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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

LOveWerks said:
Film franchises like the Taken series, and other action films (Jason Statham) are cool with me.
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I love the Taken movies, all 3 of them. Neeson is pretty awesome at action movies(though the gun owning side of me is a little chapped at him the last week or so over his hypocritical comments).

Jason Statham's movies are also generally good, excluding Death Race.
 
Exploding light bulbs grind my gears.
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Light bulbs do that when dropped. It's impossible to sweep or vacuum up all the pieces. Used to recommend bread dough to pick them up. Silly putty might work. We used to keep dead bulbs for darning socks. Probably still would if we had any pure wool socks.
 
This thing dropped itself from the ceiling when I switched it on....BANG!! The metal screw base was still in the fitting. Replaced it with an LED bulb, hopefully that won't fail quite so soon and so noisily. Can get some modelling clay tomorrow, pick up remaining fragments with that, thanks for the suggestion.
 
I've managed to read most of the classic literature, so for plots, there isn't much new. It's basically the same stories interspersed by violence and sex. I would rather read the book, and after reading the book and creating the characters in my imagination, the actors and the screenplay aren't close. even disappointing. I don't like violence. I haven't been in a theater (except for some IMAX specials on NASA) since Star Trek 4.

Theaters are struggling. It isn't only the content, it's cost, hassle, and having "entitled" people in the audience.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/7/5877309/amc-spending-600-million-to-add-recliners-to-movie-theaters

"The Interview" just proved a release online could make money, so expect to see more.

Cheech and Chong were funny. We knew people like that. 42 was decent. It did show the nastiness that Jackie Robinson had to put up with. (I like baseball history - lots of characters in the past)
 
mikedt said:
This thing dropped itself from the ceiling when I switched it on....BANG!! The metal screw base was still in the fitting. Replaced it with an LED bulb, hopefully that won't fail quite so soon and so noisily. Can get some modelling clay tomorrow, pick up remaining fragments with that, thanks for the suggestion.
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Make sure you soften it first. You can roll it in your hands till pliable.
 
zuben el genub said:
I've managed to read most of the classic literature, so for plots, there isn't much new. It's basically the same stories interspersed by violence and sex. I would rather read the book, and after reading the book and creating the characters in my imagination, the actors and the screenplay aren't close. even disappointing. I don't like violence. I haven't been in a theater (except for some IMAX specials on NASA) since Star Trek 4.

Theaters are struggling. It isn't only the content, it's cost, hassle, and having "entitled" people in the audience.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/7/5877309/amc-spending-600-million-to-add-recliners-to-movie-theaters

"The Interview" just proved a release online could make money, so expect to see more.

Cheech and Chong were funny. We knew people like that. 42 was decent. It did show the nastiness that Jackie Robinson had to put up with. (I like baseball history - lots of characters in the past)
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The Interview had quite the special advertising campaign going for it, though...
 
I haven't been to a movie theater in years. The experience is better in my living room. I do go to the drive in every year, twice this year. But I can interact with my family & friends during the movies without ruining other's enjoyment. I just don't fit the "pay money to be quiet and stare at a wall" mold.
 
zuben el genub said:
I've managed to read most of the classic literature, so for plots, there isn't much new. It's basically the same stories interspersed by violence and sex. I would rather read the book, and after reading the book and creating the characters in my imagination, the actors and the screenplay aren't close. even disappointing. I don't like violence. I haven't been in a theater (except for some IMAX specials on NASA) since Star Trek 4.

Theaters are struggling. It isn't only the content, it's cost, hassle, and having "entitled" people in the audience.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/7/5877309/amc-spending-600-million-to-add-recliners-to-movie-theaters

"The Interview" just proved a release online could make money, so expect to see more.

Cheech and Chong were funny. We knew people like that. 42 was decent. It did show the nastiness that Jackie Robinson had to put up with. (I like baseball history - lots of characters in the past)
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zuben, I couldn't agree more. When I read Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird as a young kid, my imagination allowed me to have mental images of where the Finches lived, and the spooky place where Boo Radley lived.

Film is a wonderful art form, but human imagination that can leap off of the pages of a book that is read, then, enter into your mind, and it's own imagination - to me, is a more intimate, and personal experience. :) LW
 
Unforgiven said:
I haven't been to a movie theater in years. The experience is better in my living room. I do go to the drive in every year, twice this year. But I can interact with my family & friends during the movies without ruining other's enjoyment. I just don't fit the "pay money to be quiet and stare at a wall" mold.
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The drive-in movie experience is also wonderful, and while it bothers me that people call and text in a regular theater, that - in, itself, is what makes Video On Demand more attractive to me.

