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[grim22]

 

@aabattery @CoolioD1 @Chewy

[4815162342]

1 hour ago, grim22 said:

 

@aabattery @CoolioD1 @Chewy

Not tagging me is a crime against Philly.

[FantasticBeasts]

I am sitting in this shitty gathering reminiscing my skins parties. Age crisis on the way

[Jake Gittes]

watched Muriel's Wedding. did not expect this to be the most wildly unpredictable movie I've seen in ages. not everything works but I've got a ton of respect for a movie that swings so tirelessly for the fences and largely succeeds. Collette and Rachel Griffiths are great.

[AJG]

7 hours ago, grim22 said:

 

@aabattery @CoolioD1 @Chewy

 

A guy at work told me to start watching this show but then he told me to skip the first episode and that turned me right off. 

[aabattery]

4 minutes ago, AJG said:

  

A guy at work told me to start watching this show but then he told me to skip the first episode and that turned me right off. 

 

[DAR]

1 hour ago, AJG said:

 

A guy at work told me to start watching this show but then he told me to skip the first episode and that turned me right off. 

You’re a weird dude at times

[filmlover]

2 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:

watched Muriel's Wedding. did not expect this to be the most wildly unpredictable movie I've seen in ages. not everything works but I've got a ton of respect for a movie that swings so tirelessly for the fences and largely succeeds. Collette and Rachel Griffiths are great.

Definitely an underappreciated movie. Even more surprisingly when you consider that it must have at least partially influenced the existence of Mamma Mia! the original Broadway musical, given the ABBA heavy soundtrack and wedding-centric plots of both. Even their posters are similar.

 

 

[Jake Gittes]

26 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Definitely an underappreciated movie. Even more surprisingly when you consider that it must have at least partially influenced the existence of Mamma Mia! the original Broadway musical, given the ABBA heavy soundtrack and wedding-centric plots of both. Even their posters are similar.

 

 

That poster is darkly funny in retrospect given the circumstances of the actual wedding in the movie. It goes into some pretty raw and uncomfortable places I could definitely imagine people being put off by it, or liking it themselves but hesitating to recommend. Really an antithesis of Mamma Mia in more than a few ways. (And also a hell of a lot better ABBA tribute.)

[DeeCee]

I watch Sunny vicariously through random clips and gifs posted here.

[DeeCee]

“They said no because they’d had a bad experience with another filmmaker who had promised not to make fun of them or their music,” Hogan recalls, citing a Swedish filmmaker who had been granted permission to use “Dancing Queen” with the proviso that he would treat the song—their biggest hit—with respect. “And then they saw the movie and they’d been lied to,” Hogan continues. “The scene unfolded with a little old man sitting in a wheelchair masturbating as a big fat hooker dances to ‘Dancing Queen.’ So you can imagine what they thought.”

In the fallout, the duo issued a blanket “no” to filmmakers. Hogan was persistent, adamant that Muriel’s Wedding could not be made without their music. His final plan: To fly to Stockholm and smoke them out. “I had their address, so I was going to camp outside their offices until they saw me and make my case in person that I’m not that filmmaker and they would be proud of the movie. It’s a hymn to ABBA! Muriel loves ABBA, and I love ABBA. So my producer, being very smart, bought the ticket but sent a photocopy of it to Benny and Bjorn. And the day before I was going to get on the flight, they said, ‘Stop him, you’ve got the rights.’ …They did not want this crazy person hanging outside their office!”

 

https://ew.com/article/2015/10/13/how-abba-waterloo-scene-made-muriels-wedding/

[DAR]

Finally watched the  PBS Vietnam War doc.   Tough watch but really well done

[TMP]

Getting my A-Level results in about 10 minutes 

[DAR]

 

[AJG]

12 minutes ago, DAR said:

 

 

She looks like the girl that OD'd in season 1 of OITNB

[Fancyarcher]

 

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, Fancyarcher said:

 

RIP to a legend.

 

 

[dashrendar44]

 

Rest In Peace, Queen Aretha.

 

Edited August 16, 2018 by dashrendar44

[DAR]

 

[grim22]

 

 

Probably India's most well loved Prime Minister of all time just passed away. He had withdrawn from public life for a decade after his term ended. One of the best politicians in Indian history. RIP.