I completely agree. Did you see the paragraph I wrote before the one you quoted? There are all sorts of reasons why people don’t enjoy Shakespeare, so they find it boring. Nothing wrong with that. However, to say his work is boring, meaning of no interest and worthless, does display ignorance.
The point I was making is that people often say “this is boring” when they mean “I find this boring”.
I disagree that it’s a weak scene. It is definitely a digression that doesn’t advance the plot much, but it’s a classic Coen Brothers scene, with comical and surreal elements mixed in with raw despair and desperation. Mike is the same sort of person as Jerry Lundegaard. He’s genuinely suffering, even though his suffering is his own fault, created out of his weakness and stupidity and fallibility. His comical accent/ethnicity mismatch makes him both cartoonish and more real.
I can see how the scene could be hard to take, and it could have been cut from the movie without hurting the plot one bit. But it fits in perfectly with the rest of the movie.
I can’t speak for Miller but I took “weaK” to mean that the idea that the encounter would lead her to go back to the car dealership was weak. I don’t personally think the scene itself was weak. It’s actually pretty entertaining. It just seemed out of place and the idea that she made a connection between his behavior and Jerry Lundegard’s wasn’t obvious to many people.
Teams and ships are Thesean objects
As I said in the linked thread, I consider it to be every Doper’s duty to use this term wherever possible, and to explain the meaning to anyone who asks and will listen. It is a fading hope that the term will enter the popular consciousness, but a man can dream…
I love *MacBeth *and Romeo and Juliet, but I thought A Comedy of Errors was as painful as watching an extended episode of I Love Lucy.
What I don’t get - the Coen brothers.
Shh.. You will get lynched.
Fake winning lottery tickets. Yeah, that’s more douchey than funny.
Jersey Shore, Real Housewives, Kardashions, celebrity due to attention whoring, yuck, the lowest of the low. I just don’t see the appeal.
When I was in junior high the school looked like a bad production of Happy Days. When I was in senior high everybody dressed like they were about to go to a disco. Why? Because it was the style. People thought they were being cool by dressing like the most popular idols. The thing I don’t get is who creates these fads and why do people follow them. Or maybe that’s what you meant.
Most of the music created after 1980.
Regarding the sports discussion upthread. For me it is not sports - I like watching a variety of sports - but the “homer-ism” regarding professional sports that I have trouble understanding.
I have season tickets for a pro sports team. I like it when they win, don’t like it when they lose. But, either outcome doesn’t affect me beyond the moment. The next morning (or usually by the time I get home), I’m over it win or lose.
I even like seeing a great play by the other team. No outcome makes the city I live in better or worse than the other city.
The comparison to works of art doesn’t hold unless you only like works created in your town. Maybe people in Paris are like that but…
You don’t know how good you had it. My junior/senior high transition covered Footloose, Flashdance, and Breakin’.
Tiny Fey. I don’t find her funny. Not even a little. By extension, 30 Rock. I tried to watch it, and I even like some of the other people on it, but just never found it to be funny so I stopped trying to watch it, and I’m much happier now.
Thanks, good term. I always thought such an object was called “George Washington’s axe” (“the handle has been replaced five times and the blade has been replaced twice, but it’s his axe, all right”).
Thank you, yes, that’s exactly what I meant. I don’t think the Coen brothers could write a bad scene if they tried.
<shrug> I really like the taste of Jagermeister - so much so that I’d rather sip than do a shot.
Stuff I don’t get? That’s easy, how anybody can find “More cow bell” funny.(That skit was awful and just stupid. I couldn’t even make it though it.)
modern and contemporary jazz. Someone even played some seminal Miles Davis for me and I had to really concentrate before I decided it was okay. By no means do I think it’s bad, but for being considered revolutionary and brilliant and awe-inspiring, its beauty is not immediately apparent to me. Other modern jazz (I’m probably using the wrong term for it), like the 10-minute vibe solo with no melody kind that they play in restaurants and hotel lobbies is borderline disagreeable to me. And I appreciate most any music. On top of that, I am a decent at quite a few musical instruments.
Same thing with Radiohead. Although I can at least say I like a couple Radiohead songs, but nothing about them stands out to me. While most music lovers, and people who have similar tastes to me, gush over how absolutely brilliant this band is.
Also, The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. I think I must have been missing something very important, because I mostly felt like I’d read that book before. Not bad, but not moving. And I was an English major in college. Maybe someone will explain it to me and it will suddenly click.
This is one of the many things that I don’t get. What I mean is, I have no idea what you’re talking about. What is “slash,” “het,” and “ship”?
Slash fiction is gay fan fiction erotica, as in male character/other male character <–see the slash?
Het is heterosexual erotica.
Ship, or Shipping, is imagining two characters in an established show, book, or film as being in a relationship, even if that was not the author’s planned intention.
For example, there is a lot of fan fiction based around Harry Potter, Snape, Malfoy, etc in various homosexual escapades.