Bitchin' 'bout media
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tripperfunsterUgh. 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.
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.
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Date: 2015-01-08 03:47 pm (UTC)that being said, I love Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, I like Shaun of the Dead enough that I wrote a House vs. zombies fic that is essentially most of the House cast in Shaun of the Dead with very similar humor and i can't hear "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen without picturing zombies getting beaten in the head rhythmically. I also like Zombieland a lot.
I like Trainspotting a lot although there's a certain sequence in it I can't look at directly (and it's not the one a lot of people think it is) plus i can't help thinking junkies apparently have better taste in music than ex-junkies. I'd take Iggy Pop over some electronic dance crap any day. I liked the Sixth Sense a lot. I like Groundhog Day a lot except for Andie McDowell's "everybody wants children" nonsense. (I love seeing happy affectionate parents but not everyone wants kids, Andie. I don't.) I think Dark City is a better movie than Blade Runner. I love the first Indy movie, liked the third. I couldn't take Lion King seriously because it starts with elephants being outranked by a lion when they're about a zillion times bigger.
I like West Side Story a lot too but my taste in musicals tends to run towards rock musicals, Hard Days' Night, Rocky Horror, Hedwig and the Angry Inch are some of my big faves.
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Date: 2015-01-08 06:59 pm (UTC)Hedwig was bizzare, hilarious and so sad!
By 'defining' I most mean that it's a film that people and/or media make references to. Quoting or satirizing it.
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Date: 2015-01-08 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
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