Shades Of A 081
Back from an exhausting Doki Doki in Manchester- was a pleasure meeting those northern fans (and one french one) who I don’t get to see very often!
I’ll be livestreaming again tonight at 8pm UST for the next Khaos side story page : D
In other news, royal mail has finally got it’s arse around to sending my my postage labels, so the kickstarter send off BEGINS.
Truer words were never spoken. That flick is a masterpiece
Anwar has a thing for teenage chick flicks it seems x) First Easy A and now Mean Girls.
cuddle time for the boys??
And Chris’s cutie blush!
With the text about Mean Girls being his teenage daughters I’m not sure if it’s singular possessive or plural possessive because I’m not seeing an apostrophe…
Judging from the lack of an apostrophe, the film itself is Chris’s teenage daughters.
Or are his teenage daughters are acting in the film?
Plot twist, Chris is Rachel McAdams’ dad!
To be fair, that film is so amazing it’s created a whole catalogue of memes. It’s internationally famous in a way no one could have seen coming. It literally hit the world like a big yellow school bus!
Internationally famous? That’s honestly shocking. I rented it from Blockbuster when it was new on DVD years ago. I liked it well enough, but why is a teen movie about American high school girl society so popular in Europe?
I think because everyone can relate to the broad themes in the film – wanting to be liked, wanting the bullies to be shown up for what they are, becoming the monster you’re supposed to be fighting…plus, it’s well-written and very funny. What’s not to like?
Nail, head. Got it~
I thought that film was so “stereotipical American high school drama”. In Poland most of the teenage films are imported from the USA, and when there’s a Polish one it’s either brilliant of terrible.
And I never could relate with how high school in the USA is devided. We have groups of friends but not cliques.
My experience may be different than the average American’s due to living in a somewhat rural part of the United States, but we don’t really have cliques either. There were some in middle school, but not really in high school. Even the ones in middle school weren’t that bad, and half of them seemed to be made of kids trying to act like what they saw in movies.
I like that Anwar doesn’t care about the “teenage daughter” part. Sp many people run from people with children. Although I wouldnt mind hearing more about Chris.
I am willing to bet Chris has in fact seen Mean Girls. Even my Dad has seen it, and he refuses to watch TV/movies.
Hmm… *checks imdb* Nopenopenope. I don’t think so.
It’s one of those movies that transcends drama. It’s in a high school setting and is about a bunch of teenage girls, but it’s not a teen comedy. It has sophisticated humor and is actually pretty dark a lot of the time.
I meant to put “transcends genre.” Freudian slip?
That’s cool. I enjoy dark humor but this looks like it was not made for girls so it’s hard to look passed that.
It’s very much in the vein of Jawbreaker or Heathers, both of which I feel are better movies but to each their own.
Haven’t seen either of those either. I’ll check imdb on those too.
I’ve never seen mean girls… and I have no interest in seeing it. I get a strong vibe of “comedy” from it and I don’t like movies like that…
you don’t like any comedy? why?
I don’t know, I just don’t. Don’t get me wrong I still find some things funny… but eh, it might have something to do with my Aspergers. I suppose it doesn’t help that I got a detention in year nine for not wanting to watch American Pie in R.E…
I feel you, I don’t like most comedy movies either and always get harassed for it.
Personally its because I don’t find them funny, they are mostly stupid and annoying to me.
how is it going through life with no sense of humor?
Obviously she has a sense of humour or she wouldn’t much like this comic with all its funny scenes you stupid poo.
What she means is that, yes, she has a sense of humour, but that the sense of humour of most comedy writers fail to tickle her funny bone. Why sit through a film you know you’re expected to laugh at but know you just won’t?
Besides, there are so many other genres to choose from other than comedy. There’s action, sci-fi, horror, romance (taking out the romantic COMEDY, you’re still left with a fair few great love films). Comedy may be a huge part of the entertainment industry, but there’s so much more to it than that.
Unhani, have you watched any films written by and/or starring Simon Pegg, by any chance? Hot Fuzz, starring Pegg, Frost and directed by Edgar Wright is a film written to contain every action film cliche known to man. It’s excellent.
Assuming that a failure to appreciate the same comedy as one person means another does not have a “sense of humour” is almost flawed enough to be humorous. (Or … as a close punster would insist on using, humerus.) Just about everyone has a sense of humor, but like a sense of taste, not everyone has the same reaction to every flavor.
I too find absolutely no appeal in typical comedy films (or stand-up comedians). Slapstick makes me cringe. Potty humor didn’t even appeal when I was 5. But throw some sophisticated or subtle word play that way and I’m very likely to laugh. Show me that absurdities of life and culture and I’ll find great humor in it.
That’s pretty much the reaction I get from people when I say I haven’t seen that movie. “WHAT?! WE ARE WATCHING IT RIGHT NOW!” lol
I get that too. It’s not like I AVOID it, but I really DON’T watch TV. If I didn’t need one for my Xbox I wouldn’t even own a TV. Saves on the liscence fees.
I don’t think mean girls is a comedy. It has funny moments, but so does harry potter and that’s not a comedy right?
True, but I like the humour in Harry Potter, it’s a lot more stupid etc. Where as the funny scenes from Mean Girls everyone quotes and shows constantly is dull to me and just makes me cringe.
