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      <title>Film:Sixteen Candles</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/films/Sixteen_Candles/31525/default.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<table width='100%' style='font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><tr><td><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t34342qs12z.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' /></td>
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<strong>Title:</strong> Sixteen Candles<br/>
<strong>Year:</strong> 1984<br/>
<strong>Director:</strong> John Hughes<br/>
<strong>Plot:</strong> On the eve of her sister's wedding, suburban teenager Samantha (<a href="/players/P____60327/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Molly Ringwald</a>) suffers silently as her family forgets her birthday. Even worse, some total dork (<a href="/players/P____93153/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Anthony Michael Hall</a>) keeps propositioning her with sophomoric innuendo when she really craves romantic attention from high-school hunk Jake (<a href="/players/P____63778/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Michael Schoeffling</a>). Moving from Samantha's family home as it's invaded by outre relatives to a high-school dance where nothing seems to go her way, this bittersweet teen comedy traces the hopes and disappointments of not only Samantha, but also a host of incidental but memorable characters, from a hapless Japanese exchange student to a prom queen and a posse of barely pubescent nerds. A climactic party scene at which these various strata of young America overcome their rigid hierarchies sets the stage for resolutions both tender and torrid. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide<br/>
<strong>Times Tagged:</strong> 61<br/>
<strong>Number of Lists:</strong> 72<br/>
<strong>Number of blog posts:</strong> 5<br/>
<strong>Number of discussion threads:</strong> 6<br/>
<strong>SpoutRating:</strong> 3<br/>
</td></tr></table>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:14:46 GMT</pubDate><spout:Title>Sixteen Candles</spout:Title><spout:Year>1984</spout:Year><spout:Director>John Hughes</spout:Director><spout:Plot>On the eve of her sister's wedding, suburban teenager Samantha (&lt;a href="/players/P____60327/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Molly Ringwald&lt;/a&gt;) suffers silently as her family forgets her birthday. Even worse, some total dork (&lt;a href="/players/P____93153/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Anthony Michael Hall&lt;/a&gt;) keeps propositioning her with sophomoric innuendo when she really craves romantic attention from high-school hunk Jake (&lt;a href="/players/P____63778/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Michael Schoeffling&lt;/a&gt;). Moving from Samantha's family home as it's invaded by outre relatives to a high-school dance where nothing seems to go her way, this bittersweet teen comedy traces the hopes and disappointments of not only Samantha, but also a host of incidental but memorable characters, from a hapless Japanese exchange student to a prom queen and a posse of barely pubescent nerds. A climactic party scene at which these various strata of young America overcome their rigid hierarchies sets the stage for resolutions both tender and torrid. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide</spout:Plot><spout:TimesTagged>61</spout:TimesTagged><spout:taglevel>Tag Target (&gt;10)</spout:taglevel><spout:Numberoflists>72</spout:Numberoflists><spout:NumberOfBlogPosts>5</spout:NumberOfBlogPosts><spout:NumberOfDiscussionThreads>6</spout:NumberOfDiscussionThreads><spout:SpoutRating>3</spout:SpoutRating><spout:FilmCoverURL>http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t34342qs12z.jpg</spout:FilmCoverURL><spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL>http://www.spout.com/films/Sixteen_Candles/31525/default.aspx</spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL><spout:type>Film</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Weekly Theme for August 10: Happy Birthday!</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Weekly_Theme_for_August_10_Happy_Birthday/625/43490/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t34342qs12z.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/119628/default.aspx'>mercurial</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/625/discussions.aspx'>Weekly Theme</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 8/11/2009 10:14:46 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong>   Seeing as how it was my birthday this past weekend I thought this week's theme should be about films featuring characters that are enjoying or hating their own days of birth. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Amazing film that takes place during a family's matriarchs birthday party on a magnificent antebellum plantation estate. Good Will Hunting - The end of the film in which the main characters birthday leads to a final decision about which direction to take in his life. Boy A - A troubled boy is released from juvenile prison on his 18th birthday and forced to come to terms with the real world that he has been closed off from for so long. The Boys in the Band - A group of men get together to celebrate their friends birthday and it turns into an all out war of words. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - The whole magical world is revealed to young Harry Potter on his birthday and a generation of kids wishing like hell that when their birthdays rolled around that a flying letter from Hogwarts would be flown into their living rooms by an owl. Sixteen Candles - RIP John Hughes. The film that helped launch Molly Ringwald into our hearts and gave hope to every nerd praying to hook up with someone from the cool crowd. Eye for an Eye - The film that made me paranoid about opening the door for strangers; a young girls birthday is disrupted by a demented Keifer Sutherland when he bursts in the door and does all kinds of horrible to her. Harold and Maude - Probably one of the most depressingly heartwarming films about enjoying life and making birthday memorable. What's Eating Gilbert Grape - Probably one of the most just plain depressing depictions of a birthday: a morbidly obese mother bound to a couch in front of the television eating cake and smoking cigarettes. The Hours - Another film about how depressing birthdays are and how so many people feel like marking the day with suicide. Cloverfield - A birthday celebration is interrupted by a giant monster. Nothing cool like that ever happens to me. Old School - An example of probably one of the most amazing birthday parties thanks in large part to Snoop Dogg and Will Ferral. Parenthood - Seeing this is a kid I always wished my dad would have been cool enough to dress up like a demented cowboy and run amuck for one of my birthdays.   <br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:14:46 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>mercurial</spout:postby><spout:postto>Weekly Theme</spout:postto><spout:postdate>8/11/2009 10:14:46 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>  Seeing as how it was my birthday this past weekend I thought this week's theme should be about films featuring characters that are enjoying or hating their own days of birth. