38 Reasons to Never Go to the Movies Again
Still feeling nihilistic? So's Michael Musto! "Apparently, you pay Scientology, and they help your career big time. But in the old days, the studios closeted you for free! ... I'd rather read an old Pauline Kael review of a movie than watch the actual movie. ... The film biz should pick one day out of the calendar year and declare it 'No Fart Jokes or Car Crashes Day.' ... And how about 'No Pretentious, Scenery-Chewing Oscar-Grubbing Month' (and let's make it December)? ... Every important film from an auteur bloats in at exactly two hours and 20 minutes. One second less would obviously be a creative abortion. ... Today's stars should never do historical epics. Chin implants and pillow lips look funny in the Middle Ages. ... Opening credits have become ridiculous. 'Dingdong Films, under the auspices of Crapola Productions, in association with FilMagic, Cinema Paradise, and Rutgers University, along with Kazilloscope Matters Inc., and Hempstead Futons, Presents an Ashton Kutcher Joint ...'" [Village Voice]
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That is such a fun article!
What a great rant.
SO...you go to the theater, but your large artificially
buttered popcorn and your super-maximum-jumbo
king-sized drink, and munch and slurp away.
The overly long and blaring commercials start, and
eventually the trailers begin. Munch munch.
After a half-hour of this, the movie begins. All the
stars names, production companies, all that crap...
Hooray. Your popcorn's just about gone, and Dr
Pepper is doing an examination of your innards.
We're past the two hour mark, and Dr Pepper is now
giving the brain the order: "GET THIS BLADDER TO
THE RESTROOM. STAT!!" But the friggin' movie is
STILL grinding away. If you go now, you'll miss the
big ho-hum ending!
So if there are to be these Soily Awards, have the
BLADDER AWARD for the longest agonizing film of
the year. JAM THE CELLPHONES! FULL PEED AHEAD!
Kris
Vivid!
Also: If "Full Peed Ahead" isn't yet a fetish-porn series, someone had better get on that.
Thank GAWD somebody's bitching about those damn Production Company credits! If we have to see over a minute of those things, then give us the title of the movie and then START THE DAMN MOVIE! I don't care how fancy your credit sequence is, Mr Fincher (especially when it has absolutely NOTHING to do with the movie), your movie is already TWO HOURS AND FORTY MINUTES LONG!
Hardly can I believe that such faultless blogs exist.
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