I got Assaulted on Thanksgiving Day (movie rant)

[k1xv]

Well when they start with something really quite good, like Wizard of Oz, very original for the time (book written around 1900, movie was 1939) - it takes true talent to ruin it so badly. I mean Zardoz doesn't get much credit for actually being better. Anyway, just like my opinion man. If you enjoy it, fine. It will probably win some awards. Or something.

When I was a youngster and saw the Wizard of Oz movie for the first time, I was annoyed that the story development kept getting interrupted with pointless singing and dancing.

And once Dorothy and Toto were back in Kansas and the entire trip to Oz turned out to be a dream, wasn't Miss Gulch going to show up again to take Toto away to be destroyed?

 

[Number_35]

My equivalent experience was my wife really wanting me to go to a sing-along performance of Handel's Messiah the first year we were married.

I told her I'd heard bits and pieces of the music before, and was underwhelmed. In spite of many people whom I greatly respect thinking it's an excellent work of music, I've always thought that there was an element of The Emperor's New Clothes to it. I love some classical music, but this work has always seemed 2nd- or 3rd-rate to me.

Anyway, off we go. Early on, maybe 20 minutes or half an hour in, this man stands up and begins to make this repetitive sound that goes on and on. I look around, and the other people in the audience are enraptured.

I turn to my wife partway through this strange solo of repetitive guttural noises which reminds me of nothing more than a failing starter motor and whisper "Give it some gas and try it again".

She glares at me with shock and horror and whispers "I'm NOT bringing you back here next year!"

So now, many years later, she takes our wonderful daughter-in-law, while our son and I play with the grandchildren.

To paraphrase Garrison Keillor, we are still married.

 

[Number_35]

It's a kids movie so I took my 9 year old granddaughter to see it because she wanted to go. I’m not sure exactly what we saw, starting with the very beginning in the part where “Every family has their secrets” and the piano scene, which results in a green baby….? Really?! WTH? Maybe I missed the point somehow. And goats for college professors at Shiz University? Those script writers had to be on hallucinagens tripping on their own mental flatulence. A total POS movie.

Scott

Thanks for the warning!

 

[bdcardinal]

We watched Rambo 4 and Invasion U.S.A. for Thanksgiving.

 

[74DartSport]

Big Jean Shepherd fan here. When A Christmas Story came out, took my soon to be first wife to opening night. She left about half way through. Should have taken that hint. Marriage lasted a little over a year.

 

[Number_35]

Big Jean Shepherd fan here. When A Christmas Story came out, took my soon to be first wife to opening night. She left about half way through. Should have taken that hint. Marriage lasted a little over a year.

What a shame! That's an excellent movie. Yes, big red flag there ...

A few months ago I read the collection of short stories the movie is based on.

 

[Opelman]

Ha-ha...I know people who invite guests outside their family so the family members will stay within acceptable bounds...I swear.

I've found that if one doesn't want to spend a bunch of money on Christmas presents for extended family, all one has to do is bring up religion and politics at Thanksgiving. Everyone will be angry at each other and no presents exchanged. Priceless.

 

[joegreen]

Fully understand.

Years ago I was being a "bad" husband so agreed to take my Wife to the Nutcracker at a live theater.

Super brutal experience. I was so very happy when the play ended......... that is when my Wife told me the play did not end--- it was an intermission and had to sit through the second half......

I had that experience once at a concert. I was devastated to learn i had to sit through the exact same thing i just endured.

 

[Kira]

A few months ago I read the collection of short stories the movie is based on.

"In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash", is the collection of short stories "A Christmas Story" is based on.

What I love is that as an avid Jean Shepherd listener, I heard the author tell those stories on the air. He broadcast in Phillie and then New Youk, on the then WOR radio and perhaps in other cities.

When the book came out, I rode my bicycle to the old Womrath's Bookstore for a "first edition" -of a paperback.
Here and there you hear of it being assigned in high school English classes.
My late sister-in-law, a teacher, said the popularity of the film prompted many students to read.

FYI: Some of Jean Shepherd's stories were published in Playboy. He was the magazine's 'official satirist'.
When Playboy got its turn to interview the Beatles, they sent Jean Shepherd.

 

[Number_35]

"In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash", is the collection of short stories "A Christmas Story" is based on.

What I love is that as an avid Jean Shepherd listener, I heard the author tell those stories on the air. He broadcast in Phillie and then New Youk, on the then WOR radio and perhaps in other cities.

When the book came out, I rode my bicycle to the old Womrath's Bookstore for a "first edition" -of a paperback.
Here and there you hear of it being assigned in high school English classes.
My late sister-in-law, a teacher, said the popularity of the film prompted many students to read.

FYI: Some of Jean Shepherd's stories were published in Playboy.
When Playboy got its turn to interview the Beatles, they sent Jean Shepherd.

I love that brand of understated anecdotal humour. I wonder to what extent Shepherd influenced Garrison Keillor, and perhaps George Plimpton.

 

[Kira]

I love that brand of understated anecdotal humour.

Add to that the fact that J.S. used items from the "newer world" in his stories.
Things like the troublesome furnace, starting a car in the cold weather, working in the steel mills and movie theatre gravy boat giveaways hadn't appeared in stories by, say, Emily Bronte'. ....and never forget the Nehi lady's leg lamp or the Red Ryder B-B gun!

 

[nickaluch]

I took my wife and daughters years ago to see the play Wicked in NYC they loved it I survived it. There going to see the movie I'll most likely pass on the invite musicals are just not my thing.

 

[HemiBenny]

We watched Rambo 4 and Invasion U.S.A. for Thanksgiving.

The only thing I remember about “Invasion USA”, is the scuffle in that room that resulted in the straw being shoved up that girls nose!

 

[bdcardinal]

The only thing I remember about “Invasion USA”, is the scuffle in that room that resulted in the straw being shoved up that girls nose!

Its a Christmas movie at least.

 

[OVERKILL]

My wife and her friend went to watch this last night. I stayed home and watched some episodes of "House" with my eldest. She didn't give me any sort of report on the film when she got home, so I have no idea how it was and don't really care to know, lol.

 

[bbhero]

Fully understand.

Years ago I was being a "bad" husband so agreed to take my Wife to the Nutcracker at a live theater.

Super brutal experience. I was so very happy when the play ended......... that is when my Wife told me the play did not end--- it was an intermission and had to sit through the second half......

Reaction equals … Like Alfie in Peaky Blinders looking stunned and shaken a bit and he said when negotiating with Tommy Shelby… “ **** me.”

 

[Sedin26]

Fully understand.

Years ago I was being a "bad" husband so agreed to take my Wife to the Nutcracker at a live theater.

Super brutal experience. I was so very happy when the play ended......... that is when my Wife told me the play did not end--- it was an intermission and had to sit through the second half......

In high school I had the opportunity to go to London to watch a number of musicals and plays, equivalent to Broadway shows.

I enjoyed most of them but one was so intellectually advanced I couldn’t understand much of what was going on. It was finally over and I quickly left.

I later learned it had only been intermission. I was glad to have got out of there anyway.

 

[andrew_j]

Missed it here, family went to it. Our mother in law was upset it was only about half story of original musical and somehow was still 2hrs 40 mins. My youngest daughter 10 did not like length mostly.