Showing posts with label Bad Television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bad Television. Show all posts

Thursday, July 23, 2009

The Idiocy of Ayn Rand Combined with the Vapidity of TV? Oh, Joy....

The good news: we may be spared a film adaptation of Atlas Shurgged.

The bad news: it may end up being a mini-series instead, so that we could enjoy all of the nuances of such subtlties like speeches that never end and the occasional rape without being limited by the 3-hour movie time.

Hopefully this is just talk, and somebody takes Charlize Theron aside and explains the manifold ways why this is a bad idea, from philosophical to practical. If the mini-series does ever see the light of day, though......well, hopefully, the television will reveal to many just how stupid Rand's words are when they actually spoken aloud, rather than eliminating that 1000-page obstacle that kept an insufferable book out of the hands of so many unthinking-and-easily-swayed people and leading to a new army of idiots walking around asking "who is John Galt?" and sincerely insisting that government is bad.

I don't really watch TV now, but if this thing ever sees the light of day, it will be a guarantee that I don't watch TV ever again.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Truer Words Never Spoken

Courtney on Sex and the City:

I know I'm going to get some shit for this, but I have to ask how we can
consider something truly feminist that has NO CLASS or RACE ANALYSIS. I enjoy
it. I'm down to watch it. But do we have to call it feminist?


I dislike that show for many reasons, but this has to be right at the top. Well, that and the bad writing.