Kick!
Thus far in June, I have:
- A broken TTC metropass
- A hot rock star girlfriend who can cook a dinner where the main matches the walls and the side matches her dress
- Enough stickers to mail away for that ultra-top-secret crystal skeleton that Indiana Jones kept looking around for
- Tickets to a Jays game where they will serve NO BEER!
- Scott Pilgrim, Volume 2.
Plus, I saw Sex and the City and Troll 2, which are comparably fascinating cultural documents. SATC because it was exactly like going to see a fanboy movie - only it was for girls! I mean, the entire audience actually gasped aloud when Big showed Carrie her new walk-in closet. Kinda like how all the dudes in the audience for Hellboy 2 will go "YEAH!" when Hellboy brings out his new big shotgun. And as for Troll 2... well the good news is that Sarafina won it on DVD at the Bloor on Saturday night, so I think there are going to be trips to Nilbog aplenty this summer. A bit of smoke, a bit of wine, a bit of soup, a bit of perfect if you ask me.
I have re-Feng Shuied my cubicle and bought myself a Seven Samurai poster. Tonight I am attending what could actually be described as a family reunion. I need a haircut, but otherwise I clean up pretty nice. It's a Tuesday. Davy Jones is coming.
"I guess the closest thing women have to Indiana Jones is Carrie Bradshaw."
- Sarafina
Comments
Reading stuff like that reminds me how very geeky my group of friends are, when very few of the women of the group have any interest in seeing Sex & the City while most of them will likely see Hellboy 2 opening weekend if not opening night. :)
Also I would think someone such as Buffy, is closer to woman's Indiana Jones rather than Carrie Bradshaw (althrough Carrie is obviously a lot more mainstream).
Posted by: Matthew Fabb | June 4, 2008 9:46 PM
You might be taking me too literally... I don't mean that women need a female action star (a Buffy) to complement Indy; I mean that they need a female fangirl experience (clothes! fashion! walk-in closets!) to complement our geeking out over X-Wing fighters and Ringwraiths.
This will be discussed in further depth in this week's Mamo. :)
Posted by: tederick | June 5, 2008 9:32 AM
Ah, I guess I see Indiana Jones as having plenty of crossover appeal to woman to have seen the statement from that view. However, I don't know how the last Indy polled audience wise and don't know if my preception of the audience for Indy 4 is the actual reality. I imagine that my preception for quite off because as I mentioned I hang out with a geeky group of people, where a lot of woman like movies such as Hellboy, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. I didn't see Indiana Jones opening night with some friends but later opening weekend, because my wife would have been very, very upset if I went to have seen it without her. But then again my wife has watched the Lord of the Rings movies many more times that I have and also owns more action figures than I have, so that's not a good judge of what's happening with the rest of the world.
I read online that based on polling that 85% of the audience for Sex & the City were woman and do wonder which movies would pull a similarly large male audience based on polls. Definitely sounds like a great topic for Mamo.
Posted by: Matthew Fabb | June 5, 2008 10:18 PM