Ok gang, we had issues with recording this one. This is our second attempt, that is why it is late. As well as I had to go out of town for a family reunion so I had no time to edit. But Here It Is Finally! Our thoughts on Man Of Steel, we did have a guest but that audio got chewed up by the gods. Sorry Marc of Unshaven Comics, we'll have you on for the comic movies this year! Promise!
"A poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and givers her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences." IMDb
In my opinion there are two ways to enjoy this movie. I will start with the more traditional way.
Number 1: This way assumes that you are a typical, healthy minded person who can appreciate the heart behind this story. It is kind of a classic tale that we've heard before. Two young people from different social classes fall in love, but are torn apart because of circumstance and societal pressures. They grow up to be different people, but in the end find each other again and realize that love concurs all. It's a bit like Titanic without that whole disaster thing, or better yet, Aladdin without a genie are anything. This movie is slightly different because the story is sort of, in a way, told twice because it's being told in flashbacks. The present is an old man reading the flashback story to an old woman with dementia. We find out along the way that the old man and woman are actually the two characters in the flashbacks. He reads her the same story every day in hopes that, just like in the flashback story, the circumstances will be mended and she will come back to him once again. In the end, she does remember who he is and how much they love each other and they end up passing away in each others arms. Awwww, how touching.
Number 2: In order to enjoy the movie in this way, a couple of other things might have to be in place, or rather out of place in your own life. I learned to enjoy The Notebook in this fashion in college. Let me set the stage for you. I had been going through what we'll call relationship issues, and I had been doing a fair bit of drinking. Now, my college had a movie channel that would replay the same line-up of movies every day at the same time of day for a month. At this particular time, the network happened to be playing The Notebook every day at around 2 pm, which would be right around the time I would wake up from the bender I had been on the night before. For lack of anything better or more constructive to do, I would put on this movie and enjoy it very much. Here is why. When viewed from a bitter, angry, dead inside type state of being, the movie can be summed up rather quickly: Two attractive people who are supposed to be in love with each other spend most of their time on screen arguing, fighting, in misery, confused, or in pain. Then at the end, they fucking die. Good!
Well I might as well say this right off the bat. I love South Park. It's probably one of, if not my favorite cartoon of all time. Trey Parker and Matt Stone are both comedic geniuses. I've been watching this show since it first came out, making me about 7 at the time. (Yeah, my parents were pretty terrible. <3) So when I first heard about this movie...I was so happy.
When I first saw this movie, I was still a little kid. Most of the jokes in the movie went WAAAAAY over my head. For example, Stan trying to find out where the clitoris is. Yeah, no normal 9 year old is going to know what the fuck that means. Yet, I still loved this movie to death. Maybe because as a kid, a movie full of songs is just something I would just love. Throw in South Park characters, and little kid me was in love.
Now later on in life when I was old enough to understand this movie, I REALLY REALLY REALLY loved this movie. I kinda knew what a clitoris is, the fact that this movie is making fun of the show and all the shit they deal with, and all of the other crazy adult humor. There is just something about this movie that makes me able to watch it at any time and not grow tired of it. I actually went to bed with this movie on last night!
The songs they wrote for this movie are not only great, but so damn memorable. Besides the fact that once you hear one of them, it's going to get stuck in your head. Plus...Metallica shows up when Kenny goes to hell and parody themselves...so fucking good. From start to finish, the songs in this movie are seriously fantastic.
They eventually did a 2 episode "sequel" to the movie in season 4, introducing Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis. A solid follow up to the movie, if you ask me. I would suggest this movie to people...but seriously?! If you haven't ever seen this movie, what the fuck are you doing with your life? Why are you even reading this? You're dumb, go away.
