Linkses! (har-de-har)

[loony_moony]

Took a break from reading BBs. Went out, bought chocolate (necessity. Been craving chocolate since Wednesday), came back, watched a full season of "Daria", and now I have links!

1. Amidst calls to sue the Failbender filmmakers, scathing reviews and general waves of schadenfreude, came an interesting theory today about why exactly M. Night Shyamalan just doesn't get how racist and horrible the movie he's made is, using the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Quoth the wise LJer's quote: “When people are incompetent in the strategies they adopt to achieve success and satisfaction, they suffer a dual burden: Not only do they reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it. Instead, like Mr. Wheeler,* they are left with the erroneous impression they are doing just fine.” (Justin Kruger and David Dunning, “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties of Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-assessments,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1999, vol. 77, no. 6, pp. 1121-1134.)

DING DING DING! I think we have a winner. I also agree with what cleolinda says, which is essentially wondering why the hell do studios still give budgets to his flops, and why he still insists on calling every movie he makes "M. Night Shyamalan's _______". Well, maybe this time he'll get a wake-up call. The box office has still not spoken yet officially, but it seems the new Twilight atrocity is cramming Failbender's ass, so uh, score for sparkles?

2. Speaking of seriously mistranslated stuff, here's a list of 8 Historic Symbols That Mean The Opposite of What You Think. I particularly enjoy the inverted cross one, mostly because of the following joke: By wearing an upside-down cross, Satanists are unwittingly showing humility and unworthiness before Christ. That makes about as much sense as a neo-Nazi sticking it to the Jews by swearing off pork for life. Take that!

But hey, it's probably funnier in Enochian anyway.

3. Lady Gaga apparently rented the blandest, most mainstream Hollywood mansion she could possibly find. Here's to the Bacchanalian orgies yet to come!

4. Speaking of Lady Gaga, have a look-see at Johnny Weir's closet! Oh, I hear your fail puns a mile away, but I have two words for you: BALENCIAGA. TREE.

5. And oh! who will save Lady Newsweek from her distressing singleness? The old man, the financial shark or the NYT Overlord? Quick, someone fetch the smelling salts.

ETA: Forgot! Here is your moment of Zen:

Not even the last Harry Potter movie could escape the blue-orange curse of movie posters:




And now, back to BBs. :D

Comments

[doubtful-salmon.livejournal.com]

So I have many things to say about this entry, because there are many things in this entry.

The first thing is, if I were Johnny Weir, I would never come out of the closet. And I don't mean that as a pun. Seriously. I would never leave. I was sitting there with my mouth open through most of the video. I will say that I didn't inherit many of the overtly girly genes, but what I did inherit was the desire for a gigantic closet organized by color (as opposed to my small closet...organized by color...but way too small...seriously, so small that if I were to take all the hangers out of the clothes, they would still stay up).

The second thing is, do you know what I love best about your M. Night Shyamalan fail point, is that the article referred to, about how incompetent people are too incompetent to realize they're incompetent...I've read it. I'm so proud of myself that I'm bragging about it here. I can't remember why. It seems like it's too scholarly-sounding for me to have read it for some non-academic reason, but I don't know. I definitely remember reading it, though. The whole thing.

Lady Gaga's mansion is pretty generic, and if she weren't renting it I would be completely certain that it would end up as some weird inverted place, where you'd think about how generic it was, and then she'd do something fucking crazy with it that you didn't understand. As it is, since she's renting it, I do somehow expect to discover that it's the dumping grounds for a bunch of dead strippers.

