The Index of ILX Film Snobs

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1. Dr. Morbius
Defining Characteristics: Cranky New York I've-Seen-Many-More-Movies-Than-You Type
Most Famous Battle(s): When JW Mistook Him For A Bright Eyes G00gler
Humanizing Factor: Likes Baseball
Secret Powers: Is WFMU Listener DJ
Origin of Name: Prospero figure in Forbidden Planet
Sometimes Teamed With: HStencil, Y4ncey
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: The Bad News Bears, The Ice Harvest
Known Enemies: TOMBOT, Dang Perry

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

2. Eric H
Defining Characters: Middle American I've-Seen-More-Movies-Than-You-Punks-And-Anyone-I-Know-In-Real-Life Type
Most Famous Battle(s): Various Film Poll Nominations Threads
Humanizing Factor: Tries to reach out to the public but is misunderstood and beaten back by the angry mob
Secret Powers: Actually knows a lot about Film and has written extensively about it.
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: Jerry Lewis (Of Course)

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

Haha oooh these are good! Do Adam next!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 3 March 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

3. Alex In SF
Definition Characteristic: Uptight In That Way Only People In A Supposedly Mellow State Like California Can Be
Most Famous Battle: ??
Humanizing Factor: Has A Soft Spot For The C-Man And His Horror Movie Fests
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: Sometimes Confused With All The Other Alexes

(xpost!)

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

I think my most famous battle probably had to be one with Adam about Elliot Gould haha.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 3 March 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

You forgot Alex's extensive knowledge of every yakuza film ever.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 3 March 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

That's my De-Humanizing Factor haha.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 3 March 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

I love you, Ken. :)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 3 March 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

4. jaymc's "film critic friend"
Defining Characteristics: metaphorically stands in for ILXors pathological habit for using film critic quotes instead of stating their own thoughts
Most Famous Battle(s): being invoked by adamrl on the Capote thread
Humanizing Factor: is friends with jaymc, so is probably sweet like sugar pie
Secret Powers: too good to throw down in the low-down catty 300-plus-post battles
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: ditto
Known Enemies: adamrl

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

5. jay blanchard
Defining Characteristics/Origin: Visitor From Another Universe Where He Alone Has The Secret Knowledge That Film Is An Art Form And Not Just Entertainment
Fighting Style: The Shifting Sands Approach, In Which He Transfers His Own Misunderstanding Onto His Opponent And Then Claims Victory
Most Famous Battle: The Destruction Of ILF
Sometimes Teamed With: Baby Buddha
Humanizing Factor: Sometimes Posts Pictures Of His Sister's Kid To The What Do You Look Like Threads
Known Enemies: Sometimes Toyed With By Casuistry

(xpost)

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

5. AdamRL
Defining Characteristics: Like a young Woody Allen without the glasses. . . also generally less cranky. . . and more British. . .
Most Famous Battle(s): CRASH
Humanizing Factor: Actually really likes Cries and Whispers which is just so darn touching.
Secret Powers: Has seen more obscure movies made by totally unknown Arkansas miner/filmmakers than anyone you know.
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: Thinks positively about movies by totally unknown Arkansas miner/filmmakers.
Known Enemies: Dan Perry, Eliot Gould-Haters

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes Teamed With: Baby Buddha

Is BB still around?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think so. He was going to go on the Film Snobs Of The Golden Age sublist.

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

hilarious!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

I really feel like leaving this to the experts, but others can always revise, et al.

6. amateurist
Defining Characteristics: the knows-way-more-than-you type who actually does know more but is oh so vague about offering it
Most Famous Battle(s): with himself over Elephant
Humanizing Factor: acknowledges the extent to which personal opinions color film discussion and demonstrates it more tactfully than the other ILX film snobs
Secret Powers: has actually lived in the world capital of cinephilia
Origin of Name: amateur/auteurist/eucharist/ate
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: posting phrases in French
Known Enemies: Gus Van Sant

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

this is pretty great

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

8. J.D.
Defining Characteristics: Often Successful In Using Considerable Rhetorical Skills To Discuss Films Before Being Dragged Down Into The ILX Gladiator Pit
Secret Powers: Can Very Convincingly Replicate Snatches Of Old Time Movie Dialogue
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: Thinks Breakfast At Tiffany's is a good movie
Sometimes Teamed With: s1ocki

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

I was a big fan of adam and alex's showdown over adam's netflix ratings system!

― armalite roffle (haitch), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

9. gygax!
Defining Characteristics: Even Further Along The Autism/Asperger's/Obssessive Collector Disorder Scale Than The Rest Of ILX
Fighting Style: G00gletrump
Most Famous Battles(s): Any Asian Cinema Thread. See Weak Point
Origin Of Name: Uncertain. Perhaps The Title Of A 50s Mutant Insect Movie? RFI From League Of ILX Film Snobs
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: Extensive Film Viewing Has Convinced Him He Can Speak French/German/Japanese/Mandarin/Cantonese/Shanghainese/Taiwanese etc.
Sometimes Teamed With: amateurist
Known Enemies: AdamRL

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

Gary Gygax = inventor of Dungeons and Dragons

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I think you are confused about his friends and enemies!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

That's weird, because I always picture gygax! as looking like Harris on Freaks And Geeks. Maybe I knew that subliminally.

Also, I think you are confused about his friends and enemies!!
Well, I think these things are a little fluid.

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc update the spreadsheet: gygax! is the name of the best pitchblende record, of whom he is a big fan.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 3 March 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

gygax is sorely missed

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

Do Slocki!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

yeah s1ocki's the only glaring omission i can think of

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

Girolamo anyone?

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

#10 has to be Ken for doing this thread!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

(not that they're in order)

(or, at least, I hope not!)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

Gygax and AdamRL tag-teamed with some Lost in Translation hatred at one point.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

10. NRQ
Defining Characteristics: Seems Like An Old Film Snob Who Hasn't Watched A Film Since The Glory Days Of The French and German New Wave, But In Fact Is Barely Of Drinking Age
Most Famous Battle: Defending That Piece Of Trash The Dreamers
Fighting Style: Acts Like Film Professor Who Was Transferred Over From The Literature Department And Still Secretly Thinks Films Are Trash
Origin Of Name: Variant Of Norwegian State Radio, NRK
Humanizing Factor: Actually Doesn't Seem To Know That Much Academic Theory
Secret Powers: Friend Of Will S3lf
Known Enemies: Eric H (Who Would Still Be Friends, If Only They Try To Understand Eric Instead Of Yell At Him)
Sometimes Teamed With: Momus

note to jaymc: please refrain from impulse to correct Origin Of Name field by reference to actual 'facts'

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

this is awesome. and i deserve the credit!

