Also? Even if there is some massive neo-Luddite message there, and all over the place elsewhere, I think ita's other point also stands: Very few people are buying that message today, from where I'm sitting.

I really do not see a society on the verge of flinging their wooden shoes into the machines and casting technology down in the muck.

And the Luddites were hating on the machinery because the machinery was taking their jobs, not because of an ideal about social purity or something. (The shows I was watching about Edwardian farm and Victorian farm did a lot on how improving farming technology put unskilled people out of work.)

Sometimes I wish. But that's just because I feel left behind(in a non- Kirk Cameron way) by a lot of it and feel like I need time to catch up. Rationally, I know technology makes me life possible.

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By this point I've calmed down enough that I'm interested in seeing the movie, just so I can tell how much was only in my head.

Beau and I are going to see Trance this evening. Wish us luck.

We came back from Trance. My standard phrase: entertaining movie, but...

Definitely entertaining, definitely adult content with full frontal nudity for women (none for men), a lot of violence. The plot is interesting: art heist gone wrong and the main character hid a painting and cannot remember where he hid it.

The plot has a number of twists and turns and the movie is way over the top. I think I would have preferred a bit more restraint - some of the twists were unnecessary it seems to me. I was with the movie until around the last 20 minutes, then I'm like: "what the fuck?" After a couple of twists, the internal structure of the story doesn't really make much sense.

I am not sure I would necessarily recommend the movie. You won't be bored, but the plot falls apart.

So, I thought I'd ask Buffistas if that sort of thing ever happened to them. Maybe a friend LOVED something and kept trying to get you to watch it, or your queuelooks like mine, as if four people make the decisions and it's mostly just you.

I easily reach a saturation point when I feel like an overwhelming number of people (or even ads) are telling me I Must See the Awesome Thing! I think that's part of why I've never seen Parks and Rec and Avatar, among other things. Too much pushing, too many ads, too much Tom Cruise (which is to say, any Tom Cruise), too much on mu Tumblr dash. After a while I just go all Bartleby about it.

Yeah, ever since Pulp Fiction there's a threshold of friendly pimping beyond which I will dig my heels in and refuse to watch something.

Yeah, I suppose so. Especially since "Avatar" turned out, visuals aside, to be a mishmash of stuff I've seen in other movies, and kind of...well, dumb, imo. But I was pleasantly surprised by "Sleepwalk with me"

I don't find that the volume of pimping has a clear relationship to whether or not I'll like the piece. Certainly not one where much pimping means I'll dislike it. I just evaluate the recommendations from where they come--from my sister, pressure means one thing, from that guy on IO9 it means another.

I used to not see things just because they were so popular, but it turned out to be a dumb criterion, and I missed stuff I could have been enjoying from the git go.