# Equipose, we know you're a movie snob, get over yourself **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 12, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874 "2012-06-12T03:48:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/121 "2012-06-15T07:04:06Z")
> [@saoirse](#): > > The fucking thread is about movies in theaters, shithead. I’m sorry, I didn’t realize movies could only exist in theaters. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Syme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Syme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syme)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/122 "2012-06-15T07:45:34Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > No, you can’t. [“Chao”](http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/chao) IS the correct spelling, you fucking moron. In Italian, it’s “ciao”, but it has an “h” in it when spelled in Spanish. Do you me a favor. Next time, make sure you know what the hell you’re talking about before you start calling people “retards”. You are totally correct, the origin of the Spanish, ‘chao’ is the Italian ‘ciao’. The Academy of the Spanish Language says so, ‘chao’ is from the Italian ‘ciao’. I posted the link, but … well, you saw the reaction. In German we use ‘tschüss’ which sounds very close to ‘ciao’ because of the Umlaut: ‘ ü’, which by the way, was part of my German surname, until it became a simple ‘u’ in English speaking Australia. When I write “ chao” it signifies: this is the end, no more contact with that person. It is a polite way of saying: “you are not worthy of my attention”. I prefer it to putting the obnoxious person in ‘ignore’. I am aware of my English spelling not being 100%, however my Spanish spelling is better for I was born an raised in an Spanish speaking country. I think there is nothing more for me to add to this thread, so I’ll move on. Chao 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Syme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Syme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syme)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/123 "2012-06-15T07:51:14Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > No, you can’t. [“Chao”](http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/chao) IS the correct spelling, you fucking moron. In Italian, it’s “ciao”, but it has an “h” in it when spelled in Spanish. Do you me a favor. Next time, make sure you know what the hell you’re talking about before you start calling people “retards”. You are totally correct, the origin of the Spanish, ‘chao’ is the Italian ‘ciao’. The Spanish Academy of Spanish says so, ‘chao’ is from the Italian ‘ciao’. I posted the link, but … well, you saw the reaction. In German we use ‘tschüss’ which sounds very close to ‘ciao’ becacause of the Umlaut: ‘ ü’, which by the way, was part of my German surname, until it became a simple ‘u’ in English speaking Australia. When I write “ chao” it signifies: this is the end, no more contact with that person. It is a polite way of saying: “you are not worth of my attention”. I prefer it to putting the obnoxious person in ‘ignore’. I am aware of my English spelling not being 100%, however my Spanish spelling is better for I was born an raised in an Spanish speaking country. I think there is nothing more for me to add to this thread, so I’ll move on. Chao 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Syme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Syme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syme)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/124 "2012-06-15T07:58:50Z")
Most of the time my ‘spelling’ errors are simply due to my careless and hurried typing, such as misspelling ‘because’ and missing the ‘d’ in an(d) in the above post. But, who cares, I am too lazy to correct them or to be bothered running a spell-checker. They are just posts, for God’s sake ! Adios muchachos 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/125 "2012-06-15T15:01:05Z")
You’re _all_ wrong. The correct spelling is the Brazilian Portuguese _tchau_. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/126 "2012-06-15T16:08:08Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > You’re _all_ wrong. The correct spelling is the Brazilian Portuguese _tchau_. I thought it was spelled “Margaret Cho”. Margaret Cho, Bob ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/127 "2012-06-15T16:16:27Z")
Bow chicka tchau tchau. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/128 "2012-06-15T16:46:44Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Ah, it’s become a bash Attack The Block thread then. I don’t care. If you didn’t care this would have been the entirety of your post. I had no opinion of you one way or the other until posts 89, 90 and 91 and now I find you really fucking annoying and I’m done reading your posts. And anything written by **miss elizabeth** besides “the” and “and” can safely be ingored as being fucking retarded. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/129 "2012-06-15T16:48:28Z")
Thanks for the update on your reading habits. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/130 "2012-06-15T17:01:42Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Ah, it’s become a bash Attack The Block thread then. I don’t care. I love it for specific reasons: the story, the acting, the dialogue, the characters (after the first half, anyway, since they most certainly are assholes at the beginning), the unusual and interesting aliens, the humor, the accents, the slang, the subtle comments on class, race, redemption and forgiveness, the MUSIC, oh god, the music, the opening titles, the closing titles, everything in-between, the fact that I met, talked to and got hugs from the director Joe Cornish and lead actor John Boyega (Moses, Moses, Moses) after a screening, but most of all, because it makes me happy. I’m always grinning like a fool when it’s over. It just makes me happy and that’s all that matters to me. That’s why I like it. If others don’t that’s ok. It doesn’t affect my enjoyment of the movie. I know everyone’s harshing out on **Equipoise** for mentioning Attack the Block and defending her liking of it and whatnot, but seriously, I wish more people could manage to defend movies they like in this fashion. She doesn’t say that everyone who disliked Attack the Block is a hopeless philistine who clearly doesn’t enjoy good movies. She doesn’t say that they are idiots, or that they should probably just go watch Transformers 3 again since that’s obviously what they like. She just said why she liked the film and agreed that not everyone else has to like it, and that’s okay. Some other people around here could take a page, frankly. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/131 "2012-06-15T17:39:25Z")
