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Quint sees his favorite Sundance movie so far: ROCKET SCIENCE!!!

Sounds like a Blast to watch by nomihs	Jan 21st, 2007 12:58:43 AM
I am confused on the title though. Rocket Science is not like debating? Okay. Can someone fill in my blanks?
Laster by Ommadawn1959	Jan 21st, 2007 01:02:07 AM
This sounds like a great film to me. I want to see it.
LoL Sorry Harry. by nomihs	Jan 21st, 2007 01:09:01 AM
You can bump my first post if ya like, no worries.
this sounds great by BadMrWonka	Jan 21st, 2007 01:35:31 AM
Quint, this is why I am pleased as spiked punch you are at Sundance, I get to hear about a film like this so early! I'm sure this will get a lot of press, and months from now it will be all over the place (with a "just like ND quote, as you said, on the poster) but I get to hear about it early, e-mail all my friends now, and then appear uber-cool later when it blows up. my fragile self-image aside, this does sound like a fun comedy, looking forward to it.
Is it as good as Weird Science? by GibsonUSA Returns	Jan 21st, 2007 02:18:30 AM
LOL....she turned him into a pile of crap...
I love Yackbacker by BadMrWonka	Jan 21st, 2007 02:30:32 AM
but I'll place a bet that he doesn't make $5 mil in his lifetime... sorry buddy...oh, and I have paypal, and I'll take that bet for Rocket Science. Quint is a smart cookie, bitch! P.S. what happened to Stooprider? (I used to think of him as Stupider) he was fun shit.
YackBacker, I'll take that bet! by Talkbacker with no name	Jan 21st, 2007 02:52:22 AM
It will make more than twice that in Europe alone (with ND and Sundance things plastered all over it). You are really unaware of the love people have for movies like this.
TBw/NN by BadMrWonka	Jan 21st, 2007 03:46:26 AM
I'll bet $20,000 that Yackbacker is sleeping and I'm playing fulltilt poker semi-drunk... any takers?
Wonka, no thanks. that sounds like too much of a gamble by Talkbacker with no name	Jan 21st, 2007 04:04:03 AM
But I'll bet Yackbacker is here the moment he wakes to see if there are any replies to all his posts.
damn by BadMrWonka	Jan 21st, 2007 04:54:26 AM
because in reality, Yackbacker was asleep, and I WAS awake playing poker semi-drunk...I woulda won!! shit!!! I thin k I'm gonna puke...
mysteriously disappeared "legend" of debating by BannedOnTheRun	Jan 21st, 2007 05:11:37 AM
Maybe he's hiding out with Lazlo Hollyfeld. Now I know you're around MrWonka... how the #*( do I find Henri? I've searched YouTube and Google Video.
Trying the Karma Sutra out on his dog?!!!!!!! by rbatty024	Jan 21st, 2007 08:57:48 AM
I'm there!!! Seriously, what's up with these movies trying to one up each other with gross out humor. This seems quirky enough that it might pull it off, but too often the film is just trying to gross out the audience rather than make them laugh. On a good day South Park is a great example of gross out humour done well, usually through the use of a conflicting setting or mood (like when the parents try and explain pornography to their children during that Lord of the Rings parody, that's South Park at its best).
Won't be Napoleon Dynamite Big by theBigE	Jan 21st, 2007 09:51:42 AM
One of the appeals of ND was its "PG" rating here in the US and A. Because of its family friendly rating, I'll bet ND has been screened in every public school junior high or high school in America on "reward day" or something similar. Don't underestimate the 12-17 year olds that loved that film and helped make it a hit. They won't be able to have the same access and exposure to a film featuring a kid getting intimate with the family pooch.
Comedies that are quirky for quirky sake.. by jimmy_009	Jan 21st, 2007 10:14:06 AM
are getting old. After sitting through the vastly overrated Little Miss Sunshine, I'm ready for a movie where the characters don't have stutters, haven't taken a vow of silence, don't have relationship issues with their parents, aren't in the least bit precocious young geniuses with depression, aren't contemplating suicide, and don't have quirks that are supposed to be cutesy but are really just the screenwriter giving himself a self-congratulatory handjob.
The REAL Hounddog controversy? by ETI	Jan 21st, 2007 10:24:40 AM
"You have the Korean Judge who slides into the stutter's mother's bed when the dad is booted out and loves to loudly talk about the different sexual acts he performs to her in front of both of her kids. You have the weird little bastard that lives across the street of cruel but cute girl (Anna Kendrick), spending his days studying the Karma Sutra and trying it out... with his dog."........OK, why isn't this getting all the negative attention? Oh yeah, no famous blonde star.
I dig this new AICN focus by BannedOnTheRun	Jan 21st, 2007 11:15:16 AM
on sex with Koreans!
RIP Ron Carey by Mister Inbetween	Jan 21st, 2007 12:23:28 PM
from Barney Miller...that guy was a supporting genius of a character actor. One of those guys,who, even if you didn't know his name you knew he was "that guy." Drag.
had doubts by Mister Inbetween	Jan 21st, 2007 12:26:23 PM
Ron Carey would make it as an aicn obit, so I attached a rider to this tb. apologies, but I wanted folks to know.
