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[apocalypsos]

Okay, I've got a beef with AMC Theaters and MovieTickets.com. Those commercials before the movie wouldn't be so bad to sit through if they didn't cast the most annoying actors in this dimension or any other. Dude, MovieTickets.com has commercials so bad they make me long for them to cut away to an Old Navy spot, and that's just not right.

And also, that PSA where the stuntman asks you not to download movies because he puts his life on the line to entertain you becomes funnier if you imagine it more like a ransom note. "Buy our movies or the stuntman gets it!" And correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't putting a PSA against downloading movies before a film playing in a theater like putting a slip asking you not to DL music in CD cases? Uh, hi, preacher. It's the choir.

So, yeah. And now is the time on Sprockets where we have nightmares about Jack Nicholson's rear end. I'm sorry, but I could have died happy never knowing that Jack Nicholson even had an ass. In fact, if I had never seen "Jack Nicholson" and "ass" in the same sentence, I would have been even happier.

Anyway, Something's Gotta Give, which was definitely better than it should have been. The script had some really great scenes, some really great dialogue, and then crumbled faster than a milk-soaked Chips Ahoy at the end. But Jack Nicholson was charming, even when he was being a sexist pig most of the time, so I got the impression that a lot of that was his natural charm coming through.

And then there's Diane Keaton. Wow. You know that scene in the trailer, where Jack sees her naked? You see her naked. Full frontal nudity, and she looks great. (Notice the total omission of the phrase "for her age". Ahem.) She and Frances McDormand totally need to do another movie together, because they were having too much fun in the far too few scenes they shared. And there's this great bit with her just continually bawling her eyes out which had me rolling.

The scariest thing of all, excepting Jack's naked ass and the fact that the filmmakers thought Diane Keaton's full-frontal nudity was scary at all, was that I found Keanu Reeves both adorable and cute and I have neither his wearing leather pants and sunglasses or my alcohol intake to blame. I feel dirty.

Now, if you'll all excuse me, I'm going to watch something less frightening and creepy than Jack Nicholson's bare ass. Oh, look, I still haven't watched the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

*toddles off for some delightfully morbid bloodshed in which Jack Nicholson will absolutely not be mooning the audience*

EDIT: Fics to work on tonight and tomorrow ... minisinoo's powerswap challenge (that I wasn't sure I'd do since I don't write a lot of Scott or Jean, but I got a plotbunny I loved before the movie started) and that Jake fic I've been kicking around since Wednesday night's episode. Wheee!

I'm lucky I bought pumpkin seeds and Pepsi today. Mmm ... writer food.

Comments

[imperfect_tense]

Those commercials before the movie wouldn't be so bad to sit through if they didn't cast the most annoying actors in this dimension or any other.

Here bloody here!

[imperfect_tense]

Or hear bloody hear since I am apparently an imbecile.

commercials befoe the movie

[(Anonymous)]

Troll Princess: don't be such a ditz! Listen. The point is not whether or not they stick us with good or bad commercials after we've dropped $10 each in becoming a captive audience: the points are: 1) we're a captive audience 2) they make a lot of money for feeding us commercials 3) we can't modify the commercials...turn them up or down or off. Nor can we have a civilized visit with our companions while waiting for the show to start. 4) they don't pay us any of the money they make, though our time and attention is integral to them making the money 5) They're lying bastards because they say that the public doesn't mind the commercials, and in fact likes them. If this were not total bullshit, they could show the commercials after the movie as well as before, but of course they don't because they know any intelligent person will avoid the brain pollution of a commercial if he/she can.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Gee, thanks. After going to the movies almost once a week for ten years, I never could have figured that out on my own.

I also couldn't have figured out the difference between a joke and a real complaint, but I'm dumb like that.