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― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 25 December 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

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"Welcome to Nero's House of Women" greets a concubine to a slave girl, Lygia (Deborah Kerr). Later this self-same greeter reveals that she, too, like Lygia, is really a fellow Christian neophyte. And it's that mixture of tawdry Hollywood sex and a strong Christian message that makes this film an enjoyable "gentiles and gladiators" flick. Marcus Vinicius returns home after conquering the Britons to find that Rome is infected with a crazy new sect called Christians and that his beloved emperor Nero (Peter Ustinov, roly-poly and wicked) has become increasingly wacky. Marcus tries his centurion wiles on Lygia, and she's smitten, but she's also a Christian convert and begs Marcus not to force her to choose between him and her god. The Christians have a tough go of it, with martyrdom in the Coliseum as punishment for belonging to the new religion in town. Though three hours long, director Mervyn LeRoy's film always has something going on. It could help you enjoyably kill any rainy Sunday afternoon. --Keith Simanton --This text refers to the VHS Tape edition.

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 25 December 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

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― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Sunday, 25 December 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Christmas Story marathon on TBS - duh.

― roger, Sunday, 25 December 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Can't speak.

Just eaten half a duck.

Need to stop watching toy story 2.

Can't . . . reach . . . remote . . .

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Sunday, 25 December 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Songs Of fucking Praise.
Help me.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Sunday, 25 December 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh fuck, they're singing a calypso carol now. With a multicultural choir.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Sunday, 25 December 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

You've got it easy. Now we're onto My Family xmas special. This is the price I pay for wanting to watch doctor who.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Sunday, 25 December 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Narnia movie.

― Laura H. (laurah), Sunday, 25 December 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Twin Peaks, first season.

― Brighid (Brighid), Sunday, 25 December 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

toy story 2 went down well with everybody. now halfway through creature comforts marathon on itv2. doctor who in 6 minutes and counting.

― koogs (koogs), Sunday, 25 December 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

brother's watching star wars 3 now. earlier, watched a couple episodes of "the awful truth". oh the movies in my house.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 25 December 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Oz season 1 and Alias season 3

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Sunday, 25 December 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

anakin literally burns up. awful awful awful awful.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 25 December 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Doctor who

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 25 December 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Just finished: SUPERMANG DEUCE.
Next: charcoal flames licking kebobs.
Later: DEVO LIVE 1980 DVD with daddy.

― st nklshs, Sunday, 25 December 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

The Narnia film on some award-hawking DVD. Not at all bad.

― Mark C en famille, Sunday, 25 December 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Last night we watched A Christmas Story because somehow neither of my parents had seen it before. Today my dad was watching La Dolce Vita but I read Muriel Spark novellas instead.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 25 December 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

law and order marathon.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 25 December 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

And my mum's watching corrie - blimey. But don't worry kids - I have my ipod and teh 1n73rn3t.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Sunday, 25 December 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

last night: Harry Potter 3, bits of A Christmas Story

today: more A Christmas Story, and no idea what my sister has been watching, since my traditional post-christmas nap kept me unconsious for most of today.

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 25 December 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Last night while we opened one present each, the 2nd half of The King and I and then Christmas in Connecticut. There seemed to be a little desperation behind the holiday cheer in that one, considering it was 1944 when it was filmed, but it was pretty good.

Today, the end of A Christmas Story (a movie that irritates the shit out of me for some reason) and then a Carol Burnett reunion special. Right now I have the Lakers-Heat game on with the sound off while I listen to one of my presents with the volume on 11. (Grateful Dead 3CD Fillmore 1969)

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 25 December 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Fox Sports special: "In 1985, the Chicago Bears were larger than life. 20 years later, they still are."

Ifilm Viral Video: The Super Bowl Shuffle (1985)

― dar1a g (daria g), Sunday, 25 December 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

the walking with prehistoric beasts series on discovery channel and reruns of match game and $100,000 pyramid on game show network.

― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Crump, OTM about A Christmas Story. Overrated, IMHO.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

i just realized annie hall was on... this one never gets old.

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

i don't think a christmas story is overrated, i'm just sick of its staggering ubiquity.

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

I probably watched or half-watched a lot more on TV that I'd usually watch since my family and I are celebrating next weekend (and I sort of housesat for them while they were in Des Moines this weekend -- what can I say, they've got cable and I don't), but I worked in copious doses of Christmas Story. I will never outgrow the movie and every year something new keeps me hooked -- this year its Randy's perfectly realized "little brother" shadings, like when he laughs at Dad's "a new furnace" joke only after Ralphie laughs at it; though he clearly doesn't actually "get" the joke, Ralphie's cue that it's funny automatically makes it funny for Randy. Maybe you have to be an oldest child to think this is amusing.

