Guy from The Office using the word "homeskillet"? Check. Retro track suit complete with short-shorts and headband? Czech. Not to ironically beat a dead horse to the tune of an Air Supply song or anything, but you don't need us to tell you what this year's Token Quirky Movie is. You know, that quirky, dialogue-driven dramedy full of scene-stealing, unique, and yes -- quirky characters? You've just gotta pull for that little 'independent' movie as it somehow builds auidience and critical Joementum until it quirkily takes in $100 million at the box office.Well, sorry dear readers, but in this corner of the Blogosphere, we do not pull for these movies. In fact, we have been boycotting them for a few years. Our decision to label a movie 'quirky' involves taking a Potter Stewart approach to the trailer. Were "I Heart Huckabees" and "Thumbsucker" actually quirky? God-willing, we'll never know from personal experience. Bloggy Blog is annoyed by the targeted, intelligence-aspiring advertising; watching this fluff hasn't made us smarter or more sophisticated. We don't want to "spread the buzz" for this "underdog flick"; these movies generally feature slick and experienced directing and acting. (Really, we just watch The Wire to feel exclusively intellectual) We will always prefer bad movies viewed ironically to clichéd ones with scripted irony obvious enough for anybody to 'get'. After all, how then, are we supposed to feel smug?
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