Sean and I watched Kinsey last night. Have you seen it? Well, if you haven't apparently you should because it's blockbuster recommended and nominated for 3 golden globe awards. I have no idea why. Other than the fact that it places sex as a biological phenomenon/fulfillment of natural desire/an activity of no more significance than toast for breakfast, which hollywood is always a fan of doing, it was a very boring movie and I cannot possibly see why it deserves any more golden globe nominations than Fantastic Four. Speaking of Fantastic Four--when I watched this masterpiece of an action-packed thriller, I would like to share with the world that upon the successful completion of heroic act #1, when the Fantastic Four first save the innocent civilians, I liberally shed tears for ten minutes on the plane to LaGuardia. It wasn't because Fantistic Four composed an emotionally provokative scene, or movie for that matter, but it was because I was having an extremely emotional week, and the Fantastic Four delivered their heroism at fantastic timing for me. (Yes, the victim on my left side did offer me a kleenex and the victim on my right did ask me if I was okay--extremely embarassing).The point is that Kinsey was not a great movie: people are reacting strongly to it because of it's timing, because of where sex is in society, which is not a place that is public and exploited enough for them. That is a terrible reason for golden globe nominations. Now I do think that Brokeback Mountain deserves some nominations, but only because I used to think Heath Ledger was foxy, and after his performance in this movie a am nealry convinced he actually is internally torn between loving men and loving women. He was truley that convincing.
Moving on.....I am now jumping on the blogging band wagon because that is what I am supposed to do. I am in college and I need to keep up. I would be a lot of happier about now being an at-large member of this fast-moving first decade of the 21st century, except that I still don't own an iPod, which really irritates me, especially since Robyn recently found the courage to bite the bullet and spend the $300+ or whatever these overratted gadgets cost and get her own 30 GB iPod. Now I really do suck. So I will continue to carry on as I did before, using my iPodlessness as an excuse for not working out, which will definately not work in conjunction with my new years resolution to run the Boulder Bolder this year, another band wagon I have decided to jump on (but so far I am having trouble actually getting on, I am more running next to it, thinking about jumping on)
Well this is enough nonesense for a start. If I am doing the blogging thing wrong someone should tell me. I would't want to cause any problems my first week as a member of this exciting community.
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