Sunday!
Gregarious co-worker decided that he wanted to have everybody on the team come over to his house to watch a movie.
His house is all the way out in the middle of nowhere and he has a barn that he occasionally converts to a movie theater with his projection television.
I knew that I was going to be doing stuff this weekend that involved a game night on Friday and the usual chores and errands and so I knew that I was likely to make a token appearance at the movie night, drop off some chips and dip or a bottle of something, say that I wished I could stay but, jeez, I can’t… and then leave.
But he said what the movie we’d be watching would be… and I said “Okay. I’ll stay for the movie.”
When I told Maribou about the co-worker’s movie night, she said that she’d come, so long as it was the token appearance thing… until I told her what the movie was and she brightened and said “Okay. I’ll stay for the movie.”
And so, as a fun game, I’m going to ask for a list of movies that would get, oh, 80% of everybody to move from “Okay… I guess I have a social obligation to do something like this” to “Oh… we’re watching that movie? Okay. I’ll stay for the movie.” Because I am pretty sure that there are more movies than the one that he announced that would get that response… but, golly, off the top of my head, I can’t think of another.
So those are the hints. It’s a movie that would get me to say that, it’s a movie that got Maribou to say that, and (I betcha), it’s a movie that would get 80% of you guys to say “Okay. I’ll stay for the movie.”
So… what were we watching?
Roadhouse… nobody skips Roadhouse.Report
Yup.
Roadhouse.
Unless…… Gymkata…Report
I suggested Gymkata!Report
American NinjaReport
The all star British-Franco-American production of the Three Musketeers from the 1970s with Michael York, Charleston Heston, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Christopher Lee, and many others.Report
Too obvious.Report
OK, the sequel Four Musketeers.
True story: the actors had no idea that Richard Lester was shooting enough film for two movies, and they originally only got paid for one.Report
Princess Bride?Report
Oohh, good guess.Report
Am I the only one who does not like this movie?Report
I don’t dislike it, but I don’t put in on the same pedestal that so many other people my age do. For me it’s a firm C-Report
I can take it or leave it, but that wasn’t the question.Report
Yes.
I’m not quite the only one who prefers the book.Report
Westley didn’t tell Mike he was right; this was before comment sections. He was right, though.Report
@michael-cain nailed it.Report
Same. Best movie ever made.Report
This was my very first guess as well.Report
I’m going to go with War Games.Report
The Thing
Or Big Trouble in Little ChinaReport
The Thing always puts me to sleep.
Damn hypnotic suggestions.Report
Aaron, you say the word, and I’ll show up at your house any night and watch what you want to.Report
I’ll show up around Noonish to say what the movie was.Report
Deep Throat?Report
It was *NOT* this one.Report
Sorry, should be All the Presidents Men.Report
Saw Cars 3 Friday night, much better offering than Cars 2. Going to see Captain Underpants today.
Saw Wonder Woman last weekend (and it was excellent).Report
I was wondering about Cars 3. Maybe I’ll take Junior to the movies for Father’s Day. Although, he tends to like the exact opposite of what I want so we’ll probably end up watching Captain Underpants.
Any movie I’ve never seen before would get me to stay, except children’s movies. Grandma’s Boy always makes me laugh no matter how many times I watch it.Report
So Cars 3 – Good message for the kids, good message for adults, and Pixar’s attention to detail is just nothing short of mind blowing.
Captain Underpants is all potty humor, all the time. Kids will love it (if they are still digging potty humor), and adults are not without content, although it is more subtle (well, subtle to a 5 year old, you’d have to be asleep to miss them as an adult).
Anyway, movie budget is blown for the month.Report
I watched Cars 3 today for the A/C.
The animation is nothing short of spectacular. But very much a kids move with a few things to keep adults entertained.
And how did it have characters voiced by Paul Newman and Tom Magliozzi? Creepy.Report
It’s animation, voice work is done early on, which means both men could have finished their parts in time.
Although for Newman they probably used cutting room voice work.Report
Newman died in 2008 and Magliozzi in 2014, so the animators probably used what they already had recorded for both of them.Report
When I was studying for the Bar, a friend from lawschool decided to host a movie night as a study break? I brought the old Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn. We ended up watching a Ryan Reynolds romcom but everyone vindicated me by suggesting Robin Hood might have been a better choice.
A classmate who wasn’t there said “But that’s a great movie” when I told her my choice was Robin Hood.
Listen to the film snobs people.Report
Or you could watch the Kevin Costner version and get your mind blown. It’s better than people remember.Report
The epee group at my fencing club has adopted the Morgan Freeman line. When someone who is having a bad bout/day asks for advice out loud, everyone responds with “Move faster!”Report
The Mel Brooks version is pretty good too.Report
My favorite film suggestion incident was when a brought Fritz Lang’s M to a scary movie party for Halloween. It ended up with the host saying “Damn it Lee, this is real scary not fake scary.”
And yes, the Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn would have been much more fun than a Ryan Reynolds’ romcom.Report
My son’s girlfriend is a climatologist at NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research). He tells me that at least once a year, some group of the climatologists there get together to watch one of the Sharknado movies for fun.Report
Kent Dorfman, “Flounder,” died yesterday.
I told my housemate, who is a retired lawyer. He took in the news and asked “Do you know what this means?”
I replied “No.”
And he started chanting “Road trip! Road trip! Road trip!”
I told him that I was still too torn up about the death of Fawn Liebowitz, who was killed in a kiln explosion at Emily Dickinson college.Report
I guess some people just need kiln.Report
They named a dorm after her, Fawn Hall –
which apparently became the center of intrigue in the Iran Contra scandal.Report
I was going to go with North by Northwest, though, personally, I would stay for Bullitt.Report
If children are include in the invitation obviously a Disney cartoon classic is in order, say Lady and the Tramp, or 101 Dalmations. If adults you probably could not go wrong with Gone with the Wind.Report
I confess, the real reason I asked people to make guesses as to what movie it was going to be was because I wanted ideas for the perfect movie night.
My original suggestion to him was “Raiders of the Lost Ark” as a movie that pretty much everybody would love.
But, from all the suggestions above? I’m thinking Roadhouse might be a winner for the next movie night. Though Big Trouble in Little China is another very strong suggestion.
I’ll probably bring up Gymkata again though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDc5jnrBD1AReport
How about Unforgiven?Report
In that case… Silverado.
Its sort of the Princess Bride of Westerns.Report
We did Raiders at a movie night a few years ago. Most of the women checked out halfway through, although both my daughters love that series of movies.Report
The Usual Suspects.
Although I’d probably suggest Paprika if you let me.
The key to a good movie night movie is that it is both “rewatchable” and going to get enough people watching who haven’t already seen it…
The Good,The Bad, and The Weird fits. As does Love is Zero.Report
I’m thinking A Knight’s Tale, but is it too soon? I suspect that seeing it with a group of people, someone would turn melancholy and it’d affect the whole room.Report
I don’t think so. The Joker character is very much associated with his death in the popular imagination, but that character was such a departure from his Knights Tale / 10 Things phase that I believe most people will associate those performances subconsciously as if it were another actor.Report
There is not a movie on earth that would cause me to go to a co-worker movie night on a weekend.
I am on good terms with my co-workers when I am at the office with them. I will go out for lunch with them at most twice a month. When I leave the office, the factory whistle has blown, and I am not at the office.Report