6ixStringJack: Yeah. I've only seen Lost Highway maybe twice. I don't remember much. Something about a phone call that was bone chilling at one point maybe? I know I remember way more about the "feelings" I recall of Lynch films than the actual plot.  |
| Brenda: Oh, I've been watching Lost Highway. Not scary but it is heavy on the weird for sure. Feels like I'm watching something that was put together by someone who can't hold a single coherent thought in their head. Writing feels that way too. Good thing for the close captioning because I can't really hear a word the actors are saying. Still trying to figure out if Robert Blake is the devil or a demon because I know his character is up to no good. |
| Brenda: Oh, yeah the faces and characters. They were all so good and funny. I remember this one skit where he was a vampire at the end and was just about to bite this young woman on the neck when he saw an old lady coming after. He said something to the camera then everything sped up and the sax. End of episode. |
| Brenda: Don't think I could get my mum to watch it as I recall. My friend and I were watching it when we were in high school so we knew how "raunchy" the jokes were and some of the skits. |
| 6ixStringJack: I think it's possible I never saw an episode of Benny Hill after I was maybe 6 or 7 years old, but I remember it being on a lot when I was a little kid. I'd just laugh at all of his goofy faces and characters, and always looked forward to that Yakity Sax song and everyone being sped up at the end. |
| 6ixStringJack: If it was British, my grandma loved it all, so I probably saw more of that than most people I grew up with. The funny thing about Benny Hill is I only really knew how "raunchy" it was by thinking about episodes I saw years earlier when I was older. |
| Brenda: Now, Benny Hill. A friend of mine and me loved. Even though the jokes at times could be a little more geared toward men. But it was funny as heck to us. |
| Brenda: Not sure if I ever watched after the first time you mentioned it or not. Library has a copy but it is out. I knew someone a guy who loved Monty Python but just no. John Cleese in other stuff is fine. He had a bit part in Silverado, a western which was the first thing I saw Kevin Costner in. You most likely right that most of Python's audiences were men. I'm not saying that I haven't seen some of the skits and didn't think they were funny. The Twit skit was funny and the parrot one was funny too. |
| 6ixStringJack: Probably not as heavily male as Benny Hill would have though. |
| 6ixStringJack: I might have got you to watch eXistenZ before. Yeah. Monty Python is real iffy. I've known nobody I showed them to that was in between. They either loved it or they hated it... almost instantly in the latter case. I think, in the case of men, it depends how open minded they are especially to British humor that determines if they stick around long enough to like it. I don't really think it was made with women in mind though. I know they had female fans, but I would guess the entire time they were on TV and in the movies their audience skewed pretty heavily male. |
| Brenda: You mentioned Monty Python back a bit and I fall into the category of not being overly fond of it and I've watched a lot of British comedies over the years. |
| Brenda: And once again I've seen Fargo but can't remember an actor's name from it. My shoddy memory. |
| Brenda: I think you are right that a lot of movies are more well know because of the internet. Someone tells you about a movie and you can just look it up. |
| Brenda: Well, that plot certainly sounds familiar but that doesn't mean I might not like it. |
| Brenda: Oh, I know. Outbreak was a great movie. eXistenZ might be of interested to me then. |
| 6ixStringJack: Good trailer here... "The Game's a lot more fun when it starts feeling realer than real". [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: It's got some cool cameos in it too. The bad guy from Fargo is in it. Willam Dafoe as Gas is iconic. |
| 6ixStringJack: I think it's a lot more well known now because of the internet, but I know I got a few people to watch that who never would have known it existed back in the day. |
| 6ixStringJack: Terrorists were trying to kill her because they said that the work she did was the devil's work and that she was ripping the fabric of society apart. It's a real mindscrew of a flick. It was only in the theater one week. My buddy happened to rent it once on a fluke and it was awesome. The only other person I knew who actually saw it was my old man, and I didn't find that out until years after I'd seen it. |
6ixStringJack: I loved Outbreak. Great flick. 
Nah though. eXistenZ is nothing like that. It's got Jude Law and he's in charge of protecting Jennifer Jason Leigh, who is a genius computer programmer in some alternate (already past) future that had computers that were part organic and capable of a 100% realistic virtual reality (definately good for the budget for sure). |