This movie looks to me (by watching the preview) corporate propaganda/more American Dream lies. I refused to watch it with my wife. She says I am against all things positive and uplifting. I'm sorry if I don't believe corporatism=happiness anymore.
First of all, getting and keeping a "good job" in the U.S. seems to me like winnning the lottery now (not something everyone can attain if they just work hard and play by the rules like society tells us) and second of all, being a member of the corpoarate rate race is not my idea of happiness anymore. I have changed and can't help it.
My wife and I don't seem eye to eye on this type of subject anymore. She has a "decent" job with a company that treats her really well. However, when she comes home from work or also has to go back after the weekend you can tell she just hates it and makes her miserable. If i suggest that she doesn't really like it, she gets all pissed and defensive. For instance she was telling me about this super secret project of them creating a new brand and about how branding is NOT marketing and all this buzzword language type crap, and I was like "huh?, that sounds like Orwellian Doublespeak to me!" And and she got all irritated and annoyed so I dropped it.
Luckily our relationship is strong and she doesn't seem to hold it against me; that much. I withhold a lot of my pessimism from her, but I drew the line on this movie. I do not think I could stand to watch it!
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Movie: "The Road to Happyness"
by max_power29 » Fri 06 Apr 2007, 03:30:09
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Re: The Road to Happyness Movie
by mgibbons19 » Fri 06 Apr 2007, 08:34:07
Hmm. You are letting a hypothesis and a message board influence your life to the point where it is now affecting your marriage relationship.
You really ok with that?
Even further, you are ready to condemn a movie you haven't seen, but which your wife wants to.
Time to log off man.
You really ok with that?
Even further, you are ready to condemn a movie you haven't seen, but which your wife wants to.
Time to log off man.
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Re: The Road to Happyness Movie
by max_power29 » Mon 09 Apr 2007, 02:46:50
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mgibbons19', 'H')mm. You are letting a hypothesis and a message board influence your life to the point where it is now affecting your marriage relationship.
Not at all. I was just venting on this site and wondered if anyone has my same opinions about the movie. She sometimes won't watch movies I want to watch. Its not about our marriage. we can still be allowed to have some different tastes in movies even though we are married.
Like I said, I hold back a lot of pessimism. Our relationship balnces out well.
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Re: The Road to Happyness Movie
by max_power29 » Mon 09 Apr 2007, 02:58:33
I agree with you Purcatty; and what you have presrcibed is what I've been basically doing. I just couldn't stand to watch this one movie. My wife and I are actually in a very good upward spiral of being good to each other.
Has anyone seen this movie? Just the preview itself pisses me off.
Has anyone seen this movie? Just the preview itself pisses me off.
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Re: The Road to Happyness Movie
by Newsseeker » Mon 16 Apr 2007, 11:06:37
Jerry Maguire might also fall into this category.
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Re: The Road to Happyness Movie
by hubbertspeak7777777 » Wed 18 Apr 2007, 06:11:18
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('max_power29', 'T')his movie looks to me (by watching the preview) corporate propaganda/more American Dream lies. I refused to watch it with my wife.
She says I am against all things positive and uplifting. I'm sorry if I don't believe corporatism=happiness anymore.
First of all, getting and keeping a "good job" in the U.S. seems to me like winnning the lottery now (not something everyone can attain if they just work hard and play by the rules like society tells us) and second of all, being a member of the corpoarate rate race is not my idea of happiness anymore. I have changed and can't help it.
My wife and I don't seem eye to eye on this type of subject anymore. She has a "decent" job with a company that treats her really well. However, when she comes home from work or also has to go back after the weekend you can tell she just hates it and makes her miserable. If i suggest that she doesn't really like it, she gets all pissed and defensive. For instance she was telling me about this super secret project of them creating a new brand and about how branding is NOT marketing and all this buzzword language type crap, and I was like "huh?, that sounds like Orwellian Doublespeak to me!" And and she got all irritated and annoyed so I dropped it.
Luckily our relationship is strong and she doesn't seem to hold it against me; that much. I withhold a lot of my pessimism from her, but I drew the line on this movie. I do not think I could stand to watch it!
