Chick Flick Reality

the GOPNation ^ | June 17, 2005 | Bernard Chapin

[lemura]

Evidentally this reviewer doesn't understand why it's called 'show business'. The entertainment industry is not in business to educate or illuminate its audience as to some particular nuance of art and/or history - it's purpose is strictly to make money and enrich its stakeholders.

[Dashing Dasher]

That was you!?

[durasell]

Yes, that's a problem. Remember Gore Vidal worked on the screenplay for Ben Hur...

[durasell]

She optioned the play herself and put that deal together. Gutsy move for a woman back then...

[Dashing Dasher]

This is the primary reason why women think the volleyball scene in Top Gun was so amazing.

We need man to man combat (naked) - swords are a nice touch - but limited or no actual physical contact (too gay) and a smidgen of plot!

[durasell]

It's also why women (secretly) like the movie Point Break -- which was directed by a woman.

[tarheelswamprat]

The problem for us chicks is - naked guys fighting with swords is a gay flick.

Yep. I'm sure "Zorro, The Gay Blade" was a big disappointment to many.

[Pukin Dog]

My husband doesn't like gangster movies.

What did you do to that poor man. CONFESS!

[SweetCaroline]

Women can find as many carnal partners as they’d like, regardless of their own appearance, simply by entering a bar and shouting, “Here I am boys! Come and have it!” This would be as effective an aphrodisiac for men as a million dollar salary would be for women.

....having worked in a bar for over 20 years, I would have to say the answer is:

they're apes who'll scr3w anything that presents.

[durasell]

Hey, how'd you like to be Billy Lee Brammer and write an excellent political novel, then give it the unfortunate title: The Gay Place?

[pissant]

Hey now! I assume you PINGed me for my experience as a bartender and not as one of the APES! ;o)

[numberonepal]

She was so happy that I had cried I didn’t have the heart to tell her I had a piece of salty popcorn in my eye.

You, sir, are a good egg. A man that picks his battles wisely is a smart man indeed.

[tarheelswamprat]

Well, I happen to believe that the universe is based on irony.

[Tax-chick]

He's never liked gangster movies. He doesn't even like the true-crime documentaries on the History Channel. Maybe it's some childhood trauma; I didn't meet him until he was 24, so I can only take responsibility for so much.

[SweetCaroline]

Well, ugh, yea, it was it was for your, ah, expert opinion as a bartender.

....of course there is no doubt in my mind that you would be one of the first in line when a woman made a statement such as

“Here I am boys! Come and have it!”

[Dashing Dasher]

Actually - Zorro, The Gay Blade was HILARIOUS!!!

But that was back when we could laugh at Gays without being arrested for hate crimes.

Oy Vey.

[hopespringseternal]

Either men are conscious human beings who deserve respect from the other half of humanity, or they're apes who'll scr3w anything that presents. He can't have it both ways.

Of course you can. A prostitute does not want for business even though most men won't give her the time of day. The truth is very much that a woman can have as many carnal partners as she likes, but that doesn't tell you all you need to know about the next man you meet. The other side of the coin is that she can't have any man she wants no matter how attractive she is.

The point he is making is that stories about the worst of humanity are not worth telling or watching, at least not time after time. It makes for lousy art.

[numberonepal]

OK, I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit right there...

VERP ALERT!

[pissant]

I don't want to sound to bold here, but I got the pick of the litter from the bevy of imbibing babes.

The drunks in the bar ended up with the flopping seals at the end of the night. ;o)

[Dashing Dasher]

My husband doesn't like gangster movies.

What did you do to that poor man. CONFESS!

I just read on another thread that someone's dog was going in to have some of his boy parts removed today - made me think of Tax-Chick's Husband. ;-)