In my fisking of Variety’s pre-advertising for next year’s Oscars, I made this prediciton about Wes Anderson’s film Isle of Dogs: See? There’s already a ghetto for cartoons. “Dogs” will get nominated for this, and then lose to something Italian that gets a limited release in New York for a week. And that was before Wes… Read More Wes Anderson’s Doom: Special Screening of Awaited European Animated Film at Cannes
Bill Corbett of MST3K fame has a tweet that illustrates something I have come to find baffling (Incidentally, the tweet that follows this thread is pretty funny). What’s a movie you’ve never seen that seems to make people ANGRY when they hear you haven’t seen it? If any? Me: The Shawshank Redemption sorry in advance!… Read More Getting Angry About Movies Other People Haven’t Seen
Doing the chattering class a favor. If authors are dead set on publishing these types of pieces, then the least we can do is take a moment and work out the perfect template. This way, the argument gets made, the author gets paid, and audiences can breathe a little easier knowing that they aren’t actually… Read More Film School Rejects Provides Template for Crap Reviews of Old Movies
Which is to say, why I don’t labor at all. I don’t even bother. Here’s what I’ve seen: Iron Man (the first one) The first Avengers movie Captain America (the first one) The first half-hour of Thor (again, the first one) A good part of the first season of Jessica Jones I liked the first two and found them entertaining. The… Read More Why I Labor to Care About the Marvel Universe
A little while ago, I tweeted this: Has anyone considered not giving a shit about the new Ghostbusters movie? — Andrew J. Patrick (@ajpwriter) May 29, 2016 Apparently no one else has considered this. Because apparently this film sits across the cultural divide like the fulcrum on a teeter-totter, and everyone’s pushing it one way… Read More Ghostbusters Ghostbusters Ghostbusters blah blah blah blah blah
You’ll read these for the reason they are making their way ’round the internets: bad reviews are themselves a form of entertainment, and a necessary corrective to the fear that we are drowning in the swill that pop culture produces. It is thus both pleasing and useful to announce to the heavens that The Love Guru… Read More Roger Ebert’s Hilariously Vicious Bad Reviews, and How to Survive Them
Here’s a snarky series of YouTube videos that doesn’t really answer that question: It’s no Mr. Plinkett, but it’ll do. Sort of.
I hope so. At least, the end of SBIG as an intent. B-Movies are crap (to be perfectly blunt, so are most A-Movies. Now get off my lawn). But if they’re done right, B-Movies can transcend the idiocy of their storylines and become at least entertaining. And then there’s Zombeavers: Zombeavers tried to embrace its stupid premise… Read More Zombeavers: The End of “So Bad It’s Good?”
Iowahawk and Lisa DiPasquale echo Ben Howe in making a basic point that we have not yet internalized: So, to paraphrase Ben Howe’s point, if you want to make a good conservative movie, first, make a good movie. The same rule applies to humor: funny first, politics second. When it comes to gauging the impact of… Read More Rule #1 Of Conservative Media: Don’t Suck
I don’t know if there’s any response to that other than laughter. “We needed $5 million. Nobody would do it.” Wait a minute, we said. Let us get this straight: No studio would budget $5 million for a movie with Damon and Douglas? “They said it was too gay. Everybody. This was after ‘Brokeback Mountain,’… Read More Film About Liberace Rejected For Being “Too Gay.”
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