View Askew

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Right, well I guess I'm going to have to start randomly ranting again seen as ye lot have fallen all quiet

Well this week was "view askew week" for myself and some of my friends.

I had never sampled the delight before and aftering having watched all the movies in a week.... well it's been enlightening

For those of you who don't know who/want "View Askew" are, well they produce these movies:

* Clerks
* Mallrats
* Chasing Amy
* Dogma
* Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Well I must admit that i was mightly impressed It's all about continuity....

so what are people's favourite movies and why?

Mine is Dogma, for the simple sake that it's an incredibly intellectual film covered over by Kevin Smith's fantastic sense of humour

<< Fio >>

shep the malevolent pixie

oooh! that sounds happy. they are most fantasmical movies so they are. that's a good idea to watch them all in a week actually, i've done that with movies such as star wars and austin powers and we watched the whole of the tv series of pride and predudice in a day once. it took about six hours. :eek:

i myself am quite partial to the godfather. and dog day afternoon, that was a brilliant film. i don't know, i can never think of these things on demand...

the hats can't have green hands, that wasn't the point of the thing, whatever it was. it wasn't that anyway. what am i talking about? yeah..
sHep :cool:

DadaKopf

Mallrats, hands down.

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Originally posted by shep the malevolent pixie
oooh! that sounds happy. they are most fantasmical movies so they are. that's a good idea to watch them all in a week actually, i've done that with movies such as star wars and austin powers and we watched the whole of the tv series of pride and predudice in a day once. it took about six hours. :eek:

Yeah next on the cards is 24. ie watching all 24 eppisodes (one hour long each) in one day

should be fun.

<< Fio >>

nosmo

And they say college involves work :P
I'm not sure which would be my pick... Just got Jay and Silent Bob strike back yesterday..not too bad..Gotta love the rap at the start!

TheAlmightyArse

Kevin Smith, is it? Mallrats has gotta be my own favourite, though I've yet to see Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. It'll be interesting to see if they can maintain their charm for a full film...

Oh, anyone else think Chasing Amy was pretty poo? Not bad, not at all, just relatively poor.

It wasn't me!

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Definitely the strangest movie I'm ever going to see of my own free will

shep the malevolent pixie

Originally posted by smiles
Yeah next on the cards is 24. ie watching all 24 eppisodes (one hour long each) in one day

should be fun.

yaay, sleep deprivation! that should be pretty entertaining all right. you're gonna need a lot of coffee....
sHep :cool:

smiles

Originally posted by shep the malevolent pixie
yaay, sleep deprivation! that should be pretty entertaining all right. you're gonna need a lot of coffee....
sHep :cool:

Scary thing is coffee has absolutely no effect on me
Hot Chocolate on the other hand wakes me up!

<< Fio >>

It wasn't me!

Isn't hot chocolate meant to put you to sleep?

Chimaera

Yeah next on the cards is 24. ie watching all 24 eppisodes (one hour long each) in one day

should be fun.

UL Sci Fi soc (Ten Forward) are planning to do this as a fund-raiser some time soon - dunno if I'd have the staying power to do that now.

Kevin Smith's stuff is pretty priceless alright - I quite liked Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back - haven't seen clerks yet .....

Crash

The unfortunate thing is that a days worth of 24 is not quite 24 hrs. its more like 21 hours 20 minutes. stupid ad breaks. personally mallrats wins for me, simply because i can watch it whatever mood i'm in, whereas Dogma i have to be in a certain mood for, and same with chasing amy. must see clerks.....

Chloe: Dog Day Afternoon is such a good movie!!!

stevanavich

yaay, sleep deprivation! that should be pretty entertaining all right. y

during this last halloween break, i went 113 hours with only 9 hours of sleep. and i did this with no aid from caffine related beverages. just goes to show that they are highly over-rated.

Mystic Fibrosis

Thats not that hard, dude. On average I get 'round 3-4 hours of sleep a day....I get up at about 6:30.

And I have a bona fide addiction to caffeine. Oh joy.

shep the malevolent pixie

hot chocolate eh? i don't actually like coffee. coke works for me though. as in the beverage, not the drug. em...yeah.
i keep not sleeping til 5 in the morning and then not getting up til around 3 in the afternoon. (my toe's broken so i can't leave the house) existing at night is not as much fun as you might think. :-\
sHep :cool:

qwidgybo

hmm,i loveloveLOVE hot chocolate.not a huge fan of th'ol' coffee,except for mochas,cos they're hot chocolate with zzZING!sleep is good.

the only one i've seen is dogma,and that's fabtastic.

alaskagirl

i yotally yotally yotally yotally yotally agree with you on the hot chocolatemocha/ regular cofffee affair qwidgy, and fio, coffee soooo puts me to sleep. i dont know why either. maybe its a chemical imbalance...hmmm....we are a special minority thingamy...we should have a CLUB!!!!

ll=llannah

ME TOO! I don't drink coffee cause i don't like the taste but also cause it makes me extremely drowsy!!
chemical imbalance?! hmm....probably!!

It wasn't me!

Caffeine is so overrated these days. Taurine, now there's something you don't hear enough about!

By the way, I found out today that in large doses, those new 24 mint thingies have a laxative effect. Possibly good information seeing as it's my friend's birthday soon. He won't forget it for a while!