Stand Up for Your Movie

You know what I hate? Snobs. Movie snobs. You know why? Because they try to use their pretend hatred of certain movies or certain genres and their embracing of certain others as sure signs of their own sophistication and intelligence. You know what this reminds me of? When you buy a great outfit and somebody says to you, "Hey that's a great outfit," and you say, "Thank you," as if you made the effin' thing yourself. This is simply a person trying to portray to society that their tastes are a sure sign of their so being above the riff-raff that they shouldn't even be forced to live on this bourgeois planet we riff-raff like to call Earth in our lowlife kinda way.

I watched Pretty in Pink today. I've seen it before, but I watched it again today on DVD, paying particular attention to the commentary. Some people want nothing to do with the commentary and consider it a waste, but it's really a great way to step into the shoes of the people who wrote and made the movie, find out what they were shooting for, how they felt about it, take a look around through their eyes. It was inspiring. I already liked the movie before, but I had a new, deeper appreciation afterward. It's a love story. Nothing more. They were not trying to make something historically breathtaking or something to shake the foundations. They were just trying to tell a love story. Love stories are great and are needed and ... loved. Despite what the critics say.

So when everybody else around you is following the popular herd like beaten sheep because they are scared poopless to say, "I liked Lady in the Water," and be thought of as stupid and tasteless, stand right on up and declare what you love, what moved you, which scenes you thought were so excruciatingly human and real, what made you laugh. That's what a movie is for.