Eh, I'll take the Little Rascals over the Mickey Mouse Club any day. I mean, come on, we live in a time and place where douchey, self-satisfied, fratty, good-looking Justin Timberlake earned endless acclaim for playing a douchey, self-satisfied, fratty, good-looking techno-entrepreneur in a movie.
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Damn, what a time the 70s must've been for film. Your primary actors were Nicholson, Pacino, Deniro, Duvall, Hackman, etc. These days I want to puke every time I come across a gushing review for Ryan Gosling's "acting." From "lumpen, intense, inquisitive" actors to Mickey Mouse Club graduates. My god….
Yeah, I find it funny when people say the pacing sucks or it's "too slow." Um… that's called telling a story. Learning he's a superhero would be THE turning point in a person's life. It would be THE important story to tell. It's not something to be glossed over in a half-an-hour.
It gets no love, because it's rarely shown and it's hard to find. But it's just as unsettling as Bierce's short story, I think.
Anyone remember the SNL skit that spoofed "Eye of the Beholder" by making everyone think the patient was beautiful. Classic. I must've been like 8 or 9 when I saw that. The past keeps pulling me back….
They do have the worst marketing of any of the major networks, at least when it comes to their dramas. They have that guy with the stupid deep voice and they try to make everything sound weighty and serious while hinting at some kind of redemption. It's fucking stupid and makes me not want to watch any of their shows.…
Gotta admit, I got a soft spot for them, as well…..
I guess I just don't know what people expect. Most people are mediocre—I would argue through minimum fault of their own (genetics, mediocre parents/teachers/role models/etc.)—so most people are going to enjoy mediocre shit. No matter how much bitching and moaning is done by people like Will Leitch and Scott Tobias,…
That's a great point. Certainly, all the elements for great movies were there, but Lucas apparently just filmed the first draft of his scripts or something. Or maybe, as the first trilogy showed us, George needs a lot of help to draw those stronger elements out.
I find the talking head in the following video to be annoying beyond a level I can adequately capture in words. With that said, I'm so in love with his version of the prequels, that I've spent several sleepless nights wondering how to re-tell the Luke/Leia/Han Star Wars story in a new genre (samurai is the obvious…
Yeah, this might have been the best list ever. It didn't have the greatest movies per se, but I don't think a single entry was disappointing. Not once did I make a face and say, "What the fuck? This writer's a moron." Even Monkeybone is pretty entertaining.
In the words of high school me: "He was crying like a little bitch." In the words of that dude from Finding Forester: "It's just a car, man."
Yeah, but the most "real" I saw Timberlake was when he cried at the grammys after apologize for the whole Janet Jackson thing. Such a rebel, that one….
Guy Ritchie. The Way of the Gun.
Same here. I'm sure she's a great person and all, but her tastes and my tastes just do not match up at all.
Exactly. Or compare with The Matrix. Django is Neo, Schultz is Morpheus, the big shootout scene is like when Neo and Trinity storm the federal building, slavery is "The Matrix", Steven is Agent Smith… Although there isn't much of an equivalent for Candie.
Ah, Fresh. The AV club should do a "Watch this" article on that movie—at the very least.
At first I thought this was a different movie, because Safe, starring Jason Statham, while not a great film by any means, is hardly damned. It's actually a better-than-average genre piece that I actually thought was directed with some unexpected flair and competence.
Very true. Good point.