Re: the Gyllenhaaal sci-fi/horror film Life
Tim: So...that's Life. (sings) 'Thaat's liife', one of those old sayings from Sinatra, and it is almost an homage to Sinatra.
Gregg: When i walked out of the theater after seeing Life this year, I turned to the ticket taker at the door and he said, 'how was the movie,' and I said, 'it's a wonderful Life,' and he got a kick out of that. That was a reference to It's a Wonderful Life from 1946, Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart. But this is a very different movie than It's a Wonderful Life. If you liked It's a Wonderful Life, I wouldn't say don't watch this because, if you liked that you're probably a movie buff and this is definitely a movie buff's type of film.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
Gregg's anguish when Tim blows up his VHS collection at the end of Decker: Port of Call Hawaii looks all too real. It kind of hurt to watch.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Saturday, 27 July 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
This show rules. Part of the joke is the bewilderment at discovering how much content they've already produced and kept going without much promotion, quietly adjacent to the Decker universe. This is what Andy Kaufman would have been up to today.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 27 July 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
I don't typically catch up with this show on its own, but it's fun to watch within a personalized hour block with videos from other YouTube channels.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 27 July 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
Now I'm going to read this entire thread.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 27 July 2019 22:53 (five years ago) link
Also I really hated "The Comedy" and "Entertainment."
― billstevejim, Saturday, 27 July 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
I wouldn't say 'hated' but The Comedy is pretty safely my least favorite Heidecker thing.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Sunday, 28 July 2019 01:50 (five years ago) link
i've heard mixed reactions on the comedy (mostly bad), but at least this section sounds pretty good:
Swanson's friend Van (Eric Wareheim) shows the group a slide show of photos from his childhood interspersed with pornographic images as a gag. Despite some initial laughs, the group falls silent and everyone appears saddened, including Van, who solemnly continues the slide show.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 28 July 2019 01:58 (five years ago) link
I guess neither movie is the worst thing I've ever seen but they're both really sad and made me feel like shit.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 28 July 2019 02:11 (five years ago) link
It's worth watching to see ironic and detached self-amusement taken to its logically nihilistic conclusion, but, yeah, it's just kind of a bummer ultimately.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Sunday, 28 July 2019 04:48 (five years ago) link
The Comedy is great!
― Simon H., Sunday, 28 July 2019 05:04 (five years ago) link
oh god i'm absolutely losing it during the our cinema oscar special
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 28 July 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
the twitter fight leading up to that one is good
OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON OSCAR SPECIAL V@greggturkington #OnCinema pic.twitter.com/PvTU98zR1x— Tim Heidecker (@timheidecker) February 7, 2017
― Vape Store (crüt), Sunday, 28 July 2019 16:25 (five years ago) link
xps yeah both of these movies are bummers and I thought both were really good
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 28 July 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
Quick aside, but his new one w Goldblum look intersting too
― Simon H., Sunday, 28 July 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link
finally at season 9, rip victorville film archive
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 29 July 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
currently the thing that's making me lose my shit every episode is the sound of tim reclining his chair
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 29 July 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
Watched last year's Oscar special this weekend, RIP(?) [redacted for spoilers]
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 July 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
It just occurred to me the other day as worthy of note that the installments of this epic have either a runtime of 10-15 minutes or like three hours, period.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 July 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
feel like i saw gregg almost break character when tim said "hendel buttboy" in the boss baby episode
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 29 July 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
Gregg full-on broke (and Tim came close) in the Jaws 2-themed Oscar special I just watched when he slighted Tim's drinking by dropping the 'fact' that Robert Shaw died of alcoholism.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 July 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
Watching Tim squirm and eat shit in the back half of OCX (presented by Delgado Media Holdings) is absolutely killing me rn.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 01:18 (five years ago) link
Yeah Gregg is loving every minute of it
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 01:19 (five years ago) link
my favorite part of season X is the VR easter egg during the "VFA Update"
― Vape Store (crüt), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 02:45 (five years ago) link
(ep. 6)
