My Naughty Habits

I love watching television. I cut that habit by not having a television. But now that I have google reader, I keep up on all my favorite television blogs, which also updates me on a few movies as well. All downloaded, uploaded, and viewed in precious illegality. But today, I was really dismayed by this whole thing. I had to wait for the bathroom, and didn't feel like reading any articles or blogs, so I thought about watching some tv, and looked through the list, and there was Quantum of Solace. I just remembered hearing that it didn't come out in the US until tomorrow, but here it was in perfect quality waiting for me to watch it now. Conveniently, while waiting for my roommate to finish using the bathroom. I felt sort of ashamed as I pressed play and as a person who has daily dreams of being in Hollywood.

But then I think it's their own fault. The prices continually went up on tickets and never dropped. The movies are all the same, and 80% of them really do suck. They are waiting too long to bring them out to DVD. They don't try and work out more deals with different mediums, such as Netflix Watch Now. The television networks use streaming, which is choppy with my slow network.

I think they don't understand that the majority of viewers will not download the movies or shows. It takes too much space on our hard drives. I don't find it inconvenient to go to the networks' websites. I don't even mind the ads, I prefer them to the porn ads, I get in all these illegal sites. But I as a consumer, feel like they drove me to this.

I feel the same way about the music industry. Except now I believe that they are almost too late. They drove up the cost of an album to almost $20 -25, when their competitors had it for free? Very silly. The cost of an album should be $5 -15. They should include exclusive passwords to get online content with the album, which might offer discounts on shows, t-shirts, or posters. That would easily stop me from downloading. They should work with artists to create solid albums, instead of singles. They should offer more decent pop acts, better than Taylor Swift or Katy Perry, who to me seem like more of an embarrassment to my own childhood than musicians.

Worth 15 bucks for a ticket and some popcorn?

Lindsay Lohan's "I Know Who Killed Me"

Yes.

Why? Because she is very good stripper even without showing any nudity and certainly worth 15 bucks. The directing and writing was a joke, but the strip scenes throughout the movie were certainly worth it. As a straight woman, sitting in a movie theater alone with a business man on his lunch break and a college kid on his summer break, let me go the closest I will ever feel to sitting in a titty bar. I'm too respectable to do that, but too curious to actually totally shun the feeling of doing that.

It certainly felt like I was entering a seedy club, I even got carded by the ticket lady, asking if I was 17 and could enter a rated R movie. I never got carded for a movie in a long time, and getting carded got me thinking, this is the first rated R film that headlined Lindsay Lohan. To go to "Just my Luck" audience to "I Know Who Killed Me" type audience is a big transition that would be hard for anyone to cross, certainly uncrossable with a director, Chris Sivertson, whose first directing credit belongs to "All Cheerleaders Must Die"; and with a writer Jeff Hammond who has no credits to his name at all.

Thankfully to the film there were some well experienced producers including Frank Mancuso Jr. and Sabrina Sipantzi, who I have no doubt were influential in choosing cult favorite actors as secondary characters, including these well-known but never casted actors and actresses:

Jessica Rose, or Lonelygirl15 as she is referred to on youtube. Seeing her in the pic was a breath of fresh air. She had this horrible candor about her in the film, which is great on youtube, horrible on screen, but it was fun to see a cute well-loved cult favorite.

Garcelle Beauvais, also makes an appearance looking not quite as stunning as usual as a sensitive and skeptical FBI agent. She also appears on the cover of Playboy in August.



So all and all, I enjoyed my time at this movie, I rated it one out of five stars, but only because it was terribly bad, not because it wasn't money well spent. As a stripper I would certainly slip three fives consecutively into Miss. Lindsay Lohan's G-string.