What the Anti Gay Rights Folks Fail to Understand About the Gay Rights Movement Today

What anti gay rights folks fail to understand about the current gay rights movement is that young gay men and women just don't give a fuck anymore.  Let me give you an example.  I'm 28 years old, when I was a freshman in high school, half my lifetime ago, I had a classmate who was out.  He had been out since middle school.  No one cared.  Did I mention that I went to an all boys catholic high school.  No one cared...except of course for the administration, and that was really only when he forced them to care.  You see, he was one of the top students (he got a full ride scholarship to a name institution), he sang at chapel, he was one of the stars of the theater department, he was a really nice guy, he was everything that they could possibly have hoped for in a student. They didn't make an issue of his being gay.  But then senior year rolled around, and he wanted to bring a date to prom, a guy.  They said no.  He circulated a petition, and we all signed it.  They still said no, and of course when we debated it in religion class the answer we got was "because his taking a date implies they'll have sex, and that's a sin."  Well that's good old catholic church hypocrisy for you; no one in our class was married, making the implied sex we might have with our dates a sin too.  But that's not really the point I'm making. The point I'm making is that when the Church, or any societal institution or group in America tells young gay men and women what they can and can't do these days, they tell them to go fuck themselves. And their friends do too.  Everything that the anti gay rights movement is fighting for, from this bullshit anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment in North Carolina, to the mealy-mouthed walk back of Joe Biden's statement about his comfort with gay marriage,  all of this will be rolled away some day.  My generation knows this, we grew up with it, we don't give a fuck.

Battleship! F@%&ing Battleship is a F*#@ing Movie!

I like bad movies, I like them a lot actually. And of course by bad I mean stupid, I mean movies that don't even try to be rational or coherent, that just aim purely at entertainment, but manage to succeed in not quite the way they intended.  I mean something like John Carpenter's Vampires (Actual Quote:  "Can I ask ya somethin, Padre? When I was kickin? your ass back there... you get a little wood?"). 

But then there are movies like Battleship, movies that make you weep for the souls of Hollywood executives. It's based off of a fucking game!  Are you kidding me!  Some people might be annoyed with all of the comic book movies coming out these days, but those movies are drawing from a deep reservoir of content and character development, Battleship is based on a game where each player randomly guesses where the other person's battleships are located on a board.  I'm guessing the decision to make this movie was made in much the same way.  I honestly don't care whether this movie would be enjoyable to see, the whole concept of it makes me want to insert pencil shavings in my eyeballs every time I see that stupid trailer.

There are so many stories to be told and Hollywood has the capacity to only tell so many.  I accept the fact that most of the stories that will get told are stupid and pointless (at least in the grand scheme of things) but it would nice if the movies that Hollywood made didn't have to have an already developed brand behind them.  I suppose that would involve taking risks and of course actually using one's imagination, two ideas anathema to the species Homo Hollywoodexecutivus, but a boy can dream, can't he? Or have I just watched too many movies?