Why do we accept these stupid things...
- ...in movies, whenever a chase sequence comes to a four corner junction the hero presses on the gas and he gets through the intersection just fine, but when the people following are slower they simply get smashed into? What the fuck kind of logic is that? "If I go fast enough, I'll be fine...nevermind taking my time to cross this, I'm going to get fucked!"
- ...music sampling? Why do we accept the fact that artists are being robbed of their original material to have some fucking moron talk over his track, and have a few electronic sounds added on top?
- ...sports movies and dancing movies out of Hollywood? It seems like the same basic formulas have been applied for a little over 25 years! What's ridiculous now is dancing movies are using names that don't mean anything (i.e. Step up, Take the Lead, You got served, etc...) but somehow have this "it's in" connotation. How can I take a movie seriously when the climax is prologued by the phrase "You and me, street rules...let's finish this!"?
- ...visually modified cars? I'm completely disgusted by the amount of cars I see with visual modifications, and I'm even more disgusted by the amount of idiots who believe such looks will give the car a better perfomance. Spoilers, neons, skirt kits, rotating mags, paint jobs...what a waste of money, a painted dragon won't make your car go faster.
- ...specific age at which you are aloud to quit school? I believe this is a bizzard idea. Why not fix a specific grade instead? Seems to me like we can monitor the education level of a country/province/city easier that way and assure that a minimum level of education is obtained by the citizens. Fix it to grade 11, or at least a high school diploma. Basic logic says that if the kid hates school, he might think twice and work hard to optain that fucking diploma so he can get the hell out of there. Good news for everyone!
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I always enjoyed this little part on Roger Ebert's website (http://www.rogerebert.com) where on the sidebar people submit movie clichés, and a new one pops up each time your refresh the page. Some of them are damn clever (those who remarked these truths, not the script writers!).
Not sure if I mentioned this on here some time ago, but the biggest low in music sampling was when I heard some rap song that sampled parts of Vivaldi's Four Seasons for the main "beat". I could have thrown up.
Agreed on sports and dancing movies. I don't watch either of these, but just watching the trailers gives me the impression that I've seen the whole movie (and the strange feeling that I've seen the same movie before...) A comment I really loved a while ago was on David Letterman. Around when Cinderella Man was released, they brought out some guy who is supposed to be some big sports guy. He kept praising the realism in Cinderella Man. Letterman asked him what he thought the best boxing movie was. So he starts naming a few and then Letterman asks him "what about Raging Bull?". The guy brushes it off, saying it's crap and it's "movie magic", no degree of realism. Of course, the guy didn't know what the fuck he was talking about. If anything, the stylistic elements in Raging Bull give a heightened sense of realism by allowing you to identify with Robert DeNiro's state of mind. He just didn't like that it was a non-conventional "Hollywood" boxing movie of pain and triumph. Instead, it ends with reality... Jake LaMotta being embarassed for being the shmuck that he was all those years.
Ricer cars are strange. Last time I was in Montreal I was shocked at how many there are there. I rarely see any in Ottawa for whatever reason.
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