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Amazing film that takes place during a family's matriarchs birthday party on a magnificent antebellum plantation estate. Good Will Hunting - The end of the film in which the main characters birthday leads to a final decision about which direction to take in his life. Boy A - A troubled boy is released from juvenile prison on his 18th birthday and forced to come to terms with the real world that he has been closed off from for so long. The Boys in the Band - A group of men get together to celebrate their friends birthday and it turns into an all out war of words. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - The whole magical world is revealed to young Harry Potter on his birthday and a generation of kids wishing like hell that when their birthdays rolled around that a flying letter from Hogwarts would be flown into their living rooms by an owl. Sixteen Candles - RIP John Hughes. The film that helped launch Molly Ringwald into our hearts and gave hope to every nerd praying to hook up with someone from the cool crowd. Eye for an Eye - The film that made me paranoid about opening the door for strangers; a young girls birthday is disrupted by a demented Keifer Sutherland when he bursts in the door and does all kinds of horrible to her. Harold and Maude - Probably one of the most depressingly heartwarming films about enjoying life and making birthday memorable. What's Eating Gilbert Grape - Probably one of the most just plain depressing depictions of a birthday: a morbidly obese mother bound to a couch in front of the television eating cake and smoking cigarettes. The Hours - Another film about how depressing birthdays are and how so many people feel like marking the day with suicide. Cloverfield - A birthday celebration is interrupted by a giant monster. Nothing cool like that ever happens to me. Old School - An example of probably one of the most amazing birthday parties thanks in large part to Snoop Dogg and Will Ferral. Parenthood - Seeing this is a kid I always wished my dad would have been cool enough to dress up like a demented cowboy and run amuck for one of my birthdays.   </spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: What is your favorite movie directed by John Hughes?</title>
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<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5353/default.aspx'>Risselada</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/657/discussions.aspx'>Movie Polls</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 8/10/2009 2:06:20 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Please reference this thread for the rules of this group. This poll has been posted by the request of laurabot who requeted a John Hughes poll.  Maybe next week I'll post a poll about the movies he has written but not directed since there are a good slew of those as well.    Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:The Breakfast ClubCurly SueFerris Bueller's Day OffPlanes, Trains &amp; AutomobilesShe's Having a BabySixteen CandlesUncle BuckWeird Science<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Risselada</spout:postby><spout:postto>Movie Polls</spout:postto><spout:postdate>8/10/2009 2:06:20 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Please reference this thread for the rules of this group. This poll has been posted by the request of laurabot who requeted a John Hughes poll.  Maybe next week I'll post a poll about the movies he has written but not directed since there are a good slew of those as well.    Please vote only once in each poll. Movies referenced in this poll:The Breakfast ClubCurly SueFerris Bueller's Day OffPlanes, Trains &amp;amp; AutomobilesShe's Having a BabySixteen CandlesUncle BuckWeird Science</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Worst Movie Edit For TV. Clip of the Day</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2009/1/30/40098.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t34342qs12z.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/9325/default.aspx'>SpoutBlog</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/default.aspx'>SpoutBlog on spout.com</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/30/2009 2:01:09 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> It’s been a long time since I watched a movie aired on commercial television. As a kid, however, I watched enough TV edits of films to have seen both Fast TImes at Ridgemont High and Sixteen Candles about a thousand times each before I knew that either film, in its original cut, features nudity. As far as language goes, though, any kid could figure out what curse words were really being mouthed by the actors instead of overdubbed words like “stuff,” “funsters” and “mothercrusher.”
But a young person watching Weird Science may have been seriously confused, because much of the censored dialogue wasn’t even inappropriate for television. So, when words like “nipples,” “fart” and “bang” are replaced with “pimples,” “puke” and “hit,” we kids of the ’80s just simply had to abandon TV edits forever. Therefore, I’ve never had the pleasure of hearing a coarse phrase from The Big Lebowski turned into the bizarre line “This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!”
According to a list of “10 Worst Movie Edits For TV” at AskMen.com, the #1 offender is Die Hard’s infamous “Yippee-ki-yay, Mr. Falcon.” But I have to go with their #10, Weird Science, for the top spot, because it ruined me for future movie edits, and now I’m aware that some of them are actually quite enjoyable in a ridiculous sort of way. Check out a montage of Weird Science overdubs after the jump.

 Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:01:09 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>SpoutBlog</spout:postby><spout:postto>SpoutBlog on spout.com</spout:postto><spout:postdate>1/30/2009 2:01:09 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>It’s been a long time since I watched a movie aired on commercial television. As a kid, however, I watched enough TV edits of films to have seen both Fast TImes at Ridgemont High and Sixteen Candles about a thousand times each before I knew that either film, in its original cut, features nudity. As far as language goes, though, any kid could figure out what curse words were really being mouthed by the actors instead of overdubbed words like “stuff,” “funsters” and “mothercrusher.”
But a young person watching Weird Science may have been seriously confused, because much of the censored dialogue wasn’t even inappropriate for television. So, when words like “nipples,” “fart” and “bang” are replaced with “pimples,” “puke” and “hit,” we kids of the ’80s just simply had to abandon TV edits forever. Therefore, I’ve never had the pleasure of hearing a coarse phrase from The Big Lebowski turned into the bizarre line “This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!”
According to a list of “10 Worst Movie Edits For TV” at AskMen.com, the #1 offender is Die Hard’s infamous “Yippee-ki-yay, Mr. Falcon.” But I have to go with their #10, Weird Science, for the top spot, because it ruined me for future movie edits, and now I’m aware that some of them are actually quite enjoyable in a ridiculous sort of way. Check out a montage of Weird Science overdubs after the jump.

