[Diesel]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

let me start by saying this is not a brag.

I am considered by the appointed testing authorities as a "smart" person. The tests all say this, and my people know I am a bit of a polymath whose intellectual interests are far ranging and that I am full of data. Because of this, I have friends and family and co-workers recommend me these movies, like Good Will Hunting, The Imitation Game, and A Beautiful Mind, always saying "You would love it! It is about this really smart person!" and invariably, I watch the film and find it wanting, mostly because the films are portraying supposedly very smart people in a manner that will allow the "regular" person to be awed or impressed by the protagonists amazing mind.

In other words, they are portrayed with a shorthand that lets non-smart people know that so-and-so is VERY SMART. I find this shit so tiresome and uninteresting and it ruins the shit for me.

Contact was a movie where nearly every single character is a VERY SMART person and they are portrayed like real humans, without the visual storytelling shorthand that telegraphs their "intelligence".


Re: One Hour Photo - I saw an hour of it, couldn't give a flying fuck about what I was seeing, and turned it off. I hated it but Robin was creepy and good in it.

Yea that's all well and good but Rob. How do you like them apples?