There are movies that I have no desire to watch. Sometimes, friends come up to me and say how X movie is "soooooo awesome, omigod, you HAVE to see it!" to which I reply, "I don't really want to." Then they stare at me, mouth slightly agap, piercing into my psyche, trying to deconstruct how I could possibly NOT want to see that movie. At. Fucking. All.

You'd think I said something completely unfathomable, quite like "You know guys? I have absolutely no desire to have sexual intercourse. EVER. I don't think I have a libido!"

But no.

It happened recently when I was talking to a friend. She brought up the movie 300 and I confided in her that I really don't care about the movie at all. And it wasn't really a subjective judgment of her taste in movies--God knows I like some very critically questionable flicks--nor was it a judgment about the movie itself. I don't know--it could be the best fucking movie in the history of cinema, with respect to photography and special effects and acting and plot and character development--but it's just not a movie I care to see.

At that point, people start defending the movie they brought up in conversation, as though appealing to logic would change my mind about wanting to see it. Sorry, but no. It doesn't work that way. In fact, I think it works against people when they start doing that because inside my head, the more someone tries to get me to do something I don't want to do, I tend to become more adamantly against it: "Come on! How can you not want to do it--orgasms are the fucking BEST!" "I DON'T WANT TO STICK MY PENIS FUCKING ANYWHERE!!!"

I don't know. That sort of situation just aggravates me. I suppose it's the feeling of objectivity that they try to inject into the whole situation: if you like it, you are right; if you don't like it, you are wrong; and if you don't even want to see it in the first place, you are a fucking closed-minded cockbag tosser. (And we all know that being closed-minded is the greatest crime you can commit in these modern, politically-correct times.)

The whole thing is just stupid. I wish I could just avoid all talk of movies in the first place so I never have to walk down that path again, but there are so many that I actually want to see. The difference is that if I know someone else doesn't want to see it, I don't make a big stink of it. Because that's just lame.

*shrug*

Okay, I'm sure half of you out there (of those who haven't already just bailed on my page yet) are rolling your eyes, thinking I'm making mountains out of molehills, and maybe I am. But I just needed something to rail against to make me feel like I'm in control, especially in these academically stressful times. I hope you can understand. :)

EDIT: I find the same to be true for books. There are some people who are totally defensive about someone not wanting to read a book. An example germane to my life: the Harry Potter series. I don't want to read them. Apparently, that makes me evil.

Also, I'm glad others understand what I'm saying. Stay strong, my People--we shall overcome.

It's ok, I don't want to see 300 either. That business that people do pisses me off as well.

I think it's stupid, and I have no qualms in telling people that they're the stupid ones for thinking I'm a horrible person for not wanting to see whatever it is that's "ZOMAGAHSOAWSUM!"

stupid people.
» ikimashokie on 2007-03-24 11:16:40

DAMN STRAIGHT!
Stick to the man, Ranor! Stick it to the man!

Hahaha, I know how you feel.
I think it's just as bad as when you actually watch a movie and realize that you absolutely detest the movie that everyone adores. Next thing you know everyone believes there's something wrong with you for not falling in love with their favorite movie.

Garden State was one of these movies.
» elessar257 on 2007-03-24 11:17:07

Cancer is really lame. My roommate, who independently came up with the diagnosis that I had leukemia, told me that he thought at least I had this particular kind of leukemia so I could just take this medicine for the rest of my life and I could live a good 30 years from diagnosis. I was kind of like 30 YEARS? 30 YEARS? Because hay-zeus christos, man, 30 years isn't a really long time... that's like... right when my kids would be graduating from high school or something. He said that it was ok because by then he's sure they'd have come up with a real cure.
My grandfather died of prostate cancer the summer before our senior year. gah, I feel like I never really knew him.
» Zanzibar on 2007-03-24 11:35:28

I know how you feel. Sometimes, I really want to see a movie in theaters, but I'm unable to so I just wait till its out on DVD and rent it. But then after I've watched it, I'm like 'why the hell did I want to see this movie?' Even though I liked 300, not everyone will. I'm glad you're okay with saying that you have no interest in something and that you're not afraid of what people will think of you for saying so. I wish more people were like that
» LostSoul13 on 2007-03-25 01:12:18

Unless a movie is older my co-workers rarely bring up a movie. I will watch what I want, when I want and it may not be in the theater. We usually all have different views or different reasons for liking a movie. I know I got the look of "die" when I said the third LOTR movie wasn't very good and I wanted to throw the long winded dumb*** hobbit into the fire pit by the end of the battle just to get it done and over with. Screw the book they already made changes one more wouldn't hurt much. XD
» Katrina on 2007-03-25 01:26:12

I think you are an independant thinker.You dont like to follow the crowd. You like to form your own opinons without having to defend them. People should respect that.
» KkaMA67 on 2007-03-25 11:16:26

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