I feel the same way about males masturbating in movies. It made Don Jon unwatchable (along with a million other reasons).
OMG, seriously?! I actually enjoy watching men masturbate (maybe I've tipped my hand too much here, but I think it's weirdly hot). *adds Don Jon to Netflix queue*
VHS? This MMM old who had analogies on her SAT owned all of these 1990s moves on DVD!
I liked this for the "who had analogies". But if you were really old they had antonyms too! Which, I'm not that old, except I think they still had antonyms when I took it for TIP in seventh grade.
Also I miss DVDs, for $15 you could buy basically any movie. Note we're just stuck with whatever Netflix etc., can negotiate the rights too. Boo.
Well h brought up the analogies on the SAT. I'm not old enough to have taken it with the antonyms. It appears they were removed in 1994 and I took it in 1996. Phew.
Well h brought up the analogies on the SAT.  I'm not old enough to have taken it with the antonyms.  It appears they were removed in 1994 and I took it in 1996.  Phew. Â
I took it in 1993 and 1989. There were most definitely antonyms. I guess I am officially "really old"
I may have already turned two the first time you took it. Lol.
Well h brought up the analogies on the SAT. I'm not old enough to have taken it with the antonyms. It appears they were removed in 1994 and I took it in 1996. Phew.
Weird, I guess we all just took it with analogies and reading passages then? I took it in 7th grade, too, niq, but I guess that would have been 1996? I took the SAT for real in 2000 for the first time I think. Maybe fall 1999 I guess. Beginning of 11th grade
Yeah, analogies went away later. I don't think greencrayon had them.
They're rearranging the test again - they won't say it, but they're doing it because they're losing market share to the ACT. Which, fine. But no more comparative math section! It makes me so sad.
Weird, I guess we all just took it with analogies and reading passages then? I took it in 7th grade, too, niq, but I guess that would have been 1996? I took the SAT for real in 2000 for the first time I think. Maybe fall 1999 I guess. Beginning of 11th grade
Yeah, analogies went away later. I don't think greencrayon had them.
They're rearranging the test again - they won't say it, but they're doing it because they're losing market share to the ACT. Which, fine. But no more comparative math section! It makes me so sad.
Really? I would be interested in hearing more about this. I did awesome on the ACT but hardly anyone took it back then and I don't think east coast schools took you seriously if you only took the ACT.
I wasn't cool enough to take the SAT in 7th grade. Thank you Catholic school. Not really.
I have seen it, but not with the sound on. My college friends were having a Dazed and Confused marathon, while I was off trying to meet up with a guy on the Appalachian trail. By the time I came home defeated, they were watching it with the sound off. I sat and watched, because I was too tired to do anything else but didn't really get what was going on (sorry this is so long and random).
Hahaha, I want to hear this whole story! So random!
This all happened in the Fall of 1994, so there were no cell phones. Sorry it is so long, it was such an odd day.
A friend of mine, who I had a crush on, and who I had kissed once at a party, was hiking the Appalachian trail. I went to college in Maine close to several points on the trail. We talked about my joining him on the trail for a few days when he got close to where I was.
The plan was for me to hike in on a certain day and camp over night. If he was in the area we would meet up, hike for a couple of days, and then I would hitchhike back to my truck and if he didn't happen to be that far yet I would camp by myself overnight and then head home the next day.
I was so excited, because I had such a crush on him. I was sure that this was going to be a romantic adventure.
It was a dreary rainy day. I got to where I was supposed to meet him, and the trailhead was 5 miles inside of military property. There was a field trip there that day, so they let me in, but told me I had to be out within a certain time, because they were locking the gate. After getting to the trailhead, I hiked in a couple of miles to see if I could find my friend, got nervous about the time, and hiked out. I was sad about having to leave.
I get to my truck, a 1977 Ford F100, and one of the tires was flat. I knew how to fix a tire, but I had the pieces of three different jacks, it was super muddy, and I was terrified that I was going to get locked in. At one point the truck fell off the jack. Thank goodness I hadn't removed the tire, so it was easy to put it back up. I fixed the tire and got through the gate with 20 minutes to spare.
About halfway to school the truck stopped running. I walked to a farmhouse and called my dad. He was furious with me, because I wasn't supposed to take the truck on adventures, I was just supposed to use it in town. He gave me some ideas for fixing the truck, and told me to try to get it back to school, but to leave it if I really had to.I was able to get it running. It sputtered and gasped until I was about 5 miles from school, and then it died again. Nothing worked, so I hitchhiked into town.
The couple that picked me up were very sweet. I told them about my day, and they were sympathetic. They proceeded to tell me about the how the day before the woman's colleague, a teacher, crashed her car on a field trip. She had died and two of her students were seriously injured. I was so ashamed that I thought my day was bad.
