Re: Movie Notes

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I haven't seen Sideways but I have seen Million Dollar Baby so I can't compare the two. However, I will say that you can't go wrong with Million Dollar Baby.


Posted by: D | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 3:23 PM
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I've heard that Sideways is great. Keep meaning to see it.

Bill Murray + Basic Instinct = weird concept. Or is that just me?


Posted by: profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 3:27 PM
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Very weird, which is why I mention it.

Maybe we should go see Sideways, pg ;)


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 3:28 PM
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Oh, that's right. You mean after dinner? Our date is tonight, isn't it?


Posted by: profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 3:33 PM
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You know, I think baa really did make the reservation. We're breaking the poor guy's heart.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 3:34 PM
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Yeah, but I told you ... I don't cross time zones for a first date :) Nothing personal.

(I do, however, think FL and I may be in the same time zone)


Posted by: profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 3:36 PM
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Well, that was the original plan. I still think you two are a good match. Come on pg, he's not going to be pushy about it.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 3:38 PM
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Alas, Franz's table goes unoccupied at the Greens tonight...

The movie you want to see, ogged: Blade.


Posted by: baa | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 4:47 PM
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Seen both. Go to Sideways.


Posted by: Ted Barlow | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 5:10 PM
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Probably too late (what time is it in LA?). I've seen both, and you won't go wrong with either. Million Dollar Baby is gut-wrenching. Hilary Swank is just phenomenal, and I was weepy, but I've been doing that lately, I think it's stress. The Time Traveler's wife had me sobbing last weekend.

Sideways is funny and smart. I felt uncomfortably typed by the Giametti's character. I've said way too many of the same things about wine - dissing merlot, praising french chardonnay. I felt like such a type. Oh, and it's totally ridiculous that such a neurotic, self-hating guy hooks up with a hot woman who knows wine better than him, but somehow I'm ok with suspension of disbelief on that one. I can't imagine why.


Posted by: cw | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 6:32 PM
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I suggest Attack on Princinct 13... if you like WELL MADE action movies.


Posted by: Leuf | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 6:35 PM
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What is it with the unfogged boys??? I'm not going around asking y'all out when I already have my own stalkers right here in Gentleville, no travel required.


Posted by: profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 9:57 PM
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Great, so now we compare (unfavorably) to a stalker. You know what? Maybe the Unfogged boys are tired of wooing your high-maintenance ass. How 'bout that. Huh?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 10:52 PM
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if that is your definition of wooing ...

baa? You out there? Ogged needs some help.


Posted by: profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 11:17 PM
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God, more abuse. Usually, pg, when women say no to a date, they don't keep coming back to tell the guy what a terrible wooer he is. Aren't you too short for me anyway, dammit?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 11:22 PM
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Hey, profgrrrrl! Welcome to the "you're just too..." club (too slutty/too high-maintenance).


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 11:22 PM
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What, are we the only three people awake and blogging? I can see this isn't going to end well for me. Uncle.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 11:25 PM
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Oh, pgrrrrl and I are talking about you in chat right now ;)


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 11:26 PM
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I am too short. And I wear heels, sometimes. But I didn't say no to a date because I was never actually asked on a date.

Anyway, if I'm defined as high maintenance ... that doesn't leave a huge chunk of the female pop to count as your medium and low maintenance (and then let's not forget no maintenance :)


Posted by: profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 11:28 PM
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oh, yeah, c'mon over and chat!


Posted by: profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 11:28 PM
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bphd and I will share a secret with you if you join us in chat :)


Posted by: profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 11:30 PM
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So you can abuse me in real time? Where are you guys?

I think I once set up an Unfogged chat room. www.unfogged.com/chat yup, it's there. I haven't ever used it though.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 11:30 PM
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we're on AIM. how does this chat thingy work?


Posted by: profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 11:32 PM
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Bah, who knows? It's not private anyway.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 11:34 PM
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Oh, you want a private chat with me and profgrrrrl? It'll cost you...


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 4-05 11:42 PM
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Ogged, you're such a little tease.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 02- 5-05 3:58 AM
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"art(y)"? Those films are EXTREMELY arty. Pittsburgh's a great place for movies at theaters, and those movies played here for a total of nine days (one week for Notre Musique, two days for Goodbye Dragon Inn).

But thanks for introducing me to The High Sign. I generally assume there aren't any online movie reviewers who aren't included in the RottenTomatoes search (except for RuthlessReviews and the Onion AV club).


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 02- 5-05 7:46 PM
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I meant to ask you, Ogged, when you're not trying to make out with my future grrrlfrrrnd, do you go to movies alone? I admire this ability but do not possess it.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 02- 6-05 11:50 PM
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You spelled girlfriend wrong.