This comic is exponentially even better than it already was since Mean Girls happened in it just now.
Khaos is going into the post!
SQUEEE!
I might have wet myself just a tiny bit. o.O
In other news… how awesome is ‘War… Mean Girls is a FABulous film if you want a laugh.
I’m with Chris on this one. No desire what so ever.
Lol Chris… it’s a great movie! I promise ~ I never wanted to watch it thinking it was like the epitome of chick flicks…luckily my friends made me watch it and, turns out, it’s an epic parody of chick flicks ~ WATCH IT!!!!
Mean Girls is AMAZING and so true (my high school was like that, unfortunately).
Did we know that Chris had a teenage daughter? (Or possibly more than one?) How old are they? (Again, how old is Chris, and how old is Anwar? I’d love to find out the ages, just because I’m curious now!)
Well the french girl was very pleased to meet you too :D ^^
I would cuddle them both so hard! ^_^ CUDDLE ATTACK!
Strips like this remind me exactly why I love the fact that my husband appreciates a chick flick. Best movie cuddles ever.
Woah, people. Mean Girls is a comedy in a sense but that sense is SATIRE. Good old fashioned “This is such an awful topic but it’s so awful we can kill it by laughing at it” satire like Horace used to write. Seriously. It’s great for people who love and hate the genre it appears to be.
Ah, Mean Girls…that’s the movie that taught me how to curse properly! If only my mom knew what she was buying me!
Heh, I’ve been on the receiving end of that too Chris. I feel your pain xD
Ok: we have Easy A, we have Mean Girls…my question now: Where is Clueless. I imagine Anwar would be a huge fan if he ever saw it, I even think he might be the type to look it up if he is too young to have seen it when it came out…I think he is too young because technically I’m as well but it was re-run so often on TV that I got through puberty watching it several times, it’s my guilty pleasure^^
“Why would she do that?”
“Because she’s a life-ruiner; she ruins people’s lives.”
I love this film, so much so I’m watching it right now~
I do find it hard to believe that a girl who’d been homeschooled all her life would actually get sucked up in that high school drama.
I know. I find that hard to believe, too. But, I suppose the idea of that was to introduce the whole high school drama hierachy to the audience through someone who was completely new to it – you know, the same way the reader is introduced to the wizarding world through a young wizard who’d grown up isolated from it until he turned 11 (as in Harry Potter). As far as narrative motifs go, it’s very useful.
Speaking as a girl who WAS homeschooled her whole life — I can see it. There is enormous pressure from the stereotype of being ultra-religious, ultra-weird, ultra-awkward, and when the “cool kids” take an interest in you,I can definitely see how that’s exciting and how it can take a while to realize that that’s not really you.
It’s by no means a given, and it didn’t happen to me (mostly because I was never interesting to the cool kids), but I get it. So, for me it’s totally believable.
It bothers me that Anwar keeps saying things like “Fuck you” and “What the hell is wrong with you” to people he wants to get along with, but I’m proud of him for not going all drama queen about Chris seeing a Domme, so I guess I’ll let him off the hook for now.
that’s how a lot of friends tend to talk to each other. my SO and i love each other but we also enjoy making fun of each other, because it’s funny and what’s life without laughing at yourself? nothing wrong with playful insults.
Eh, I only swear at people I either like a lot or absolutely loathe, so I just see this as Anwar being comfortable enough around Chris to not censor himself. (And I’m definitely reading ‘What the hell is wrong with you?’ as a deliberate and comedic overreaction.)
Well, isn’t that funny? My brother actually introduced me to Mean Girls just last week. While I found it funny, I didn’t really like how resident Alpha Bitch Regina George managed to stir up the whole school just by starting rumors about everyone. I enjoyed it even less when it seemed like EVERY GIRL just turned on each other because of some stupid rumor or piece of trash talk slung at them. I know it’s an older movie, so a lot of those tropes are pretty overused, but I don’t really see why it’s so groundbreaking. People have made generalizations and stereotypes about high schoolers and high school girls since the beginning of time. I not bashing it, I still found it funny, but those are just a few things that kind of made me stop and go: wha?
Well, isn’t that funny? My brother actually introduced me to Mean Girls just last week. While I found it funny, I didn’t really like how resident Alpha Bitch Regina George managed to stir up the whole school just by starting rumors about everyone. I enjoyed it even less when it seemed like EVERY GIRL just turned on each other because of some stupid rumor or piece of trash talk slung at them. I know it’s an older movie, so a lot of those tropes are pretty overused, but I don’t really see why it’s so groundbreaking. People have made generalizations and stereotypes about high schoolers and high school girls since the beginning of time. I’m not bashing it, I still found it funny, but those are just a few things that kind of made me stop and go: wha?
On one side, I’m with Chris. On the other: OH EM GEE they’re already acting like a couple it’s totes adorbs!!
I just saw the movie, Mean Girls, for the first time today! :D
I happened to see it on DVD in a bargain bin, and I wouldn’t have bought it if not for the commentary in this thread. It’s actually quite a good movie. It’s dressed up as a silly teenage drama, but there are undercurrents of social commentary that allow it to stand up to a fair bit of scrutiny and to be appreciated on many levels. I’m glad that Shades of A convinced me to watch it. :)