So I'm up late last night, watching TV instead of doing anything at all towards the pursuit of some sort of semblance of a meaningful existence (as usual), and I come across the film Philadelphia on the Logo channel, which I believe to be a network that is programmed to appeal to the homosexual community (this concept of "community" based upon race, sexuality, and such is a complete farce, but that's a rant for another day). Anyway, it's a pretty damn good flick... hell, with Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, you could make a film about lint and it would be terrific... so I park it on Logo and set myself to enjoying the rest of the film. Pretty early on, I find myself annoyed with the frequency of commercial interruption, but hey, I figure gay folks like to shop, so it's totally understandable, but I digress. At this point, it is necessary for me to mention that the film was being shown as part of a countdown called "The Click List"... the top 50 gay-oriented films (I believe Philadelphia was coming in at #41). Anyway... so Logo was periodically running these little animated promos during their programming to promote "The Click List"... you know the kind, you're watching Law and Order and all of a sudden there is a big, flashy graphic in the bottom-right corner of the screen promoting an all-day marathon of The Closer... and a little Kyra Sedgwick is standing on Jerry Orbach's tie, eating a cookie for some reason. Well, the animated promos that Logo was running were something akin to Pong / Breakout... a little blue ball came into being, and then proceeded to float around, bouncing off the borders of the screen, making a "bloop" noise each time, eventually settling into the bottom-right corner off the screen, where it revealed into a little advertisement telling me I could see more about "The Click List" if I logged onto Logo.com. Pretty obnoxious as far as that sort of thing goes, BUT... what made it really terrible was the fact that they chose to run it over the scene in the hospital room, right when Andrew Beckett, his health failing fast, tells his partner Miguel that he is ready to die... "Miguel... I'm ready... BLOOP! BLOOP! BLOOP-BLOOP! BLOOP!" Then... at the conclusion of the film, when they are at the wake, watching old home movies of Andy as a child, here it comes again... BLOOP! BLOOPITY-BLOOP! BLOOP!
Absolutely awful... way to ruin the moments, you silly people!
2 comments:
Ha ha, so what you're saying is the gays gave you blue balls.
Yes... well done, sir!
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