“Glee” is one of my favorite shows on TV, somewhere below “Breaking Bad” and “Community” but above “The Office” and “How I Met Your Mother.” To many, any credibility I may have gained by sh*tting all over “Entourage” and praising “The Critic” has been lost with that statement—very few things are as loaded as “Glee fan”—but although I’m often times not proud of it, I am a fan of the show (not a Gleek, however).
That being said, Glee: The 3D Concert Movie, which opened this past Friday, looked TERRIBLE — like everything I enjoy about the show had been stripped away, replaced by loud, pointless guitar solos, thousands of screeching pubescent tweens, and an extra dimension for Artie the Wheelchair Kid to white-boy rap. (John Wayne Gacy would have loved it.) So, with a curiosity to scratch, I went to a screening of the movie on a rainy Sunday afternoon, in Times Square, by myself, and sat through the film not once, not twice, but thrice, as a sort of endurance test. [Let's call it punishment for liking the show in the first place. --Ed.] And my hunches weren’t wrong. It only reinforced why I hate “Glee” co-creator Ryan Murphy so much.
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Lick a green butthole, spishspash.
‘“Glee” is one of my favorite shows on TV’
Wow this article was only 9 words long. Short and sweet. I like it.
God, that Rocky Horror episode was the WORSE Glee-sode since…
I mean…FUCK GLEE! /kicks nerdy gay kid in the stomach
Since I hate Glee, Glee’s message (or at least what ever revolving door message Murphy applies to it this week), and Ryan Murphy. Three performances of the Glee movie would’ve made me go homicidal. I would’ve ended up killing 12 people.
So congrats on the self control.
you know whats worse than glee? that Glee project reality show, with the Burguer King Kids Club 2.0 auditioning to be part of the show
I actually didn’t mind Glee, but then as you said, either episodes were 44 minute long blowjobs to shit I couldn’t give a crap about (Rocky Horror/Madonna/Britney) or it become too Mexican soap-opera-ey. “Oh no! I’m in love with my best gay friend but he’s in love with this girl and he thinks he’s the father to the baby of this other girl but it’s really this other guy’s.” I was just waiting for a villain to twirl his mustache.
I just typed way too many words regarding Glee. Goodbye future presidential run.
I just CAN’T be the only one who thought of Steve Winwood when they saw “Valerie”
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“…she was having either a great time or a seizure.”
Do those have to be mutally exclusive?
so why did you watch it 3 times in a row? what was the point of that?
good question, jaroslav. And why would you start blaming the person who made the content after watching it three times?
I never get through an entire episode of Glee. I’m only allowed to make fun of the show three times before my wife makes me leave the room. Matt was able to sit through the movie three times: Respect.
I think this show has some bonafide stars amongst its cast. If you think the movie was a suck off to Ryan Murphy, wait until they come back to the reunion show with all their success and oscars in their giant purses and sing the praises of Murphy and his vision.
I mean Josh, respect to Josh.
Josh, it is not possible for me to lose any respect for you. Not mathematically possible unless we include negative integers.
If you’re male and over the age of 20, I’m pretty sure going to the Glee movie gets you on a sex predator list.
Also, statements like ‘I’m a fan of the show, but not a Gleek’ is akin to saying ‘I like young boys, but I’m not a pedophile.’
@Taco, As to “And why would you start blaming the person who made the content after watching it three times?”: this piece was originally pitched as something akin to the scene in Clockwork Orange where what’s-his-face is forced to watch one awful scene after another, and how he slowly begins to go a little crazy. I wanted to see if that would happen to me, and yup, it did. Then came the diatribe against Murphy.
Again, I think most people miss the point of Glee: all the singing and dancing and bright colors are just the fantasies of the students–it’s them trying to escape from their going-nowhere lives. That’s the show Ian and Brad write, for the most part; the one that Murphy pens is the one that pisses everyone off.
I totally love eating feces! I know I shouldn’t, but I do. And although I know you hate eating feces, I wanna tell you all about this time I ate a whole bunch of it.
+1 guitarjustin.
huh?
@Schmoove: Guilty as charged. I didn’t even know someone other than Mr. Winwood sang a song by that name.
The show is depressing you say? Well, now I’m on board–oh, no, wait, I still can’t give a damn. If Lesbian Cheerleaders didn’t get me on board, nothing will. It’s a lost cause.
what a great experiment. lets find out if watching a shitty movie 3 times in a row makes for a shitty experience. someone alert the academic journals, we have breaking new findings to publish.
next you can apply your rigorous scientific method to deduce whether if water is wet. i eagerly await your findings.
Uh… 20-year-old the guy in the back row was probably gay? And went to the movie by himself because he’s in the closet? And wouldn’t be spanking it to a Britney Spears cover?
“Again, I think most people miss the point of Glee”
No, no we don’t. You just don’t like getting peed on for liking it.
“Ryan Murphy has good ideas; it’s just that after he comes up with them, he feels he has to make them bigger, and therefore, more ridiculous”
This is why I despite Ryan Murphy. He comes up with good ideas, and then strangles them in the same way one would strangle a hooker….almost to death, but keeping just enough life in them that you keep coming back to do it, even though she’s no longer fun anymore.
He did the same thing with Nip/Tuck. Awesome start, by season 3 it was the most ridiculously outlandish piece of shit on TV.
I`ve only watch about a couple of episodes of Glee and i have to say that i wish someone would go to that school and shoot everyone in that club, with the exceptation of the hot chicks.
He can’t be a Michael Stipe look-alike when he’s already a somewhat more fay Malkovich.
My girlfriend, one of the few Glee Project viewers, recently saw an ad for this; “Ew” was all she said. I didn’t ask for elaboration.
Three times? Wow, you either deserve a medal or are into some serious S & M. (mostly the M)
‘I’m a fan of the show, but not a Gleek’ is akin to saying ‘I like young boys, but I’m not a pedophile.’
I totally love eating feces! I know I shouldn’t, but I do. And although I know you hate eating feces, I wanna tell you all about this time I ate a whole bunch of it.
Nuff said
Second from the left in the banner pic; he HAD to sit through it….