Monday, May 27, 2013

Thoughts on Hangover 3, the Movies, and our society


Hi Everybody,

Last night, I went to the movies to see Hangover 3 with one of my buddies and to be completely honest with you, I hated every second of it. The movie itself was a complete disaster, and I highly recommend that nobody waste his or her money on seeing it because it was garbage. Also, the whole movie going experience just sucked in every way possible. This experience really validated my reasons I have for not going to the movies. Let me explain…

So first off, we arrive at the Loop and there is literally no parking anywhere to be found. We had to drive around for 15 minutes before we finally got a spot in the back of the theater about 2 football fields away from the entrances. Walking into the theater was like walking into a zoo, I mean literally there had to be at least 500 people in that main lobby. As a guy that just really doesn’t like people for the most part, I hate that shit, I can’t stand big crowds full of loud and obnoxious people, because it makes me lose faith in humanity. After making our way through the mass of people we finally get to the ticket line, and the line is 30 people long at least, with only 2 people working the ticket stands. At this point I’m saying “Yea let’s just be out and go home instead,” but no instead we wait 20 or so minutes in line to get a ticket. When I finally get my chance to purchase a ticket, I almost had spontaneous heart attacks… one because the tickets were $12.50 (ridiculous) and two because I lost my debit card somehow in this whole shit show and I only had a $10 bill with me. Luckily my friend had some money he could lone me, so I was good there.

After we get our tickets my friend goes to get some food and a drinks, and while he was willing to wait in a 10-minute line and pay $5 for shitty artery clogging popcorn and an overpriced sugary chemical liquid in a cup, I was not and went into the theater to get seats. I got my ticket stub ripped and started walking down the hall. As I was looking around, more specifically at the floor, I noticed the floors were covered with popcorn.  Literally everywhere I looked there were remains of kernels or flattened pieces of popcorn. That annoyed me, like really no one in this goddamn place has a vacuum? So I go into the theater, up the stairs and 2 couples are making out right there in the back row, tongue and everything. Wow that was like the universe saying BOOM! IN YOUR FACE! You’re single! I hate PDA, btw, lol. (See what I did there?)

I made my way past the land of the babbling idiots, the line of agony, the food concessions of obesity, the dreadful floor of flattened popcorn, the awkward PDA couples, and I’m finally in my seat, ready to watch a movie and relax. This movie is gonna be pretty funny, I thought to myself... Just sit back and enjoy it. Boy was I wrong. Well the problem is that we were pretty early to the movie. Usually when you’re early to a movie they play some stupid trivia game hosted by some no name host with corny one liners who can’t act or do anything to amuse you. Apparently that’s not how it works anymore. As I’m sitting there waiting for this movie to start, there was a never-ending flow of advertisements being force fed to this audience of people who seemed mesmerized by each of the ads, almost appearing to be hypnotized.

Doritos, Taco Bell, Pepsi, Audi, BMW, Jaguar, Old Spice: those are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head, all had ads promoting their products.

What I actually saw on the screen was not good advertising in any sense, and it blew my mind because I realized what advertisements are all about at their core nowadays: mind control and propaganda.

See, if you step back and take a look at our world and our society right now, everything is essentially fed to us through media outlets: TV, internet, newspaper, Twitter, magazines. What do all of these media outlets have in common? Advertisements. Ads with these preconceived ideas that are force fed and drilled in your head constantly. They all say look this way, dress like this, drink this, eat that, or you won’t be cool. That’s really all ads are about now; trying to promote being “cool” and to fit in with what these companies WANT you to think is the normal way to be, or the normal way to think or look like.

They want you to feel less beautiful because you maybe aren’t as good looking as Meagan Fox, or not as handsome because you’re not Bradley Cooper. But in reality, these people, these celebrities, are just as real as Santa Claus. They are figments of our imagination, made out to look like “perfection”. Well let me tell you something, there is no such thing as perfection.

What I’m really trying to say is this: Don’t be a victim of the society we live in now. Most of the time the information you see or hear is false or distorted in some way, especially on the Internet and anything involving Hollywood stars. Advertisements are made for people to feel like they’re not good enough in some way, unless they have this product. Well let me tell you something… Every single one of you is awesome, and however you are made up is how you were meant to be. God didn’t put you on this earth to be a copy of everyone else, you were put on this earth so you can be yourself, to grow into your own person, think your own thoughts and live your own life.
This whole world the media and Hollywood creates for people is fake; a bullshit portrayal of what reality is. People who are reading this: stay real, stay true to yourself, and don’t let anyone or anything think you’re less than what you are.

Oh yeah back to my original point:
·      Movie theaters are shitty
·      Hollywood is just a bunch of schemers
·      Illuminati is setting their plans for total world domination in motion as we speak, and they are trying to program us through the internet, movies and TV so whatever controversy happens in Washington seems like a movie, thus distorted our view of reality.

That’s all I got. Happy Memorial Day and thank you to all the veterans who have served our country.

God Bless America.
Thank you for reading,
RB

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