Saturday, September 27, 2003
You are now entering another dimension...
Wow.
Just wow.
I had to work today, and I had a total Twilight Zone moment. Let me set the scene up, I was talking with one of the guys that works in the dept. next to mine (I work in media: i.e. music, movies and video games) and he asked me if I ever watched Black Hawk Down, to which I responded NO (the only military-style movies I like are Full Metal Jacket and A Few Good Men), and he was appalled, and asked me what movies I did watch. I started listing my movies; South Park, Clerks, Family Guy Vol. 2...and then I got to Bowling For Columbine. Well, this guy just had to jump in and say:
"You know it's a fake documentary." Well, this just confused the hell out of me.
"What do you mean, dude?"
"It's a documentary-style shot movie, but all the facts are fake."
"Uhhh...no. No that's wrong. All the facts are FACTS." And this astounded him.
"Do you HAVE the DVD, Brian? It says on there that it's a fake documentary."
SO I got him the DVD and showed him that, not only is it a REAL documentary, it won REAL AWARDS for being a VERY VERY GOOD DOCUMENTARY.
"It's not a real documentary, Brian. All the statistics are made up." He then pulled over someone from another department and asked them, and they AGREED with him. I stood by my claim, because I AM RIGHT. Generally, I give myself some leeway and have no problem saying when I'm wrong, but I'M RIGHT THIS TIME, AND I KNOW IT. So he then pulled over the STORE MANAGER (who I have come to know as a decently intelligent human being) who ALSO AGREED WITH HIM. It was at this time I just kind of spaced out....I think my brain may have started imploding on itself from the OVERWHELMING STUPIDITY OF MY CO-WORKERS. I felt like shouting WHAT THE FUCK???!!!!! at the top of my lungs. It won a fucking ACADEMY AWARD for being a great documentary. It did NOT win the "Best Documentary-Style Fictional Movie" Award.
I seriously felt like I was in the Twilight Zone for a little while there. I mean....it...it's the most popular and successful documentary to come along in decades. All the facts and statistics in the movie were meticulously researched and have been PROVEN TO BE TRUE. So, I think the real question is WHERE THE HELL WAS I BETWEEN 7:00 AND 7:20 TONIGHT???!!!!
So, either I was in the Twilight Zone, or everyone at Best Buy is a dumb asshat conservative that never actually WATCHED the damn movie. I think I hate people again...
...except Outkast. They rock everyone's monstertruckin' world!
"...Step into the realms of space where nobody goes/Only the baddest motherfuckas are the ones that are chose!..."
Outkast - Bust
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Wow.
Just wow.
I had to work today, and I had a total Twilight Zone moment. Let me set the scene up, I was talking with one of the guys that works in the dept. next to mine (I work in media: i.e. music, movies and video games) and he asked me if I ever watched Black Hawk Down, to which I responded NO (the only military-style movies I like are Full Metal Jacket and A Few Good Men), and he was appalled, and asked me what movies I did watch. I started listing my movies; South Park, Clerks, Family Guy Vol. 2...and then I got to Bowling For Columbine. Well, this guy just had to jump in and say:
"You know it's a fake documentary." Well, this just confused the hell out of me.
"What do you mean, dude?"
"It's a documentary-style shot movie, but all the facts are fake."
"Uhhh...no. No that's wrong. All the facts are FACTS." And this astounded him.
"Do you HAVE the DVD, Brian? It says on there that it's a fake documentary."
SO I got him the DVD and showed him that, not only is it a REAL documentary, it won REAL AWARDS for being a VERY VERY GOOD DOCUMENTARY.
"It's not a real documentary, Brian. All the statistics are made up." He then pulled over someone from another department and asked them, and they AGREED with him. I stood by my claim, because I AM RIGHT. Generally, I give myself some leeway and have no problem saying when I'm wrong, but I'M RIGHT THIS TIME, AND I KNOW IT. So he then pulled over the STORE MANAGER (who I have come to know as a decently intelligent human being) who ALSO AGREED WITH HIM. It was at this time I just kind of spaced out....I think my brain may have started imploding on itself from the OVERWHELMING STUPIDITY OF MY CO-WORKERS. I felt like shouting WHAT THE FUCK???!!!!! at the top of my lungs. It won a fucking ACADEMY AWARD for being a great documentary. It did NOT win the "Best Documentary-Style Fictional Movie" Award.
I seriously felt like I was in the Twilight Zone for a little while there. I mean....it...it's the most popular and successful documentary to come along in decades. All the facts and statistics in the movie were meticulously researched and have been PROVEN TO BE TRUE. So, I think the real question is WHERE THE HELL WAS I BETWEEN 7:00 AND 7:20 TONIGHT???!!!!
So, either I was in the Twilight Zone, or everyone at Best Buy is a dumb asshat conservative that never actually WATCHED the damn movie. I think I hate people again...
...except Outkast. They rock everyone's monstertruckin' world!
"...Step into the realms of space where nobody goes/Only the baddest motherfuckas are the ones that are chose!..."
Outkast - Bust
