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Post by jdredd on Dec 27, 2010 0:37:19 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Jul 11, 2011 14:25:55 GMT -5
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/7/allen-finds-new-inspiration-relevance-in-paris/"Look out X-Men, karate-chopping pandas and the gang from “The Hangover.” A neurotic auteur has you in his bespectacled sights. Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” beat those summer blockbusters last weekend to up its box office tally to more than $34 million domestically. Building on the momentum generated by a string of small successes shot in an array of sumptuous European settings, the once-marginalized 75-year-old filmmaker now finds himself an industry player again. n finding artistic and commercial renewal across the pond, Mr. Allen often has flattered European vanities by ogling the sights of their storied capitals with his camera. Unfortunately, in “Midnight,” he also has pandered to European stereotypes of the Ugly American." "Yet, in paying tribute to the artistic and historical glories of Paris, Mr. Allen gratuitously sneers at his own country. Mr. Wilson’s character is engaged to a shallow, materialistic American played by Rachel McAdams, a shrew whose parents are even more distasteful to Mr. Allen. They belong to the tea party, for crying out loud." Aw, this movie is lightweight fun...unlike the sleazy seriousness of "The Social Network" or the brain dead action of "Sucker Punch". And the Tea Partyers have set themselves up for ridicule, like all crusaders do. Look how enviro-wackos are made fun of.
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Post by EscapeHatch on Jul 11, 2011 14:44:30 GMT -5
Woody who?
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Post by jdredd on Jul 11, 2011 15:05:52 GMT -5
Yeah, yeah, that's about as funny as when somebody brings up some sports guy and I say "Derek who?"...
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Post by EscapeHatch on Jul 11, 2011 16:05:15 GMT -5
Yeah, yeah, that's about as funny as when somebody brings up some sports guy and I say "Derek who?"... OK, ok. Derek who? Edit: My first reply was not about your post. It was about Woody Allen. I never really got into his movies. I can appreciate his successes, however. Likewise I can appreciate that Michael Moore made a lot of money, but, I never gave him any.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 11, 2011 17:21:24 GMT -5
Yeah, yeah, that's about as funny as when somebody brings up some sports guy and I say "Derek who?"... OK, ok. Derek who? Edit: My first reply was not about your post. It was about Woody Allen. I never really got into his movies. I can appreciate his successes, however. Likewise I can appreciate that Michael Moore made a lot of money, but, I never gave him any. How about "LeBron who?"? But you can be forgiven for not being a Woody Allen fan, he's an acquired taste, like Michael Moore. Heck, some people think Dennis Miller is funny, even after he went over to the Dark Side.
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Post by EscapeHatch on Jul 11, 2011 18:35:19 GMT -5
... Heck, some people think Dennis Miller is funny, even after he went over to the Dark Side. Ahem! Miller is an American icon!
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Post by Tired in CV on Jul 11, 2011 23:54:57 GMT -5
You know, the guy who molested his girlfriends adopted daughter during her teen years while he was acting as a "father figure" then married her after leaving his girlfriend (Mia Farrow)!
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Post by jdredd on Jul 15, 2011 13:43:38 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/articles/271459/harry-potter-and-adult-costume-party-laura-ingraham"The movie-theater lobby was jammed with wizards and witches. As I walked in, I thought for a moment that a private costume party was under way. Though I had a ticket to an entirely different film, I had unwittingly wandered into the opening night of a new Harry Potter movie. Why do some people feel it necessary to dress as the characters in the movie to enjoy it?" I guess she's never been to Comic-con. Did she never dress up for Halloween? I love seeing people in costume anywhere anytime, most people dress so damn boring. I especially love seeing Goths, they are so cool IMO.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 21, 2011 12:53:55 GMT -5
One more piece of right-wing mythology busted, that Hollywood hates the military: www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-military-movies-20110821,0,6622720.story "Over the decades, the relationship between Hollywood and the military has served the needs of both sides: Filmmakers gain access to equipment, locations, personnel and information that lend their productions authenticity, while the armed forces get some measure of control over how they're depicted." " Hollywood feature films have served as the most significant medium to argue for the military," said Lawrence H. Suid, author of "Guts & Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film." "Americans love violence, and war movies provide all that violence without the danger."
