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There's Something About Mary
1998 · Film · 120 min
Directed by Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly
For Ted, prom night went about as bad as it’s possible for any night to go. Thirteen years later, he finally gets another chance with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.
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> the question that follows is: Why 8? Why not 7 or 9?
The reaction you may get:
https://youtu.be/rnso4nfdM9w?si=YixDlKDmBXB7xrXc
(From "Something about Mary" film.)
The scene I find most memorable from Harold and Maude [0] is the priest's response!
I consider myself to have seen a lot of films, but it took watching There's Something about Mary for me to discover the film!
[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=n7qd7UrR5ic
Movies like that are often only canonized as "good" in retrospect, after there's been time for them to marinate in the wider culture and have some consensus form around their significance and general quality. Around the time of American History X, your local theater probably would have been showing Antz, Rush Hour, The Rugrats Movie, and There's Something About Mary.
I think the '90s had a bit more variety than the '10s and (for now) '20s. E.g. we seem to have lost good legal procedurals, thrillers, weird fiction, and "small scale" sci-fi.
Fo example, what are the'10s equivalents of "A Few Good Men", "Seven", "Dark City" and "The 13th Floor"?
There is _some_ stuff, but less than before, replaced by a massive amount of super hero movies or long-running franchises.
As a support clue, I invite you to consider the winners of the MTV Movie Awards, which are more "popular" than other Awards:
92 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 93 A Few Good Men 94 Menace II Society 95 Pulp Fiction 96 Seven 97 Scream 98 Titanic 99 There's Something About Mary 00 The Matrix (bonus: not 90s)
compare with the 10s
10 The Twilight Saga: New Moon 11 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse 12 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 13 Marvel's The Avengers 14 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 15 The Fault In Our Stars 16 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 17 Beauty and the Beast 18 Black Panther 19 Avengers: Endgame
I have the feeling most "risky" movies, for lack of a better word, have moved to streaming services.
I worked for Regal for three years. Starting as a lowly usher and quickly becoming the projector tech for Oregon and Washington.
It is the worst run company I have ever worked for.
For example when "Something About Mary" came out we put it in theater 5. 150 seats. It was selling out every show. I was the projectionist at the time and said we should put it in #3 which had 534 seats. The box office was turning away hundreds of people every few hours.
I do not care about company profits. But I do care about my friends working concessions and door and usher. If we had the movie in the right theater we could have used more workers.
But lazy managers kept the print in #5 for weeks. Since it was a pain to swap prints in the computers. It wasn't.. It took two minutes.
That is just one example of many. It got even worse when I had to contact Nashville everyday to get basic supplies. It is never fun explaining why you need a new oscilloscope to a person that doesn't know what one is.
I should have clarified: there's no sampling bias. These are incredibly popular movies. Here are some movies not on Netflix streaming that I've wanted to watch this year: Gladiator. Star Wars IV. Shawshank Redemption. The Wizard of Oz. When Harry Met Sally. The Princess Bride. All Star Trek movies. Goodfellas. Lord of the Rings. Gone with the Wind. All Godfather movies. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Airplane. American Graffiti. The Usual Suspects. All Jim Carrey movies except a bad one (the Grinch) and one I've never heard of (the Number 23). Toy Story. There's Something About Mary. All Austin Powers movies.
The last time I tried searching for a good movie to watch on Netflix streaming, I gave up after 10 minutes. I'd think of one movie after another after another. Nothing was there. All it could suggest was "related titles," as if that's what I would want.
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In the movie Something About Mary a moron, Chris Elliott, was talking about his new product idea to compete with 7-Minute Abs. He wanted to sell 6-Minute Abs. His traveling companion, Ben Stiller, said "what about 5-minute abs?" The moron said (paraphrasing) "No one could get abs in 5 minutes!"
Yeah, the movie There's Something About Mary, specifically this part (23s - 33s) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xuah8LC-Cw&feature=player_detailpage#t=23s