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Movies for Dummies?

July 31, 2004

Tonight we decided to skip the club and go to a movie instead. Besides not wanting to battle the crowds, I decided that I didn’t want to aggravate my ankle which has been giving me trouble this whole week. (It turned out to be a good thing we only saw a movie and were away from the house for only a couple of hours. That’s a whole different entry that I’ll write when I’m less angry about what happened. Let’s just say the babysitter didn’t do such a great job tonight.) We saw The Manchurian Candidate which turned out to be pretty good. As we left the building, I happened to overhear some people talking about the movie. Everyone talks about the movie. What made me laugh though, is the kinds of things they were saying about the movie. They were pointing out the most obvious things, as if they had figured out the most amazing connections in the movie.

When we got to the car, I told Rob what I overheard (he doesn’t have the talent for eavesdropping that I do) and we had a really good laugh about it. We started to realize that we’ve been hearing a lot of these kinds of comments lately. I don’t want to say too much about their comments, in case someone wants to see the movie without any spoilers. I can, however, give you some comments we heard during Catwoman since I know you’re all too smart to waste any money on that movie.

I’ve already commented on just how bad Catwoman was. But we were sitting in front of a couple who commentated the movie for our listening pleasure. They were without a doubt the dumbest people to have ever watched a movie. Seriously. During one point in the movie, a woman who suspects Halle Berry’s character has become a Catwoman throws a ball of catnip to her. Her reaction, of course, is that of a cat. The woman’s comment was something along the lines of, “That was catnip. She’s like a cat now.” Um, duh?

During another scene, Catwoman uses her claws to cut through a glass window. The woman’s comments? “She’s using her claws to cut through that glass window.” At one point I wondered if her companion was blind and she needed to explain things to him. They talked through the entire movie like that. I shushed them a few times, but the movie was so awful, and their comments were so amusing, that I eventually stopped shushing and started paying more attention to them.

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2 Responses to “Movies for Dummies?”

  1. Oz Says:
    August 2nd, 2004 at 1:33 pm

    I am a huge Kevin Costner fan. I can’t explain it, but I can just watch his movies again and again and again–and I do. I saw him on Inside the Actor’s Studio and thought he was great. But then I heard his commentary for Bull Durham (I have the DVD, and you can listen to him and Tim Robbins comment on the film), and Costner kept pointing out all these really obvious things like, “Look! See how that worked and led to this thing here!” And I was like, “Uh, yeah, I don’t think anyone missed that, Kev.” But I still love him…

  2. Tom Says:
    August 3rd, 2004 at 10:06 am

    You know, Whimsy, I usually don’t see things until a few weeks after opening weekend to avoid the commenters. But after reading this, you might’ve changed my mind. Nah…

    And on the subject of director/actor commentary on the DVD’s, I like Fight Club and Seven because I think they added a lot to it, and they were also entertaining instead of droning about acting methods or lighting or technical stuff. Plus, Finch is my favorite director.

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