I actually managed to sneak away from the craziness of my stupid overbooked life and hit the movies yesterday afternoon. Two things I know:
1. Popcorn is good... because it tastes good.
2. Knocked Up is as awesome as I hoped it would be.
It seems like writer/director Judd Apatow is making movies specifically for me. I half expect the next one to be called Here's Another Movie You're Really Going To Like, Brendan, quickly to be followed by its sequel Here's Another Movie You're Really Going to Like, Brendan Part 2: On the Move.
Apatow's work hits my sensibilities perfectly: the combination of smart yet juvenile humor with realistic human characters and relationships. Really - is that so hard, Hollywood? There's only one guy able to pull a well-written comedy off in that entire stinkhole of a town?
You know what's been annoying me? Every time I read or see an interview with Seth Rogen (who is terrific in the movie by the way), the focus is always "Wow, you're about to become the next big comedy star, huh?" No one asks about the movie or about his work. It's all about how this "vehicle" is going to get him "heat" in "the industry."
When did people outside of "the business" start caring about this shit? Why do I give a flying rodent fuck how much money a movie makes? I care whether I actually liked the movie or not. It pretty much begins and ends with that. But they print the weekend grosses like they're baseball scores. It's gotten to the point where we have been manipulated into thinking that "hit movie" equals "good movie." Something's only good if it's popular? So Friends was the funniest show ever?
I've said it before and I'll say it again - I hope that city and everyone in it melts in a rolling sea of piss-flavored lava.
1. Popcorn is good... because it tastes good.
2. Knocked Up is as awesome as I hoped it would be.
It seems like writer/director Judd Apatow is making movies specifically for me. I half expect the next one to be called Here's Another Movie You're Really Going To Like, Brendan, quickly to be followed by its sequel Here's Another Movie You're Really Going to Like, Brendan Part 2: On the Move.
Apatow's work hits my sensibilities perfectly: the combination of smart yet juvenile humor with realistic human characters and relationships. Really - is that so hard, Hollywood? There's only one guy able to pull a well-written comedy off in that entire stinkhole of a town?
You know what's been annoying me? Every time I read or see an interview with Seth Rogen (who is terrific in the movie by the way), the focus is always "Wow, you're about to become the next big comedy star, huh?" No one asks about the movie or about his work. It's all about how this "vehicle" is going to get him "heat" in "the industry."
When did people outside of "the business" start caring about this shit? Why do I give a flying rodent fuck how much money a movie makes? I care whether I actually liked the movie or not. It pretty much begins and ends with that. But they print the weekend grosses like they're baseball scores. It's gotten to the point where we have been manipulated into thinking that "hit movie" equals "good movie." Something's only good if it's popular? So Friends was the funniest show ever?
I've said it before and I'll say it again - I hope that city and everyone in it melts in a rolling sea of piss-flavored lava.
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Funny, it's the opposite that bothers me. The idea that something is only good if it's not popular. At least that seems to be the pervasive feeling among my friends.
sigh...Will someone just tell me what it's cool to like once and for all?
sigh...Will someone just tell me what it's cool to like once and for all?
Strawberry ice cream.
And the Dutch.
I don't think it matters what lava tastes like. I think its the fact that its melts your flesh off that sucks.
Strawberry ice cream.
And the Dutch.
Oh. Fuck being cool then.
(Am I cool now?)
PEEING YOUR PANTS IS COOL!
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