Remember the old days when people used to say, "there's nothing good on TV to watch"

~~Leo656~~ · 03-24-2021, 10:33 PM

Yeah, my wife is one of those "I have to own and watch every single movie an actor ever did" types. I definitely have people I'm inclined to sort of "follow" but not obsessively, and I kind of give her a hard time about it sometimes. It just seems a bit much.

Like, I love Roddy Piper. I love some of his movies. "They Live" is one of the greatest films ever made. When I was younger, I set out to watch every single Roddy Piper movie, most of which were at my local video store. And then, sadly, very quickly I learned that aside from "They Live", which remains a masterpiece, "Body Slam" which is dumb but fun, and "Hell Comes To Frogtown" which is "so terrible it circles back around and becomes amazing again"... after those three movies, he just made the same f*cking movie like 87 times. He's either a cop, or an EX-cop, whose partner/wife gets killed by "the mob" and he's out for revenge. Some of them have Billy Blanks. Sometimes they're in the city, sometimes they're in the jungle, but it's the SAME f*cking movie every single time. Except for one where he's a bad guy and gets killed by Shannon Tweed.

Even as a teenager and ostensibly being the audience for those types of dumbass action movies, I was like "...This is kinda f*cking pointless." After a while I no longer needed to see EVERY Roddy Piper movie. I like the guy, but you seen one, you seen most of 'em, sadly.

Plus everybody has stinkers, it's just the way it goes. I don't wanna sit through a bunch of bad movies just because people I like are in them. I don't know why some people do that to themselves.

03-24-2021, 10:33 PM	#25
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	Yeah, my wife is one of those "I have to own and watch every single movie an actor ever did" types. I definitely have people I'm inclined to sort of "follow" but not obsessively, and I kind of give her a hard time about it sometimes. It just seems a bit much. Like, I love Roddy Piper. I love some of his movies. "They Live" is one of the greatest films ever made. When I was younger, I set out to watch every single Roddy Piper movie, most of which were at my local video store. And then, sadly, very quickly I learned that aside from "They Live", which remains a masterpiece, "Body Slam" which is dumb but fun, and "Hell Comes To Frogtown" which is "so terrible it circles back around and becomes amazing again"... after those three movies, he just made the same fcking movie like 87 times. He's either a cop, or an EX-cop, whose partner/wife gets killed by "the mob" and he's out for revenge. Some of them have Billy Blanks. Sometimes they're in the city, sometimes they're in the jungle, but it's the SAME fcking movie every single time. Except for one where he's a bad guy and gets killed by Shannon Tweed. Even as a teenager and ostensibly being the audience for those types of dumbass action movies, I was like "...This is kinda f*cking pointless." After a while I no longer needed to see EVERY Roddy Piper movie. I like the guy, but you seen one, you seen most of 'em, sadly. Plus everybody has stinkers, it's just the way it goes. I don't wanna sit through a bunch of bad movies just because people I like are in them. I don't know why some people do that to themselves.