Monday Night Poll: Food, Family, Football, or Film?
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Summer Movies, Polls
With the summer crashing in a fiery heap this weekend, burning away all memories of blockbusters like leaves curling in a bonfire, it's time to bid adieu to the most popular season of the movie year and turn our attention to the fall, the season of festivals and award-worthy cinema. It's already begun, of course. Eugene Novikov has been sending in fine reports from the Telluride Film Festival, which is the unofficial starting point of the race for next year's Oscars, the Venice Film Festival is in full swing, and the Toronto International Film Festival kicks off on Thursday.
Before we get out a tissue, we ask that you share with us how you spent your Labor Day weekend. Via Twitter, I know many film fans were celebrating the start of the college football season (Texas and USC romped, Oklahoma got upset, and Ohio State narrowly escaped), and some people were rooting for their division-leading baseball teams, while "family" types were spending time with their loved ones, playing and basking in the warm sun, grilling burgers, or building a closet bookcase to house hundreds of DVDs and finally get them out of moving boxes (which is what I did).
What about the movies, though? Did you bravely venture into Gamer (William Goss had a mixed reaction) or All About Steve (Jeffrey M. Anderson was disappointed)? Or did you try Extract (Jette Kernion didn't love it as unreservedly as I did, but still thought it was "much funnier and more fearless" than other grown-up comedies she's seen this year)? Or catch up with one or two indie or other limited releases? Or watch DVDs? Take our poll and let us know!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
9-07-2009 @ 10:46PM
NP said...
Saw Amreeka on Friday. Good stuff.
Watched Jeanne Dielman on DVD Saturday and still trying to wrap my mind around it.
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9-07-2009 @ 11:18PM
Michael Byng said...
Other! Once again there is no option for two movies or more. Which is what I did.
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9-07-2009 @ 11:19PM
SpaceAce said...
does swine flu say enough about my weekend?
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9-07-2009 @ 11:45PM
NP said...
Best wishes for a speedy recovery!
9-08-2009 @ 12:21AM
cablebfg said...
I couldn't get enough college football this weekend. I also had some beer to go with it and caught Ghost Rider, which was kinda blah but had enough humor (sometimes unintentional) to keep me going. Oh, did I mention I spent the whole weekend visiting family in Kentucky? Busy frackin' weekend.
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9-08-2009 @ 1:22AM
Nathan said...
There's no option for "worked all weekend" Not everyone gets Labor Day off, to me, it's not even a holiday, just another workday.
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9-08-2009 @ 1:43AM
Interjected said...
Yeah...I worked too. Not all weekend, but at least Labor Day itself. I did manage to watch a bunch of movies on my Sunday off, though.
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9-08-2009 @ 7:51AM
Meredith said...
There should be an "I had to work, you lazy bastards" ticky box, because that's what I would have checked! :D
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9-08-2009 @ 9:54AM
C.A. said...
Like many above I worked all weekend putting the labor in Labor Day.
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9-08-2009 @ 10:54AM
robert said...
a nice combo of the first three options.
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9-08-2009 @ 2:36PM
Stephie said...
I went into DVD pig-out mode during the Labor Day weekend, mainly reliving the summer of 2008 (The Dark Knight, The Incredible Hulk, Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder), but I did watch a non-Summer 2008 movie last night -- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang -- the funniest mystery/comedy that nobody saw.
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9-08-2009 @ 2:47PM
Jennifer said...
I hit DragonCon, where i had a blast.
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9-09-2009 @ 9:03AM
Eric H said...
DRAGON*CON!
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9-10-2009 @ 1:16AM
Matthew said...
A picture of the Texas Longhorns on Cinematical?! You just made my day sirs.
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