| Posted by: poopontheshoes7 at April 4, 2008, 8:57 pm | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | This one time at the movies this little boy about 10 years old kept getting his Batman info wrong. He was saying how Batman Returns was the first one and that Batman Forever was the best one and he thinks Batman Begins was ok but was confusing because of the Joker card at the end. He said something along the lines of "They killed him in the first movie, how can he come back?" I wanted to turn around and smack him in the face for being so dumb. But my girlfriend was there and told me not to do it, he was only a little kid. No excuse if you ask me. Ya, Im a dick... | | Static Link |
| Posted by: EvilHenchman at April 4, 2008, 8:28 pm | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Oh I'm sure they're both smart guys. It's funny how people can be a little Forrest Gump-y in some areas, yet all Will Hunting-like in others. Me, for example, pretty comfortable with the writing and the speaking and the remembering of the English words and stuff, but if you wanna make me squirm, throw some numbers at me and ask me to do something involving percentages. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: SweetEnLow at April 3, 2008, 1:06 pm | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | Quote: Originally Posted by EvilHenchman I think you need to find smarter friends. I kid, I kid...
He's actually pretty smart in a lot of ways, but pretty clueless when it comes to remembering names correctly... He doesn't have the best pronunciation sometimes. Great with math and computers, but English not so good. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: SweetEnLow at April 3, 2008, 1:03 pm | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | He was good in A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints. At the lineup at the video store the girls behind me were talking about the Matrix. One of them said "It sucked ass. I hate movies where you have to think." | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Homyrrh at April 3, 2008, 12:49 pm | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Lost in Space i lol'd "channing taddem is hawt" Look, my friend, I'm a guy, but you know what the funniest thing is? He looks like fucking "Dum Dum Me Want Gum Gum" from 'Night at the Museum'. He's "hot"? Fuck she's talking about... | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Lost in Space at April 3, 2008, 12:40 pm | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Homyrrh Not even an expert, just a connoisseur, but... Last night, a friend I live with was on the hpone figuring out what film to see with her friends that night. I heard this from the kitchen, making me a good ol' cup of tea: "'Step Up 2' was really cool! The acting was kind of bad, but at the end the dance sequences were SICK!!!1111!!1 And Channing Taddem [sic] is great. I'm really big on him...Yeah?...Really, that's cool...Oh, you know what? 'Stop-Loss' looks cool....Channing Tatum's in it...It's about Iraq, right?...Yeah, I thought so...No, I saw '21'...I don't know, I didn't really know any of the actors or anything....What?....OH...Oh yeah! It's playing at 9:20 tonight...I don't know...it's just a movie....I'll ask her..." If I had $10... i lol'd "channing taddem is hawt" | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Homyrrh at April 3, 2008, 12:32 pm | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Not even an expert, just a connoisseur, but... Last night, a friend I live with was on the hpone figuring out what film to see with her friends that night. I heard this from the kitchen, making me a good ol' cup of tea: "'Step Up 2' was really cool! The acting was kind of bad, but at the end the dance sequences were SICK!!!1111!!1 And Channing Taddem [sic] is great. I'm really big on him...Yeah?...Really, that's cool...Oh, you know what? 'Stop-Loss' looks cool....Channing Tatum's in it...It's about Iraq, right?...Yeah, I thought so...No, I saw '21'...I don't know, I didn't really know any of the actors or anything....What?....OH...Oh yeah! It's playing at 9:20 tonight...I don't know...it's just a movie....I'll ask her..." If I had $10... | | Static Link |
| Posted by: EvilHenchman at April 3, 2008, 11:22 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by SweetEnLow My friend keeps saying Val Kilmner and Conin The Barbarian. (He also calls Keanu Canoe- as someone mentioned) My other friend says he watched Battlestar Gallataca as a kid. I think you need to find smarter friends. I kid, I kid... | | Static Link |
