Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

My favorite part of the red carpet arrivals is watching the Hollywood "has-beens" in the background with the "Someone please interview me" look on thier face. Even worse is when they get brushed aside for someone who's more popular. Its the cynic in me, I guess...

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

Oh, I enjoy looking at fashion. (See prior Tina Fey comment.) But I don't generally like the snarky interaction on the Red Carpet-- I'd rather look at the attire while they're onstage and nobody is asking who they're wearing (or grabbing their breasts.)

Exactly. I never watch the red carpet, and love to groove on fashion at the actual awards. LS and I should obviously watch the Globes together sometime.

As for watching the Globes at all, they used to be sooooo much better than the Oscars ... and now I just watch out of habbit. Before they became so mainstream, the actors all got liquored up and the acceptance speeches were awesome. Sasha Baron Cohen gave an inkling last night of how ribald half-a-dozen speeches would have been in the Globes heyday.

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by Prudence

I have nothing to add except that I found this while searching youtube for Hugh Laurie's acceptance speech.

Lol! Great clip, Prudence!

[Gemini Cricket]

'Children of Men' = Wow.
I loved this film.'
It's gritty, it's powerful, it's just wonderful.

Word of advice: If you get motion sickness, I'd sit in the back of the theatre if I were you. A lot of this film is hand-held. I had to move back a bit...

Clive Owen. I love him so much.

The direction and the sound of this film is great.


See it.

[innerSpaceman]

Was it released at the end of '06 or not until '07? I thought it was the earlier, and I was shocked it got no Globes nominations. Maybe it was ineligible. Clearly one of the best movies of the year, whichever year it was released.


My pick of the week: The Illusionist with Edward Norton as a 19th Century magician / wizard. A romantic gem. It's on DVD. Rent it.

[Gemini Cricket]

'COM' is listed as being released in 2006 per imdb.com. (Released on Dec 25, 2006 per boxofficemojo.com.)
Maybe it will get some Oscar noms?
Don't know.

I was thinking last night about how bleak the future is in this film. In fact, it was bleak in 'V for Vendetta' as well. But I guess there's no story if the future is just fine and dandy... but I guess it's fine in 'Meet the Robinsons'.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

My pick of the week: The Illusionist with Edward Norton as a 19th Century magician / wizard. A romantic gem. It's on DVD. Rent it.

I think there was some discussion of it here when it was theaters but I didn't like it at all. Mostly I found it extremely boring since the "surprise" of the movie was telegraphed from just about the beginning of the movie. Some movies with "surprises" are good regardless of whether they're blown but this is not one of them. Plus there was zero chemistry between Norton and Biel and Rufus Sewell is lame as is his standard.

The Prestige is vastly superior. I recommend renting that when it is on DVD and ignoring this one.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

I saw "THE THIRD MAN" last night on DVD for the first time. A film I'd really rather have seen on the big screen. The photography was so wonderful and a small(er) screen doesn' tcut it. The music was very swanky and there was a small piece on the subject on the DVD. It was an obscure instrument that gained huge popularity overnight because of the film and it's theme. Orson was wonderful with what he had. I think the intro by Peter Bogdonovich said it best is Orson's part was a "Star part,' where they talk about him thru the whole film and we just get to see h im at the end. In retrospect it wasn't a great piece of acting by Orson, but the set up is what made it great.

9 bornieo's out of 10!

[Alex]

As I said before, I laughed a lot at Borat and simultaneously felt bad about it (and even worse when I found out that some of the sections I assumed were staged weren't).

This bit in the New Yorker well captures many of the things about Borat responsible for my ambiguousness on it.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

As I said before, I laughed a lot at Borat and simultaneously felt bad about it (and even worse when I found out that some of the sections I assumed were staged weren't).

This bit in the New Yorker well captures many of the things about Borat responsible for my ambiguousness on it.

I would love to know exactly what was and wasn't staged and in what ways.

For example, seeing as they weren't arrested, I have to believe that the naked wrestling scene in the convention hall was staged. At the very least, they had things arranged with the hotel, and the attendees were aware that there would be something filming, but were kept in the dark/told something else about the nature.

I get the feeling that's the case for a lot of what we saw. People were told they were going to be filming and doing X, so they were prepared for some sort of filming process, but then Borat comes in and does something completely different than they were told.