Thursday, August 22, 2013

Why bad movies are like good chocolate on a diet

Out there there are legendary actors that travel across several genres, actors that experiment with different style, pushing the physical limit, trying out the spectrum and variety of the acting world, actors such as Robin Williams and Robert Deniro, who always give a performance. The movie may be crap, and while no one may be rushing to remember Willams muesum movie fiasco with good ol’ Ben, he remains a respectable actor. Between the rainbow of success, there is always one fading colour that manages to exist. Henceforth, the success of Adam Sandler.
Yes, I root for all my jewish folks but Sandler is a dry toast that I could never eat. At some point you wonder if a guy like Sandler made it, is it possible that perhaps I can achieve anything myself? I can become successful, I can lose weight, I can one day be fucked by that hot guy from supernatural (you can guess which one.) The point being, Sandler is the black sheep that people love to see. He is the very living representation of every bad movie out there. So how does a guy as vaguely talented as my dog is when he runs away in fear from a spinning dradle make it into hollywood? The same way a bad movie does; through the back door of the unmentioned needs people have.
Businesses provide us with what we think we need. *Cough* Bullshit. Businesses use that as a coverup excuse; we all know we are more often then not being sold crap we do not need but perhaps may secretly want (like that Twilight vibrator that lights up in the dark. Every woman’s dirty pleasure, right?). Movies are the same. Yeah, we usually want see a movie with coherent plot and decent acting, but not always. Truth is life is spend in doubt, in mood swings as terrible as Joan Rivers face job, and there is always a need to feel better.
Bad movies generate shitload of money. Hello, you think Eddie Murphy willingly did Norbit? What sane person would? Bad movies generate the big S of dollars and the reason is split into two: One, we love making fun of shit thats so bad that James Francos hosting in the Oscars looks good. Prime example: Kardashian success. this amazes me because I see honest to Joel Mchale’s abs intelligent people, like people who do stuff that matters like science and computers and whatnot, who spend a whole day just watching crap television.
This leads me to point two, which is we like making fun of crappy shit movies and tv because its an escape from life and its an escape that makes us feel good about ourselves. Its the Houdini theory; an escapist fantasy land. Imagination is what saves us from insanity, but so is crappy movies and tv. It is an outlet that lets us judge as freely as we want because when you are watching a two hour movie about a woman with a fucking shopping addiction, you judge the hell out of that. Honestly, I am surprised by now that there isnt psychological prove that bad movies are the best of therapy. Although we probably wont get that since that might hurt the pockets of a few shrinks.
So really, when you feel like the world cannot suck anymore then it already does, take your pick of a bad movie. Its so ridiculous you will feel better; because watching Lindsay Lohan talking to a car is twice as bad when you realize the amount of drugs she took. Thus, bad movies are the new cheap therapy that makes life more rational and a bit of a brighter place because you can only feel better after you know that you are not getting paid to act in a smurf movie

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