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[healingmirth]

Just about everything that happened on Project Runway this week made me sad. Not, like, real sad, but TV-sad.

I watched the new Fame today. I agree with all the reviews that said it was a little confusing, they didn't know any of the character's names (I didn't learn Kherington's character's name until her last scene, and consistently confused two of the guy's names), and that it was too many characters and not enough plot crammed into the movie. But! There was singing, and dancing, and it was cinematographically (is that a word?) better-made than the YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME teen dialogue, so, whatever. I think movies are important, I don't mind having paid to see it.

Although, $3 cheaper for a matinee show, me and 5 other people in the theater. I went to see it at the theater where we always used to go in high school when we wanted to go to a "real" movie theater. Surprisingly, they seem to have replaced the seats recently. I was expecting it to be disgusting, like most of the rest of the theaters around here seem to be.

And now, for something completely different, I'm going to watch the Generation Kill DVDs that Netflix kindly delivered today.

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[dirty_diana]

I was curious to see Fame (I saw the original so long ago, it's a blur), but then there was a controversy on AfterElton.com over whether or not there's a gay character and the reporter talked to the director and he sounded like an idiot. That kind of got me over it. :)

[healingmirth]

Honestly, it was a cramped and poorly-constructed movie in terms of characterization, so I am sort of okay with them not having taken the 20 seconds of screen time they would have been able to devote to making someone explicitly gay. Now that I've read that interview, I've got to agree that the director is full of it, but I'm not exactly surprised that an actor and the director were not on the same page about basic character information.

Considering that the character is introduced in the audition scenes as being from the middle of nowhere, shipped off to the big city for his chance at success, there was still plenty of room for him to have some sort of vaguely-angsty authentic teen gay storyline set within a current culture if they'd wanted to. If they were going to remake something, I would so, so much rather that they'd remade the TV show, because they could have made 6 hours out of this movie without even trying hard.