From an AVClub question about movie marathons. This sounds pretty great:
Every year since 2004, a friend of ours hosts The Kegger Of The Rings, a back-to-back marathon of all three Peter Jackson LOTR films—full, uncut versions, so about 12 hours total—with beer and themed food provided. (I don’t think she’s ever made lembas bread, but she makes a mean rabbit stew.) These days, she and her husband live in a two-story townhome, so they show the films on both floors, with the upstairs as the MST3K chat-along room, and the downstairs set aside for Shut Up And Watch The Movie Dammit types.
Okay, everyone was right,
21 Jump Street
was really fun and surprisingly hilarious at times.
Basically the movie had me at Ice Cube yelling, "Hey! Stop fucking with Korean Jesus! He ain't got time for your problems! He busy...with Korean shit!"
Hot Tub Time Machine
is mostly really dumb with some very brilliant writing moments. And Rob Corddry's performance is a hard-to-watch masterpiece.
Yeah, HTTM has some really great moments. And everything Craig Thompson says is gold.
I was just mentioning HTTM because we watched
The Muppets
last night, and I said both movies were aimed exactly at my generation, just one was aimed at teenage me and the other aimed at child me.
The Muppets
was a surprisingly bittersweet and hard movie. I really liked it.
I found
The Muppets
kind of creepy, especially our human heroes.
I just watch HTTM, and I think the best and funniest part is Rob Courddry singing at the end. Which I guess doesn't say much for the middle of the movie.
The Muppets was a surprisingly bittersweet and hard movie. I really liked it.
We did too. We were just singing some of the songs this morning.