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 Posted:   Jan 6, 2025 - 9:59 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

621. "Nuts" in the "Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross- CHALLENGERS (2024)" thread mentioning my screen-name eight or nine times (I lost count!) in one paragraph.

What you have to understand about Solium is that Solium thinks box office numbers are the only gauge of a film's success or quality. It's just commerce to Solium. Solium, a self-professed Godzilla fan, didn't even engage with Godzilla Minus One until it started really being rewarded in box office success. Initially Solium was very critical of that film, without having seen it, but once the receipts came in Solium felt it was worth Solium's time. I learned a lot about Solium during that period in 2023.

 
 Posted:   Jan 6, 2025 - 10:14 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

I'm reminded of Marina Sirtis (Troi) talking on stage one time about reading scripts for "Star Trek: The Next Generation":

"Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, my line..."



Looking over the new posts in the thread...

Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, no quotes by me, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit...

;-)

 
 Posted:   Jan 6, 2025 - 10:43 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

LMAO!!! Funny, even if it's bullshit.

 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2025 - 4:21 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

622:

ZardozSpeaks

Bill Carson is willing to pay a few dollars more For A Few Dollars More

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 8, 2025 - 2:03 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

623...

Justin To-Boggan with a winning riposte to Ado putting him on ignore...

By: Justin Boggan (Member)
"Now it's much Ado about nothing"


...in the recent SW/DUNE/COLUMBO dragon53 thread.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 8, 2025 - 10:57 PM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

624 - Thor’s startlingly Whovian assertion in the Weather thread that it was like the day after tomorrow yesterday.

 
 Posted:   Jan 9, 2025 - 6:06 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

625. Hurry Gurdy in the "The Patriot (Intrada) 3CD Set" thread.

Movie?? I thought it was a cartoon! It manages to give Braveheart a run for its money in the historical bull shit arena and that takes some doing.

https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=158930&forumID=1&archive=0&pageID=3&r=294#bottom

Juxtapose with his criticisms of negativity of other members in the "STAR WARS, DUNE, COLUMBO" thread.

I think I'll opt for the IGNORE option, for the FIRST TIME in my 20 years on here.
The constant GRIM FKN NEGATIVITY just wears me down.

Was your 'critique' positive or negative?

Did you enter the thread where people enjoy that kind of stuff and dump on it?

So that's a Big Fat YES then sol.
Case dismissed.


https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?forumID=7&pageID=1&threadID=158916&archive=0

 
 Posted:   Jan 15, 2025 - 3:53 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

626. DavidinBerkeley, realizing that fashion accessories come back in style in "Poindexters are Back":

"Anyway, I thought they'd died out with the last of the generation of men who died of old age in the 1970's. But I saw them in the drugstore, being sold to young men now."

https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=158995&forumID=7&archive=0

 
 Posted:   Jan 17, 2025 - 3:54 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

627. Scott Bettencourt, with a cultured, funny, interesting and above all, human post on the side of the board where so few ever are in "First Record You Bought of Any Kind":

"A 45 of Jay and the Americans singing "Walking in the Rain," which I didn't know was actually a cover version of an older hit.

"And more importantly, I didn't understand the difference between 45 rpm and 33 1/3 rpm, so I was baffled as to why the single sounded so weird on our turntable.


"Tom Townsend-related footnote. Before she passed, I learned that in her youth my mom had worked at an establishment called "Sally Fowler's Tea Room." Since it was in Hyannis Port, and apparently Whit Stillman's dad worked for JFK (if I'm remembering correctly), I wonder if the name inspired the "Sally Fowler Rat Pack" from Metropolitan."

https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=159020&forumID=1&archive=0

 
 Posted:   Jan 21, 2025 - 2:40 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

628. orion_mk3 pointing out one of the Olde FSM Boarde's tragic annoyances in "The search function ever going to be functional?" [sic]:

"The best way to find if a topic has been discussed is to start a new thread on the topic, after which 3-6 people will helpfully provide links to a previous discussion wink"

https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=159034&forumID=1&archive=0

 
 Posted:   Jan 21, 2025 - 3:03 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

So Thor is our search engine.

 
 Posted:   Jan 21, 2025 - 3:49 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

629. Solium, providing quality nerd content while simultaneously ripping Paramount a new one in the esteemed masterwork that is the "How Extensively Marketed Was Star Trek: TMP?" thread:

The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979 promotional featurette)


My reactions:

(1) The Enterprise model wasn't made of just Fiberglass. It was very heavy and cumbersome to move.

(2) The focus on the Enterprise model in the featurette was almost as long as the dry dock sequence in the movie.

(3) The narrator gets it wrong calling the floating office complex Epsilon IX.

(4) Unused effects shots of Klingon Battle Cruisers blowing up like X-Wings. Clearly they never blew up in the film.