> [@Syme](#): > > You are totally correct, the origin of the Spanish, ‘chao’ is the Italian ‘ciao’. The Spanish Academy of Spanish says so, ‘chao’ is from the Italian ‘ciao’. I posted the link, but … well, you saw the reaction. > > In German we use ‘tschüss’ which sounds very close to ‘ciao’ becacause of the Umlaut: ‘ ü’, which by the way, was part of my German surname, until it became a simple ‘u’ in English speaking Australia. > > When I write “ chao” it signifies: this is the end, no more contact with that person. It is a polite way of saying: “you are not worth of my attention”. I prefer it to putting the obnoxious person in ‘ignore’. > > I am aware of my English spelling not being 100%, however my Spanish spelling is better for I was born an raised in an Spanish speaking country. > > I think there is nothing more for me to add to this thread, so I’ll move on. > > Chao > > 🙂 Man. I fell in love with you in post 110 and married you in this post. Post 110 was all humble and respectfully informative. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/132 "2012-06-15T19:04:10Z")
Ok, now I have a few minutes before going to see my first movie of the day. Why couldn’t I have been Pitted at the start of this nothing-do-do weekend? Everybody else is way ahead of me. **MsWhatsit** , thank you, you’re very kind. I really am super trying to make an effort not to be that way (sounding “superior” if someone rags on a movie I like). I know I have in the past, it’s the whole reason some think I’m a dick, but I’ve been staying out of threads where I might get into trouble. Since it’s now come to even if I give the reasons why I like a movie without saying anything else about anyone else’s opinion I’m still ragged on, it’s far too late for me to counteract people’s impressions. Ah well. I really appreciate your noticing that though. > [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > If you didn’t care this would have been the entirety of your post. > > I had no opinion of you one way or the other until posts 89, 90 and 91 and now I find you really fucking annoying and I’m done reading your posts. _scrolls up quickly to see what I said that was so annoying_ Oh jeez, you must REALLY hate spoiler tags! If I might, here’s a friendly tip: DON’T read Cafe Society! Man, that place is FULL of spoiler tags. Your head will explode, and we wouldn’t want that. Your username is too cool. Chao! ---
**Author:** ![akwally1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akwally1/32/3220_2.png) [@akwally1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akwally1)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/133 "2012-06-15T20:04:26Z")
**Equipoise** , I’m much more of a lurker than a poster, but I had to come out of lurkdom to please encourage you to keep posting as you are. Plus, I’d never even heard of Attack the Block, so now I’m going to seek it out and hopefully enjoy myself thoroughly. For those that will wish to comment on my lack of theatrical taste, culture, ability to tell trash from treasure, etc., I would respond: Blow me. (preferably in the back row of a movie theatre) Mark ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/134 "2012-06-15T23:08:16Z")
I’d love for Equi to participate more in movie threads and start threads about various indie movies that are in theaters. I think what grates on people’s nerves is merely the relentless boosterism in the few threads she does start. And Joe Cornish should give her more than a hug; he should give her a piece of the box office. Even he doesn’t like that movie as much as she does. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/135 "2012-06-15T23:21:11Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > No. I believe that’s an [Equus Pose](http://www.flickr.com/photos/danieljhogan/4268233994/) No, [**that’s**](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XsKo3FTKjUo/Tba_GmYXXrI/AAAAAAAAAAU/CrIIGqUkuTA/s1600/100308equus.jpg) an Equus pose.\ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/136 "2012-06-15T23:41:01Z")
Joe Cornish has just been tapped to make _Snow Crash_, based on the Neal Stephenson book. So _Equipoise_’s love for all things Joe\* will likely continue. \*I love Adam and Joe’s radio show ---
**Author:** ![Syme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Syme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syme)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/137 "2012-06-16T00:08:57Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Man. I fell in love with you in post 110 and married you in this post. Post 110 was all humble and respectfully informative. Heh. wow! it took all of 110 posts to fell in love with me? Don’t you believe in love at first post? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Syme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Syme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syme)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/138 "2012-06-16T00:41:14Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > You’re _all_ wrong. The correct spelling is the Brazilian Portuguese _tchau_. You are wrong. It comes from the Mandarin: _tsao_. When the Croatian Marco Polo went to China, it was the last ‘chinese’ word he heard from the Chinese: “Tsao, Marco Polo” said the Emperor to him. So Marco Polo assumed it meant 'goodbye Marco Polo". He was not proficient in Mandarin, for his sole interest in life was the search for the perfect spaghetti. For some obscure reason the Italians took ownership of the word, the Spaniards adopted it also, and of course later the Portuguese. Marco Polo, due to his ignorance, missed the real meaning of the Emperor’s parting words: “Fuck off Marco Polo”. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/139 "2012-06-16T01:17:21Z")
> [@Syme](#): > > In German we use ‘tschüss’ which sounds very close to ‘ciao’ becacause of the Umlaut: ‘ ü’, No it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Syme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Syme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syme)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874/140 "2012-06-16T05:01:28Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > No it doesn’t. As close as German can get 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/equipose-we-know-youre-a-movie-snob-get-over-yourself/624874.md?page=8)