Comments on: Forgotten Films: Sour Grapes

By: Julien

Julien — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:47:39 +0000

Great idea for a new column. Although it’s unfair to judge a book by its cover, I would’ve passed right through this movie at my local video store, horrible cover/poster!

“I was like, Ã¢â‚¬Å“Ooh, older films!Ã¢â‚¬Â and I clicked on this and itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s from 1998!” – Less Lee

I was thinking a bit of the same. It’s like I get Much(music) Vibe over here and they this Vintage Video Flow which is the reason I subscribed to the thing, looking for Old School rap videos. Turns out they often classify 1999-2002 as Vintage videos while I’m looking much more into 1985-1995. You kind of see the relativity of such terms as years pass by.

ps: tell Jay to upload Cantankerous to your server!

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:16:50 +0000

Haha yes, good point… older is a very relative term. I don’t think I’ll be going back too far, but certainly I expect the 70’s and 80’s to feature prominently.

By: Less Lee

Less Lee — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:03:14 +0000

I was like, “Ooh, older films!” and I clicked on this and it’s from 1998!

By: Matt Gamble

Matt Gamble — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:11:55 +0000

Yeah, and Dave at Row Three reviewed Dark Star all of two weeks after I did. So that part of your theory is out the window too.

But I will say it is a lot of fun to do as I’m sure you will soon find out. And while I don’t care at all that other people are doing it, I fully reserve the right to call all of you fucking thieves whenever I feel like it.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:48:05 +0000

Hmm… I did just notice however that Scott Weinberg at Cinematical is now claiming to be starting up a column called “A Flick You Missed”. You may be on to something here.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:36:23 +0000

Hey Matt, I have read a few of your “Where The Long Tail Ends” posts before (and quite enjoyed them) but I can honestly say these were not the inspiration for this column.

I had been thinking about finding a way to write about some older movies on the site for a while now, and after recently trying out Zip.ca (Canada’s version of Netflix) I finally had an easy way to start seeing some back catalogue stuff that I had been meaning to watch for a long time now.

Part of the fun of reading other movie sites is learning about films I haven’t seen, and part of the fun of running a movie site is recommending some to others. Rest assured, there are plenty of forgotten films to go around so I don’t think we’ll be encroaching on the same turf too often. Plus your column has the cooler title.

By: Matt Gamble

Matt Gamble — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:00:09 +0000

I come up with one good idea and suddenly everybody’s stealing it. Sheesh.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:46:47 +0000

Hmm… that’s a hard call. I think it resembles Curb Your Enthusiasm more than Seinfeld just because it’s about two guys getting progressively more self-absorbed and doing nasty things to each other. You might like some parts of it but I’m guessing you won’t be impressed overall.

By: Rian

Rian — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:31:59 +0000

I love Seinfeld, but I’ve yet to see an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm that has made me laugh. Sour Grapes has been on my Netflix queue for a while. Should I bump it up a few slots?

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:58:07 +0000

Wow, that is one awful poster. That being said, I’d definitely be interested in watching this. FINALLY got around to continuing Curb (Season 4) the other night…. so so good.