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lesmisloony) wrote2012-08-13 02:13 am
lesmisloony) wrote2012-08-13 02:13 am
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I know I'm a little late on this one but
If you were a fan, like the kind of fan I am who lives and breathes and adores characters and invites them into her mental family, of the television series 21 Jump Street...
If you felt love feelings or any level of compassion for or attraction to Hanson or Penhall while watching 21 Jump Street and cared about those two characters...
DO
NOT
WATCH
THE 21 JUMP STREET MOVIE
If you don't want to be spoiled for that movie stop reading now!
So Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum go undercover at a high school and blah blah. Near the beginning of the movie I was DELIGHTED to recognize Judy from the original show still working as a cop. Yay, I thought, cameos! Sure hope I'll get to see Penhall on whom I always had a weird crush even though it was for Johnny Depp that I started watching the show in high school... (and obviously I ended up with a crush on Booker cause everyone did, look at him). Okay it's been at least five full years since I was watching my DVDs of this show every day after school, but I remember an episode where Ioki got sick or shot idk and I was like STRESSED because I was worried about him. 21 Jump Street was a great, gritty, sometimes-silly but mostly awesome drama. Do you understand me. I used to crane my neck as though that would help me get a better view of Penhall and Hanson every time they were onscreen because I LOVED THEM.
Then it's the two retarded undercover cops up against a huge biker gang. An old guy with a long beard is tasked with shooting the cops, but then... he rips off his nose and IT'S JOHNNY DEPP. I was out of my chair in a second laughing and screaming with glee because Hanson's here! He grew up! He's still doing undercover work! I was so excited I barely even noticed my precious Penhall unmasking right next to him. MY BABIES! THEY'RE ALIVE! THEY'RE STILL COPS! THEY AGED! THE MOVIE WAS PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE--
And then, just to be funny--FUNNY--I see Hanson get shot through the neck. I see him and Penhall get riddled with bullets.
NO. YOU DO NOT REACH INTO MY BURIED EMOTIONS FROM TV SHOWS I DROOLED OVER IN HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN MURDER MY TWO FAVORTE CHARACTERS. UNACCEPTABLE.
I am so glad I didn't try to watch this movie in theatres, because next thing I knew I was loudly sobbing over my screen. I had to pause it.
I'm not even making this up at all: I spent fifteen minutes sobbing, wandering back and forth from my room to the bathroom to blow my nose, and being thankful that no one was home to witness that. Because how can you explain crying that hard over a comedy?
But I felt so betrayed. These were characters I had invested in--*really* invested in, obviously--and now I was given the delight at seeing them as grown-ups, still together and still working as cops, only to then see them violently, bloodily and mercilessly gunned down for what must have been a cheap joke? Obviously the writers just thought they could startle people into laughing by introducing Johnny Depp at the climax of the film and then daring to have his character die after only a few minutes onscreen, and with Depp's sense of humor I'm sure he thought that was great too. I felt so betrayed. The whole reason I don't watch many dramas anymore is because of how easily I cry these days (turning into my mother).
Anyway. It was not okay for me to see characters who had had four-five years onscreen to develop themselves and be real to me and fleshed out return in such an emotional moment of the film, and to shock me and bring me so much happiness, only to have to watch them immediately be gruesomely murdered while delivering cheap lines that were obviously only there to advance Jonah Hill's and Channing Tatum's plotlines rather than give any closure to anyone who might have taken the old series a little too seriously.
It would have been an acceptable movie if that hadn't happened.
(I could also argue that the original team was a black girl, an Asian guy, Johnny Depp (who's white but looks like he's from Europe), and another white dude. And their boss was a successful, compassionate black man. So where was the diversity in the movie? It was just a bunch of white people... except one gay black boy who served as kind of a punchline and the black cop who said himself that he was a stereotype. As for Asian representation... I guess there's the weird "Korean Jesus" joke? And that's it?
Sigh. It could have been pretty good.
Also... does this post make anyone worry about my mental health? Fifteen minutes of noisy crying... just me?
If you felt love feelings or any level of compassion for or attraction to Hanson or Penhall while watching 21 Jump Street and cared about those two characters...
