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I don't need to compromise my principles because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway. -- Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes

Still haven't seen Revenge of the Fallen. I plan to on Monday, however. Then I can finally engage in TF-related conversations with my friends, whoo hoo!

One thing that worries me about the movie? Hearing from multiple sources that it's full of crude humor. Our local newspaper pretty much panned the movie, but that's to be expected -- unless it's an Oscar contender or a Pixar flick, our newspaper seems to hate all big-budget movies and goes all out to trash them. But many other people who otherwise liked the film have also mentioned that there's a great deal of sexual humor in the film.

Okay, so I'm a prude. I do giggle occasionally at a dirty joke (though I'm often blushing at the same time), but in my opinion a movie can't rely on endless sex, bathroom, and anatomy references to get its laughs. Whatever happened to clever humor in movies, or even good old-fashioned slapstick? To me, a laugh gained through clever wordplay or situational comedy is far more rewarding than the shocked "I-can't-believe-I'm-laughing-at-this" chuckles that come from a sex or potty joke.

I say this because last night I somehow got talked into watching The Love Guru. Hearing it was a Mike Myers flick should have warned me away from it, but Mom insisted it was a good movie despite the rude humor. Final verdict? NEVER. AGAIN. I am scarred for life... and will never look at an elephant quite the same way again.

I sincerely hope that Revenge of the Fallen is a good movie despite the questionable content, because despite the flaws of the first one I really enjoyed it. I'd hate to end up hating the sequel because the screenwriters and Michael Bay decided to go pervert on us...

On the subject of movies... I also saw Spin last night. (Yes, our family watches a lot of movies.) Spin seems to be an obscure independent movie, so I don't blame my readers if they've never seen it before. And as far as I can figure out (was only half-paying attention and the plot wasn't very coherent anyway) it's about an orphan boy, his Hispanic girlfriend, and an airplane.

Verdict? No. Just... no. Mom kept going on about how good it was, but I can't stand it. Why is it that in order for a lot of people to call a movie "good," it must be full of tragic, painful, gruesome stuff? In this movie alone you get a plane crash, a man writing a message to his soon-to-be-orphaned son using his own blood, alcoholism, incest in the form of a man raping his teenage daughter (thankfully it's only implied and not shown), said teenage daughter threatening to pour scalding-hot water in her father's face, suicide by a gunshot to the head... and that's just the stuff I paid attention to. Ugh...

I'm going to go put in WALL-E and be lazy for the evening while Mom and Stepdad go out to eat and to discuss their marriage (or what's left of it). At least WALL-E manages to be cute and hopeful despite essentially taking place in a post-apocalyptic world...

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