Sam's Thread of Chattin' w/ Jake & Other Robust Subjects

[Dowdsy McDowds]

My dozens of issues of Empire will be worth something one day, damn it!

I was tempted to keep some of my Filmstar mags. There were a couple of Sight and Sounds too, bought mainly for the cool covers. All in the bin yo, all in the bin.

Top Gun may need to wait, got some Friday Night Lights on the go and Raw later on, though I dunno if there's anything good on Raw this week.

 

[Uncle Sam]

My cinema had a members only free Trance screening, only the fuckers sold out in about an hour! Now I have to pay to see it, and I'm just not sure that's something I'm prepared to do.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Danny Boyle films have been skippers since 1997.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Still, tickets booked for Oz, for some reason, and The Croods, for some reason, on the Monday; Compliance, for some reason, and The Spirit of '45, for some reason, on the Tuesday. Perhaps it's time to recognise that I have a problem.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Yeah, who pre-books cinema tickets!

 

[Mighty NorCal]

Seriously.



the X-Men cartoon from the 90s is on netflix. fully engrossed, at the moment.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Liked it at the time, not so much now. I'm more of a Batman man. A Bat man?

 

[Mighty NorCal]

Liked it at the time, not so much now. I'm more of a Batman man. A Bat man?

Contrived, yea.

The Batman animated series episodes are much harder to come by. I watched a lot of that show this summer while I was on my little trip

 

[Uncle Sam]

Yeah, who pre-books cinema tickets!

It makes me go, otherwise how will I ever add to the list?

Contrived, yea.

The Batman animated series episodes are much harder to come by. I watched a lot of that show this summer while I was on my little trip

I think they're all out on DVD in America - even the weird later series where the style goes all weird. And Batman Beyond! I had to pay a pretty penny on iTunes to get most of my Batman stuff.

 

[Mighty NorCal]

It makes me go, otherwise how will I ever add to the list?



I think they're all out on DVD in America - even the weird later series where the style goes all weird. And Batman Beyond! I had to pay a pretty penny on iTunes to get most of my Batman stuff.

Not a big fan of buying DVDs. Once I have seen it, it kinda becomes useless. Because I know the end, you know?

 

[Uncle Sam]

Oh, how you'd titter at my movie collection!

 

[Nate DaMac]

It's occurred to me that the only reason I buy movies is so that when I'm broke, I can hawk them for a fraction of what I paid for them.

I'm not very good with money.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Your mother's a cunt.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Norcal, in England we have places called "Pound Shops" and in those shops, on occasion, you can purchase animated X-Men DVDs....for a pound!

Pounds are, what, nearly the equivalent of two American dollars? But still, that's a bargain!

 

[Lee]

I ripped CEX off with that about 2 years back.

My last poundshop purchase was Banana man.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

I used to then they got wise to my game and stopped giving cash for trade-ins.

 

[Mighty NorCal]

Norcal, in England we have places called "Pound Shops" and in those shops, on occasion, you can purchase animated X-Men DVDs....for a pound!

Pounds are, what, nearly the equivalent of two American dollars? But still, that's a bargain!

We have that too, its called the "Dollar Tree"

Contradictory to the name, it is not a tree, nor can you get dollars off it. You also have decidedly zero chance of finding X-men Dv....well, ANY dvd in that store.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

You also have decidedly zero chance of finding X-men Dv....well, ANY dvd in that store.

I pity your country sometimes.

 

[Lee]

Sunderland has a 99p store.

 

[Uncle Sam]

99p stores make me feel like a cunt when I say "Keep the change."

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Aiming for 10 films at the cinema this week. No reason, just feel like it.

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Mama, Welcome To The Punch, Jack The Giant Slayer, Oz, that Soderberg film, Identity Theif and whatever comes out on Friday.

 

[Uncle Sam]

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Mama, Welcome To The Punch, Jack The Giant Slayer, Oz, that Soderberg film, Identity Theif and whatever comes out on Friday.

Damn. I chose the wrong man to have a list-off with.

1. Stoker ★★★★★
2. Django Unchained ★★★★
3. Cloud Atlas ★★★★
4. Zero Dark Thirty ★★★★
5. The Croods ★★★★
6. No ★★★★
7. Flight ★★★
8. Lincoln ★★★
9. Oz the Great and Powerful ★★★
10. Wreck-It Ralph ★★★
11. Robot and Frank ★★★
12. Warm Bodies ★★★
13. Les Misérables ★★★
14. Welcome to the Punch ★★
15. Side Effects ★★
16. Gangster Squad ★★

Kids movies these days, eh? Pretty good. Pixar need to up their fucking game.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Half-term next week so I'll probably see The Croods then. Or I'll pretend I'm ill so I get out of it. I'm not above doing that.

 

[Thriller Ant]

Is Croods a kid's movie? I thought I saw that it was rated PG-13 over here.

EDIT: Nevermind. Just looked it up and it is PG.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Rated PG for Pretty Good.