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

what a great thread.

where are the J.D. and gygax! humanizing factors?

― estela (estela), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

haha i ~~hate~~ love you guys

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

my most famous battle was probably the "citizen kane vs fight club" confrontation with NRQ.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

allyzay is a secret film snob - she hates spielberg and her fave film is les enfants du paradis!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

11. Remy
Defining Characteristics: Seems To Have Some Sort Of Professional Film Gig
Most Famous Battle: The Battle Of The G00gling Film Students
Fighting Style: Shapeshifter
Origin Of Name: French Cartoon Frog Popular In The Sixties And Seventies
Humanizing Factor: Was Cute-As-A-Button Adopted Child, With Plenty Of Pictures To Prove It
Secret Powers: Hints At The Paying Gig Every Once And A While
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: Sees Everything From "The Screenwriter's Point Of View"
Known Enemies: Beloved Figure Of ILX, But See Most Famous Battle
Sometimes Teamed With: Teh JW

where are the J.D. and gygax! humanizing factors?
Feel free to feel in the missing fields, estela

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

I am also a secret film snob because I only watch silent films and subject only a small scattering of victims to my boring opinions.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

There's several people missing.

Secret Powers: has actually lived in the world capital of cinephilia

me too! I was supposed to be at school but I did nothing but watch movies all day, surely that counts.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry Eric, but it is in order!

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

Feel free to feel in the missing fields, estela

ken, i am much too shy and reserved to make declarations about young film gentlemen's humanizing factors and anyway the ones you wrote for the others were funny and nice and far better than anything i would write.

― estela (estela), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

Also - I'm gygax's enemy?

I think we disagreed on Lone Star but he introduced me to The Endless Summer and he likes Chris Marker.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

where is ned raggett? or does the mstk3 thing not count

― gear (gear), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry Eric, but it is in order!

Alright, but only because J. Blanchard refused to post on film topics that weren't on ILF.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

Ryan should be here, also Colin B and Milo.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

Pete also

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

quite frankly i think i deserve to be on there, based on the dreadful taste of the top 11

― gear (gear), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

: D

― gear (gear), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

gear

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

humanising factors:

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:49 (nineteen years ago)

Gear - yet another shameless Asian cinema apologist, once derided 28 Days Later for being "indie and British".

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:49 (nineteen years ago)

RJG hates me, huh

― gear (gear), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:52 (nineteen years ago)

RJG - is about to try and make a fool of you, but don't worry it's just a dry sense of humour he doesn't mean it. Oh yes, actually he does. but does he?

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

No he doesn't. Or maybe.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

humanising factors:

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

famous battles: match point, "rubbish" buildings

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

10. NRQ
Known Enemies: Eric H (Who Would Still Be Friends, If Only They Try To Understand Eric Instead Of Yell At Him)

Ken, again, I love you. You have my pussy number, but I can't remember having a throwdown with NRQ unless it was over Spielberg recently. (Blount, on the other hand, was my known enemy for a whole afternoon.)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

12. Sinka
Defining Characteristics: Wrote An Actual Bonafide BFI Film Classics Book!
Most Famous Battle(s): Fought Tooth And Nail To Wake Up Slumbering Uncritical Fans Of Teh Grate Rock and Roll Swindle. Witnessed The ILX Origin Struggle Between A Dalek And A Twelve Foot Lizard, The Depiction Of Which On The Only Piece Of Paper Available, A Cocktail Napkin, Is The First Recorded Instanced Of A 'Fite'
Fighting Style: wrts in shorthnd to distinguish his ilx trifles from his prof. writingz
Origin Of Name: Humorous Honorific From The Days Of The Raj
Humanizing Factor: Tends To Avoid Getting In The Gutter With The Less Talented Film Snobs
Secret Powers: Really Is Working On That Big History Of Cinema Book
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: A Little Too Cozy With The Old School Frank K0g4n My Brane And Welcome To It R0ckcrit Set
Sometimes Teamed With: Martin Sinkmore
Known Enemies: Ned

note to jaymc: Please correct the error in the last field so that Ned doesn't have to.

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

You forgot Alex's extensive knowledge of every yakuza film ever.

Also, I have to stick up for my good friend here. His taste is in fact very diverse - he's really into samurai stuff too!

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

and technically, hong kong gangster films aren't yakuza films. they're triad films. so that's another genre.

― gear (gear), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ryan should be here, also Colin B and Milo.
yeah, yeah, yeah, and t0dd sw!ss too. Feel free to write them up if you have time.

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

Amateurist, NRQ, t0dd and Pete are all film students and therefore deserve gold stars.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

Girolamo WAS one and the fact that he doesn't post anymore is probably a good sign.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

12. j blount
Defining Characteristics: angry southern dude who will kill you with his really big paragraphs
Most Famous Battle(s): that period of like three months where he answered every dr morbius post with "oh yeah, well YOU like all the president's men! HAHAHA! loser!"
Fighting Style: kick you to death with his furious unpunctuated one-liners
Humanizing Factor: funny, has good taste in films
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: sometimes partakes a little too much of the high-and-mighty trifean style
Known Enemies: anyone who liked "amelie"

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

i think the identified film snobs should provide their all-time and 2005 top tens to make the index more complete. what's a film snob index without top tens?

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

14. s1ocki
Defining Characteristics: Canadian and thus automatically a little suspect, apparently some sort of critic
Most Famous Battle(s): Weirdly benign, probably secretly hates everyone
Humanizing Factor: Watches shit like Pokemon 3 so that you don't have to, wrote this
Secret Powers: melting m&ms in the microwave
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: Loves a good ballet documentary
Biggest mystery: Where is he hiding jones?

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

i think the identified film snobs should provide their all-time and 2005 top tens to make the index more complete.

Is this the "in time" you were referring to, morbs?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

I hate doing my top ten. Is it enough to say that I love The Shining, which Morbius recently took a huge dump on?

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

I think I deleted my top-ten of 2005 list. I only remember for sure that Head-On was #1.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

you guys are some real pathetic film snobs.

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

Meaning that we are real pathetic at being film snobs or that film snobs are just really pathetic.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

haha. uh, the first since im nice.

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

Film snobbery is pathetic and we are pathetic, or I am at least.

Someone link to the French Film thread where I asked for more about Ophuls and Amateurist drily replies "he was Viennese"!

