So Funny (Ha HA!) that My Brain Ceases
Funny Ha Ha - ever seen the motion picture? Well, if you haven't, and you've never heard a commentary on it, let me give you a brief one. It's on right now, and it's bringing forth a tidal wave of general hatred and self-loathing. It's some pretentious "real-life" movie on the Sundance channel. Consisdering that's 50% of what's on the Sundance channel, I must further explain. But, as a sidenote, I do like this channel, and maybe I even pay $20 extra for it, IFC, and some Lifetime movie channel (also with its predictability). So this movie, which I've seen before when I made the mistake of renting it, is all about some girl's daily tasks, which don't amount to much of anything. Now, that alone isn't enough to anger me and set me into a coma, but the dialogue does it. It's so uncomfortable, that it makes me want to shit my pants, which is my response to uncomfortable situations as we all know. Characters stumble, stutter, and pretend to do so in some sort of art-student type profundity. But, in reality, it just sucks, and it always makes me fall asleep. Once at night, which was legitimate, but then once about this time as I sat here in front of my computer. Today I will not turn my eyes to the tube. Hell, I usually like just watching movies about people struggling through monotonous, mundane tasks, but not through conversations so overly awkward and void of substance; ones that never occur so often even in real life. Most awkward situations in reality at least consist of boring small talk or subject confusion, which I can at least relate to. Anyway, I'm no critic, and I like a lot of things other people will deem as "sucks," (such as the L.A. series I just received for my birthday, where Detective Chance (Freddy Boom-Boom Washington) consistently storms out of the chief's office at about the 45 minute mark and swears to seek vengeance on his own time... now that's good shit) but this goes too far. Fuck.
posted by fiestawizard at 11:49 AM
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This reminds me of that Penn and Teller video game that never got released "Penna and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors" I think it was called. One mission had the player driving -- in real time, with a "governor" on the engine to keep you at like 45mph or less -- between a town in like Texas and a town in Nevada. It took like 8 hours one-way, and the truck in the game pulled just slightly to the right, so one had to literally sit there with the controller the entire time. The prize for making it one way: 1 point. Then you were asked to drive back. Ad infinitum.
sorry if I've already talked about that on here... but... I just fucking love the concept of that game.
it wasn't called "penna" but you get the drift.
Have you played that game? I read a little about it, but it appears that only select video game nerds had absolute access to it, for review purposes (which I remember you did once, but only after this game was supposed to come out). My respect would increase exponentially for your being if you have indeed played this.
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