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monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 19 Jan 2010, 17:26
by josh_summers
in my fim and media course i have had to do an un goddly long essay, i thought hmm i will do life of brian yay fun times, i have now watched it 16 times in 1 week, have repeated the scene im writing on thousands of times and now no the movie word for word (well i already did but now i can tell you wot ppl r saying in the background)

now i cant stand 2 watch, oh god some one help me!!!!

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 19 Jan 2010, 17:35
by Arius
Calm down... Now, remember.

Always look on the bright side of life.

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 19 Jan 2010, 17:38
by josh_summers
ha he makes a funny, but did you know that they were only 1 foot off the ground while shooting it?, the were on the bigger crosses for only the bit when the camera zooms out into that long shot. ahhhhhhhhh i had to watch the directors comentry as well!!

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 19 Jan 2010, 17:52
by AmazingPjotrMan
Why wouldn't one want to watch the directors Commentary? That is some fascinating stuff!

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 19 Jan 2010, 18:04
by josh_summers
not when all you have done is watched it then writen about the deep meanings to the role of the narrative that the misenscene and other fancy sounding micro features have, ahhh i hate this class!

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 19 Jan 2010, 23:22
by Evil Jim
Well, no worries. If your essay is as cleanly & clearly written as your posts you're sure to get an A.

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 19 Jan 2010, 23:39
by epocalypse
Evil Jim wrote:Well, no worries. If your essay is as cleanly & clearly written as your posts you're sure to get an A.

whoops, typo, I think he meant D.... or S.

What exactly is double sarcasm?

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 20 Jan 2010, 04:48
by Elomin Sha
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Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 20 Jan 2010, 04:52
by infinite_guest
Well, don't worry. Life is quite absurd, and death's the final word. You must always face the curtain with a bow.

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 20 Jan 2010, 05:11
by arch4non
Arius wrote:Calm down... Now, remember.

Always look on the bright side of life.


i lol'd

Life of Brian happens to be my favorite Python movie. I'm very fond of the, "what have the Romans ever done for us" scene.

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 20 Jan 2010, 05:12
by sdhonda
Neil Peart once said that high school english ruined Julius Ceasar for him. He can't read it now, because he studied it to death in school. But, he can now better appreciate the rest of Shakespeare's plays.

As long as your only watching Life of Brian endlessly, you should still get a kick out of the rest of their stuff.

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 20 Jan 2010, 05:53
by Unlucky
If you haven't gotten it by now, you're complaining if falling on deaf ears. :P

Personally, I would love to write essays about Monty Python. I would complain about the movies I watched in media but...most of them were actually really good. Like, I am glad I got what I did.

God I loved media. :)

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 20 Jan 2010, 06:01
by Cap'n Jonny
This is why I'm always dubious whenever somebody tells me that they're really looking forward to studying something that they love. So often the study destroys the love.
It's the same reason that, though I love the theatre, I wouldn't try to become an actor: when you make something your work it stops being fun. You have my sympathies, Josh, no-one should have to have that happen to Monty Python.

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 20 Jan 2010, 08:50
by epocalypse
Honestly, I have no sympathy for this, because 3 years ago (jesus christ, 3 years ago) I did the same thing for one of my courses... except the movie wasn't Life of Brian... in fact it wasn't Monty Python at all...

It was Requiem For a Dream.
It. was. Requiem. For. A. Dream.

I haven't seen that movie since.... So cold.... so very cold.

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 20 Jan 2010, 13:20
by Trymantha
Cap'n Jonny wrote:This is why I'm always dubious whenever somebody tells me that they're really looking forward to studying something that they love. So often the study destroys the love.
It's the same reason that, though I love the theatre, I wouldn't try to become an actor: when you make something your work it stops being fun. You have my sympathies, Josh, no-one should have to have that happen to Monty Python.


+1

i know that feeling well i had to studie crime drama for a semester last year i havent read a book since, ihad to read a novel a week. now I normaly do this anyway but because i had to i put me of reading so badly.

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 20 Jan 2010, 21:16
by epocalypse
The only thing that ever happened to me with is fixed camera live audience sitcom, which I never liked that much in the first place. Knowing more about rarely kills it for me. Really i even still love Requiem for a Dream, it's just more of an overdose kind of thing. I'll probably watch it again in a few years.

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 20 Jan 2010, 21:40
by JohnyMcmuffin
Evil Jim wrote:Well, no worries. If your essay is as cleanly & clearly written as your posts you're sure to get an A.

Jim, you may be evil, but I want to thank you for coming up with the most entertaining way to comment on the writing of one Josh_Summers. With your help we can keep the grammar standards of the forum at the proper level

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 20 Jan 2010, 22:01
by epocalypse
JohnyMcmuffin wrote:
Evil Jim wrote:Well, no worries. If your essay is as cleanly & clearly written as your posts you're sure to get an A.

Jim, you may be evil, but I want to thank you for coming up with the most entertaining way to comment on the writing of one Josh_Summers. With your help we can keep the grammar standards of the forum at the proper level

Do you guys remember back in the day, when new forum members had enough honor that if they wrote "it's" where they should have wrote "its" they'd do the proper thing and throw themselves upon their swords and die with honor?

Those were the days.

The hole in my torso is healing nicely, by the way.

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 21 Jan 2010, 07:37
by Intellectually funky
Evil Jim wrote:Well, no worries. If your essay is as cleanly & clearly written as your posts you're sure to get an A.


For this Jim I give you one free internets.

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 21 Jan 2010, 09:09
by Niko88
You know, Life of Brian is reading this and feeling very sad that you don't want to hang out anymore. He has a plan though. He is going to get his fake beard...

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 21 Jan 2010, 09:31
by Bananafish
OP, please post your essay.

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 21 Jan 2010, 11:51
by JohnyMcmuffin
epocalypse wrote:Do you guys remember back in the day, when new forum members had enough honor that if they wrote "it's" where they should have wrote "its" they'd do the proper thing and throw themselves upon their swords and die with honor?

Those were the days.

The hole in my torso is healing nicely, by the way.

Good to hear. We don't aim to maim, but we want that scar to remind you to double check before you hit submit.
Intellectually funky wrote:For this Jim I give you one free internets.

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Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 21 Jan 2010, 14:19
by josh_summers
post my essay? its 12,000 words! who wants to sit and read that?

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 21 Jan 2010, 14:30
by Darkobra
I had to play the same 3 songs for a year, 4 hours a week with my band. I had the worst college band in history. I could actually play everything with one hand while I read a book with the other. It really did get that dull.

Re: monty python is no longer fun :( !

Posted: 21 Jan 2010, 14:37
by sdhonda
Darkobra wrote:I had to play the same 3 songs for a year, 4 hours a week with my band. I had the worst college band in history. I could actually play everything with one hand while I read a book with the other. It really did get that dull.


Drums?