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Capone Goes To SUMMERCAMP!!

First by connor187	Aug 21st, 2007 01:19:27 PM
I hate that
It was a moment of weakness! by connor187	Aug 21st, 2007 01:20:10 PM
Sorry.
another movie that begs to be seen with an audience is by future help	Aug 21st, 2007 01:23:50 PM
SUPERBAD! cause it's Super good!
Capone! Is this Camp Manitowish? by AdrianVeidt	Aug 21st, 2007 01:33:50 PM
Seriously, I need to know. Because they beat me up there and I want to know if I'm in for a hellish experience if I go see this.
My summer camp experience by theBigE	Aug 21st, 2007 01:55:42 PM
We were just glad we didn't get the counselor that would make the boys in his cabin line up naked each night in the bathhouse for shower time. I don't think he was invited back after that year.
No, really. I got beat up. by AdrianVeidt	Aug 21st, 2007 02:07:54 PM
It sucked balls. It was a camp in northern Wisconsin called Manito-Wish and during the "quiet time" after lunch when we were supposed to read or write our families, I tried to go to the bathroom, and this fat Chinese kid started hitting my ankles with a broom, and then they just pushed me around for the remaining 30 minutes. All of them. Not one savior in the bunch. Assholes.
I refused to go to camp. by Kurzinski Valentine	Aug 21st, 2007 02:08:21 PM
In conclusion, I'm awesome.
Is it better than Meatballs? by Heckles	Aug 21st, 2007 02:22:37 PM
Trick question, nothing is better than Meatballs.
About time this came out by Garbageman33	Aug 21st, 2007 02:25:24 PM
I saw it at last year's Toronto Film Festival and absolutely loved it. Almost as much as I loved the Flaming Lips show that followed the screening.
Sounds interesting by TattooedBillionaire	Aug 21st, 2007 02:37:08 PM
I might check out one of the shows at the Siskel Theater.
Right on, the original Meatballs ruled by Richard Cranium	Aug 21st, 2007 02:41:04 PM
Starmaking performance for Bill Murray. There really wasn't much there as far as a script, just your standard summer camp fare, and Murray pretty much carried the whole movie on his back.
shuttlepod_10 by AdrianVeidt	Aug 21st, 2007 02:45:51 PM
Are you referencing The Great Outdoors?
Sounds great by AllieJamison	Aug 21st, 2007 02:48:47 PM
The description of those kids sounds exactly like those coming to our camp trip every year. Each year my impression of "family life" and the parenting skills of some moms and dads sinks to a new low. I also had not thought that so many kids would be in psychotherapy. The way you described this film, Capone, makes it sound like this film is truly doing justice to the great and almost mystic spirit of summer camps. I hope this will be available on dvd quickly...or maybe even find a european distributor? Thanks for drawing my attention to this, Capone!
and... by AllieJamison	Aug 21st, 2007 02:58:13 PM
i think sitting around a campfire and spending nights outdoors, experiencing a thunderstorm and feeling kind of helpless because the wind is threatening to tear the tents apart...is something every kid and human being should experience at some time in their lifes...if they want to...
I love "Meatballs" by Drunken Rage	Aug 21st, 2007 03:17:24 PM
Anyone remember "Gorp"? Goddamn, I feel old now.
no doubt, MEATBALLS and GREAT OUTDOORS by future help	Aug 21st, 2007 03:56:47 PM
rule all camp movies. (and EVIL DEAD 2 while were at it)
Russel Crowe looks like a gay puppet in that 3:00 Yuma by future help	Aug 21st, 2007 03:58:46 PM
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What about that camp movie with Christopher Lloyd? by Kurzinski Valentine	Aug 21st, 2007 04:00:44 PM
CAMP NOWHERE. I think turtles bit people's faces while falling from the sky wearing little turtle parachutes. Or maybe that's ERNEST GOES TO CAMP. Either way, they're basically the same movie.
