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Rating: really liked it
I desperately needed this book. I cannot adequately describe to you how much I needed this book right now, today,
National Sandwich Day Election Day in the US. If you are American or live in a country even vaguely American-adjacent (that’s gotta be most of you, sry), you are probably also very anxious today. You may have even been anxious for many days, weeks, months—maybe years (four, exactly?? Who knows!).
I am right there with you friends. And if you are trying to quiet that sense of impending doom for exactly the amount of time it takes you to read 272 pages of a book, I can not recommend Lindy West’s
Shit, Actually enough. I have been milking it for over a week, trying to retain my sanity, and it has mostly worked! In her first book, Shrill, West discussed her life, feminism, body-shaming and other topics that were
Big News in May 2016 when the book came out. (ha! haha!! it all seems so quaint now~~) Then in her follow-up The Witches Are Coming, West went even more overtly into the politics of Trumpism, racism, sexism and All The Other Bad Things, in her signature comedic way.
While these were the books I needed at the time, I think most of us are just trying to drag our limp, half-comatose bodies over the finish line today. For that reason,
Shit, Actually is the perfect book for right now. Why? Because it’s about MOVIES! It’s funny! It’s written by someone smart and hilarious who has
strong opinions about things that don’t
matter. Here is a book where I can get in a heated comments section argument with someone about
Bad Boys II and everything is still OKAY afterwards. I’ve been desperately craving something and it turns out that something is someone explaining to me with excessive punctuation why all popular Bro Movies™ are trash! And my god, Lindy West delivers.
I will now definitively rank the movies Lindy discusses in the book, which I have watched, so that even if you don’t read
Shit, Actually (you should!!!!!!) we can argue about them in the comments anyways:
The Lion King
Forrest Gump
Titanic
Harry Potter The Series That Shall Not Be Named
Twilight
The Fugitive
The Notebook
The Shawshank Redemption
Jurassic Park
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Back to the Future
American Pie
The Santa Clause
Love, Actually
And here are the ones mentioned that I have not watched but that sounded so dumb that it’s all but guaranteed I never will:
Face/Off, Top Gun, Bad Boys II, Garden State, Terminator 2, Reality Bites,
Speed.
And ones that sounded kinda dumb but also kinda cool idk I’ll check to see if they’re on Netflix: The
Rock, Rush Hour.
In conclusion, I am completely in love with Lindy West. This is the perfect book and you all should write it in for the Goodreads Choice Awards in the Humor category! I’m allowed to campaign here, I’m at least 100 feet away from the polling location!!! (election day joke) Unfortunately, I guess Ms. West felt like she adequately roasted Adam Sandler in her other works, so there was no further commentary on his movies. :( Dear Lindy or Lindy’s publisher, if you’re reading this, please let her know that she can never write too much about Adam Sandler! There is no ceiling on the number of times you can dunk on him!!
Apologies for the excessive gif usage, but if there was ever a time to do so!*Thanks to Hachette Books & Netgalley for an advance copy!**
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Rating: really liked it
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As a millennial 30-something who has seen movies, I was totally curious to see what this other millennial 30-something who has also seen movies would say about movies. Here's the thing: I don't actually watch that many movies. Some people are film buffs, and some people are like, "Yeah, I've never seen
the Godfather," and I am the latter category (and yes, truefax, I have never seen
the Godfather). But I love Lindy West and I love reading
about people talking about movies, so I thought this collection would be superfun. And it
was.This collection of pop-cultural essays focuses primarily around movies that came out in the nineties. The essay about
Love, Actually did me in, because THANK YOU, I also found that movie unwatchable. I also felt personally vindicated by the fact that she didn't like
American Pie (ditto), and the overratedness of
Reality Bites (I tried watching it in high school and never looked back). I think the crown jewel in this collection is her review for
The Fugitive, which I have also never seen but now I kind of want to, followed closely by
Face/Off (Nicolas Cage is in it, which I think is all you need to know).
Lindy West seems to favor action movies, as it is pretty heavy on titles like
Speed Run and
Rush Hour, and I do not like action movies, so the fact that I found these essays as engaging as I did is truly testament to the author's writing ability.
