Is it a poll, a quiz, or a personality test? Whatever you want to call it [ummm, perhaps a time-suck?], according to the strangely themed "Summer Cinema Caucus" party affiliation quiz at movies.com, the cinetrix is an art-house addict. Quelle surprise, non?
The Art-House Addict simply loves subtitles and low budgets and avoids the mall multiplex like the plague. Going against the grain is the name of the game for the Art-House Addict, an independent thinker whose taste runs more to The Seventh Seal than The Sixth Sense.
So independent a thinker that there's a huge list of movies that appeal just to me! Whatever.
Take the quiz for yourself to sort out which of the trillion summer releases you're most likely to Fandango. Or use it to build consensus across affiliations by choosing flicks that appear on both your own and your friends' lists.
Here's a sample question:
Foreign films are for:
Smart people, like me
Watching after the Oscar noms come out
Impressing dates by pretending to like them
Uh, foreigners?
Actually, this question got me to thinking about Freedom fries, so the cinetrix took the quiz again and answered the questions as she imagined W. might. My populist, lowest-common-denominator embrace of crap was so confounding the quiz asked me one additional question:
Which of the following is most up your alley?
Armageddon
Psycho
The Lion King
Duh. After clicking Armageddon, the cinetrix-as-W. [shudder] landed squarely in the Blockbuster Buff category:
Astronomical budgets, big-name stars, and lots of computer-generated special effects — this is the trifecta for Blockbuster Buffs. Favoring explosions and eye candy over dialogue and plot, these escapists live for summer movie season and care not what those snobby critics think.
Sounds about right.
