So AOL Music and Movies made a list of 10 Movies You Need to See Before You Die (someone's not great at PR over there) and came up with a few great hits:
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Witness
- Citizen Kane
- The Deer Hunter
- Life is Beautiful
Okay, pretty damn good movies. Then there was:
- Amelie
Fun? Sure. Quirky? Sure. A movie you absolutely have to see before you die? No. Not even a little. Not even remotely. Not on any planet.
But it gets worse, because someone - someone getting paid to have an opinion on these sorts of things - added these "movies" onto the list:
- The Notebook
- Mamma Mia!
- The Others
I don't give a fuck if you're pissy at me for knocking The Notebook, but there is NO WAY IN HELL that movie is a must see before you shuffle off this mortal coil. It was so boring, so insipid and obnoxious and borderline mentally retarded, and I couldn't even finish the movie, it was that bad.
Mamma Mia? Couldn't pay me to see it.
The Others? The Others? Funnily enough, I was literally talking about this movie at dinner tonight, commenting on how absolutely stupid and painfully obvious it was (this from a 6 Degrees Of thing, where we were discussing Michael Jackson's Glory Days > Michael Jackson's Revival > Michael Jackson's Plastic Surgery > Michael Jackson Spoof in Scary Movie 3 > Scary Movie 3's Michael Jackson + The Others Spoof > The Others) and how it only deserved to be mocked, and nothing more.
And yet AOL thinks we haven't lived our lives if we haven't seen it.
Can I take that person's job, please? I promise I won't force you to see movies that will end up killing you, rather than fulfilling some greater purpose in life.
1 comment:
I've seen one movie on that list. I'm hardcore!
Eat the movie, watch the corn pop.
See! Hardcore.
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