Rant 74 - 14/3/12 Subject: Cheesy feel good movies

Rant 74 - 14/3/12 Subject: Cheesy feel good movies

Rant number 74

Today, while having a quick inner summary of todays collated information and annoyance, a trailer for a film came up. I like movies rather a lot (in fact, the trailer came up in the middle of a film I have just changed over to the middle of. The flawed but thoroughly watchable Fifth Element) and so tend to take at least a minor interest in any movie trailers.

Todays was for 'We bought a Zoo' a movie that it assures me is based upon a true story and - according to the trailers content promises endless people saying 'you shouldn't buy a zoo' and him saying 'I'm going to'

It also features the following line - that practically forced me to spontaneously vomit:

'You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.'

How god damned awful is that? No-one talks like that in in real life!

And this film is just one of endless of its genre. Films that are meant to make you feel all warm and fuzzy - but make me feel all queasy. Maybe its simply that I am in some way abnormal (a concept that I am quite willing to accept, and possibly welcome if I do not have to accept this kind of crap trap as entertainment) but I do not feel isolated in this.

Other examples would be 'Love Actually,' a film in which little happens to various people in an interwoven portmanteau picture of startling banality. Then there are movies like 'About a Boy' a film in which nothing much happens to only one set of people - brilliant.

I just don't get it. I like escapism - but if you want to escape in a movie - make it fun - ludicrous even.

Planes Trains and Automobiles for instance - is a movie that makes you feel good, but only while you are chortling most mirthfully. There are also no 'profound' statements in it to pull in the pretentious crowd.

I suppose that - these movies shouldn't annoy me really, the answer is to simply not watch them. The thing is, even the trailers put my nose out!

Stupid feel good pretentious crap.

Oh and pretty much anything with Juliet Roberts or Hugh Grant in (and particularly both)

Rant over.