Love, Actually and
American Pie resonated with me on a truly personal level, and her essays on
Twilight,
Harry Potter, and
The Lion King made me laugh, even though she was totes attacking my faves, because I know how to laugh at the things I love (which is maybe why the things I love sometimes get mad at me-- lol, HI FAM). I kind of wish that this collection was longer and included her thoughts on things like
Glitter (an underatted classic, imo),
Show Girls (ditto), and some of the other Disney Renaissance movies (
Little Mermaid! Pocahontas! Mulan!). I seriously hope she has a follow-up planned, as I didn't even realize how NECESSARY her commentary was for my life until I started reading and couldn't stop giggling.
This collection isn't going to appeal to everyone-- it's leftist and feminist, which, you know, I appreciate, but I know some people are going to be like, "SJW [blankety blankety] polemical [blankety blankety] CAN'T USE MY FAVORITE WORDS ANYMORE [blankety blankety] POLITICS. Which, I mean, you do you. But also, this is the 21st century and if you allow things to stagnate and be the same as they were for the last twenty years, you're going to be mired in all of the problems you've been busily sweeping under the rug this whole time, and oh no, they've turned into mud. WE ARE LITERALLY STUCK IN THE PAST. SEND HELP. Nobody wants that. Except the right.
Anyway, I loved this collection. I bought it on impulse hoping that it would be good and it was actually great, so now I guess I need to hunt down all of the other books this author has ever read and read them.
P.S. I've never seen
Garden State.
4.5 to 5 stars
Rating: really liked it
Comedy gold actually. This skewering of Nineties movies made me giggle, chortle and smirk. I loved it! Lindy West is hilarious and now I am required by law to read her other books. I am really looking forward to Shrill.
Unfortunately, I had seen the majority of these movies, only "missing out" on Twilight and Rush Hour. Although, the way West describes it I would honestly like to see Rush Hour. I, too, believe that Jackie Chan is a sweetheart and that Chris Tucker is funny, but Brett Ratner, the director, lives up to his rat name and is a serial rapist, so damn. I don't want to add any money to his coffers.
West does not only riff on movies, she wrote this during the pandemic and fully hates on Trump as well. I really do love one of the movies included: The Fugitive, but she points out all the silliness of it and gently pokes at the misogyny of this and all of these movies. The Nineties was not a good time for women's roles. Love, Actually, which I don't like, doesn't allow many of its women to even speak. Ugh!
Rating: really liked it
Crashing a pharmaceutical gala when you are a fugitive literally drenched in blood? This movie is from 1993, but that’s a 2020 mood.
The Fugitive Is The Only Good Movie Rating: 13/10 DVDs of The Fugitive
Once upon a time, Lindy West was the movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly
The Stranger before moving on to write about more serious, political topics. Locked down during the COVID-19 pandemic as she was finishing this book of essays intended to reconsider the movies she loved as a younger viewer, and increasingly disturbed by the state of America’s political situation, West “started to find a strange comfort in the task of making this book for you and thinking about it in your hands and homes — this silly, inconsequential, ornery, joyful, obsessive, rude, and extremely stupid book. More than anything I want this book to make you feel like you were at a movie night with your best friend (me).” This book
is silly and ornery, and really very funny; it’s exactly what I hoped for without knowing how much I needed it. I’m not a huge fan of Hollywood movies, so West’s takedown of various blockbusters was hilarious and relatable to me; and even where she brings out her feminist lens to dissect some of these movies — and especially romances, written by men for women (as in
The Notebook,
Titanic, or
Love, Actually, from where she gets the book’s title) — she makes you think, “Yeah. Why did I ever go along with that being okay?” I laughed out loud reading several of these essays
and Lindy West made me think — What more could I want? (Note: I read an ARC through NetGalley and passages quoted may not be in their final forms.)
Gump reunites with Lieutenant Dan and vows to use his Ping-Pong endorsement money to fulfill Bubba’s dream of being a shrimp boat captain. Lieutenant Dan, for some reason, is EXTREMELY SKEPTICAL that this dude who’s already met three presidents, won a Congressional Medal of Honor, wrote John Lennon’s “Imagine”, blew the whistle on Watergate, and made tens of thousands of dollars PLAYING PING-PONG could possibly achieve the famously insurmountable dream of buying a medium size boat in Alabama and riding around on it looking for shrimp. “If you’re ever a shrimp boat captain, that’s the day I’m an astronaut.”
DUDE. HE IS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MAN IN THE WORLD.
