There was an Atlantic Monthly(?) piece about it that a quick search has not retrieved, that was great, because it was deep. It talked about the levels of failure in a way that - well, I was brandishing that article, for a while.
It's horrible to say, "one should have [x] experience in [y] circumstances," so I'll try not to, but, I had the luck to see it in LA as a Rocky Horror thing was developing around it, and I had the luck to see it develop. So for a while people were mocking Lisa (for being fat, for being evil) but then something gelled, at least temporarily, a realization that the movie was in part bad because of its take on Lisa. All the Lisa catcalling STOPPED, and the callbacks just focused on ridiculing the worldview of the movie, and on silliness.
Silliness like: whenever Denny arrived onscreen, the audience would give him a sudden chipper greeting ("Denny!") and whenever that damned framed picture of cutlery was panned past, we threw plastic spoons. A brief white world of spoons.
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Date: 2012-01-22 03:17 am (UTC)There was an Atlantic Monthly(?) piece about it that a quick search has not retrieved, that was great, because it was deep. It talked about the levels of failure in a way that - well, I was brandishing that article, for a while.
It's horrible to say, "one should have [x] experience in [y] circumstances," so I'll try not to, but, I had the luck to see it in LA as a Rocky Horror thing was developing around it, and I had the luck to see it develop. So for a while people were mocking Lisa (for being fat, for being evil) but then something gelled, at least temporarily, a realization that the movie was in part bad because of its take on Lisa. All the Lisa catcalling STOPPED, and the callbacks just focused on ridiculing the worldview of the movie, and on silliness.
Silliness like: whenever Denny arrived onscreen, the audience would give him a sudden chipper greeting ("Denny!") and whenever that damned framed picture of cutlery was panned past, we threw plastic spoons. A brief white world of spoons.
A-HA! It was Harper's.
Date: 2012-01-22 03:19 am (UTC)