You know...

[gilana]

It's probably a bad sign if, while watching a movie, a character dies, and you think, "Oh good, that's one down."

Especially if it's supposed to be a comedy.

Comments

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

What movie?

[gilana]

Little Miss Sunshine.

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

Huh. Does that mean you didn't enjoy it?

[gilana]

By the end I wasn't quite hating it, but yeah, really didn't enjoy it overall.

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I didn't think our tastes were that dissimilar. I loved it. But to each her own. :)

[gilana]

I hate movies with characters that I think really need to be smacked. The father in particular was appalling throughout most of the movie, and the grandfather was not far behind. The others weren't as bad, but weren't people I particularly liked or enjoyed spending time with.

[bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com]

Movies like that annoy me too. Thanks for the warning. :-)

I am also avoiding Borat for similar reasons. That whole intentionally uncomfortable thing really bugs me. I deal with enough of it in my real life.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

heee hee hee... Yeah, I've seen movies like that. I loved watching some horrible Zombie-flic at a midnight movie, and the main charcters were so annoying and the plot so slow, that by the time the Zombies finally got around to killing one of the characters, the whole theater cheered. The movie-watching experience got much more fun after that. :)

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

I didn't like "Little Miss Sunshine" over-all, but did find some of the scenes laugh-out-loud funny. The scene in the hospital when the "bereavement counselor" talked to the family, for instance. But maybe that's only because I am training to be a bereavement counselor of sorts. I was telling a friend about this scene and about how the family took the grandfather with them in the van and she said, "That happened to my mother." My friend has some very funny family stories to tell, including this one about bringing the grandmother across the Mexican border on top of the car. Art imitating life?