Yes. Once again, for those of you who have known me for the past 12 years, I am once again talking about Angus - the movie about the fat kid who punches Dawson's stupid Steve face and gets the girl. I bring this up, only because I was taking a procrastination break in the library (you might think I am using this term incorrectly, since the grammar would imply that I was taking a break from procrastination. But you're wrong. I did.) ...and during this procrastination break, I was going through IMDB typing in all of the obscure old movies that radically shaped my childhood (Airborne, The Skateboard Kid II, The Peanut Butter Solution, Kid Colter, The Dog Who Stopped the War...among others...) ...and as usual I ended up on Angus. And then I went to the message boards at the bottom, and I found this posting, which I found particularly interesting and familiar. (The first sentence is particularly familiar.)
I talked with a friend today and he laughed at me because I said that Angus was one of my favourite movies...he thinks it's stupid. I can live with that, but there's one thing I'd like to know. The thing is: he was one of those rather popular guys at school, had many friends, never had problems with girls, he was never an outsider. I, however, was. Is it because of this that I am able to identify with Angus and that I love this movie? Does he think that it's stupid because he never had to go through all this?
Note: I was 12 or 13 when Angus came out. That puts me squarely in chubby Michigan Asian with braces and greasy slicked back hair with an undercut/bowl through South Carolina skater kid with middle part bowl and undercut (nicknamed Ning Chink).
The Answer is yes. Fuck all you Dawsons out there.
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Do you still watch Friends? I always end up watching them when I'm depressed. They're like comfort food. I would think they play the same role for you. And what with you traveling to misty mountains and stuff, it seems like you need some cheering up. Right now I'm watching The One With the Embryos.
This was Monica's nickname when she was a field hockey goalie...
Big Fat Goalie! Correct.
Yeah...unspecified events have shittified things...
The only problem with Friends is actually that I have seen them so many times that they don't even register anymore. My mind just won't connect. It's like an old shoe where the tread is worn so smooth that it can't catch the surface. Or the crack receptor, so filled with crack residue that new crack just has got to float on by...
Joey had an imaginary friend...his name was....
Maurice! Correct.
His occupation was...
SPACE COWBOY!
you are so strange.
He beat you to the answer. Don't be a poor sport.
What is Chandler Bing's job?
Transponster.
Note the time stamp, bitch!
Did I ever give you a DVD copy of The Dog Who Stopped the War? It's still awesome, and badly dubbed.
Next on my list of movies to track down is Peanut Butter Solution. Cheapest I can find for a used VHS is $33. I gotta be able to do better than that. Looking back, that movie was alarmingly cracked out and creepy.
Wait, is the Peanut Butter Solution the one where he makes the stuff to grow hair? Cause if so, that is AWESOME. I barely remember that movie. ...and I just looked it up on IMDB and it is. AWESOME. Too bad Netflix doesn't have it. Jay, do you still have the same cell number? I tried to call you to ask how old Chandler was when he first touched a girl's breast, but I got a weird error.
YES! It IS that movie! I can't believe you've seen it too!
The boy sees something that scares him and goes bald. He makes peanut butter gunk and puts it on his head. His hair won't stop growing. He is then kidnapped and they make paintbrushes out of his hair, because if you paint with those brushes, the paintings become real and you can walk INTO them. And then the old man who kidnaps him walks into the painting, sees something that scares him. And then goes bald. Ah...
And...19. Chandler was 19.
My phone number remains the same.
Hass: No. I never saw it again.
Well, I'll write you every day...
... 15 Yemen Road, Yemen.
I'll make you a copy.
Disney Channel must have had a deal with some company in Quebec back then, because a lot of the movies we saw as kids are badly dubbed French-Canadian low-budget family films.
Is it actually worth watching again? Because, Yes, the Boy Who Loved Trolls was great when I was 6. I don't plan on watching it ever again.
We did grow up in the midwest though, and sorta close to the Canadian border...so maybe it's local disney.
The dubbing, dialogue and acting are all atrocious, but I still enjoyed it. For nostalgia, if nothing else.
I never liked The Boy Who Loved Trolls. I'm not sure why I bought it. I still haven't unwrapped it.
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