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Aug. 5th, 2004 07:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsosI can't believe I forgot to share yesterday's dumb Bill O'Reilly moment.
So I'm listening to the last hour, and so far he hasn't said anything stupid, and he reads this interview with Sharon Stone. Apparently, Sharon was in Ireland and made a crack that she wanted to kiss Halle Bery in Catwoman because they shouldn't waste an opportunity like that, but they couldn't because of the puritanical Bush administration. No, seriously, that's what she said.
So then O'Reilly says Catwoman was crap, which is true, and then he goes on to explain why, which ... well, yeah. This was how he put it.
Spider-Man made a lot of money and was good because boys are goofy and went to the movie. But Catwoman didn't make any money because girls aren't goofy. At least, he doesn't know any goofy girls.
That was his argument. I was sorely tempted to call in and say, "If you interpret 'goofy' to mean someone who's familiar with comic book lore, then I know lots of goofy girls. I know lots of goofy girls in general, but with those specific qualifications, nearly every woman I know is goofy. And Catwoman didn't make any money, not because girls aren't goofy, but because the plot sucked, the script was a joke, the dialogue was painful, the characters were idiots, the editing blew, the special effects were lame, and the costumes were atrocious." Personally, I like my argument better.
So I'm listening to the last hour, and so far he hasn't said anything stupid, and he reads this interview with Sharon Stone. Apparently, Sharon was in Ireland and made a crack that she wanted to kiss Halle Bery in Catwoman because they shouldn't waste an opportunity like that, but they couldn't because of the puritanical Bush administration. No, seriously, that's what she said.
So then O'Reilly says Catwoman was crap, which is true, and then he goes on to explain why, which ... well, yeah. This was how he put it.
Spider-Man made a lot of money and was good because boys are goofy and went to the movie. But Catwoman didn't make any money because girls aren't goofy. At least, he doesn't know any goofy girls.
That was his argument. I was sorely tempted to call in and say, "If you interpret 'goofy' to mean someone who's familiar with comic book lore, then I know lots of goofy girls. I know lots of goofy girls in general, but with those specific qualifications, nearly every woman I know is goofy. And Catwoman didn't make any money, not because girls aren't goofy, but because the plot sucked, the script was a joke, the dialogue was painful, the characters were idiots, the editing blew, the special effects were lame, and the costumes were atrocious." Personally, I like my argument better.
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Date: 2004-08-05 06:07 am (UTC)I think we're getting into a deeper issue than movies here.... I imagine that many people think that money = quality. Sigh.... Of course, I also just woke up.