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Git Offa Mah Land!!!
Sep. 10th, 2001 10:13 amI have another more thought-provoking entry than this one coming soon (v. exciting story where i picked lint from my toes), but i was just surfing Bindle and i saw people talking about Buried on Sunday again. This is much better suited to a LJ than a mailing list thing, as the thread is over and done and this will no doubt be seen as a bait, but it isn't, honestly.
I swear to god, i must've been watching some other movie the way people wax on and wax off about this thing. It's the cure for insomnia. We should have tighter customs restrictions is all i'm saying. Damn, we just let anything come through our borders. If " thoughtful Canadian film" is a euphemism for "tired, slow and plodding", i say...I'm proud to be an American, where at least i know i'm freeeeeee...
((Btw, Kit is a nice woman and a hell of a good sport, esp when i started freaking out on her about what a piece of crap that movie was in that nice and polite restaurant that should've thrown me out on the spot for causing a ruckus and promoting indigestion.))
And really, I should be nicer about what people love and stuff-- i can't get enough of films like Tommy Boy which i like to watch while eating pizza crumbs from hard to reach areas of my body where they had fallen, so you know my personal taste is right down the crapper-- but i can't help it.
There are two reasons why my reaction to this movie is so out of proportion to the actual movie, because c'mon, i have seen worse. Not much worse, but still:
Everyone loves this movie but me. I'm going to get angry letters from people in Uzbekistan talking about how i'm slagging this movie unfairly. I must be firm, and hate this movie 200 times as much to even out the praise.
((Mary, here's a pill. Please take it.))
And the second reason and really, what lays at the heart of this diatribe, is that guys, it's okay to be a fangirl and watch a movie just because your favorite actor is in it. You don't have to pretend if it's less than stellar, and as it SO often is when you're watching a movie just to see one cute guy or girl. Your not hurting their feelings by thinking it sucks. Well, there was that one moment at Homicide Live where i made the mistake of telling Belzer that i'd seen him in Groove Tube just the week before and i thought he was going to belt me one.
::shrug:: Oh well, Belzer, bite me. It's your own damn fault for making that monster. and anyway, it could've been worse-- i could've told him i'd seen his wife in Young Lady Chatterly.
((Obnoxious, really unfunny "comedian" savagely attacks deranged fangirl, is so stoned that fangirl only feels a mild breeze, news at 11.))
But really, it's okay for it to be bad. I'll still respect you in the morning, and i'll be there with tylenol and a hot water bottle to soothe the deep pain and suffering caused by watching movies and TV shows out of shallow fannish desires, because i know, man, i know. I've seen Everything in the Kyle Secor filmography. I even saw Beauty's Revenge. I EVEN saw Her Desperate Choice-- Christ on a cracker, that was bad. I even saw him in Siege of Marion where he uttered the title journal phrase and just when i thought it was going to get good and jsut when i was going to see some Hot Mormon Action in the form of 2 Barely Legal Girls cuddling up to a very scrumptious Secor-- the camera cuts away! No Fair!
The scary thing is: I ASKED people in Mailing Lists for copies of these. There's still a tangible record of it somewhere in the Schism archives. I PAID MONEY for copies of these. I COULDN'T WAIT for these movies to rerun on Lifetime. I even spread the disease onto my friends! Oh, the shame, the utter burning shame...
So...it's okay to be a fangirl. They're not lurking on the lists to see if you've been naughty or nice. You don't get nice points for liking it. You can even dislike it if you want; i won't tell. I'll still be your friend even after Paul Gross and Kyle Secor have shunned us for life. I'll be in the corner eating paste when you want to talk.
I swear to god, i must've been watching some other movie the way people wax on and wax off about this thing. It's the cure for insomnia. We should have tighter customs restrictions is all i'm saying. Damn, we just let anything come through our borders. If " thoughtful Canadian film" is a euphemism for "tired, slow and plodding", i say...I'm proud to be an American, where at least i know i'm freeeeeee...
((Btw, Kit is a nice woman and a hell of a good sport, esp when i started freaking out on her about what a piece of crap that movie was in that nice and polite restaurant that should've thrown me out on the spot for causing a ruckus and promoting indigestion.))
And really, I should be nicer about what people love and stuff-- i can't get enough of films like Tommy Boy which i like to watch while eating pizza crumbs from hard to reach areas of my body where they had fallen, so you know my personal taste is right down the crapper-- but i can't help it.
There are two reasons why my reaction to this movie is so out of proportion to the actual movie, because c'mon, i have seen worse. Not much worse, but still:
Everyone loves this movie but me. I'm going to get angry letters from people in Uzbekistan talking about how i'm slagging this movie unfairly. I must be firm, and hate this movie 200 times as much to even out the praise.
((Mary, here's a pill. Please take it.))
And the second reason and really, what lays at the heart of this diatribe, is that guys, it's okay to be a fangirl and watch a movie just because your favorite actor is in it. You don't have to pretend if it's less than stellar, and as it SO often is when you're watching a movie just to see one cute guy or girl. Your not hurting their feelings by thinking it sucks. Well, there was that one moment at Homicide Live where i made the mistake of telling Belzer that i'd seen him in Groove Tube just the week before and i thought he was going to belt me one.
::shrug:: Oh well, Belzer, bite me. It's your own damn fault for making that monster. and anyway, it could've been worse-- i could've told him i'd seen his wife in Young Lady Chatterly.
((Obnoxious, really unfunny "comedian" savagely attacks deranged fangirl, is so stoned that fangirl only feels a mild breeze, news at 11.))
But really, it's okay for it to be bad. I'll still respect you in the morning, and i'll be there with tylenol and a hot water bottle to soothe the deep pain and suffering caused by watching movies and TV shows out of shallow fannish desires, because i know, man, i know. I've seen Everything in the Kyle Secor filmography. I even saw Beauty's Revenge. I EVEN saw Her Desperate Choice-- Christ on a cracker, that was bad. I even saw him in Siege of Marion where he uttered the title journal phrase and just when i thought it was going to get good and jsut when i was going to see some Hot Mormon Action in the form of 2 Barely Legal Girls cuddling up to a very scrumptious Secor-- the camera cuts away! No Fair!
The scary thing is: I ASKED people in Mailing Lists for copies of these. There's still a tangible record of it somewhere in the Schism archives. I PAID MONEY for copies of these. I COULDN'T WAIT for these movies to rerun on Lifetime. I even spread the disease onto my friends! Oh, the shame, the utter burning shame...
So...it's okay to be a fangirl. They're not lurking on the lists to see if you've been naughty or nice. You don't get nice points for liking it. You can even dislike it if you want; i won't tell. I'll still be your friend even after Paul Gross and Kyle Secor have shunned us for life. I'll be in the corner eating paste when you want to talk.