"this is the classic case of the fast and furious. i loved this movie, i thought it was missing the great paul driver"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 12:40 (five years ago) link
"and i think, in our own way, we're all searching for our own lost city of z, and so it's nice to see a movie where we find it"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 12:47 (five years ago) link
season nine finale was incredible, from "tom hanks and tom cruise in themla and louise" to the dr. san tribute at the end. goodnight sweet prince. can't believe i'm basically at the trial now
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
I pretty much have just one Oscar special and one season of Decker (out of order, I know, but it wasn't in the YT playlist) and I'm done. Mister America needs to happen pretty much immediately.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
I've been streaming these through the Adult Swim ROKU channel, which means no VR episodes (they literally just run footage of randos in VR gear for the entirety of the episodes) and the Oscar specials. I think there's only the latest Oscar Special up there, for some reason.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
lmao at Tim's comment on the 3rd Oscar Special
What I refuse to edit out and now must live with for the rest of my life is my poor, unprofessional behavior throughout the night - I do not like to blame others but I will say that I was under the impression by a man named “Bryan” at Whole Foods in Los Angeles that the champagne marked “Organic” would be non-alcoholic. I also received the all clear from “Maria” at Rite-Aid that Mucinex would be helpful in treating my cold symptoms and that as long as I wasn’t DRINKING it wouldn’t impair my ability to do a great show. I was lied to and deceived by these two and they will pay in their own ways, separately. But, in the end, I’m an adult and must take responsibility for my own actions.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:35 (five years ago) link
I thought this was a pretty magical distillation of the insanity that is the Annual Live On Cinema at the Cinema Oscar Special:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o-nzws6wwY
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:39 (five years ago) link
"oscar fever" is my favorite song of all time
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
closely followed by "mt btl 2.0"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
xpost Yes, I sing it all the time now. All the time.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
oh my god the DKR "Oscar Fever"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK3gvW5TpvU
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
I've grown so accustomed to my gf coming home, for example, in the midst of that particular DKR performance and being like '...whaaathefuck'. I'm going to miss that almost as much as I will miss the show itself when I'm finally caught up.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:50 (five years ago) link
thanks for posting this one, Brad. been thinking about it all day :)
― untuned mass damper (mh), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 19:29 (five years ago) link
This year's Oscar special is, uhhh...kinda nightmarish? Tim's commitment is compelling but it's a little less fun to watch when he seems legitimately unwell. Massive dark lols @ the Living Oscar, though.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 01:24 (five years ago) link
Okay, it was all worth it to see what sure looked to me like Prokch breaking during Tim's batshit 'Bohemian Rhapsody' performance.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 02:41 (five years ago) link
And the umpteenth destruction of the Victorville Film Archives, natch.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 02:43 (five years ago) link
tim totally hasn't seen the mummy
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 August 2019 01:07 (five years ago) link
I found a discussion online the other day where someone was all 'y'know...I'm starting to suspect that these guys don't actually watch these movies' and people were like 'uh yeah, that's kinda the point' and the op was all 'what's even the point of a show about movie reviews where the reviewers don't watch the movies, why are you wasting your time'. Tim and Gregg would be quite pleased, I feel.Watched the K-Strass saga last night before bed. A+ chutzpah, there, Mark. Quite inspiring.
― Apprentice Taintjazzler (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 August 2019 01:16 (five years ago) link
i'm almost done with decker and i'm gonna miss it! it's so good!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 August 2019 01:41 (five years ago) link
BRAD! don't watch the day-by-day highlight videos when you watch the trial. you gotta watch the whole thing!! https://oncinematimeline.com/the-trial/351
― Vape Store (crüt), Thursday, 1 August 2019 01:49 (five years ago) link
lmao the zydeco "empty bottle"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 August 2019 01:50 (five years ago) link
dont worry crüt i plan on watching the whole gd thing
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 August 2019 01:51 (five years ago) link
I know nobody asked, but for me "Decker: Mindwipe" was where I began to suspect this was the most brilliant thing ever
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 August 2019 02:32 (five years ago) link
Hadn't heard the old Windows 3.1 startup/'ta-daa!' sound in ages, before it triumphantly sounded after they 'downloaded' and wiped Decker's memories, which had me in stitches.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 1 August 2019 07:18 (five years ago) link
"one for sully 2. i saw the original the day it came out!"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 August 2019 13:01 (five years ago) link