30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 21

[trinityvixen]

Our lab/floor dedication--a.k.a. a "Thank you for paying for our space, rich doctor man!" party--is tomorrow. I've done zero science today. I've just been tidying and tucking every last goddamned thing I can into cabinets or drawers out of sight. I still think my boss is going to come in tomorrow (she's home today grant writing) and find a million more things for me to hide/throw out. Oh well.

Day 21 - The most overrated movie
I never like mob movies/stories/TV. It doesn't appeal to me at all. I sympathized with Meg Ryan's character in You've Got Mail, and I think she was right: mob stories are such guy movies. They're not for women at all, and I couldn't hardly find a thing to relate to in this movie. I hear the sequel is better. So fucking what? This thing was monstrously long, and nothing about it appealed to me--not the random violence, not the "honor" code among the mafiosos, not Michael Corleone's eventual slide into the family business, nothing.

Worse, I think this is one of those movies that people overhype because it's ZOMG art or something. Whatever. It's long, not much happens, and what does happen is all stupid instead of tragic, and blah blah blah. You cannot care a goddamn about the people in this movie, so you certainly can't care whether they fail or succeed or die or whatever I'm done talking about this POS.

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Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The others are more entertaining because they embrace the horror instead of looking from the outside with slight detachment. I mean, for all that Veronica Cartwright was horrified in Alien, there's a lot of emotional voidage going on.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Well, it is Ridley Scott we're talking about.

Oh! That would be my most overhyped movie: Bladerunner.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

God, I feel like I should find that movie amazing and whatever, but I was so bored. I thought the version without the narration was just incomprehensible.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Ditto! I saw that one first and it made no sense. Then I watched the one with narration and, yes, the voiceover is crap and Harrison Ford sounds like it's such torture that he has to record this, but IT'S NECESSARY. I had a whole fight about this on my podcast. I was saying you can only say you like the version with the voiceover better because you saw the one with it first. And take it from a newbie, it doesn't make sense without. And I do not think a film you have to watch multiple times just to figure out the plot is a good film.

Even leaving that aside, it's a slow goddamn movie with a stupid ending. Either one.