# Discussion group pittings **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 19, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987 "2008-03-19T20:51:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/1 "2008-03-19T20:51:57Z")
All right, dipshit. You push for us to discuss a fuckin’ [action flick](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110413/) for a fuckin’ year. My wife can’t stand the stupid film, nor did I find anything all that discussable about it. As moderators, my wife and I had to spend 2+ hours of our lives watching this film which, regardless of the films quality, doesn’t have a single goddamned hour worth of discussion about it unless we want to bring in the directors and actors _other_ works into the conversation (and how many of you have bothered to see Bresson’s other films? :crickets chirp: Thought so). In addition, we have to pay $20 for a fuckin’ babysitter to watch our daughter because my wife doesn’t care to have her 6 year-old sit in on a movie discussion that focuses on explosions and questionable relationships between a 40 year-old hitman and the 12 year-old daughter of a prostitute/drug dealer. Not that you would fuckin know anything about that, what with your likely being a 35 year-old virgin and all. But the above isn’t the issue. We understand that not all movies selected are great, hell, in the 8 years that my wife and I have led this thing we ourselves have chosen some [not-so-good films](http://www.geocities.com/knoxfilmforum/previous.htm)\*. We don’t have a problem dedicating two hours of our remaining lives to watching bad/indifferent movies. We truly understand that it’s **our** choice to not want our daughter to be exposed to some of the things that are better handled as adults - you didn’t see her at the [Taxi Driver](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075314/)\*\* discussion, did you? So the babysitter is the price we pay for the pleasure of moderating this group. That’s not the issue here. The fuckin’ issue is this: The fuckin’ group meets at the same fuckin’ time and place every fuckin’ month, asswipe - you _know_ this. So what the fuckity fuck is **this** doing in our mailbox: > [@](#): > > Oops, I’d forgotten all about the Film Forum meeting until today, and already have another commitment for tonight. > > See you next month. Have we chosen a film yet? I think so, but my memory from a > month ago is kind of fuzzy. > > Sorry, > Shit stain How the fuckin’ hell did you forget that the meeting is, has always been, and always will be on the third Wednesday of every fuckin’ month? How the hell does a 35 year-old adult not have a goddamned calendar? Is it too damned much to expect you to show up for the discussion of the very movie you have been pushing us to discuss for over a damn year? Apparently. And let’s not forget the eight-years-in-existence website that tells you what next months movie is going to be - what, you couldn’t be bothered to click that little heart on your AOL web browser? For eight years? Let me guess: you can’t view our site because you can’t figure out how to unlock the content protection that apparently has filtered out all web content except for [Barbie.com](http://Barbie.com), NickJr, and that site with all the kittens. So, for all you discussion group members who can’t bother to show up to talk about your choices, who write on the day of the regularly-scheduled meeting to say something as lame as “I forgot”, well: FUCK YOU!!! And even more so if your selection sucks. \*And before fans of this film start jumping me about my opinion, I liked the movie, I just don’t think it has enough to it to fill an hours worth of discussion material among the 7 people who will be there. Oops, make that 6. Oops, make that 5: I forgot about the woman who refuses to drive in the rain. :rolleyes: \*\*(A film chosen by my wife, btw, because she has, you know, _taste, knowledge, and a sense of historical perspective_ as to which films have stood the test of fuckin’ time. Unlike you.) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/2 "2008-03-19T20:55:11Z")
Oh, and feel free to jump in with your discussion group pittings. And you’re welcome. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/3 "2008-03-19T20:58:06Z")
Nick Jr. is awesome. They used to have a really cute SpongeBob game. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/4 "2008-03-19T20:59:55Z")
I’m completely on board with your pitting, _however_, that really is a great movie. My memory gets worse every day, but I don’t remember anything iffy about the relationship between Reno and Portman. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/5 "2008-03-19T21:37:21Z")
Wiki sez that some of the extended versions imply some stuff between the two. And to be fair, I’ve only seen the regular version and I totally caught the tension between the two even though it was platonic for both of them in that version. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/6 "2008-03-19T21:41:25Z")
Are you talkin’ to me? **Are you talkin’ to me?** ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/7 "2008-03-19T21:55:05Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] I’m completely on board with your pitting, _however_, that really is a great movie. My memory gets worse every day, but I don’t remember anything iffy about the relationship between Reno and Portman. [/QUOTE] Naw, there wasn’t, nothing explicit anyway. However, one of the discussion topics will likely be the implication of such a relationship, which isn’t something we want our six year-old to hear. I might not have made myself clear, but I’ll highlight the point I was trying to make in that sentence: > [@](#): > > **6 year-old sit in on a movie discussion** that focuses on explosions and questionable relationships between a 40 year-old hitman and the 12 year-old daughter of a prostitute/drug dealer So the issue, to me, isn’t whether this was implied in the movie but whether we want our child to listen to us discuss whether this was implied in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/8 "2008-03-19T22:09:31Z")
