Me and my wife find the show "24" one of the funniest most campiest shows on TV.

[trumad]

I don't think I recall a show where I sit there and yell at the TV---"yeah right" or "of he gets out of this I'll never watch the show again" or how we chuckle when we guess how long it will take the strike team to arrive...or how they always show up a second after the bad guy gets away. I'm seriously thinking about creating a drinking game for the show.

We laugh at the incompetency of CTU--- we laugh at the amount of spy's that pop up in the show each season---we laugh at Chloe being one of the whiniest characters in TV history and laugh more when she tells Jack how to disarm a nuke.

The first season we laughed how many times Jacks daughter was kidnapped in 24 hours...I think 4 times...We laughed when William Devane's character plunged a 1000 feet off a cliff into the Pacific and er lived....we cheered when the kidnappers kidnapped Audrey Raines....

God I could go on and on with funny ass incidents in this show.

[Wickerman]

1. If you find 24 funny, watch "I Trust You to Kill Me"

A real life docu in which Keiffer takes one of his label's band out on the road for a harrowing 10 days. The film never decides if it is about KS or the band or the label.

{SPOILER- kind of}

Somewhere along the way Keiffer decides its about him growing up so he gets in a new tat (in Icelandic!) and goes home. I know there is a drinking game in this movie. The number of times Keiffer shows up hungover? Tackles a Christmas tree?

[ShortnFiery]

2. I too have similar feelings ...

I sometimes catch myself picking my nose or watching WWF ... BUT I don't brag about it. :eyes:

For example, I'm fascinated with the psyche of serial killers and loved the hell out of the movie "American Psycho." But the real me is 180 degrees the opposite: I'm a practicing liberal Catholic who's ultra-sensitive and can feel guilty over almost anything. I also realize that there are many *very twisted* personalities out there who see this film as an HOW TO manual.

My point: It's great to have some guilty pleasures, but the morality of such films and series is NIL. Further, even though we *enjoy fantasy*, we are also responsible to admit that such violence is morally bankrupt at it's contributions to society.

No, it's cool if you like it, but it's not something, IMO, you should feel proud to promote.

On Edit: You want to talk the most morally bankrupt flick ... we were the only ones in the theater and constantly laughing our asses off at the lameness - go see "The Devil's Rejects".

Shit! I just did what I censured you not to do. :blush:

Perhaps I just despise the bastard who wrote it because he's a certifiable right wing nut-case?

I submit. :yoiks:

[YOY]

3. Actually the Book "American Psycho" was quite good

by Brett Eston Ellis...the same guy who wrote Less Than Zero. Period peices about drugs, madness, elitism, and society...with soem of the most graphic inhumane violence you could ever imagine...but not in a gory movie over-the-top way.

The book never conveyed that message and whether or not it was all a fantasy is left up to the reader. The movie was an extremely piss poor popcorn-for-the-mind pile-of-vomit of a version!

[ShortnFiery]

4. Agreed. The movie was "mainstream" pop rep of an Homicidal Anti-Social Personality n/t

Tis true. If we really wish to understand "Psychopathic" all we have to do is study a number of personalities making up our "Unitary Executive." :scared:

[chelsea0011]

5. I've been meaning to read that book, because I did find the movie

quite good.

[YOY]

12. I hate to sound trite, but the book REALLY is better

Hands down. You will be grossed out at parts. There is some 'ultra-violence' in the matter. It will cause disgust in the reader. Not so much from what the violence is but moreso the manner in which Patrick Bateman (the main character) describes it.

It paints the 80s uber-yuppie New York Wallstreet culture as a jungle and Patrick Bateman is the maddest of lion kings.

[trumad]

8. We sit there with our eyes wide open cracking up the whole time

It's like---"No way dude" the whole time we watch it. Last episode me and my wife would guess on the time they'd give for the strike team to arrive. It's usually between 5 to 15 minutes. And by golly, the bad guys would get away in minute 14. Hilarious.

Oh and the one time they made it---the bad guys nuked them.

on eidt: Oh--- and how many strkie teams have they lost in 4 seasons? 20?

[radfringe]

6. I have tried to watch it - my partner is hooked on it...

I can't get into it.

