Miscellany

[spoothbrush]

Wow
Wow, that last post got long. Small wonder I haven't posted again since then... that was like a dozen posts' worth of verbiage.

Let's make this one short, I think.

Guilty PleasuresIn general, I avoid thinking of things as "guilty pleasures". I don't feel "guilty" for eating junk food. Or for going on YouTube and binging on Judge Judy clips

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[ext_226279]

Napoleon Dynamite was so terrible, I paid $5 to watch it on a plane once and then stopped watching about 20% of the way through and wished I could get my money back.

[spoothbrush]

And it's not just that it was a terrible movie that I hated and wanted it to end with an asteroid destroying everyone in the entire movie. It's that it was a movie that I HATED SO MUCH (flames. flames, on the side of my face...) and yet someone, who knew me, like had met me on multiple occasions over several years, didn't just think that it was a good move but thought that it was SPECIFICALLY MY KIND OF MOVIE and honestly I'm not sure that a friendship can really survive that kind of betrayal.

[bkm5191]

I'm not sure that a friendship can really survive that kind of betrayal .

People though I would like that steaming turd of a movie as well. We no longer speak.

[spoothbrush]

Seriously. I mean, if you recommend that I watch, like, that Spartacus series, and I find it kind of interesting but can't watch it because it gives me nightmares while I'm not actually asleep and also driving and also it's 11 AM, that's one thing. But misjudging my ability to handle watching shows that involve people killing people is different from fundamentally misjudging my character so profoundly that you think I'd appreciate that movie in any way whatsoever.

[brithistorian]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who inspects my Biore strips after use, but even more glad to see I'm not the only one who didn't like Napoleon Dynamite (though I gave up on it after an hour, as my hopes that it would get better didn't seem to be panning out). Portlandia is on my "to be watched" list, where it and Orphan Black are battling for 3rd and 4th place (Cosmos is in 1st because I'm actually watching it and it comes on at a particular time, and Game of Thrones is in 2nd because I'm actually watching it [currently in season 3 on DVD]).

[spoothbrush]

I think that we need to open up a society to allowing people to speak freely about how much we disliked Napoleon Dynamite. Maybe not constantly, but it seems like every time I bring the topic up other people agree with me, often with a sort of embarrassed relief.

I mean, Sideways I can think of and say "This is a well-made, well-acted movie that I loathed and that has now permanently ruined movies with a visible Paul Giamatti for me, except for the ones where he plays someone who gets killed fairly early on." But the intensity of my dislike is in a perhaps perverse way an indication of quality filmmaking.

Napoleon Dynamite, though? At best, that's "awkwardness on its own is not actually inherently funny."

[brithistorian]

I'm about 80-90% sure I didn't like Sideways. I can't be more sure because I was watching it while participating in a medical trial and suffering through niacin-induced hot flashes, so I'm not entirely certain how much of the misery I was feeling was due to the movie. But I think the fact that I haven't had an urge to go back and watch it while not chemically altered is a good sign that I actually didn't like it.