The Pillow Book which is a movie I absolutely HATED. OMG. That is one movie I wish I could unwatch. A couple of professional colleagues asked me to see the movie, so I couldn't leave at the halfway mark.
If I'm thinking of the right movie, I did turn this one off at the halfway mark.
Last night's post-dinner DVD was Capitalism: A Love Story, which was about what I expected. I have decided that Michael Moore is the left-wing equivalent of Glen Beck. He finds these little snippets of footage, goes "OOH!" and then jams them into his preconstructed narrative whether or not they actually support his point. (Unfortunately, working in broadcast footage sales means I know exactly where most of his clips come from, and I know what the original context was. I also know how much of a cheapskate he is both in terms of footage and labor, so for him to claim capitalism is the root of all evils and we should all work for socialist coops is pretty fucking hilarious.)
I think it started out differently, but maybe Glenn did too?
erika, Beck was on Y95, of all things. [link]
I almost never hate a movie when I see it in a theater, though sometimes the hatred seeps in later. (See both
The Phantom Menace
and
Attack of the Clones
which I felt pretty okay about immediately after watching, but upon rethinking realized were, well, shitty.)
The second Matrix sequel was bad, because I went in with no hopes after the first Matrix sequel sucked so it just continued my hatred.
But my worst movie-going experience was probably
Superman Returns.
I hated it so much. And every second of it I was thinking "THIS is why we're not getting the third X-Men movie I really want? Really?"
I almost never hate a movie when I see it in a theater
True, except my list mostly results from the selection being left up to
a boy,
except, thankfully,
Last Tango in Paris,
for which I only have myself to blame.
Critters 2 was probably my worst movie theatre experience. Except for the part when the guys were yelling "RUDY!" every time Sean Astin appeared on my third viewing of Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers. That pissed me off more than anything.
I'm off to see New Moon directly!
Michael Moore is the left-wing equivalent of Glen Beck
Umm no. Don't think using stock footage to make valid points necessarily invalidates them. Not perfect but in no way comparable to Glen Beck.
Don't think using stock footage to make valid points necessarily invalidates them.
But he's not making valid points. Half of what's in his movies is pure unadulterated bullshit and the other half is too incoherent to matter. A lot of it sounds reasonable on its face if you're already on his side politically, but there's no there there. He's a conspiracy nut with a camera.
Last night's post-dinner DVD was Capitalism: A Love Story, which was about what I expected. I have decided that Michael Moore is the left-wing equivalent of Glen Beck. He finds these little snippets of footage, goes "OOH!" and then jams them into his preconstructed narrative whether or not they actually support his point.
I have felt this way for years and stopped seeing his movies after the Fahrenheit one. What really pissed me off during Fahrenheit was that there was SO MUCH actually abhorrent stuff going on that he did NOT need to lie and conspire and obfuscate, etc. He could have just told the plain truth, and it would have been scary.
