Extremely Loud and Incredibly Dumb

Filed under good times at everyone else's expense, readin' and writin', there's a difference between films and movies, why i'm better than everyone else

Isn’t it funny when you’re so close to something that other people’s lack of knowledge about it seems preposterous?

Like when your co-worker comes up to your desk in the year 2010 and asks, “Have you heard of this band Radiohead?”

Or when you overhear a guy dining at the finest restaurant in the city ask the waiter if the oysters can be left off of their signature dish.

Or when you read a blog post in which a woman goes to see the movie version of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, one of your favourite books of all time, and writes:

I was tearing like a silly woman at some point whereas my hubby was holding up his chin and trying hard to keep himself awake with the pop corn. The story about a boy who lost his father in 911 is sentimental but rather slow moving. I think it’s probably not a movie for men who usually enjoy comedies and action.

Have you ever seen someone so entirely miss the point?

Yes, I have a superiority complex.

9 Comments

  1. Tina says:

    I had a colleague at lunch today ask me if I know Radiohead. When people ask me things like that it makes me wonder if I’m giving off the perception of a sheltered loser living under a rock.

    • katie ett says:

      And you were like, “Have you SEEN my Spotify updates all over Facebook? I like bands that don’t even EXIST yet.”

      (I have that on a t-shirt.)

  2. Megan says:

    haha, i read or heard someone’s review of that movie as well, and this is basically what it was: “it was so depressing i couldn’t stand it.” to which i wanted to scream, “uh, you did know it was about 9/11 before you went, right? not exactly giggles and goddamn sunshine.”

    • katie ett says:

      Seriously. What we need to write is a retelling of 9/11 in which the towers are made of rubber clown noses, and the planes bounce off of them and everyone lives happily ever after. Yay!

  3. But it’s OK to have a superiority complex when you are, indeed, superior.

    That’s what I tell myself, anyway.

    (See what I did there?)

  4. I prefer my oysters served on a bed of leaves from fake plastic trees.
    :)

  5. I actually just finished this book – so good!