A Quick Fact Saturday, April 14, 2007
#1
Posted 14 April 2007 - 07:06 PM
A quick fact: If you have some friends over to watch a movie but you say that you are "screening a movie." then you are an asshole.
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#3
Posted 14 April 2007 - 09:14 PM
for the second time. The first time was with a girlfriend and fellow theatre type, with her parents (theater types) and like-minded friends, when I was in high-school. I was involved in community theater at the time. Introduced me to condoned underage drinking.
Well that night, they screened the movie. Upstairs, they showed it, with a vintage newsreel at the beginning. Clacking sounds and everything. It was completely cool.
Watching the film tonight took me back. I didn't understand, back then, all the evils Chaplin was parodying. And lots of it was prophetic actually, as the film was probably written prior to WWII.
But my friends had the party to show the film, not to "screen" it.
I don't think this clarifies much, but I hope I've contributed somewhat.
#4
Posted 14 April 2007 - 10:11 PM
I think if you are actually showing a reel-to-reel with cartoons and everything, then it's maybe acceptable to say "screening" (although a really good person would just say "watching" still). Otherwise "screening" is unacceptable.
#6
Posted 15 April 2007 - 08:24 AM
Ahh, projected on a wall. Now I hearken back to those "screenings" from college days.
I screened The Barefoot Executive the other night. It was on cable. That counts, right?
#7
Posted 15 April 2007 - 05:13 PM
No wait... a Papa John's commercial!
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#9
Posted 16 April 2007 - 09:04 AM
Everyone knows that the vraiment parlance for this act is to "take in a talkie". No respectable monocle-sporting gentleman or lady worth his or her salt would slander their speech with lesser "commoner" argot!
#10
Posted 16 April 2007 - 08:32 PM
Now saying THAT would earn someone my immediate respect!
And therein lies the problem. If you said, "take in a talkie." you obviously couldn't be serious. People talking about "screening" are quite clearly using it earnestly. It's because they think they're movie buffs and just the act of them watching a movie somehow makes the whole event so much more meaningful.
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#11
Posted 17 April 2007 - 12:30 AM
But this has to be the most direct and hardcore thing he's ever posted!
Usually he can insult without sounding insulting, but this was just in your face.
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#12
Posted 18 April 2007 - 06:51 PM
if you screen movies for boobies, does that make you an asshole too?
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Posted 18 April 2007 - 09:26 PM
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#15
Posted 20 April 2007 - 09:27 PM
Not the visual screening.
ah, we're on the same page but in different rooms.
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