Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Stop payment on PAY IT FORWARD, s'il vous plait

How in the name of God did yet another failure, one-star movie from overpraised Kevin Spacey inspire one of THE most ubiquitous and irritating phrases of our time? Well, Oprah, of course. Run on! Whoot, whoot! Oy, fucking vey. Oprah's miserable track record of being wholly inspired by the most idiotic, cliched films on earth continued with PAY IT FORWARD. Her sycophantic audience always nods or even jumps in approval. The piss poor box office results usually leave me deliciously self-satisfied and vindicated, but the nightmare went beyond opening weekend with THIS film. Thanks largely to Oprah's ENDLESS co-opting of the title phrase, and idiotic news anchors and other talk show hosts piling on, it's now part of our national lexicon. And it irritates the BLOODY HELL out of me!! It's called KARMA...or "helping others" or "giving back" or "being generous" or "keeping the good tidings going." Not once in my life has the phrase "I think you should pay it forward somehow" been uttered at a family dinner table after someone's recent success. That's because IT'S FUCKING QUEER, ridiculously pretentious, and not anything a NORMAL person outside of a movie or Oprah panel would utter. Make it stop!!

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