Dude, You Gotta Stop Listening To Your Mom (and also, Jen-nay sucks) Rating: 5/10 DVDs of The Fugitive
For whatever ironic? reason, West opens this collection with an essay on
The Fugitive — The best movie because it has the best lines and is never scary, only interesting and exciting. All other movies should quit. Case Closed. GAVEL. — and all other movies are rated against it. Most movies score in the midrange, but her least favourites (
American Pie and
Love, Actually) score just one and
zero “DVDs of
The Fugitive” respectively, and her most favourites (
Jurassic Park and
Shawshank Redemption) come in at a whopping ten and eleven “DVDs of
The Fugitive” (Note above where
The Fugitive itself rates 13/10 DVDs of
The Fugitive). There’s a lot of fun to be had watching West recount the ridiculous plotlines of movies like
Face/Off or
Bad Boys II (I can
not imagine the story pitches that got these projects greenlit: John Travolta and Nic Cage? Will Smith and Martin Lawrence? Say no more! Take! My! Money!) and it’s interesting to see how she has had to reevaluate some adolescent favourites like
Reality Bites or
Garden State. I don’t need to go over all of her reviews, but here are a couple of samples of the writing style. On Nicolas Cage in
Face/Off (who makes a reappearance in
The Rock):
It is madness, by the way, that every director does not do whatever it takes — financially, spiritually, erotically — to put Nicolas Cage in everything they make. He is the only person who ever does anything interesting in any movie. Yeah, I said it! Do I mean it? I don’t know. But I do know that sometimes I forget about Nicolas Cage for weeks or even years at a time, and then I watch a Nicolas Cage movie again and it feels like coming home — to a house where your dad is cocaine and mom licks your face if you’ve been good AND if you’ve been bad. I’m happy there!
Ma’am, Please Just Get a Divorce Rating: 6/10 DVDs of The Fugitive
And a 2020 view of
American Pie:
I know that gen Z has it tough — they’re losing their proms and graduations to the quarantine, they’re on deck to bear the full brunt of climate catastrophe, and they’re inheriting a carcass of a society that’s been fattened up and picked clean by the billionaire class, leaving them with virtually no shot at a life without crushing financial and existential anxiety, let alone any fantasy of retiring from their thankless toil or leaving anything of value to their own children. That’s bad. BUT, counterpoint! Millennials have to deal with a bunch of that same stuff, PLUS we had to be teenagers when American Pie came out! What I’m saying is that suffering IS a contest and I DO stand by that and straight teenage boys losing their virginities IS worse than not having breathable air. Okay??????
Know Your Enemy Rating: 1/10 DVDs of The Fugitive
Reading this didn’t change my life but it certainly entertained me (
and snuck in some thinking points) and I am thoroughly glad to have cleared an afternoon for it. Highly recommended for anyone who doesn’t take their films too seriously.
Rating: really liked it
when i first saw the blurb for
Shit, Actually, i was EXTREMELY concerned that i wouldn’t be able to fully appreciate this book.
after all, i’ve barely watched any movies that most people would consider essential rites of passage, or woven into the very fabric of existence as a person in the west (“you’ve never seen
the breakfast club? HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING UNDER A ROCK??” shit, actually… i must have been, karen!!!!).
love actually, whomst?
rush hour (1, 2, 3, and possibly 4)? any movie starring nicolas cage—or tom cruise, for that matter?
forrest gump????
re: that last one—adore the frank ocean song; haven’t even come close to seeing the movie (how laughably gen Z of me). which is particularly egregious, considering my name and the number of times i get called JENN-ay! JEN-naY! only to stare blankly and uncomprehendingly at the other person, the smile slowly slipping from their face and sinking into bitter disappointment.
the other day my prof, a british indian man from south africa, was waxing poetic about
back to the future and i had to finally confess twenty minutes in that i had no idea what was going on because i’d never watched it.
the appalled dismay in that zoom call was OPPRESSIVE, y’all.
but i forgot one essential thing: which is that Shit, Actually was written by LINDY WEST. who is, like, one of my favourite human beings in the entire world. who is freakin’ HILARIOUS and socially aware and knows how to interweave the two to maximum effect. her book of autobiographical and feminist essays, Shrill, single-handedly heaved me out of a major book—and life—slump back in august.
so if you’re like me and have apparently lived under a rock your entire life, i promise that you will STILL enjoy this book with every damn fibre of your being. such are the witchy powers of lindy west, who
also happens to be one of the few reliable boosters of serotonin in my life (the others being cheese and reading horror movie synopses on wikipedia).
lindy, i love you! if you’re ever in toronto and this covid thing ever lets up, please stop by a screening of drunk feminist films with me!
