Good thing she changed her last name now. She was just thinking past the first level, John.
Another magazine reference! Those age so well.
Dodger, you donāt understand. I have been trying to find a single person who will watch Demolition Man with me.
Yes. I watched Showdown in Little Tokyo on repeat
It was Coke Classic.
Imagine if it had been New Coke. I wouldnāt wish that even on that douchebag.
Helsinki Syndrome?
Why not just call it Stockholm Syndrome? They trying to make every character as incompetent as possible?
I saw Boyz in the Hood at the Brywood ā$1 theatreā in KC - which is in a mostly black neighborhood but still gets a pretty diverse crowd usually. My friends and I never considered that most white people would probably avoid that movie in that theater. We were the only white people in the theater.
Needless to say, we survived without incident and it enhanced the movie a ton imo. Still one of my favorites and also should have been on my list @RiskyFlush.
Boys in the Hood was the first gangster movie that actually showed life in the afflicted areas. Previous movies - like New Jack City - showed this cartoonish version - where you never see the normal people behind the barred-up windows, just trying to live their lives.
Iām ashamed to say that even though I grew up in an integrated school district and literally went to several friendsā houses in all-black neighborhoods - I still had the New Jack City version of life in the āhoodā in my head for bad neighborhoods - people living like Mad Max or something. They were different than my friendsā neighborhoods in my mind for some reason.
It literally took that movie to open my eyes that these are real people, fathers, mothers, kids, with real dreams - college, football - just trying to live their lives on a hot block. It was the biggest āduh, you idiotā moment I think Iāve ever had in the movies.
Itās hard to explain but I think that movie helped bridge a disconnect - where black people are like - of course weāre real people living real lives, why does that even need to be said? But dumbass white guys like me - and again I think I was doing better than most 21-year-old white guys at the time in that I had been going to integrated schools my whole life to that point - still need a movie like that to wake us up and trigger our empathy.
Iām drunk so Iām not stating this well, but maybe you get the idea.
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Itās not a tumor!
Oh wait, maybe that was Kindergarten Cop.
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I will watch Demolition Man with you.
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Snape sniveling for John now
Swept that legā¦with bullets
Pulling the INS card
Damn
Dumbass press
They were part of Fight Club, they just didnāt talk about it.
Forgot Adventures in Babysitting as another favorite to watch back then.
White Men Canāt Jump is the most enjoyable quasi sports movie yet not of all time. I will fight anyone that argues otherwise.
Didnāt New Jack City come after BITH? Maybe Iām just thinking of Juice.
Above the Rim is a mixture of the above. Mostly famous for Regulator by Warren G, it also had that model guy who was in a Madonna video ā¦ how bout that
It cracks me up that the psychological test for testosterone decision making is literally something to the effect of āspiting your enemy even though you will suffer more than if you didnāt spite himā.
That and Tremors I saw on TNT/TBS more than anything ever.
Iām drunk too, sorry if overly loquacious.
Quasi sports movie is a tough category to nail down. What are the other contenders?
TBS is where I learned to love Chronicles. Seems like it was always on and I would get sucked in every time.
Great question.
Kingpin and Dodgeball come right to mind. Maybe Bull Durham and Field of Dreams.