The Simpsons Movie 終於看到了but need to complain about people

雖然終於看到了，但是那天去看電影還真的是很不好的經驗，害我看完後馬上打電話給Dawn抱怨。

其實在入電影院前我已經寄了兩封簡訊說真的很不想跟這麼多人看因為這些觀眾一定會在那種slap-stick comedy（我不知道這個中文要怎麼講）的地方笑。果然沒有錯。The Simpsons不是給小孩看的節目，也不是純粹 slap-stick，裡面的內容跟台詞有一堆東西可以笑的。但是會笑的人只有知道那個地方的大眾文化是什麼。我旁邊的那個人笑的世界有夠大聲。好，假如你看字幕的，請你慢慢看，請不要打擾不看字幕的人，害我一半的台詞沒聽清楚，只聽到一直念「My goodness!」這句話真的是有夠台灣英文的（「天啊」）因為除了小時候被教說要用這個之外（因為對神比較禮貌，當然那是因為在很religious的家庭長大的），會講「My goodness」的人只有老太太了。我隔壁的好像大約20幾歲而已。

改寫英文，今天太懶了。

Apart from that, my seat was nowhere in sight because someone was sitting in it. I don't really get why movie theatres need reserved seating in Taiwan. It's crap. You are supposed to arrive early so you can choose your seat. OK, fine, even when it's reserved, some dumbass couldn't figure out that he was sitting in my seat. I don't go to the movies in Taiwan but according to friends, this happens a lot. What's the point of having reserved seating then? Useless morons.

That got me into a pretty bad mood to start with. The movie began with a clip of Itchy & Scratchy movie. It's Itchy & Scratchy so it's slap-stick fun. The moron beside me laughed freakin' out loud and I was fine with it. Well, lower your volume a bit when you see talking starts. Unless you don't even understand English and have to read the stupid subtitles...then, why the bloody hell were you saying "My goodness" for? Geez.

I knew what I got myself into. I should've seen it in the morning when nobody's there. I missed so many jokes because I couldn't hear. But like NY Times critic said, it's like any Simpsons episode, the more you watch, the more inside jokes and subtle humour you get to understand.

But I do have to say one thing. Nobody laughed at the part when Homer was being swung around "between a rock and a hard place". That was quite brillant but apparently nobody could appreciate the subtlety of that joke. I was right. I told my friends that no regular Taiwanese spectator was going to get that part. It was true. There are tons of more and I really need to see it again. I think I should take some notes next time.

For now, just two more things. First, the song "Close to You" by The Carpenters was used again in the movie and that's Marge's favourite tune (in the episode of Senor Dingdong) and that just fitted the ambiance of the scene. Second, Maggie said the word "Sequel" at the start of the ending credits and they said it was her first word. Nope, any good Simpsons fan would know that Maggie's first word was "Daddy" (Elizabeth Taylor did the voice). I think they meant to do this to get hardcore fans talking. Well, it got me talking. I had to phone all the people (actually only one here since it's hard to get what I'd be talkinga bout) to get this out of my system. Great, I am a geek. I am. I played the trivial game on the Fox's TV web site and I scored 80%. Why not 100%? Because I haven't watched all the episodes within the past 3-4 seasons and there were things I didn't get. But considering over 400 episodes and I watched over 350 episodes, that's a good score.

I can't believe I'm being so vain...but it's only this subject that gets me like this. Nothing else would.