(5) The narrator being brutally honest about the careers of the actors after Star Trek left the air: "On the Star Trek set, there was certainly a lot more to being an actor than signing autographs". LOL!!!!!

(6) Scenes of the deleted "Memory Wall" Sequence.

(7) I cried along with Persis Khambatta when her hair was cut. Filming it seemed rather cruel. That was hard to watch. Though her smiling afterwards helped a bit. Regardless she was really beautiful with or without hair.

(8) Thank god most of those stupid @ss aliens were either cut out of the film or left far in background shots. Those masks were worse than what they had on the television series 15 years earlier!


https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=120993&forumID=7&archive=0&pageID=6

 
 Posted:   Jan 21, 2025 - 4:05 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

You know how to jerk my nerd chain.

 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 4:57 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

630. Four years later but worth a notation. TheAvenger in the "COOL HAND LUKE" thread asking, "Whatever happened to the rumored sequel that Mark Hamill was due to appear in, called No Hand Luke? "

https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=111415&forumID=7&archive=0

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 5:09 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

He, he. That's clever.

 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 2:02 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

631. Thor, now "one of us", meaning that he sounds like a wise Silver Ager, in "Oscar Nominations 2025":

Complaints from Challengers fans incoming...

"It's coming right there. When I -- for once in a blue moon -- agree with 'general consensus' about CHALLENGERS being the best of the year, it's overlooked, of course. Shame.

"I find those score nominees excruciatingly boring and/or irritating. There are some good bits and bobs in THE WILD ROBOT, but the rest.....nope!

"I just don't see what people see in Bertelmann. I can like a good textural score once in a while, but he just keeps churning out anonymous drones time and time again, and people seem to LOVE it. Baffling. Same is true for THE BRUTALIST.

"EMILIE PEREZ and THE WICKED are just empty pap to my ears. And they're musicals, so they have no business being in this category.

"THE WILD ROBOT is mostly boring, but as a I said, has a couple of good moments.

"On the plus side, there are two nominations for Norway in other categories -- one for the script for THE BRUTALIST, the other for the documentary NO OTHER LAND."


https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=159051&forumID=1&archive=0

 
 Posted:   Jan 24, 2025 - 1:26 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

632. Justin ToBoggan in the weather thread talking about the recent Florida snow.

Because No one can bitch about snow better than a Branch Floridian.
-----

"Well, it snowed here. I don't care what the weather sites may say, I can tell you that the snow on the ground -- the literal snow on the ground and not some phrase -- was two to three inches here in Panama City, FL.

"That includes vehicles. In the midst of the snow falling, people were out in the icy cold playing in the snow, dragging small boats with people in them, and one guy with a lawn mower that was dragging somebody in some kind of chair by a rope.

"I especially hate the cold because I hate the cold. It's why I'll NEVER live any further north than I am right now. Fuck that.

"But I especially hate it because I live in my car. These last days have been pure hell, including -- because of the non-stop snow and icy cold weather -- over forty hours I could not get out. I stopped eating early Tuesday before the snow came in, so I would not have to go to the bathroom, which at most times would have been impossible. I had barely any water and no place was open, so for two days I starved for the most part.

"I was constantly cold.

"If not for some hand warmers I was given as a Christmas present, I think I would have gotten frost bite and lost some toes.

"I don't have a camera, so I can't take photos, but to paraphrase Buzz Light Year: "Snow. Snow everywhere."

"And yet somehow, birds, cats, squirrels, and homeless people who never experienced snow and were unprepared, lived.

"Proceeding the snow for about two hours (only flurries during that time) was hail. But hail the size of small ball bearings you find in pens, so no damage anywhere.

"It looked like we were up north. No exaggeration. Go to images.google.com and enter: snow "Panama City, FL"

"Today marks the first day I have been indoors (and online) since Saturday of last week.

All those songs, films, and TV series about how magical snow is, and yadda, yadda, yadda, fuck snow. Fuck snow SO much. There's nothing good about it. It's fucking cold. It's fucking snowing, Everything is fucking wet while is dries forever. It's a bitch to get off things, especially if you have to drive. Car crashes. Death and destruction of wildlife and plant life.
Fuck snow a thousand times over."


https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=92656&forumID=7&archive=0&pageID=26

 
 Posted:   Jan 24, 2025 - 1:51 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Did I mention FUCK SNOW?

Just wanted to make sure I mentioned it.

 
 Posted:   Jan 24, 2025 - 8:32 PM   
 By:   Josh   (Member)

"Global warming? More like global colding."

razz

Hang in there, brohan. This, too, shall pass.

 
 Posted:   Jan 25, 2025 - 6:55 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Good to hear the squirrels and birds survived!

 
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