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

I would also include Miccio, Elvis Telecom because he's seen more crap late-70s Sean Connery films that you've never heard of than you, and fezaffe/Yawn for the heinous crime of loving bad action films more than any other German.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

And mark p, yet another suspiciously Canadian journalist.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

He'll definitely see the next Gondry film before you.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

My #1 crime is surely that I secretly hate genre cinema!

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

#2 crime - saying "cinema".

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

15. Ryan
Defining Characteristics: Even-Tempered Film Lover Who Often Sits Ignored Behind The Front Row Film Grumps Listed Above
Fighting Style: Too Nice To Start A Real Fite, Even When He Tries
Humanizing Factor: Has Never Snapped At Anyone, Not Even Jay Blanchard
Most Famous Battle(s): Survived The Destruction Of ILF
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: Really, Really Wants To Be On The Film Snob List- Really, Really. Sally Fi3ld Really, Really.
Sometimes Confused With: a spectator bird

Adam, next time Jess does a picture thread I want you to go on there and say things like "but that doesn't look like teh JBR!"

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

#3 crime - multiple consecutive posts, derailing threads.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

you like me! you really like me!

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

I think Redd Scharlach should...maybe be on the list.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

"My #1 crime is surely that I secretly hate genre cinema!"

Hey it's your loss.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just kidding. I love genre cinema.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

It is great.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

am i just a film snob in training?

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Friday, 3 March 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes Confused With: a spectator bird

i resolve to be snobbier. or at least more singularly snobby.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 3 March 2006 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

gygax! once told me his favorite movie was either Sans Soleil or Muriel's Wedding, I have no idea how that fits into all that.

Not nearly enough mentions of Bad Santa on this thread.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 3 March 2006 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

16. Ken L
Defining Characteristics: Nice, knows his shit, and knows everyone else's
Fighting Style: Plays the genial, intelligent, even-tempered latent snob, but also surreptitiously orchestrates snob wars by subtlely reminding everyone of everyone else's festering grudges
Humanizing Factor: fulfills the wishes of wannabe film snobs by inducting them into the pantheon
Most Famous Battle: this thread
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: taking the bait in threads like this: Why is the ratio of ILM posts to ILF posts approximately 8,793 to 1?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 3 March 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I'd like to add to a profile:

5. AdamRL
Most Famous Battle(s): CRASH

Also, add this thread to that category: Roeper

(Sure it was probably in fun, but he's a fun guy.)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 3 March 2006 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

After several years having worked in the industry, I am now convinced that film isn't even an art form.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 3 March 2006 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

not only is this the gayest thread ever on ile, but it's the gayest thread possible.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 3 March 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

Which brings up what's missing in these profiles: sexual orientation.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 3 March 2006 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost)
As usual, you are 100% wrong, oops. For one thing, there is the NOize B0ard Musical Thread. For another, nobody's played our ace in the hole yet, anthony.

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

17. anthony easton
Defining Characteristics: dispenser of mystic revelations regarding the subtexts of popular films that sometimes seem like they've been translated back and forth a few times from the original hebrew
Most Famous Battle(s): accuses fellow snob amateurist of homophobia on slight pretext
Humanizing Factor: knows his film theory, sweet-natured guy with an interesting point of view
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: likes fellini more than capra
Known Enemies: bill murrary

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 3 March 2006 06:53 (nineteen years ago)

18. miccio
Defining Characteristics: big pauline kael/brian de palma fan
Humanizing Factor: claims to have spent the first hour of ghost world flipping off the screen
Secret Powers: willing to call bullshit on the overrated stuff, has a cool last name
Fighting Style: "bullshit! this film is BULLSHIT!"
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: likes stephanie zacharek
Known Enemies: academics, peers who liked donnie darko and ghost world

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 3 March 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

10. NRQ... Sometimes Teamed With: Momus

Noooooooooooooooo!

I can't be featured on this thread because I never take positions on films. In fact, when Sight and Sound magazine asked me once to write about the films that have marked me, I responded with a piece that said films in general were a bit crap, the result of too much cocaine on the part of their makers. Which I guess makes me act "Like Film Professor Who Was Transferred Over From The Literature Department And Still Secretly Thinks Films Are Trash"... and therefore team with NRQ. Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 3 March 2006 07:19 (nineteen years ago)

Origin of Name: amateur/auteurist/eucharist/ate

i always figured amateurist named himself after that miranda july short film.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 3 March 2006 07:24 (nineteen years ago)

Elvis Telecom because he's seen more crap late-70s Sean Connery films that you've never heard of than you

That's actually true!

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Friday, 3 March 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

my username predates miranda july's film!!!

― amateurist0, Friday, 3 March 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm. have you considered legal action?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 3 March 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

I assumed it was a Hal Hartley reference.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 March 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

I can't be featured on this thread because I never take positions on films.

But 'Playtime's certainly amongst the top 100 films of the 20th century, and says -- without words! -- some incredibly important things about how people lived then. Its stature grows with each year. Some may find it unwatchable (too visual to be watchable?) but it will be watched for a long time to come.

― amateurist0, Friday, 3 March 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I'm not a member of the film snob club because I love romantic comedies and Amelie.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 3 March 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

this is good!

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 3 March 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I'm not a member of the film snob club because I love romantic comedies and Amelie.

-- Tuomas (lixnix...), March 3rd, 2006.

well i guess i'm not a member cos i've gone into print in defence of 'the hot chick'...

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 3 March 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

There's a vacancy at number seven.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 3 March 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

This is such a great thread.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 3 March 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

do c*l*m ffs!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 3 March 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I was on this list.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 3 March 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

"I assumed it was a Hal Hartley reference"

Hey, that's mine...

― Ned T.RIfle II (Ned T.Rifle II), Friday, 3 March 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

xpost yes absolutely.

7. C-Man
Defining Characteristics: default: 'funny', but quick to get offended.
Most Famous Battle(s): http://ilx.wh3rd.net/users.php?board=2
Humanizing Factor: Inability to hide behind pseudonyms
Secret Powers: Taste ranges from good films to terrible ones.
Origin of Name: variations on Calum Robert Waddel, apparently.
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: Louise Wener in theee positive, Nicky Wire in a banana suit in the negative.
Known Enemies: http://ilx.wh3rd.net/users.php?board=1

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 3 March 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

this thread has made me think, though, that i should try to define my position a little better 'n' shit. no more for-the-sake-of-it bun-fights with theory for me.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 3 March 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, not being on this list proves I am no film snob. Or don't post much any more!

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 3 March 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Known Enemies: Dan Perry, Eliot Gould-Haters

Are we sure that Adam is not in fact Eliot Gould? He has had several Gouldian moments.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

how could anyone hate elliot gould?!?!

