The Monologues of the Master

Today it was gameday with my soccer team, in a close encounter against Pagewood which we unfortunately lost with 0-1. It was a great improvement compared to the last game we played however and we could easily have got a draw if we were a bit more lucky.

 

As for myself I played as a sweeper (For those unfamiliar with football terms, it's the guy who defends the lowest whose duty is simply to defend and kick the ball long.) This I did with almost flawless perfection.  Problem was when I actually had the ball myself, as the ball was clearly not my friend today either. Oh well next time I will sweep as good as today and also befriend the ball and that should be awesome..:)

 

As for my love life I got compliments for my looks and personality from such disparate places as Indonesia and the USA yesterday.This obviously does not help me at all so I guess I should man up and go out boozing and hunting, after all my latest round of hard boozing was like three weeks ago so it's long overdue. 

 

Finally: After a hard 90 minutes on the soccer field in strong heat it can be fun to watch a good movie and drinking soft drinks, For this purpose, do not watch the movie Broken City. Because it's a bad, lame and utterly uninteresting piece of shit filled with boring clichees, sadly enough it was not bad enough to fall into the category "So bad that it's good" either. Because some movie are really parodic bad but they can just as well be enjoyable because one laughs at the overplay and the horrible script. Broken City failed at that category as well as it was not that bad, but from another point of view since a movies ultimate purpose is to be an enjoyable passtime, a movie that is worse and wins a few Razzies actually is closer to the purpose of a movie to be enjoyable to the watcher in some sense. 

 

This brings me to another topic: If one can actually predict how enjoyable a movie will be from the rating on IMDB. I mean clearly if a movie has a high rating (more than say 7.5) it will probably be enjoyable in some way due to the quality of the product.If a movie on the other hand has a very low rating (less than say 5.0) it has a decent chance of falling into the "So bad that it's good" category but for movies around 5.5-6.5 there seems to be an overwhelming risk of a lame and uninteresting movie experience.  

 

Of course I can't prove this theory in any way but from my experience this year, the two lamest movies I have seen have been Killing them softly (IMDB rating: 6.4) and Broken City (IMDB rating: 6.1) . This can either be because of my theory above or because most movies will be probably be rated between 5-7 (Provided that the entire scale is used, and the ratings of movies follow a standard derivation curve) then it's natural that most lame movies I see is rated in this spectra.

 

As always the readers are encouraged to share their own theories, and as usual the readers probably won't.

 

//The Master