Deep Dicking Chasing Amy

I was going to write this post forever ago, but got incredibly lazy. But anyway, a while ago I was watching some Kevin Smith "Evening" stuff on YouTube and came across this portion of a night:

And this is what led me to re-watch Chasing Amy (and kindle my fanaticism with the song Joey Lauren Adams sings). It had been a few years since I saw the movie last and I'm not incredibly sure how long it had been since I'd seen it sober, so I'd forgotten some things. I'll give Lela the benefit of the doubt by assuming the last and only time she'd seen it was 4 years prior to this video. Because if she had re-watched it as I did, she would realize she doesn't even have a question there.

Because, to me it least, Chasing Amy isn't even a lesbian movie. I mean, it starts out with Alyssa identifying as a lesbian, but in the end (Spoilers! on a 15 year old movie...) we find that Alyssa is just curious and open to whatever. She was really just misrepresenting herself. As she explains later, it was a process. Which is mostly where I'm at, but I digress.

"I came to this on my own terms...the way the world is, how seldom it is that you meet that one person who just gets you -- it's so rare...to cut one's self off from finding that person, to immediately halve your options by eliminating the possibility of finding that one person within your own gender, that just seems stupid to me. So I didn't. But then you came along. You, the one least likely. I mean, you were a guy...And while I was falling for you, I put a ceiling on that because you were a guy. Until I remembered why I opened the door to women in the first place. To not limit the likelihood of finding that one person who'd complement me so completely. So here we are. I was thorough when I looked for you. And I feel justified lying in your arms 'cause I got here on my own terms and I have no question in someplace I didn't look. For me that makes all the difference." -Alyssa

"All a lesbian needs is a good deep dicking" is not what Kevin Smith was saying at all. If anything, he was telling a story about one lesbian falling in love with a man. One isolated event, that is entirely possible, assuming that person was open to that possibility. Which I believe Alyssa was, obviously. Almost anecdotal, I would say. This movie is about sexual fluidity. Love in a gender-free form. Or at least that's what I took away from it. But what do I know? Maybe the message was offensive. Some people will take offense to anything, even possibly the most interesting love story I've seen yet.

Between the dick and fart jokes, there is wisdom to be had. Love me some Kevin Smith.

Movies To See - 3

1. Warm Bodies - Zombies! and it looks hilarious.

2. John Dies at the End - Better not break my heart.

3. Django Unchained - I've heard mixed reviews on this one, but it's a Quentin Tarantino, so I have to at least check it out.

4. World War Z - Zombies! Still haven't read the book...

5. Oz: The Great and Powerful - looks pretty badass, and I love pretty much everything Oz.

Movies To See - 2

After a bit of a Hollywood dryspell, these movies are offering me something to look forward to.

1. Looper

2. Vamps

3. Anchorman 2

4. Sinister

5. This Is 40

Film of Quality

I watch a lot of movies. Like piles. In my lame, boring existence, pretty much all I do is rape my Netflix queue. Anyway, that being said, I have found a lack of great movies being made anymore. This saddens me. I spend all day watching sub-par movies that just don't capture any feelings or truth or mystery. What happened to those movies? Have they all been done? Or has artistry become a thing that the movie industry is no longer interested in producing?

The movies I'm talking about, and you may or may not agree with my choices, are movies like Planet of the Apes (1968). The thing about Planet of the Apes, the original mind you, is that it is fantastic. It takes you on this ride to another planet and makes you use your imagination. Suppose Apes were the rulers and the humans were...not. Which is a sweet concept in and of itself without going into the underlying messages bullshit, but then it turns into a total mindfuck at the end. If you didn't already know the end, when you got there, that was the most awesome feeling. The feeling that you got an actual trick ending. It was somehow satisfying. I miss that. I miss being satisfyingly tricked.

I wonder how much of that has to do with being older and expecting the tricks and how much it has to do with quality film. Fight Club is another example of that trick ending that was more than just expected. I would even have to admit to The Sixth Sense having that, although every M. Night movie thereafter kinda just fell flat by exploiting that initial concept.

Another genre I'd like to explore is the romantic-comedy. As a connoisseur of the genre,  I tend to be overly picky sometimes. Really though, I feel like a lot of these movies should just not be made. When Harry Met Sally and The Princess Bride are my standards. Roll your eyes all you want, but Rob Reiner really defined the genre for me. He used the formula, but still made it feel like love. The only rom-com I've seen this year to meet these standards is Friends With Kids, which features Jennifer Westfeldt(who is just always amazing).

What I miss about this genre is actual character development. I'm sick of watching a stereotype of a romance. I know it's hard to make an actual human being like-able, but I do wish someone would at least try. Because at the heart of it, there's nothing about two people with no real depth or obstacles in their life getting together that is at all worth watching (ex. Bounty Hunter). Shit, I get that everyday on my Facebook feed.