Monday, January 23, 2006
Comedic freaking genius
I've been working on a post about our San Francisco adventures, but that's gonna have to wait for a bit, because I am on a mission.
My mission is to tell y'all to get your butts down to the video store and watch R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-12. You must do this right away. We've tried renting it several times from our local video store, but it's always out. We've had it on our Netflix queue for a long time... it's never available. So I finally just bought it, because I was dying of curiosity.
It was totally worth $15.99.
Mark, Victor, and I watched it Friday night, and we nearly cried from laughing so hard. The story itself is ridiculous, the filmmaking atrociously bad, and the narration hilarious. We then decided to watch the infamous commentary, which was fantastic. Remember, the entire song is narrated, and then it's acted out in the video. No question as to what is going on. In the commentary, R. Kelly decides to explain it again, just in case you didn't get it. It's as if he thinks his audience is a bunch of 9 year olds (insert joke here). He's sitting in an armchair watching the video on a screen, and he turns back toward the camera as if the viewer is sitting behind him. The best part is that he's clearly watching it raptly, and he laughs at it in some points and acts surprised by it in others. And he calles everything that happens a "cliffhanger." Mark, Victor, and I spent the rest of the weekend calling everything that was happening to us cliffhangers.
So yes, get thee to a video store, and rent, borrow, buy, or steal this mofo. Or borrow mine. But you can't keep it too long, because this is something I'm going to have to watch again and again and again.
I've been working on a post about our San Francisco adventures, but that's gonna have to wait for a bit, because I am on a mission.
My mission is to tell y'all to get your butts down to the video store and watch R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-12. You must do this right away. We've tried renting it several times from our local video store, but it's always out. We've had it on our Netflix queue for a long time... it's never available. So I finally just bought it, because I was dying of curiosity.
It was totally worth $15.99.
Mark, Victor, and I watched it Friday night, and we nearly cried from laughing so hard. The story itself is ridiculous, the filmmaking atrociously bad, and the narration hilarious. We then decided to watch the infamous commentary, which was fantastic. Remember, the entire song is narrated, and then it's acted out in the video. No question as to what is going on. In the commentary, R. Kelly decides to explain it again, just in case you didn't get it. It's as if he thinks his audience is a bunch of 9 year olds (insert joke here). He's sitting in an armchair watching the video on a screen, and he turns back toward the camera as if the viewer is sitting behind him. The best part is that he's clearly watching it raptly, and he laughs at it in some points and acts surprised by it in others. And he calles everything that happens a "cliffhanger." Mark, Victor, and I spent the rest of the weekend calling everything that was happening to us cliffhangers.
So yes, get thee to a video store, and rent, borrow, buy, or steal this mofo. Or borrow mine. But you can't keep it too long, because this is something I'm going to have to watch again and again and again.
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