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahahahaha this is awesome!

― Dan (Beware My Supercilious Hit-And-Run Technique) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

i hate that this is limited to film snobs for some reason. this is like ILX top trumps. the categories are great.

― the kit! (g-kit), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

I utterly reject the "snob" label, as I have freely confessed to blubbering through the climaxes of E.T. and A.I. Still, it's nice to be thought #1 (even if I look more like #2, as Peter Falk said in The Cheap Detective).

Adam, I merely said The Shining is Kubrick's worst film, which means it's better than many John Carpenter "masterpieces."

(but Ken, I really don't like Bad News Bears that much)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I've had beers with Tombot, and like him! I just wouldn't let him pick movies for me unless they were Stephen Chow's.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Cheap Detective? Are you sure it wasn't Murder By Death, Morbius?

g-kit, if the spirit moves you, feel free to start another thread.

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I messed up something about Sinkah btw. It wasn't TGRNRS that he hated so much, it was Teh Filth and Teh Fury.

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

i refuse to start a thread, i'm not popular enough to get away with it.

― the kit! (g-kit), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I utterly reject the "snob" label,

Adam, I merely said The Shining is Kubrick's worst film, which means it's better than many John Carpenter "masterpieces."

...

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

i am trying to influence somebody else to do it, btw.

― the kit! (g-kit), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, you are confusing "snob" with "over 30."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha this is delicious.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Someone needs to edit Irma Vep somewhere into Sl0cki's entry.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

ILX Top Trumps is the best idea ever, someone MAKE IT A REALITY. er, please. or like, yknow, i'll... cry... and stuff.

― the kit! (g-kit), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

and look, this one starts "Because the good people of ILX asked for it".

can i get what i ask for? *stamps feet*

― the kit! (g-kit), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, the Roeper thread was a joke!

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Too late now, Adam.

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

where is ned raggett?

Am I a film snob? I thought I was just a film bigot.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

THE FILTH AND THE FURY >:(

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

1. Dr. Morbius
Known Enemies: TOMBOT, Dang Perry

+ allyzay

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

hey, I'm a film snob. maybe I should argue more..

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I've ever had a film battle.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, me neither.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

I had a pretty lame one on ILF about film noir!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

Matt, you weren't supposed to post here until you were put on the list!

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

I get mentioned in this [awesome] thread, but I don't get my own entry. Probably just as well.

(I finally saw Michael Snow's "Wavelengths" tonight, which was great. Also the first fourth of "La Region Centrale", and why the hell would anyone only show the first fourth of such a film? I had cinematic blue balls.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

+ allyzay

I had drinks with her too. Not doin' the enemies thing (not plural, anyhoo).

Thus, I won't be the one to start the Index of ILX Film Slobs.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I like this thread because it's a little bit of a compliment but also fairly trenchant. It walks a fine line.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

oops said it was "gay"

but you know, he's probably the least qualified person on this thread to argue that.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder how much cross-pollination there is between ILX's film-snobs and its gay-snobs.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

Cross-pollination? You mean like fucking?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

now we get a little closer to the truth

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

haha what qualifications does one need?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 March 2006 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

btw snidely referencing a comment from like last month is so gay.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 March 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

surely i deserve one for that list thread that made blood run out of eric's ears

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 9 March 2006 03:50 (nineteen years ago)

and i AM highly snobbish about talking animal movies

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 9 March 2006 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

fuck you and fuck your baby geniuses fandom

― gear (gear), Thursday, 9 March 2006 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

and yes, babies are animals.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 9 March 2006 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.allmuppets.com/images/plush/muppet_babies/Animal.gif

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 March 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

wouldn't cross-pollination have to involve a 69 position?

also: i am pleased that daddino has been posting of late.

strongo i heard a lecture on animal movies a while back, it was not good. but she showed clips from that french movie about the bear. i think it may have been called "the bear."

― amateurist0, Thursday, 9 March 2006 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

that's a good movie

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

It made me bawl when I was 10. I could handle violence against humans like a champ, but shoot one bear and I was a complete pussy.

This may or may not still be the case.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Thursday, 9 March 2006 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

it is a good film, the best work jean-jacques annaud's done, which is damning with faint praise! bart the bear played the kodiak bear and youk the bear played the bear cub. tchéky karyo was the male lead. not a bear.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 9 March 2006 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

"the bear" is on some art house shit

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

NOT MY STEEZ

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder how much cross-pollination there is between ILX's film-snobs and its gay-snobs.

I'm not sure what this means, but I've been accused by Cambridge Dan of being "homosexual-exclusive."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

ILX TOP TRUMPS PLZ this film stuff is just like bs

― the kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

stfu

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.progressiveevents.com/portfolio%20Images/Country%20Bears.jpg

x post, but not sure to whom (J3ss or Morbs)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

stfu

lol DA PAIN!!
oh wait. it's just some noob talking smack on the internet.

― the kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

fucking "noobs"

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Adam is honorary gay, right?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 11 March 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

*whimpers*

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 11 March 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

What?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 11 March 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767918762.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

At least in the minute, surprisingly accurate... i.e. entries for Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Iranian new wave, even the word "diegetic," plus some stuff I'll admit I hadn't even heard of like Robert Philip Kolker's The Altering Eye.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm. kolker is a bit of a hackademic, but i headn't heard of that particular one.

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

19 or 20. Haikunym
Defining Characteristics: Thoughtful Intelligent Everyman Critic Who Neither Dumbs It Down Nor Plays All The Easy ILX Trump Cards
Fighting Style: The Voice Of Reason, Even Though Reason Is Futile
Most Famous Battles(s): The Battle Of Miami Steve's Doo Rag
Origin Of Name: Successfully pretended to be a Japanese fellow who can only post in haikus.
Weak Point/Guilty Pleasure/Kryptonite Analogue: Latin American Soap Opera Va-Va-Va-Voom!
Humanizing Factor: Writes books for teh kiddies.
Sometimes Teamed With: The Rolling Nu-Metal/Hair-Country Grand Old Opry Of Posting All-star Superstars
Known Enemies: Shakey Mo

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Doo Rag

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Haikunym and I are enemies?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, Shakey.

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

The correct answer is "Yes, but only on Earth II."

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

I thought n/a and Shakey were enemies.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

I was mainly referring to this thread

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

oh, right.

well its not like I called him a moron or a racist or an asshole or anything.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

or cantankerous!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha!

