July 13, 2006
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Book By Its Cover Review: Seeing 'Little Big Man' in the Theatre
"Little Big Man" stars a grown man pretending to be a little person who pretends to be a baby because he's a criminal and...OK, I can't even go on. You can read more about the movie here (as well as some defenses of it.)
I won't judge the movie itself , because a.) I think it speaks for itself and b.) there seems to be a very rabid contingent of people who defend recent Wayans-related movies that involve awkward special effects and makeup. That's fine. I just don't want to be in the theater with them.
Not to sound like a codger but going to popular movies now probably more annoying than going to the airport. I saw the "X-Men" movie a few weeks ago and sat behind a woman who talked on her cell phone the entire time. I'm not sure why one would pay $10 to not watch a movie. It was obnoxious. In the meantime, I upped the obnoxiousness factor by very lightly kicking the back of her chair during her conversation to see if she'd turn around and yell at me or if she'd do nothing (she did nothing but she did leave early.)
But rudeness isn't what bugs me so much at the theater--it's when people find things funny that aren't. A film-critic friend of mine had to review the third Austin Powers movie and I went to see it with him (which is my excuse.) The un-funniness of the movie was offensive, but I was becoming slowly enraged as people laughed at things that weren't funny--"How can you think a guy eating his own skin flakes is funny? IT'S NOT" or "DON'T LAUGH AT THAT." Or just "I HATE YOU ALL" were some of the things that went through my mind.
So who knows, maybe the man-pretending-to-be-a-midget-pretending-to-be-a-baby movie is funny, even in a stupid way. But I know I wouldn't enjoy it at the show because everyone in the theater would probably laugh at all the wrong jokes, and worse, not enjoy all the subtle ones that I would of course appreciate. \