She says I am against all things positive and uplifting. I'm sorry if I don't believe corporatism=happiness anymore.
First of all, getting and keeping a "good job" in the U.S. seems to me like winnning the lottery now (not something everyone can attain if they just work hard and play by the rules like society tells us) and second of all, being a member of the corpoarate rate race is not my idea of happiness anymore. I have changed and can't help it.
My wife and I don't seem eye to eye on this type of subject anymore. She has a "decent" job with a company that treats her really well. However, when she comes home from work or also has to go back after the weekend you can tell she just hates it and makes her miserable. If i suggest that she doesn't really like it, she gets all pissed and defensive. For instance she was telling me about this super secret project of them creating a new brand and about how branding is NOT marketing and all this buzzword language type crap, and I was like "huh?, that sounds like Orwellian Doublespeak to me!" And and she got all irritated and annoyed so I dropped it.
Luckily our relationship is strong and she doesn't seem to hold it against me; that much. I withhold a lot of my pessimism from her, but I drew the line on this movie. I do not think I could stand to watch it!
I agree with ya, Max... that movie looks like typical mushy hall-mark card bullshit. I refuse to watch a movie with that corporate whore Will Smith.
Also, I can identify with you on how relatives just can't stand "pessimism." I'm the family "pessimist", just because i'm realistic. Any time I talk about things going wrong or how things aren't going to be the best case scenario, they look at me like I'm some kind of negative asshole.
I hear people on this site bitch about "cornucopians" and optomists. Ha! They ought to meet my family. My dad thinks he's actually gonna win the lotto jackpot every drawing, and when he doesn't, he just says "next time I'm gonna win for sure." And he never learns. He never planned a retirement cause he's convinced he's gonna win the big jackpot. I tell him the odds of winning are about 1 in 100 million, and then he tells me that I'm a pessimist for saying that. If being realistic is considered "pessimism" these days, then I'm one of the biggest pessimists you'll meet and I'm damn proud of it.
My mom is a compulsive collector of self-help books, yet she's never read more than 30 pages of one. I keep telling her they're a scam and the only reason the authors are successful is because they sell millions of those crappy books, not because they "work hard with a smile" like they preach in their inane books.
Most of my family doubts peak oil and think that ethanol, wind, and hydrogen are "solutions." Anytime that I point out the flaws of those "solutions", they say that I'm being negative and I'm depressed. Morons.
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Re: The Road to Happyness Movie
by max_power29 » Wed 18 Apr 2007, 06:16:54
hubbertspeak7777777-Finally someone who gets my original post. I thought there would be more people like us on this site.
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Re: The Road to Happyness Movie
by Frankieboy » Wed 18 Apr 2007, 06:26:31
I dont know anything about this movie in particular, but I have noticed that my thinking about life and relationships is sometimes influenced by Hollywood movies. I prefer to watch movies that are more reall
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Re: The Road to Happyness Movie
by max_power29 » Wed 18 Apr 2007, 06:33:31
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Frankieboy', 'I') dont know anything about this movie in particular, but I have noticed that my thinking about life and relationships is sometimes influenced by Hollywood movies. I prefer to watch movies that are more reall
I just watched blood diamond Excellent movie! Very realistic. they didn't hold anything back. VIVA DOOMER PORN!
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Re: The Road to Happyness Movie
by hubbertspeak7777777 » Wed 18 Apr 2007, 15:51:14
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('max_power29', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Frankieboy', 'I') dont know anything about this movie in particular, but I have noticed that my thinking about life and relationships is sometimes influenced by Hollywood movies. I prefer to watch movies that are more reall
I just watched blood diamond Excellent movie! Very realistic. they didn't hold anything back. VIVA DOOMER PORN!
I'll have to check that out.
I refuse to watch mushy movies like chick flicks and "inspirational" films no matter what. The only good part about those kinds of movies is laughing at stupid women and the (gay) men cry at the ending. They cry at the end of a FUCKING MOVIE! Millions of REAL people die every year and they don't bat an eye, but they cry when that bitch dies at the end of that crappy "Tears of Endearment" movie or whatever the hell it's called. Wait until the peak happens, then they'll really have something to cry about. They will no longer have time to shed tears for fictional characters.
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