pass" (Lilu Dallas, multi-orgasmic more like it  ) |
I have seen it many times and still think that very thought...every time  Damn fine movie 
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| Dave Lister wrote: | | jask wrote: | | Dave Lister wrote: | If somebody that had not seen the Fifth Element looked at those screenshots of Lilu they would swear that they came from porn, it looks like she is having a raging orgasm.
"Bada boom, big badda boom"
"Lilu Dallas, mutli-pass" (Lilu Dallas, multi-orgasmic more like it ) |
I have seen it many times and still think that very thought...every time Damn fine movie |
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Yes when the lights came up after the movie.
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | Yeah cool isn't it? I haven't seen it start to finish in a long time. I watched it so many times when it first hit video I think i wore out 6 or 7 VHS/Beta tapes. Little snipets here and there.
I use to have it playing constantly on the weekends. It was really cool when I got it on Laser Disk. I could watch a side over and over. At one point the disk got stuck in the player for 3 years or so. I was fine with that. I hade more than on LD player. I put that player in my bedroom and fired it up before bed every night.
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you sound like me watching Fight club. That is a movie you have to watch twice... The first time I saw it I watched it twice back to back... I dunno If I have seen it 600 times... But I fell asleep with it on almost every night for year...
Come to think of it after the State of the union i think I will pop it in...
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I've watched fight club 3 times. Not a huge fan of it really. Though the shot at the end was cool with Ed Norton and the .45
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | I've watched fight club 3 times. Not a huge fan of it really. Though the shot at the end was cool with Ed Norton and the .45 |
It just cracks me up...
You have brad pitt,of all people, in this scene trash talking the celebrity culture. That kind of irony and satire cracks me up...
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Come on, AR - Fight Club is AWESOME! Being a Clockwork fan, I would think you'd find it pretty interesting, too.
It makes fun of so many things all at once... Consumerism, career, office politics, self-help/support groups, celebrity... all wrapped in a mind-bender. The monolog in that movie is some of my all-time favorite script writing. The opening scene when Ed Norton is in his apartment trying to order something from IKEA... yet another thing for his perfect apartment to try to make him happy... and the camera pans around the room like an IKEA catalog.... it's just a classic film. I was down in the theater a month or so ago and nobody was home. I turned on HBO or Showtime and it was on in HD. I watched from start to finish - couldn't stop watching it.
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