"Intermission" wishes you a Happy St. Patrick's Day with the 5 Best Drinking Movies of All Time: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/7276-Another-Round
Escape to the Movies: "Green Zone"
"Intermission" wishes you a Happy St. Patrick's Day with the 5 Best Drinking Movies of All Time: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/7276-Another-Round
funniest trailer spoof ever?
Okay, fine. "Big Hollywood" gets a pass for today, for pointing me in the direction of THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFicqklGuB0&feature=player_embedded
"CATCHPHRASE!!!!" I'm sorry, that's effing brilliant. Brilliant enough to forgive it for all the "me too" weak copies of this we're innevitably going to get.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFicqklGuB0&feature=player_embedded
"CATCHPHRASE!!!!" I'm sorry, that's effing brilliant. Brilliant enough to forgive it for all the "me too" weak copies of this we're innevitably going to get.
Oscars
So, for me the theme of the show this year was: "Very nice people giving terrific speeches in acceptance of awards they oughtn't have won."
Sandra Bullock seems like a lovely person, GREAT speech, obviously heartfelt... but "The Blindside" is a piece of shit and she's pretty bad in it.
No way did "Hurt Locker" - a serviceable but utterly pedestrian war-is-hell script - deserve a Best Original Screenplay win over "Inglorious Basterds." Yes, fine, hooray for low-budget indies and all that, but give me a break. Like I said, another great speech... but if anyone remembers "Locker" a year from now - which is a dicey prospect, at best - it's exclusively because Kathryn Bigelow is a peerless director of action sequences. Speaking of which...
It's unfortunate that the whole thing had to be between "Avatar" and "Locker" for Picture - utterly-shallow big-budget actioner versus equally-shallow low-budget actioner- and it's right and just that Kathryn Bigelow has freed herself from directorial limbo at last... but c'mon. "Avatar," at least, had the minimum novelty of being revolutionary and a pop-cultural "event," but there's no way "Locker" even belonged on the nominee list in the same year "Watchmen" and "Moon" got shut-out.
This is another Pulp/Gump/Shawshank year: People will bitch back and forth about "Avatar" and "Hurt Locker" for the next two years, and then by 2012 "Locker" will be in the $5 bin, "Avatar" will be the perenial big-box-store LCD "demo blu-ray" and people will be shaking their heads wondering why "Inglorious Basterds" - which by then will have been running in near-permanent rotation on the cables - was overlooked.
Whatever. Good on the "Hurt Locker" people for sincerely thanking the troops, if nothing else. On Monday morning, offers every un-attached action franchise on the planet will be piled up in Kathryn Bigelow's office. Show of hands on everyone who was surprised to be reminded that there has NEVER been a black Best Director winner. Taylor Lautner looks like a middle schooler in his older brother's tuxedo. The star of "Soul Plane" and the director of "Point Break" both have Oscars.
Oh, and if you're wondering: Yes, the Fisher Stevens accepting the Best Documentary award for producing "The Cove" IS Fisher Stevens the actor you might remember from "Hackers," "Super Mario Bros.," "My Science Project" and the "Short Circuit" movies.
Sandra Bullock seems like a lovely person, GREAT speech, obviously heartfelt... but "The Blindside" is a piece of shit and she's pretty bad in it.
No way did "Hurt Locker" - a serviceable but utterly pedestrian war-is-hell script - deserve a Best Original Screenplay win over "Inglorious Basterds." Yes, fine, hooray for low-budget indies and all that, but give me a break. Like I said, another great speech... but if anyone remembers "Locker" a year from now - which is a dicey prospect, at best - it's exclusively because Kathryn Bigelow is a peerless director of action sequences. Speaking of which...
