01 December 2003Cinema
Ain't Nothing to Watch
Last night I went to the video store to pick up a few DVDs and I experienced a familiar sensation. There are so many crap movies on the shelves, I had a hard time finding something I wanted to dedicate two hours of my life to. I can't believe half this shit gets made let alone watched.
It's not that there are no good movies in the world. There are tons. They just seem to be pushed off the shelves by this crapola, Ernest goes here, Ernest goes there. American Psycho 2, endless aisles of shit flicks. Do these movies really need to be in the digital format? I don't think so. Let's leave these horrible movies on VHS where they belong.
Maybe there should be some body of film experts that determines whether or not a movie is fit to be released on DVD. Back to the Future 3 would certainly not make the list. This would spare us the trouble of sorting through this garbage.
I ended up renting Citizen Kane (because I haven't seen it in ages and I wanted to see something good) along with Bowfinger and Bringing Out the Dead, neither of which I have high hopes for.
Posted by andrew at December 1, 2003 07:32 PM
See, you messed up. You had a bucket of lemons, but you didn't make lemonade. You should have rented every "Dolimite" movie on the shelf. If they didn't have that, there's always Coming To America.
"Sexual Chocolate! Give it up!"
Bowfinger? Dude even I could of come out with something much better than that.
That's how pathetic the selection was that I had to rent a movie I've assiduously avoided for years just to get some entertainment. I had a better selection at Myna's Video in Samoa (by far).
I rented Frida over the weekend and thought it was great. Aside from her life story, I loved how they integrated her paintings into the scenes.
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'Ain't Nothing to Watch'.
Wasn't this blog your version of ' Ernest joins in the Peace Corps' ? Damn guy you mean you've been serious about all this?