Yesterday, I agreed to watch the movie Zombadings with my girlfriend and her housemate, a good friend who's been feeling down lately. She's been interested to see the movie after watching the trailer on Youtube last week. Now she and friend needed to cheer up (both have problems unrelated to each other), so we watched the movie.
The movie was fairly amusing, and would be even hilarious by other people's standards. While I admit that it had a lot of funny parts, there were things there that I think I understand the joke, but did not make me laugh. Amusing but something that would not make me laugh out loud.
On the other hand, Meow and Joyce, both of whom are more indoctrinated in gay culture, sub-culture and things like that, were having so much fun watching it.
The comedy goes like this. There's this boy Remington who made fun of gay people as a kid, until one fateful day in a cemetery, he made fun of one who cursed him to become gay when he grows up. Years later, Remington grows up repesenting pretty much all the ugly stereotypes we have of the bad things in men (lazy, brash, etc.).
He meets a girl he really likes shortly before he turns 21, then the curse started taking effect. This is at a time when there was a serial killer at large in their small rural community who's been killing gay men (all found with messy hair, wide eyes and open mouths like The Ring, differing not much if not for the streaks of mascara dripping fom their eyes). At that time, the curse took effect and he started to act gay, talk like the stereotypical gay men we see on TV and have feelings for his best friend.
The three of them then go on a hunt for a cure for Remington's affliction, amid a killer who may know he is gay.
Now, suprisingly, the movie had the kind of ending that I like. And all the actors in the movie were very good. It would have been a predictable ending if not for the fact that the gay community in real life would have wanted an alternative ending, and so, I did not think it would end that way.
A day after watching the movie (yes, it had me thinking), I realized that it was not so bad. It had elements of an almost good movie.
The movie was fairly amusing, and would be even hilarious by other people's standards. While I admit that it had a lot of funny parts, there were things there that I think I understand the joke, but did not make me laugh. Amusing but something that would not make me laugh out loud.
On the other hand, Meow and Joyce, both of whom are more indoctrinated in gay culture, sub-culture and things like that, were having so much fun watching it.
The comedy goes like this. There's this boy Remington who made fun of gay people as a kid, until one fateful day in a cemetery, he made fun of one who cursed him to become gay when he grows up. Years later, Remington grows up repesenting pretty much all the ugly stereotypes we have of the bad things in men (lazy, brash, etc.).
He meets a girl he really likes shortly before he turns 21, then the curse started taking effect. This is at a time when there was a serial killer at large in their small rural community who's been killing gay men (all found with messy hair, wide eyes and open mouths like The Ring, differing not much if not for the streaks of mascara dripping fom their eyes). At that time, the curse took effect and he started to act gay, talk like the stereotypical gay men we see on TV and have feelings for his best friend.
The three of them then go on a hunt for a cure for Remington's affliction, amid a killer who may know he is gay.
Now, suprisingly, the movie had the kind of ending that I like. And all the actors in the movie were very good. It would have been a predictable ending if not for the fact that the gay community in real life would have wanted an alternative ending, and so, I did not think it would end that way.
A day after watching the movie (yes, it had me thinking), I realized that it was not so bad. It had elements of an almost good movie.
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