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      <title>Spout Post: Re:80s teen flick that described romantic relationships to you</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Forever_Young/Re_80s_teen_flick_that_described_romantic_relation/85/36439/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t34342qs12z.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/122321/default.aspx'>seely</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Forever_Young/85/discussions.aspx'>Forever Young</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 10/17/2008 10:49:22 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Oh this is a good one!  I'm definately a hopeless romantic underdog at heart, and *loved* the way 80's films portrayed highschool relationships, with their clearly defined archetypical characters and somewhat formulaic endings. For me, I think I was most shaped by: The Breakfast Club Valley Girl Say Anything Sixteen Candles (1984) They all had similar themes, of people winding up with someone that they typically shouldn't be interested in... this gave me a lot of hope as an awkward pubescent teenager. [quote user="filmgal81"] As a kid, what 80s teen movie did you think high school romantic relationships would be most like? For me, it is a toss up between three movies: For Keeps ( happy endings), Dirty Dancing ( fleeting love), and The Breakfast Club ( flirtations)   [/quote]<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:49:22 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>seely</spout:postby><spout:postto>Forever Young</spout:postto><spout:postdate>10/17/2008 10:49:22 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Oh this is a good one!  I'm definately a hopeless romantic underdog at heart, and *loved* the way 80's films portrayed highschool relationships, with their clearly defined archetypical characters and somewhat formulaic endings. For me, I think I was most shaped by: The Breakfast Club Valley Girl Say Anything Sixteen Candles (1984) They all had similar themes, of people winding up with someone that they typically shouldn't be interested in... this gave me a lot of hope as an awkward pubescent teenager. [quote user="filmgal81"] As a kid, what 80s teen movie did you think high school romantic relationships would be most like? For me, it is a toss up between three movies: For Keeps ( happy endings), Dirty Dancing ( fleeting love), and The Breakfast Club ( flirtations)   [/quote]</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re: The Brat Pack</title>
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<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/122321/default.aspx'>seely</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Forever_Young/85/discussions.aspx'>Forever Young</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 9/29/2008 11:40:21 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> I &lt;3 Molly Ringwald.  That being said, I'm probably one of the few guys who will shamelessly declare his love for any Brat Pack/John Hughes film.  I loved Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and all of those wonderful films.  I really don't think there is as realistic a portrayal of teen life today... its gone from genuine struggle, sexual curiosity/frustration and angst to sexual conquest and slapstick comedy (see: 'American Pie').  I also would argue you don't see as diverse a cast in the majority of teen films today.  Though Hughes relied heavily on archetypes/stereotypes in most of his films, he at least had a somewhat diverse cast of characters who represented different segements of the youth population and didn't all fit into that preppy/pretty-boy category.  For every character, there was always an antognist.  I never found myself relating much to American Pie, though it was entertaining, while I find myself indentifying a lot more with Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club.  Maybe it just gave this geek a little hope. [quote user="filmgal81"] I whole heartedly agree. All that  girls have to idolize now are  lolipop shaped, cookie cutter actresses who are playing the " Light as a Feather" game. It is very sad that 1) this is what we label as perfection these days and 2) no one thinks to question anything regarding this extreme  swing of the pendulum out side of "um...perhaps they are too thin? maybe?" I wrote a piece about it on my blog entitled " Honey, Your Puritain Roots Are Showing"   http://retrocurves.tumblr.com/ check it out.        [quote user="i-heart-art"]If you've got a spare moment, feel free to read my blog about The Breakfast Club.  In it, I declare it as my favorite in what I have dubbed "The Holy Trinity of Ringwald" (Sixteeen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink).  I'm pretty sure that young girls today don't have any wholesome [yet quirky] idols like Molly Ringwald was for us back then and it's truly sad...[/quote] [/quote]<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:40:21 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>seely</spout:postby><spout:postto>Forever Young</spout:postto><spout:postdate>9/29/2008 11:40:21 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>I &amp;lt;3 Molly Ringwald.  That being said, I'm probably one of the few guys who will shamelessly declare his love for any Brat Pack/John Hughes film.  I loved Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and all of those wonderful films.  I really don't think there is as realistic a portrayal of teen life today... its gone from genuine struggle, sexual curiosity/frustration and angst to sexual conquest and slapstick comedy (see: 'American Pie').  I also would argue you don't see as diverse a cast in the majority of teen films today.  Though Hughes relied heavily on archetypes/stereotypes in most of his films, he at least had a somewhat diverse cast of characters who represented different segements of the youth population and didn't all fit into that preppy/pretty-boy category.  For every character, there was always an antognist.  I never found myself relating much to American Pie, though it was entertaining, while I find myself indentifying a lot more with Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club.  Maybe it just gave this geek a little hope. [quote user="filmgal81"] I whole heartedly agree. All that  girls have to idolize now are  lolipop shaped, cookie cutter actresses who are playing the " Light as a Feather" game. It is very sad that 1) this is what we label as perfection these days and 2) no one thinks to question anything regarding this extreme  swing of the pendulum out side of "um...perhaps they are too thin? maybe?" I wrote a piece about it on my blog entitled " Honey, Your Puritain Roots Are Showing"   http://retrocurves.tumblr.com/ check it out.        [quote user="i-heart-art"]If you've got a spare moment, feel free to read my blog about The Breakfast Club.  In it, I declare it as my favorite in what I have dubbed "The Holy Trinity of Ringwald" (Sixteeen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink).  I'm pretty sure that young girls today don't have any wholesome [yet quirky] idols like Molly Ringwald was for us back then and it's truly sad...[/quote] [/quote]</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Just between me and Hughes</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/usesoap/archive/2008/3/25/26587.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t34342qs12z.