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Going to rent a movie is a constant assault on your intelligence.
January 29th, 2007

Left alone with someone, people normally default to the movie as their source of entertainment. Every time I go to rent a movie, I am swamped and assaulted with bad movie after bad movie. I don't understand it, who is renting these movies? WHO? They go and make a decent movie, like Shrek, and then they go out of their way to piss you off and make Shrek 2 pure shit.

You leave random Americans alone in a room, the number one topic that will come up is the Hollywood movie. Everybody loves to talk about movies, almost as much as they like to talk about work. What is with that? Listen carefully to the people you hang out with, people you chose to hang out with as friends. They will always talk about work. I don't want to hear about it, you hate your job, why do you want to talk about it?

I was left to my own entertainment Friday, and so I decided to rent a movie to cure my boredom. It took me twenty minutes without anyone bothering me or interrupting my thought for me to pick out a movie. It seems that movies can be put into two categories: dumb comedies, and horror movies. Most drama that I end up seeing is pure horror, because I can't leave the movie theater and drive home without upsetting the people who are with me who paid to see the movie. What was that shitty movie I saw during the summer, something about going underground? It doesn't matter, it was terrible. A bunch of girls dieing, until there is only one left who survives. Its just boring, and it always feels like I've undergone an ordeal once I leave the movie theater.

For example, take Kill Bill. Everybody liked this movie, everybody was talking about how great Kill Bill was. Well I didn't; I thought it was terrible. I will admit that the kung fu master in the second movie who kicked that dumb bitches ass every time she started to get out of line was awesome, but beyond that, I couldn't stand it. I refused to watch all of the first movie, and I watched the second one with a friend. Nothing makes sense, the blood is far too unnecessary, and the dialogue was just like all the trash on TV.

To be honest, writing this reminded me of how many movies I really do like, the problem is that I have seen almost all the movies I would like. I once heard a quote saying that 90% of everything is crap. That's probably true of movies, but I am pretty sure of one other statistic I'm about to make up: 99% of everything on T.V. is worse than crap. I don't even know what it is. That deserves an entire 10 page essay devoted to it.