(I apologize about that mistah sinkah)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

(altho as far as ILM goes "cantankerous" is pretty tame, as an insult. it some contexts I would even consider it a compliment...)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

yes but my known enemy is ned -- i can't take you both on!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

mark s is cantankerous... don't apologize for telling the truth shakey.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

why you little!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure if I'm a film snob or a "gay-snob."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

(my starting an Angela Lansbury appreciation thread means I could swing both ways)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

I think "snob" around here means "devotee" or "specialist."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

"enthusiast"

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

"buff"

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

"male"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

"dick"

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Eric wins!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Film Snobs Dictionary
2 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Funny And Hip Book, Even Though I've Never Heard Of Most Of The Movies They're Talking About, March 8, 2006
Reviewer: Ray (West Lafayette, Indiana) - See all my reviews
Excellent book. I picked this up because I dug the previous "Rock Snob" book, and it reminded me of this one dude with a Honda Civic who comes into the AutoZone every now and then. We like to pop DVDs into the TV at the customer/desk area. Otherwise, we'd go nuts with customers turning the dial to Judge Judy, Montel or reruns of The Nanny. Anyway, this guy is sitting around while the guys are changing the timing belt on his Civic (they're built like a tank, but Civics can get temperamental if you don't replace the timing belt every 20,000 miles or thereabouts). We're playing True Romance for about the 20th time, and he gives us a tip that we should really check out The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three since it's like this huge influence on Tarantino. Sure enough, it rocks hard. When Mr. Civic comes back a couple of months later for his regular oil change, we thank him, and he turns us on to City On Fire. Another awesome flick, even though we couldn't really understand any of the plot, what with all the Chinese dialogue.
So the next time he comes in with the Civic, we ask him for a list of recommendations. Wes, our transmission expert, picks up a couple of the flicks on his list, and we're psyched to put in the first one, The Seventh Seal. WTF? We had no idea what was going on for the entire movie. A total dud. Next, we tried out The Bicycle Thief. The acting's pretty good, but the production values were really bad, and it looks like they didn't spend more than $1,000 on the whole budget. A real downer of a movie. After that, we just popped in Hunt For Red October and decided to stick with what we know.

Anyway, this book was really funny. Even if I didn't know about most of the movies or people the authors were talking about, I do feel like I know Mr. Civic pretty well.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

it's not so much that the people listed are film snobs but that the rest of ILX has shockingly low standards.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

omg philistinism

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

"snobs" #1 & 2 just had lunch! (Jerry Lewis did come up, Spielberg no.) Eric is a delightful guy.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 8 March 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

Glad this thread could bring you two together

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 8 March 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

we should have a symposium.

― ryan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

we could have lunch at the Friars Club

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 8 March 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

You'll probably have to do it without me, I'm home sick with a sick baby. I've had to change my clothes more times today than Henry Fonda in the big banquet scene in The Lady Eve.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

awww, sorry Ken. anyway, that wouldn't be this week.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

14. s1ocki
Most Famous Battle(s): Weirdly benign, probably secretly hates everyone

I can think of one...

― Eric H., Thursday, 13 September 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago)

slocki is usually one of the few bright lights of sanity on ilx film threads

― latebloomer, Thursday, 13 September 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago)

no offense to the rest of y'all

― latebloomer, Thursday, 13 September 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago)

sanity: overrated

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 13 September 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago)

is that the name of your nu-metal album?

― s1ocki, Thursday, 13 September 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago)

I think everyone's sane on the ILX film threads. It's just that we're all assholes.

― Eric H., Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago)

Insane and asshole aren't mutually exclusive.

― n/a, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago)

My asshole is in-SANE!

― Eric H., Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago)

A friend used to say if you're not an asshole once in awhile, you're not getting everything out of life.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago)

what an asshole

― DG, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago)

"once in awhile"

― n/a, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:10 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

Bump in light of the JUNO thread.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 12:41 (seventeen years ago)

lotta outdated baseball-card data here

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:10 (seventeen years ago)

collectors items

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:17 (seventeen years ago)

with Morbius being the Honus Wagner

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:41 (seventeen years ago)

it stunks

― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

what did i miss on juno thread

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:52 (seventeen years ago)

i complained a lot.

― lauren, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

oh. been there, done that.

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:56 (seventeen years ago)

GOTCHA

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:57 (seventeen years ago)

dang.

― lauren, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 15:01 (seventeen years ago)

this thread needs to be updated because there are like 10 of these dudes that i can't tell apart

― n/a, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 15:10 (seventeen years ago)

I don't really like Stephanie Zacharek any more. Her work is pretty flabby - last sentence is always execrable, usually a bad joke.

― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 15:13 (seventeen years ago)

she always annoyed me

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 15:15 (seventeen years ago)

most memorable example: "Harold & Kumar" is a reminder that our great land is made up of people from many nations, and a few of them are quite stoned. Let he who is without sin light the first joint.

― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 15:16 (seventeen years ago)

of all the paulettes she seemed to most share my taste, be a good indicator of whether I'd like a film, but that's been less and less the case, and aside from a few observations I really just don't enjoy reading her anymore.

― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 15:17 (seventeen years ago)

I prefer Charles Taylor, but it's hard to tell them apart. Taylor tends to be more of a giddy fanboy, like he's trying to outdo Kael in the Cary Grant love.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

nick should definitely start another one of these, with a "Reaction to Juno" heading.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 15:22 (seventeen years ago)

I'm still sort of shocked that I'm ranked #2 here, but these may have been done with the ILE film poll tantrums still fresh in memory.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 15:24 (seventeen years ago)

the dudes on Salon I can't even bother with.

― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 15:24 (seventeen years ago)

I think O'Heir's the only one left.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 15:31 (seventeen years ago)

I thought it was clear there wasn't ranking happening here.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 16:22 (seventeen years ago)

Sorry Eric, but it is in order!

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 16:24 (seventeen years ago)

Yes, Morbs. You are the #1 film snob of ILX. Watch out for those stairs, Dr Gina Gershon.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 17:58 (seventeen years ago)

You know, I don't know if this is true for other people or not, but attacks on films I like always sting a little bit more than attacks on music I like, since with music I can just be like, "whatever, we have different tastes (e.g., you like guitars, I like keyboards)" but film's reliance on narrative means that critiques often get into things like politics and subversiveness and cliche, which aren't as easily tossed aside as mere aesthetic differences.

If someone attacks a film I like, it sometimes makes me feel like I'm not smart enough to realize the film's shortcomings. (And for that reason, I feel less justified about my own opinions.) If someone attacks a band I like, I say, "Who cares, they give me pleasure" and perhaps recognize that we listen to music for different reasons.

