Oh. Yeah.
Are you in? Like Flynn I’m in. With a big ol’ grin, drinkin’ a tonic and gin, I’m in.
Burt Likko
Pseudonymous Portlander. Homebrewer. Atheist. Recovering Republican. Recovering Catholic. Recovering divorcé. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Ordinary Times. Relapsed Lawyer, admitted to practice law (under his real name) in California and Oregon. On Twitter, to his frequent regret, at @burtlikko. House Likko's Words: Scite Verum. Colite Iusticia. Vivere Con Gaudium.
Sunday Morning! Bowles on Film
October 25, 2020
Bae Humbug! Sacha Baron Cohen and the Pranking of Truth
October 25, 2020
Saturday Spins: The Beatles Rubber Soul
October 24, 2020
Joe Biden Won’t Restore America’s Norms
October 23, 2020
The Best Meal I Ever Had: Lobster Risotto
October 26, 2020
October 26, 2020
An Example Of Dystopian Leftist Culture
October 25, 2020
Sunday Morning! Bowles on Film
October 25, 2020
Bae Humbug! Sacha Baron Cohen and the Pranking of Truth
October 25, 2020
October 25, 2020
Saturday Spins: The Beatles Rubber Soul
October 24, 2020
Danny Dreamer’s Railroad Journey
October 24, 2020
Joe Biden Won’t Restore America’s Norms
October 23, 2020
An Example Of Dystopian Leftist Culture
October 25, 2020
Wednesday Writs: Racial Discrimination in Ricci v. DeStefano
October 21, 2020
Thursday Throughput: Great Barrington Declaration Edition
October 22, 2020
From CNN: CNN Poll: Biden wins final presidential debate
October 23, 2020
Social Constructionism For Conservatives
October 20, 2020
DOJ, 11 States File Anti-Trust Lawsuit Against Google
October 20, 2020
Weekend Plans Post: Specialized Kitchen Tools
October 22, 2020
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That’s… just… WOW!
So damn creepy! [SHUDDER!]Report
I know, right? So much awesome there.Report
All it would need for perfection is the hero to build some kind of junkyard mecha to go toe to toe with the beastie.Report
Brought to you by Toyota.
http://jalopnik.com/toyota-recalls-870-000-cars-because-of-freaking-spiders-1447758469Report
Here’s a post Burt or someone else should do:
Why is it that once an actor/actress has been in any sci-fi/horror TV show or movie – no matter how bad it was or how dreadful they were – they are granted a career in sci-fi/horror movies for the rest of their lives? Not only a career, but one in which DVD boxes will say things like, “Featuring Walter Koenig of STAR TREK!” even if they have, like, 2 lines?Report
Typecasting and fan love.Report
Walter Koenig? The guy who played Bester on B5 was in Star Trek too!?!!1! Awesome! Literally space awesome!Report
You really didn’t know that? He played Chekov, the Navigator, sat next to Sulu on the bridge. Spoke with a doofusy fake Russian accent.Report
(I knew that. Just being silly. “Where are your nuclear wessels?”)Report
And did you know Wings wasn’t Paul McCartney’s first band?Report
@mike-schilling that would be the Kingsmen, wouldn’t it?Report
Wings? You mean that crappy sitcom? Buffalo style? Wings Hauser ( only noted for crappy movie fans)? Was there another Wings?Report
And did you know Wings wasn’t Paul McCartney’s first band?
Who is Paul McCartney?Report
Ringo Starr’s bass player.Report
I never understood the appeal of this kind of entertainment and probably never well.
Keep in mind “so bad its good” has always gone over my head. Same with Camp and Kitsch.Report
It can be a fun social activity. It’s simple enough that you can talk to people while you’re watching it without missing much. You can make fun of it together.Report
I care about art too much. Life is too short and there is too much good art out there. I can’t imaging wasting time on the campy/kitschy stuff.
Though I also don’t quite get passive entertainment either. Perhaps my brain is just hyper active.Report
Life is too short for humor?Report
James,
There is plenty of intentional comedy that I can watch and laugh with and at while still avoiding this stuff 🙂 Stuff with actual wit and intelligence.Report
Oh just ignore NewDealer, he plain doesn’t get it.
Let him have his high-brow artsy-fartsy “humor”, we can all enjoy this excellent beer & pizza movie without his belly-aching the death of wit.
😉Report
MRS,
The Philadelphia Story isn’t funny?Report
MRS was a Navy man. There’s nothing “funny” about covert invisibility experiments resulting in time-traveling destroyers. 😉Report
The time-travelling part is fine by this Navy man. It’s the sailors embedded in bulkheads that give me the williies.Report
@newdealer
Not compared to Bringing Up Baby.Report
NewDealer,
Surely you’d laugh at folks reading the stage directions??
I’ll quote:
“This is quite homoerotic”
You’ve done theatre, surely you can laugh at people doing it wrong?
(Note: additional hilarity ensues when someone tries to make a bad
show, and instead makes a /good/ one).Report
I agree with Rod, the whole “sailors in the bulkheads” bit was unfunny, the rest was pretty cool.Report
“I never understood the appeal of this kind of entertainment and probably never well.”
what is this…emotion…you humans call…fun?Report
Cute. I have fun.Report
This reminds me of “8 legged freaks”.Report
Another classic!Report