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32 minutes ago, RollLeft said:

Well my brother who is the textbook middle child, 7 at the time, convinced my mother, who is a saint and all things innocent and good, to take us to see a "porky pig" movie.  He must have seen a preview and knew what he was doing because on the opening scene of Porky's Revenge when PEE WEE's girlfriend flashed her boobs and then shows his cock to the crowd she yanked me by my arm and him by his ear all the way out of the theatre.  This is the same brother who also convinced my mother, who would not buy us loud music because it would disturb my father, that Quiet Riot was considered classical.   

What's his username here?

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1 hour ago, RollLeft said:

Well my brother who is the textbook middle child, 7 at the time, convinced my mother, who is a saint and all things innocent and good, to take us to see a "porky pig" movie.  He must have seen a preview and knew what he was doing because on the opening scene of Porky's Revenge when PEE WEE's girlfriend flashed her boobs and then shows his cock to the crowd she yanked me by my arm and him by his ear all the way out of the theatre.  This is the same brother who also convinced my mother, who would not buy us loud music because it would disturb my father, that Quiet Riot was considered classical.   

I pulled multiple stunts like this on my mother. She was extremely trusting.  This post made me laugh. 

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On 7/29/2025 at 4:46 PM, Bevo said:

Where was the on campus movie theater and what was it called? I never went there sober but I vaguely remember watching Eraserhead and Basket Case there.  

I was a student from 1978-82.  There was the theatre in the student union, above the rec center.  Batts Hall used to show movies on weekends, as did Jester Auditorium semi-regularly.  Dobie during that period was two screens, larger than the screen after the renovation.  Even rarer was the movie screened in the Burdine Auditorium.  The Varsity Theatre was at 24th & Guadalupe, which later and sadder became a Tower Records.  On the Drag down between Wallace's Book Store and Quackenbush's (reference point, Quackenbush's wasn't there then) was the Texas Theatre, which showed porn films.

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On 7/29/2025 at 8:04 PM, Park Gothic said:

My first Jarmusch movie and I’ve loved him ever since. His movies aren’t always great but I always enjoy them. 

I was sophomore at Austin High but a lot my friends had graduated and were freshmen at Texas. We all went to see it at the Dobie one night and as the “little kid” in the group, they all convinced me it was real. In my head I knew they were full of shit, but when the movie started I got completely immersed. I was just old enough to enjoy it but young enough to still be sucked in. 

CTJ is right though, people who didn’t see it in the theater won’t understand the effect it had on people. In fact, with the ubiquity of found footage and prevalence of spoilers on the internet, I don’t think any movie will be able to catch people the way the BWP did ever again. 

Maybe I was jaded having worked in the motion picture industry, but Blair Witch Project was a bore.  Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog was too.  Moving a film camera to create a sense of unease isn't special and requires no talent.  It's like getting sea sick.  The Blair Witch Project only provided interest in the final scene, which despite the many years I won't spoiler.  The Haunting is far scarier taking the opposite effect of the camera remaining on a single atmospheric shot and allowing the viewer's imagination to fill in the gaps. 

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31 minutes ago, cafe society said:

Maybe I was jaded having worked in the motion picture industry, but Blair Witch Project was a bore.  Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog was too.  Moving a film camera to create a sense of unease isn't special and requires no talent.  It's like getting sea sick.  The Blair Witch Project only provided interest in the final scene, which despite the many years I won't spoiler.  The Haunting is far scarier taking the opposite effect of the camera remaining on a single atmospheric shot and allowing the viewer's imagination to fill in the gaps. 

Cloverfield > BWP in terms of that style

 

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4 hours ago, RollLeft said:

Well my brother who is the textbook middle child, 7 at the time, convinced my mother, who is a saint and all things innocent and good, to take us to see a "porky pig" movie.  He must have seen a preview and knew what he was doing because on the opening scene of Porky's Revenge when PEE WEE's girlfriend flashed her boobs and then shows his cock to the crowd she yanked me by my arm and him by his ear all the way out of the theatre.  This is the same brother who also convinced my mother, who would not buy us loud music because it would disturb my father, that Quiet Riot was considered classical.   

Legend 

Posted
10 hours ago, Junior Bonner said:

Just a hat on the table…

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Time for the $9.95 crew to write a whole bunch of articles about how Florida or LSU beat out Texas in this "hotly contested recruiting battle." 

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On 7/30/2025 at 4:34 AM, William Bludworth said:

Looking back, Blair Witch is...not good. Like, at all. It was a niche film that spawned (or at least brought to the forefront the FF crap. Some good, some so shitty they're unwatchable). 

But I'm also the person who really likes As Above, So Below. 🤷‍♂️

It spawned rec, and that alone makes it worth it. rec is the best and scariest FF movie. 

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2 hours ago, honolulu horn said:

It spawned rec, and that alone makes it worth it. rec is the best and scariest FF movie. 

