Last Night was Movie Night

Last night was movie night.

After battling traffic to get home from work, I walked in the door and...

Chris said "Wanna have movie night? I'm starving.

Let's order pizza, and go rent some movies."

Me: "Yeah, sounds great. Whattya feel like?"

Chris: "Dominos Pizza-- they have that 5-5-5 deal."

Me: "Do we really need 3 pizzas?"

Chris: "We can eat it all week for lunch or whatever.

One mushroom, one pepperoni, and one beef - how does that hit ya'?"

Me: "All sounds good."

He called in the order.... we walked on over to the video store.

We rented 2 DVDs. We got Corona's from the Shoppers Food Warehouse on the way back.

We were ready and excited for Movie/Pizza/Beer night!!

Which movies did we get, you ask?

Well - we rented "Kill Bill v.1" and "Napoleon Dynamite" - because we hadn't yet since either...

and we heard GREAT things about both....

Here I should note that just a few days ago - at my parents house - my brother carried over with him his "Bad Santa" DVD - insisting that it was a great movie and that we MUST see it.
I didn't mind - afterall - it too received GREAT reviews....

"Bad Santa" SUCKS! it is the worse thing I have ever seen!!!!
I am not a prude, I like dark and dry humor -- but this is just unfunny mean-spiritedness.... no wit or cleverness put into it... just 78 minutes of unoriginal ugliness!
My grandpa was a belligerent old drunk.... HE was/is FUNNY....
This movie was worthless... and I don't know why EVERYONE on the planet -- except Chris and I -- love this movie.

Back to Movie Night...
So we snuggle up on the couch... Corona with lime each... and a pizza box on the coffee table.... dogs laying in wait for a bit of food to fall from the table.... and we put "Napoleon Dynamite" into the DVD Player and hit the play button....

Opening credits were cute and creative... funny... are hope rose....
then the movie began.

"Napoleon Dynamite" SUCKS! It is terrible!
Again - everyone one Earth seems to love this movie... friends, co-workers... everyone tells me how great this film is.... ARE THEY BLIND?! HAVE THEY LOST THEIR FACULTIES??!

This is a movie about a nerd from Idaho. That is ALL this movie is about. There is nothing interesting or endearing about the characters....
Yeah - goofball, nerdy high school kids --- SO WHAT? Whats the gimmick...
Nerd with goofy hair whines a lot... has nerd girlfriend and spanish nerd friend... the end.
No plot. No climax.... nothing. No wit. No originality.
We just sat there waiting to be entertained....

Yet people love it!
What in the %@*$ going on?

So we were planning to watch "Kill Bill" tonight... but at the rate things are going... that might suck too! And we'd be truly disappointed in the state of the media today...

Its bad enough what Television has become... now this..... I mean - the music industry, t.v., movies.... ARGGHHH!
Some word associations on sucky things that are currently considered media greats - (and mostly by those in MY own age group):
1) Paris Hilton
2) Ashlee Simpson
3) Napoleon Dynamite
4) Rappers...
5) Linsey Lohan
6) The O.C. - tv show
7) Sex in the City
8) Will and Grace

There is MUCH more but I just don't have time to list it all... just highlights....

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"I've gotta go away somewhere and figure this all out..."
~ spike jones... the comic musician of the 30s-50s... (not that crappy movie director of present day!)