Shag Point, New Zealand Superthread

[Axver]

Originally Posted by corianderstem Okay, kidlets - I'm going to run off and have my pizza and spectacular Coca-Cola, watch my movie, maybe blast some Springsteen (America! Fuck yeah!) and then go to bed. Later!

Have fun!

[BonoIsMyMuse]

Originally Posted by bono_212 Are muffins involved?

No, because they're more expensive than candy. Unless I make them myself, and that's a lot of time and muffins, especially when I usually only like a handful of my students each semester.

[coolian2]

Originally Posted by No spoken words Fuck you Ian.

All is right with the universe, um.......uh....dickcock.

[LemonMacPhisto]

Originally Posted by Axver Honestly, the biggest pain about movies is that I have to either 1. go really out of my way to see them and pay through the nose to do so ($15 minimum), or 2. completely blow my download limit and spend forever and a day downloading them. So that just discourages me from getting into them much in the first place. I imagine if I had a cheap cinema within walking distance, you might catch me enjoying movies more often.

Fair enough. You wouldn't care to rent any movies though?

[coolian2]

Cya Cori

[Axver]

Originally Posted by coolian2 I just never brought into it. I can suspend my disbelief to watch people travelling through funny little space portals to far away planets and galaxies and live in this former water city and meet with other beings that somehow speak English and their enemy is some alien race that sucks the life from humans to survive. But Spiderman? I just don't buy it.

Yeah, that's one big thing for me as well. Most of the time, I just cannot suspend disbelief long enough to take superhero movies seriously. It's the same reason why I really strongly dislike musicals - no, I really don't think New York gangsters are running around singing over-the-top Broadway songs.

[coolian2]

You know, if DVD movies just started straight away without the fucking menu, people wouldn't put off watching them.

I've had the Thank You For Smoking menu on screen for the last 20 minutes. It just doesn't motivate you to get watching as much as pausing at the very start.

[No spoken words]

My imagination is vivid, and an important part of what makes me tick. My ability to suspend disbelief is strong. But, different strokes for different folks.

[No spoken words]

Originally Posted by coolian2 You know, if DVD movies just started straight away without the fucking menu, people wouldn't put off watching them. I've had the Thank You For Smoking menu on screen for the last 20 minutes. It just doesn't motivate you to get watching as much as pausing at the very start.

Oh, just shut up, stop posting and watch the movie. It's actually very good, I was pleasantly surprised.

[LemonMacPhisto]

Originally Posted by No spoken words My imagination is vivid, and an important part of what makes me tick. My ability to suspend disbelief is strong. But, different strokes for different folks.

Same here.

If the movie's trying to set itself in a different world, then I'll go for it if it's well set-up. It's all about context, methinks.

[Axver]

Originally Posted by LemonMacPhisto Fair enough. You wouldn't care to rent any movies though?

That's the one viable option, as there's a Video Ezy within walking distance of me, but that still costs a fair bit of money sometimes (I was honestly impressed at how cheap movies are over your way), and I admit I find video shops kind of daunting. Video, music, and book shops, all for the same reason: I can only see one or two rows with any comparative ease and find the rest extremely difficult to read. FAR is obsessive with movies and will sprawl out on the floor to read the bottom shelf and pull out every single case so she can read what it is, but that's not so much for me. If I go in with a clear idea of what I want to see, then I'm alright, but casually browsing isn't too much fun. Yet from experience with doing that in bookshops (where I'll sometimes just deal, due to my love of books), that's how you stumble across half of the interesting stuff in the first place ...

[coolian2]

Fuck you.

And yes, I will fuck off and watch the movie now.

[No spoken words]

Like Dune, motherfucker!

"I remember your Gom Jabbar, now you will remember mine!"

[coolian2]

Originally Posted by LemonMacPhisto If the movie's trying to set itself in a different world, then I'll go for it if it's well set-up. It's all about context, methinks.

I believe it more if it's set in a different world. I struggle to believe Batman or Spiderman actually are hanging around in my universe.

[Axver]

Originally Posted by No spoken words My imagination is vivid, and an important part of what makes me tick. My ability to suspend disbelief is strong. But, different strokes for different folks.

For me, there are some things that I just find a bit too ludicrous to suspend disbelief for. Mainly musicals. God, I hate musicals. I could possibly deal with the disbelief if the music were any good, but it just strikes me as somebody who was conflicted between writing a play or forming a shocker of a band and just meshed the two together because they're an indecisive prick.