December 2010
11 posts
I wonder what percentage of sales of Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist in the South are from naive Christian fundamentalists.
Things I almost tweeted about James L. Brooks' new...
How do we know that James L. Brooks’ new film How Do You Know is not just an overlong series of rhetorical questions?
Today Crest announced it will temporarily rename its Whitestripes line of teeth whitening products to How Do You Know-strips.
The chief reason James L. Brooks’ new film How Do You Know went overbudget was so that they could use CGI to add minority actors in...
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The thing I don't understand about The Terminator
Why would Sarah Connor care about her future son John Connor sending Kyle Reese back in time to impregnate her when he has already done that? Is time not linear in The Terminator mythology? Do I need to watch Terminator 2 to understand this? Should I be admitting I just saw The Terminator for the first time tonight?
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“I saw the writing on the wall when we were told to cut back using FedEx and...”
– Who Destroyed Epic Records? - The Hollywood Reporter
There is some historical precedent here: I believe Gorbachev’s decision to end the Soviet Union’s free water bottle service presaged that government’s fall.
Some observations from moviewatching in 2010
I Love You, Phillip Morris and A Prophet shared the roughly same amount of unnecessary prison cliches, but the latter was apparently more artful because it was overlong and in French (and tonally consistent).
The Social Network is not a condemnation of Mark Zuckerberg—it’s a portrayal of what Mad Max would be like if he had Asperger’s; Eisenberg is even a greater badass than he was...
Isn’t the American Country Awards sort of a redundant name for an awards ceremony? I mean, the Canadian Country Awards would just be a Shania Twain circle jerk.
I don’t know what it says about Michael Bay when his banal new Victoria’s Secret commercial is better and more lucid than his last two or three films.