Comments on: Fighting Over Movies on Unsocial Networks

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:28:58 +0000

As the photographer of the Star Trek Eggo photo, I have absolutely no value in this discussion (though I’m a fan of both 2001 and the Star Trek ‘verse). But I’ll weigh in anyway ;-)

Seems to me Tom’s got the right of it with this comment: “It would make about as much sense to compare a tire pressure gauge to Diet Sprite.”

I might not parse them as *that* different – but it’s certainly an oranges-to-apples question.

By: keelsetter

keelsetter — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:44:57 +0000

My apologies to TCM readers who are now being subjected to rants from the hairless apes on my Fantasy Football League. Okay, guys – I’m letting you hijack the thread… but only to a point because it’s gotta stay PG-13, dig?

As to “pacing issues,” Tom, I have serious “pacing issues” with your emails. But I think we can both agree that, yes, you are a troll.

By: XYFLTom

XYFLTom — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:56:22 +0000

“Hairless Apes?” I defy you to find a more erudite group than your fantasy football league, even within the warm, real-world-shielding confines of academia, Mr. Keelsetter. Want proof? The entire exchange that you deemed necessary to post on this blog? YOU WERE TROLLED. And man, do you deliver.

Of course Kubrick is awesome. Pacing issues for 2001? Sure, but overall a landmark piece.

By: NYsteve1978

NYsteve1978 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:38:58 +0000

TOM IS CORRECT.

By: Fat Elvis

Fat Elvis — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:39:37 +0000

“Not that this threat carries any weight on my Fantasy Football League – but they’re all a bunch of ugly hairless apes anyway.”

keelsetter fancies himself a guardian angel (ala Wim Wender’s “Wings of Desire”)whispering over my shoulder in the movie theater, relating obscure and totally uninteresting facts about Kubrick’s life and approach to feeelm, all the while wishing he could JUST GET OUT OF HIS HEAD FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS AND ACTUALLY ENJOY A FRIGGIN’ MOVIE FOR A CHANGE like all the hairless apes he is trying so hard to guide and protect.

By: Fat Elvis

Fat Elvis — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:22:57 +0000

“There’s not a boring frame in 2001. It’s also quite funny (though I’ve got many strange looks for suggesting this, mostly from haters of course).”

Assuming you’ve destroyed your cingulate gyrus by huffing too much paint while in feeelm school, I can see why you’d think that. But for most of the general movie-going public, BO-RING.

By: Fat Elvis

Fat Elvis — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:20:11 +0000

“In a college film class I had a great prof who reminded us all that the word “boring” could also be used in the sense of “drilling into,” and ergo mean “penetrating.” I would submit that 2001: A Space Odyssey falls under this category. To submit yourself to the spell Kubrick is weaving is to open yourself up to something sublime. Most people who I talk to who say 2001 is boring have never seen it on the big screen or have some form of A.D.D. (which is, admittedly, becoming more pervasive in this age of Google and cell-phone addiction). For me it’s a deal-breaker. If I’m dating somebody and they tell me 2001 is boring, I’m outta there. Not that this threat carries any weight on my Fantasy Football League – but they’re all a bunch of ugly hairless apes anyway.”

So if I understand you correctly, you’re saying your secret sexual fantasy is to be “drilled into,” or, “penetrated” by Kubrick?

By: Fat Elvis

Fat Elvis — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:18:28 +0000

“don’t get me wrong, I love Star Trek. But, Star Trek isn’t science fiction. It’s Sci-Fi. For those wondering about the difference: science fiction takes the science seriously and extrapolates based on actual scientific knowledge out there. Good science fiction will not contradict itself or the science involved rather it theorizes, rationally, an extension of known scientific knowledge. Sci-Fi merely uses the trappings of science without the reality of it to entertain. 2001 is good science fiction. Whither it’s boring is up to the viewer. The latest Star Trek is Sci-Fi, entertaining Sci-Fi, but Sci-Fi nonetheless.”

Complete. And. Total. Bull. Star Trek is classic Space Opera, which falls under the science fiction umbrella genre. Just because it isn’t Steam Punk doesn’t mean it belongs on the SyFy channel.

By: Fat Elvis

Fat Elvis — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:15:31 +0000

What I actually said was Communist MUSLIN Web Site, in reference to the Fark.com meme of the same name. Get a clue, morans.

By: keelsetter

keelsetter — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:13:35 +0000

Of course you do, Tom. (Dude, I can see the I.P. address comes from Starz.)