AllanN
Supporting Actor
- Joined
- Mar 15, 2002
- Messages
- 950
He must have went to Under a Big Rock City High School.
So Thomas, did your roomie liked the movie or not?I just flipped to a few scenes. He asked the question when I was watching the sparring program scene.
Talkies???ThomasC turns on the TV
Roomate: "HOLY CRAP that BOX is TALKING!!!!"
What the?....
isn't it illegal to be that ignorant about popular culture?i will certainly concede that not even knowing about the matrix is quite extreme...but so what?
i'm sure there are tons of things i don't know about that seem like common knowledge to other people. what gets me if when people look at you like you're a simpleton, just because you don't know about some topic....or you're late to the party.
okay, i'm off my soapbox now.
what gets me if when people look at you like you're a simpleton, just because you don't know about some topic....or you're late to the party.
Like the Nth version of the Matrix Ping Pong thread?
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Holadem
Well, my take on this isn't as bad, but before getting married I dated a girl who had never seen ANY of the Star Wars or Indiana Jones films. I nearly stopped dead of a heart attack. How could anyone in my generation NOT have grown up with those? She knew about them, and occasionally used pop culture refrences to them, but only vaguely knew what they wwere about.That reminds me of when a friend of mine that I'd known since I was a kid revealing a couple of years ago that he'd never seen Star Wars. We were all shocked because it just seemed inconceivable that someone had never even seen a part of those movies but when we thought about it it kind of made sense. The guy's a musician and doesn't really have any use for movies. He often gets bored while watching them and then he'll just go to get his guitar and play that for a few hours instead. There are probably many other classic movies he's never seen.
Of course, right after he said he hadn't seen Star Wars, we got the VHS tape out and watched it, and he actually liked it a lot, especially anything involving Darth Vader abusing his officers
I had an aunt who's a housewife, but doesn't watch TV at all, and she had never heard of the Matrix eitherBut how old is she? ThomasC's profile says he goes to a university and he mentions a roomate, so I can assume that this guy is in his early 20's? How many 20-25 year old men don't know about the Matrix?
I can see an older housewife not knowing about it, but a young guy????
And again, you may have not seen Star Wars or Indiana Jones, but you know they exist.