And last, though that article on Cracked is pretty cool, I'm mildly annoyed by the first Guy Fawkes point. I mean it's not without its merit I guess, but I think the Anonymous people adopted it because of V, and V adopted it for a literal throwback...since he was planning to actually blow up the Houses of Parliament. It was used for part of the same reasons, though, mostly being anonymity. The point of wearing the mask is probably to throw back to the movie more than Guy Fawkes itself, and the real point is that you have to wear SOMETHING to participate in Anonymous, generally, since that's the point and it's not without its reasons. And since Anonymous generally found its grounding around the time V for Vendetta came out, the movie I mean, and since it became a popular Halloween costume, my guess is most people, looking for a mask, saw that one and thought it was hilarious. Not to mention, the idea of Guy Fawkes being there in the first place is less what his endgame was, and more the idea of how it shouldn't really get so bad that some lunatic tries to blow you up. However, since I agree with the entire thing about Thomas Paine, because tea partiers are out to destroy my day-to-day existence not to mention they totally stepped on my brilliant plan in high school to dress up like American revolutionaries and protest, but actually protest the same things, like the Stamp Act. Now people would think I was a tea partier. I hate you, Glenn Beck. You've stolen so many souls, and every time I write a good joke about you, someone on The Daily Show puts it on TV before I can tell it.

Anyway, end novella!

[loony-moony.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Johnny Weir has enough fabulous in his closet for three Broadway divas.

It was a NYT article, right? People said it was very interesting.

Well, right now it's mostly a dumping grounds for bad faux-Warhol, so dead strippers are not far away, surely.

I oftentimes wish I could just round up all of Fox News' line up and throw them into padded cells for the rest of their lives. They are nothing but dumb fear mongers, feeding on people growing up in cultures of fear like unsparkly vampires. I do agree about the Guy Fawkes thing though. That mask is like the Matrix coats; Could be a misinterpretation, but is mostly emulating pop culture rather than remembering history.

[doubtful-salmon.livejournal.com]

Dead strippers, in multiple different colors!

And as to that article, which may have been in the NYT...actually that would make sense...the NYT app is a great way to kill time...but it did seem kind of self-explanatory, that stupid people are stupid enough to believe that they're not stupid. I mean incompetence, stupidity...they walk hand in hand with each other I guess, but it kind of seemed like a well-accepted truth. You don't usually meet people who are actually stupid who think they're stupid. I'm related to a couple of people who are actually stupid, and one is convinced she's a total genius. Of course what was mostly worrisome about reading that article was the thought that maybe you were incompetent, and you were one of those people who just didn't know it. How do you know you're too incompetent to judge your competency?

And I agree with you on the Fox News lineup, but I think the worst among them is Glenn Beck. Honestly, I think for the most part if you get rid of him, you've got a bunch of harmless morons who somehow got TV shows. The only person I think stood a chance at actually mattering was Bill O'Reilly, who kind of blew it at some point and reverted to being a joke. What I really don't understand, and this probably accounts for the fixation lots of liberals have on discussing it (seriously, I was assigned Glenn Beck jokes in a class because the teacher said "sure I've heard a bunch of Glenn Beck jokes, but I hate that guy so much that I never tire of them" which about says it all), is how Glenn Beck managed to evade joke status. His show is such ridiculous nonsense that I cannot figure out how even the most, I guess I should say, incompetent people fell for it. It completely blows my mind that this dude inspired an entire movement. Actually that's why the tea party movement scares the shit out of me. It may look like a bunch of harmless people, but it is a SHITLOAD of harmless people, who are all doing what Glenn Beck told them to do. My god. It's terrifyingly apocalyptic. I understand this less easily than I understand how Bush could've won two elections, or how to comprehend how the universe could be infinite and somehow expanding, and yet how it could be a certain age (and it's like 13 billion years or some shit like that), or how Robert Pattinson's brain works. I've spent so long hating that patriotism has somehow been hijacked by a bunch of conservatives, how it's like if you don't wear your flag t-shirt at the appropriate times you're some traitorous socialist who should move to Canada, but I draw the line at hijacking history and rewriting it to serve your completely fucked-up and shallow purposes. Actually, I draw the line at comparing your dumbass plights with the Holocaust, but since that's not related to the Thomas Paine thing, it's really a different line.

[sadcypress.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the side by side comparison of the first HP movie poster with this one?

[loony-moony.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't! Do you have a link?

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links! Man, I don't know where to start opening my mouth about The Last Airbender. There's so much unhappy here on so many levels.

[loony-moony.livejournal.com]

No kidding. I feel wholly inadequate to discuss it, if only for the fact I've never really watched the original anime.