As you get older the meanings and effects movies have on you can change. Exemplar: Rambo came out on video cassette when i was in the 5th grade. One guy taking on an entire army and blowing shit up was quite impressive for a testosterone fueled little boy. i recently saw part of it the other day and it played out more like a comedy. With time and many comic impersonations i forgot that Sly actually DID talk like that. (i still think i could hold off an army from the 80's in the woods if i had a knife like that though)
Go to any Pixar movie with a crowd of mixed age and you will hear the children laughing at one part and the adults laughing at another all together. Two different movies in one, depending on age.
Last night, reading "A People's History Of The United States" with the TV on in the background i realized that "The Money Pit" is not a comedy... it's actually a really, really mean documentary. Since buying a house i could afford and fixing it up over the last few years (not done yet) Tom Hank's comedic antics serve as salt poured into still open wounds.
Everything will be done in 'two weeks'. Fixing one problem only brings attention to four more you hadn't noticed earlier. You constantly feel like you're living in a construction site (because to some extent you are). A pile of demo is lying where you'd like to park your car. Contractor's schedule dictate your schedule, otherwise it may be months before they can make it out again.
Oh yeah, and you have to pay for it all. A friend coined the term: being house po', you're so poor you can't afford the last "o-r". You own a house so you're not technically poor but because you own a house you have no money for anything else. All money seems to go into making the home more livable seeing how you couldn't afford one in pristine condition.
Because of this, the movie "The Money Pit" ceases to be a comedy for me and should be moved to the Horror section of Netflix. i had nightmares from that shit. It makes "The Ring" look like amateur night at the local strip club (just a little scarey).
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