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/113227/default.aspx'>usesoap</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 3/25/2008 1:28:31 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Perhaps it&rsquo;s a certain soft spot for the navigator of my awkward adolescent journey, John Hughes; maybe it&rsquo;s the affable charisma of lead Owen Wilson (who, even off his game as he is here, is just someone with whom you want  to share a beer); or it could be the overall throwback tone of the film&rsquo;s less-ironic, less-cynical high school setting.Whatever the reason, I quite enjoyed &ldquo;Drillbit Taylor.Hughes, the arbiter of public school angst, originally scribbled the screenplay for the new comedy and allowed it to languish for the better part of two decades before it was dusted off by reigning comedic king Judd Apatow (&ldquo;Knocked Up,&rdquo; &ldquo;40-Year-Old Virgin&rdquo;) and his faithful scribes Seth Rogan (&ldquo;Superbad&rdquo;) and Kristofer Brown (TVs &ldquo;Undeclared&rdquo;). Hughes&rsquo; name is not found on any of the credits (acknowledgment is given to his frequent nom de plume of Edmond Dantes), but his style can be felt throughout. With great nerd love, Hughes always tapped into the anxieties, hopes, fears, and, dare it be dreamed, love of those squares living outside the popular circles in high school. He affected and defined a generation with six films in just four years. Think about that number. The list of his film could hyperventilate many a Gen-X &ndash;er prone to spouting off many a memorable movie line : &ldquo;Sixteen Candles,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Breakfast Club,&rdquo; &ldquo;Weird Science,&rdquo; &ldquo;Pretty in Pink,&rdquo; &ldquo;Ferris Bueller&rsquo;s Day Off,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Some Kind of Wonderful.And while &ldquo;Drillbit Taylor&rdquo; will not gain access to the coveted coliseum of memorable Hughes characters (Bueller, Duckie, Long Duk Dong, Farmer Ted, Chet, Cameron, etc.), it is a good-natured return to perhaps the most anxiety-prone places of repressed memory, and where some of Hughes&rsquo; richest comedies were set &ndash; high school.Wilson stars as a homeless Iraq vet genially slumming the California streets in search of spare change. Now this is hardly the stuff of comedy gold, and while the subtle social commentary is an awkward fit, Wilson&rsquo;s laissez-faire demeanor pitches the proper balance between snickers and sympathy.Drillbit notices an online ad from a trio of geeks searching for protection from their psychotic high school harrier. The outcasts could easily be renamed &ldquo;Superbad: The Early Years,&rdquo; as they consist of the fat, sarcastic one (Tony Gentile), the skinny introspective one (Nate Harley), and the screeching uber-dork (David Dorfman). The actors themselves offer relatively little to the whole affair, but, then again, no one ever praised Andrew McCarthy for his range, Judd Nelson for his Method approach, or Molly Ringwald for her intensity.Drillbit sees the young suburbanites as three little ATM machines who can help finance his ticket to Canada to start life anew. He pilfers a few valuable knick-knacks from their homes while haphazardly helping them overcome their daily high school hell. Conscience gets the better of Drillbit, and soon he infiltrates the school as a substitute teacher to further aid the kids&rsquo; daily humiliations.At this point in the review, you may be thinking: &ldquo;Hmm, faint praise, hackneyed plot&hellip; I think I&rsquo;ll pass.&rdquo; But &ldquo;Taylor&rdquo; works despite all these things. It works in all those &ldquo;in-between&rdquo; moments of the film. Throwaway lines delivered by former &ldquo;Daily Show&rdquo; correspondent Beth Littleford (someone please give this woman a smart lead role!), comedian Matt Walsh, and Danny McBride (soon to be seen in Apatow&rsquo;s &ldquo;Pineapple Express&rdquo; and Ben Stiller&rsquo;s &ldquo;Tropic Thunder&rdquo;).They, along with the leads, deliver casual, off-the-cuff zingers that validate &ldquo;Taylor&rsquo;s&rdquo; existence, When training his young charges, Drillbit casually tosses off such lines as: &ldquo;Now it isn&rsquo;t all Oriental martial arts, Sometimes you give a little Mexican judo. As in you don&rsquo;t know who you messin&rsquo; with, homes.&rdquo; And at its core is an oversized Hugh-sian heart, one that was absent from the flick of Wilson&rsquo;s frequent co-star Will Ferrell in &ldquo;Semi-Pro.&rdquo;It&rsquo;s also an element that is sadly lacking in film designed for the high school crowd, which is more willing to highlight the misanthropic myopia and would-be sexual exploits than exalt in the more inconsequential aspects of freshman life, such as just existing without getting the snot clocked out of you. Perhaps his pen is a wee out of touch with today&rsquo;s school experience, but his talent for mining the primal emotional dread is spot on.And if he decides to infrequently revisit that world every decade or so, I&rsquo;ll slap on a pair of parachute pants, load up the Trapper Keeper, slip a cassette of Sigue Sigue Sputnik in the Walkman, and be first in line to watch.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:28:31 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>usesoap</spout:postby><spout:postto>usesoap Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>3/25/2008 1:28:31 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Perhaps it&amp;rsquo;s a certain soft spot for the navigator of my awkward adolescent journey, John Hughes; maybe it&amp;rsquo;s the affable charisma of lead Owen Wilson (who, even off his game as he is here, is just someone with whom you want  to share a beer); or it could be the overall throwback tone of the film&amp;rsquo;s less-ironic, less-cynical high school setting.Whatever the reason, I quite enjoyed &amp;ldquo;Drillbit Taylor.Hughes, the arbiter of public school angst, originally scribbled the screenplay for the new comedy and allowed it to languish for the better part of two decades before it was dusted off by reigning comedic king Judd Apatow (&amp;ldquo;Knocked Up,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;40-Year-Old Virgin&amp;rdquo;) and his faithful scribes Seth Rogan (&amp;ldquo;Superbad&amp;rdquo;) and Kristofer Brown (TVs &amp;ldquo;Undeclared&amp;rdquo;). Hughes&amp;rsquo; name is not found on any of the credits (acknowledgment is given to his frequent nom de plume of Edmond Dantes), but his style can be felt throughout. With great nerd love, Hughes always tapped into the anxieties, hopes, fears, and, dare it be dreamed, love of those squares living outside the popular circles in high school. He affected and defined a generation with six films in just four years. Think about that number. The list of his film could hyperventilate many a Gen-X &amp;ndash;er prone to spouting off many a memorable movie line : &amp;ldquo;Sixteen Candles,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;The Breakfast Club,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;Weird Science,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;Pretty in Pink,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;Ferris Bueller&amp;rsquo;s Day Off,&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Some Kind of Wonderful.And while &amp;ldquo;Drillbit Taylor&amp;rdquo; will not gain access to the coveted coliseum of memorable Hughes characters (Bueller, Duckie, Long Duk Dong, Farmer Ted, Chet, Cameron, etc.), it is a good-natured return to perhaps the most anxiety-prone places of repressed memory, and where some of Hughes&amp;rsquo; richest comedies were set &amp;ndash; high school.Wilson stars as a homeless Iraq vet genially slumming the California streets in search of spare change. Now this is hardly the stuff of comedy gold, and while the subtle social commentary is an awkward fit, Wilson&amp;rsquo;s laissez-faire demeanor pitches the proper balance between snickers and sympathy.Drillbit notices an online ad from a trio of geeks searching for protection from their psychotic high school harrier. The outcasts could easily be renamed &amp;ldquo;Superbad: The Early Years,&amp;rdquo; as they consist of the fat, sarcastic one (Tony Gentile), the skinny introspective one (Nate Harley), and the screeching uber-dork (David Dorfman). The actors themselves offer relatively little to the whole affair, but, then again, no one ever praised Andrew McCarthy for his range, Judd Nelson for his Method approach, or Molly Ringwald for her intensity.Drillbit sees the young suburbanites as three little ATM machines who can help finance his ticket to Canada to start life anew. He pilfers a few valuable knick-knacks from their homes while haphazardly helping them overcome their daily high school hell. Conscience gets the better of Drillbit, and soon he infiltrates the school as a substitute teacher to further aid the kids&amp;rsquo; daily humiliations.At this point in the review, you may be thinking: &amp;ldquo;Hmm, faint praise, hackneyed plot&amp;hellip; I think I&amp;rsquo;ll pass.