092 ... Movies I Just Didn't Get
Submitted by Infomaniac on Thu, 02/14/2002 - 13:30
Tags:
- Swingers
- Clerks
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (I even read the book and REWATCHED this junk and STILL didn't get it!!!)
- The Big Lebowski
- X-Men
- 2001: A Space Oddessey (WHAT is it? WHAT am I missing here?)
- Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Kids (How this isn't child porn is beyond me)
- Sleeper
Author Comments:
Look, I LOVE Fight Club, Memento, and Pulp Fiction. How is it I get these unusually presented films, yet a 'Masterpiece' like 2001: A Space Oddessey slips by me. I don't get it. I don't HATE all of these films, but I just don't get how they ever gained popularity in the first place.
My advice - do Lebowski a couple more times. It's like marijuana, you don't get high the first few times. (not that I'm a stoner. Although I think that probably helps with Lebowski too.) But you just gotta love a movie with Nihilists. Anyway, I totally didn't like it the first two times, and then the third - it's GREAT. I own it now. In fact, now I want to watch it. So many really funny lines. Just the way Julianne Moore lingers over the word "vagina". Man!
Clerks - HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A CLERK? If you have and you don't get it, I guess I don't get it. That movie made me feel so much better in the land of disgruntled employeehood. Maybe you also need a major Star Wars obsession.
Fear and Loathing - don't even try to get it. Pretend you dropped some acid and you're watching your hallucinations.
Rocky Horror - there's nothing really to get. The songs are kinda cool. Tim Curry's kind of cute. THe end blows.
2001: It's all about the Monkeys. In fact, that's the new title. I get it now until the end. Then it's all downhill for me.
Yeah. Yeah. Your lists are cool. It's really late. I had better go to bed before you get the idea that I'm some sort of manic speed freak. The drug references probably didn't help. Night!
Man, I'm lovin' your analysis of this stuff! Fun!
I know, Lebowski is so up my alley (Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Snatch), and a lot of people who like the same movies as me say they LOVE it. I just gotta get into it. (side note: I guess one of the nihlist band member in the movie are wearing a kraftwerk shirt, and I guess the nihlist's album cover is the same as one of kraftwerks. Just some Amazon trivia for you.)
Clerks - Well, I was a pump jockey in a gas station when I was in high school, but it wasn't a convienence store, just a plain old fashioned gas station (look, I'm 35, but we had FULL SERVICE pumps! Weird, eh?) But that certainly didn't qualify me to be ITK about a clerks life, so I didn't get Clerks. I don't get South Park either (rather, I DO think it has some over the top hilarity, but MAN, the 16 y/o's of the world ALREADY lack respect and responsibility. Today, South Park had Fat Albert telling some 'ho' to basically perform fellatio on him...in not such gracious terms, and slathered with tons of bleeps. In the same episode...but I digress.
Fear and Loathing, or just "Loathing" to me...well, that says it all.
Rocky Horror. Rocky Horror? I grew up when Texas Chainsaw Massacre was THE show to go to every Friday night at Midnight Madness... THAT was a lame show, but we went every weekend. That must be what RHPC is all about. I guess, because it certainly isn't for the Top Grade acting or cinematography. Nor the plot.
2001: It's All About The Monkeys. Great title. I know it's blaspheme, (but isn't this whole list), but I'll watch Star Trek 3 (whichEVER one that was, even the one with the whale) and be more entertained.
some films are movies and some are experiences...that is all I can think to tell ya.
I totally agree with Swingers. I just didn't like the feel of that movie. As for Fear and Loathing, I think it is a movie full of great parts rather one seamless perfect story. Big Lebowski:I remember the 1st time I saw it I wasn't that impressed, but every time I rewatch it it just gets better and better.
Well 2001 : A Space Odyssey and Kids really stick out here for me Sean. I don't know if we're ever supposed to get 2001. I think Kubrick was wanting us to use our minds and there own observances to help translate our own ideas and perceptions of what the film is really about. Kids is just a movie trying to focus in on how kids take grown up responsibilities, use them in their own lives, reason for theselves at the high cost of niavate. The kids suffer the consequences for their actions. If you want be grown up, you have to be able to understand what your getting yourself in to.