Bitchin' 'bout media

[tripperfunster]

Ugh. My husband is watching Storage Wars. The show seriously makes me puke in my mouth. So many of the reality shows have shitty, manufactured pressure/fights/angst, but this one really takes the cake. I just can't watch the fake fighting and fake pissing wars they all have. Not to mention that the storage units are clearly stacked. I get agitated and need to leave the room. *flails*

He knows it's all fake too, of course, but it doesn't bother him like it does me.

Is there a reality show that you like? I really enjoyed the first couple of seasons of Survivor, but lost interest after a while. I do enjoy a lot of the real estate/fixer up shows like Love it or List It or International House Hunters. Also things like Myth Busters and Border Wars, but they are way less 'fake' than many of the other shows.

As for other media:
I watched (most of) Fight Club today. I turned it off, because I just really hate watching people be shitty to each other. It was neat, and clever and pretty original, but it got darker than I was ready to watch. I really felt like I should see it, because I see it referenced everywhere, but I didn't enjoy it like I'd hoped. And honestly, I'm surprised something that bizarre was that popular.

I also would like to see Trainspotting. Yeah, I know, it's not exactly rainbows and unicorns either, but I feel like it's something I missed, yanno?

Any other thoughts on movies that really should be seen? Not a list of your fav movies, but movies that were defining? I recently watched Love, Actually, which I think would be on that list.

I would say Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, The Sixth Sense, Shawshank Redemption, Groundhog Day are a few others I'd say are 'defining' movies. edited to add: Field of Dreams, Thelma and Louise, Silence of the Lambs, The Lion King. Princess Bride, Blade Runner, 70's run Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones.

I'd love your recommendations of films I should see, or ones you think are defining like these. There are lots of movies on my 'to see' list, but I'm thinking slightly older, classic ones.

Also: I saw The Judge last night w/ Robert Downey Jr and Robert Duvall. Wow, really good, but also a bit hard to watch. I know that having a complicated relationship with my father doesn't exactly make me a special snowflake, but I thought they did a really good job of showing it.

Comments

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

I think by 'defining' I mean a movie that most people of my generation (or the previous one) have seen and you see references to them in media. Sort of like "Scarface" (which I haven't seen, and should probably add to the list.) I've seen "Say hello to my little friend" in the Simpsons, in other movies and I've heard people say that line in reference to other things.

I HAVE seen Shaun of the Dead. That list was 'defining' one's that I had seen. And yes, I recently say Zombiland, and agree that Shaun was better!

Lance watches Fishtank kings occasionally, but I think he seekritly enjoys pissing my off with Pawn Kings and Storage Wars.