You can learn a lot of things from movies, especially things from different cultures. Spent most of the day being lazy, watching Hemingway's favourite movie 3 Idiots, which was a cute movie about embracing all the fun things in life and not taking things too seriously (with a lead role that was pretty much a male Manic Pixie Dream Girl), and I also learned informative things such as:
- If you fake a heart attack on an airplane, the doctor who'll meet you at the gate won't be able to tell that you're, in fact, not having a heart attack until you spring out of your wheel chair and run off through the strangely not so crowded arrival hall, yet still managing to bump into a million people (yet no security guards. Huh, security in India must be pretty relaxed).
- It's perfectly reasonable to electrocute a bully through the penis.
- It's also perfectly reasonable to pee on the door of a teacher you don't like and then expect not to be punished for it. - It's a good to break into your principal's office in order to steal some papers that your girlfriend (who's the principal's daughter) told you would be there, and then call her cellphone from the office phone to ask her exactly where they are. Yeah, no-one's going to think that's odd at all.
- To make someone's fiance angry about said girl losing a really expensive watch (like several month's salaries) literally within minutes of receiving it, is somehow a perfect example of how the fiance is a total dick (which, to be fair, he kinda was, but still).
- If your old flame's buddies show up on your wedding day 10 years after you stopped hanging out to hook you up with said old flame, it's perfectly normal to just take off and go with them to meet this old flame who didn't even come to pick you up himself, without knowing if he's even single, or hell, even alive.
- If you're a Manic Pixie Dream Guy in a Bollywood movie, you cry every damn time something even remotely emotional happens.
- Your principal can be a complete sociopath without any repercussions. Is there seriously no board of directors or even any legal instance that these people could've complained to? I would've thought that (at least) one suicide and then another attempted suicide within the time span of a few years would warrant an investigation as to what the hell is going on with the school.
I didn't dislike the movie per se (even if it was, I kid you not, 2½ hours), but let's just say I'm going to use those 2½ hours for Bioshock in the future. At least there's not all that singing and dancing when swooping through a sky city shooting racists in the face. I love how the IMDb-page went "The only people who hate this film are snobbish film majors!" and I first went "Wait, that's not fair, I'm not..." and then went through the kind of movies in my head that I actually like. Fine, prejudice IMDb-people, I admit that my taste in movies isn't for everyone and that most Jim Carrey movies don't get all that many chuckles from me, but that doesn't mean that I have to agree with this clearly OK movie (that I'd rate at a generous 6.5/10) would beat a really great movie (like I'm a Cyborg But That's OK) by several points on the IMDb voting scale (8.3 vs. 7.0). I just don't get it.
Not that this Jenna Marbles-video is completely on topic, but it's still awesome and illustrates pretty obviously that movie logic just doesn't make any fucking sense at all.
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