Kevin's Watch

Lore, I will agree with Soylent Green as being less than the hype but I will not agree with Holy Grail. I will admit that I have to be in the perfect mood for it but when I am in that mood it fits like no other ridiculous film will ever fit.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't find it funny. When people start quoting lines from it I just sit there confused. And the ending! Just weird.

The joy of that film is that it IS so ridiculous. You really have to be in the right mood to appreciate it, trust me. I got soured on Napoleon Dynamite because I was in a grumpy mood and Heatherly insisted that I watch it when I really wanted to be left alone and she also insisted that I would find it hysterical and love it. As a result of being forced I was resistant and I thought, "that movie sucked and was the stupidest movie ever." One of these days I will have to give it another chance.

Sorry Lore - i gotta go with Jenn on the whole Monty Python thing! I LOVE Holy Grail & quote it incessantly!

Elfie! My friend Chris got me a t-shirt for Christmas that has the French knight and says "I fart in your general direction."

Love that shirt.

Lore Lore Lore.....

Jenn Jenn Jenn

Loremaster wrote:I am going to get crucified for these two comments:

Monty Python's Knights of the Holy Grail - silliness isn't funny, it's silly.

Soylent Green. The revelation of this movie doesn't make any sense; it seems the whole movie is set up for the revelation, including abandoning logic or realism for it.

GAH!Holy Grail is awesome!But I must admit I do prefer Life of Brian.

Okay, I'm gonna be crucified . . .

Lore: You're not the Messiah, you're a very naughty boy!

I definitely think that the mind set you are in when watching a movie will completely color your reaction to it. As in my previous post, I
was not impressed at all by Napoleon Dynamite and yet I am probably the only person I know who gets all nostalgic and homesick when watching Jaws. To explain a bit:

1. My father looks shockingly like Richard Dreyfuss and he is a marine biologist.

2. I grew up on Cape Cod and we used to go over to the Vineyard in summers and rent mopeds and jump off the bridge that is shown in the scene where Jaws enters the pond and attacks where Shaun and his friends are playing.

3. Just the whole townie/summer resort feel of the film

Just as music can influence my mood and my mood affects my reaction to music, film has the same effect and vice versa.

Elfgirl wrote:Lore: You're not the Messiah, you're a very naughty boy!

You wouldn't have it any other way!

Lore, Elfie, do you guys need a month or so alone?

Cameraman Jenn wrote:Lore, Elfie, do you guys need a month or so alone?

One month?

Solly....you guys need a LIFETIME alone?

We got PMs....what for?

Wow, The Presidio! That jogged my memory. I remember seeing at the theatre. I liked Harmon and Connery in that one.

I must be one of the few people on the planet who hasn't seen ET. I avoided ET when it came out because it seemed like a very sappy kind of movie. I guess I was right! (But Spielberg got my money later for Hook. That movie was saccharine to the extreme.)

The only Patrick Swayze film I've seen is Ghost. Overrated, but it was still a decent movie. I think I sorta understand why it was such a box office hit. People are attracted to stories about redemption of the soul, and the film packaged the story in such a way that it jived nicely with popular views of heaven and the afterlife. Uh, I'm just making this up as I go. Feel free to ignore my blather.

No, Lore, you won't be crucified over Monty Python's Holy Grail. Not by me anyway. I do like the movie, and I know it's a big favorite of Watchers...but it does drag in places.

Cameraman Jenn wrote:Just as music can influence my mood and my mood affects my reaction to music, film has the same effect and vice versa.

So true!

I agree wholeheartedly about Napoleon Dynamite and The Holy Grail.

That the Holy Grail is overrated?