Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Jaws!

The other night I watched Jaws and I decided to live Tweet my experience and I'm feeling lazy and some of you still refuse to follow me on Twitter BECAUSE YOU DON'T MIND COMMITTING HATE CRIMES and I'm frantically trying to prepare for our AMAZING SHOW in SLC this Friday (get tickets here, please. Meg keeps yelling at me because I'm not popular enough to sell out Madison Square Garden.).

So, here's my experience watching Jaws for the very first time. Also, what "old" movie do I need to see next?




























~It Just Gets Stranger
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27 comments:

  1. Nicole KragtJuly 10, 2019 at 7:09 AM

    I follow you on Twitter and even have your Tweets sent to me via text (I should get some massive June Snapple points for that BTW) and I only got a couple of these as texts . . .IS TWITTER BROKEN!!?!?!?

    Okay - old movies to watch (if you haven't already):

    Gremlins
    Poltergeist
    The Pirate Movie (I'm a little disappointed in you if you HAVEN'T already watched this)
    Labyrinth
    Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (I showed this to my 12 (now 13) year old recently and all he kept saying was how stupid it was - I seriously thought he could easily write it up for TV and Jelly)

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  2. AliJuly 10, 2019 at 8:57 AM

    I have never seen Jaws. Now, I feel like I don't need to! Thanks for the recap!

    How's wedding planning going???

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  3. AnonymousJuly 10, 2019 at 9:36 AM

    Can you please do Gone With The Wind for me because I’ve never watched it and don’t really want to either, yet I still want to know the important stuff and I don’t mean a basic summary...I mean exactly the kind of stuff you point out. That’s the important part. :)

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    1. It Just Gets StrangerJuly 10, 2019 at 10:07 AM

      Honey. I watched the entirety of Gone With the Wind on my flight back from Palau in 2013 and I still don't even really know.

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  4. MadcapMorganJuly 10, 2019 at 9:46 AM

    I totally second the vote for Labyrinth!

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    1. Nicole KragtJuly 10, 2019 at 11:39 AM

      You have no power over me!

      Love Love Love Jennifer Connelly!

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  5. AnonymousJuly 10, 2019 at 9:46 AM

    Have you ever watched Goonies? In college, and we were all 80s kids by the way, I was the only one in the apartment who had never watched it. So of course they said I HAD to because it was “the best.” They all loved it. I sat there checking my watch wondering why in the hockey-sticks anyone would get so excited by it. I think maybe you had to watch it as a child to appreciate it.

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    1. Nicole KragtJuly 10, 2019 at 11:39 AM

      Goonies never die . . . .yeah - I never really got that one either. Or Clockwork Orange.

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  6. Rachel MillerJuly 10, 2019 at 10:06 AM

    Have you seen Down Periscope?? I LOL every time I watch it

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  7. Miss KityJuly 10, 2019 at 10:39 AM

    I totally follow you on twitter and was following the live tweeting - LOVED IT! As for old movies:

    Labrynth
    Time Bandits
    Exploerers
    The toxic avenger
    Barbarians

    Some of these are B movies from the 80's but they are totally worth it!

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    1. RachelJuly 16, 2019 at 5:57 PM

      I attempted to watch Time Bandits once. As an adult. It is so trippy and I couldn’t make it through but I would love to read Eli’s review in the same way that I hate the Bacjelor except when Eli writes about it

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  8. NoDakJuly 10, 2019 at 10:51 AM

    The competent woman tweet is possibly the funniest thing you’ve ever written. And I have laughed A LOT at your blogs.

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  9. j4kJuly 10, 2019 at 11:21 AM

    2001 a space odyssey.
    Psycho

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  10. SarahJuly 10, 2019 at 11:30 AM

    YOU MUST WATCH The Pirate Movie IMMEDIATELY! There are SONGS about LOVE and PIRATES and LOVE.

    How about Back to the Future or The Dark Crystal?

    I feel like we already gave you all of these recommendations and you have just ignore them ...

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    1. Nicole KragtJuly 10, 2019 at 11:41 AM

      I love you Sarah.

      I have literally never found a single other person that loves this movie as much as I do. When I put it on my husband looks at me in disbelief and then leaves the room. The first time I made him watch it he FELL ASLEEP! I can't even . . . .


      Also - I need to rewatch the Dark Crystal so I'm prepared for the television series . . .

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  11. KendraJuly 10, 2019 at 1:52 PM

    Please, Please watch/review The Craft. Or...

    Breakfast at Tiffany's

    Outsiders

    Stand By Me

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  12. AnonymousJuly 10, 2019 at 2:43 PM

    UHF!

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  13. AnonymousJuly 10, 2019 at 5:13 PM

    The Scarlet Pimpernel with Jane Seymour and Ian McKellen
    Candleshoe with Jodie Foster and David Niven
    The Ghost and Mrs Muir with Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison

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  14. Stopher and NicolleJuly 10, 2019 at 9:10 PM

    Adventures in babysitting, outrageous fortune, big business, second sight... I swear I was a kid in the 80s but this is what my parents let me watch.

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    1. Nicole KragtJuly 11, 2019 at 6:21 AM

      No judgement on your parents - I watched Halloween and The Birds when I was 5. And my husband wonders where my night terrors come from . . . . .

      Oh - and I was 10 when I saw Hollywood Wives . . . .

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  15. HilaryJuly 10, 2019 at 11:19 PM

    Definitely DEFINITELY rewatch Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as an adult (because we all know the McCaaaaan (sp?) house had to have that on repeat). Like, it’s a whole different kind of wonderful as a parent. And also I all of a sudden noticed all the nipple pasties.

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  16. WendiJuly 11, 2019 at 7:24 AM

    I watched Jaws when I was a teenager and it was actually scary to me (I didn't get a lot of media back then). I allowed my children to watch it when they were young and I warned them that it was really scary ..... they laughed all the way through it. Scary 70s stuff is not scary anymore.

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  17. BrandonJuly 11, 2019 at 1:13 PM

    The Court Jester, though if you don't like it I might have to hunt you down and trim your hair. Danny Kaye in his prime, Angela Lansbury when she was like 19, it's gold.

    I also think you'd get a huge kick out of Rocket Man. Not the new one about Elton John, the Harland Williams one about a socially inept mathematician who goes on a manned (and chimped) mission to Mars. It's best viewed when slightly exhausted (or probably slightly drunk).

    Clue would be hilarious to live tweet, Young Frankenstein would be pretty good, maybe Airplane?

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    1. Sarah BJuly 12, 2019 at 9:24 AM

      YES! Court Jester is fantastic, and Rocketman is one of my dad's favorite movies!

      Also, you should watch:
      The Ghost and Mr Chicken
      What's Up Doc
      Undercover Blues
      Blackbeard's Ghost

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    2. RachelJuly 16, 2019 at 6:21 PM

      Court Jester is so excellent!!!

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  18. AmandaJuly 15, 2019 at 2:21 PM

    Only got 10 minutes in to "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" before giving up, would be ever so grateful if you'd end that torture and tell me how it ends, or the point of the story, or why?

    Movies-I feel like you could do a whole other serious of "Mormon Mom approved movies from our childhoods, that WErEN'T church films"
    -Better off Dead
    -The Changeling - not the nicole kidman one, older
    -Watcher in the Woods
    -?Return to Witch Mountain?
    -Drop Dead Fred

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