DO
NOT
WATCH
THE 21 JUMP STREET MOVIE
If you don't want to be spoiled for that movie stop reading now!
So Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum go undercover at a high school and blah blah. Near the beginning of the movie I was DELIGHTED to recognize Judy from the original show still working as a cop. Yay, I thought, cameos! Sure hope I'll get to see Penhall on whom I always had a weird crush even though it was for Johnny Depp that I started watching the show in high school... (and obviously I ended up with a crush on Booker cause everyone did, look at him). Okay it's been at least five full years since I was watching my DVDs of this show every day after school, but I remember an episode where Ioki got sick or shot idk and I was like STRESSED because I was worried about him. 21 Jump Street was a great, gritty, sometimes-silly but mostly awesome drama. Do you understand me. I used to crane my neck as though that would help me get a better view of Penhall and Hanson every time they were onscreen because I LOVED THEM.
Then it's the two retarded undercover cops up against a huge biker gang. An old guy with a long beard is tasked with shooting the cops, but then... he rips off his nose and IT'S JOHNNY DEPP. I was out of my chair in a second laughing and screaming with glee because Hanson's here! He grew up! He's still doing undercover work! I was so excited I barely even noticed my precious Penhall unmasking right next to him. MY BABIES! THEY'RE ALIVE! THEY'RE STILL COPS! THEY AGED! THE MOVIE WAS PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE--
And then, just to be funny--FUNNY--I see Hanson get shot through the neck. I see him and Penhall get riddled with bullets.
NO. YOU DO NOT REACH INTO MY BURIED EMOTIONS FROM TV SHOWS I DROOLED OVER IN HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN MURDER MY TWO FAVORTE CHARACTERS. UNACCEPTABLE.
I am so glad I didn't try to watch this movie in theatres, because next thing I knew I was loudly sobbing over my screen. I had to pause it.
I'm not even making this up at all: I spent fifteen minutes sobbing, wandering back and forth from my room to the bathroom to blow my nose, and being thankful that no one was home to witness that. Because how can you explain crying that hard over a comedy?
But I felt so betrayed. These were characters I had invested in--*really* invested in, obviously--and now I was given the delight at seeing them as grown-ups, still together and still working as cops, only to then see them violently, bloodily and mercilessly gunned down for what must have been a cheap joke? Obviously the writers just thought they could startle people into laughing by introducing Johnny Depp at the climax of the film and then daring to have his character die after only a few minutes onscreen, and with Depp's sense of humor I'm sure he thought that was great too. I felt so betrayed. The whole reason I don't watch many dramas anymore is because of how easily I cry these days (turning into my mother).
Anyway. It was not okay for me to see characters who had had four-five years onscreen to develop themselves and be real to me and fleshed out return in such an emotional moment of the film, and to shock me and bring me so much happiness, only to have to watch them immediately be gruesomely murdered while delivering cheap lines that were obviously only there to advance Jonah Hill's and Channing Tatum's plotlines rather than give any closure to anyone who might have taken the old series a little too seriously.
It would have been an acceptable movie if that hadn't happened.
(I could also argue that the original team was a black girl, an Asian guy, Johnny Depp (who's white but looks like he's from Europe), and another white dude. And their boss was a successful, compassionate black man. So where was the diversity in the movie? It was just a bunch of white people... except one gay black boy who served as kind of a punchline and the black cop who said himself that he was a stereotype. As for Asian representation... I guess there's the weird "Korean Jesus" joke? And that's it?
Sigh. It could have been pretty good.
Also... does this post make anyone worry about my mental health? Fifteen minutes of noisy crying... just me?
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I cried when I finished watching Buffy. I was so not ready for it to be over, even though I watched it a good few years after it was done, and I was kinda depressed for a few days. lol.
When I was a kid, I read this book called The Good Dog by Avi, and I cried at the end- And the end WASN'T EVEN SAD.
Also, I never even planned on watching that movie because it just looked dumb. Some things just don't need to be made, and I kinda think that Jonah Hill-type movies are played out...
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