Proof that we're heading for a cultural dung heap...
Iron man is #130 on imdb's top #250
that's higher than:
Fucking Ikiru
Fucking Harold and Maude
Fucking Run Lola Run
The Fucking Hustler
Fucking Ghandi
The Fucking Graduate
The Fucking Deer Hunter
Fucking Ben-Hur
posted by popmonkey at 10:09 PM
7 Comments:
Ironman was a rollicking good time, but top 250 in film? I agree: Preposterous. I was forgetting it before my dent in the seat cushion had disappeared.
Which brings up the question: why the hell is the Shawshank Redemption number 2? (Here I echo the Laird's earlier observation.) Why are there so many votes for it? Are we supposed to believe the Shawshank Redemption had more obsessive, dedicated fans, some of who are us, than Lord of the Rings?
shawshank is a self fulfilling prophecy at this point. it feeds on it's place in film. a mostly undeserved place.
but i was here to talk about ironman. which sucked. i'm trying to remember the rollicking good time. i think it was all captured well in a 30 second preview. they surprised me by managing to squeeze two jokes out of the flying.
higher than Fucking Rope
...
higher than Fucking Patton
Next summer: Adam Sandler's next raucous hilarity makes it into the top ten.
It is time we face the truth: Adam Sandler is an existential threat to the continued existence of filmed comedy.
Example: I was at a film yesterday: Sandler's new preview screened. (Zoltan? Zoltar? Zaftig? Zunfunny?) The audience reaction (and it must be stated: this was the Harold and Kumar audience, among which whom I was such a member of thus) reacted as if they had just seen Kathy Lee Gifford sing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", that is to say, a stunned, silent, gnawing horror.
Let me say that again: the Harold and Kumar audience found nothing amusing about the the new preview for the Adam Sandler movie.
In order to stop Adam Sandler, and save the concept of movie comedy, all nations must unite.
Here's the thing, though. There's no honesty about movies. People go to a movie theater with their friends, see shit they think their friends think they should see.
Then they go home and rent Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy.
Because we're chimps that talk. And for all the blah blah about The Shawshank Redemption we just want to see some chimp tit and drink some chimp beer, play some chimp computer games, and crash out in our tree.
Fuck art, let's dance.
And get off my lawn!
"Run Lola Run" is in the top 250?
Anyway, movies tend to start hot, as those who see them when they first come out are those most predisposed to enjoy them.
Anyway, Iron Man totally ruled, and something's wrong with you if you didn't enjoy it, IMHO.
Snobbishness is never a good reason to not enjoy something inherently enjoyable.
Or "Don't just eat that bacon cheeseburger, eat the hell out of it."
But hey, feel free to not enjoy it.
But please forgive me if I hit the drive-thu and eat in my car. I'll even swing by your ivory tower and drop off a Big Kahuna burger if you want.
And don't worry. I won't rat you out to your vegan friends.
Oh, and in case you can't tell, I liked the hell out of Iron Man.
apparently the dung heap grows with the corpses of my dear dear deluded friends
my only consolation is that since the original post, annie hall, ben hur, and the dear hunter have managed to step over the craposity of the iMan (higher than Fucking Trainspotting)
Post a Comment
<< Home