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May. 6th, 2012 08:34 pm1. Do you really want a review of 50 Shades Darker? I'm guessing not. Will just say this, it's not what I expected. The reviews lead me to believe this was a story about a college student deciding to lose her virginity to a sadistic guy into S&M, who introduces her into the BDSM world and somehow they fall in lust or intense love. It's not that. Not at all. Which makes me wonder about the reviewers. The one's on Amazon and Good Reads are actually more accurate. Note to the wise? Don't read books in genres you can't stand and then review them. It's stupid. It would be like an independent art film critic who can't stand blockbuster superhero flicks reviewing the Avengers. Every time I see somebody do this - I have to restrain myself from saying - well what did you expect? That review of Game of Thrones by the NY Times critic who hates fantasy novels...is another example. She just looked like an idiot. Of course she'd hate it. It wasn't written for her. She's not the intended audience.
Also, another thing, 50 Shades Darker validates my opinion that fans write better romances than romance novelists. Mostly because they go further and paint outside the lines, and play more. Romance novelists stick to a tried and true formula. Fans don't. This may be true to a degree of all genres, but having not read fanfic in the other genres - I really couldn't say.
2. Watched part of the second episode of the new HBO series Girls - which is weird for me to watch, because it is about a bunch of entitled 20 something women living in Greenpoint Brooklyn, and whose parents live in Park Slope. (I live in Carroll Gardens Brooklyn). In one scene the protagonist is at a job interview at a publishing house, with a guy my age. He lives in Cobble Hill - which she calls grown up Brooklyn. (cringe).
And they discuss clubs. (cringe). And ...I start thinking damn this is almost too realistic and reminding me of why I refuse to live in Greenpoint. It is. The lead character reminds me uncomfortably of a couple of people I've known. Not sure I can watch this - may have to stop for the same reasons I had to stop watching Sex in the City and Breaking Bad...too realistic and makes me cringe. When I watch tv nowadays, I want to escape the annoyances and stresses of everyday life, not be reminded of them.
3. Generation X - My Generation, otherwise known as the forgotten, silent, slacker, sardonic generation...that came of age in the 1980s, and looks at the two generations that bracket with a sort of sardonic contempt.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/weekinreview/09aoscott.html?pagewanted=all
(Actually I don't know about you, but I've been having one for ten years now...would like it to stop.)
Cabin in the Woods about Pop Culture in the Millenium Age - it's a film oddly by a Generation X filmmaker.
Whedon was born in 1964. Generation X is 1964 to 1979.
Generation X doesn't want to hear it
( Read more... )
And
Generation X Apologizes for Ruining Life for the OWS Millenium Crowd
Hee.
All of this reminds me a great deal of the Winona Ryder/Ben Stiller flick Reality Bites.
Also a little of Heathers. Yes, I watched the John Hughes films, but there were better ones out there that defined us. Darker, more sardonic ones. Hughes was too mainstream.
Also, another thing, 50 Shades Darker validates my opinion that fans write better romances than romance novelists. Mostly because they go further and paint outside the lines, and play more. Romance novelists stick to a tried and true formula. Fans don't. This may be true to a degree of all genres, but having not read fanfic in the other genres - I really couldn't say.
2. Watched part of the second episode of the new HBO series Girls - which is weird for me to watch, because it is about a bunch of entitled 20 something women living in Greenpoint Brooklyn, and whose parents live in Park Slope. (I live in Carroll Gardens Brooklyn). In one scene the protagonist is at a job interview at a publishing house, with a guy my age. He lives in Cobble Hill - which she calls grown up Brooklyn. (cringe).
And they discuss clubs. (cringe). And ...I start thinking damn this is almost too realistic and reminding me of why I refuse to live in Greenpoint. It is. The lead character reminds me uncomfortably of a couple of people I've known. Not sure I can watch this - may have to stop for the same reasons I had to stop watching Sex in the City and Breaking Bad...too realistic and makes me cringe. When I watch tv nowadays, I want to escape the annoyances and stresses of everyday life, not be reminded of them.
3. Generation X - My Generation, otherwise known as the forgotten, silent, slacker, sardonic generation...that came of age in the 1980s, and looks at the two generations that bracket with a sort of sardonic contempt.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/weekinreview/09aoscott.html?pagewanted=all
(Actually I don't know about you, but I've been having one for ten years now...would like it to stop.)
Cabin in the Woods about Pop Culture in the Millenium Age - it's a film oddly by a Generation X filmmaker.
Whedon was born in 1964. Generation X is 1964 to 1979.
Generation X doesn't want to hear it
( Read more... )
And
Generation X Apologizes for Ruining Life for the OWS Millenium Crowd
Hee.
All of this reminds me a great deal of the Winona Ryder/Ben Stiller flick Reality Bites.
Also a little of Heathers. Yes, I watched the John Hughes films, but there were better ones out there that defined us. Darker, more sardonic ones. Hughes was too mainstream.