Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Re-watchability Drought

Friday after work i hit the bar. Bentley's, one of the most underrated places to drink in Arlington. Its never crowded, you bring 10 friends and you own the place. There is no questionable music on the jukebox at all, you don't have to worry about some drunk getting the courage to pick a Top 90's hits album and play Mr. Big followed by Spin Doctors, and Snow. Darts, TV, jukebox, beer all your basics covered. Anyways.. i'm the second to arrive, my friend Jon is already there. So we grab a beer, or as he would say grab some beers. (Damnit Jon, Its "let's go get some beer", not "let's go get some beers" how in the hell is it plural) So after we play catch up about work, life, wedding stuff, and what not.. we start to touch on serious issues like fantasy football, and movies and then jon brings up "Yo, did you read the latest Simmons article?" (One of my favorite writers Bill Simmons, ESPN 2) I say no and jon goes on to say simmons was answering an important question about the karate kid movie and began to go off on a tagent about a list of re-watchable movies. Movies you could watch 700 times.... like "The Karate Kid" the "Rocky" movies "Dazed & Confused" "Reservoir Dogs" "Top Gun" "Breakfast Club" . Then goes on to talk about a drought of rewatchalbe movies.

if you look at the most re-watchable movies from the past 10 years, the list looks like this: "Rounders," "Boogie Nights," "Good Will Hunting," "Almost Famous" and "Swingers."
Any time one of those five movies comes on, I'm watching. Even if I stumbled in halfway through the movie

Bill goes on to point out that these 5 movies came out between 1996-2000. He goes on to mention possible movies that come close to making the list, such as "Office Space," "The Big Lebowski," "Memento" and "Donnie Darko".. but goes on to classify them as cult movies. "Old School" he deems the closet, but claims the sappy love story involving Luke Wilson ruins it. Which i agree. Couldn't they have taken the Craig Kilborn character and made him head of the rival frat/dean right hand man. Could of taken the love story out give Kilborn a bigger asshole shoes to fill, and let Luke Wilson keep the boss's daughter, and the KY jelly girls. Kilborn made a great asshole in the movie (There is no acting range what so ever here. If you've seen the Kilborn late night show then you know Kilborn was being himself in this movie), his career might be over but he will always have a niche in movies playing assholes. My disgust with Craig deserves its on post.

Here's the link to article. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/050617&num=4

So naturally Jon and i start naming movies. I said "Fight Club"..... which sounded good at the time, but i got home and looked up Fight Club..... came out in 1999 .. didn't fall under the post 2000 category. Jon counters with Blade 3.... well i don't know if he throwing it up there on the re-watchable list or just asking me what i thought of the movie in general... but regardless Blade falls under the cult genre, not to mention Blade 3 was good because of Ryan Reynolds. Made the movie for me kept waiting to see what would come out of his mouth....


I just have two things to say to you. One, your hairdo is ridiculous. And two, I ate a bunch of garlic and I just farted. Silent but deadly.

Unlike other vampires, her fangs are located in her vagina.


and Jessica Biel in the movie doesn't hurt either.... but what the movie is lacking is a Stephen Dorff villain. In the first 2 at least they gave you some background on the vampires, as far as social society, who they work for. The vampires in the movie are just thrown in..... to bring back the "ultimate bad guy" Drake, who is not at all an imposing bad guy. There is no scene where they try to convince us that Drake is evil, remotely sadistic, power hungry...... nothing. Sure, sure i know what your saying "what about that scene when he killed Sommerfield (aka blind girl)" but come on he killed a blind girl, he could of had any of his goons do that. He didn't even get blind girl's kid. That being said Blade i deem not on re-watchable list.

Any suggestions more re-watchable movies 2000- present. Movie you could watch 700 times or

Any time one of those five movies comes on, I'm watching. Even if I stumbled in halfway through the movie

feel free to post it and i discuss it.

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