Comments on: Movies https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2005/06/movies/ Tue, 29 May 2018 20:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.13 By: banacek https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2005/06/movies/#comment-32 Mon, 06 Jun 2005 06:35:39 +0000 http://jonathanfield.com/blog/?p=14#comment-32 Re: I Hate Movies

Hey! You know what movie you simply *must* go see? Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Go see it now. Twice in a row.

Then play me your new album in a month.

:)

-banacek

]]> By: jon_a_thon https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2005/06/movies/#comment-31 Mon, 06 Jun 2005 02:21:22 +0000 http://jonathanfield.com/blog/?p=14#comment-31 Now there’s a book that I really dug as a kid. But despite my love of the film medium, I got to say that making a movie from a great book rarely works. The two forms just communicate on such a different level. I thought Lord of the Rings was fairly underwhelming as well. Okay: revoke my geek card!

]]> By: jon_a_thon https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2005/06/movies/#comment-30 Mon, 06 Jun 2005 02:17:05 +0000 http://jonathanfield.com/blog/?p=14#comment-30 Re: I Hate Movies

It’s true, I’ve watched a lot of awful movies, but as I’ve alluded to in an earlier post, I enjoy most of them. Yes, it’s an embarrassing admission, but I just like movies. Like an old friend (who seems to be in the room) said once of sex and pizza: even when they’re bad they’re pretty good.

Besides, I’ve had at least as many bad days as I’ve seen bad movies, yet every morning I drag my sorry ass out of bed, brush my teeth whether I need to or not, and ride my horse to work. You know what keeps me going?

Faith.

*cue George Michael’s shaking ass*

Oh, but Hitchhikers Guide was an exception. It wasn’t good at all. If I saw about three movies in a row like that, I probably would stop watching movies for quite a while. Hey! If you want me to do something cool, you should probably get me to go see a bunch of awful movies!

]]> By: banacek https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2005/06/movies/#comment-29 Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:26:50 +0000 http://jonathanfield.com/blog/?p=14#comment-29 I Hate Movies

> It was exactly as bad as I’d feared.

OK, it seems you’ve watched enough awful movies to have a good sense of what is going to suck before you see it, so my question is: why did you go to see this movie knowing it was going to suck?

Do you not have anything better to do with 3 hours of your life and $20? Add up all the time and money you’ve spent in the past year at such movies, and you probably could have done something pretty damn cool instead. Because you’re a cool guy.

Did I mention how I hate movies?

-banacek

]]> By: derridaisdead https://jonathanfield.com/blog/2005/06/movies/#comment-27 Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:56:28 +0000 http://jonathanfield.com/blog/?p=14#comment-27 >Revenge of the Sith was surprisingly good. By that I mean it wasn’t exactly as bad as I’d feared.

Exactly.

I am looking forward to the Chronicles of Narnia. I mean, I sort of am, and am sort of not. It looks beautiful from the previews. On the other hand, what’s the point? It’s like, you can’t be too creative and change the plot because people will complain. I mean, who can improve on a literary masterpiece. And yet, what’s the point of making a movie exactly like the book when the book is already so good at helping you visualize the events it describes? I liked The Lord of the Rings films a lot. But I’m also of the camp that they were kinda boring too …

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