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I Love Movies More Than You
I love movies more than you. No, I don’t mean that I love movies more than I love you. I also don’t mean I love you… I mean, like, in a everything-is-one-with-the-universe way I do, but I think of us as much less awkward friends. Or awkward friends. It just depends. Am I rambling? The point is that I love movies more than you love movies.
Sure that’s a strong statement to make. I mean, what if you love movies so much that you married them, PeeWee Herman style? If that’s the case, I’m sorry to tell you it’s a loveless marriage compared to how I feel about movies. You can stay together for the kids, but we all know it’s a ruse.
In my single life I went to a lot of movies alone. I don’t like to talk during the movie, except once in a while to share a comment on something. I really enjoyed going without the slightest clue what the movie was about. This has gone well and terribly for me in the past.
I thought The Truman Show was some sort of comedy about Harry S. Truman, and when the stage light fell and the radio called it aircraft debris I called bullshit. It was an incredible movie because of this, because I learned along with Truman. When I went to see Wag the Dog I was so let down that I left really early on. You see, I thought it was a cute movie about a talking dog and I needed an emotional boost. Instead it was political satire. Gag.
Sometimes I know what a movie is about and it really reaches me, like when I went to see AI (Artificial Intelligence) and left feeling like the world was artificial and that young android was more full of love than most humans. Then there was the time when I went to see Penelope and decided that everyone’s too superficial and that Penelope was totally hot. Nevermind the fact that Christina Ricci is on my list. Rrowr. Don’t hate.
Anyway, I don’t get to see many movies nowadays because I have to spend a bunch of my money on this baby thing and on the bills and stuff. Pretty lame, right? I know. God. It’s fucking tragic. I did get to see some lately and first of all, I want to say:
Avatar is the best movie ever made.
Argue with me. I dare you. You’ll waste your time because I won’t listen to reason. I’m like that about movies. I can’t give anything away because I want you to go see it too. Go now.
I’ll write the rest of this post assuming you might read it when you get back or not at all. Seriously, it was a really great movie. I wanted to fight, I wanted to run, I wanted to cry feel hit something and then pound my chest.
I also watched Paranormal Activity a few days ago. The Mrs and I watched it before bed, in much anticipation as all I’d heard was that nobody who’d seen it could sleep the following night. Holy effing shit. The scariest thing that happened is that I wasted an hour and a half waiting for someone to kill the the douchebag boyfriend. Shit.
What’s your favorite movie?
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also, avatar was fucking amazing. it was a little drug out toward the end, but i was shocked. and i kept the 3d glasses. i smile when i see them because i think of the joy they gave me.
not really, they’re just sitting on my dresser. but yea it was a good movie.
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I’d bet you that my friend Graygrrrl loves movies more than you love movies, but it’s a sucker bet because she loves movies more than ANYONE.
Also, I haven’t seen Avatar yet. The soundtrack sounds like fucking Titanic to me. Please tell me that it’s not. Thank you.
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@gingermandy – Right? Absolutely awesome. Also, I have a substantial collection of stolen 3d Imax glasses, including the really nice ones that look like snowboarder glasses. We steal alike.
@shine – Prove it. And I can’t even believe you compared it to Titanic… That hurts.
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Logan’s Run.
There is no other.
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:15 pm
I saw that in the $5 bin once and didn’t buy it, but have wished I had maybe 20 times since then…
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The MUSIC. From the PREVIEWS. That is all.
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Well you’re wrong.
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Sherlocke Holmes with RDJ is really entertaining, also. Fave would have to be a toss up between about a hundred different movies, there are too many genres to choose from. Be specific damnit, my head spins at all of the different types, actors, years. OMG, getting a headache, I need to lay down. Quick, someone get me a Tylenol and throw a dvd in for me.
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:16 pm
It was unfair. I mean, I can’t name a favorite either. It’s like a high. I was in love with Avatar, but now I don’t like it *as much*. I guess the honeymoon’s over.
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I really loved Bodies, Rest,and Motion. And Raising Arizona.
I haven’t seen Dances With Smurfs yet, but I suppose I will. I’m worried I’ll get sea sick in 3D. I definitely won’t be sneaking in a 40 with me.
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:17 pm
I honestly feel the experience would have been life-altering if I’d been high as a kite. That, or I’d have decided to wage war on the humans in the theater and then dyed my skin blue by rubbing M&Ms from the snack counter all over me before police arrived.
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I had a running dialog with imaginary James Cameron for a month prior to release. I too had visions of smurfs and that Rodan bird and was getting concerned. Happy to say, it lived up to most of the hype.
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Oh and Raising Arizona is hands down my second favorite Coen Bros. film. UNPAINTED ARIZONA!
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:18 pm
I like you.
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Uh. I don’t watch a ton of movies. I liked Pan’s Labyrinth. Favorite? Life is Beautiful maybe?
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I just saw Inglorious Bastards the other day and I must say I loved it. No one does movies like Quentin Tarantino…I have yet to see a movie of his that disappoints me.
Some of my all-time favorites would be Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation, The Adventures of Milo and Otis, American Beauty…ok, I could go on for days.
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:18 pm
I haven’t seen a lot of those… And the damn Redbox doesn’t have most of them. Do you work for Netflix?
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A Fish Called Wanda
“It’s K-K-K-Ken, c-c-c-coming to k-k-k-kill me! How are you going to c-c-c-catch me, K-K-K-Ken?
Fucking brilliant.
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:14 pm
You’re insane. I love that about you.
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My favourite movieSSS:
*Down by Law
*Better off Dead (that’s right)
*Zombieland (HELLO AWESOMENESS)
*Kingpin
*Big Lebowski
*I rather liked the Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus even though this one twit wouldn’t shut up behind me about how it was wasting her life to be in the theatre. I told her to leave. She did.
*The Xmen movies. All of them. I am lame.
*Bugs Bunny Cartoons. Is too a movie.
*Fish called Wanda (agree) I have this theory where I think that John Cleese would make a better leading man than the leading man in any movie of all time.
My favourite movie is NOT Avatar.
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Way to bring the law to the theater! That’s awesome!
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Also:
*Raising Arizona
*Ferris Bueller
*The Grudge (because it terrified me, which doesn’t happen)
*Some like it Hot
*Gone with the Wind (But imagine if Cleese played Rhett)
*Fear & Loathing
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:12 pm
I also loved the Grudge, but my favorite actually-scary movie is The Strangers.
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I think that I love movies more than you because I also love all the ones these clowns are talking about. Except crummy Avatard.
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Oh yeah *red in the face* well I challenge you to a movie love-a-thon!
Wait… That sounds kinda orgy-like. I mean it differently…
*looking up “orgy”*
Nope, that’s EXACTLY what I mean. I challenge you to a movie orgy.
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Someone should have put James Cameron out of his misery after he finished Terminator2.
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KeepingYouAwake Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Ok, now that I can side with.
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Chella Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Well I mean really. I told her that the Hanna Montana movie is now available at Walmart if it was more her speed. I HATE loud theatre people
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Hey. That last one was supposed to post where I hit the annoying theatre woman with my crankiness wapow. You get the gist.
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