Not to derail the greatest action film of all time™, but I just watched Juno. Cute film, funny at times, but I just can't get behind the writing. People just don't talk like that, or maybe they do, they just don't anywhere I've ever been. Also, I can't think of any other movie where I actively disliked the soundtrack. I groaned every time the lyrics began for each song. Awful.
I just watched Juno. Cute film, funny at times, but I just can't get behind the writing. People just don't talk like that, or maybe they do, they just don't anywhere I've ever been.
Juno's humor is very Canadian in sensibility, such that a lot of non-Canadians just don't get the humor. Also, I speak like that.
Also, I can't think of any other movie where I actively disliked the soundtrack. I groaned every time the lyrics began for each song. Awful.
Watched Feast last night. It was a terrible, terrible horror/comedy, but it was so fun to watch. Unless you're squeamish, the sheer amount of red corn syrup in it is astounding.
For the first time ever, I watched Gone with the Wind today. What a movie...what a movie. Why aren't movies made like that anymore? I echo Scott's comment he made when watching Seven Samurai. It was something to the effect of "It was a long movie, but I was not bored at all as I was continually interested throughout the entirety of the film."
For the first time ever, I watched Gone with the Wind today. What a movie...what a movie. Why aren't movies made like that anymore? I echo Scott's comment he made when watching Seven Samurai. It was something to the effect of "It was a long movie, but I was not bored at all as I was continually interested throughout the entirety of the film."
For the first time ever, I watched Gone with the Wind today. What a movie...what a movie. Why aren't movies made like that anymore? I echo Scott's comment he made when watching Seven Samurai. It was something to the effect of "It was a long movie, but I was not bored at all as I was continually interested throughout the entirety of the film."
Gone with the Wind is boring.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
I'm sorry that I only like good music. You know... songs where the singers actually... you know... sing.
For the first time ever, I watched Gone with the Wind today. What a movie...what a movie. Why aren't movies made like that anymore? I echo Scott's comment he made when watching Seven Samurai. It was something to the effect of "It was a long movie, but I was not bored at all as I was continually interested throughout the entirety of the film."
Get Low is really good. About an old recluse who, while no one in town really knows, rumors abound about. Everyone knows him as a creepy, cranky, hermit. Then, he shows up with a giant wad of money at a local funeral home and says he wants to throw his own funeral party before he dies.
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I've enjoyed the later-day performances of Bill Murray more than his early work, including Ghostbusters. He's become much more nuanced as the years pass.
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I've enjoyed the later-day performances of Bill Murray more than his early work,including Ghostbusters. He's become much more nuanced as the years pass.
Well, everyone needs to grow. I do like the more recent stuff Bill Murray has been doing. Lost in Translation and The Life Aquatic were both fantastic films. Funny too.
Are they better than his older stuff?
This I am unsure, but I can easily see an argument for it.
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I've enjoyed the later-day performances of Bill Murray more than his early work,including Ghostbusters. He's become much more nuanced as the years pass.
Well, everyone needs to grow. I do like the more recent stuff Bill Murray has been doing. Lost in Translation and The Life Aquatic were both fantastic films. Funny too.
Are they better than his older stuff?
This I am unsure, but I can easily see an argument for it.
Its not a matter of what is better, its all a matter of preference. I cannot deny that Bill Murray's comedy is funny, but I much prefer the more serious roles he took on later in his career like Groundhog Day and Lost in Translation.
Its not a matter of what is better, its all a matter of preference. I cannot deny that Bill Murray's comedy is funny, but I much prefer the more serious roles he took on later in his career like Groundhog Day and Lost in Translation.
I feel the same about Robin Williams; his dramatic work is amazing and my personal preference compared to his comedy, but, I think that his dramatic work wouldn't be as good if it were not informed by his earlier career.
For these Hollywood survivors, huge success is somewhat of a curse. Bill Murray and Robin Williams have so permeated culture that they are now viewed as cliches. They faced a choice: Change and become dramatic actors or remain comedians and actually become parodies of themselves. Murray has weathered this challenge far better than Williams in my opinion, though the later has some amazing performances under his belt.
The problem remains, though. The rate at which culture adopts and then burns out on any new idea or style has been accelerating for decades. Imagine if it had been moving at the same pace when Bogart was alive. Or Elvis, had he lived long enough (his tide was already turning).
Look what's happening now. Pop icons blaze out in two or three years. Michael Cera is a prime example (range has something to do with that as well). I can see Shia LeBoeuaiueeauf heading that direction. Neo's star burned bright for a couple of years before the public turned on him. There's a long parade of 20-somethings who were supposed to be The Next Big Thing and made critical splashes only to be reviled by viewers a couple of years down the road. Does this progression mean in a couple of years actors will be one-and-done?
