an entry in which i discuss movies
so, that's the deal, huh? i drop in every six to eight weeks and tell stories no one cares about? cool stuff.
it's cool. i read LJ far more than i write in it. that is to say, i read it every time i "check my internetz." so for all three of you on my friends list who still regularly write, thank you. i do it for you.
LJ is dead outside of the thriving fandom world. and even then, there's the insanity of tumblr devouring it.
see, i have a tumblr, and i use it. relatively regularly.
yesterday ♥cam and i decided to see a movie on a whim. we haven't done that in, like, three years. we saw "your highness" and i told him it was what i imagined his D&D crew's campaigns are like. so, it was funny. not terribly smart. but it was funny. i'm not going to lie. i laughed.
with that said, it's important to clarify that in the last five or so years, i've seemed to transition out of being a movie-watcher. i don't budget time and money for casual trips to the movies anymore. i haven't gotten around to replacing the outmoded TV or broken dvd player in my room. here, for your obnoxious jaw to drop and you to protestingly express disdain for my ignorance of 21st-century pop culture:
MOVIES I HAVE NOT SEEN AND AM TIRED OF BEING TOLD I NEED TO SEE:
- inception
- scott pilgrim
- the darjeeling limited
- knocked up
- the watchmen (own the book, though)
- tron legacy
- the fantastic mr. fox
- black swan
- children of men
- the hangover
- avatar (god, really? fuck you guys. i've seen ferngully)
- no country for old men
i also have never seen any of the lord of the rings movies, nor am i necessarily interested in seeing them. i really have nothing against geeks or books. i just have an incredibly short attention span. i'm too far gone for movies anymore T_T
on the flipside, MOVIES I ACTUALLY REMEMBER SEEING IN THEATERS IN THE LAST THREE YEARS:
- all the saw movies that came out in the last three years
- all the harry potter movies that came out in the last three years
- toy story 3
- machete, twice
- kick-ass
- alice 3-D
- 500 days of summer
- the imaginarium of doctor parnassus
that's all. spread that over three years. there may have been some movie duds between those. i don't know. but likely not. i think that's about all of them. just . . . think about that.
i acknowledge the vicious cycle. i realize that the less i pay for movies, the less movies i want to pay for, and vice versa. what really blows my mind is how my personal pattern of movie consumption is so much more of a tragedy to just about everyone else but me. if i'm going to be in a room with a bunch of strangers to watch this shit on a big screen, i want to go (a) on opening night, when everyone's excited, and/or (b) to a movie that is so over-the-top funny/violent/gross/silly that it's actually worth seeing/hearing a bunch of strangers' reactions.
outside of that, i'll wait patiently until it's on netflix or someone gets it on DVD for their birthday/xmas/whatever. and then i'll forget over and over again that i "need to see it" and even if it's sitting on someone's shelf it won't be watched anyway.
sigh.
point is, "i know, i know, i need to see [__________]. i'd like to. i just haven't gotten around to it yet."