P.S. john travolta will forever be “the mom from
hairspray” to me. i’m so sorry. this was my first travolta movie and it was quite
scarring unforgettable.
Rating: really liked it
DNF at 7%.
I thought this was going to be mostly humorous commentary on what's problematic about various movies. Instead, the first chapter is a long, funny, blow-by-blow summary of "The Fugitive." I haven't seen this movie, and despite West's ebullience, I was bored. I read a little into chapter two, and it appears to be a long, funny, blow-by-blow summary of "Love Actually," which I have seen but too long ago to fully appreciate West's take. Although I share West's dislike of "Love Actually,"
Shit, Actually is unfortunately not what I'm looking for. I'd love a book on this topic that's more smart, breezy critique than summary.
Rating: really liked it
3.5 stars.
With Lindy West's new book,
Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema in hand, you won’t look at certain movies the same way again!
Have you ever watched a movie from the 1980s, 1990s, or early 2000s and realized how ridiculous it was? Have you ever thought how a movie like that might never work in the context of today’s society?
Well, even if you haven’t, West has. This book contains essays on 23 movies that were part of the cultural zeitgeist of their time—and still might be in some way. She looks at movies like
The Notebook, American Pie, Face/Off, Twilight, The Fugitive, The Shawshank Redemption , and the movie that inspired the book,
Love, Actually .
In her sarcastic, snarky, and insightful tone, West skewers plot holes, inconsistencies, clichés, and the often-ridiculous and offensive ways female characters were treated in these films. (It’s almost shocking how many movies treated women as second-class citizens, and jokes about sexual assault and sexist, racist, and homophobic remarks were so prevalent.)
I laughed out loud at some of her commentary. One of my favorite lines, in her essay on
The Terminator 2 , was “Eddie Furlong as a child has the energy of an old Kristen Stewart.” She’s dead on in a number of cases, including her skewering of
American Pie .
This was a fun read, but sometimes her messages were undercut a bit by her snark. There are definitely spoilers here, so if you haven’t watched a particular movie she wrote about and you don’t want it ruined, steer clear of that essay.
As a movie buff, reading this has encouraged me to rewatch some of these films. I love when books make me think!
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Rating: really liked it
Why you may not like this book: While this is quite different from Lindy West's previous outings, if you don't like her sense of humor, I mean, yes, skip this one too. This is almost relentless with how snarky it is, which is something that worked for me, but may not work for others who want something more commentary with a side of snark. And while this is meant to be more lighthearted commentary on movies, her politics come out to play, too.
Also, if you are the type of person who can only read or consume commentary on media you yourself have consumed, maybe skip this one or check out the list of movies it covers. I've already seen a bunch of reviews blaming the fact that they hadn't seen the movies on their lesser enjoyment. I, for one, love reading reviews, even of media I haven't consumed myself. There were a lot of movies in here I missed, but general pop culture knowledge helped me along and I was still able to enjoy.
Her humor hits like 85% of the time for me. The instances where it didn't were some potty-type humor that always just makes me cringe and some racial humor that is very clearly sarcastic but also made me cringe.
Why I enjoyed this book: Hello, I made a whole website about snarkily recapping media. This is my JAM. Also, this is so excellent for quarantine reading. It's such an amazing mix of nostalgia (because of the movies) and timely (because of West's commentary on the pandemic and isolation and currently politics sprinkled throughout). I laughed out loud at various times and it also got me thinking, not only about the movies she covers, but about the movies I generally liked as a younger me, and the lines of enjoyment and suspending disbelief, and the magic that makes a bad movie good.
I listened to an audiobook version of this thanks to Libro.fm. West narrates it herself, which is always a treat. Her inflection really adds to the essays and if you are a fan of audiobooks, I recommend reading this that way.
I would definitely reread this and can see it becoming a comfort thing for when I need a good laugh.
Rating: really liked it
If you are looking for a gift-y book for a smarmy pop culture lover, this is not a bad choice. For lovers of smart-ass recaps, there is much here to enjoy and it's a good one to keep on a coffee table. I would have liked more from it, but I have to acknowledge that if you look at it just as a gifty thing, it is not so terrible.
