The Chatty Pointless Thread

[Ru1977]

Fun fact: that scene is not in the play.

Hot damn! I had no idea. No sarcasm.

Mamet added it for the film.
Wild to me, since I’ve done the stage show a couple times now in different roles, but all anyone remembers is Baldwin and clanking balls.

Yes the balls are memorable but almost everything he says in that scene is better than that.

Folks actually get confused when they don’t see that scene, and if it were up to me I’d add it into the parade version the way Aaron Sorkin revised the stage version of A Few Good Men after it got solid rewrites (removing the “smoking gun” and making Caffee’s run at Jessup a “Hail Mary” rather than a setup) for the film.

Yeah, shit, may as well. Let someone come in and tear it up for a scene then go chill.

The good news is Spacey's catalog is largely crap.

Actually, yeah.

Outside of Se7en, American Beauty, The Usual Suspects, LA Confidential, Moon, and Glengarry, there isn't much you'd want to see. I doubt American Beauty or The Usual Suspects hold up anymore, either. Se7en is the only one I'd revisit.

Looking at his work, I agree. He could be the best thing about a not great movie, but fuck that anymore. He was an awful Lex Luthor, and the abomination that was Ordinary Decent Criminal where his Irish accent would be the worst one I've ever heard if not for Linda Fiorentino in the same movie.

It also has the single darkest line in any mainstream movie. My wife and I quote it all the time.

"While everybody else is opening up their presents, they're opening up their wrists."

Jesus Christ. I almost put that on last night but we were puttering around and I wanted to actually pay attention to it, but I didn't remember that line AT ALL.

 

[AceofKnaves]

Let someone come in and tear it up for a scene then go chill.

HA! My favorite roles to play.

 

[SDcomics]

Jesus Christ. I almost put that on last night but we were puttering around and I wanted to actually pay attention to it, but I didn't remember that line AT ALL.

 

[Ru1977]

Yep, definitely gotta put that on tonight. The Muppet one too

 

[Ru1977]

Muppet Family Christmas

This appears to not be on Disney damnit

 

[Niko (protozoalord)]

A tad late, but Die Hard is absolutely a Christmas movie. Christmas is the set dressing, and that's all that really matters for me to count it.

Hell, I'd happily consider any movie with a snowy setting to be a Christmas movie. The Thing? Christmas movie. Snowpiercer? The only difference between it and The Polar Express is whether kids should be allowed to watch it.

 

[d2bruce]

This appears to not be on Disney damnit

And so it begins. Disney screwing up our holidays!!!!

 

[docsilence]

This appears to not be on Disney damnit

So I looked into it - apparently because Muppets, Sesame Street, and Fraggles all have different licensing agreements no streaming service can show Muppet Family Christmas without paying someone else, so nobody does. Fuck modern tech, man.

(If you can find it on DVD though, it's SO worth having on physical media, it's just the Muppets Muppeting at Full Muppetocity)

 

[Ru1977]

Thank you for researching and sharing all that!

 

[Justice]

Muppet Family Christmas is on YouTube. I watch it there every year.

 

[docsilence]

Muppet Family Christmas is on YouTube. I watch it there every year.

This just made my Christmas, because I loaned my physical copy to my brother and I didn't want to have to ask for it back since nothing makes him laugh as much as the icy patch. Dude almost gives himself a heart attack every year laughing at it.

 

[Justice]

Christmas is saved!