There are certainly films that I have liked probably a bit more than I otherwise would have because I found the lead actress attractive (High Art, All the Real Girls, maybe even Juno), but for some reason I don't consider that as valid as saying I like an album because it sounds "shiny." Maybe because the shininess seems more intrinsic to what the album is "about." Or maybe because music, at least how I listen to it, isn't really "about" anything, so all reactions are equally worthwhile.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 18:03 (seventeen years ago)

I have more violent discussions about film than music. You'd think that poptimists would have no trouble with popular film.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 18:07 (seventeen years ago)

jaymc, didn't you author the old ILF thread about film v. music and the corny indie comparisons therein?

― Eric H., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 19:20 (seventeen years ago)

Refresh my memory?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 19:26 (seventeen years ago)

if i'm thinking of the right thread, it was started by former ilxor gygax! (r.i.p.)

― omar little, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 19:27 (seventeen years ago)

I'm sure I have riffed on film v. music and the analysis thereof before.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

I can't use the new search function here, but it was a spinoff of the "why do ILX film threads outnumber ILF's by 1,3XX to 1" thread

― Eric H., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 19:33 (seventeen years ago)

I think it's because it wasn't called "I love movies".

― admrl, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 19:35 (seventeen years ago)

Ski School is a pretty cool movie.

― chaki, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 19:35 (seventeen years ago)

Why is the ratio of ILM posts to ILF posts approximately 8,793 to 1?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 19:37 (seventeen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7b/STLastBattle.jpg/180px-STLastBattle.jpg

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 19:40 (seventeen years ago)

Still that forum's best thread, really.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 20:00 (seventeen years ago)

That was an ILE thread!

This is the big ILF thread: Film Rockism-friend or foe?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 20:12 (seventeen years ago)

Indie Film Guilt - C/D

― omar little, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 20:14 (seventeen years ago)

Meeting Eric last March is definitely in my top 10 films of '07; probably around #5. (New releases only, of course.)

All those theorizing threads are bullshit.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 20:26 (seventeen years ago)

(ie, natural music-writer stuff)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

i think music writers are generally more full of shit than film writers, even relative to the shit film writers are often full of, so i agree with jaymc's post upthread re: criticism of beloved films vs criticism of beloved music.

― omar little, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 20:29 (seventeen years ago)

I guess I will stand by this 2005 post of mine. Except for the part where I note that I have "staked my writing life" on music.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 20:42 (seventeen years ago)

I agree with most everything you wrote in that post, too. (I forgot it was an ILE thread. That's probably why it had more than 20 responses.)

I've met a grand total of three ilxors -- Morbs, jaymc and geoff -- and all were great in real life. Morbs, you in particular were very patient with my sick self. Someday I'll meet the N.Y. fag crew properly, et al.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

And, yeah, film rockism was the real infamous one. I guess neither of those epics were started by you tho, jaymc, so sorry about that.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 20:55 (seventeen years ago)

xp: I'm aging into being sick every other week myself, so hurry back before I have a fulltime nurse (who will have to tote me to Raoul Walsh retrospectives).

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 20:59 (seventeen years ago)

Boy, am I glad I wasn't around then.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 21:15 (seventeen years ago)

film's reliance on narrative means that critiques often get into things like politics and subversiveness and cliche, which aren't as easily tossed aside as mere aesthetic differences.

not as aesthetic differences, but as matters of interpretation they still allow the same range of reaction as music criticism. someone can call a movie i like hackneyed or whatever, it doesn't bother me any more than someone saying they hate kate bush's voice. that's fine, a lot of times i can understand why someone doesn't like something i do like, i just see different things in it than they do. (i.e. they're WRONG, obviously, but that's allowed.) although i have to say the "reliance on narrative" thing is my major pet peeve with a lot of film writing. people give narrative so much precedence in movies, which to me is like the focus on lyrics you get in a lot of weak music writing. the confusion of narrative with what a movie is "about" gets in the way of more interesting ways of thinking about movies. so many reviews are half plot-summary.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 21:31 (seventeen years ago)

Hmm. Generally I see less reliance on lyrics in music writing -- and less discussion of narrative in films -- these days. Lyrics and narrative were so overrated for so long that they're now underrated.

I don't think about them in my crit -- they come up when they're relevant -- but I'm not the best judge.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 21:40 (seventeen years ago)

i see less of both, or at least more of other things. but still a lot. it's the default setting for a lot of people when it comes to what something's about. not that lyrics or narrative shouldn't be talked about, or that they're unrelated to the meaning, they're just so limiting.

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 08:11 (seventeen years ago)

i am going to see juno this week partly b/c of you fuxors

― amateurist, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 08:41 (seventeen years ago)

also i'm very sorry, i didn't articulate myself well on the "there will be blood" thread. i still don't like the movie though.

― amateurist, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 08:42 (seventeen years ago)

you'll like it, amateurist. for all its problems, it really is a very likable movie.

now! i'm gonna watch Charlie Wilson's War. :)

― Mordechai Shinefield, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 08:52 (seventeen years ago)

i think narrative is a lot more important than lyrics. most elements in a film are 'explained by' the narrative (?). it's more like haha melody.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 09:17 (seventeen years ago)

i think music/film analogies are confusing and not clarifying most of the time

― amateurist, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 10:09 (seventeen years ago)

You're seeing Juno because of snob antipathy?

― Eric H., Wednesday, 9 January 2008 10:11 (seventeen years ago)

I liked Charlie Wilson's War!

(Of course, I liked West Wing, too. So my taste can't be counted upon.)

― Mordechai Shinefield, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 10:30 (seventeen years ago)

i wouldn't say music/film analogies are any more or less clarifying than eg film/novel, film/play, film/poem analogies -- ie sometimes they may come in handy.

but the q is about music crit/film crit, not the media as such, and it's an interesting debate.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 10:39 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

time for updates?

― velko, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 11:02 (sixteen years ago)

i am a film snob but not an "ilx film snob" cuz i don't usually follow those threads. (speaking of which, remind me to read this thread all the way through once i'm less tired.)

― linda emangalitsa (get bent), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 11:27 (sixteen years ago)

I'm sad I don't have any enemies listed here.

― nu hollywood (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 13:03 (sixteen years ago)

Still a big time snob here, what's up?

― admrl, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 13:04 (sixteen years ago)

Sometimes Teamed With: Momus

ah, those were the days

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 13:05 (sixteen years ago)

I'm sad I don't have any enemies listed here.

Yeah, well, get in line.

― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 13:09 (sixteen years ago)

depressingly the (ex) ilx film snob whose taste was poss closest to my own - cal*m w*ddell (who i notice is appearing at the GFT in a couple of weeks - he's interview ruggero deodato onstage (dir of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST amongst other nasties), which shld be a stern test of c*lum's anti-animal cruelty 'principles' - seriously thinking abt going along to heckle...)

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 13:20 (sixteen years ago)

I was dismayed to see C-Wad's name appear in a trailer - for the new Raimi flick? - the other week.

― Stevie T, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 13:28 (sixteen years ago)

Also dismayed not to be listed as ILx's foremost Thomson stan on this thread. :/

― Stevie T, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 13:30 (sixteen years ago)

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, June 10, 2009 1:20 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dont think being a heckler from a message board no one has heard of at a public event would really be a great look regardless of who you're heckling

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 14:06 (sixteen years ago)

someone needs to make one for kjb

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 14:11 (sixteen years ago)

yes, but i am not worthy!

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 14:13 (sixteen years ago)

I need to rescreen this thread.

― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 14:13 (sixteen years ago)

kinda joeking slocki - heckling = not really my thing

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 14:14 (sixteen years ago)

I need to rescreen this thread.

Ha!

― nu hollywood (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 15:11 (sixteen years ago)

We're on a message board! =(

― admrl, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 15:33 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

thread revive!

― some sick fuck with a bow and arrow killing roos and koalas (Eisbaer), Monday, 6 July 2009 13:23 (fifteen years ago)

why? Did someone say something snobbish?

― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 July 2009 13:25 (fifteen years ago)

Morbs withdrawal.

― bad crack (Eric H.), Monday, 6 July 2009 13:34 (fifteen years ago)

eric h. got it right ...

― some sick fuck with a bow and arrow killing roos and koalas (Eisbaer), Monday, 6 July 2009 17:30 (fifteen years ago)

I always wished I could get a film-snob listing, but just generally not liking films that much doesn't seem to count

― nabisco, Monday, 6 July 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago)

Ha! It probably should, tho.

― bad crack (Eric H.), Monday, 6 July 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago)

that is the ULTIMATE in film-snobbery

― Michael tapeworm much talent for the future (s1ocki), Monday, 6 July 2009 20:00 (fifteen years ago)

h8 filmz

― Lamp, Monday, 6 July 2009 20:00 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

Wonder if it will ever be time to reopen the rolls again?

― I Don't Believe You've Met M. Bébé (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:00 (thirteen years ago)

film is dead

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:02 (thirteen years ago)

wouldn't it be more accurate to say that film is undead?

― Aimless, Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:04 (thirteen years ago)

did someone make these into top trumps cards yet

― thomp, Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:06 (thirteen years ago)

We asked Rock Hardy and Teh GZeus, but they were unavailable and we didn't want to go with the B-team.

― I Don't Believe You've Met M. Bébé (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:23 (thirteen years ago)

No amount of new inductees will ever take away the fact that I was the second one inducted. No amount.

― dor Dumbeddownball (Eric H.), Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:29 (thirteen years ago)

Excuse me if I'm wrong (ctrl+f just gave me display names & then I skimmed thread), but how did Alfred escape induction? Is he the film snob Orlando Cepeda? Veterans Committee , anyone?

― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:43 (thirteen years ago)

snobermetrics rate him as better than some of those who have already been inducted

― omar little, Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:46 (thirteen years ago)

lol snobermetrics

― maghrib is back (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:53 (thirteen years ago)

He wants it too badly, campaigned too hard for himself and ended up alienated some members of the nominating committee.

― I Don't Believe You've Met M. Bébé (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:01 (thirteen years ago)

Alfred's too much a dilettante in his snobbery.

― dor Dumbeddownball (Eric H.), Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:41 (thirteen years ago)

Tbh actually thought about adding Lord Soto and clemenza but couldn't be bothered to fill out the form for either of them

― Das Lexist (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 January 2012 00:21 (thirteen years ago)

Let me preempt some proud charter members resigning in protest, or hunting you down and beating you up--I'm as middlebrow as it gets. (Wendy and Lucy's like my ideal art film.) I do have pockets of music snobbishness, especially with regards to a devout belief in the superiority of the '70s over the '80s.

― clemenza, Monday, 16 January 2012 03:37 (thirteen years ago)

Eric is a delightful guy.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, March 8, 2007 1:25 PM (4 years ago)

― dor Dumbeddownball (Eric H.), Monday, 16 January 2012 04:07 (thirteen years ago)

when have I ever said otherwise, doll?

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 January 2012 05:20 (thirteen years ago)

I'm the one disagreeing with your assessment.

― dor Dumbeddownball (Eric H.), Monday, 16 January 2012 05:31 (thirteen years ago)

yeah yeah, posts very much in character.

Lord Soto = Pete Rose

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 January 2012 05:32 (thirteen years ago)

Alfred's too much a dilettante in his snobbery.

― dor Dumbeddownball (Eric H.), Sunday, January 15, 2012 3:41 PM

quite otm

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 January 2012 12:50 (thirteen years ago)

for the record i no longer think 'breakfast at tiffany's' is a very good movie.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 16 January 2012 18:29 (thirteen years ago)

Mistah Dirringham, I simpry must plotest!

― What We Did on Our POLLidays (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 January 2012 18:49 (thirteen years ago)

(Sorry, that joke was old already when it was done over here: TIME magazine claims to know the Top 100 Films of All Time; Millions snicker at results...)

― What We Did on Our POLLidays (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 January 2012 18:51 (thirteen years ago)

Lord Soto = Pete Rose

a beergut and choler?

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:34 (thirteen years ago)

I mean the 5 Gs you have riding on the Pazz & Jop results.

Who's flying in to go to the Bela Tarr retro with me?

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:36 (thirteen years ago)

I'm closer to Susan Lucci.

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:39 (thirteen years ago)

Think he means you're permanently barred

― What We Did on Our POLLidays (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:41 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

AdamRL
Defining Characteristics: Like a young Woody Allen without the glasses. . . also generally less cranky. . . and more British. . .

I met admrl! He is a nice fella and has great hair.

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 April 2014 18:47 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

Couldn't decide what thread to post this in:

Ironic laughter has ruined a half-dozen old movies I've gone to in the last few years, and it seems be getting louder. I've heard horror stories of audiences guffawing through The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Thing, Lawrence of Arabia and The Godfather—c'mon, The Godfather!? And perversely, the same crowds stay quiet during actual classic comedies. It's like modern audiences must one-up the past. But that's a contest where everyone loses: the filmmakers whose efforts go ignored, the hipsters who wasted their money, and the rest of us who wanted to enjoy a good movie without getting distracted wondering how to murder a yukster with a bucket of popcorn and a straw.

http://www.laweekly.com/film/stop-laughing-at-old-movies-you-anding-hipsters-5523746

― Eric H., Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:29 (ten years ago)

well, there are actual unintentional laughs in The Godfather, frequently involving Brando's mystifyingly beloved performance or Diane Keaton's hairstyles.

