Rain
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I've had friends fall asleep during movies.
I choose to blame the intoxicants.
Still love them though.
I choose to blame the intoxicants.
Still love them though.
He then offered to rent the disc and bring it over.
"I don't play scratched-up rental discs in any of my players," I insisted.You're a raging anti-rentite! Next thing you know you will be saying rental DVDs should have their own stores.
[I hope there are at least a few Seinfeld fans reading this thread or that joke was totally waisted]
I can understand being frustrated but seething seems a little strong. And the name of the pizza place is....?
Cheers,
Keith
I'm not the least surprised that after all Jack wrote, all Vickie saw was that he didn't want to see or like FOTR.I addressed it. Yes, in an offhand manner, but the entirety of page 1 was devoted to people addressing that part of it, quite well and better than I could.
What do I think? Well, I think Jack's lucky to have friends who want to come over and watch movies in the first place. (Pathetic personal rant: We have a great home theater set up, over 1000 DVDs, and don't have ONE SINGLE FRIEND who wants to come over and watch movies with us. They're just not into movies. At all. Of any kind. Ever. When we lived in KC we had "movie nights" several nights a month with a bunch of friends. They all still live down there, while up here, no one's set foot in our home theater besides us to watch movies (as opposed to just coming to visit) for 3 years. My best friend used to come over and watch movies, but he moved to Seattle in 1999 and I miss him terribly. End pathetic personal rant)
I like good movies of all genres. I just thought it was a shame to dismiss a particularly good movie with a sweeping "I don't like that genre" hand.
And maybe Jack DOES need a bigger screen. But then, to me, no screen is big enough.
"You need a bigger screen."Jack,
I personally bought a 50" widescreen Toshiba for Lord of the Rings and also for Attack of the Clones.
You know how many times I had friends tell me I needed a bigger screen when all I had was a 27" tube? Too many to count, and everytime they said it, I agreed with them. They enjoyed my theater so much that they couldn't imagine how great it would be a with a larger screen. Now that I have the larger screen, no one comes over.
However, that is because I really no longer have the time to host movies for friends anymore. Between working all the time and my girlfriend, time spent with my friends is very limited now. On a positive note, my girlfriend's son loves my home theater.
BTW, I curse you for not loving The Lord of the Rings.
-Dean-
BTW, I curse you for not loving The Lord of the Rings.I must second Dean on this You must learn to love LotR or sleep in the litter box.
The wife and I had some friends over for a Super Bowl party. For many this was their first taste of HDTV. Watching it on a 100" projection system only added to the fun. Early in the 3rd quarter the signal strength dipped and we lost the picture. One of my buddies had the stones to blurt out "This never happens with my cable!" So I promptly switched the channel to the cable feed. Nothing looks worse than a standard cable picture blown up to 100" (well, other than those rental DVDs!) The rest of our friends quickly "encouraged" him to shut the he!! up!
You must learn to love LotR or sleep in the litter box.I actually have a cat who sleeps in the litter box! It's not as gross as you think. I have 4 cats and 2 litter boxes. Every single time, immediately after I've completely changed the litter, Ran Tan will get in one, lie down and, if nothing bothers him, will go to sleep. I think it's a territorial thing. He won't do that if any of the other cats has used the box, only after it's fresh and clean. Very weird.
Um, end pathetic tangent.
Great story about the SB party!