I thought it'd be fun to bring in some conversation regarding times where one is forced to watch something out of obligation or having no escape out of the situation or one is just curious about from the looks of how something appears to be and despite the warnings not to watch it, you watch it anyway out of morbid curiosity. I'll save the morbid curiosity stuff for last because it'll be really weird if I start it off like that and have nothing that can top it later.
To start off, since I do not have a car, I have to ride with my parents if the distance is too long to ride my piece of crap bike there (or the weather is not providing any help) and since the car rides take some time and since there are kids in the house that are still in elementary school (one of whom is just starting), there is a DVD player in the car that is hooked up to the middle and back seats for obvious reasons. And for the most case, all of these films are kids movies minus a few exceptions but 90% of them are the kind of movies that I really try hard to avoid watching at all costs since they are the worst things put on film and has me feel rather sad at the amount of crap that is sold to movie theaters as kids entertainment. Some of them aren't that bad though, but another thing that makes it all the more difficult is that when I get into the car, it'll not be all the time so sometimes I'll always end up watching the same parts of the same movie over and over again. And when the movie selection contains some really terrible movies, it can get stressful on my brain and as such, I'd rather not get into all that much of what I've seen.
There is also the times where I'm eating dinner and have no choice but to stay upstairs and watch whatever was put on the TV, which is either reality shows or crappy sitcoms, and my disdain for both holds no bounds especially on the reality show part. If I have to watch any more of watching people in antique shops or pawn shops asking about whether or not their wares are worth anything, or another competition show that really isn't that much of a competition, I'll probably set fire to one of the studio heads responsible for such trite. It just comes to show that my parents have terrible taste in movies and TV shows, which is a shame because most of my taste comes from my mom who used to have good taste in a lot of things, including music, but lately has succumbed to the trends of today.
I realize that I've been complaining more than talking about more specific times so let's get on that and just get onto two specific scenarios. One is involving the two times I got to go see movies in the summer, all those at a drive in that usually had a double bill back to back. The first time of the two was a double feature of Turbo and Pacific Rim. I had been looking forward to the latter for pretty much the entire year up to that point so I thought it would be worth sitting through the former and for the most part it was since I didn't find Turbo that awful, although it really was forgettable which does help things a lot since I can't remember a thing about that movie. The next time, it was Planes and The Lone Ranger, which I only went to since I was just curious as to whether or not they were as bad as everyone said they were. If a movie that stars Dane Cook makes him the most interesting part of the movie that was never meant to be in theaters to begin with, it's a terrible movie. And I only caught half of The Lone Ranger since we had to leave early and while I could understand all of the criticisms that were being thrown that movie's way, it wasn't that bad once it got past the overextended introduction and I kind of look forward to watching it in its entirety at some point.
Now lets go to one case of morbid curiosity that was the inspiration of this post, and I have to thank an episode of the Cinema Snob, and I could make an entire post talking about things I've watched because of him. But today, I'll be bringing up the ET XXX episode that came out earlier this year. It was one of my favorite episodes of this year so far and I don't know why but I ended up looking for it to see if it was as bad as it was. I didn't though and I forgot about that endeavor for a while until recently when I found it in some clips that cut it up to separate each scene. I honestly would not recommend ever looking for those clips even if you're curious about it. The fourth scene is where I kind of went into that mode of where in the episode he goes "This is my life" since it is the threesome with ET. I could not describe it since it is one of the most disgusting things I have watched in quite some time and I have to give credit to the actress in the scene for actually being able to look like she's having a good time in spite of the circumstances.
I wish I could go into more detail about this sort of things but I'm not sure I want to since I really just wanted this to be a springboard for the people who read this to talk about similar situations. Anyone got something like that?
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