The only thing I can remember always having an interest in is movies. I'll admit it, I'm a movie snob. If you mention a film I usually want to throw in my two cents. I like to know behind the scenes secrets. I'm always interested in trivia and budgets and who starred in what- and if they were in a movie with so and so and did they get along etc etc... The point is, I don't know everything about film, but I know more than your average Joe, especially for someone my age. Which brings me to why I'm a movie snob. I cannot wrap my brain around why people nowadays pay 10 dollars to see the same comic book paradigm or mindless garbage with mall cops. Why does someone whose career is based on the words 'git-r-done' get a movie to himself? (That question is rhetorical.)
Today we just finished watching Fatal Attraction in my Contemporary Film class. First of all, I wasn't a big fan of the movie, although I do think it does a wonderful job making Glenn Close into the craziest psycho bitch on earth. The acting was great, the story was interesting. I found it hard to get over the 80's hair, clothes- pretty much everything- but basically I wouldn't want to watch the movie again. Yet if someone were to ask me what I thought of the film, I would most likely be able to explain clearly why I thought the film was such a hit, and why Glenn Close couldn't get a date for a decade.
However, the kids in my class, their idea of reviews were, 'I'm glad that bitch got shot.' 'Why does the daughter look like a boy?' 'Yo that shits crazy.' Really? REALLY? That's what you would like to add to the discussion?
Yes this is Morgan Hill, and I don't think I'm going out on a line when I say that the leaders of tomorrow most likely aren't coming from Gavilan Community College. But these kids supposedly graduated from high school?!? Perhaps they are not infatuated with movies like I am, but is it too much to ask that they use full sentences? Is it really impossible to have a conversation about the movie and not just remarks about how you would have stabbed/shot her extra times insuring she was dead? I realize that this is what they have learned watching horror films from today, and I guess in a way they are comparing and contrasting. Be that as it may, listening to what they are passing off as a discussion almost was enough to walk out on or choke myself with my scarf of the day. Am I being a bit dramatic? Probably. I just can't help but think our generation is in serious need of maturity and brain cells, even if the conversation is just about movies.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no Einstein. I guess I just get a bit more sensitive when it comes to movies than others. Thus ends my ranting and raging.
Yeah, Gav annoyed the heck out of me because of times like that too. I just felt superior to all of them and thanked the fact that I wouldn't be seeing them in the theaters times I would go to see "In Bruges" or something of that equivilant.
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ReplyDeleteI take movies personally. I was going to write and vent, but you just did it. People suck.