&amp;rdquo; But &amp;ldquo;Taylor&amp;rdquo; works despite all these things. It works in all those &amp;ldquo;in-between&amp;rdquo; moments of the film. Throwaway lines delivered by former &amp;ldquo;Daily Show&amp;rdquo; correspondent Beth Littleford (someone please give this woman a smart lead role!), comedian Matt Walsh, and Danny McBride (soon to be seen in Apatow&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;Pineapple Express&amp;rdquo; and Ben Stiller&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;Tropic Thunder&amp;rdquo;).They, along with the leads, deliver casual, off-the-cuff zingers that validate &amp;ldquo;Taylor&amp;rsquo;s&amp;rdquo; existence, When training his young charges, Drillbit casually tosses off such lines as: &amp;ldquo;Now it isn&amp;rsquo;t all Oriental martial arts, Sometimes you give a little Mexican judo. As in you don&amp;rsquo;t know who you messin&amp;rsquo; with, homes.&amp;rdquo; And at its core is an oversized Hugh-sian heart, one that was absent from the flick of Wilson&amp;rsquo;s frequent co-star Will Ferrell in &amp;ldquo;Semi-Pro.&amp;rdquo;It&amp;rsquo;s also an element that is sadly lacking in film designed for the high school crowd, which is more willing to highlight the misanthropic myopia and would-be sexual exploits than exalt in the more inconsequential aspects of freshman life, such as just existing without getting the snot clocked out of you. Perhaps his pen is a wee out of touch with today&amp;rsquo;s school experience, but his talent for mining the primal emotional dread is spot on.And if he decides to infrequently revisit that world every decade or so, I&amp;rsquo;ll slap on a pair of parachute pants, load up the Trapper Keeper, slip a cassette of Sigue Sigue Sputnik in the Walkman, and be first in line to watch.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Life's Soundtrack</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/yojimbo73/archive/2008/2/18/25296.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t34342qs12z.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/116417/default.aspx'>yojimbo73</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/yojimbo73/default.aspx'>yojimbo73 Blog</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 2/18/2008 9:16:43 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong>     I was sitting in my jeep a few days ago looking through my iPod for something that would pick my spirits up for the drive home.  Great little invention. Kinda makes that &quot;10 albums on a desert island&quot; thing useless. Just bring your iPod and you can have your entire collection. Anyway, I decided on the Counting Crows as it&#39;d been years since I&#39;d listened to them. Instantly I was transported to...I&#39;ll get to that in a minute. It made me think about that whole &quot;smell is the best memory trigger&quot; thing. Now maybe it&#39;s just a deficiency in my olfactory system, but smell has never done a thing for my memory. Sure, it&#39;s been instrumental in conjuring up old girlfriends and musty schools, but nothing really useful. Music on the other hand can open wormwholes to my past. When I hear the songs from the soundtrack of the movie that is my life I am instantly bombarded with memories. Sights, sounds, smells, the whole package.     -&quot;I Wear My Sunglasses at Night&quot; and it&#39;s 1984. I&#39;m at the pool getting a crappy slice of pizza from a lifeguard who looks suspiciously like Johnny from the Karate Kid. Only more tan.     -&quot;Purple Rain&quot; sweeps me off to a middle school gym circa 1986.  It&#39;s the last dance of the night (why the last song was always Purple Rain I&#39;ll never know), the smell of sweaty teens is thick in the air, as is the dissappointment in not having a John Hughes kind of night. Again.   -&quot;It Takes Two&quot; (Rob Base) brings me to another gym and another dance, this time it&#39;s 1990.  Ah, but now I&#39;m 16, I have a license and it IS turning into a John Hughes kind of night. This could be THE night...until I find out me and my buddy have to head home. The girl I was with literaly breaks her car in a temper tantrum. Never saw her again, go figure. If only I was Long Duk Dong and she were an amazon.   -The Counting Crows will always take me back to the fall of &#39;93. I&#39;m in a beautiful blue Vanagon with 3 people who were, and always will be (even though we&#39;ve all scattered into the wind), 3 of the most important people in my life. If only we&#39;d all lived in the same crappy apartment building, it would have been Singles. I guess that would have made me Campbell Scott because I definitely wasn&#39;t Matt Dillon. On a whim we&#39;re roadtripping to the Outer Banks. Who knew there were barely any restaurants still open during the fall, at least not in &#39;93. It&#39;s cold, we&#39;ve been driving all day and my skin is crawling from waaaaaay to much caffeine. Yet I&#39;m happy. The kind of happy that doesn&#39;t come around that often.  The kind you try to recreate, but can&#39;t because that brand of American Graffiti/Dazed and Confused kind of day just happens on it&#39;s own.    So there I am in my jeep, driving home after being at work for 27 hours, the Counting Crows are on the stereo and I&#39;m 20 years old again and I&#39;m happy. No smell could ever do that for me. To tell you the truth, a good amount of smells make me ill. Do the smell of mud, alcohol and funk whisk me off to Woodstock &#39;94? No, of course not. But Blind Melon, Green Day and the Rollins Band do it everytime. I&#39;m turning 21 again at the biggest birthday party in the history of parties, drinking beers thrown to me Stone Cold Steve Austin style every time I shout &quot;It&#39;s my birthday&quot;. And I&#39;m happy.   Just be careful when adding songs to your life&#39;s mixtape. With careful planning you too can have an epic moment like being introduced at your wedding reception to the &quot;Throne Room overature&quot; from the end of Star Wars (yeah, we did that ). Sometimes, though, it&#39;s taken out of your control and you end up with something like &quot;Wind Beneath My Wings&quot; by Bette Midler for your graduation song. In retrospect, I would have prefered Blink-182&#39;s &quot;Dammit&quot; to have been our song, but it had yet to be written. Maybe I&#39;ll squeeze that into the mix for my 40th birthday. Now that would be epic. <br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:16:43 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>yojimbo73</spout:postby><spout:postto>yojimbo73 Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>2/18/2008 9:16:43 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>    I was sitting in my jeep a few days ago looking through my iPod for something that would pick my spirits up for the drive home.  