And on that note, stop using the phrase "don't look at them if you don't like them." That's a ridiculous thing to say. I could say the same thing about this sentence. What the hell does that even prove? That you got someone's attention? So you're an attention seeker? Fuck off.
Can't anything be serious anymore? Why does everything have to revolve around being childish and surreal to be entertaining? Nobody is impressed by over the top bullshit. It's old. Films like the Inbetweeners, Hangover and The Watch: it's all been done before. The "comedy" is focused on who can be involved in the most outrageous scenarios despite the fact they would never happen in the real world. The thing is, this belief that all material must be over the top is short changing real comedy. Films can be serious and still be funny (Lord of the Rings, anyone?).
I don't watch films anymore. I think I've watched two this year and they both sucked. Wrath of the Titans, the unwanted sequel to a film nobody cared about, directed by the same person who made the abysmal Battle for Los Angeles (the film where the cameraman couldn't hold his equipment still long enough for people to realise the actors were just running through the same square acre of scenary for the last two hours before falling asleep in their seats). With Sam Worthington, the man with the most stoic repetoire of facial expressions in Hollywood, ranging from mild indifference:
To intense rage:
The other coma-inducing waste of two hours being the latest Batman movie, which lets face it is never going to be the same without Heath Ledger, who sadly passed away after killing himself presumably from a premonition about being cast in this trainwreck of film directing. Another two and a half hours of watching Christian Bale fumble through a tediously predictable plot to a tediously predictable ending (Batman wins, who'd have thought it?).
I stopped watching TV a few years ago. Whenever I forget why, I like to remind myself with a quick check and it's still the same old crap. Auction shows, Deal or no Deal (watching people pick random numbers for an hour), X Factor (slowly crippling the music industry) and various soaps with miserable actors living on the same street for fifty years, where someone dies, cheats or gets pregnant almost every week.
Are people really that unhappy that they need to watch shit like Eastenders to be entertained? I watched that show once. It had someone called Phil looking miserable in a bar with a bunch of other miserable people. Then one of them said "mum's picking Ben up later." YAWN. Turn this shit off.
