Open Bar: September 17, 2010
The Open Bar is a convivial place for all readers of Anomalous Material to discuss anything and everything they want all week starting every Thursday evening. Feel free to chime in or introduce new topics of discussion.
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Coming Soon: Movie review for Easy A and The Town
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US Box Office Opening
- Easy A
- The Town
- Devil
- Alpha and Omega
- Never Let Me Go
- Jack Goes Boating
- Catfish
The Open Bar Soundtrack
A Few Potential Topics of Discussion
- As usual, what are you going to watch at the movie theater this weekend?
- Your plans for the weekend
- Predict the box office weekend for The Town and Easy A
- Your favorite movie food and beverage.
- Fall officially starts a week from now
- What do you think of our new background and header? (You may need to force refresh CTRL + R)
- Moral responsibility in the movies (Ronan)
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My plan for movies is to see The Town tonight (review will be up tomorrow), Thank You for Smoking and Children of Men on Saturday, and Touch of Evil on Sunday. Hopefully.
Other plans include working on reviews (a good number of them are mentioned on the left sidebar) and getting presents for my brother who turns 15 on the 20th.
Favorite movie food and beverage: popcorn and a bottle of water (I don’t drink soda)
I am currently watching through Bones the TV-series (its a really underrated Buffy Clone!), tomorrow I’ll have a meeting with the director on MekB19. We’ll talk gameplans about maybe doing the film with English as language instead of Swedish and we are also gonna watch 30 days of night which apparently has some good inspirational scenes for us.
I’ll also ty to catch up on blogging and be a litte ahead with my posts on sunday.
Movie food, probably Buffalo Wild Wings takeout and cold beer! I’m so frustrated we don’t have Buffalo Wild Wings in Sweden. That and Wendys curly fries and bell peppers are the American Food I miss the most from when I studied in Kansas.
Great that we got a open bar in the end!!!
Forgot to mention I love the new background image! Its very light and breathy.
yes, very nice, right? Nicely done guys!!!
It’s dreamy…
yes, dreamy. that’s the word. ahhh….dreamy
Ahah cool thanks! Glad you like it guys
My Parent has done something rather cruel to me. Not child welfare cruel, but still. Cruel.
What did they do to you?
To explain would involve a detailed backstory, a variety of in-jokes, and perhaps an example video, I’m afraid.
Off the topic of movies for a sec…Castor you got spanked in my Fantasy League. Hope you rebouund nicely in Week #2!!!
My team is horrendous man, I got no shot whatsoever
No way. You got a good QB in Romo. I like your WR’s. An excellent TE. They just had a bad first week, but you have a pretty healthy/potent team, man. Suck it up. It’s football!!! Plus there are always hidden gems that pop up and available on waivers…
Ahaha well, we will see this week. Not a big fan of Romo, he is too inconsistent.
Looking forward to The Town review, and sad to say it’s been pushed for next month…. BAWWWWWW xD
I’m so excited! I’m double movie-ing it tomorrow. I’m going to see Easy A and Catfish. I REFUSE to pay movie food prices so it’s whatever I sneak in. I love popcorn, but it’s so overpriced and unhealthy at the theater. Castor this new background is so soothing!You pick great background music for our open bar time.
Oh and I can’t vote on the Arnie movie poll because my favorite is “The Running Man.” I always have to be different.
You sure are different. Its one of his worst movies by far.
Heck no! My husband and I loved that movie! I do tend to pick the obscure one every time!
The Running Man is an enjoyable if cheesy flick. I voted for The Terminator.
I won’t be watching any films tonight as I’m camping in Northamptonshire – so I’m going to be cold and miserable and wanting to come home. You might be able to tell – I’m not a fan of camping!
…what will happen is that it’ll start to rain and I’ll go stay in the nearest hotel!
Sleeping on the bare ground will make you cold and miserable
You need a nice mat ahaha
…it turned out not as bad as I was expecting although I really was very cold!
Did a double feature of Easy A and The Town last night. Even had to leave Easy A a couple minutes early to make sure I got into The Town. Easy A was actually pretty funny, and The Town was awesome. Reviews will be coming up sometime this weekend.
As far as movie food, the usual popcorn and large soda. The local theaters have been doing $3 rebates on all combos, so that helps out with the pricing a bit. Not surprised at the attempt to get more people to buy at the concessions, since a strong majoirty of the theaters in the country don’t make any profit off ticket sales (i think it’s something like 95%?), so they have to rely on the higher concessions to make money.
And speaking of open bar, Lincoln just their bar closing time changed from 1am to 2 am as of last night, so that’s been something to celebrate. What’s hilarious is that when they changed the time, they overlooked the fact that dancing still had a 1 am stopping time and wasn’t changed.
Just saw Easy A myself. It certainly was a pleasant enough movie
Review coming up later today!
Hey I just saw Easy A too! My review will be up tomorrow. I also saw Catfish, but I’m not really sure how to handle that review. I don’t give away plot points anyway, but I don’t know what to do with my opinions. I talked to a group of 20 somethings coming out and they felt the same as I did. Ummm, tough call!
The trailer for Catfish really built up the mystery of the story so I can see how you could be in a bind trying to review it. Most important is: Don’t spoil it!
Yeah, it’s tricky. I posted the review last night and I certainly didn’t give anything away. And I give everyone an out before reading it so I hope no one will be mad at me!
I’m going to start doing some serious work on my college applications this weekend. With regards to education, I’m a bit of a procrastinator, and I don’t want that to effect me with my apps.
You’ll be happy if you put that time in. Really, you’re not going to be able to enjoy anything until you do that because it’s going to nag at you. Go for it!
Best of luck with your college application process! I take it you are a senior in high school? Once you are accepted, the rest of your high school year will be worry free
Yeah, I’m a senior. Thanks to both of you for the good wishes!
I gonna watch two films today. One is my mother tongue ‘Tamil’ film – Boss. Another one is ‘The world’s fastest Indian’. My favorite snacks are Popcorn and Coke. I had fever n cold and my health was really bad for last 10 days. So din’t touch with all you guys. Now I am back…How about others. Hope all are doing good. Cheers
Hopefully, you have fully recovered and are stronger than ever Mani!
At the movie theater, my favorite food is popcorn (nothing on it) and coke but I very rarely buy that at the concession stand (too pricey!!!). At home, a pizza and beer is always great.
Hey Mani! I hope you’re feeling better!
Hi Castor, am I too late for open Bar this week? I left a message on the page for the 9th giving my suggestion for a topic for the 17th : ‘Moral responsibility in the Movies’. Check out my post on this and on Censorship in general, I’d be curious to hear your thoughts. Thanks.
Oh sorry about this Ronan, it completely escaped my mind
Let me add it now
I would like to officially state that I miss you guys! I’ve been sick all week and getting used to this new schedule with my kids starting school, and I think I’m finally starting to find a balance in here. I’m not the best person when it comes to change.
This week I plan to see The Town for sure, and it seems like it’s getting love, though I’m not reading any reviews until I see it, I’m just reading grades and such.
I’m also going to try and get caught up on everyone’s movie pitches, I’ve been seeing Castor and Red posting them and I’m excited to start reading. Probably only a few a day, but I’ll get there!
Anyway, happy Monday to everyone!
We really miss you too Heather!!!! It seems like a lot of people are getting sick as the weather is starting to turn
Hopefully, you are on the fast track to a full recovery!
Also, I can’t help but want to see Easy A too.
I think you will like it if you get to see it
And one more: I love the new backround and Header. Uber sexy.
Thanks Heather!
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