30 Movies In 30 Days. Day 13 – Fail again.
Like the ‘favourite classic movie’ day, this question displeases me.
I’m not ashamed of anything I watch. Even if that thing is The Emperor’s New Groove, 10 Things I Hate About You or The Phantom Menace.
It’s one of the reasons I despise independent cinema chains. Sure, Odeon cinemas are full of wankers, but I’d take them any day over the stuck-up bastards who tut through anything that isn’t shot in 1920s Russia.
Like anyone who got the mixed bag of film studies at University, I spent a large amount of my early twenties ploughing through ‘international cinema’. Hunting down obscure Japanese thrillers, collecting the filmography of Goddard and knowing why Chinese kitchen-sink drama was The Next Big Thing.
I watched the A-team on Sunday. It stands up against anything I watched during my degree.
If I’m going to waste two-hours of my life on watching something that I’ve already seen, it’s going to worth enough for me to be proud about it.
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July 28, 2010 at 6:28 pm |
Not sure I’m with you on The Phantom Menace, but I will spend a long time arguing with anyone who puts down 10 Things… it’s one of mine and Neil’s favourite films and we must have watched it 50 times.
Now I always feel slightly guilty admitting my favourite film is The Wedding Singer. I’ll try not to in future :-P
July 29, 2010 at 8:19 am |
I’d always argue that The Phantom Menace is a better film than Attack of the Clones… and if you’ve read Darths and Droids (http://www.darthsanddroids.net/) it takes on a new meaning.
The Wedding Singer is a brilliant film… but anything with Jon Lovitz in usually is. Speaking of which, do you have The Critic on disc?
August 1, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Hmmm, have you seen Little Nicky?? I don’t have The Critic, haven’t seen it though would like to. I assume you don’t have it either then? :-(