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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #520 on: March 22, 2011, 09:47:00 PM »
hahahahaha. I really did identify with Bickle during the screening.
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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #521 on: March 22, 2011, 10:26:08 PM »
It was probably a Jodie Foster thing.


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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #522 on: March 23, 2011, 02:17:56 PM »
Thank you, public audiences for making me walk out of a screening of Taxi Driver. Yeah, go ahead and ruin screenings of Paul, that's fine, it's a crappy movie and it's playing every day anyway. But why do you have to ruin Taxi Driver for me? Two screenings, with one already passed, and tonight being the only one I could make. I love the movie, so I know I'd enjoy it, but no, you guys won't let me. So thank you. Thank you to the three people scattered around the front who kept pulling out your cell phones. Thank you to the guy next to me who breathes louder than the audio coming out of the speakers. Thank you to the couple two rows behind me who decided to bring in Subway sandwiches and crinkle paper and plastic bags for 20 minutes straight. Thank you to the couple directly behind me who would not stop moving around and inadvertently knocking my seat. Thank you to the guy two seats down who wouldn't stop whispering to his friends. And thank you to the guy a couple rows down who felt the urge to repeat every great line right after it left the actors' mouths.

Thank you and go CINECAST! yourselves.


(PS, I saw enough to know that this is one of the best looking film restorations I've ever seen. Good job, Sony.)

Awww - sorry Corey that your experience wasn't so good.
I was lucky - it was a nearly empty theater and I got my usual seat along the rail so I could put my feet up. I hate AMC popcorn though (it really sucks)...

As for the film - it was my first time watching it all the way through and I loved it. So not the ending I was expecting at all...
I saw flashes of later Scorcese - especially Bringing Out The Dead.
Great experience.
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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #523 on: March 23, 2011, 02:47:52 PM »
Glad you enjoyed it so much. I'm lucky in that I did get to see Taxi Driver at the Lightbox back in the Fall. It wasn't the restoration, but I still got to see it in a theatre. I might have stuck out the awful screening had I not seen it projected before.
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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #524 on: March 24, 2011, 04:02:05 PM »
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #525 on: March 24, 2011, 04:03:34 PM »
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #526 on: March 27, 2011, 03:51:07 AM »
Just endured my first car crash. Woman rear-ended me when I slowed down (a car two ahead of me was turning into an apartment complex). All of the sudden... boom. She hits me and pushes me into the car in front of me. And I proceeded to pinball back and forth.

Car is probably totaled. Which sucks... I commute to college daily.

Nobody was hurt (well, I just have a scrape on my hand and a bruised shin).
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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #527 on: March 27, 2011, 08:44:50 AM »
Just endured my first car crash. Woman rear-ended me when I slowed down (a car two ahead of me was turning into an apartment complex). All of the sudden... boom. She hits me and pushes me into the car in front of me. And I proceeded to pinball back and forth.

Car is probably totaled. Which sucks... I commute to college daily.

Nobody was hurt (well, I just have a scrape on my hand and a bruised shin).

Good thing nobody was hurt. Are you libel for hitting the car in front of you? Some places you would be I think.

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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #528 on: March 27, 2011, 08:55:56 AM »
Just endured my first car crash. Woman rear-ended me when I slowed down (a car two ahead of me was turning into an apartment complex). All of the sudden... boom. She hits me and pushes me into the car in front of me. And I proceeded to pinball back and forth.

Car is probably totaled. Which sucks... I commute to college daily.

Nobody was hurt (well, I just have a scrape on my hand and a bruised shin).

Good thing nobody was hurt. Are you libel for hitting the car in front of you? Some places you would be I think.

I have been told that the car in the rear is responsible for the accident here regardless of the facts.  To the point that is there is a chain for cars that crash, the car in the rear may just back into the car behind them to pass the blame.  Pretty much the last car take full responsibility.  I am happy for trains buses and taxis and not having to worrying about driving anymore
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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #529 on: March 27, 2011, 09:16:09 AM »
Just endured my first car crash. Woman rear-ended me when I slowed down (a car two ahead of me was turning into an apartment complex). All of the sudden... boom. She hits me and pushes me into the car in front of me. And I proceeded to pinball back and forth.

Car is probably totaled. Which sucks... I commute to college daily.

Nobody was hurt (well, I just have a scrape on my hand and a bruised shin).

Good thing nobody was hurt. Are you libel for hitting the car in front of you? Some places you would be I think.

I have been told that the car in the rear is responsible for the accident here regardless of the facts.  To the point that is there is a chain for cars that crash, the car in the rear may just back into the car behind them to pass the blame.  Pretty much the last car take full responsibility.  I am happy for trains buses and taxis and not having to worrying about driving anymore

I think in some places he would be libel. I can see it both ways. It's obviously mostly the fault of the first car but you are suppose to be far enough back from the car in front of you to prevent a chain reaction.

 

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