The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #60935   Message #980099
Posted By: Little Hawk
09-Jul-03 - 04:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: movies you're supposed to like
Subject: RE: BS: movies you're supposed to like
My parents somehow made the mistake of going to see "There's Something About Mary" at the theatre...and they were so disgusted that they haven't gone to a movie since! :-) What a tribute to the marketing brilliance of Hollywood...

Hey, Kat, I thought "A Fish Called Wanda" was the funniest movie I ever saw in my life, and have happily re-viewed it on 5 or 6 occasions since! Gosh, makes ya wonder, eh? Are you deeply offended by jokes involving a stutterer or was it something else? If so, rest easy, cos no one would dare do that anymore, except in a teen exploitation film where they dare to do much worse things (and in a totally mean-minded and moronic fashion, too). I despise the political correctness of the present age, which preaches tolerance and non-prejudice (in the form of enforced conformity) out of one side of its mouth and markets astounding vulgarity and violence out of the other side without blinking an eye.

It isn't what you show on the screen that matters...it's the spirit in which you show it. And boy, is there ever a crass spirit out there making a lot of movies these days.

As for "Blair Witch Project", well, that was kind of like paying to have a low-level migraine headache. Fortunately, I saw it for free. Still, I really think that the people who made it owe me a few bucks for the wasted time... :-) Be advised that it has also spawned (according to what I've read) two...count 'em, two...of the poorest computer games of ALL TIME!!!! YAYYYYY!!!! (picture Kermit the Frog waving his little greeen arms frantically in the air...)

- LH