The Open Bar: September 23, 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.
Announcements
Coming Soon:
- Movie Review: Departures (2008)
- Top 25 Actors Under 35 Part 3
- Poll: Your favorite up-and-coming actress
- Pitch Your Movie: Castor (I’m working on it!!!)
If you have any announcement you would like to make, feel free to contact us!
US Box Office Opening
- Legend of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (Warner Bros)
- The Virginity Hit (Sony/Columbia)
- Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Fox)
- You Again (Buena Vista)
- Buried (Limited – Lionsgate)
The Open Bar Soundtrack
A Few Potential Topics of Discussion
- What movies will you see this weekend?
- What are your other plans for the weekend?
- Today is officially the first day of fall, bye bye summer
- USA and Mexico, the two fattest country in the world! 28% of Americans are obese??!
- Blockbuster announced bankruptcy. Please share some of your most memorable experience in a traditional brick and mortar store!
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I’m really going to miss Blockbuster so much. When I was younger, I would go there with my family and look at every single row of new releases, thinking of all the ones I wanted to rent when I got older! Whenever my dad would go to Blockbuster and bring something home, it was so exciting to see what surprises laid in the bag. So many memories for me.
I’m finally going to see The Town tomorrow! Spirited Away just arrived from Netflix so might watch that, hubby and I have been curious to see that for a while and I remember you recommending it Castor. It’s too bad about Blockbuster, for the longest time I have a membership there, but now that I have Netflix, I can’t imagine going to a brick & mortar store again to get my dvds.
You are in for a nice weekend of movies then Ruth! Netflix is just too convenient it just wasn’t a fair fight
Hey Castor, just want to tell you I saw The Town and really liked it. I don’t think it topped Gone Baby Gone but still it was a solid movie. Not sure I’ll get around to writing the review anytime soon with the TCFF going on though. Hope your weekend was good, too.
Really glad you liked it Ruth! Gone Baby Gone and The Town are two different movies so I don’t really want to compare them. Certainly, GBG has a really powerful ending which The Town couldn’t come close to.
I know TCFF is around the corner, looking forward to your coverage (if any). Maybe, I will get down there to see a movie or two
I’ve only been in school for TWO WEEKS and I dispise it to no end. My theory is you’re not fully back in school unitl, like, mid-November.
Plus side is I’m taking Forensic Science, which is probably the most awesome class I’ve taken. If you’re wondering, no, I don’t watch CSI or Law & Order or any of those crime shows. I prefer the real McCoy, not something fabricated by Hollywood.
LOADS of movies to watch over the next week:
~ Being John Malkovich
~ The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
~ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
~ The Savages
~ Memento
~ Blood Diamond
So for the next week or so, I’m gonna be pretty busy.
That’s a pretty good group of movies right there. Liked or loved every one of them.
Ah, Memento and Being John Malkovich are good ones! Enjoy. Sorry school sucks. Hang in there!
I worked at a Blockbuster a couple years ago, and with me taking home over 10 movies a week from there, it gets credit for me really taking the corner with movies, going from just your average “oh, that looks like it might be fun to watch” to really appreciating the finer movies.
As for this weekend, Winter’s Bone is opening up, so I am definately going to watch that. I have to work all weekend, so I doubt I find much time for any others.
-Wall Street 2 seems to be like a wait til DVD, with most of the positive reviews saying that it’s best looked at as a satire.
-Legends of the Guardians has me intriuged, but that might be something to watch during an off-day mid next week.
-The other two are definately wait until DVD.
-Probably won’t get Buried until Thanksgiving-ish.
And I love that it’s fall…football, football, and being able to wear my hoodie everywhere.
Looking forward to your thoughts on Departures. I loved that movie.
Loved it too, really glad I decided to stream it on Netflix.
Forgive me, my movie pitch is late. My film is in development hell with Terrence Malick taking his time to write the story (as you would expect!) Hopefully, he will send me something before the end of the decade
Yeah, blame Malick… he’s an easy target
But with him we can be sure it’ll look beautiful.
I’m NOT going to the movies this weekend. I’m going to a free concert in San Francisco on Sunday so I need Saturday for laundry, helping my son with homework and blogging. I agree with Red that Wall St2 looks like a good future DVD viewing, especially since I would need to re-watch the original.
What I miss about physical video stores like Blockbuster is picking up that obscure movie you never heard of, reading the back, taking it home and…bliss! Sure, Netflix recommends stuff to me, but it’s not the same.
I’m thinking about doing an October feature of movies that scared the shit out of me. The research though makes me nervous. Do I have to watch “Trilogy of Terror” again?
So true, finding movies you hardly ever heard about are a lot more fun in video stores.
Yeah! My youth was filled with trips to the video store and I have such fond memories of wandering down the aisles looking at the box art. I’m always happy to run into an old movie I never saw but always wanted to and when I see the VHS art I remember it from one of my trips.
was never a blockbuster member, in ireland it was Xtravision, but years before that it was local store Video World. man, i used to love just looking at the titles i could never rent cos they were cert 18: Action Jackson… Predator…
used to love renting videos. i always remember a lot of them had trailers for Im Gonna Get You Sucka and Raising Arizona. good days. where i lived, one of the video stores even had a video man who would do the rounds at people’s houses and let you pick through a box of titles which one you wanted to rent. frankly, you can shove your netflix and your lovefilm where the sun dont shine…
I was briefly a Blockbuster member and nearly worked there during a school holiday but decided against it in favour of sitting on my arse and watching TV. My Mum was a member of the local Blockbuster store and regularly rented DVDs until only a few months ago when I introduced her to multi-channel television and Sky Box Office. Maybe it’s all my fault!
Blockbuster needed to embrace the new way people were watching movies and by the looks of things they failed to do that.
Seeing jack Goes Boating tonight! Have been waiting for months! So excited…some good looking movies starting to be released now…it’s that time of year again…
Hope you enjoy it!
You’ll have let us know about that one Peter. I’m sort of on the fence about it.
Has anyone seen Storytelling? I just saw that, and now I’m kind of in a mood.
That’s a negative, Ghostrider.
…of course with the Ryder Cup starting soon…it’s Europe versus the US fever! Will Europe get the Ryder Cup back?
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