I will put it up there with the best, for sure. Absolutely terrifying when I saw it in theaters. It gave us Creep 1&2, but it also spawned a shit ton of bottom of the barrel garbage. I would say the bad outweighs the good in terms of quality FF released after Blair Witch, but there have been some definite gems. 

I personally enjoy the Hell House FF films. 

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4 hours ago, honolulu horn said:

It spawned rec, and that alone makes it worth it. rec is the best and scariest FF movie. 

If I actually had a house and a couch, I would invite everyone over to watch VelociPastor.

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I've never seen Blair Witch because I thought it sounded stupid but I blame it for the shaky cam that infests action movies to this day.  It ruined the otherwise good Bourne franchise. 

And people actually thought that real footage of people being killed in the woods would be released as a studio movie?  How was anyone that gullible?

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24 minutes ago, WBT said:

I've never seen Blair Witch because I thought it sounded stupid but I blame it for the shaky cam that infests action movies to this day.  It ruined the otherwise good Bourne franchise. 

Saving Private Ryan used a lot of shaky cam and came out earlier.

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28 minutes ago, WBT said:

I've never seen Blair Witch because I thought it sounded stupid but I blame it for the shaky cam that infests action movies to this day.  It ruined the otherwise good Bourne franchise. 

And people actually thought that real footage of people being killed in the woods would be released as a studio movie?  How was anyone that gullible?

It’s been like 25/26 years, but if memory serves, part of the hook in the whole thing is that you never actually saw anyone killed. 

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4 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

It’s been like 25/26 years, but if memory serves, part of the hook in the whole thing is that you never actually saw anyone killed. 

This and internet wasn't at everyone's fingertips then either.  There was also a tv special the filmmakers put out that was made to look like a dateline/60 minutes type show that ran regarding it.  It was a different time where every 13 year old thought Rod Stewart was getting 5lbs of jizz pumped out of his stomach every other weekend.

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17 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

It’s been like 25/26 years, but if memory serves, part of the hook in the whole thing is that you never actually saw anyone killed. 

I remember being saddened by this. I hated that movie. 

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11 minutes ago, Foosters said:

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surly: DONT START NEW THREADS FOR EVERY LITTLE THING, YOU’RE WASTING SITE RESOURCES. USE THE ESTABLISHED THREADS.

 

ALSO FUCKING SURLY: LET’S USE THE 2026 RECRUITING THREAD AS STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

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I’m 40 and I still wonder how much damage the Wild West of the internet did to my brain.

Faces of death

pain olympics

serbian hammer (maybe Russian hammer)

that horse lady

heck even 2 girls 1 cup

I watched hours of surgeries and trauma videos, mostly to just see what docs and medics see. Couldn’t have been good. 

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18 minutes ago, lilMAC25 said:


 

surly: DONT START NEW THREADS FOR EVERY LITTLE THING, YOU’RE WASTING SITE RESOURCES. USE THE ESTABLISHED THREADS.

 

ALSO FUCKING SURLY: LET’S USE THE 2026 RECRUITING THREAD AS STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

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1 hour ago, WBT said:

I've never seen Blair Witch because I thought it sounded stupid but I blame it for the shaky cam that infests action movies to this day.  It ruined the otherwise good Bourne franchise. 

And people actually thought that real footage of people being killed in the woods would be released as a studio movie?  How was anyone that gullible?

I thought it was ok overall, but I truly enjoyed the ending.

Went to see it with my (now) ex-wife. We went home after the movie, and there was a blackout in our neighborhood. So of course when she went to the bathroom I went over and stood in the corner. She freaked the fuck out when she came back out.

Little did I know how accurate that scene I created was. She was really the witch, and right then I might as well have been waiting around for her to kill me

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43 minutes ago, BlackCat said:

I’m 40 and I still wonder how much damage the Wild West of the internet did to my brain.

Faces of death

pain olympics

serbian hammer (maybe Russian hammer)

that horse lady

heck even 2 girls 1 cup

I watched hours of surgeries and trauma videos, mostly to just see what docs and medics see. Couldn’t have been good. 

yea, i saw most of that stuff too, in my teens and early 20s.

Nowadays, your average 4th grader sees worse before lunch. 

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47 minutes ago, lilMAC25 said:


 

surly: DONT START NEW THREADS FOR EVERY LITTLE THING, YOU’RE WASTING SITE RESOURCES. USE THE ESTABLISHED THREADS.

 

ALSO FUCKING SURLY: LET’S USE THE 2026 RECRUITING THREAD AS STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

Why do they call it OvalTine? The jar’s round. The glass is round. They should call it RoundTine. 

Posted
6 minutes ago, Foosters said:

yea, i saw most of that stuff too, in my teens and early 20s.

Nowadays, your average 4th grader sees worse before lunch. 

Welp that’s depressing having three little kids

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