Blog vs. Blog Update

Little Junkies vs. Cosmic Sitcom: It’s on.

Last night, Junkie1 and I began collecting data on the crappy movies in her extensive DVD collection. As you can imagine, this was a task fraught with conflict. We began by discussing how to define crap. She went on and on about criteria and rating systems and voting and … yadda yadda yadda … keep talkin’, woman, I’m gettin’ me some tea … I’m still listening :: yawn :: …

In the meantime, let me point out that since Avatar was part of what started the Blog vs. Blog event, the haters (I’m calling Junkie1 out as a proto-Avatar hater) can at least be funny, hence the Webcomic above. Seriously, this Australian dude has a beef with James Cameron, as you can read here:

Titanic was about 2 hours too long.

The Abyss was 30 mins too long.

The “special preview screenings” he organised to promote Avatar showed nothing more than I could see in trailers online, at the time. (I won tickets to one of these screenings and spent a LOT of time and effort to get there, only to be let down by Cameron once again)

The 3D in Avatar does not make the graphics better. (Those glasses are annoying and I have seen better CG graphics in computer games)

The $500 million you used to make this “epic” could have gone to something much better – like cancer research or a campaign to get people worldwide to stop using Internet Explorer 6.

“Let’s make the aliens look like Giant cat people!”. Wow. I expected better from you, James. Where is the originality there? That idea has been used so many times.

Among his litany of issues with Cameron, he condemns Avatar to receiving mixed reviews and becoming “this generation’s Dances with Wolves, but in space.” FYI, the Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves has a 78 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes; Avatar is at 84 percent as of today.

State of the Crap

Anyway, back to Junkie1′s crappy DVD collection. Instead of a complicated rating system, we agreed to scan the collection, passing by movies we both liked or, while mediocre, didn’t sink to the level of crap. All this minus actually defining what crap is, because, like, who has time for that, right?

We did agree on some criteria for debating the possibly redeeming qualities of the films in question, namely:

1. Story
2. Characters
3. Plot
4. Believability
5. Success of the film’s dramatic or comedic intent
6. Production values
7. Visual effects (if applicable)
8. Rotten Tomatoes and Netflix ratings

We spent 45 minutes last night going through the first of five cabinets filled with DVDs. My Crap Count so far: 15. Hers, of course, differs. Stay tuned!

My growing list of the crappy movies in Junkie1′s DVD collection.
We’re only getting started, yo.