Great little invention. Kinda makes that &amp;quot;10 albums on a desert island&amp;quot; thing useless. Just bring your iPod and you can have your entire collection. Anyway, I decided on the Counting Crows as it&amp;#39;d been years since I&amp;#39;d listened to them. Instantly I was transported to...I&amp;#39;ll get to that in a minute. It made me think about that whole &amp;quot;smell is the best memory trigger&amp;quot; thing. Now maybe it&amp;#39;s just a deficiency in my olfactory system, but smell has never done a thing for my memory. Sure, it&amp;#39;s been instrumental in conjuring up old girlfriends and musty schools, but nothing really useful. Music on the other hand can open wormwholes to my past. When I hear the songs from the soundtrack of the movie that is my life I am instantly bombarded with memories. Sights, sounds, smells, the whole package.     -&amp;quot;I Wear My Sunglasses at Night&amp;quot; and it&amp;#39;s 1984. I&amp;#39;m at the pool getting a crappy slice of pizza from a lifeguard who looks suspiciously like Johnny from the Karate Kid. Only more tan.     -&amp;quot;Purple Rain&amp;quot; sweeps me off to a middle school gym circa 1986.  It&amp;#39;s the last dance of the night (why the last song was always Purple Rain I&amp;#39;ll never know), the smell of sweaty teens is thick in the air, as is the dissappointment in not having a John Hughes kind of night. Again.   -&amp;quot;It Takes Two&amp;quot; (Rob Base) brings me to another gym and another dance, this time it&amp;#39;s 1990.  Ah, but now I&amp;#39;m 16, I have a license and it IS turning into a John Hughes kind of night. This could be THE night...until I find out me and my buddy have to head home. The girl I was with literaly breaks her car in a temper tantrum. Never saw her again, go figure. If only I was Long Duk Dong and she were an amazon.   -The Counting Crows will always take me back to the fall of &amp;#39;93. I&amp;#39;m in a beautiful blue Vanagon with 3 people who were, and always will be (even though we&amp;#39;ve all scattered into the wind), 3 of the most important people in my life. If only we&amp;#39;d all lived in the same crappy apartment building, it would have been Singles. I guess that would have made me Campbell Scott because I definitely wasn&amp;#39;t Matt Dillon. On a whim we&amp;#39;re roadtripping to the Outer Banks. Who knew there were barely any restaurants still open during the fall, at least not in &amp;#39;93. It&amp;#39;s cold, we&amp;#39;ve been driving all day and my skin is crawling from waaaaaay to much caffeine. Yet I&amp;#39;m happy. The kind of happy that doesn&amp;#39;t come around that often.  The kind you try to recreate, but can&amp;#39;t because that brand of American Graffiti/Dazed and Confused kind of day just happens on it&amp;#39;s own.    So there I am in my jeep, driving home after being at work for 27 hours, the Counting Crows are on the stereo and I&amp;#39;m 20 years old again and I&amp;#39;m happy. No smell could ever do that for me. To tell you the truth, a good amount of smells make me ill. Do the smell of mud, alcohol and funk whisk me off to Woodstock &amp;#39;94? No, of course not. But Blind Melon, Green Day and the Rollins Band do it everytime. I&amp;#39;m turning 21 again at the biggest birthday party in the history of parties, drinking beers thrown to me Stone Cold Steve Austin style every time I shout &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s my birthday&amp;quot;. And I&amp;#39;m happy.   Just be careful when adding songs to your life&amp;#39;s mixtape. With careful planning you too can have an epic moment like being introduced at your wedding reception to the &amp;quot;Throne Room overature&amp;quot; from the end of Star Wars (yeah, we did that ). Sometimes, though, it&amp;#39;s taken out of your control and you end up with something like &amp;quot;Wind Beneath My Wings&amp;quot; by Bette Midler for your graduation song. In retrospect, I would have prefered Blink-182&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Dammit&amp;quot; to have been our song, but it had yet to be written. Maybe I&amp;#39;ll squeeze that into the mix for my 40th birthday. Now that would be epic. </spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: movie year countdown #23 - 1984 - Sixteen Candles</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/risselada/archive/2007/10/11/20713.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t34342qs12z.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5353/default.aspx'>Risselada</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/risselada/default.aspx'>Risselada Blog</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 10/11/2007 1:05:36 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> This blog entry is part of my &ldquo;movie year countdown&rdquo;.  To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry.Sixteen CandlesI kind of missed the whole brat pack thing the first couple times around.  If it is something that keeps coming around.  I dunno.  It seems like something that a number of people of my generation seem to indentify with although I was still a small child when most of these movies came out.I guess I wasn&#39;t expecting a whole lot and I didn&#39;t really get a whole lot.  The movie is about as vapid as any current Hollywood teen comedy that I might have accidentally seen.  And like most of them also seems to somehow drag you along mindlessly without getting too bored but feeling just as empty at the end.  Maybe it&#39;s a product of bad television conditioning.I guess John Hughes connected more with me with Home Alone which came out when I was 9-years-old.  And I believe Macaulay Culkin was too, so I was obviously the prime audience.  I couldn&#39;t connect quite as well with those teenagers, but I&#39;m not sure if I ever would have.Rating: 5/10<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:05:36 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Risselada</spout:postby><spout:postto>Risselada Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>10/11/2007 1:05:36 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>This blog entry is part of my &amp;ldquo;movie year countdown&amp;rdquo;.  To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry.Sixteen CandlesI kind of missed the whole brat pack thing the first couple times around.  If it is something that keeps coming around.  I dunno.  It seems like something that a number of people of my generation seem to indentify with although I was still a small child when most of these movies came out.I guess I wasn&amp;#39;t expecting a whole lot and I didn&amp;#39;t really get a whole lot.  The movie is about as vapid as any current Hollywood teen comedy that I might have accidentally seen.  And like most of them also seems to somehow drag you along mindlessly without getting too bored but feeling just as empty at the end.  Maybe it&amp;#39;s a product of bad television conditioning.I guess John Hughes connected more with me with Home Alone which came out when I was 9-years-old.  And I believe Macaulay Culkin was too, so I was obviously the prime audience.  I couldn&amp;#39;t connect quite as well with those teenagers, but I&amp;#39;m not sure if I ever would have.Rating: 5/10</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Movie year countdown viewing project</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/risselada/archive/2007/2/17/5581.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t34342qs12z.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5353/default.aspx'>Risselada</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/risselada/default.aspx'>Risselada Blog</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 2/17/2007 11:57:00 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Here&rsquo;s the dilemma.  I have a list of well over three thousand movies I want to see saved on IMDB.  I have a subscription to Netflix and recently every time I return a DVD it has been an extremely arduous task to make the decision as to which movie I should see next.  