Lindy West's Love Actually recap from years ago has become a tradition, reshared every year around Christmas to remind the movie's fervent fans (there are still weirdly a lot of them!) how bad it actually is. This book wants to ride that same kind of thing for even more movies, but it isn't fully successful. Love Actually is one of those movies that so many people are out here loving on as one of their favorite rom-coms of all time, while it is absolutely the opposite of what it claims to be and neither romantic nor comedic, that that original essay was pushing back against a dominant narrative. For most of the other movies West recaps here, we have already agreed that they are actually bad or maybe fine or a guilty pleasure. So it lacks the kind of bite that would have made it good.
What West does instead is give us a whole host of very popular 90's movies recapped. Most of the time these recaps do not have a central thesis, though when they do it is not trying to flip a dominant narrative or anything like that. And there were certainly opportunities to do so! (Titanic, for one, it feels like we just need a general nudge to all get to the idea that it is actually bad. We're so close!) Some of these movies West likes very much and the recaps are loving and nostalgic. Some of them she cannot stand. But it can be hard to tell this from just the recap sometimes, much of the time, especially with action movies, I could not tell where she was going to fall in how much she actually liked the film. Compare, in particular, her recap of Face/Off, which she thinks is terrible, with her recap of The Rock, which she thinks is great, but it is hard from the recaps to tell what the difference between these movies is.
The thing is, West is very smart and very funny, and I kept wondering what a more focused version of this book would have looked like. What if she just spent the whole book taking down how terrible movies were in the 90's and the many things that were just normal and okay? What if she was trying to take us somewhere? It isn't that we can't have things that serve only the purpose of entertainment, but when she's particularly funny and smart (usually when she pauses a recap to spin out on a tangent or question) I wished we had more of that here.
It is a diversion and on audio a pleasant one I was willing to do.
Rating: really liked it
Picture me cackling out loud, alone in the stillness of my empty house. The cats raise their heads in annoyance and try to go back to sleep; eventually I'm laughing so hard they both get up off the couch and leave the room in a huff. Read in one fell swoop, this book had me wheezing and wiping away tears, so that was very nice.
Rating: really liked it
"It made me laugh so hard I cried." Is that REALLY a thing? People say it all the time about books, but I don't think it's ever happened to me... until now.
Acknowledging that humor is subjective, Lindy West's $hit, Actually felt like it was written for the exact DNA of my personal funny bone. That means: I'm not offended by bad language, am a left-leaning American, grew up watching the '80s/'90s/'00s films Lindy rates and reviews, and am a huge fan of snarkasm. If you're not any of those things, this may not be the book for you.
But I'm telling you, I had tears in my eyes laughing as the author recapped cinematic classics like Love, Actually (obv), Speed, and American Pie. I might have preferred she featured fewer action titles like The Rock and Face/Off, but it just left me hoping she'll write a follow up with additional titles.
And fellow reviewers take note! If you'd like to see someone absolutely nail how to interject LOLs into reviews, $hit, Actually is a master class (IMO).
Rating: really liked it
This book was shit, actually. Every chapter was like reading a Twitter thread that starts with "buckle up, chucklefucks". I wish I was exaggerating but that is EXACTLY what it's written like. It's not even insightful or entertaining criticism: what is the point of criticising the way Alan Grant puts on his seatbelt in Jurassic Park??? I'm annoyed
Rating: really liked it
Does anyone else feel like everything was 1970 until 2008 and then it abruptly switched to 2015 until 2017 when it became 2020 and has been ever since?This is a collection of 20-odd essays focusing on a wide range of popular movies that seemed to have defined the cultural zeitgeist upon their first release, from Love, Actually to the Twilight, Harry Potter, Back to the Future and American Pie franchises (the latter, which West points out, grossed something like R1 billion).
The words ‘definitive’ and ‘objective’ in the title are definitely tongue-in-cheek. Less movie reviews, these are instead extended, inspired and seriously scatological riffs on the sociocultural relevance of certain beloved (and reviled) movies.
West is adept at making associations that seem obvious in hindsight, and which will have you chortling with laughter. Beware: No sacred cows (or greased pigs, or warm apple pies) are spared in the process.
Rating: really liked it
I requested this book immediately because I’m a big Lindy West fan. I love Shrill (both the book and the TV show) and West’s unflinching feminist commentary always makes me both laugh and think.
