Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

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"Twelve Angry Men" is my #3 movie of all time.

That is sadly one of the ones i have yet to see

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Headcanon is not canon. Insisting otherwise is super-weird.

 

[overgeeked]

I took the point @overgeeked was trying to make as being more about finding people to enjoy that pizza with you. There's a lot more options for how to eat your pineapple pizza these days, but if you happen to enjoy peanut butter and clams on your pizza, you might just have to go live in the sewers of NYC to find people with similar tastes. Dominos just doesn't have that on their menu and isn't going to add it anytime soon.

Exactly.

Self-proclaimed pizza aficionados will proudly say how they've never eaten pizza except from the single largest franchise. Most have never even heard of a pizza place that's not the one big franchise and most of those few who have flat refuse to even look at the menu of any other pizza place. To say nothing of actually getting them to go to the new place to say nothing of getting them to actually eat the pie. Yes, generic pizza may be ubiquitous, but anything beyond the one franchise is vanishingly small and hard to get anyone to eat at. That's one part.

The other part is the continued pretending that all pizza places are equal, equally easy to go to, and equally easy to get people to eat at. They're not. Stop pretending they are.

Take this newcomer, Discworld Pizza. It's a fantastic new thing that's awesome and great and it's raised a lot of seed capital to get started. Huzzah. But there are about 8,750 people in the world interested in that pizza. That might sound like a lot, but it's really, really not when you consider the literal millions chomping at the bit to return to the one big franchise. It's hard enough getting a group together to eat pizza when there are millions of potential people to go with. It is infinitely harder when your total population of potential co-pizza enthusiasts are a rounding error in comparison.

Seriously, stop gaslighting people about this stuff.

 

[Ryujin]

That is sadly one of the ones i have yet to see

You should. It's from a time when some US States still didn't allow women to serve on juries. It deals with the concept of justice, both practical and abstract, bigotry, and so much more.

For the record, these are my #1 and #2 -

• "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) - The first anti-nuke movie.
• "Forbidden Planet" (1956) - Basically Shakespeare's "The Tempest" in SciFi form. Introduced Robbie the Robot and starred Leslie Nielsen, and a 25 year old Anne Francis.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

12 Angry Men is also a perennial favorite in community and high school theater. I've never seen the Henry Fonda movie, but I read the play in drama class in high school. Really great.

 

[Thomas Shey]

• "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) - The first anti-nuke movie.
• "Forbidden Planet" (1956) - Basically Shakespeare's "The Tempest" in SciFi form. Introduced Robbie the Robot and starred Leslie Nielsen, and a 25 year old Anne Francis.

Of the 50's SF movies, Forbidden Planet has always been my standout favorite. Oddly enough, TDTESS always left me a bit cold.

 

[payn]

The problem for some people is that remote play either is unattractive in the first place, or they're prone to running into hardware or time zone problems.

That’s fine if you don’t prefer it, but you gotta give up the complaints that folks won’t eat lutefisk pizza in your local sewer with you.

 

[Ryujin]

Of the 50's SF movies, Forbidden Planet has always been my standout favorite. Oddly enough, TDTESS always left me a bit cold.

Curiosity: One thing that seems to bother people is the "Trans-Atlantic Accent" that so many actors used at the time. Is that one of the things that puts you off?

 

[Umbran]

Not at all, but if all I hear about is how fresh the pineapple is, pizza fans shouldn't expect those who dont care for the finer details of pineapple to care about that pizza.

Pineapple pizza fans generally don't expect you to care. (This "you" is generic, not you, Scribe, personally)

Really. If you ignored/left the pineapple discussions, they wouldn't notice. They would continue to chatter on about pineapple without you.

If you come into pineapple discussion and gripe about how there's pineapple, well, that's different.

 

[Deset Gled]

• "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) - The first anti-nuke movie.
• "Forbidden Planet" (1956) - Basically Shakespeare's "The Tempest" in SciFi form. Introduced Robbie the Robot and starred Leslie Nielsen, and a 25 year old Anne Francis.

TDTESS is a sci-fi classic and I love it, but as a piece of cinematic art it falls a bit short. Especially the middle section. The whole bit with Klaatu trying to hide out at a boarding house just drags along, and the "all electricity stops" thing is weak in a number of ways. Great opening and ending, though.

Forbidden Planet is great. I'm surprised we haven't seen a remake yet.