I will not be going to the movies anymore. I only end up losing hours of the short time I have left in the world, and ruining the enjoyment of friends and family with my bitching. In spite of being told otherwise, my expectations, I feel, are not unreasonable:
- Real action heroes – who really train hard, fight hard, and whom I care about.
- Unpredictability - I should not know at the outset, that the “good guys” will win, or even who the good guys are.
- Emotional content – if I do take sides, I should care deeply about who wins. At least till the movie ends. At least for a few minutes.
I could expand on all of this, and maybe one day I will. Right now I feel it would be even more time wasted talking about the insulting mediocrity of today’s blockbuster movies.
So, I’ll just say, I won’t be going to the movies anymore, I’ll just stay home and watch football. Because football gives me all that and much more. And when the season is over, and the playoffs are played off, and when the Patriots have won the Superbowl, I’ll go back to writing.
So, I’ll just say, I won’t be going to the movies anymore, I’ll just stay home and watch football. Because football gives me all that and much more. And when the season is over, and the playoffs are played off, and when the Patriots have won the Superbowl, I’ll go back to writing.
I hope 2010 will be a year of experiences and intensity and love and peace and fulfillment for you all!
Real Action Hero!
Tags: Avatar, football, New England Patriots, NFL, Sherlock Holmes
I agree that the last few movies were total crap. but we also all got to hang out and go eat together and bitch about the crap movies together…
stop comparing everything to football, and now just quit everything else and watch football. and let other people enjoy the crap movies if they do! =)
have an eventful and satisfying 2010.
<3
I meant to tell you: I looked up “avatar” in the dictionary the other way. It said: “pretentious, populist attempt to portray oneself as a friend to the poor by spending hundreds of millions of dollars for escapist entertainment to dull and sooth the masses instead of using the money to give some of them jobs, pay for social services, or reform our corrupt political system; process of monetary gain that allows multimillionaires to earn their children’s tuition payments for elite schools, take extended vacations on the cote d’azur, pretend they know french, sneer at critics for just not getting it, and humor themselves all the way to financial lending institutions.”
Okay. I’m done now. Not another word about that shameless appropriation by rapacious capitalists of peasant and gatherer populations struggles in the most dumbed-down idiom imaginable.
Okay, now I’m done. Really. And I’ll never watch a James Cameron movie again, no matter how stupid.
Someone, I need help. I can’t stop. I . . .
whuff!! bravo! encore!!