Monday, February 14, 2005

Happy Schitzophrenics Sending Cards to Themselves Day!
The Possibly Not True Fact of the Day is: St. Valentine's first name was Bud.


I myself prefer St. Patrick's Day, of course, over V-Day, even though I really don't participate in any of the traditional activitiesy, such as drinking your ass off. It just has a nice-type feel to it, ideally. When I think of St. Patty's Day, I think of people wearing green walking around an old street by a harbor, set against a gray sky. When I think of Valentine's Day, I think of

No, I gotta take a break for a minute and do some serious digression. I'm sitting at the college library typing this, and there are some people being total idiots about the movies they're critiquing at a table. I gotta talk about this.

They've somehow gotten on the topic of The Village, which is a severely underrated movie, because people take it for what they want it to be, not for what it is. It's basically the common arguments: the end was dumb, it wasn't scary, it didn't make sense.

1) The end wasn't dumb, it was different. It wasn't what you expected to see coming into the movie, [cliche]and in today's world, you're deliberately trained to be accustomed to getting whatever you want or expect, without deviation.[/cliche] This didn't do anything new by deviating from that ideology, but most people ignored it anyway.

2) It wasn't supposed to be scary. Tension played a big part in the movie, but story and mystery were what was in the forefront. There's not even the excuse of it being unexpected, either. Not from an M. Night Shyamalan movie. I guess everyone keeps forgetting that he doesn't write dumbass horror movies packed with cheap thrills.

3) To tell you the truth, this was a new argument to me. Why in the world would anyone say it doesn't make sense? Am I missing something?

Then they started talking about The Forgotten -- not an amazing movie, but entertaining at least. Here's what one of them said: (SPOILER) "So the aliens suck up people into their spaceships and make everyone think they're dead so they won't go looking for them. But that doesn't make sense because why would someone go looking for someone they think is dead?" (END OF SPOILER)

Uh huh.

So getting back on topic now, I have no real feelings for Valentine's Day and what not, but... yeah.

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