There must be an IYKWIM comment but I do not say such things. :rolleyes:
There are two types of chick-flicks:
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Are you talking about the actual plot of the movie or your experiences watching them?
I’m about 99% certain that they didn’t call Dr. Piper “Bones”. But I could be wrong. Well, you’ve given me an excuse to watch it again!!
Oh, and BTW, the AT-ATs were wheeled vehicles as well. (That’s the reason their ‘feet’ were round. They would hunker down and roll given a suitable road.)
I’m pretty sure that they called him Bones off camera.
Sex for whom? The people on film or the viewers? Just wondering.
Honestly, I have to say I’m a bit disappointed in the whining going on about chick flicks from the males. You guys get tons of hot/exotic women in sci-fi all the time. Throwing in a chick flick (for the sake of argument one of the depressing with sex ones) for your special lady shouldn’t be a big deal.
I don’t think the point should be shutting out an entire genre - a couple should try to watch movies together that both will like. Balance is key.
That said - if a person in a relationship really loves, say, horror movies and the other person hates them, that doesn’t mean that loveshorror has to stop watching horror movies. It’s just a question of allowing each person to have their own taste.
And another that said - “chick flicks” can be really, really bad. So can sci/fi, horror, action, drama, etc. All genres have clunkers. So - look for the good ones. LOVE ACTUALLY, people. I have yet to meet a person who didn’t like that movie.
Yeah but chick flicks are generally terrible. As opposed to other genres that are generally okay to good
Chick flicks are not all the same. Some are romantic, some are comedies, some just a movie about ladies. So how can you hate them all? The only consistent is that they all have woman in them.
Dirty Dancing is about a time when people of money went out of New York City to cool off in the mountains. The poorer kids worked at these mountain resorts. There is a social clash between the groups. There are great looking guys and gals doing fantastic dancing. The music is a matter of preference but I really liked it. So except for the romance, why is this such a bad chick flick?
I always think of Red Dawn with her, actually.
Major cool points from me too! 
The kids and I did a LOTR rewatch in one day and it was incredible. I was so lost in the characters and story, it felt like I was living in a real fantasy there for 12 hours. Talk about a real vacation from life!
INterestingly enough, I was lucky enough to score a ticket to see the theatrical showing of all 3 when they released the third movie. If any of you remember, instead of the standard midnight showing they do for big movies like that one, for Return of the King they had events at select theaters of showing the first 2 before the midnight showing of the third. It ended up being an all day thing. The theater I went to had an absolutely awesome staff. They blocked off the last 2 theaters at the end of the hall & actually split us up into 2 theaters even though they sold only enough to fill one. They had free food for us that at first their machines just could not keep up with. But they were so friendly & genuinely sorry for the problem it really wasn’t a big deal. We just waited a little longer.
I never though watching 3 movies would be so exhausting, but I was just done by the time it was all over. I had a great time doing it & they were all fantastic to see back to back like that. (We had intermissions between the showings) However, I will probably never do something like that again.
Just wanted to chime in about something Chuck said. He had mentioned that even though Han and Luke’s friendship did mean something, that it really wouldn’t have changed much, if he weren’t around. I kind of disagree with that though. While Han did want the Princess, well, who did he return to save at the attack on the first Death Star? Luke. Luke also helped him realize that it was about the cause, and not just fame, money, and chicks. Anyway, great show, sad to see the Star Wars podcasts come to an end, but, looking forward to the crew doing the Matrix!
Han Solo’s always about bros before hos
I’m listening to the cast right now.
Sean I would so be willing to buy your Garbage pale collection.
I have a talking Vader figure from Celebration 3 exactly like Chuck is talking about. In fact I have 3. I always pick up a few extra exclusives for eventual trading purposes.
Sean is so right about Lea Thompson. She is hotter than Fisher.
War Journal, Day 19.
Car stereo still broken. Three weeks behind on GWC.
Putting together bits and pieces from the Forum, but not sure what the GWC Crew (or callers) had to say about Jedi. Does Audra like the Ewoks? What did Sean have to say about Boba Fett’s apparent demise in the Sarlac Pit?
What did they say about the Matrix flicks? Did they get that far yet? I’m all out of sorts.
And now, somehow, an inspired debate regarding the relative merits of Leah Thompson vs. Carrie Fisher has come up, but how? Feels like I’ve waited my entire life for this moment, only to miss it.
Leah’s hotter in the traditional “hot girl” sense of the term. Keep in mind, though: She made it with a duck – Howard the Duck. Things get freaky deaky here in Cleveland.
Some Kind of Wonderful, totally underrated flick. John Hughes wrote, but didn’t direct. In it, Mary Stewart Masterson is the EPITOME of the hot-girl-who’s-supposed-to-be-ugly archetype.
since we are not doing any Star Wars EU stuff… I think it’s about time I share this video…
It’s tiring to watch movies for 12 hours!
It’s cool though that you got to do it in the theater - we did it with a dinner party with some friends back in college - so it took longer, as we were cooking and eating, too. But it was one of my favorite social events of those four years, so it was definitely well worth it.
Finishing off the cast and I wanted to comment on the Breen from DS9
The Breen are a total rip-off of Boba Fett.
The Breen were totally a let down - I mean we can’t understand them, they’re kinda just thrown in at the end, and then…??? We don’t know what happens to them at the end of the series.
I actually was thinking, though, that they look more like Leia-as-bounty-hunter than like Boba Fett.
While we’re still on Star Wars - this is kind of ridiculous, in a good way.
You don’t even have to understand Portuguese to get it. 