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trinityvixenStay Alive: If only certain video games would come alive and kill their obnoxious players for real! ::cough cough WoW cough::
The Fog: Tom Welling is allowed to be overtly horny!
The Reaping: Well of course you abort the Anti-Christ.
No Reservations: It's a good thing I didn't see this before The Dark Knight, or Harvey Dent would have been ruined for me.
The Brave One: How "questionably immoral" can one person be if they are rewarded for their behavior?
Starz Inside Story: The Pixar Story: I love Pixar and Stacey Keach--WIN!
::bows:: Thank you.
While I was upstate, I also added a billion more movies to the TiVo. I'm not sure I came away with a net loss of programs saved there, though I did manage to watch a lot of stuff and get a lot of cross-stitching done. My mother is all set to invite me up again. I think I will accept because I was denied the pleasure of watching some true drivel (Shooter comes to mind) when my father literally forced me to watch The Godfather. That's THREE HOURS OF MOVIE.
Look, maybe, in its day, The Godfather was amazing. Cultural osmosis meant that I knew just about everything that was going to happen, which took the edge off the artsy-fartsy aspect. Which left me with just the story, and the story is grating. I do not like mobster movies. Like westerns and war movies only worse, mob movies are so infused with crises of masculinity and the bullshit that goes with that it bores me to tears. Mob movies also relegate women to the corners. Now, the majority of films tend to do this nowadays, but mob movies don't just forget that women exist, which wouldn't be so bad. Instead, they include women solely to be used by the men in the movie and to be shown to be shrill, unlikeable harpies, duly dedicated and submissive wives, or pathetic, longing, purpose-less-until-mobster-takes-an-interest puppies. That's really, really unflattering, and it grates.
If I hadn't been FORCED to watch it, I might not have had so many bad things to say about it. But that's my father. He doesn't realize that pushing doesn't work on me and often leads to the opposite reaction to his own. It doesn't help that he feels he is "educating" me (with all that that sort of patronizing talk really pisses me off) when he wouldn't extend the same courtesy to anything I suggested. I didn't defend any of the TiVo'd movies--I TiVo'd them because they were bad and I could skip them if they weren't watchable--but anything else I tried suggesting that I actually thought was good was ridiculed.
The Fog: Tom Welling is allowed to be overtly horny!
The Reaping: Well of course you abort the Anti-Christ.
No Reservations: It's a good thing I didn't see this before The Dark Knight, or Harvey Dent would have been ruined for me.
The Brave One: How "questionably immoral" can one person be if they are rewarded for their behavior?
Starz Inside Story: The Pixar Story: I love Pixar and Stacey Keach--WIN!
::bows:: Thank you.
While I was upstate, I also added a billion more movies to the TiVo. I'm not sure I came away with a net loss of programs saved there, though I did manage to watch a lot of stuff and get a lot of cross-stitching done. My mother is all set to invite me up again. I think I will accept because I was denied the pleasure of watching some true drivel (Shooter comes to mind) when my father literally forced me to watch The Godfather. That's THREE HOURS OF MOVIE.
Look, maybe, in its day, The Godfather was amazing. Cultural osmosis meant that I knew just about everything that was going to happen, which took the edge off the artsy-fartsy aspect. Which left me with just the story, and the story is grating. I do not like mobster movies. Like westerns and war movies only worse, mob movies are so infused with crises of masculinity and the bullshit that goes with that it bores me to tears. Mob movies also relegate women to the corners. Now, the majority of films tend to do this nowadays, but mob movies don't just forget that women exist, which wouldn't be so bad. Instead, they include women solely to be used by the men in the movie and to be shown to be shrill, unlikeable harpies, duly dedicated and submissive wives, or pathetic, longing, purpose-less-until-mobster-takes-an-interest puppies. That's really, really unflattering, and it grates.
If I hadn't been FORCED to watch it, I might not have had so many bad things to say about it. But that's my father. He doesn't realize that pushing doesn't work on me and often leads to the opposite reaction to his own. It doesn't help that he feels he is "educating" me (with all that that sort of patronizing talk really pisses me off) when he wouldn't extend the same courtesy to anything I suggested. I didn't defend any of the TiVo'd movies--I TiVo'd them because they were bad and I could skip them if they weren't watchable--but anything else I tried suggesting that I actually thought was good was ridiculed.
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Date: 2008-09-02 03:25 pm (UTC)There are also some good movies about other kinds of mobsters, since theoretically the villains in Snatch and/or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels are mobsters, but those are really designed and pitched as half comedy so maybe that's different.
Two days after I told you about him, Don LaFontaine, the main voice-over guy, from the Geico ad, passed away. Sucks.
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Date: 2008-09-02 03:55 pm (UTC)Re: Don La Fontaine: I was just watching those commercials you posted, too. So sad! No more "In a world..." :(