When I got back everyone was in my neighbors' room drinking and making up dances to Low Rider while Dazed and Confused played in the background. I was muddy, wet, and exhausted. I sat in a bean bag chair, drank beer, and tried to make sense of the movie, while pouting about my day.
The next day, my dad drove up from Massachusetts to help me get my car. Someone had run into it while it was sitting on the side of the rode. I think he might still be mad about this twenty-one years later.
Months later my friend called me to tell me that he missed our meeting point by a week. After that, I never heard from him.
I love every movie mentioned except for The Sound of Music. I fucking hate that movie.
Also, I own Varsity Blues on DVD and I'm poor. SORRY. I know, I know. Poor people shouldn't be buying DVDs. They should be buying non-subsidized daycare.
If it helps, I bought it for $.50 at the library. MONEY MATTERS WIN.
Post by waterchurch on Jul 27, 2015 0:08:12 GMT -5
The dad from 10 Things I Hate About You used to come into my Starbucks. I got all excited and I don't think anyone else working had any idea what I was talking about.
Confession - my dogs have their own sound machine we turn on for them nightly in their room.
We figured out it helped by accident and have turned it into a nightly routine now. This means everybody/everything sleeps with a sound machine in our house!
We are going on vacation this week... And I'm bringing my sound machine.
I have been playing white noise in tiny apartments every night we've been in France. Everyone comments on the sound of the ocean and I don't GAF if that makes me a bad house guest. White noise for DS to sleep is non-negotiable.
I have a newer movie (comparatively) that everyone loves and I can't stand. And I'm nervous to admit it because it's going to move me on @natariru's list.
It's Anchorman.
I thought Anchorman was terrible the first time I saw it. It grew on me upon repeat viewing.
Post by chickens987 on Jul 27, 2015 6:05:09 GMT -5
My contributions: - julia stiles and I ran in the same circles in college. She is a bitch. - my mom telling me that Maria and captain Von trap were controlling, borderline abusive, of their kids IRL has hindered my enjoyment of som, despite my love of Julie Andrews.
Post by jeaniebueller on Jul 27, 2015 6:17:17 GMT -5
Does anyone remember that Drew Barrymore movie never been kissed? I remember that Express had a special line of floral embroidered camies and cardigans that coordinated with the movie, LOL. I had the black one with pink flowers and thought I was pretty awesome my junior year of college. Those were the days...
Does anyone remember that Drew Barrymore movie never been kissed? I remember that Express had a special line of floral embroidered camies and cardigans that coordinated with the movie, LOL. I had the black one with pink flowers and thought I was pretty awesome my junior year of college. Those were the days...
I watched this recently and was sad to realize it's kind of terrible. I blame whatshisface from Alias for duping me for so long - he is hot like fire in that movie.
The Breakfast Club was my favorite movie from about age 10 to 18, when Say Anything took over. When my husband and I started dating, he had never seen Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink or Heathers (which is the best hs movie EVER) so I forced him to watch them as soon as humanely possible, because I couldn't understand how he got to adulthood without seeing them. He hated PiP, but loved the other two (terrible stereotypes aside). I also made him watch Reality Bites, which I saw in a theater three freaking times and loooooved. It's ... Not good in retrospect, but you would be amazed at how often "you look like... A doily" can be used in real life. Plus, even though Winona would be better off pulling a Kelly Taylor, Ethan Hawke in that movie does something for me. (Blame Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight, I guess.)
And this is totally a confession that is going to land me on a lot of spreadsheets, but I thought Pitch Perfect was only ok, but would much rather watch Bring it On, which is basically the same movie.
I have a newer movie (comparatively) that everyone loves and I can't stand. And I'm nervous to admit it because it's going to move me on @natariru's list.
Why has nobody mentioned the hot boy classic of the early 90s, School Ties? Slumber party staple right there.
the only thing I know about School Ties is the Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne loves it.
Haha, excellent! School Ties, Ima let you finish, but Dead Poets Society is the best angsty boys school movie ever. Knox Overstreet rules my world. So much so that I *may* have seen Threesome in theaters. Twice.
Does anyone remember that Drew Barrymore movie never been kissed? I remember that Express had a special line of floral embroidered camies and cardigans that coordinated with the movie, LOL. I had the black one with pink flowers and thought I was pretty awesome my junior year of college. Those were the days...
I watched this recently and was sad to realize it's kind of terrible. I blame whatshisface from Alias for duping me for so long - he is hot like fire in that movie.
The Breakfast Club was my favorite movie from about age 10 to 18, when Say Anything took over. When my husband and I started dating, he had never seen Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink or Heathers (which is the best hs movie EVER) so I forced him to watch them as soon as humanely possible, because I couldn't understand how he got to adulthood without seeing them.