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from: me
to: people
"go" is a great fucking movie. quintessential film of the very late 90s.
i <3 pinot grigio.
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from: jc
to: me
rules of attraction is better
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from: me
to: jc
FUCK YOU.
first of all, rules of attraction is NOT a 90s movie, by any means. that's like calling "singles" an 80s movie. i'm starting to get pissed at myself for getting so in to defining the cultural significance of eras by some bullshit numerical nonsense. ten years is no more relevant than six years ten days and 2 minutes. it's just an artificial marker, made up by humanity in order to simplify our measurement of time. god damn it. i'm more drunk now than before.
second of all, GO is not special because of it's quality as a film, but because of its ability to sum up a very brief period of time. that being the late 90s. i don't care about what i just said about humans needing ways to simplify bullshit. if you were old enough to have any fucking idea what was going on in the last 3 years of that decade, you know that this movie fucking hits the metaphorical nail on the metaphorical fucking head. the fact that i like this movie only allows me to see this fact without any personal bias.
brain breaking down. smashing pumpkins are on letterman tonight. how many fucking people are in the smashing pumpkins now? judging by the video for the new single, i'd say 37.
and third, go IS a better movie than rules of attraction. MUCH BETTER. let me first say that i saw rules of attraction for the first time shortly after it came out on dvd in 2003, and it depressed me in a way that i cannot even begin to describe, for personal reasons i will not get into. i did not watch the entire movie from beginning to end again until just the other night, and i remembered all the things that were good about it, without the depression that was brought on by my own bullshit.
now, in order to explain my preference for GO, we are diving into the realm of intellectual interpretation that i am barely capable of on a good day. and considering my pinot grigio state of mind, i'd say the best course of action would be to simply say, IT'S FUCKING BETTER. the only supporting arguments i can provide are that RULES, as i will here on refer to it as because i am too lazy to type out the entire title and yet not to lazy to type out this explanation, is cliche in a way that, after long pause, i cannot describe. like i said, i'm not good at this shit on a good day, and this isn't a good day. both films do cool shit with sequencing, but in my inexplicable opinion, i greatly prefer GO.
that pretty much sums it up. my opinion is beyond explanation, and therefore beyond judgment, and therefore correct. GO is much better than RULES.
to: people
"go" is a great fucking movie. quintessential film of the very late 90s.
i <3 pinot grigio.
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from: jc
to: me
rules of attraction is better
___________________________________________________________________________
from: me
to: jc
FUCK YOU.
first of all, rules of attraction is NOT a 90s movie, by any means. that's like calling "singles" an 80s movie. i'm starting to get pissed at myself for getting so in to defining the cultural significance of eras by some bullshit numerical nonsense. ten years is no more relevant than six years ten days and 2 minutes. it's just an artificial marker, made up by humanity in order to simplify our measurement of time. god damn it. i'm more drunk now than before.
second of all, GO is not special because of it's quality as a film, but because of its ability to sum up a very brief period of time. that being the late 90s. i don't care about what i just said about humans needing ways to simplify bullshit. if you were old enough to have any fucking idea what was going on in the last 3 years of that decade, you know that this movie fucking hits the metaphorical nail on the metaphorical fucking head. the fact that i like this movie only allows me to see this fact without any personal bias.
brain breaking down. smashing pumpkins are on letterman tonight. how many fucking people are in the smashing pumpkins now? judging by the video for the new single, i'd say 37.
and third, go IS a better movie than rules of attraction. MUCH BETTER. let me first say that i saw rules of attraction for the first time shortly after it came out on dvd in 2003, and it depressed me in a way that i cannot even begin to describe, for personal reasons i will not get into. i did not watch the entire movie from beginning to end again until just the other night, and i remembered all the things that were good about it, without the depression that was brought on by my own bullshit.
now, in order to explain my preference for GO, we are diving into the realm of intellectual interpretation that i am barely capable of on a good day. and considering my pinot grigio state of mind, i'd say the best course of action would be to simply say, IT'S FUCKING BETTER. the only supporting arguments i can provide are that RULES, as i will here on refer to it as because i am too lazy to type out the entire title and yet not to lazy to type out this explanation, is cliche in a way that, after long pause, i cannot describe. like i said, i'm not good at this shit on a good day, and this isn't a good day. both films do cool shit with sequencing, but in my inexplicable opinion, i greatly prefer GO.
that pretty much sums it up. my opinion is beyond explanation, and therefore beyond judgment, and therefore correct. GO is much better than RULES.