| Posted by: SweetEnLow at April 3, 2008, 11:10 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by BubbaStrangelove Oh, yeah... Galactica. I'd assumed it was just a typo. I've been myzeld. For a minute you had me thinking I had been saying it wrong. Of course he's also the guy who I said hey do you want to come over and watch The Transporter with my bf and some friends. It had just come out on DVD. Him: I've seen the previews. Looks good. Who is the guy in the movie? Me: Jason Statham. The guy from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, The One.... Him: He's not in those movies. Me: oookay. (I don't bother arguing because you can't with him, just get a headache). Well come over we're watching it later. I like him. Should be good. Hours later Movie is playing. Jason appears on screen. Him: I know where I know that guy from. He's the guy from Snatch. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: SweetEnLow at April 3, 2008, 10:53 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by BubbaStrangelove Battlestar Galactica was a late-70s/Early-80s TV show, in syndication through the 90s. The version on Sci-Fi with Edward James Olmos is a new version. What's wrong with your friend saying he saw it as a kid? ^This^ might actually be a better example of what was I originally posting about. I know the show. Dirk Benedict (pre- A-Team), Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch....But Maybe I'm the one who has been saying it wrong all these years. lol How do you say it? He says it Battlestar GA LA TICA Isn't it GA LA CTICA My boyfriend always laughs at the way he says it. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: BubbaStrangelove at April 3, 2008, 9:07 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by SweetEnLow My other friend says he watched Battlestar Gallataca as a kid. Battlestar Galactica was a late-70s/Early-80s TV show, in syndication through the 90s. The version on Sci-Fi with Edward James Olmos is a new version. What's wrong with your friend saying he saw it as a kid? ^This^ might actually be a better example of what was I originally posting about. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: SweetEnLow at April 3, 2008, 8:38 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | My friend keeps saying Val Kilmner and Conin The Barbarian. (He also calls Keanu Canoe- as someone mentioned) My other friend says he watched Battlestar Gallataca as a kid. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: thedudeman69 at April 3, 2008, 3:24 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | I have to keep telling my parents and my sisters and brothers about movies because they keep giving me a blank stare everytime I try to explain a movie that I thought was good, then they decide to go for the most mindnumbingly stupid movie possible. Case in point INT - GROCERY STORE - DAY Sister Well, I want to get Premenition Me I hate Sandra Bullock. I know the movie's going to suck. Sister
aw, come on. It will be fun Me
Ok INT - SISTER'S HOUSE - DAY Premenition is playing in the background Me
I knew this would suck Sister
Hey, want to watch a lame Dane Cook Comedy Me
.... actually, I want to watch Fincher's new movie Sister ................(drool is running down the side of her cheek) That is a day in the life of watching movies with my sister. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Tweek at April 3, 2008, 3:03 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by auge_28 It seems to me that if you are talking to folks and film comes up and you whip out anything that the average does not know you get the eye from them . . . you know, the “He thinks he knows everything” eye. Been there. "How do you know that?!" and other crap. Quote: I work in an office, so folks are always talking about movies . . . about the only time I am brought into the conversation is if they cannot figure out a name of a film. Yeah, trying to help someone figure out a movie title is poopy sometimes. ME: What was it about? OTHER PERSON: I don't remember? ME: Who was in it? OTHER PERSON: Um.... That point I check out. Quote: Of course I should not judge them to harshly . . . My boss loved Garfield and Let’s Go To Prison another office mate thinks that any film made before 1990 is to old, another only watches shit like Ghost Hunter and American Treasure . . . and so on. I liked Let's Go to Prison, but I also like Once Upon a Time in the West... I know someone... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: BubbaStrangelove at March 30, 2008, 1:26 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by bigred760 It happens to me more often than I care to admit. Working in television, I catch a lot of mistakes on the air, moreso with entertainment and movie stories. I was watching Regis and Kelly at a drs office a Jaime Foxx was promoting Ray, and Regis kept referring to him having been in Collateral Damage, and Foxx had this look on his face but never spoke up. It was pretty funny. I kind of felt for him too, because Regis is so damn excited and shit that it was probably hard to break that mood. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: bigred760 at March 29, 2008, 9:16 pm | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | It happens to me more often than I care to admit. Working in television, I catch a lot of mistakes on the air, moreso with entertainment and movie stories. But every now and again, something pops up that I think is wrong and it turns out to be right. I feel and look like an arrogant ass when I'm the one that's proven wrong. DOH!!!! | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Buck Turgidson at March 29, 2008, 7:50 pm | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by someguy Someone I know would constantly call Keanu Reeves 'Canoe Reeves' (yes they pronounced his first name as the word canoe). The first time I heard it I just laughed and said that it's pronounced like key-ah-new. 5 years later and they still fucking call him canoe. I love that. I'm adopting it for myself. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: john_rambo at March 29, 2008, 5:32 pm | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | If someone doesn't know something can't get mad at em for not knowing... that's what I think. I always hear people do stupid stuff but just bite my tongue and move on. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: someguy at March 29, 2008, 5:27 pm | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Someone I know would constantly call Keanu Reeves 'Canoe Reeves' (yes they pronounced his first name as the word canoe). The first time I heard it I just laughed and said that it's pronounced like key-ah-new. 5 years later and they still fucking call him canoe. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: The Heart Collector at March 29, 2008, 3:09 pm | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | This thread is actually the first time I've realized that it's PEEBLES and not PEBBLES (I've never heard anyone say the name out loud). | | Static Link |
| Posted by: TheHutch23 at March 29, 2008, 2:15 pm | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by ListersParanoia Same here, I correct people constantly to myself but since I myself hate being corrected (especially when I'm in the middle of a story or something) I typically keep it to myself...unless it's a close friend. If the case is the ladder I unload both barrels. It's latter I kid! I kid! | | Static Link |
| Posted by: auge_28 at March 29, 2008, 1:17 pm | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | It seems to me that if you are talking to folks and film comes up and you whip out anything that the average does not know you get the eye from them . . . you know, the “He thinks he knows everything” eye. I work in an office, so folks are always talking about movies . . . about the only time I am brought into the conversation is if they cannot figure out a name of a film. I do not try to show off, I don’t think it is showing off if you spend time learning about something . . . is it my fault that instead of just telling folks that I love film I actually study them a bit? I don’t look at my auto mechanic like he is stuck-up when he is talking about the problems under my hood . . . this is just his field of expertise . . . why the hell can’t I get that same consideration? So many people will tell you that they love film . . . what they are telling you is that they love watching film. It is too much work for them to take the time to learn why they liked the film . . . and this is of course there right. Of cour... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: ListersParanoia at March 29, 2008, 10:58 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by yorrick brown i think my arrogance but never say it. Same here, I correct people constantly to myself but since I myself hate being corrected (especially when I'm in the middle of a story or something) I typically keep it to myself...unless it's a close friend. If the case is the ladder I unload both barrels. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Mr.HyDe807 at March 29, 2008, 10:58 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Everytime im sitting at college and people are around me, they usually end up in movie discussions, and there always like "whats that one movie with the.....", and i'm always under my breath saying the movie their thinking of. Then after a couple of movies, one of their friends just figures it out, and i just smirk a little and go back to whatever i'm doing..... | | Static Link |
| Posted by: BubbaStrangelove at March 29, 2008, 10:54 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | I'm really glad I didn't say anything to her - I wouldn't have done that. It's just like sometimes you have to give people a break. I feel like Mario Van Pebbles is a lessor gaff than Myzeld. It's like laughing at someone for having barbecue sauce on their chin and you later realize you have a shit stain on the tail of your shirt. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Weapon X at March 29, 2008, 10:18 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | I think I developed my own film snobbery during my four-year run at a local movie theater. We were an independent four-screen building that usually got either the good indie stuff that nobody had heard of, or the mainstream crap that nobody else wanted. I remember once I was working Saturday night of X2's opening weekend, so the place was not as busy as it could have been. This couple at the concession stand made note of this, and I replied, "Everyone's probably out seeing X-Men 2." "What's that?" Strike one. Apparently there's a fine real estate market for rocks in Milwaukee, as this lady had clearly crawled out from under one. (This was not a old couple, mind you...probably mid-30s at the oldest.) "That new movie based on the comic book." Her reply was a disinterested, "Oh, that's something my five-year-old would enjoy." The urge to either smack this woman or set her straight with the most forceful words available to me was more than a little tempting. This being one... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: Buck Turgidson at March 29, 2008, 4:29 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Sometimes...words just don't compute. You see it with your eyes and somehow, somewhere on the road up the synapses to the brain and back, it just doesn't click in right. A similar thing is when you say something, have the right thing in mind and yet, somehow, you say something else. Sometimes it's similar (meaning to say "Montomery Clift" and saying "Montgomery Ward" instead), sometimes it isn't. This aren't garden variety misstatements (like if someone asks you who died with Bowie and Travis at the Alamo and you say "Daniel Boone" rather than "Davy Crockett" because you just forget which one was which.) I mean actually thinking the right answer and triggering the "Go" code in your brain and having the damned hunk of gray gunk send a totally different word out your mouth, making you look like a dumbass in front of everyone within earshot. That's a real pisser for me. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: TheHutch23 at March 29, 2008, 4:19 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Mario Van Pebbles? That honky grandma be trippin'! I try to walk an even line, that being confident (And yes, venturing into arrogance) about my stance on movies to know what I would and would not spend my time or money on. While at the same time, not bringing my perspective down on someone who's approach differs from my own. That being said, I think that a lack of said confidence/arrogance is detrimental to film quality as a whole. Example: Hambone Meathead: "Superhero Movie? Well these types of films never end up being very good, but it could be funny so might as well go push up it's box office numbers." People like me: "10,000 BC? Roland Emmerich movies don't age well, and Independance Day and Godzilla were dogshit. Pass!" I'm arrogant in the sense that I will only put forth an effort when I know I am proved wrong at a later time, and honestly I think it's better off that way. *Addition* To be more comparitive with your example, I always have to fight the urge whenever I overhear someo... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: MR.MOVIEMASTER at March 29, 2008, 3:56 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | i like to listen to a lot of different people talk about how they felt or feel about movies and alot of times people dont take me serious.. but sometimes life is so hard u have to escape through a movie... people dont realize that thats what there actually doing. escaping reality........if we could understand people more and take the time to talk and discuss things we wouldnt have to escape so much but until then movies provide incouragment, hope, passion.. and so much more....i can tell u a million times walking past a movie. over again.. then finally watching it and saying WOW!!! that was great...now i watch alot of movies that i keep passing buy...what a treat...... | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Monotreme at March 29, 2008, 3:35 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Mario Van Pebbles... that's classic :P Anyway, yeah I sympathize - Like DaMovieMan I can't think of any specific examples right now, but I totally understand what you're getting at - when someone says something that's really wrong but it's not like a CRIME to make that mistake, so you really hold yourself back and don't correct him. Then again, when somebody makes a REALLY glaring mistake I feel compelled to correct them - like when people say "The Clockwork Orange" and not "A Clockwork Orange". | | Static Link |
| Posted by: DaMovieMan at March 29, 2008, 2:34 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Arrogance is underrated, it only works when you really know what you're talking about though and the other side clearly hasn't a clue. Pebbles? Hahahaha, nice. Still though, I know what you mean, something comes along once in a while and nails you on the ground. I can't think of a specific incident to share now, but they're there, I'll be back with those when i remember | | Static Link |
| Posted by: EVILxxx at March 29, 2008, 2:21 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | Ahaha! Sometimes I can get a little arrogant with my movie knowledge when talking to the common folk. It's good to check yourself every now and again. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: BubbaStrangelove at March 29, 2008, 2:17 am | | Topic: When being arrogant is too much... Forum: JoBlo | | I know snobbery and arrogance bothers a lot of us on these boards, so I thought I'd share this story about it once backfiring on me because I think it's kind of funny. This might end up being totally pointless, but what the hey, hey, hey... Around 2000, always going into the video store, I'd see this movie on the shelf and in my head, pronounced it "Myz-eld" and never paid much more attention than that. One night I was at the store, looking at the videos, and this lady with maybe her teenage son or something were looking at movies and I hear her say, "Oh this one has Mario Van PEBBLES in it!" and in my head I'm rolling my eyes thinking, "It's PEEBLES, you fool!" Next thing I know, she picks up "Myz-eld" and says, "Misled? What's this about?" Sometimes you just pawn yourself. Know what I mean, Verne? | | Static Link |
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