The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[StarWarsGirl]

Bingo. I think you nailed it.
If I were watching Grease for the first time today, I would surely feel differently than I did back as a 10/11 year old

Mom wouldn't let me watch Grease when I was 10/11. She wanted me to be more like 14 or 15 before I saw it (even though she was 12 when she saw it, but moving on...), so I'd see bits and pieces. When it went on Netflix was when I first tried to watch it all the way through. She agreed with my assessment, even though she was disappointed that I didn't really enjoy it anyway.

 

[JenniferS]

High School Musical was a made-for-TV, low budget film that went big. So of course it's not going to be of the same caliber as Grease, which was a theatrical film.

But it did take off like Grease did, so for me as a tween, it was similar to how Grease was for tweens in the 70s.

Although High School Musical was more kid-appropriate than Grease. And I think the messages at the end were better.

I'm not really sure that Grease was ever meant to be a kid movie.
So many "kids" saw it because their older siblings were forced to cart them around everywhere back then. We didn't have baby-sitters, we had brothers and sisters and older cousins ... and we went where they went.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Anyone watch the new odd couple pilot?

Yup. We really enjoyed it. We think we'll continue watching it.

 

[Andrew C]

Yup. We really enjoyed it. We think we'll continue watching it.

I think so too.

 

[JenniferS]

Anyone watch the new odd couple pilot?

I did. It has potential, but by golly, it seemed so forced.

Matthew Perry can act so much better. Hoping he settles into the Oscar role soon, because his non-stop shouting of every line is going to get old fast.

What did you think?

 

[seahawk7]

High School Musical was a made-for-TV, low budget film that went big. So of course it's not going to be of the same caliber as Grease, which was a theatrical film.

But it did take off like Grease did, so for me as a tween, it was similar to how Grease was for tweens in the 70s.

Although High School Musical was more kid-appropriate than Grease. And I think the messages at the end were better.

Yea as my kids watch it I loved watching my kids expressions. It made a lot of kids happy. I think it was also choreographed by a famous choreogragher, Kenny Ortega, and was set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Hmm wonder if Walter White was their chemistry teacher?

 

[Andrew C]

I did. It has potential, but by golly, it seemed so forced.

Matthew Perry can act so much better. Hoping he settles into the Oscar role soon, because his non-stop shouting of every line is going to get old fast.

What did you think?

I did notice Matthew Perry seemed to be struggling a bit. All other actors seemed very comfortable.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Yea as my kids watch it I loved watching my kids expressions. It made a lot of kids happy. I think it was also choreographed by a famous choreogragher, Kenny Ortega, and was set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Hmm wonder if Walter White was their chemistry teacher?

Kenny Ortega, who also choreographed Dirty Dancing.

 

[Andrew C]

Kenny Ortega, who also choreographed Dirty Dancing.

And Newsies. (The movie)

 

[seahawk7]

I love Michael Scott.
Unlike his Ricky Gervais counterpart who was just a jerk, Steve's character had a redeeming naivete to him.
He blundered through everything, but was never deliberately unkind or mean-spirited.
And sometimes, there were just tiny glimpses where we knew that he knew that he was a doofus, and my heart would break just a little.

That was some mighty fine, largely under-rated acting there!

 

[StarWarsGirl]

I'm not really sure that Grease was ever meant to be a kid movie.
So many "kids" saw it because their older siblings were forced to cart them around everywhere back then. We didn't have baby-sitters, we had brothers and sisters and older cousins ... and we went where they went.

That was how my mom saw it; she's got an older sister.

I had neither older siblings nor older cousins who I was close to. By the time I was a teen, all of my cousins on my dad's side were acting out, and we were still estranged from everyone on my mom's side, minus her grandmother, a cousin of hers, and her aunts.

 

[seahawk7]

Anyone watch the new odd couple pilot?

No who is in it?

 

[seahawk7]

I did notice Matthew Perry seemed to be struggling a bit. All other actors seemed very comfortable.

I'm not a Matthew Perry fan.

 

[seahawk7]

Kenny Ortega, who also choreographed Dirty Dancing.

Another movie I saw way too young. I didn't try to choreogragh that one thank God.

 

[JenniferS]

Michael Scott actually reminds me a little of Herb Tarlek, another bumbling doofus.
Both characters had such a vulnerability to them, that no matter how badly they scr*wed up, you knew that their intentions were pure.

 

[seahawk7]

Michael Scott actually reminds me a little of Herb Tarlek, another bumbling doofus.
Both characters had such a vulnerability to them, that no matter how badly they scr*wed up, you knew that their intentions were pure.

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Exactly. By the way I believe Steve Carell is up for best actor tonight. Wonder what Michael Scott would say about that.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Another movie I saw way too young. I didn't try to choreogragh that one thank God.

My mom made me wait until I was in high school for that one. We have it on DVD, so I saw it when I was a sophomore in high school. And then after I saw it, she used it as a talking point.

There were some movies that I had to wait to see until I was in high school. Anything R rated pretty much I had to wait until senior year of high school or after I was 18 to see. Although she let me watch When Harry Met Sally in high school...and skipped one particular scene.

 

[seahawk7]

My mom made me wait until I was in high school for that one. We have it on DVD, so I saw it when I was a sophomore in high school. And then after I saw it, she used it as a talking point.

There were some movies that I had to wait to see until I was in high school. Anything R rated pretty much I had to wait until senior year of high school or after I was 18 to see. Although she let me watch When Harry Met Sally in high school...and skipped one particular scene.

 

[JenniferS]

I have never seen Dirty Dancing.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Yeah, that scene.

That's Billy Crystal's mother there.