16, and based on the political threads, I'm the least serious person on the forum.
I seriously doubt that, considering that I basically secrete whimsy from every pore.
I vote myself in.
Also I was considering seeing Looper but I'm worried that I've already figured out the plot and don't want to pay to see it and then have that moment where I see what's gonna happen like a car crash.
After so many recommendations, and knowing how loved it was, and with all the quotes and references in popular culture, I watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off with high expectations. Needless to say, it failed to meet them on just about every level. I found it to be a very minor movie, hardly worth the time I spent watching it. There were a few funny lines like "Anyone... anyone... Bueller..." but apart from that it's pretty forgettable.
After so many recommendations, and knowing how loved it was, and with all the quotes and references in popular culture, I watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off with high expectations. Needless to say, it failed to meet them on just about every level. I found it to be a very minor movie, hardly worth the time I spent watching it. There were a few funny lines like "Anyone... anyone... Bueller..." but apart from that it's pretty forgettable.
It's a movie that had to be enjoyed in the time and culture and context of its creation. Isolated, it doesn't hold up.
So I watched Sucker Punch tonight to finally see what all the hub-ub was about. I had heard only minimal things of it and only saw a few preview and promotional pictures of it and I knew exactly two things about it before going into it: 1) That it had a very interesting visual aesthetic. 2) That it was perceived as severely sexist. (One such opinion can be found here)
One of the reasons I watched it in the first place was because I'm going through The Big Picture archives over at the Escapist, and while I myself can't fully agree with everything MovieBob says in that series, he does put on an interesting show and brings in a viewpoint I'm don't always consider myself. Anyway, he has a couple of episodes called "You are wrong about Sucker Punch" (Part 1 and Part 2) and I wanted to get what was being talked about before watching those episodes.
And so it came that I watched the movie pretty much in two halves. The first half I watched before watching those The Big Picture episodes and came away with a reemphasized perception of the consensus opinion: That this movie is very sexist and a sham production that pretends to empower women, while just following the same formula of using those action sequences just to show off women's bodies and pander to the teenage boy crowd. This to the point where I wanted to stop myself from watching any more of it and simply read the rest of the plot off of Wikipedia, which I did.
However, the angle that MovieBob portrays and I didn't consider beforehand is that this is being done sarcastically, that those action sequences are supposed to be hollow and senseless because they are metaphors for striptease, and that those striptease are being performed for the most vile and disgusting characters in the film who are stand-ins for the audience, showing that the act of enjoying this striptease is what makes these characters, and by extension the audience, vile and disgusting.
On the other hand, I do believe that he overstates his case a bit and the movie itself falls flat in actually executing this genre deconstruction, as it is rather hard to get that this interpretation of the events is even there, and I'm not even sure that it is supposed to be there.
So in some sort, me wanting to no longer watch the movie was actually a "good" reaction I guess, one that members of the audience should have if they don't get this deconstruction subtext (similar to one certain incident during Spec Ops: The Line). Anyway, at the very least MovieBob's review did get me to finish the movie.
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EDIT @Walker, I phrased it strongly because it was fun to write, not because I was being dogmatic.
Also I was considering seeing Looper but I'm worried that I've already figured out the plot and don't want to pay to see it and then have that moment where I see what's gonna happen like a car crash.
"Todd, that sounds like sexual assault, dude."
1) That it had a very interesting visual aesthetic.
2) That it was perceived as severely sexist. (One such opinion can be found here)
One of the reasons I watched it in the first place was because I'm going through The Big Picture archives over at the Escapist, and while I myself can't fully agree with everything MovieBob says in that series, he does put on an interesting show and brings in a viewpoint I'm don't always consider myself. Anyway, he has a couple of episodes called "You are wrong about Sucker Punch" (Part 1 and Part 2) and I wanted to get what was being talked about before watching those episodes.
And so it came that I watched the movie pretty much in two halves. The first half I watched before watching those The Big Picture episodes and came away with a reemphasized perception of the consensus opinion: That this movie is very sexist and a sham production that pretends to empower women, while just following the same formula of using those action sequences just to show off women's bodies and pander to the teenage boy crowd. This to the point where I wanted to stop myself from watching any more of it and simply read the rest of the plot off of Wikipedia, which I did.
However, the angle that MovieBob portrays and I didn't consider beforehand is that this is being done sarcastically, that those action sequences are supposed to be hollow and senseless because they are metaphors for striptease, and that those striptease are being performed for the most vile and disgusting characters in the film who are stand-ins for the audience, showing that the act of enjoying this striptease is what makes these characters, and by extension the audience, vile and disgusting.
On the other hand, I do believe that he overstates his case a bit and the movie itself falls flat in actually executing this genre deconstruction, as it is rather hard to get that this interpretation of the events is even there, and I'm not even sure that it is supposed to be there.
So in some sort, me wanting to no longer watch the movie was actually a "good" reaction I guess, one that members of the audience should have if they don't get this deconstruction subtext (similar to one certain incident during Spec Ops: The Line). Anyway, at the very least MovieBob's review did get me to finish the movie.