I think I may be drunk and I don't even have any liquor in the house.

[apocalypsos]

So I'm hopping around AfterElton and I read about I Love You Phillip Morris, a movie about the true story of a guy who fell in love with his cellmate in prison and escaped multiple times to see him. Jim Carrey plays the repeatedly escaping criminal, and Ewan McGregor plays the guy he falls in love with.

So my first reaction was, "Oh, God, please don't let that be a comedy." Because if it's comedy and Jim Carrey's in it, I'm not going to want to see it.

Then I read the Wikipedia entry on the real guy. (Obviously, don't read that if you don't want to be spoiled. Oh, man, the thing with the markers. *dies laughing*)

You know what? Now I don't even care if it's a comedy. I have to see this.

EDIT: EWWWW, Best Week Ever, why you gotta run a video of a baby throwing up in reverse so the puke goes back in? *gags*

OTHER EDIT: A pretty good summation of why I gave up on Twilight after about the fifth chapter or so. I mean, I'll freely admit fictional teenage girls piss me off about as much as real teenage girls usually do, and if my little brother had been a girl I probably would have punched him in the face at some point, but Bella managed in a handful of chapters to come in on my Fictional Characters I Can't Stand list (Teenage Girl Edition) right after Lydia Bennet. And all it would take for Bella to overtake Lydia is for her to be as smugly repugnant after getting hitched as Lydia was, which I'm sure she would be after finally getting some of Edward's magical glitter-filled klutz-repairing sperm.

... okay, forget I said that last part. Ew.

Comments

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

'Edward's magical glitter-filled klutz-repairing sperm'

Oddly, this was a rejected track from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

[evilstmars.livejournal.com]

Does it count that she gets that smugly repugnant well before she makes the actual altar? Because if so, you should send Lydia Bennet back to #2. Edward and Bella are really a class by themselves, but it's not a class anybody wants to be a part of, anyway.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, let's face facts. She's smugly repugnant from day one. "Oh, my God, all these people keep being NICE to me! UGH! What fucking dorks. God." *headdesk*

[meridian-star.livejournal.com]

It's gonna be a dark comedy apparently, accoding to here: http://www.themovieblog.com/2007/12/ewan-mcgregor-cast-in-i-love-you-phillip-morris

*loves on ewan and jim, and prays its a good film*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, really, what other tone could they use with THAT story? ;)

[meridian-star.livejournal.com]

LOL Point.

Oh I am cruel, I just got my boyfriend all excited that his two favourite actors are gonna be in the same film and then asked what he thought about gay prisoners... I think he had flashbacks to when I made him watch all of Oz. He thinks its gonna be sweet, bless :)

[evilstmars.livejournal.com]

I had to suffer through reading all three 'cos of the works-in-high-school-library thing -- every teenaged girl I know uses this series as some kind of high-water mark, which is so sad. In the second and third books, particularly surrounding Bella's 'I must go get married to Edward despite being in high school' thing, she makes a quantum leap forward in smug-and-repugnant, with a side order of WTF surrounding Edward's character (hint, Bella: Let's just say that if he wasn't a vampire, you should call him your crazy controlling stalker).

Twilight: It's exactly that bad. And the vampires sparkle! (However, this review made me giggle for exactly that reason.)

[random-serious.livejournal.com]

Twilight is so problematic: as someone said, it indeed sounds like a handbook to DIY abusive relationship.

[lavenderfrost.livejournal.com]

Dude. If he's a vamp and has no heartbeat, that means no blood is pumping. No blood means no hard-on. No hard-on means NO HAWT SEXXORZ OMG. Her being a vamp won't help, because then SHE'LL be sexually unresponsive, too.

AHAHAHAHAHA SORRY, TWILIGHT FANGIRLS.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

I liked Twilight when I read it (in about a day) because at the time I badly needed some cheesy, turn-off-the-brain fluff. Now that I look back on it with my brain working . . . AIE.

[ampersand.livejournal.com]

Lydia is supposed to be a horrid little creature, though.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

This is true. We're not SUPPOSED to like her.

Bella, on the other hand ... *eyeroll*

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Keep reading. It gets even more rageful.

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

I just yesterday read a YA book The Summoning (http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/aSummon.htm) by Kelley Armstrong (who writes theWomen of the Otherworld series) which was pretty good.

It didn't trigger any of the usual points of that kind of book. A fifteen year old that is sensible, actual interactions between teenage boys and girls that aren't -gasp!-about whether or not they're Destined To Be. Which is not to say there aren't moments of both hormonal spikes and also that thing of wanting the boyfriend, wanting to fall into that pattern of teenage success (having a boyfriend, having the cool boy be interested in you) which is less about love or sex, and more about all that social conditioning.

It also reminds me a lot of Thomas Hoobler's Dr Chill, which isn't a bad thing since that was one of my favourite books from my childhood.

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

I just yesterday read a YA book The Summoning (http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/aSummon.htm) by Kelley Armstrong (who writes theWomen of the Otherworld series) which was pretty good.

It didn't trigger any of the usual points of that kind of book. A fifteen year old that is sensible, actual interactions between teenage boys and girls that aren't -gasp!-about whether or not they're Destined To Be. Which is not to say there aren't moments of both hormonal spikes and also that thing of wanting the boyfriend, wanting to fall into that pattern of teenage success (having a boyfriend, having the cool boy be interested in you) which is less about love or sex, and more about all that social conditioning.

It also reminds me a lot of Thomas Hoobler's Dr Chill, which isn't a bad thing since that was one of my favourite books from my childhood.

[kattyerin.livejournal.com]

random stalker, but ever since you posted about i love you phillip morris, i'm dying to see someone write the j2 version of this. :| i have no idea why.