Luke Skywanker
[movies] So Jennifer's family wanted to watch The Art of Racing in the Rain and oh my god why is this a movie.
Luke Skywanker
Why was this a bestselling novel?
Luke Skywanker
Someone's obsessed with race cars and the idea of dog reincarnation, put it into a book, and I can't figure out why it's happening.
PlurkDevi
I ask myself these questions all the time.
Luke Skywanker
it's just an endless Kevin Costner monologue about "finding balance" and Amanda Seyfried's "plump buttocks"
Luke Skywanker
I was thinking about how sometimes people have weird interests and you don't realize how interesting they are until they make a movie about their niche thing. THIS IS NOT THAT.
Luke Skywanker
I mean your kink is not my kink and that should be okay but
Luke Skywanker
I'll need to watch Togo again for like the fourth time to forget this
PlurkDevi
It's aggravating to me because I work with authors, some of whom create great books that can't find publishers. It's demoralizing to see this kind of dreck succeed.
Luke Skywanker
Oh my god
Luke Skywanker
the stuffed zebra is suddenly alive and dancing around?
Luke Skywanker
like the dog is hallucinating I guess
Luke Skywanker
This is so bad
Luke Skywanker
PlurkDevi : it's so hard to understand
tronja307020
Oh. That sounds like my pain as a writer who loves vampire fiction watching Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey be published and become massive hits.
Luke Skywanker
Yup
Luke Skywanker
The wife got sick and took the kid away for the weekend and NO ONE remembered they had a dog
tronja307020
On one hand, I can now go "Hey, if I could just finish my novel, then I bet I could totally get it published if I begged enough publishers, if they think this shit is so great! I'm never going to doubt my own skills as a writer again!" spoiler alert, I still do. Oh well. On the other hand, it makes me go "HOW IS IT THAT THIS IS A HUGE
tronja307020
HIT??? ;A;"
Luke Skywanker
This dog talks, but there's like, no consistency at all in his intelligence or anything. It's really weird.
Luke Skywanker
tronja307020 : Oh yeah, I get that way all the time. Mostly about acting.
Luke Skywanker
Like, I am... relatively certain I'm as good if not better than MANY professional actors making a living.
tronja307020
awwww, yeah, I hate those feels. I totally got them when I was in drama, but then I never got to do drama-like stuff when I was growing up, anyway. XD My small town had literally no theater culture to speak of.
Luke Skywanker
Yeah when I was younger I had to go many towns over to be in anything.
Luke Skywanker
Now the dog is complaining about how he's not been made a part of the discussion around the wife's cancer diagnosis
Luke Skywanker
but ten minutes ago he was convinced the stuffed zebra was going to kill him
Luke Skywanker
now he's using car engine metaphors
juliette lives
the book wasn't bad when I read it but ehh
juliette lives
I've never wanted to watch the movie, it doesn't seem like it would translate well
juliette lives
and yeah, re: actors. I've realized that what makes a good screen actor is "being able to emote prettily" specifically for camera.
juliette lives
that's like... 75% of it. it's what makes people compelling to watch; they're emotionally available but also really, really photogenic in specific ways.
Luke Skywanker
I think this movie is for people who are literally the opposite of me
Luke Skywanker
juliette lives : Yeah I guess so. I do not think I'm terribly photogenic. I think I'm a really good actor, though. I mean, I've decided that's true from roles and responses I've gotten.
juliette lives
I think I'm a competent actor. But I'm really not photogenic. I think I'm generally attractive but the camera makes me less so, while in some people it's the opposite. They'll look like a normal person and then in front of a camera they turn stunning.
juliette lives
from the stage, movement and voice matters a lot more, so that's why I'm okay in those roles
juliette lives
though sadly not as good as I want to be!
Luke Skywanker
Yeah I'm cute enough for my own purposes but not for movies I guess lol
juliette lives
I'm never gonna be thin enough for movies unless I want to be moms and aunts and sassy bffs
Luke Skywanker
I'm still weirded out watching Amanda Seyfried as anyone but Lily Kane
juliette lives
is she the wife?
Luke Skywanker
yup
juliette lives
I just can't watch it, the book was not bad but it's so very much one of those "the dog dies at the end, that's all you're gonna care about" deals
juliette lives
my mom always sends me those books
juliette lives
I went to freaking Marley and Me without reading it because it looked cute and my mom wanted to. NEVER AGAIN.
Luke Skywanker
It's very, um... deep for not deep people. Like the dog keeps making what I assume are supposed to be profound statements about life that are the same as every other movie about people with cancer.
juliette lives
yeahhh the book was like that
juliette lives
but it read not quite so annoyingly as you might expect i guess, though I think I was a lot younger when I read it
Luke Skywanker
Fair enough.
juliette lives
2008, my mom bought me a copy of it, so yeah
juliette lives
not super young but enough that I would have been more "oh, that's sweet" and less jaded lol
Luke Skywanker
ahaha oh is that my problem? :-D
juliette lives
I think 2016-now has put has all there
juliette lives
nothing is sweet, stop giving me dog movies
Luke Skywanker
No I never liked saccharine hollywood, I was always this way
juliette lives
lol
Luke Skywanker
I mean I do not think I'm a particularly bitter person, actually. Just. This is the OPPOSITE of my type of movie.
juliette lives
yeah, they're absolutely my mom's thing and visiting becomes "how many of these am I gonna watch" lol
juliette lives
I think I put my foot down, no more movies where the dog dies
Luke Skywanker
aww
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