HEAVYWEIGHTS by Kurzinski Valentine	Aug 21st, 2007 04:01:55 PM
HAhahahahaha! Classic. http://www.imdb.com/title/t t0110006/
We called it SLEEPAWAY camp by slone13	Aug 21st, 2007 04:05:07 PM
You know, as opposed to DAY CAMP, where you went back to your Momma's evey night. In summation, sleepaway camp fucking ruled.
saw this last week by johnnysunshine	Aug 21st, 2007 04:42:47 PM
I saw this last week at the Brattle in Cambridge and we all enjoyed it. My favorite parts were when they happened to get be filming counselors when there aren't any kids around and you get to see them vent about some of the kids. That and any time that little girl who wants to see a chicadee is on camera.
way to write about this AFTER it comes to NYC assface by PVIII	Aug 21st, 2007 04:55:48 PM
one of the two largest film markets and you fuck us Capone.
Thanks... by Marklar	Aug 21st, 2007 05:48:42 PM
Thank you for writing about this, Capone...otherwise I never would have heard about it, most likely. It won't come here but I'm hoping to rent it eventually.
At a theater 2 miles away from me... by Han Ol' Buddy	Aug 21st, 2007 06:12:02 PM
And I missed it! Capone, write about this sooner, not a month after it starts its theatrical run! And get it to come back through Milwaukee!!!
Michael Bay says no to Transformers 2 by wadi77	Aug 21st, 2007 06:15:01 PM
http://tinyurl.com/ywkgqn
I never did do the 2 week camp by Bloo	Aug 21st, 2007 06:23:17 PM
firs tof all most of the camps I went to only offerd 1 week variety, which I did attend alot of, 2nd of all I'm old and hated writing letters so I never kept up with any of my old camp buddies, in the days of email and myspace and facebok, I find (through my 18 y/o brother) that it's easier for these kids to keep in touch. I think that's the fate of most lat 80s/early 90s campers was that we were a)really lazy when it came to staying in touch nd b)didn't have the convience to stay in touch and c)wre never really encouraged to wrie letters, etc. my favorite camp memory though invovles a can of what is known as "fart spray" I think that is self explantory, anyways I was on this one team and we were always losing, mainly because we didn't care about the sports stuff (anyone seeing a trend here between me and laziness) and the cabin next to us was like nothing but jocks. So one day when they were out playing soccer and my cabin was being it's lazy, looking for "wild" marijuana selves we got the brillent idea to take the can of fart spray and spray it into their A/C unit of their cabin. And then watch as they came scrambeling out due to the wretched smell that stuff left
Now Bay says yes to TF2, and yes to HDDVD!! by wadi77	Aug 21st, 2007 07:08:46 PM
http://tinyurl.com/2ywhv3
Summer camp and fart jokes... by Little Beavis	Aug 21st, 2007 10:59:32 PM
Rule. Not.
I loved Summercamp by kdoc13	Aug 21st, 2007 11:23:31 PM
or at least the song by them that was on the Baseketball soundtrack.
Thank You So Much, Capone. by Bungion Boy	Aug 22nd, 2007 01:45:19 AM
I live in New York (though I'm on vacation now) and even though I know my location allows me to see more than your average film goer, so much still slips through my finegers. I love this site so much, but I'd love it more if it had more articles like this. Talking about films that are completely under the radar. I live about 12 Blocks from the IFC Center and I still knew nothing about this.
camp movies by cathartist	Aug 22nd, 2007 07:41:01 AM
Meatballs is a classic The Great Outdoors is not a summer camp movie, heck its not even a camping movie. Its a family vacation film at best. And everyone is forgettting Wet Hot American Summer! . . . my question that i couldn't figure out from this story, is the movie a documentary?
There was also a Micheal J. Fox tv movie about camp... by Richard Cranium	Aug 22nd, 2007 09:39:11 AM
The name escapes me at the moment, I just remember he was the camp counselor trying to hook up with the brunette chick from the facts of life...then those 2 did another TV movie together where school loser (Fox) along with his brainy friend (Todd Bridges) and his nerdy friend (Crispin Glover) try to defeat the schools prep kingpin (Anthony Edwards), and win over the preps girlfriend (brunette Facts of Life chick)

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