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In the real world, I probably have five or less close friends I see on a regular basis. I don't think I'm a snob or antisocial, I just like my privacy. And in the 21st century, Americans are so self-involved nowadays that we rarely have time for our friends, not to shoot pool, shoot guns, or shoot the shit. Not even to have a few beers or anything. In the next 100 years, maybe we all really will become like the people who escaped Earth in Wall-E: fat, socially retarded, and incapable of dealing with something that isn't instantly gratifying. Speaking of movies and fat social retards...

I enjoy movies like everyone else. Sometimes a little more than everyone else. I analyze them, pick them apart, try to find the underlying messages or metaphors and I don't like a movie if it doesn't have a point. Also, being a product of the Second Depression, I can't afford to go first-run movies in the theater and since I'm also a product of the digital age, I get my new(er) movies through the mail with my Netflix account. I'd rather watch something I've been anxious to see without having to forego taking a piss because the theater won't pause the movie for me. And if anyone has seen a new release I don't wanna hear about, possibly something with a twist (I went a whole year without hearing the ending to The Sixth Sense), I simply sternly remind them to shut the fuck up, not everyone's seen The Dark Knight yet, OK, Nick? 

That being said, if I wanna get someone's opinion on a movie, I have a couple choices - 1) I could look through an Entertainment Weekly and read a review written by a complete movie snob who uses more incomprehensible adjectives than Shakespeare dubbed into Navajo, someone who only likes foreign films, preferably from a Hungarian political refugee living in Chile, and can cite all the reasons why Transformers was an abomination to "cinema" while wearing a beret... 2) I can ask my friends who are regular dudes but I don't always see eye-to-eye with. Chris, I'll never think The Fast And The Furious is a good movie. Ever. Not to mention, don't you remember? I have almost no friends. Friends of Wesley are an endangered species. 

Is it so hard to believe that just because I got a C- in Film Appreciation class at Brainerd Lakes Community College that I can't have and convey an opinion about a movie? I guess we'll see...

-Wes-