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Post by jdredd on Jan 4, 2013 18:19:54 GMT -5
A movie that I hear is in the running for "Best Picture" at the Oscars is "Zero Dark Thirty", ' the alleged story of the killing of Osama Bin Laden. I haven't seen it, nor do I intend to. Frankly, the whole "War on Terrorism" bores me to tears. I applauded OBL's killing like most Americans, but I would have done the same for the King of Saudi Arabia being killed, and even Benjamin Netanyahu for that matter. But I wouldn't go see a movie about them either.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 20, 2013 17:19:39 GMT -5
Another subject that came up on "The Five" today was how "The Great Race", a CBS "reality" show, made a pit stop at a memorial to a shot-down B-52 in Hanoi. Of course, they were all outraged, including the token "liberal", who seemed to be outraged the most. Of course, he's on Murdoch's payroll like the rest of them, so I have no idea if it was sincere.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 19, 2014 14:25:55 GMT -5
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/18/wesley-pruden-the-interview-in-north-korea-and-the/"The bigger story in Hollywood is not the caving to the last surviving communists and what it says about principle, conviction and the state of courage in the U.S.A., but the story of what it means for the embattled and bedraggled suits at Sony and, by implication, the other studios. Is this the end of the line for Amy Pascal, the chief at Sony who presided over the making of the movie? “The Interview” came in at $44 million, not a lot for a blockbuster, and Sony figured to make a lot of money on it. But she should have known the North Koreans, who are not famous for self-deprecating humor, would get all hinky about it. Hollywood moguls are not expected to know much about the real world, and all they have to know is what’s in a script." Of course, I have not seen the movie, but is that what passes for funny in America? A head of state's head exploding? It just sounds major league stupid. Of course, I thought "Animal House" was stupid when it was released but now it's considered a comedy classic. But this is not even close to being the first time studio suits have given in to intimidation. Sixty years ago they created the Blacklist, a cowardly act if there ever was one.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 23, 2014 14:57:51 GMT -5
money.cnn.com/2014/12/23/media/screening-the-interview/index.html?hpt=hp_t1"As the president made clear, we're a country that believes in free speech and the right of artistic expression," the spokesman added. In light of concerns about security at theaters, an FBI official said "we are fully engaged with Sony on the decision" to release the movie. Sony may also make "The Interview" available through a video-on-demand service, but no companies have publicly agreed to help Sony do that. "We are continuing our efforts to secure more platforms and more theaters so that this movie reaches the largest possible audience," Lynton said. A few minutes after the studio chief's statement, Rogen tweeted: "The people have spoken! Freedom has prevailed! Sony didn't give up! The Interview will be shown at theaters willing to play it on Xmas day!" On Instagram, co-star James Franco called it a "victory" and said "the people and the president have spoken." In the battle between North Korea and corporate America, I guess this is a victory for "freedom".
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Post by jdredd on Jan 20, 2015 16:44:22 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/article/396718/return-war-hero-rich-lowry"American Sniper had the largest opening ever on Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, or any weekend in January. It is producing the kind of numbers — a projected $105 million weekend — usually reserved for mindless comic-book superhero movies. It has played especially well in Middle America, with its top-grossing theaters in places like San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Houston, and Albuquerque. All of this is profoundly disquieting to the Left, which has so much sway in Hollywood. It hates and distrusts the idea of the war hero, believing it smacks of backwardness and jingoism. Its notion of compelling war movies were the tendentiously anti-war flops Green Zone, Stop-Loss, and In the Valley of Elah. Its reaction to American Sniper has been to belittle the movie and smear Chris Kyle." The right continues to go hog wild over the success of "American Sniper". But do they also have to insult superhero movies to boot? But that's fine with me, because as I walk among thousands of young superhero fans at Comic-con this July, I'll know that the snarky right has called them "mindless", and even "mindless" people might take offense and vote Democratic. And we shouldn't forget that Clint Eastwood (a totally "Hollywood" guy) was being insulted by the right just a few years ago for being too sympathetic to the Japanese Army in his "Letters From Iwo Jima".
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