I'm a big fan of Steve Oedekerk (pre Neutron Boy Genius and all that). Nothing to Lose is hilarious, as is Kung Pow and his Thumb Parodies. I'm one for random humor, and any film that contains the line "if you're going outside, you'd better bring your coat because there's.. bacon out there" (Bat Thumb) is good in my book. Although this is the kind of thing I can completely understand other people dislike, so please don't berate me for enjoying it. I just love wacky stuff.
And yes, I do know what both pretentious and arrogant mean. My assumptions of the words are backed by wiktionary's definitions:
arrogant (comparative more arrogant, superlative most arrogant)
1. Having excessive pride in oneself.
pretentious (comparative more pretentious, superlative most pretentious)
2. Ostentatious; intended to impress others
And yes, from my experience of BWP (which I have already said is marginally anything at all) it is both those things. More the latter, I suppose. The attitude "hey look at us we've shot this film and it's a totally true story come see" screams of both those things, the way I see it. The film may be good, I'm not denying it (although I don't think it's the kind of film that would frighten me, I'm usually not frightened by outright scares but more by general eeriness. And no, "there's a witch in the forest" is not eeriness, that's a pretty blatant scare, no matter how it's made.). What I dislike is the attitude behind it. If you can like a film that is promoted as a true story when it's not, that's fine. I can't, and that's all I'm saying.
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- Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:35 pm
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