Despite being in a good mood due to my current viewing of The Best Of The Electric Company and writing half decently today... it has come to my attention that I must address something AND actually blog for once.(Hey I've almost finished 3 new stories, that's consumed my energy.)
Today I must comment on the so-called RISE OF NERDS. Didn't you know nerds are cool again. Hollywood tells us so. It's in USA Today, it's got to be true. I mean it's like glasses, converse, and skinny white dudes with bad bowl cuts, they're so rad. And I use rad in the cool new ironic way, not in like the much more interesting 80's BMX movie way.
Just fucking stop ok. This nouvelle vague of nerd comedies totally pisses me off. All these so called indie films that are oh so quirky(started with Garden State) and big bombastic comedies with nerdy characters(I'm looking at you Superbad). For example every film has to have some character that just isn't quite right. He's not just an alcoholic. He's an astronaut with a saran wrap wallet who's a lovable eccentric. And then of course there's your shy shaggy haired hero who are as stereotypically gangly and white as 80's porn stars were Big boobed and blonde. Oh wait then there has to be an actress who is prettier than most of her contemporaries, but unconventionally so she's believably in the league of aforementioned gangly boring guy.(I have an idea lets give her glasses) Sometimes they throw in a Hillary Duff(used to be Jennifer Love Hewitt) type for them to chase unrequitedly for awhile as well.
Now for the comedy formula itself. Dick joke, Poon Joke, Erection Joke, Nerd Joke, nerd joke, sexual inadequacy joke, dick joke, strange fantasy sequence of girl, booze/drug scene, guy gets girl or total swerve he strikes out but is better for it. Did I miss anything.
I don't want to hear anymore about how Judd Apatow and that faker from Napoleon Dynamite are making nerds cool and funny. You know what that's like, it's like Limp Bizkit making a DEVO album and saying that's one great nerd rock album. A bunch of old fucking squares telling me they understand the loneliness and alienation of being of misunderstood teen or having people tell you you're crazy for thinking Wire is a great band.
But, wait it's got to be COOL. There are NERDS in it. YOU LIKE NERDS right! It's nerdxploitation is what it is. Like when more old, fucking squares decided they knew lots about black culture and thought they could make movies about "groovy, hustlin cats." You know when the whole possibility of having cool nerd characters ended? When Adam Brody character on the O.C.(a show that actually was smart for it's first season) 1. chose against smart beautiful nerd Anna Stern for buxom Hollywood type Summer Roberts and 2. woke up in season 2 and said "Whoa I woke up today and saw Death Cab on Rolling Stone and comic books in every multiplex."
Ugh it's time for them to just fucking stop. Stop with this bollicks. And STOP with Will Ferrell movies. Go watch the Riches or some Godard or perhaps some old In Living Color episodes. Or even go see the Ten, at least that's an interesting "indie" comedy. Of course none of you did, you were all too busy seeing Superbad weren't you?
And don't give me shit, oh you haven't seen it, you don't know, Superbad was wicked awesome.(cuz by seeing these films that's how you might as well be using wicked like some faux 90's member or Marky Mark's Funky Bunch). You're right I haven't seen it. Because I can hate it sheerly for the principle of the matter. For example I don't need to see the fucking new version of Halloween by "vaunted" film hack Rob Zombie to know it's total fucking crap, because of the principle of the matter. It just shouldn't have been made. It's the same thing with SB, the principle of the matter has me pissed off and frankly these films are played just like the aforementioned Limp Bizkit always fucking were. So please I fucking implore you, leave us disaffected nerd types alone, and just keep it real by making some nice frat boy pissing himself while trying lose his virginity comedy. That's all I ask.
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So, Superbad was written by Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg, who were born around 82. Basically they wrote about what it was like for them growing up and trying to get laid and whatnot, and they started writing it when they were 13.
Relax, man. It's not Can't Hardly Wait for My 10 American Pies About You. There isn't any angst in it.
Oh, and I totally agree with you about being beaten over the head with whatever is trendy at the moment, but I think you're being too hard on Superbad. That's just bad advertising at work. You could've replaced the two main characters with me and my friend Dusty at that age, it was so much like what I went through.
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