This book is worth reading for the hilarious “Love, Actually” chapter alone. I also really enjoyed her analysis of “American Pie” and “The Fugitive.” Unfortunately I wasn’t as big a fan of some of the other movie choices. Movies like “Speed 2” and “The Rock” don’t really interest me enough to keep me invested in an entire detailed analysis. A lot of times, a subpar, sexist or otherwise problematic or outdated movie is just reviewed in order to snark on it, which can be fun (as in the case of “Forrest Gump” and “Love Actually”) but also somewhat tedious if it’s an obscure movie you have not seen and have no desire to watch. In the latter case it’s a bit like shooting fish in a barrel and not as funny or interesting as I know West can be.
Though not one of my favorites of West’s books, her writing is as always incisive, funny, and entertaining, so always worth the read. 3.5 stars.
Thanks to NetGalley, Hachette and Lindy West for the advance copy to read!
Rating: really liked it
Bullet Review:
I'm listening on audiobook and apparently no one has collated all the movies in this, so here's my list to help others like me and give a few of my thoughts on the movies/Lindy's opinions.
The Fugitive - Never seen, kinda sounds like a lot of Harrison Ford, now Liam Neeson, films.
Love, Actually - Maybe that's why I can only tolerate like 2 or 3 of the stories...
Honey I Shrunk the Kids - This one is a step away from her typical format of snarkily relating the plot.
Forest Gump - I never really got what the big deal of this movie was (dodges tomatoes).
The Notebook - Absolutely on point - could not finish the movie when we tried watching it again.
Harry Potter - It's incredible how many plot holes you can find if you spend a few minutes to think about it...
Face/Off - Never seen, but WOW what a WEIRD MOVIE.
Back to the Future 2 - She definitely could have gone harder into this one (this one seems shorter than most).
Top Gun - This movie is soooo full of testosterone. (Do not disagree with Lindy's assessment that Iceman is the hero and Maverick is the villain.)
Titanic - In contrast to Back to the Future 2, I love that she can wrap up this 3+ hour movie in less than 10 minutes.
The Santa Clause - In retrospect, this is such a 90's movie!
The Rock - Never seen; Lindy has seen a lot of Nick Cage movies! My knowledge of him is basically National Treasure, Ghost Rider, The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Valley Girl, which seem extremely tame and mild compared to the movies Lindy's seen.
Bad Boys 2 - Never seen; Lindy is definitely a purveyor of 90's/early 00's action flicks. (My opinion of the genre: MEH, you see one, you've essentially seen them all.)
Jurassic Park - I so remember this being HUGE in the 90's - it was de rigueur for the time (and for us kiddos, super edgy too - needless to say, I didn't see this until I had grey hair due to my restrictive upbringing).
Lion King - It's kinda weird to see this particular kids' movie on this list. I'm sure most kids'/Disney/animated movies could get this treatment - but Lion King is not the go-to movie for me to snark.
Rush Hour - Never seen, seems like a version of Lethal Weapon aka most buddy cop movies.
Garden State - Never seen; no lie, the only reason I've ever been curious is because Natalie Portman is in it, and I adore her.
Terminator 2 - I enjoyed the only two Terminator movies that were ever made (it was so sad they never made anymore, isn't it?). It's somewhat odd Lindy has never seen either but EH.
Reality Bites - Never seen; another one written in a slightly different format. LOL at all the 90's movies complaining about how awful things are in 1994. I would rather take a bath in living spiders than endure the whinging from privileged teenagers in a cushy time when your parents can buy you a BMW and send you to college for shizz and giggles.
Twilight - I just remembered - I became aware of Twilight because I was helping out a youth group and the girls were reading this. Are the books/movies trashy? Yes...but I could also include movies like the ones listed above along with some fan favs (I'm sorry, unpopular opinion time, but I hated "Hereditary" and do not think it was scary one bit). Just because teen girls like it, doesn't mean that it's automatically trash and okay to sh!t on. (Says the reviewer who's reviews from this time amounted to "At least she's not Bella!" :D )
Speed - Whoops, I thought she was talking about Speed 2 - I saw Speed and enjoyed it immensely. Keanu rocks.
Shawshank Redemption - Never seen; probably the movie from this book I am the least likely to ever watch.
American Pie - Never seen; okay, maybe *this* is the movie I am least likely to ever watch this.
