TRON Legacy

I've been waiting over a quarter century for this.

12 Movies About Fatherhood and Career

Ordered by how illustrative they are of some aspect of the combination:

• 1 Speedo_POV
  
• 2 Resurrecting_the_Champ
  
• 3 The_Weather_Man
• 4 The_King_of_Kong
• The_Pursuit_of_Happyness
  
• 6 March_of_the_Penguins
• 7 Kramer_vs._Kramer
• 8 Parenthood
• 9 The_Wrestler
• 10 The_Shining
• 11 Deconstructing_Harry
• 12 Raising_Arizona
• 13 The Sopranos is not a movie
  

The Problem With "The Reader"

Though obviously not a comedy, The Reader has the same that problem that all romantic comedies (except this one) have. In order to enjoy the movie (in order for the movie not to be a complete boring waste of time) you have to care about something that I can't possibly imagine caring about. In the case of the romantic comedy, it's whether the girl and the douchebag get together. In the case of The Reader it's what happens to the illiterate murdering Nazi pedophile. She gets 20 years in jail even though she wasn't *really* the boss (just a murdering Nazi pedophile)? She figures out how to read? Who the fuck cares? She doesn't seem to figure out that child molesting or the holocaust were bad things.

ask mefi doesn't know funny

I feel like this is one of the funniest things I've ever written and it didn't get favorited once. Why do I care? I don't know but I do.

Why do people all hope we'll find extraterrestrial intelligence? I don't know that either. It's illogical.

I did not like Benjamin Button

The curious case of two self-absorbed people in their 40s living lives of leisure off of the banal button guy's life of work. And to top it off, the moral of the story is that it's all right to just abandon everyone and "start over" whenever you feel like it.

Now my daughters have seen The Empire Strikes Back

At the end, Eva said: "He has a robot hand like that lady." "What lady?" I asked. She said. "I don't know her name. She is one of the 'Single Ladies'."

My Daughters Saw STAR WARS for the Frist Time Last Night

Last night, I decided that, since they're 5 now, they are old enough to see Star Wars (Ep IV, ANH), since that's how old I was when I had seen it for the first time. I'd thought a lot about it. My original plan was to show them TPM first, since that's pretty-much a kids movie anyway and it's about a little boy. I thought I might show them all of the movies in sequential (rather than chronological) order. However, ROTS blew that plan by being the least kid-friendly (darkest, scarriest and grossest) of them all. Also I figured that they might actually be more likely to end up liking Star Wars if I showed them a good one first.

Well, they were in rapt attention throughout. This was gratifying bordering on thrilling for me. However, when it was over, I asked them what they thought. Celia said:

"It was really more of a boys' move since there was only one girl and she didn't do very much."

I'm proud of her for demanding strong female characters. I told her that Princess Leia was the toughest of them all. Celia said "Maybe, but they didn't show her tough."

Eva said "I liked the ending more than the rest."

"You mean when they blew up the Death Star? I love that part too." I said.

"No"

"When they got their awards?"

"No"

"Then which part?"

"When they married"

That's right. She thought the award ceremony (white dress, walking the aisle, music) was Princess Leia marrying one or both of Han and Luke.

Hogan's Heroes Movie

Why isn't there a Hogan's Heroes movie? Maybe with Paul Rudd as Hogan?

The Heckler

Here's an idea for a movie. It's called "The Heckler". It stars Chris Kattan. He's a guy who figures out that his true calling is to sit in the audience of comedy shows and heckle the stand-up comedians. He's hilarious, but eventually gets his comeuppance.

Bad Double Feature Idea

If you were forced to watch Cujo and Beethoven in succession, which would you watch first? Maybe this combination would be better as a hilarious switcharoo farce. Sort of like the end of Bringing up Baby.

A theory about the film Back to the Future

You've seen the movie Back to the Future. Have you ever thought about the story from the point of view of George McFly (Crispin Glover)? Imagine what you would think if you had a son who, as a teenager, began to look *exactly* like the guy your wife dated before she dated you?

I think the entire movie takes place in George's mind. He can't deal with the obvious, but unthinkable, explanation: that his wife Lorraine (Lea Thompson) had an affair and conceived a child with ... what was name of that guy she went to prom with? Oh yeah, "Calvin Klein".

Instead, he imagines that his son Marty (Michael J. Fox) took must have traveled back in time. Calvin never even existed. It was Marty all along and, under a fake name inspired by his underwear, he was really helping George get together with Lorraine.

George is a science fiction writer after all. I wonder how close this is to the plot of "A Match Made in Space".