RM Movie Club #2: Quiz Show

[Simple Torture]

I hate Connecticut with the passion of a thousand suns.

[Jorge]

But you live in a way worse state!

[lennytheweedwhacker]

hey now - i'm from connecticut

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Mrs. Trag is from CT too. But just a few years of doing the Merritt-Hutch drive from MA to NYC was enough to sour me on the state forever.

i probably know her

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[bada]

The CT you see in Hollywood films doesn't exist. Maybe in a extremely small corner near NYC.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Mrs. Trag is from CT too. But just a few years of doing the Merritt-Hutch drive from MA to NYC was enough to sour me on the state forever.

i probably know her

She lived in Wilton as a kid, then moved to Paris, back to CT briefly, then down to NC.

yep that's who i was thinking of...good people

[Simple Torture]

Hank Azaria: I just don't think I like him as an actor. I never feel like he's living in a role or convincing me there's any life behind the character. Not just here, but in anything I've seen him in (even though most aren't quote/unquote "serious" films).

[LoathedVermin72]

I love Hank Azaria and wish he were in more movies. Don't forget ANIMAL IN GODZILLA!!!

[Simple Torture]

Godzilla, of course, is the exception that proves every rule, since the entire production was obviously guided by the spirit of Thespis himself.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

interesting...i like azaria

[bada]

What part of CT are you from Lenny?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

What part of CT are you from Lenny?

east haven

[bada]

What part of CT are you from Lenny?

east haven

I grew up in Meriden. Pretty close.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

What part of CT are you from Lenny?

east haven

I grew up in Meriden. Pretty close.

i made all of that up

[bada]

You're a regular Don Rickles.

[Simple Torture]

Who has the last word before I post the new thread tomorrow? Skitch, it should probably be you.

[Jorge]

It doesn't have to be the final word, the thread will stay open. I should mention that I watched this today and really enjoyed it. I thought it was well written, smartly directed and handsomely shot. I thought the art design was awesome. The cast was great. It didn't even register for a long time that that was John Turturro. It's a farce at heart, and there are drawbacks to taking a farcical approach to a real-life story but it works here. I've never watched The Late Shift but this movie made me want to check it out.

[epilogue]

I haven't seen The Late Shift in a long time. But I don't remember it being anywhere near as competent as this. Though, I do remember liking it well enough.