The F#@k You Say?

I’ve always had a good relationship with swear words.

I think I learned at a young age that there are appropriate situations to use them without being rude or vulgar and that they carry a certain weight and gravitas that other words perhaps do not. They have such impact on speech; angry is angrier, enthusiasm is more enthusiastic, risqué is riskier, and funny is funnier with swear words.

They’re all just so fucking versatile.

So versatile, in fact, that they make up about 75% of the dialogue in Martin Scorsese movies as evidenced here:

and here:

And if you’re patient as fuck, you can try and make it through all the swears you’ve been missing on The Sopranos if you’ve only seen it on A&E (good luck, it’s over 27 fucking minutes long):

And what the fuck, here’s some fucking more for your fucking pleasure:

Okay, I think I need to fucking wash my fucking mouth out with fucking soap now.

I feel dirty.

Pay Attention, This Might Be Important.

“Halloween: H20″ has been on television every night for the last year or so –maybe even longer. I’ve only been paying attention to this phenomenon for that time span, ever since I noticed that it was on the premium channels on digital cable for what seemed like every night. And it HAS BEEN ON EVERY SINGLE NIGHT SINCE! I’m not sure what this means but it might be important, so please take note.

It’s mostly on Showtime or Cinemax between 11pm and 3am but it also comes on Starz and Encore quite often. Why is this movie being shown so much? That’s all I want to know. I mean, it’s not very good. It wasn’t a hit at the box office. It’s the sixth sequel in a series that only produced one movie worth seeing (although the remake of the first one, written and directed by Rob Zombie that’s coming out in August looks pretty good).

If you have any insight on this particular issue, please enlighten me.

In other news, some people have asked me what I thought of “The Sopranos” finale, so this is as good a forum as there is:

Quite frankly, as I have previously stated, I had no expectations going into it so I really feel that it was an appropriate ending. A lot of people were disappointed by the open-endedness of the finale and have gone so far as to call the move gutless by writer/creator David Chase. I disagree. I think that if you look at the entire series for what it was, it couldn’t have ended any other way.

The series was never about taking the viewers by the hand and walking them down a clear path where the characters’ motivations and the events befalling them were neatly layed out. And that’s what made it great, it never pandered to the audience but it always kept them guessing. The show stayed true to itself and that’s all that I can ever ask for from any art form.

And for the people that tuned in just at the end to catch some bloodshed, you should have been watching all along –way more people were killed throughout the span of the show than in the whole history of the New Jersey mob…

Annotations

A couple of things:

-”The Sopranos” ends Sunday night, as you might have heard. In fact, every media outlet has been speculating all week on how the series will conclude its run. Personally, I haven’t really given it much thought. I’ve come to terms with the fact that David Chase, the series creator, has always done things his way, often with no consideration to the fans’ expectations. I’ll abide to the creator’s vision and accept any ending that transpires. The dude must abide, afterall.

-Chad Johnson, the very amusing Cincinnati Bengals Wide Receiver, raced against a horse for charity on Saturday –and won. It wasn’t an even, head to head race, the horse had to run twice the distance Chad ran (100 meters); but still, it’s very impressive. People had tried it before and it wasn’t even close. Chad, of course, talked trash afterwards. I’m not sure what this means in terms of human-horse relations, but I’m curious to find out. Stay tuned.

Everyone’s Waiting

I just watched the series finale of Six Feet Under on Bravo. It was sad, emotionally draining and overall, totally satisfying. It’s a fine line to tread, the finale that ties up all loose ends; for the most part it never works. But for this show it couldn’t have ended any other way. If you’ve seen it, I’m sure you probably feel the same way.

I never watched Six Feet when it first ran on HBO, but everybody who did would always tell me that it was my kind of show. Now that I’ve seen it, I’m not really sure what these people saw that would make them say that to me; I don’t see why ANYONE wouldn’t like this show. . . it’s a good show. I’m glad I had a chance to finally see it.

I suspect that the upcoming series finale of The Sopranos will not be quite as conclusive. Something tells me that I’ll probably be disappointed with the way it ends. But then again, I may just be fooling myself into thinking this so that any sort of closure will seem satisfying. I’m a tricky bastard like that, I can convince myself of anything. I just have a feeling that the show’s creator, David Chase, is a big fan of not pandering to the expectations of the audience and that makes it really unpredictable. And I guess that’s part of why I like the show and have stuck with it through its ups and downs. It’s easily the best show I’ve seen on television (besides Mama’s Family, of course).