I thought because Harold and Kumar was a surprisingly hilarious stoner comedy, I would find Super Troopers entertaining.
I was wrong.
We have to see the chimp playing hockey! That's hilarious! The ice is so slippery, and, and monkeys are all irrational. We have to see this!
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
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Polter-Cow - Feb 10, 2007 7:24:57 pm PST #7410 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Laga - Feb 10, 2007 7:31:38 pm PST #7411 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
OK now that is odd. I laughed my ass off at Super Troopers but I found Harold & Kumar just ok.
Polter-Cow - Feb 10, 2007 7:37:27 pm PST #7412 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Very strange. A friend of mine really loves Super Troopers, so I just gave it a try, and I didn't find it funny at all. Maybe because I didn't really care about the characters, whereas Kal Penn and John Cho make their characters fun and likable.
Laga - Feb 10, 2007 7:41:22 pm PST #7413 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Hey P-C it's nice to "chat" with you. I'm lagaratica on ym if you want to chat more.
Unfortunately I don't have much else to say about Harold & Kumar or Super Troopers.
bon bon - Feb 10, 2007 7:46:18 pm PST #7414 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Not even the "meow" scene?
Laga - Feb 10, 2007 7:52:26 pm PST #7415 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'll have to watch it again. Do you know what chapter that is?
eta: because I have the disc in right now, and I'm not pressing Play AIFG!
Polter-Cow - Feb 10, 2007 7:55:26 pm PST #7416 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Not even the "meow" scene?
That was slightly amusing.
P.M. Marc - Feb 10, 2007 8:12:35 pm PST #7417 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I love both H&K and Super Troopers.
Scrappy - Feb 10, 2007 8:32:00 pm PST #7418 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I just saw Last King of Scotland. Good stuff. I was suprised though--I have heard so much about Forest Whitaker's performance and I was much more impressed with the work of James McAvoy. It wasn't as showy as the Amin role, which allows Whitaker to charm and growl and menace and do all the stuff Oscar loves, but it was nuanced and layered and totally real. Aside from a couple of lame montages that brought out the @@, I really liked the film a lot.
Nutty - Feb 11, 2007 4:41:28 am PST #7419 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think you'd like it Nutty. It stuck to its own narrative logic in a very clean way. You'd like it too, Cor, if you haven't seen it. Definitely belongs with the classic late period western revisionist films of that era.
I have a vague suspicion that I've seen part of this, or else it bleeds into Zulu Dawn too well (in the sense that they're both massive white-man exegeses of post-colonial anxiety and rage).
And, that was always the weird question of Firefly metaphors, wasn't it? If the good guys are the cowboys, and there definitionally aren't any indians, what kind of conflict are we really talking about?