It's unfortunate that the whole thing had to be between "Avatar" and "Locker" for Picture - utterly-shallow big-budget actioner versus equally-shallow low-budget actioner- and it's right and just that Kathryn Bigelow has freed herself from directorial limbo at last... but c'mon. "Avatar," at least, had the minimum novelty of being revolutionary and a pop-cultural "event," but there's no way "Locker" even belonged on the nominee list in the same year "Watchmen" and "Moon" got shut-out.
This is another Pulp/Gump/Shawshank year: People will bitch back and forth about "Avatar" and "Hurt Locker" for the next two years, and then by 2012 "Locker" will be in the $5 bin, "Avatar" will be the perenial big-box-store LCD "demo blu-ray" and people will be shaking their heads wondering why "Inglorious Basterds" - which by then will have been running in near-permanent rotation on the cables - was overlooked.
Whatever. Good on the "Hurt Locker" people for sincerely thanking the troops, if nothing else. On Monday morning, offers every un-attached action franchise on the planet will be piled up in Kathryn Bigelow's office. Show of hands on everyone who was surprised to be reminded that there has NEVER been a black Best Director winner. Taylor Lautner looks like a middle schooler in his older brother's tuxedo. The star of "Soul Plane" and the director of "Point Break" both have Oscars.
Oh, and if you're wondering: Yes, the Fisher Stevens accepting the Best Documentary award for producing "The Cove" IS Fisher Stevens the actor you might remember from "Hackers," "Super Mario Bros.," "My Science Project" and the "Short Circuit" movies.
Escape to the Movies: "Alice in Wonderland"
And in "celebration" of what's easily Tim Burton's crappiest movie since "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory," this week's Intermission has the four lowest-rung movies in Burton's filmography: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/7250-Burtons-Busts
Crazy Lady Reviews "Avatar"
I don't know that many people are aware of "Not Evil, Just Wrong" a fringe anti-environmentalism documentary thats become kind of a hot item on the so-called "Tea Party" circuit. As you might guess from the title and political bent, it's a conspiracy piece arguing that environmental-protection (like DDT bans or cap-and-trade) lead to increased mortality in poverty-class regions. There's a larger than you'd like to believe subset of humanity out there that believes such policies is all part of an orchestrated campaign to deliberately lower the human population - think of them as the global-warming denial crowd's version of 9/11 "Truthers."
Anyway, since "GOP Pretends To Take The Teabaggers Seriously" was the theme of this year's CPAC, Ann McElhinney - one of the producers - was invited to give a speech and did so in the form of reviewing "Avatar." If it wins Best Picture, we've got about a DECADE of this stuff to look forward to laughing at, so you might as well get a jump start:
I'm sure I've got readers who agree with some of this tripe, but even so... for the love of God, there are two wars on and major history-altering bills under consideration in Washington, and this woman is at what's supposed to be a serious strategic-gathering for one of the two "sides" in all this railing against a blue cat-alien movie.
My favorite part is when she appologizes to the crowd for not being an American... and people wonder why I can't call myself a Libertarian anymore ;(
Anyway, since "GOP Pretends To Take The Teabaggers Seriously" was the theme of this year's CPAC, Ann McElhinney - one of the producers - was invited to give a speech and did so in the form of reviewing "Avatar." If it wins Best Picture, we've got about a DECADE of this stuff to look forward to laughing at, so you might as well get a jump start:
I'm sure I've got readers who agree with some of this tripe, but even so... for the love of God, there are two wars on and major history-altering bills under consideration in Washington, and this woman is at what's supposed to be a serious strategic-gathering for one of the two "sides" in all this railing against a blue cat-alien movie.
My favorite part is when she appologizes to the crowd for not being an American... and people wonder why I can't call myself a Libertarian anymore ;(
Tonight Show
To those who say that Jay Leno traffics in bland, pandering, safe, tired comedy; you should know that as of two minutes ago Mr. Leno marked his return to the Tonight Show - after one of the most tumultuous and material-ripe back and forths in TV history - with a parody of the "...and you were there!" bit from The Wizard of Oz.
So... um... there? ;)
So... um... there? ;)
