Tuesday Afternoon
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Fri Aug-13-10 11:08 PM
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Poll question: The Big Chill |
Heidi
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Sat Aug-14-10 12:56 AM
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1. Loved the film, love the soundtrack. |
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I think a lot of the nostalgia around "The Big Chill" is based on a portrayal of friendships as many of us want our friendships to be (as opposed to how most friendships really are). :shrug:
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Sat Aug-14-10 12:59 AM
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3. it was on very late last night. I had forgotten how good was the soundtrack. |
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just one good tune after another.
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Sat Aug-14-10 01:00 AM
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Mornin'/evening, TA. :hug: :hug:
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Sat Aug-14-10 01:05 AM
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7. and a big ole Time Warp Hello to you, Heidi |
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Sat Aug-14-10 12:58 AM
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2. Pale imitation of John Sayles's "Return of the Secaucus Seven." |
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Sat Aug-14-10 01:00 AM
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5. I will have to check it out. Thanks, Gormy. |
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Sat Aug-14-10 01:04 AM
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6. It may have been his first film...he was a nobody for sure |
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and if I hadn't seen that film I would've enjoyed the sweet silliness of The Big Chill a bit more.
Secaucus Seven feels like you're sitting around with friends rather than watching characters playing roles.
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Sat Aug-14-10 01:31 AM
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but the movie always seemed a little -- I don't know-- smug/pretensious.
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Sat Aug-14-10 08:04 AM
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10. privileged characters, they were. |
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Edited on Sat Aug-14-10 08:10 AM by Tuesday Afternoon
on edit: I voted for the soundtrack, btw.
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Sat Aug-14-10 01:52 AM
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9. One of my favorite films and has what may be my alltime favorite quote from a movie... |
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. . . . . . . . . . ...Jeff Goldblum as Michael: . Michael: I don't know anyone who could get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex. . Sam Weber: Ah, come on. Nothing's more important than sex. . Michael: Oh yeah? Ever gone a week without a rationalization? . . . . . I saw it on Christmas Day 1983, when it came out. The night before, my sister and her husband had thrown a little dessert/cocktail party for my BIL's college contemporaries in his MBA program who had gravitated to Manhattan (Mecca of marketing). . They had had the same "Where we wanted to be vs where we are" conversations. . Most interesting was a marketing V.P., pulling down a healthy 6-figure salary in 1983, who had once drummed for a Chuck Berry tour. He said he sometimes thought his BIGGEST mistake was selling his drum kit so he could finish his MBA program. . Went to his first job interview (in 1973 or 74) dressed in a suit and his best dress shirt, which had Daffy Duck and Porky Pig embroidered on the lapels. The interviewer stopped abruptly and told him that he was not going to continue. "From your attire, I assumed you were here for the Creative Department." . . :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: . . Most interesting perspective? A woman during a "What would epitomize having WAY more money than you would ever need?" type game. . Using expensive, soft, luxuriant bath towels ONCE... and then discarding them. . She confessed that her Puritan background would probably kick in, and she would be unable to throw them away. She would cut them up for dusting rags. . . :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: . . .
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Sat Aug-14-10 08:06 AM
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11. Jeff was my favorite character in that film. |
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I really don't get the rest of your post that is OK because I don't get a lot of what goes on around here.
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Sat Aug-14-10 11:03 AM
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12. To mangle Mark Twain on Wagner, this movie views better than it is |
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A great soundtrack and actors almost make up for a character study that goes nowhere.
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Sat Aug-14-10 11:25 AM
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It's hard to say if that or Eraserhead gave me the worst nightmares -- it would have been hell to wake up in either world.
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Sat Aug-14-10 12:06 PM
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14. Note how no one has voted for "Funny and ferociously smart." |
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Nothing I can add to that.
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