Let me start off by saying that up until a few years ago I was not a movie guy. I watched on a whole maybe 10 or 12 movies a year. I couldn’t understand how someone could watch 3 movies a weekend, I was just way more into music at the time. To me it always seemed that movies were much more of a personal/time commitment. My perspective has since changed a great deal (although, most of the movies I enjoy pre-date color film).

It just strikes me odd when people try to push a movie or DVD on you. There are about 3 people in the world who understand exactly what I’m into and I trust their recommendations. Some people are convinced because they feel strongly about a movie that it must be universally appealing and they force you to take their dvd home with you. This presents itself with a multitude of problems.

1. You have to return the DVD in a reasonable amount of time. It’s not like a cd you can listen to on your drive home from work. If you hold onto it for more than a week, things can get awkward.
2. This goes along with #1 – you have to devote 90-120 minutes of your life and free time to this. Let’s be honest, it fucks up a “true” movie if you watch it in increments spread out over days.
3. You actually have to watch it. You like dramatic court room dramas and someone lets you borrow Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, your ass has to watch that shit. Especially because you will be quizzed on it when you return the DVD.

All I’m asking is for people to ease up on that shit. If someone asks you about a movie and expresses genuine interest, let them borrow it. Don’t force a movie on someone because you deem it as life changing. (FYI, they have a different and most likely better life than you anyway).

You might like these related memos:

• Movie Theater Seating
• Leaving Shit You Need At Hotels
• MTV’s MADE…My Guilty Pleasure
• Seasonal Beer + Accelerated Holidays
• Bullshit Holidays

Tags: idiocy, Shitty Movies
Category: Issues, Movies
November 6th, 2009

This entry was posted on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 8:30 am and is filed under Issues, Movies. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.