Stupidity The Movie Makes Me Mad or Parents Come Home

I just finished watching "Stupidity The Movie" with Lee and Jay and all I have to say is ACK! That movie blew! It COULD have been good, if the filmmaker had any sense of what a documentary is and knew how to edit. First of all, the interviews were far too short and chopped up into soundbytes. There was far too much useless stock footage (although some really good stuff too), far too much (ie) all of it) filmed skits done by the director, and most importantly, no real point to the whole endeavor. You can't make a proposition if you don't have an idea in mind of what you are trying to accomplish... The thing was also way too "music-video." Meaning it was all fast cuts and fancy effects. They did more harm than good... It essentially was a bunch of brief snippets of nothing surrounding the occasional interesting fact... like how the word moron was originated in New Jersey in the early 1900's. In my opinion, if you chopped off about 50 of the 71 minutes of running time, then extended the interviews and slowed the pace down about 5000 percent, you'd have a pretty decent 20 to 30 minute film... You would still have to choose what it was you were trying to say though...
It's possible to look at the film another way, perhaps it was trying to show how culture is by BEING what culture is... Perhaps it was attempting to be subversive and coy... If so, they still did a bad job of it because there was not enough information given in the 70 minutes... But if that was the case, then I have a LITTLE bit more respect for the filmmakers, as they truly did make a film that functioned in 5 second bursts... All in all, HUGE disappointment... I want my $5 back...
Oh yeah, I picked up "Kids in the Hall: Season 1" and "Taxi: Season 1" yesterday... The still cutting edge comedy of the Kids and the warm nostalgia of Taxi washes over me as I type...
Ouch, lest I forget... last night I checked out "The Day the Earth Stood Still" with Lee and Dave. None of us had seen it, but all of us had heard how influential and revered it was... My opinion was one of "meh." Not bad by any means, but it needed more Gork! Gork was cool...
My parents got home today from their cruise in the Caymans... They had some neat stories and some cool schwag. If I had a more talkative relationship with them I might be able to relate more... But that's a little unfair... there are times when we relate well... just not when I'm alone... If someone is there with me (as Jay was today... we had burgers!) then I'm pretty good with them... What does that say about me? That I'm afraid to open up to my own parents unless I have a friend there to make me feel comfortable? I really need to change that....