Going to the movies years ago was an uncluttered experience, that a community could share. Those days are gone. LW
 
I don't mind the theater near my house. It's an AMC theater so a ticket is $6 at night, $4 for a matinee. It's generally never crowded, but the area is right on the cusp of the ghetto, so you do get mouthy kids in there from time to time making noise.
 
I don't like wrestling entertainment, but I did when I was younger. If folks wanna watch it I say have at it though!
I did read an unkind post or 2 about the types of people who watch it and I think it's really sad that those things were said.

I know people from all walks of life who enjoy the soap opera that is wwe.

I guess if that's how someone feels it is their opinion and they are allowed to have it.
 
bjacks12 said:
I don't mind the theater near my house. It's an AMC theater so a ticket is $6 at night, $4 for a matinee. It's generally never crowded, but the area is right on the cusp of the ghetto, so you do get mouthy kids in there from time to time making noise.
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Our local theater has ten screens. All movies and all times are 4 dollars.
Small pop, small popcorn, and hotdogs all cost a dollar.

The owner also shows free movies to senior citizen groups a few times a year, and he also let's each of the 5 could try high-school to have a senior movie day every year and the movie is of course free.
 
We have this dumb place. The Vulcan and I stopped there on a bike trip. Totally lost on me. They had cable and baseball.
If he fussed, he could watch the movie, but I had a couple of good games including Bejeweled on the Palm so I played that. Bookworm on the Palm was a huge challenge.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/20900
Nothing but schtick and schlock.
Now a hotel with features of Space Exploration might be another story.
 
I remember seeing movie VHSs and DVDs in Woolworths, with titles that had never been in a theatre. They were often cheap, descriptions sounded promising, exciting, risque, but more often or not the movies themselves were pants, quite disappointing, and obviously low budget.

I think these are what would have been B movies back in the day, but theatres don't do double features these days AFAIK. You see the main movie that you want to see, and that's it.

There's a very nice movie theatre near me, huge screen, great sound, and very comfortable. However things like Gravity or Interstellar dubbed into Mandarin, I don't find quite so appealing. They occasionally show movies in English, subtitled for Chinese, I'm OK with that. And there's plenty of movies made in China, but don't tend to bother with them so much.


BTW I'm sure they tried drive-in theatres in the UK once, but with the unpredictable British weather, it wasn't such a good idea. Street movie theatres are common here in the summer evenings. They set out a few chairs, a screen, a portable DLP projector and a laptop, and then show a movie that was downloaded from the internet. It's all done on the pavement or in a park sometimes. Sometimes have a barbecue as well for refreshments.
 
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First off, if my observations about WWE offended anyone, I do apologize.

I met Rick Flair, and The Iron Sheik (and, Ricky Steamboat) - back in the '80s. What those guys did - when they weren't working - would blow your mind...

The reason why World Wrestling Federation changed their name to World Wide Entertainment is obvious:

They were exposed as being choreographed, with rigged wins and losses, by their own wrestlers.

However, if I was an early teen, I'd watch just to see the hot girls that are part of the WWE cast. :)

However, my feelings on WWE still stand. That, however, doesn't mean that people shouldn't be free to enjoy it.

If you check things out on the 'Net, you will find video footage of Vince McMahon even saying the he "...grew up in a trailer park...", and, that he "...wanted to provide his brand of entertainment..." to people like that..." (from his 'roots'), to show that if you dream, anything is possible.

Have a nice night. ;) LW
 
Actually, I believe they lost a lawsuit to the World Wildlife Fund.

I met Randy 'Macho Man' Savage, Terry 'Hulk' Hogan, and 'The Amazing Elizabeth' in my hometown. Off-stage, they seemed to be fairly nice people; but this was early on in their careers. I almost stepped on Jerry 'The King' Lawler back when he was still working the local circuit in Memphis. He was kind of a jerk; short man's attitude.

Anyhow, Wrestling in the late '70s and early '80s was the thing in my (red)neck of the woods, when we weren't hanging out in the mall or the roller rink.
 
"Everbody was Kung Fu fighting... HAH!" (insert Asian parallel fifth notes vamp here).

I looked up the case Dngrsone referred to, and he's correct. Still, many wrestlers had come forward in the mid-late '80s, exposing the unreality of wrestling, mostly because of money, and, not being chosen for belt status.

Hell, we watched a former boxing champion bite an ear; there are some things that have happened in the sports arena that have many still asking questions.

"To seek perfection, is folly."
(Myself, probably plagiarizing a well-known quote...)
LW
 
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