Also went to Fun with Dick and Jane this afternoon with an old movie-buff bud from my church growing up. No way that it can be a laugh riot thanks to the fact that people losing their entire financial security through corporate scandal is not even theoretically funny. But some of the gags work.

Also watched some of that Carol Burnett reunion special on Bravo, re-watched much of Meet Me in St. Louis (cried like an MF, as usual), and had Nick at Nite's apparent marathon of last-season Roseanne episodes on as I fell asleep in my parents' bed.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

not seen much, but i'm satisfied: elf, xmas story, hannah & her sisters, the squid & the whale.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

jerry macguire

for the first time

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

for the first time

Which brings up my theory that the holidays are the ideal time for re-watching stuff you've seen a million times already. I mean, even late Roseanne seemed like a better viewing choice to me than popping in a DVD of something I hadn't seen yet.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

"all the books on death and dying are yours"

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

oh shit, the purple rose of cairo is next. this might be my favorite movie of the '80s.

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

Elf.

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

oh shit, the purple rose of cairo is next. this might be my favorite movie of the '80s.

-- inger lynde (theundergroundhom...), December 25th, 2005.

Hey, I'm planning on watching that tomorrow. It really is wonderful.

Today I've watched a little bit of the Can DVD, first four episodes of Seinfeld season 4 (The Pitch is sublime), Dr Who, Bob Dylan: No Direction Home Part 1, Coast and am now half watching Working Girl. Jeepers, the haircuts are horrific, especially Joan Cusack's.

― stew mcgroo, Monday, 26 December 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

i saw purple rose when i was really young. i cried buckets. it was probably the first "real" movie i saw that just didn't have a happy ending.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

Almost done with Scrubs season 1 here, and on xmas eve we sifted out all the xmas-themed eps of futurama and the simpsons and watched those. Yes ,I made my own theme-dvd night. I am sad.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

"i deliberately played him with a cheerful bravado"

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

Nothing today, but last night, for the first time, I watched a full-length DVD on my for-the-first-time DVD player (and I never even had a VCR). I watched Dirty Dancing and Pulp Fiction. I liked them both, though I liked the latter more (unsurprisingly). I don't really get why so many people over the years have said "You have to see Dirty Dancing!" I think it's just something for people to bring up if I mention my dance experiences.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

you didn't watch dirty dancing 2: havana nights?

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

watcthing this, too: http://media.putfile.com/WizardsofWinter-SM

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

No, I'd never seen Dirty Dancing. Should I watch the other one?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

watched a bit of alice in wonderland

dr. who

the galton & simpson arena thing

eastenders

might be it

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

Should I watch the other one?

haha i haven't seen it. but i think the first one is marvelous! how can a movie with patrick swayze AND jerry orbach be bad?

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

Actually I thought Dirty Dancing is pretty bad, but I still liked it. The comedy in it relies excessively on stereotypes and comedic conventions, which I tend to find annoying. (Does all comedy rely on stereotypes and conventions? I don't think it all does to the same degree.) But I did like it.

I didn't think most of the dancing was all that great. Not that I am saying I could do all of that (especially the more gymnastic things), but I just didn't like the feel or style of most of the dancing. (It also was kind of funny to see them go from doing aerials one minute to doing some really goofy extremely basic move that I might use if I were dancing with someone who can hardly follow. Also, on a really picky note, if a dance instructor were teaching someone to mambo (under a deadline like that), and the student was not finding the two, the instructor would probably just have them do some sort of prep. step on the one, maybe something that would hardly be noticeable on stage.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

update: movie over, jbr crying like an italian widow

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 December 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

X-Mass day is a good time to watch gory films.
I first watched "Braindead" on a family xmas. (Peter Jackson film, can't remember the title it went by in America and possibly elsewhere).

This xmas I watched SAW on dvd then The Station Agent on TV.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, 26 December 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

The Station Agent

that's a good one... i wouldn't mind seeing it again.

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 December 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

how was eastenders xmas??

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 26 December 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

I need to catch up with the last 100 films Woody Allen has made. I think the last one I saw was Deconstructing Harry.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 26 December 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

pretty rubbish, really

the turkey storyline was the only necessary one

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 26 December 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

that doesn't really help.

has nana moon finally snuffed it?

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 26 December 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

she's well dead

sharon's pregnant but thought it was food poisoning even though it was obviously a pregnancy

alfie did come back for kat but had his legs crossed standing in front of his ford capri in the snow instead of his arms as I'd guessed

alfie twigged that the miller kids prob have his cousins money but don't think he told him

slaters forgot to defrost turkey or something and had to put it in bath and mo built a new turkey out of turkey drummers just in time

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 26 December 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

sounds better on paper

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 26 December 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

Disc 4

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 26 December 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

that sounds pretty action-packed. thank you, rjg.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 26 December 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

turkeys, and how long they take to cook/defrost, are pretty reliable for gags.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 26 December 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

Now we just watched parts of two Harold Lloyd movies, Safety Last! and Girl Shy. Parts because apparently my dad doesn't know how to work his DVD recorder.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 26 December 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

yay crime story!

