Another movie night ruined

Since i was going to be home on a weekend we picked up a few movies, Up and Taking of Pelham 123.

We were told we had to watch Up, the old man is just like me. About ten minutes into the movie the old man's wife dies. My wife, who gets choked up at a Folger's commercial every Christmas, has in her warped view just died in a Disney movie. We watched the whole thing and while I thought it was cute the missus cried on and off the whole time.

The next one I ruined. I have a habit of watching movies and pointing out errors in things like location and places where reality was stretched too far. i only mentioned the real obvious ones like saying they were in Midtown when the Statan Island Ferry terminal was behind them but it still drove her crazy. Then when Denzel went into the tunnel She started to cry again like that is something I would ever have to do in the course of my day. "...he didn't think he would either" and made me promise if I did have to I would call first. He remember to call his wife, which I sometimes don't.

She wonders why I hate movie night

Someone needs some medication...

I haven't seen the current Taking of Pelham 123. Watched the original about a month ago, pretty good movie.

In reply to Wally:

The next one I ruined. I have a habit of watching movies and pointing out errors in things like location and places where reality was stretched too far.

Then it's a darn good thing you weren't watching poRn.

oh yeah, well for being overly critical when watching movies (a trait I also share with you) you missed the fact that the old guy in Up disobeyed a court order, fled the country, exported goods to a foreign country without clearing customs, and did all of it with a minor in his custody....tell the missus that if youre being compared to Mr. Fredrickson, youre a saint and she should be happy your not in jail

I figured Wally would never even consider Pelham. I hated it compared to the original.

Regarding Up!, The Charles Muntz character was what? 80 years old when Carl and Ellie met, but did not age in the 250 years that Carl lived?

Fuxupwitdat?

Yeah, I sometimes ruin a movie for me and/or the wife. I was catching up on Lost a few weeks back. In this episode they were in 1975 or so. In the background there was a Fram Sure-Grip oil filter. I told my wife "Hey, they didn't make that style oil filter back then, and it doesn't look like an air-cooled VW or AMC filter to me anyway" (they seemed to only have v-dub buses and CJ's on the island)
She called me a dork. I told her to go to GRM, I'm only a half-dork.

No, sir, you ARE a full fledged Dork, congrats.

Ugh, mine barely pays attention, asks me what's going on all the time, then tries to chat with me while I'm trying to pay attention. She gets confused when I pause the movies when she leaves the room, etc.

and she wonders why I get snappy while watching movies. Perhaps because one of us has to know what's going on and if she's decided to never try and follow the plot (granted some can be very bad to follow) then if it isn't me, its the cat. Honestly sometimes I just ask to not bother watching the movie so that I can enjoy it.

Leann and I are hilarious watching movies, we decide to either enjoy it for the story or are critical of the cinematography. We decide within the first five minutes.

4cylndrfury wrote: oh yeah, well for being overly critical when watching movies (a trait I also share with you) you missed the fact that the old guy in Up disobeyed a court order, fled the country, exported goods to a foreign country without clearing customs, and did all of it with a minor in his custody....tell the missus that if youre being compared to Mr. Fredrickson, youre a saint and she should be happy your not in jail

What about abducting said minor?

John Brown wrote: Leann and I are hilarious watching movies, we decide to either enjoy it for the story or are critical of the cinematography. We decide within the first five minutes.

Yep this is Chuck & me. We are like MST3K

He usually checks out imDb before we watch the movies and sometimes I have to remind him not to tell me all the trivia before we watch it. I like to hear about it after though.

turboswede wrote: Ugh, mine barely pays attention, asks me what's going on all the time, then tries to chat with me while I'm trying to pay attention. She gets confused when I pause the movies when she leaves the room, etc.

This is mine. She gets a little mad when i pause the movie to chat with her if that's what she wants. I can't listen to two thing at once, and then talk about something else while watching something unrelated.

pigeon wrote: Someone needs some medication...

Maybe so, but I'm another one who cried off and on during most of "Up." Good movie, but... sniff... the lady died! Didn't see that one coming.

Margie

I haven't watched Up! yet, but I cry at the freakin' ASPCA commercials, so yeah, I'll be sure to have the kleenex handy for that one

Wally wrote: I have a habit of watching movies and pointing out errors in things like location and places where reality was stretched too far.

I am the master of that bad habit. Recently, I pointed out to my lovely wife how annoying it was that Hollywood uses the sound of the classic Huey for ALL helicopters, perhaps because it has such a distinctive sound. In reality however, the helicopter on the screen was a 4-bladed design and would make a very different sound indeed. Yes, I got smacked.

John Brown wrote: No, sir, you ARE a full fledged Dork, congrats.

Oh wow! 173 posts ago too. I guess I'm not looking up there often enough huh? So, maybe she wasn't calling me a dork after all, maybe she was informing me of my GRM status??

That's the same thing.

You know what ruins movies? Internet boards that drop spoilers like dead old ladies in movies I haven't seen yet.

We should start a thread of car related movie errors. Wait a sec, with this group it would be the size if the ignore thread in no time....

Up was a pretty deep movie. Lots of death in that one. At least for a movie that was advertised as something the whole family could watch.

SPOILER ALERT

What about the death at the end of Up? They kind of blow it off like it's nothing... Somehow that bothered me a bit. The guy was his childhood hero and one of the reasons he married his wife. Even if he was an ass and just tried to kill you, wouldn't you have at least shed a tear or two?

Wally wrote: We were told we had to watch Up, the old man is just like me. About ten minutes into the movie the old man's wife dies. We watched the whole thing and while I thought it was cute the missus cried on and off the whole time.

In your wifes defense, i though it was a terribly sad movie...being a Disney movie and all.

just my 2 cents

CarKid1989 wrote:

Wally wrote: We were told we had to watch Up, the old man is just like me. About ten minutes into the movie the old man's wife dies. We watched the whole thing and while I thought it was cute the missus cried on and off the whole time.

In your wifes defense, i though it was a terribly sad movie...being a Disney movie and all. just my 2 cents

I agree

IIRC, Up was the last movie that Pixar had planned to do without Disney. Wall-E and Up, again IIRC, were planned to launch themselves into a more mature audience. Note the much more mature subject matters in both movies. Wall-E dealt with mass consumerism and Up dealt with death, growing old, and a bit more corporate greed. Up was also the first Pixar movie to feature blood.

The last movie I cried watching was "The Kite Runner". I loved "Up", thought the graphics were marvelous, the old guy was great, the little kid extremely annoying.. but overall a nice little movie. The Pelham movie, hmm, well, it was okay. Travolta wasn't believable at all.

pinchvalve wrote: Recently, I pointed out to my lovely wife how annoying it was that Hollywood uses the sound of the classic Huey for ALL helicopters, perhaps because it has such a distinctive sound.

It sometimes makes you wonder where they spent all of the money; reminds me of the Wilheim scream.