Eccentric Flower:200911/Im On It
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I'm On It
For those of you who didn't feel like reading the previous entry just posted, or who read it but felt the clip at the end was not nearly enough comic relief to make up for it, here's something wholly unrelated.
I have come so close to providing this very service in the past, but I'm unconvinced that there is an audience for it besides Brent and myself.
Maybe on Fridays I should start the Why You Don't Need To See This Film movie review section. Best part: Don't actually need to see any of the films to write it! In fact, if I did, I'd be compromising the point!
Nah, I joke. No, I don't joke about the films - they're crap. I joke about writing it. Not only would it be a waste of energy, but there are far too many films every week where there is so little actual reason to see them that I wouldn't even be able to write a pithy and entertaining reason why you shouldn't see them.
It chagrins me how much Hollywood contributes to its own ruination. And yet they're not dead yet. Why is that? Could it say something about the average discernment of the American consumer? Why, I think it might.
Not y'all, of course. You folks are very discerning people. Which is probably why you go to movies about as often as I do. (With the exception of Kymm and Jette, who are stone film junkies and go see everything no matter how horrible it might be.)
Somehow, I doubt this is a film franchise that requires detailed knowledge of canon and continuity.
-- 19:43, 12 November 2009 (GMT)
Excuse me, I do not go see everything no matter how horrible it may be, and the only reason I saw "2012" this week is that my new day job hadn't started and I wanted to see all my little film critic friends.
I turn down chances to see movies for free all the time if they look sucky and I'm not getting paid to review them. I watch Tyler Perry movies and football movies only when someone is paying me.
Thing is, sometimes you get a surprise. I would never have seen a Sandra Bullock-starring football movie willingly, but "The Blind Side" is actually pretty good. "Kung Fu Panda"? Fun even if I didn't like the animation style.
Trailers are terrible indicators as to a movie's quality, movie reviewers aren't reliable, sometimes you just have to take a chance. Indies are often a better risk than Hollywood films, but sometimes it's worth $8 and two hours for me to decide about a film for myself.
P.S. Have you seen "Whip It" yet? Worth a look before it leaves theaters. Ellen Page isn't annoying, and Juliette Lewis ... isn't in it for very long.
-- 20:06, 12 November 2009 (GMT)
We wanted to see Whip It, actually, it looked like careless fun. Drew isn't a fabulous director but you can tell she enjoys herself, which is nice. The problem is that we only have the weekends to see films, and by the weekend we're often so tired out from the week that we mostly want to sit on the couch and stare at the ceiling with the cats.
-- 20:49, 12 November 2009 (GMT)
The ceiling that does not have cats is boring to stare at.
-- 01:42, 14 November 2009 (GMT)
Nonelvis:
Does this mean you won't come with me to London to see this?
-- 19:12, 12 November 2009 (GMT)