In an effort to narrow down my choices and make the process of choosing slightly less overwhelming I have devised a system, almost a bit of a game for me.  Here&rsquo;s how it goes.For my first film selection, I have narrowed the options down to only films that were released in the year 2006.  Then after I have watched that movie, my next selection would have to be a film released in 2005.  Then I would see a film from 2004, then 2003, etc.  The process of deciding is still laborious, but actually quite a bit more exciting.  (I&#39;m going by IMDB as my source for release years)I have already been making a list and have also already begun watching the films.  I decided this might be a good time to start fooling around with this spoutblog I have until now left unutilized.  So I&rsquo;ll try to start writing a little blurb or so about each movie I watch in this process.My only limitation here is of course movies that are available on Netflix.  Which sadly excludes several I know are available on DVD, and have been longing to see for a long time, but Netflix just doesn&rsquo;t seem to have available.  It&rsquo;d sort of annoying how they do list quite a few movies that that you can put in your queue under &ldquo;saved&rdquo;, yet they obviously do not have available.  I have countless movies in that unavailable but saved queue, and I&rsquo;m not sure that a single one has ever become available.  What&rsquo;s the point I wonder.But if anyone has any recommendations, I&#39;ll take that into consideration.  THANK YOU!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------New addition to this post:Today is Tuesday March 13, and I have completed a preliminary list of all of the movie I will be watching.  Unfortunately many of them were not available on Netflix.  I will hunt those down some day.  I&#39;m don&#39;t doubt that as I make my way through the list I will make a few more changes depending on my mood and other factors, but for now, here it is:1.  Art School Confidential (2006)2.  The Comedians of Comedy (2005)3.  The Passion of the Christ (2004)4.  Ruang rak noi nid mahasan (Last Life in the Universe) (2003)5.  Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekret&auml;rin (Blind Spot. Hitler&#39;s Secretary) (2002)6.  El Espinazo del diablo (The Devil&#39;s Backbone) (2001)7.  Werckmeister harm&oacute;ni&aacute;k (Werckmeister Harmonies) (2000)8.  The Virgin Suicides (1999)9.  Buffalo &#39;66 (1998)10.  In the Company of Men (1997)11.  Hard Core Logo (1996)12.  Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)13.  Hoop Dreams (1994)14.  Short Cuts (1993)15.  In the Soup (1992)16.  Surviving Desire (1991)17.  Misery (1990)18.  Der Siebente Kontinent (The Seventh Continent) (1989)19.  Topio stin omichli (Landscape in the Mist) (1988)20.  Evil Dead II (1987)21.  Ying hung boon sik (1986)22.  Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond) (1985)23.  Sixteen Candles (1984)24.  Videodrome (1983)25.  Chan Is Missing (1982)26.  Coup de torchon (1981)27.  The Ninth Configuration (1980)28.  Hardcore (1979)29.  Halloween (1978)30.  Pumping Iron (1977)31.  Logan&#39;s Run (1976)32.  Tommy (1975)33.  The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)34.  The Exorcist (1973)35.  Kozure &Ocirc;kami: Kowokashi udekashi tsukamatsuru (Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance) (1972)36.  Get Carter (1971)37.  Il Conformista (The Conformist) (1970)38.  Hsia nu (A Touch of Zen) (1969)39.  Fando y Lis (1968)40.  Dutchman (1967)41.  Kenka erejii (Fighting Elegy) (1966)42.  Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie (The Saragossa Manuscript) (1965)43.  Sei donne per l&#39;assassino (Blood and Black Lace) (1964)44.  The Great Escape (1963)45.  Cape Fear (1962)46.  Yojimbo (1961)47.  Plein soleil (Purple Noon) (1960)48.  Some Like It Hot (1959)49.  Mon oncle (1958)50.  Sweet Smell of Success (1957)51.  Biruma no tategoto (The Burmese Harp) (1956)52.  Rebel Without a Cause (1955)53.  Gojira (Godzilla) (1954)54.  Ugetsu monogatari (1953)55.  Ikiru (1952)56.  A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)57.  D.O.A. (1950)58.  White Heat (1949)59.  Rope (1948)60.  Born to Kill (1947)61.  Black Narcissus (1946)62.  And Then There Were None (1945)63.  The Miracle of Morgan&#39;s Creek (1944)64.  Le Corbeau (1943)65.  Cat People (1942)66.  The Wolf Man (1941)67.  Road to Singapore (1940)68.  Gone with the Wind (1939)69.  The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)70.  Dr&ocirc;le de drame ou L&#39;&eacute;trange aventure de Docteur Molyneux (1937)71.  Flash Gordon (1936/I)72.  Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will) (1935)73.  The Thin Man (1934)74.  The Invisible Man (1933)75.  Trouble in Paradise (1932)76.  City Lights (1931)77.  Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) (1930)78.  Chelovek s kino-apparatom (The Man with a Movie Camera) (1929)79.  La Chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) (1928)80.  The King of Kings (1927)81.  Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed) (1926)82.  Stachka (Strike) (1925)83.  The Thief of Bagdad (1924)84.  The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)85.  H&auml;xan (1922)86.  Seven Years Bad Luck (1921)87.  Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920)88.  Blind Husbands (1919)<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:57:00 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Risselada</spout:postby><spout:postto>Risselada Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>2/17/2007 11:57:00 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Here&amp;rsquo;s the dilemma.  I have a list of well over three thousand movies I want to see saved on IMDB.  I have a subscription to Netflix and recently every time I return a DVD it has been an extremely arduous task to make the decision as to which movie I should see next.  In an effort to narrow down my choices and make the process of choosing slightly less overwhelming I have devised a system, almost a bit of a game for me.  Here&amp;rsquo;s how it goes.For my first film selection, I have narrowed the options down to only films that were released in the year 2006.  Then after I have watched that movie, my next selection would have to be a film released in 2005.  Then I would see a film from 2004, then 2003, etc.  The process of deciding is still laborious, but actually quite a bit more exciting.  (I&amp;#39;m going by IMDB as my source for release years)I have already been making a list and have also already begun watching the films.  I decided this might be a good time to start fooling around with this spoutblog I have until now left unutilized.  So I&amp;rsquo;ll try to start writing a little blurb or so about each movie I watch in this process.My only limitation here is of course movies that are available on Netflix.  Which sadly excludes several I know are available on DVD, and have been longing to see for a long time, but Netflix just doesn&amp;rsquo;t seem to have available.  It&amp;rsquo;d sort of annoying how they do list quite a few movies that that you can put in your queue under &amp;ldquo;saved&amp;rdquo;, yet they obviously do not have available.  I have countless movies in that unavailable but saved queue, and I&amp;rsquo;m not sure that a single one has ever become available.  What&amp;rsquo;s the point I wonder.But if anyone has any recommendations, I&amp;#39;ll take that into consideration.  THANK YOU!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------New addition to this post:Today is Tuesday March 13, and I have completed a preliminary list of all of the movie I will be watching.  Unfortunately many of them were not available on Netflix.  I will hunt those down some day.  