No offense, but if I were a participant I’d demand we watch _Eraserhead_, _Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma_, _Ass Creamers #47_, and anything else I thought would help discourage people from bringing their **six-year-old** to a movie discussion group. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/9 "2008-03-19T22:20:27Z")
So how did you manage to squeeze an hour of discussion out of [The Ref](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0110955/)? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/10 "2008-03-19T22:36:53Z")
[QUOTE=JohnT] So the issue, to me, isn’t whether this was implied in the movie but whether we want our child to listen to us discuss whether this was implied in the movie. [/QUOTE] Got it. ---
**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/11 "2008-03-19T22:43:41Z")
Has the group discussed Used Cars yet? It’s an important work. ---
**Author:** ![been\_lurking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8dc957/32.png) [@been\_lurking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/been_lurking)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/12 "2008-03-19T23:17:55Z")
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip] No offense, but if I were a participant I’d demand we watch _Eraserhead_, _Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma_, _Ass Creamers #47_, and anything else I thought would help discourage people from bringing their **six-year-old** to a movie discussion group. [/QUOTE] The whole point of Ass Creamers #47 is lost if you haven’t seen the first 46. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/13 "2008-03-19T23:42:40Z")
Its the shits when you throw a party and nobody comes. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/14 "2008-03-20T01:09:18Z")
Honestly, if this is how you react when someone can’t show up to a movie discussion, I’m kind of surprised you don’t have more people dropping out. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/15 "2008-03-20T11:35:13Z")
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip] No offense, but if I were a participant I’d demand we watch _Eraserhead_, _Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma_, _Ass Creamers #47_, and anything else I thought would help discourage people from bringing their **six-year-old** to a movie discussion group. [/QUOTE] No offense, but since my wife and I lead the thing, we would just roll our eyes and kindly ask you to grow the fuck up. Or leave, whichever you prefer. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/16 "2008-03-20T11:36:24Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Honestly, if this is how you react when someone can’t show up to a movie discussion, I’m kind of surprised you don’t have more people dropping out. [/QUOTE] You think we reacted like this in real life? 😕 That’s what anonymous message boards are for. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/17 "2008-03-20T11:38:15Z")
[QUOTE=been lurking] The whole point of Ass Creamers #47 is lost if you haven’t seen the first 46. [/QUOTE] Well, we can certainly discuss that. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/18 "2008-03-20T17:10:49Z")
[QUOTE=JohnT] You think we reacted like this in real life? 😕 That’s what anonymous message boards are for. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] You just sound a little uptight. I’m just not really sure what the big deal is–the guy had other plans and he cancelled. Is that not allowed? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/19 "2008-03-20T17:47:51Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] You just sound a little uptight. I’m just not really sure what the big deal is–the guy had other plans and he cancelled. Is that not allowed? [/QUOTE] It’s not that the guy had other plans and cancelled. It’s that the guy has been lobbying for a particular sort of film for years and, when that sort of film is scheduled, claims to have forgotten when the group meets despite having been a part of that group with its unwavering schedule for said years. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987/20 "2008-03-20T17:48:46Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] You just sound a little uptight. I’m just not really sure what the big deal is–the guy had other plans and he cancelled. Is that not allowed? [/QUOTE] I think the problem is that he’s not showing up for the discussion of the movie he suggested, and has thus imposed a movie of his choice on the group without even making the effort to contribute to the discussion himself. This would be a bit crass even if the movie were universally loved. Have I understood correctly, **JohnT**? I say “imposed” - I love the movie in question, although I’m not sure there’s all that much to discuss. But then “Die Hard” is on the past discussions list, so it’s clearly not all Ingmar Bergman and Dogme 95 movies. 😉 ETA: curse you, **Otto**! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-group-pittings/441987.md?page=2)