Wednesday, July 19, 2006

not another irreverent pop-culture movie...

(deep breath). so i was looking online for new films/ movies coming to theaters. i accept that some of the more interesting flicks may not come to middle america, and i'm okay with that but wanted to check anyway. in my cyber searching, i came across a little piece entitled "Another Gay Movie." okay. (another deep breath). i've had a problem with this series of unimaginative, poorly made, spastic tangent movies from the jump. everything that comes to the big screen doesn't have to be a cinematic breakthrough on some level, but i would at least appreciate movies for conscious people. and i don't mean conscious like "in the know and aware"; i mean conscious like "awake in the f*cking theater!" come on! you can't be serious! is this because i'm not a t[w]eenager anymore? would i have paid $7.50 to see this crap years ago? (i honestly do not think so). it's a process of capitalistic copycat complementary regurgitation. not to mention, if one doesn't view these movies within the first 2 weeks of their release, then half of the references will be our generation's version of "dated." and they are self serving - if you haven't seen a great number of other bogus fad movies (and kept up with your celebrity news, i suppose), you won't even get half of the the poorly delivered jokes. for the record, i am not a stiff. i will let some stereotypes and ignorance prevail in my own mind for the sake of a good joke (probably more often that i should be okay with admitting). but it has to be a good joke. i will even be okay with a few pellets of BS in the mix for the sake of range (a little something for everyone). so the first... oh... 2 movies like this - okay, but it should have stopped there. now, people are using movies as vessels to spread their bass ackwards (and probably true) opinions of other people, cultures, etc and to perpetuate ancient stereotypes (and probably some new ones). the collective conscience is sensitive to this sort of thing, whether we want to believe that or not. the sad part is that this can go on forever. what's next? "Not Another Black Movie", "Not Another Independent Movie", "Not Another Foreign Film?" the creators of this mockery in the past had the audacity to call it satire, but satire is what? "irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to expose folly, vice or stupidity." they don't all hit such a high mark. so some have been wise enough lately (and perhaps honest enough too) to call their creations spoofs. much more fitting, as a spoof is "n. 1 nonsense, tomfoolery; 2 a hoax; v. 3 to deceive." well no kidding. here we are going to see "funny" movies and getting no more than the backlash to political correctness. who's being bamboozled now? (not so funny, is it?)...

and don't think you can pick them out by title either. remember "White Chicks"? "Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle"? too far back, how about "Little Man"?...

i don't mean to sound snobbish or full of myself; i'm just really concerned...

1 comment:

wild cowgirl said...

and concerned u should be...
its a mess.
i saw my kids will watch pbs and their mom's show (i dunno, for the longest i swore i would have a tv show). our time outside of that will be spent watching clouds, painting, reading, and choreographing dances.