The '24' hour premise is a bit far fetching, nothing moves that fast from "discovering" some terror plot to saving the world.

So far, every season is the same "story" - bad guys want to blow up/attack some city, inside political crap puts "jack" into danger, and we're saved until next season when it starts all over again.

When the show is on - I go to bed and sleep

[mwb970]

10. I tried "24" once. I lasted about 5 minutes.

The killings and cruelty and violence I saw in just that 5 minutes was horrifying. Genuinely frightened, I turned it off and decided to never try it again. Maybe I am just too old (at 56) to be sufficiently desensitized to the constant torturing and killing of people as entertainment. I guess I missed the humor value entirely. Or maybe I just prefer watching Hardball or Countdown instead of a made-up story about violent, heartless people. Isn't the actual news bad enough?

Do you remember the scene in THX1138 where the guy comes home from work and sits down to relax in front of the TV? He placidly watches a grainy black-and-white scene of a man beating another man over and over and over again. Apparently, that's what it takes to garner an emotional response in Lucas's futuristic dystopia.

But hey, if "24" is your thing, knock yourself out. I ain't no censor! Just don't make me watch the damn thing.

(/rant)

[sendero]

7. I agree...

.... andlike I said in another thread. If there was really a Jack Bauer in the CIA, we wouldn't have needed to invade Iraq. He could handle Saddam pretty much on his own :)

[radfringe]

11. if we had a real Jack Bauer - 9/11 wouldn't have happened

Jack Bauer for president? :rofl: why not? :rofl:

[City Lights]

9. I won't say I laugh at it, but I do roll my eyes a lot.

Super Jack to the rescue...again...:eyes:

I don't miss an episode though, so I'll :eyes: at myself. ;-)

[wellst0nev0ter]

13. I Watch 24 For The HUGE Plot Holes

I like how if they can't kill off a character, they'd just dump them off and forget about them, like in season four where that new boss woman was tossed aside, or that son of that Araz terror family, whatever happened to him? And we never really find out if the president got killed, and so on.

Also I'm kinda sad that this season just shrugged off the "constitutional crisis" of the crooked president being hauled off in handcuffs last season. That would have been tre interesting :(

[dogday]

14. We laughed at how CTU always gives Jack up

to be killed, tortured or worse and yet he is the only one they can turn to in a crisis....

There is no way this guy could accomplish all this crap in 24 hours and my husband and I laugh about that...

And when Chloe came back after being upset, everyone is like welcome back chloe, I mean she took a 15 minute break... We howled about that....

You are right, it is a funny show.....

[trumad]

16. Dude comes back from China---get's his gift basket...

and then they give him up. Too funny.

Plus--- if it aint the President, it's his Dad or Brother or fellow Agent who betrays him. You're right about Chloe... and ya gotta ask---how the hell can Morris type on a keyboard after getting a 1/2 inch drill bit put through his shoulder? What no carpal tunnel?

[dogday]

19. I know!!! IF I was Morris, I would be lying in a bed

full of pain killers.. Not only a drill to the shoulder, but they beat the crap out of him...I guess he is feeling pretty responsible for being such a wimp--(notice nobody is calling him that, but Jack thought he was)

[trumad]

20. Yeah--they beat him with a baseball bat....repeatedly...

[mnhtnbb]

15. I wasn't laughing at the drill use last episode. I had to hide under

the afghan and have hubby tell me when it was over!

But I did think it was hilarious that the same actor who played Jack's brother was also an a$$hole on several seasons of ER. What would have been truly hilarious, though, would have been for Jack's brother to die by having a helicopter fall on him (like his character in ER).

[Lex]

17. I watched the 1st season only. After that, the show became laughable

and improbable on a scale that was unwatchable.

[trumad]

21. But the "improbable" part is why I love it.

[Lex]

22. Like Scooby Doo or Star Trek?

:)

[kwyjibo]

18. I watch it for the explosions.

I don't get to see stuff blowing up much in real life, so I appreciate this show. It has the same appeal as Die Hard. I love action. Especially action with explosions.

[Lex]

23. The "blowed it up real good" factor.

:rofl: