Comments on: This Little Movie Looking Back 20 Years Ago

By: kelsy

kelsy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:21:47 +0000

No worries. I’m just entered grad school, so I’ve got a few more years until I need to find gainful employment.

By: Joe Valdez

Joe Valdez — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:36:59 +0000

Jim: I’m always amused to read about the things directors obsess over. I never notice gaffes like the color of the sky not matching from shot to shot. If the story is compelling, I could care less about whether the sky is clear in one shot and cloudy in the next. Movies are essentially dreams and don’t always have to adhere to the laws of physics. It doesn’t distract me.

I’m not even sure I understand what the Yankee Greg Mottola means by “pop tags”. Soda cans in the ’80s still had the pull rings you could yank off and litter the environment with. 7-Up is the only soda from my youth I recall having a punch tab that opened the can. By the 1990s, all soda cans had this eco-friendly feature. Anyway, I enjoy your comments, as always!

Kelsy: You just graduated from college? This is not the best example of good timing. Just kidding. I would say that any radio station or publisher would be fortunate to have you on their staff, but they’re probably going bankrupt anyway. Let me end this on a note of hope: if you worked at Adventureland, you would be one of the cool kids. Thanks for commenting!

By: kelsy

kelsy — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:09:06 +0000

I enjoyed this movie as well. A lot of that has to do with how low key it is, and a lot of that has to do with just graduating from college myself.

By: moviezzz

moviezzz — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:20:23 +0000

One of my favorites of the year. After this and ZOMBIELAND, I think I like Eisenberg more than Cera.

As for this:

“Well, like, a prop guy thought they didn’t have those pop tags on soda cans in 1987. And I’m like, ‘I’m pretty sure they did.’ ”

Someone else mentioned this to me after they recently saw it. I think that tags were gone by the early 80′s.