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Oy! I am offline for a holiday and I come back and find I need to say:
1) Alex and I agree on something! Dreamgirls was worth the price of admission solely for that 5-minute song. I think my socks were literally blown off. I thought some performances were good-- and that there was a deliciously unironic casting for Deena/Beyonce Knowles, since I personally feel that her voice IS the flatter, less-interesting one.
2) Steve and I agree on something! And it's about an Oscar contender! I don't believe I've spoken much about Babel here yet, but I thought it to be a horrible waste of celluloid. I simply can't stomach movies where I find nothing redeemable about any of the characters (see also: Last Kiss, The. Or rather, don't.) And other than thinking it to be an overblown, mis-marketed (why imply that the story is about cross-cultural language barriers if it's nothing of the sort?) and exploitative mess. Hey, I'm all about characters discovering themselves through sexuality, even when it's confused sexuality, but when you get to the fifth or sixth close-up of an underage character's vulva it becomes gratuitous and ooky.
Finally saw Borat, by the way, and was horrified by the small-minded people I like to pretend don't exist. And I laughed more than I wanted to.
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