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like an angry old man, shaking a fist at the sky...
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
i like titanic
i try to buy movies on dvd only if i can't foresee ever being embarassed to admit that i own them. that being said, i was somewhat glad when financial struggles in the late summer led me to sell a number of my dvd's for some quick cash. i rid myself of the movies i felt were below me.
even now, in my little cubby hole, i have a small box in which i keep only the best of the best (which tends to mean the movies i'm currently watching with some regularity), and the rest reside in a closed box in the corner.
but i have secrets. yes, i've got some movies that i taped of the dorm movie channel while i lived in the dorms a few years back.
bring it on. shaft. whatever it takes. yes, i must admit a weak spot for the teen movie du jour. i don't know why. perhaps it is because they belong to that genre of film which possesses that fallacious sense of justice i ranted about some time back. you know, the girl always gets her dream guy, and the guy always realizes that the dream girl is a stuck up ho, and falls for his supposedly plain secretly super hot best friend (see "whatever it takes" or "she's all that" for examples of this).
i loved freddy vs. jason. my thinking is, if a movie sets out to do something, even if its lowbrow, and it succeeds, why shouldn't i like it? there's no reason. in fact, i'm itching to buy freddy vs. jason on dvd, but i hesitate - will it taint the almost invariably 4-star caliber of my collection? in my eyes, no, but in the eyes of the smoot, perhaps.
now, now, you're saying, why should i care? i shouldn't. you're right. but i do.
like damon. he says he hates titanic. that it makes him want to shoot himself. i say, bullshit!! all they had was each other!!
feeling: lost, rather detached
thinking of: escaping
song of the day: ascent - brian eno (its instrumental, so no lyrics)
i try to buy movies on dvd only if i can't foresee ever being embarassed to admit that i own them. that being said, i was somewhat glad when financial struggles in the late summer led me to sell a number of my dvd's for some quick cash. i rid myself of the movies i felt were below me.
even now, in my little cubby hole, i have a small box in which i keep only the best of the best (which tends to mean the movies i'm currently watching with some regularity), and the rest reside in a closed box in the corner.
but i have secrets. yes, i've got some movies that i taped of the dorm movie channel while i lived in the dorms a few years back.
bring it on. shaft. whatever it takes. yes, i must admit a weak spot for the teen movie du jour. i don't know why. perhaps it is because they belong to that genre of film which possesses that fallacious sense of justice i ranted about some time back. you know, the girl always gets her dream guy, and the guy always realizes that the dream girl is a stuck up ho, and falls for his supposedly plain secretly super hot best friend (see "whatever it takes" or "she's all that" for examples of this).
i loved freddy vs. jason. my thinking is, if a movie sets out to do something, even if its lowbrow, and it succeeds, why shouldn't i like it? there's no reason. in fact, i'm itching to buy freddy vs. jason on dvd, but i hesitate - will it taint the almost invariably 4-star caliber of my collection? in my eyes, no, but in the eyes of the smoot, perhaps.
now, now, you're saying, why should i care? i shouldn't. you're right. but i do.
like damon. he says he hates titanic. that it makes him want to shoot himself. i say, bullshit!! all they had was each other!!
feeling: lost, rather detached
thinking of: escaping
song of the day: ascent - brian eno (its instrumental, so no lyrics)
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