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 December 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

I've never seen more than a few minutes of A Christmas Story -- and I listened to some Jean Shepherd on the radio as a kid -- just cuz my sister has it on every damn year.

Saw two chunks of the Newhart "American Masters" again. We're about to watch a Martin & Lewis "Colgate Comedy Hour," maybe the one with Burt Lancaster doing sketches with Dean & Jerry.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 December 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's pretty great. I've never seen it before. The hoods just blew up the Gary Senise's dad.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 26 December 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

Madea's Class Reunion. I never thought it would come to this.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 26 December 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

Watched TEN episodes of *Weeds* (six xmas eve, four xmas day) with my kids that the oldest one downloaded. Had never seen it before. What a great show.

― xhuxk, Monday, 26 December 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

Also, last night" *The Nightmare Before Christmas*, like every year, but I wasn't paying much attention.

And this morning: *Grafcore 2000* DVD (about graffiti artists and stuff), which ditto.

― xhuxk, Monday, 26 December 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

Saw about 10 minutes of Denis Leary's anti-Xmas special, which wasn't very funny but I appreciated the venom.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

Morb, please tell me that you, too, would at least get reasonably close to misting up over St. Louis.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

I dunno -- def not when Margaret O'Brien is onscreen, even during "Have Yourself a Merry..." I'll watch again soon and let you know.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)

Damnit, that wasn't Gary Sinise, that was Ted Levine. Sinise was in there, but had a different role.

Sorry for the confusion.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

female trouble about to start on ifc!

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

i watched the polar express with my cousin. it was quite cute!

now i'm watching spanglish (borrowed from my chick-flick loving aunt) and... i like it. is that bad?

― tres letraj (tehresa), Monday, 26 December 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

For some reason I just sat through the whole of Father, Dear Father. Highlight involed someone who looked a bit like Lesley Judd trying and failing to elope with Richard O'Sullivan. Hmm.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 26 December 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

I watched His Girl Friday last night, I think I'm going to watch The Big Sleep in a minute. Or maybe Bringing Up Baby, I can't decide.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Monday, 26 December 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

I watched part of the 3rd and 4th quarter of the Detroit Pistons/San Antonio Spurs game this morning. Tomorrow I am going to Pasadena to watch Ballets Russes because we're going to my aunt's house in Marina del Rey in the evening, which is not exactly close but still worth the drive. I also saw part of Lord of the Rings but couldn't really make sense of it and part of a movie about Dora.

― youn, Monday, 26 December 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

i haven't really watched any xmas stuff on tv this year! the last movie i watched was richard pryor live, which wasn't too xmasy. sons of the desert is on tcm in a few hours, i might watch it if i'm up seeing as i've never seen any laurel and hardy EVER.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 26 December 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

I get teary eyed over Female Trouble as well.

(Yes, M.O'B. is really insufferable in St. Louis. But a small chink in the armor.)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 26 December 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

"i'm a thief, and a shitkicker, and... i'd like to be famous"

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 December 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

I blubber easily at the final scene of Raising Arizona, and the last half-hour of E.T.

I insisted on watching the opening titles of Diamonds Are Forever last night.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 December 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

"tell all my friends they have my permission to sell their memories of me to the media!"

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 26 December 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

am now watching second disc of children of paradise

"shut up! we can't hear the mime!"

― joseph (joseph), Monday, 26 December 2005 07:36 (twenty years ago)

I watched part of an in-law marathon on Turner: Father's Little Dividend (Spencer Tracy, Liz Taylor), the Wife and the Secretary (Myrna Loy, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Jimmy Stewart) and You Can't Fool Your Wife (Lucille Ball, James Ellison).

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 26 December 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

I just got back from watching It's a Wonderful Life on the big screen. It was a very good choice-- it still makes me laugh and cry in all the right places. (The experience could still have been slightly improved if an idolatrous lady in the audience hadn't insisted on loudly reciting along with some of the more inane exchanges in the movie-- said lady then complained loudly to her companions after the screening that she would have to go to an earlier showing next year because an insufficient number of people clapped after the movie was done.) Merry belated Christmas, you wonderful old message board (and denizens thereof)!

― Chris F. (servoret), Monday, 26 December 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

"The Incredibles" (pretty good)
"The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer" (great)
"Wife vs. Secretary" (OK 'til it gets too melodramatic)

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 26 December 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

Hahahaha xpost Mary!

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 26 December 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

i wound up watching "scrooged." pretty good!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 26 December 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

"Have you tried staples?"

See Sons of the Desert as quickly as possible tho. :I

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 December 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

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