Yeah, I go to movies alone. Also out to eat. Oddly, lately I have trouble going to new restaurants by myself.

Do you feel like everyone is seeing you and feeling pity? Or what?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 6-05 11:56 PM
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Y'o'u'r'e' s'u'c'h' a' c'o'c'k'k'n'o'c'k'e'r'. The problem is that I try to wear this expression like "I'm not pathetic; I'm simply by myself and enjoying it, thanks much" but it's hard to fit all that into an expression. And I don't want to look like a doofus.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 02- 7-05 12:01 AM
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My vast experience with my fellow humans tells me they're far too self-absorbed to care at all about who else is at the movie theater. Plus, it's dark. What about restaurants?

So, I looked up cock knocker, to see if there was a precise definition. Apparently. But I was betting that it was the term for guys who do those double-penetration scenes in porn, and knock cocks with other guys. Oh well.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 7-05 12:07 AM
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I'm bad with restaurants in the same way. I wish it were normal to eat alone, because I like it, but I feel like I'm singling myself out.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 02- 7-05 12:11 AM
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Restaurants are harder. Mostly I'm fine until the host says "Just one?"


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 7-05 12:13 AM
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I find it easier to eat alone if I can sit outside. The cafe style seems more suited to the lonesome diner. Ogged, do you bring a book with you when you dine solo?


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 02- 7-05 1:21 AM
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God you guys are neurotic. I eat alone and go to movies alone all the time. (Ok, I used to, before I had a kid.) It's pleasant.

Though I agree, restaurant-wise, that it's more pleasant to go to a place where you're a regular. You can read, or converse occasionally with the staff, and have a nice, leisurely, pleasant meal in silence. Bliss.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 7-05 7:17 AM
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God, could I possibly have used the word "pleasant" more often in that post? My excuse is I still haven't had any coffee.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 7-05 7:18 AM
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Who's neurotic now, bitch?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 7-05 7:49 AM
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Oh, I freely admit that I am neurotic as hell.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 7-05 8:30 AM
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But pleasantly so, yes?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 7-05 8:38 AM
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That is for each of you to decide on your own. I am neurotic, but I am not a braggart.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 7-05 9:50 AM
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OK, so what does "high-maintenance" mean here?

I usually use "high-maintenance" to mean "requires much coddling and gentling along, or will freak." But I have also heard it used to mean "takes lots of time to put on clothes and makeup," which is what I think Ogged means to say about pg. But which is it? The first, I think, is a much more important category.

e.g.: I am definitely not high-maintenance of the second type; before moving to Milwaukee, I was a "wears athletic shoes everywhere" type. (Now I am a "wears athletic shoes or boots everywhere" type.) But I have had friends accuse me of being high-maintenance because, when we are doing things together, I prefer doing things I want to do to doing things I don't want to do. And, asking an unbiased observer, I received confirmation that I am high-maintenance. (I later realized that I should have known what answer I would get from someone who knows from personal experience that I am a "shows up at an ex-girlfriend's place of work bleeding from the temple and asks her if she can give him a lift home in his car" type.)

So anyway, which do you mean?


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02- 7-05 11:58 AM
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That's a good point, Matt, and one that I meant to comment on a couple of weeks ago. I'm sorry that "high maintenance" has become the short-hand here, because my girlfriends have always been notably high-maintenance of the first sort (though I wouldn't say requiring gentling and coddling so much as attention and engagement), but not at all high-maintenance of the second sort.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 7-05 12:07 PM
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Wearing athletic shoes everywhere is *definitely* high-maintenance. You have no idea how much energy it takes to keep yourself from saying, "are you wearing those godawful things again?" every time you see them.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 7-05 3:29 PM
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I usually use "high-maintenance" to mean "requires much coddling and gentling along, or will freak." But I have also heard it used to mean "takes lots of time to put on clothes and makeup," which is what I think Ogged means to say about pg.

Well, for the record (since the high maintenance comments were made about me) ... I require very little coddling and don't freak easily. But if you smother me or try to control me I will run away. AND while I definitely care about my appearance and I do wear heels and sometimes makeup, I can do the whole routine (shower, shave legs, dry hair, dress, put on makeup -- as in, ready for a nice evening out) in 15 minutes, tops. On a lazy weekend morning, I'm likely to just get up, throw on clothes and go.

You can call me a consumer/fashion whore or something like that for caring about my appearance, but the high maintenance label just ain't gonna fly.


Posted by: profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 02- 7-05 4:46 PM
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