This is absolutely THE STUPIDEST story lead-in that I've ever read

[thewayne]

Came across this on Yahoo's front page a little earlier today:

Strong showing for racy film

A controversial movie might have gone No. 1 this weekend if it weren't for its title and subject matter.


The movie that they're talking about is, no surprise here, Zack and Miri Make A Porno, Kevin Smith's latest film. So what they're saying is: if you'd made a different movie, it might have done better.

*facepalm*

In the words of the Bard, DUH!


"Gee, Mister Lucas, maybe if your movie wasn't set in space and boiled down to a massive good versus evil battle based on Westerns and samurai movies, maybe it would have done better."

"Gee, Mister Jackson, maybe if your movie wasn't set in a mythical world based on post-World War II English literature, maybe it would have won more awards.

*headdesk*


To briefly break away from this terminal stupidity, I saw Zack and Miri Saturday afternoon. Amusingly, it was labeled just that, Zack and Miri, on the theater's web site and on the tickets. There's a theater chain in Utah that won't show it, but they have no problem showing Saw 5. Kinda shows you where a lot of the country's problems are.

Anyway, Z&M is a very fun film. Zack & Miri share an apartment, strictly platonic, and are having a terrible time making ends meet. The day before Thanksgiving, their water and electricity are shut off. In Pittsburg. After some deliberation, Zack comes up with the idea of making a cheap porno, having gotten an email list of 800 classmates at their high school reunion, believing that it was a guaranteed 800 sales.

The movie is an adult romantic comedy. There's simulated sex in it, but not explicit sex, thus avoiding the NC-17 rating. Think of the most stupid pornographic movie that you've ever seen, and make it even more stupider as produced by Jay & Silent Bob. That comes close to Z&M. There's male and female full frontal nudity, but not of the two leads. Unless Kevin Smith snuck in to a crowd scene, he's not in it. That's right, a Kevin Smith film with no Jay & Silent Bob. But Jason Mewes makes more than an appearance in it, his character is a slightly less stoned Jay with a touch of the profundity of Silent Bob.

Oh, Jeff Anderson is in it (Randall from Clerks etc.), also Tracy Lords(!) plays Bubbles!

I enjoyed it. I recommend it if you like Kevin Smith movies and don't mind huge amounts of profanity. The only thing that I didn't care for was that Kevin Smith seems to be reusing dialog a bit much for my taste, he needs to expand his phrase files.


Anyway, if you'd like to write a "Gee" response, I'd love to read 'em. Come to think of it, I should post this in Mock The Stupid, I think it rates.

Comments

[jaegamer.livejournal.com]

There's a theater chain in Utah that won't show it, but they have no problem showing Saw 5. Kinda shows you where a lot of the country's problems are.

Quote of the week. I'm just sayin'...

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Heh. Not a prob. When Star Wars was released in Sweden, it was R. At roughly the same time The Happy Hooker was viewable by teens. When you get down to it, it's not unlike America's anti-Communism stance wherein we would put in dictators infinitely worse than Commies and think we were doing a good thing.

This country is really screwed up.

[silveradept]

It's Kevin Smith. What, precisely, were they expecting?

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

That's the thing that I don't get. I can understand a first cut of such a film getting a provisional NC-17 and needing to be re-cut to take it down to an R. But what the heck were they expecting?

[silveradept]

Apparently a lot more winking and nodding and a lot less porn.