Let's put it to the test: What actor from the current crop do you think will withstand the test of time? Who will remain the critical darling/box office drawn over the next half-century? Whose career will stand with Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, or George Clooney?
Let's put it to the test: What actor from the current crop do you think will withstand the test of time? Who will remain the critical darling/box office drawn over the next half-century? Whose career will stand with Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, or George Clooney?
It would seem with the way things are going that never again will any artist in any medium gain such widespread popularity and greatness as was had by the likes of Elvis, the Beatles, etc.
The problem is that there is much too much competition. Pop culture is far less homogenous. The head has shrunken and the long tail has bulked quite a bit. In the olden days if you were a fan of Metal, it was Metallica and friends. Yes, there were small bands back then as well, but without the Internet it was hard to find them and hear their music. Now it's easy to be a fan of niche things, and it isn't necessary to be a fan of big things.
Call of Doody still sells a ton of copies, but it is still possible to invest all your fpsing into Natural Selection and ignore it entirely. In the olden days it was Quake or nothing.
It's still possible to become really popular, but the levels reached in previous decades are now unattainable, and becoming more so with each passing minute.
Exactly. That's why shows like M*A*S*H and Cheers could count on 40 or 50 million viewers per week in the 1980s, and a great share now is 6 or 7 million. Granted, there can still be behemoths like American Idol with 25 million viewers per episode.
Let's put it to the test: What actor from the current crop do you think will withstand the test of time? Who will remain the critical darling/box office drawn over the next half-century? Whose career will stand with Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, or George Clooney?
This would have been hard to answer even in the time when they were starting out. For Pitt, even when he was opposite Cruise in Interview it would have been iffy to peg him for life long success. How many leading actors never made it from the early 90's to now? I'm going to guess that out of the ones drawing in audiences maybe 2 or 3 will last another 10 years.
Shia Lebouf has a good shot at it. I can't think of many others that have a better shot.
Murray has weathered this challenge far better than Williams in my opinion, though the later has some amazing performances under his belt.
I'll agree, but williams needs to either stop doing comedy now, or shred about 4/5ths of his current materiel, take a shitload of cocaine, and actually write some fucking jokes.
I have never been more disappointed in a comic in my life - other than myself, of course - than Robin Williams doing the old "The lawyers named Dewy, Cheatum/fuckem and howe" joke. For Fifteen minutes.
Let's get this straight. The Dukes of Hazzard movie, with Knoxville and Sean William Scott is fucking terrible. But I love it so fucking bad. Big, high-performance muscle car as the third headlining star, corny and often terrible jokes, and lots and lots of flashy precision driving to rock songs, this movie was damn near made for me.
Also, the slam transition right on a beat from ZZ top's La Grange to AC/DC's If you want blood during the big car chase is one of the best music transitions I've ever heard in a film.
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I've enjoyed the later-day performances of Bill Murray more than his early work, including Ghostbusters. He's become much more nuanced as the years pass.
Are they better than his older stuff?
This I am unsure, but I can easily see an argument for it.
The problem remains, though. The rate at which culture adopts and then burns out on any new idea or style has been accelerating for decades. Imagine if it had been moving at the same pace when Bogart was alive. Or Elvis, had he lived long enough (his tide was already turning).
Look what's happening now. Pop icons blaze out in two or three years. Michael Cera is a prime example (range has something to do with that as well). I can see Shia LeBoeuaiueeauf heading that direction. Neo's star burned bright for a couple of years before the public turned on him. There's a long parade of 20-somethings who were supposed to be The Next Big Thing and made critical splashes only to be reviled by viewers a couple of years down the road. Does this progression mean in a couple of years actors will be one-and-done?
Let's put it to the test: What actor from the current crop do you think will withstand the test of time? Who will remain the critical darling/box office drawn over the next half-century? Whose career will stand with Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, or George Clooney?
The problem is that there is much too much competition. Pop culture is far less homogenous. The head has shrunken and the long tail has bulked quite a bit. In the olden days if you were a fan of Metal, it was Metallica and friends. Yes, there were small bands back then as well, but without the Internet it was hard to find them and hear their music. Now it's easy to be a fan of niche things, and it isn't necessary to be a fan of big things.
Call of Doody still sells a ton of copies, but it is still possible to invest all your fpsing into Natural Selection and ignore it entirely. In the olden days it was Quake or nothing.
It's still possible to become really popular, but the levels reached in previous decades are now unattainable, and becoming more so with each passing minute.
I have never been more disappointed in a comic in my life - other than myself, of course - than Robin Williams doing the old "The lawyers named Dewy, Cheatum/fuckem and howe" joke. For Fifteen minutes.
Also, the slam transition right on a beat from ZZ top's La Grange to AC/DC's If you want blood during the big car chase is one of the best music transitions I've ever heard in a film.