Has the world lost its mind!

I made a commitment a few weeks ago, that, since I don't have Internet at the grandparents house (where Im currently crashing) that I would start watching more movies and catch up on TV shows (for I'm horribly behind on the SHIELD, and I do loves me some Vic Mackey)

So tonight, after a long day at work, I had a copy of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN sitting on top of my stack of TO WATCH dvds.

(in case you're wondering what else is on there, here are some titles)






Now that's a small chunk. And yes, I've already seen some of those, its just I recently picked them up on DVD.

but I digress.

Tonight, tonight was LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. A Swedish Vampire flick that a lot of people I've talked to or heard from rave about this film. Claims that it changes the Vampire movies as we see them. One of the best movies of last year.

So, I finally get the opportunity to watch it. ( I could of easily put in my bootleg of Crank 2, but I apparently wanted something.."smart")

Upon watching this movie for almost 2 hours, I got up, scratched my head, and said aloud as if expecting someone to answer me in my empty house, "TH ATS IT?"

Let the Right One In is nothing more that if Wes Anderson stopped being talented, and wanted to make a gothy kinda vampire flick about a little girl vampire (that's more than meets the eye!!!) and some dumb ass kid who gets the shit beaten out of him. The movie moved at the pace of an 104 year old man trying to get to the end of the drive way to get his paper. Nothing but wide static shots, with maybe 3 really cool looking moments. The rest is... FILLER!

This, on top of my "MEH" view on Star Trek, I started thinking that maybe I've lost touch with my inner movie geek, that maybe I'm either SUPER RETARDED, in that I only find enjoyment from dumb films, or that I've become some sort of film snob..

After deliberating for a few hours, I've come to the conclusion that the people around my generation have become poser film buffs.

These are the people that will suck the collective dicks of "artures" because they can make some indy looking fuck fest of a film. That bash every single summer film because its "TOO POPCORNY" or unintelligent. That give praise to Indy films that clearly need some constructive criticisms.

There are a lot of people that only watch what they've been "TOLD" to watch by their fucking film school teacher! That don't know that there are more classics than whats on the AFI's fucking list. PEOPLE WHO"VE NEVER SEEN THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SIMBAD!

Maybe I got lucky. I grew up in a house hold with a dad who loved to paint, and loved old comic books and loved monster movies, new and old. By the time I was 9 I had seen everything that Ray Harryhausen did and every movie Toho Studios made. I had monster movies that most people would only see on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (one of the greatest show ever BTW) On my 7 birthday, I got to see ROBOCOP 2! I was reading Famous Monsters of Film land, modern day X-men and Spidey Books, and BEOWULF by the age of 12.

I had a film understanding of whats good and what's bad. It's entertainment, if it fails to entertain you, then said piece has failed its goal.

Now, there are people walking around and screaming on the Internet about how Terminator 4 is going to suck balls because James Cameron isn't on it, and McG is, and yet, have never seen 12 Angry Men, or the original Planet of the Apes.

Maybe the culture I've decided to fold into is collapsing on its self. That theres too much pseudo intellect going around that its infusing everything else around it and dumbing down everyone.

I don't know..............


But what I do know is that LET THE RIGHT ONE IN was weaksause.