why i'll be seeing Amelia even though i detest biopics

I was reading Go Fug Yourself yesterday, and they were rightly commenting that the new Amelia movie looks like a real snoozer. Of course it's going to be a snoozer. All biopics are snoozers. I hate them. All of them. But I'm going to see Amelia. In fact, when I saw the trailer, I was excited. Not just intellectually excited, but all tingly in my belly excited.

I don't actually want to see the movie because I truly have never met a biopic that I like. I don't even think Mira Nair, a director whose sensibilities I normally quite like, can save the biopic from its lameness. But the thing is I love Amelia Earhart. She and Teddy Roosevelt were my childhood heroes. And when I say I love her, it's partly because of her feats of daring and her independence. But it's also because of her--her height, her style, the sound of her voice, her hair. My love of her is overcoming my distaste for biopics, and if that ain't love, I don't know what is.

So while the GFY girls are complaining about the movie's snooze factor and about the state of Hillary Swank's Amelia hair, I will probably be ordering tickets in advance while wondering, "Maybe I should get that hair cut!"