Angry Letters: ‘The Holiday’ and Larry the Cable Guy
With commenting enabled on the movie reviews, people are able to post their angry diatribes directly, without having to send them to me. But a few hardy souls still spew their vitriol the old-fashioned way, via e-mail. I present two for your reading pleasure.
First, from someone named “yasemin,” whose attack-the-critic defense of the film “The Holiday” reminds me of the things people (read: teenage girls) said in defense of a certain other Kate Winslet film, back in the day:
Way too long and a little too cutesy…What did you mean with that…And you say :If it didn’t feel so long??? What a feeling haa…you know what…. I would prefer it longer…I really didn’t like your comment. Maybe you are in love with someone that doesn’t love you, so you couldn’t stand it… If you felt like you were stuck there watching that LONG movie, DON’T WATCH IT THEN….Oh yeah but you have to write your critics…you have to watch it…I am really sorry for you…poor you…watching that long movie, you had a hard time…maybe you are not as handsome as Jude Law maybe that’s why it was irresistible…. For the cutesy, people need cute films, at least for some minutes it makes you feel life is so beautiful and could be better anytime…but you are so hopeless that you don’ wanna believe this…”THE HOLIDAY” was smashing, and it puts a smile in your heart….What’s wrong with that…
So Yasemin is really smart and articulate and everything, and she knows the proper definitions of words like “irresistible.” She is joined by a fellow member of the literati, Jessica:
I think you should leave Larry the Cable guy alone. Is it so wrong to try to make people laugh? He is very amusing, and not just because of the “butt” jokes, but because he makes people stop being so up-tight about themselves and everyone else. He is just a funny man who spreads the funny out all over the world. And I don’t think that you need to discourage him for doing so. It is indeed true that some of his punch lines are a bit grody, but that is what makes them funny. The fact that he can take everyday abnormality’s and turn them into hysterical displays of humor should be rewarded, and not patronized. Maybe you should think about that before you keep discouraging movies.
I guess I knew Larry the Cable Guy’s horrendous movie must have fans, but I have to say, I’m surprised that one of them is a woman. Maybe Jessica is Mrs. The Cable Guy.
January 16th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Yasmin happens to be the name of a popular brand of birth control pill.
January 17th, 2007 at 2:10 am
I haven’t seen either movie, so it could be that Yasemin & Jessica are absolutely right and that Eric is absolutely wrong. Could be — but I’ll never know, of course, because I’ll never, ever, ever see THE HOLIDAY or LARRY THE CABLE GUY.
January 17th, 2007 at 3:42 am
I’m not sure that Larry is trying to spread is funny out all over the world, I think he is trying to spread his stupid out all over the world.
January 17th, 2007 at 8:37 am
Grody? I didn’t know anyone even used the word (anymore).
January 17th, 2007 at 9:09 am
“For the cutesy, people need cute films, at least for some minutes it makes you feel life is so beautiful and could be better anytime…but you are so hopeless that you don’ wanna believe this…”
It’s more hopeless to look to movies for a beautiful world than to try to make the world around you more beautiful. And if you’re on the more cynical side, it’s more hopeless to look for something that isn’t there
“The fact that he can take everyday abnormality’s and turn them into hysterical displays of humor should be rewarded, and not patronized.”
Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David did that, and they got many awards; they also - one could argue - influenced almost an entire generation of new comedians.
January 17th, 2007 at 9:29 am
I wonder if Yasemin is the same Yasemin who posted on the movie review? She sounded relatively coherent over there. I didn’t actually think you were that harsh about The Holiday, since the only real negative was that it was too long. And yes, anything over two hours is probably too long, unless it’s really a gripping story. I’d probably like this movie except for that.
Larry the Cable Guy, though, holds no appeal for the likes of me. Just thinking about it makes me want to go take a shower.
January 17th, 2007 at 10:16 am
The second letter perplexes me. Eric’s review explicitly took an everyday abnormality (Larry the Cable Guy) and turned it into a hysterical display of humor (the review itself). What’s the problem, Jessica?
As for the first letter, I concur… people NEED cute films, Eric! Didn’t Pikachu’s moving performance in “Pokémon: The Movie 2000″ bring at least one joyous tear to your eye? Don’t try telling me it didn’t!
January 17th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Dang it, stupidramblings, you posted my first reaction to the angry letters. Who still uses the word “grody?” In fact, I had to look at it for a second before I realized that it wasn’t a misspelling of another word. Obviously Larry The Cable Guy is very popular in places where it is still 1988.
January 17th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
I love the fact that she used “grody.” Loved it.
June 12th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Larry The Cable Guy is a great commedian, I was reading through this website and was just starting to think this Eric guy was pretty funny and was a neat site to check out, but then wow bashing on Larry The Cable Guy? Realized he must be an idiot!Are United States Air Force’s slogan is now Git-er done surely that has to mean something to you. I take it you do not like Ron White either? Am just wondering what it is that makes idiots like you bash on people like this do you not have a sense of humor, or cant handle a few curse words?!?! or nasty jokes then grow up or do not watch it and leave him the hell alone. He has done 5 times as much for this country and are troops then all of you put together!! As Larry would say you make about as much since as bunch of retards trying to fight Jackie Chan…JACK ASS