The movies are a big big deal in our redneck world. The drive-in downtown has some pretty wild little shows! Ron the projector man is just startin to fase in color movies, and let me tale u, the first time I saw a moving picher in color, and with some built in music non the less, my mind was blown. With these 24 frames per sec movie pictures comes criticism: films are an art (when you critique a movie you call it a film). Let us take a look at a few recent films: Singin in the Rain and THX 1138.
The first, Singing in Bahrain, a great big picher about the invention of sound movies--talkies. It documents the making of the first sound movie ever, the Jazz Singer, and its pretty good. There’s allot of tap dancing. Some great skills went into that element of the film, and it really reflects the ‘50s era. There’s a clear slapstick character, a dashing man, and a love interest. What more could you ask fore in a film? Pretty artistical shooting, though with a hint of romanticization of the Jazz Singer era, this “film” passes the test for being a good film. I wouldnt recommend it to anybody nowadays in the modern times though, because its comidy is a little too long form.
The second is THX 1138. George Lucas’s next great upcoming project that just came to theaters near me. Its a sci fi thriller about dystopian underground livers, and really I can’t connect. Those people in there are just so straight, square, perfectly shaped homo sapiens, I dont know how they got such straight teeth and good proportions. Everybody around here has got some kind of squint, or missing all their teeth like cousin joey. Nobody even plays the banjo in this movie and theres nothing like what id call music to be found. But where this film lacks realism and a soul, it makes up for in artistick vision and execution. What a great statement about the world. It really makes you wonder what Ol’ George will do for his second directorial project, and even his third.
In the end, moovies are not rally my thing. Who pays $2 to go to the theater, and spend a couple hours watching the silver screen, when you could be at a NASCAR rase watchin people turn left? There’s no competition in a movie, you know itll all turn out all right in the end. I suppose its all about the things they make you think about, but where they’re all made is thousands of miles away in Holy Wood, and I dont feel like theres much that us rednecks can relate to, if you know what I mean. If im watchin any kinda tv, it has to be Duck Dynasty, because they definitely deal with the kind of things I understand and I have to deal with on a daily basis.
Have a great day and I hope this helps you to pick some movies (or not!) See you all at the nascar this weekend! Lets hope Dale Earnheart Jr. doesn’t crash this time!!--Tiberius
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