Dunno if I've reviewed this yet, but hey, new year. Haven't seen it in a while, but that might make this more interesting... Time boils memories down to the essentials, the memorables, and the general assumptions/gist.
K, so Goats is about this super-stoner kid who grew up in a little house with the hippie version of Fox Mulder and the kid's hippie mom, and Mulder's got all these goats, and as a family they've got a bunch of goats. Then the super-stoner kid goes off to some normal-ass school, and he gets judged and whatnot for being such a country super-stoner, and there's all this stuff with family issues and tension and school and keeping your shit together, ya know, life.
All in all, I remember liking it, though I'm pretty sure Fox was running around as a naked old man for a bit, which was a bit unnerving. The X Files ... it just doesn't mix well with my mind. Good film, though, and funny. Goats are terrific. Fact is (I think) it's relatable to most people, in some odd, twisted, metaphorical way. So there, there's my short-ass review. You know what? It seems like I don't have to do more than this. So the rest of this will probably be... A brief rant/tangent about Occupy. Yeah, that sounds nice.
I wanted to go to the after-school movie showing thing. That's why I brought the damn guitar; I thought I'd be sitting around for three hours so I needed to kill some time. But NO, Occupy has to go and (pardon my French, but goddamnit, this is MY REVIEW) fuck everything up by coming around and protesting n' whatnot. Honestly, I thought Occupy had died off. C'mon, we all know it, we've all debated it. They had a purpose and then all the stoners, anarchists and party people showed up, shit went to hell, and then everyone started hating Occupy because they just became burdensome to society and kept squatting on people's gardens, crushing flowers and leaving a slight marijuana miasma in their wake. Then they all puttered out and disbanded, and for the past... What? A year? Two? All I've seen of 'em were a couple of old guys down on Solano sitting outside Bank of America or something for weeks on end with signs. Maybe the only ones holding true to the original purpose... And now "Occupy"'s back? What the hell's going on? No, goddamnit, I wanna watch a damn horror movie. Instead I got stuck at home with family watching About Schmidt from the library until it got too boring/depressing for us (I'm sorry, I've had a long damn week, I don't need old Jack's problems plaguing my mind too). Then there's the fact that everyone effectively yelled "DUCK AND COVER" when they heard the word "Occupy". That's a sign, people. Everyone's afraid of Occupy. Clearly, they're a bit lost, at this point.
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