I forgot some notes

[pantryslut]

1. Dead women's bodies used as entertainment is getting to me again. I do not mean this literally, of course, I mean "the fictionalized representation of a woman's death used as plot fodder." But let's just say that I am still reeling a little bit this morning from learning the premise of Very Bad Things.

2. Thank you, Rainbow cheese department friends, for the delicious cheeses we ate for dinner last night.

3. Also for dinner last night: morel mushrooms roasted in the oven, with creme fraiche and cognac and herbs and stuff, on toast. Someday, I will try preparing morels another way, but it's hard, because these are so good.

Comments

[divalano.livejournal.com]

morels

*whimper*

[whittles.livejournal.com]

I think I just drooled on my keyboard.
Time for lunch!

[black-pearl-10.livejournal.com]

How bout dead Rev Falwell's as entertainment?

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Can we hang his corpse on a hook in a public restroom?

[genderfur.livejournal.com]

Men's? or women's?

(And should we leave it up once the flies start coming?)

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Men's? or women's?

I'm not picky.

[manomano.livejournal.com]

Just not mine, please.

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

The conjunction of (1) and (2) has me thinking of The Cheese in the Refrigerator.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Dead women's bodies specifically in this case ?

I mean, I am certainly squicked by Generic Misogynist Serial Killer Movie #254, but while Very Bad Things did give me an ick reaction, it was the same sort of ick reaction as Weekend at Bernie's or whatever it's called, which is a somewhat different thing. [ The premise and description, I mean, I have avoided seeing either because of said reaction. ]

Are you familiar with Takashi Miike's Visitor Q ? The "woman's death as plot fodder" trope in that works, IMHO, because it along with pretty much everything else in the film is exaggerated to a point at which Jonathan Swift would have said "stop that, it's over the top"; it's clearly conscious, and it's clearly not supporting anything odious.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Yes, dead women specifically. I often think of Cold Case, Law and Order, and similar TV shows in this context as well.

I could write a long and interesting piece on how I see the intended humor in Weekend at Bernie's and Very Bad Things to be both related and very different, and how that's related to the gender of the dead person, but that would require me to watch both of them, repeatedly...

[fightingwords.livejournal.com]

Very Bad Things doesn't bother me much I think because of the films released around around the same time that it was, it seemed to me, responding to (Swingers and some film whose name I can't recall about a couple of brothers in some cold, midwestern state who find a lot of money and end up with several bodies on their hands--it's not a comedy, but has some similarities to VBT)....

VBT's not merely a comedy, but a satire.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I understand that it's intended as a satire. It doesn't make enough of a difference for me in this case.