I&amp;#39;m don&amp;#39;t doubt that as I make my way through the list I will make a few more changes depending on my mood and other factors, but for now, here it is:1.  Art School Confidential (2006)2.  The Comedians of Comedy (2005)3.  The Passion of the Christ (2004)4.  Ruang rak noi nid mahasan (Last Life in the Universe) (2003)5.  Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekret&amp;auml;rin (Blind Spot. Hitler&amp;#39;s Secretary) (2002)6.  El Espinazo del diablo (The Devil&amp;#39;s Backbone) (2001)7.  Werckmeister harm&amp;oacute;ni&amp;aacute;k (Werckmeister Harmonies) (2000)8.  The Virgin Suicides (1999)9.  Buffalo &amp;#39;66 (1998)10.  In the Company of Men (1997)11.  Hard Core Logo (1996)12.  Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)13.  Hoop Dreams (1994)14.  Short Cuts (1993)15.  In the Soup (1992)16.  Surviving Desire (1991)17.  Misery (1990)18.  Der Siebente Kontinent (The Seventh Continent) (1989)19.  Topio stin omichli (Landscape in the Mist) (1988)20.  Evil Dead II (1987)21.  Ying hung boon sik (1986)22.  Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond) (1985)23.  Sixteen Candles (1984)24.  Videodrome (1983)25.  Chan Is Missing (1982)26.  Coup de torchon (1981)27.  The Ninth Configuration (1980)28.  Hardcore (1979)29.  Halloween (1978)30.  Pumping Iron (1977)31.  Logan&amp;#39;s Run (1976)32.  Tommy (1975)33.  The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)34.  The Exorcist (1973)35.  Kozure &amp;Ocirc;kami: Kowokashi udekashi tsukamatsuru (Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance) (1972)36.  Get Carter (1971)37.  Il Conformista (The Conformist) (1970)38.  Hsia nu (A Touch of Zen) (1969)39.  Fando y Lis (1968)40.  Dutchman (1967)41.  Kenka erejii (Fighting Elegy) (1966)42.  Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie (The Saragossa Manuscript) (1965)43.  Sei donne per l&amp;#39;assassino (Blood and Black Lace) (1964)44.  The Great Escape (1963)45.  Cape Fear (1962)46.  Yojimbo (1961)47.  Plein soleil (Purple Noon) (1960)48.  Some Like It Hot (1959)49.  Mon oncle (1958)50.  Sweet Smell of Success (1957)51.  Biruma no tategoto (The Burmese Harp) (1956)52.  Rebel Without a Cause (1955)53.  Gojira (Godzilla) (1954)54.  Ugetsu monogatari (1953)55.  Ikiru (1952)56.  A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)57.  D.O.A. (1950)58.  White Heat (1949)59.  Rope (1948)60.  Born to Kill (1947)61.  Black Narcissus (1946)62.  And Then There Were None (1945)63.  The Miracle of Morgan&amp;#39;s Creek (1944)64.  Le Corbeau (1943)65.  Cat People (1942)66.  The Wolf Man (1941)67.  Road to Singapore (1940)68.  Gone with the Wind (1939)69.  The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)70.  Dr&amp;ocirc;le de drame ou L&amp;#39;&amp;eacute;trange aventure de Docteur Molyneux (1937)71.  Flash Gordon (1936/I)72.  Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will) (1935)73.  The Thin Man (1934)74.  The Invisible Man (1933)75.  Trouble in Paradise (1932)76.  City Lights (1931)77.  Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) (1930)78.  Chelovek s kino-apparatom (The Man with a Movie Camera) (1929)79.  La Chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) (1928)80.  The King of Kings (1927)81.  Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed) (1926)82.  Stachka (Strike) (1925)83.  The Thief of Bagdad (1924)84.  The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)85.  H&amp;auml;xan (1922)86.  Seven Years Bad Luck (1921)87.  Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920)88.  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      <title>Spout Post: Trivia: 80's Siblings</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Trivia/Trivia_80_s_Siblings/214/4027/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t34342qs12z.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5878/default.aspx'>MovieGuy</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Trivia/214/discussions.aspx'>Movie Trivia</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 12/5/2006 9:24:26 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Over in the "Grew up in the 80's" discussion group, a thread has started about coming of age and the movies which shaped our lives during that time period.  It made me start thinking of all of the classic films I love which were released in the 80's, most of which I have movie posters hanging on my wall for. Which brings us to this question: Which two different sets of siblings appeared together in the 1984 film "Sixteen Candles"?  (So we need four names).<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:24:26 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>MovieGuy</spout:postby><spout:postto>Movie Trivia</spout:postto><spout:postdate>12/5/2006 9:24:26 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Over in the "Grew up in the 80's" discussion group, a thread has started about coming of age and the movies which shaped our lives during that time period.  It made me start thinking of all of the classic films I love which were released in the 80's, most of which I have movie posters hanging on my wall for. Which brings us to this question: Which two different sets of siblings appeared together in the 1984 film "Sixteen Candles"?  (So we need four names).</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:funny</title>
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      <title>Spout Tag:Classic</title>
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      <title>Spout Tag:comedy</title>
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      <title>Spout Tag:Loved-It</title>
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      <title>Spout Tag:teenagers</title>
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<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 3025</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:80s</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/80s/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/80s/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>80s</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 87</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:highschool</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/highschool/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/highschool/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>highschool</a>
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<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 1186</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:marriage</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/marriage/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/marriage/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>marriage</a>
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      <title>Spout Tag:personal-classic</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/personal-classic/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/personal-classic/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>personal-classic</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 180</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:Dance</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Dance/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/Dance/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>Dance</a>
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      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/80s-classic/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/80s-classic/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>80s-classic</a>
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<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 1805</br><br/>
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<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 2301</br><br/>
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