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:39 (ten years ago)

as for the superior guffaws, i started discreetly avoiding crowded screenings of yukbait at least 5-10 years ago, and you'll never catch me at a color Sirk melodrama in a theater again.

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:41 (ten years ago)

it's tough because i don't like policing reactions to movies, i can't pretend i'm above chuckling at something striking-in-hindsight, but at the same time i probably am likely to avoid movies where this is going to be the norm

― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:48 (ten years ago)

I have mostly managed to avoid these incidents, but short of laughter during Marker or Bresson maybe, I can't picture myself stabbing people in a theater. The former is frequently funny, even.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:49 (ten years ago)

xpost avoid screenings, i mean. but then my most negative reactions to audience response have actually been at non-repertoire films. I saw Lady Vengeance at a theater in Philly and was seriously turned off by where the audience decided to giggle, even if i'm sympathetic to the need for nervous release

― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:51 (ten years ago)

but like, if you don't want to find out how your peers react to a movie, take the money you spend on repertoire theater tickets and save it to buy a widescreen

― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:52 (ten years ago)

that sounds like nervous laughter, gen much better than "I am going to HAW HAW because old movies ARE SO STUPID!!!"

i like policing reactions to everything, when they are the wrong ones. (Like that "a widescreen" is better than a proper theater.)

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:53 (ten years ago)

i didn't say it was better, i said it was an alternative if audiences have made theaters insufferable

― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:53 (ten years ago)

and we can imagine the next 12 posts of this croup-morbs exchange, so no need to actually create them.

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:54 (ten years ago)

i'm sorry, morbs. please ignore me.

― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:55 (ten years ago)

occasionally this can actually be sort of interesting. A few years ago I saw Badlands with a full house and people cackled throughout like it was Raising Arizona. seeing it in that context it did reveal itself as possibly very deadpan funny. then I watched it again about a year later at home with my wife who found it very disturbing and grim.

― rob, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:59 (ten years ago)

I mean, my god, Sirk movies are funny (too).

― Eric H., Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:04 (ten years ago)

Not start to finish! No wonder you've soured on prime Jerry Lewis.

I went to a 35mm screening of FORBIDDEN PLANET with some ILXors last month, and one goon on the far right of the theater was screeching at every "50s" line of dialogue until about 15 minutes in, when he realized he was all alone.

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:11 (ten years ago)

Also, one can find things some funny w/out actually making a noise.

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:12 (ten years ago)

I haven't soured on prime Jerry Lewis.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:13 (ten years ago)

https://instagram.com/p/veUUV_vr-z/

― Eric H., Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:13 (ten years ago)

ok, i swear you made such a claim to me in the last 3 years. somewhere.

btw the two Dean & Jerry movies A.E. did figure heavily in Mark Rappaport's recent video essay Becoming Anita Ekberg.

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:15 (ten years ago)

i am all for telling anomalous loudmouths in theaters to pipe down. one time a guy made clear during the opening credits he was planning to give a running commentary "ah, (name of actor), YES.... *claps twice*" and thankfully received a loud, effective "SHUT! THE! FUCK! UP!" before we got to scene one

― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:16 (ten years ago)

I'm no better tho. I told a woman crinkling cellophane during Notre Musique that she was ruining the movie for everyone.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:21 (ten years ago)

even tho i seem to spend most of the time arguing with him about things other than film, frederik b is by some measure the best 'film poster' these days, alongside amateurist and ward fowler

― LMAO. GOLD Chrisso. regards, REB (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:35 (ten years ago)

I told some guy who kept oohing and ahhing loudly at the cinematography in "Mr Turner" to (please) keep quiet. His wife gave me the best Midwesterner (cuz no way were they native NY'ers and they had Fargo-ish accents) ice grill ever.

― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:40 (ten years ago)

Frederik B's rant about French new extremity yesterday certainly qualifies him for this canon.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:05 (ten years ago)

He can have my slot since I generally don't watch movies anymore.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:05 (ten years ago)

Fred B's been exhaustive in the best way.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:07 (ten years ago)

he sees too much for my taste :)

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:45 (ten years ago)

It's making the rounds: http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/when-you-laugh-at-old-movies-the-joke-is-on-you-20150428

― Eric H., Tuesday, 28 April 2015 21:26 (ten years ago)

Once heard about a guy giggling at a Tarkovsky film and a woman got up and punched him in the face.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 23:28 (ten years ago)

I've heard stories of the child who dared laugh during Blow Job and it turned out it was just a particularly agorophobic Pekingese who mistakenly wandered in after having bought a ticket for Grand Prix.

― Eric H., Wednesday, 29 April 2015 04:17 (ten years ago)

Aw, thanks guys! Can I put those quotes on my CV, would help a lot...

Sometimes it's really weird when people don't laugh in the theatre as well. I was at Bonello's House of Tolerance yesterday, his film about a bordello in Paris around 1900, and I was seated next to an elderly couple. Well, the film is quite serious and provocative yet empathetic, but it is also kinda funny, the girls tell a lot of really ribald and lewd jokes about their costumers to make it through the day, and the theater chuckled along. Except for that couple beside me. At first they were just quiet. At a joke about fucking someone in the eye-hole, they both sighed pretty angrily. Again with the semen-joke. At this point, I began to felt a bit uncomfortable. But finally, a woman onscreen told a longwinded story, the point of which turned out to be that she was a sword-swallower, and the sixty year old lady beside me couldn't help but giggle ever so guiltily. That was cool. A bit awkward, but cool.

― Frederik B, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 15:06 (ten years ago)

five years pass...

RIP, buddy. WIll miss you.

― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:54 (four years ago)

two years pass...

We’ve been wrong this whole time

Which level cinephile are you? pic.twitter.com/AV2h9ekeVi
— Im sorry I bet guys probably bother you a lot but (@paynushater) April 4, 2023

― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 13:49 (two years ago)

hahahaha

― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 13:50 (two years ago)

Alfred's too much a dilettante in his snobbery.

― dor Dumbeddownball (Eric H.), Sunday, January 15, 2012

In this case, apparently as trustworthy as the World Almanac!

― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 13:54 (two years ago)

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