REM
Cold Play
Sex and the City
Lost
I could go on and on and on…
The fascination with vampires as sex objects - to the point of making successful movies and tv shows again and again. When will this fascination die out? You can add werewolves to this as well. A fictional story? Fine. Obsession? Don’t get it, especially by such a large number of people.
Avatar gushing.
This is what I was coming in to post.
2001: A Space Odyssey. I’ve tried but I just don’t get it.
Forgot this until I posted in the Cormac Mccarty thread
In No Country for old Men (the book) there are two or three instances where there is a mention of two (I think) guys in a black dodge charger (I think). I could not figure out why this was in the book, who these guys were, and what their connection to the story was. I’ve talked to other folks who have asked the same question, so it just isn’t me. And I went back into the book to re-read those sections to see if I missed anything, and I still didn’t see it.
Can anyone help?
Good call. I don’t get ANY Stanley Kubrick films. Overrated, interminably slow, pretentious nonsense. If anyone else attempted to make a movie like he did they’d be laughed out of Hollywood.
I’m a huge fan. I just couldn’t help but poke fun at some of our proselytizers.
If anyone really wants to try, this may help you to understand.
I’m a fan too, for what it’s worth. You nailed the impersonation.
In the book Portrait of an Addict As a Young Man: A Memoir, were the cops and narcotics agents, and cab drivers giving him rides and not needing payment, and all of that real, or delusions?
I had to have this explained to me as well. Citizen Kane was the first movie to look like a modern movie, as opposed to a stage play being caught on camera.
What I don’t get is Twilight. Why the heck is it so popular? Every female vampire fan I know hates those pansy Twilight vampires.
Is that a parody?* I could only make it about halfway through the third part. If it’s not a parody, thanks for the link - but I still don’t get it.
[sup](*because if it is it’s spot on)[/sup]
So you are being ironic but at the same time saying something you actually mean? Cafe society is a complicated place sometimes.
Wasn’t he out of Hollywood anyway? I think he made his films in England, including Full Metal Jacket for some odd reason.
Ok. Back to “things I still don’t get”…
No, that was Birth of a Nation.
I don’t understand the genius of Frank Zappa. He wrote some clever lyrics and a lot of atonal bullshit. Why the love? Excuse me, why the acclaim?
Being obsessed- not just interested, but almost devoted to obscure bands that have never released a CD, never been on the radio (not even a uni station or a Government funded/Community radio station that’s- in some cases legally- obliged to play a certain quota of “local” music), and don’t tour that widely.
I don’t get sports fans. The team from your town won? That’s nice. You had nothing to do with it, no one on the team know you from a pothole, so why are you so invested in the outcome? (I can understand gambling, but not the blind boosterism/worship of fans.)
Radiohead. Nothing wrong with it, but I fail to see what’s so special about them.
The attaction of wearing skin tight jeans that still sag in the ass (I’m looking at you, youth of today)