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post #51 of 75
8/7/12 at 5:41am

Ideally this Saturday would be better but I can do either.
 

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post #52 of 75
8/7/12 at 12:09pm

This Saturday, 8/11, is out but I can potentially do next Saturday. Have to check on the movie's local availability (library and rental places - I know, I know, I need to get to streaming films).

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post #53 of 75
8/7/12 at 1:38pm
So it sounds like the 18th works better for almost all of us. Should we lock in that date?
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post #54 of 75
8/7/12 at 1:41pm
I'll be there. I'll even wrap a wet towel around my head to gwt in the right mindset.
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post #55 of 75
8/7/12 at 1:49pm

If it's a Saturday, Im down for it.

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post #56 of 75
8/7/12 at 2:30pm

I got five kids to feed, so it would be better for me to run this during my off weekend.

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post #57 of 75
8/7/12 at 3:39pm

Can't do this, as much as I'd love to. Thought it'd be worth mentioning that Total Recall is getting a re-release in some NY and LA theaters. I really love this four star review that does a great job summing up why it stands out among Schwarzenegger's and Verhoeven's best. 

 

I like this section in particular:

 

The process sees Total Recall's star gamely suffering all manner of goofy perversions. Certainly, Schwarzenegger's no stranger to irony. Total Recall was released the same year as Ivan Reitman's Kindergarten Cop, which self-consciously upset Arnold's hardened star text by having him pull face opposite a cast of preschoolers. The difference is that Verhoeven's film renders him hilarious (and patently ludicrous) within the confines of a sci-fi actioner, a genre he'd come to define throughout the 1980s (Terminator, Predator, The Running Man, et al.), through various deformations (asphyxiating bug-eyed in the opening dream sequence) and silly degradations. In one scene, he wraps a wet towel around his head to jam a tracing beacon; in another, his nostril stretches absurdly wide as he wrenches that beacon from his skull; later still he sneaks onto Mars (almost) incognito as a heavyset woman in an unflattering mustard yellow dress.

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post #58 of 75
8/8/12 at 2:48am

Yeah, let's do the weekend after. The more the merrier and that weekend appears to be chosen by Destiny.

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post #59 of 75
8/8/12 at 6:53am
Thread Starter 

SETTLED.

 

We'll go for NEXT weekend. 

 

Saturday, August 18.  9 am PST.

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post #60 of 75
8/8/12 at 7:31am

Glad you put the PST - I assumed EST. Makes it easier for me to participate, though, it being later.

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post #61 of 75
8/8/12 at 11:19am

PST? Why you gotta go and mess with my Saturday night? You fools better bring your A game.

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post #62 of 75
8/8/12 at 11:22am

Do you guys usually do it in the thread instead of on chat? 'cos at least the way I'm imagining it, we'll have to keep refreshing and won't see comments in real-time.

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post #63 of 75
8/8/12 at 11:33am
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post

PST? Why you gotta go and mess with my Saturday night? You fools better bring your A game.

 

You better stick with us the whole time this go-round!

 

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Originally Posted by Evi View Post

Do you guys usually do it in the thread instead of on chat? 'cos at least the way I'm imagining it, we'll have to keep refreshing and won't see comments in real-time.

 

Thread, I think. That way it's saved for posterity. I'm not sure whose posterity, but someone's.

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post #64 of 75
8/13/12 at 2:08am

One week, one week...

 

(well a bit less, but "5 days" isn't quite as catchy)

 

 

 

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Originally Posted by MichaelM View Post

 

Thread, I think. That way it's saved for posterity. I'm not sure whose posterity, but someone's.

 

 

Not possible to simply archive the chat somehow once it's over?

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post #65 of 75
8/13/12 at 3:00pm
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Originally Posted by MichaelM View Post

Thread, I think. That way it's saved for posterity. I'm not sure whose posterity, but someone's.

 

 

Mine God damn it!

 

I've read the Transformers and Commando threads three or four times each and crack up each time. It's worth the small amount of effort for you guys to hit refresh just to make me happy.

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post #66 of 75
8/13/12 at 3:05pm
Thread Starter 

That and we can earn ALL THE REPS!

 

A WHOLE OCEAN OF REP!

 

NO ONE CAN GET AT IT EXCEPT ME!!!

 

Also... with all the discussion about TDKR, how fun would a TDKR watch-along be once it comes out on video?  Hahahahaha.  FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!

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post #67 of 75
8/13/12 at 5:10pm
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Originally Posted by mcnooj82 View Post

That and we can earn ALL THE REPS!

 

A WHOLE OCEAN OF REP!

 

NO ONE CAN GET AT IT EXCEPT ME!!!

 

Also... with all the discussion about TDKR, how fun would a TDKR watch-along be once it comes out on video?  Hahahahaha.  FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!

 

I forget, nooj, were you in chat when we had the Batman Begins watchalong ages ago? Because that was fucking golden.

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post #68 of 75
8/13/12 at 5:19pm
Thread Starter 

Yeah, I'm sure I participated in that.  It was right before TDK opened, right?  That was fun.

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post #69 of 75
8/13/12 at 7:25pm

I'm all over this like ugly on a mutant.

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post #70 of 75
8/13/12 at 8:16pm

Oh, can I join in.  I just bought the blu ray at Wal Mart for 2.99.  

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post #71 of 75
8/13/12 at 11:40pm
Thread Starter 

NO!  GET... OFF!!!!

 

 
 

 

Obviously kidding.

 

SEE YOU AT THE PAHTEE, PETE!

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post #72 of 75
8/14/12 at 4:20am

If anyone's gonna get at that sweet, sweet rep it's gonna be me. It's not like you need it McNooj, I need all the rep I can get and this thread is going to be my ticket, here comes the funny, sweetcheeks.

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post #73 of 75
8/17/12 at 9:33am

Right, so let me get this straight before my brain busts... PST is currently PDT because it's summer (This is fucking baffling when you're the other side of the globe). So, Saturday, August 18.  9 am PST = sunday, Aug 19th 2am Melbourne time.

 

I believe I'm in. I have blu-ray, I have beverages, I have fingers for typing. Let's do this.

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post #74 of 75
8/17/12 at 11:10am

9:00 am tomorrow.  I'mma try and make it!

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post #75 of 75
8/17/12 at 1:24pm
Thread Starter 

I started up a clean thread for the watch-along tomorrow!  Hopefully, it has all the info everyone around the world needs to sync up.

 

Try not to post in it until the official start time!!!

 

http://www.chud.com/community/t/144579/total-recall-watch-along-2012-saturday-august-18-the-day-of

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