Something else for y'all to read

While facebooking today (by the way when is that word going to be added to the English language dictionary? Soon I hope, the red underlining is annoying on Word) I noticed that the most popular favorite movie picked by those in the MedU Ohio network is Old School. What? Now don’t get me wrong, that is a really funny movie, I totally enjoyed it and I’ll watch it over and over again, but its not my favorite movie, its probably not in my top 50 favorite movies. What kind of people put that as their favorite movie on their facebook profile? The answer is: a lot of people. At the MedU Ohio network it’s the number one picked movie. Is it really that great? I don’t know but for me, a comedy could never be my favorite movie. I love comedies just as much as the next guy, but its just a comedy and there are always new comedies coming out every year, but a really good movie, a really good movie, a movie that really grabbed a hold of you and wouldn’t let go and gave you goose bumps, a movie like that only comes around once ever 5-10 years, and surely these are not comedies, are they? At least I think not. But I think this just might be an issue of personal preference. I mean, maybe, just maybe, I like epic movies, drama, and action, more than I like comedies. I do like comedies, I love watching movies that make me laugh my freaking ass off. Superbad was freaking hilarious, and Anchorman, 40 Year Old Virgin, and Old School, are all really funny movies. However, as I glace up from my laptop and look over at my DVD collection I realize that of those 200 or so movies that I have accumulated over the last 7 years, I would say only 12 are comedies. That’s only 6%. So I guess the point is (ha, a point, is there ever a point) that I don’t consider comedies to be great movies, for me they are just entertainment, something to make me laugh and enjoy with my friends, but not great movie material. However there are exceptions. There are comedies that I consider to be great movies, and would even go as far is including them in my top 50 movies of all time. I would have to say that The Big Lebowski would definitely qualify, I like that move a whole of a lot better than I like Old School. The movie is not just funny, its brilliant, and they just could never make a movie like that again, I mean it’s a classic. Old School is not, and I doubt that it ever will be.