Mister Inbetween by Talkbacker with no name	Jan 21st, 2007 12:35:16 PM
nomeansno?
I hope the dog consents, by Dr Gregory House	Jan 21st, 2007 01:10:45 PM
otherwise PETA will be all over this.
bannedontherun by BadMrWonka	Jan 21st, 2007 01:20:58 PM
I've tried to catch up with you and give you a link to Henri like 4 times. evidently every time I post this link, you've already passed on the talkback and don't recheck it. I'll try again: http://tinyurl.com/y9t7wa
Hooray! by BannedOnTheRun	Jan 21st, 2007 02:12:53 PM
I can stop stalking you now. "Henri" reminds me of Barney Gumble's short film on The Simpsons. "I made a movie?"
Sundance good coverage! by AllieJamison	Jan 21st, 2007 06:56:15 PM
ok..Sundance is covered on this site for years...it's a basic. Still this year feels like some kind of Sundance ressurrection. There's some kind of newly gained trust in that festival and its energy. Or is it just the lack of Tbers moaning about their rejected films?
Rocket Science Rocked!! by SkinJob69	Jan 21st, 2007 08:09:59 PM
I'm on day 4 of the Sundance Festival myself, and I have to agree with Quint about Rocket Science. I've seen 11 movies here so far, and of the comedies this one has been the best by far. It has some of the wittiest dialogue I've heard in quite a while. The music was also very clever, paricularly the piano and cello duet of the Violent Femmes "Blister in the Sun"--performed by two parents as "relationship therapy" -absolutely hysterical. The female lead, played by Anna Kendrick, will no doubt be compared to Reese Whitherspoon's character in "Election". She is absolutely perfect as the driven, manipulative leader of the speech and debate team. I pray that this is picked up and released asap- it could be a hit on the order of Napoleon Dynamite- I'll forward some pix I took at the Q&A from Rocket Science (and some candids I've taken at the Fest) to AICN- Regards,
so it's not ROCKET SURGERY? by durhay	Jan 21st, 2007 08:57:34 PM
bananas
so it's not ROCKET SURGERY? by durhay	Jan 21st, 2007 08:57:49 PM
bananas
Quint, as your attorney... by Zarles	Jan 21st, 2007 10:32:02 PM
...I advise you to go into the bathroom and take a swig of the little brown bottle in my shaving kit. Hope you're having a blast, man...
Where's a Sundance film with a chrome scrotum? by Doctor_Sin	Jan 21st, 2007 10:46:44 PM
Rocket Science sounds good - I'm up for it.
WRAAH! by BannedOnTheRun	Jan 22nd, 2007 04:13:36 AM
Can AICN set up a cookie/session so those of us who've actually given this movie a shot (the first 3:20 at least) can be spared the spamming? And SK229: "You, sir, are talking to a nigger!"
stuttering is comedy gold by just pillow talk	Jan 22nd, 2007 09:04:21 AM
will d-d-d-d-definitely check it out.
STOP COMPARING IT TO ND. IT'S NOT! by Lovecraftfan	Jan 22nd, 2007 10:04:58 AM
I've also seen this warm witty just feel good movie and it's nothing like ND. It's not surreal or set in some alternate universe where dumb people rule the earth. ND is a not funny overrated film. Rocket Science is a witty well-made film.
Lovecraftfan by just pillow talk	Jan 22nd, 2007 10:13:39 AM
since you've seen it, what other movie does it compare to? Just curious as to what to expect in terms of comedy feel.
Thumbsucker maybe by Lovecraftfan	Jan 22nd, 2007 10:32:43 AM
It's basically a teen agnsty movie with stuttering substuting as the handicap, but it's so well-written and the lead character is so endearing it feels original. There is no smirking here. It was clear during the Q And A that the movie and the lead character is close to his heart. Also, the debating wonder woman he becomes friends with is very election-ish, but the actress and the writing makes it fresh.
thanks Lovecraftfan by just pillow talk	Jan 22nd, 2007 11:05:33 AM
Sounds good to me.
This film has no bestiality or sex by skaminator	Jan 22nd, 2007 11:28:43 AM
Methinks Quint overstated some elements of this movie. There is NO gross-out humor, and it's a soft PG-13 at worst. I don't want to give away the gag, but this film is every bit as family-friendly as NP. But it happens to be much better, have more of a heart, and also is the best movie that played at Sundance opening weekend. (ZOO, on the other hand, is about a man fucked to death by a horse. Sweet.)
ND, I mean by skaminator	Jan 22nd, 2007 11:29:15 AM
word.
I think this was my favorite of the festival by Novaman5000	Jan 22nd, 2007 01:38:21 PM
Really enjoyable, classically "indie" flick. I have no doubt this one will get picked up.
whoops, I forgot, it IS already picked up. by Novaman5000	Jan 22nd, 2007 01:39:20 PM
My bad.
The Rocket Science of Sleep by Spandau Belly	Jan 22nd, 2007 02:42:02 PM
bring on more cutesy stories of unconventional bonding!

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