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14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - L.A. Elementary School... · 0 replies · +1 points

The whole "Read Across America" thing is just an insidious corporatist "educational" masquerade:
http://childmurderingrobot.blogspot.com/2011/11/o...

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Scream': A Look Back ... · 1 reply · +4 points

For fans of horror films in general, "Scream" in particular, the horror blog Thrill Fiction has a post on the movie that inspired "Scream", "Popcorn":
http://thrillfiction2009.blogspot.com/2011/04/bef...

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - What Shoulda’ Won 19... · 0 replies · -1 points

The Grifters
Metropolitan
Darkman
Goodfellas
Exorcist III

In that order.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - What Shoulda' Won Best... · 0 replies · +3 points

Angel Heart
The Untouchables
RoboCop
Full Metal Jacket
Evil Dead 2

Close call, since those are all great movies that have aged very well, but RoboCop probably should have won.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - What Shoulda' Won 1984... · 2 replies · +3 points

Best picture nominees should have been:
This is Spinal Tap
The Terminator
Purple Rain
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Ghostbusters

Co-winners: Spinal Tap and Terminator.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - What Shoulda' Won Best... · 2 replies · +9 points

"First Blood" is the greatest film ever made about America's involvement in the Vietnam War. Should have won best picture. Second choice: "My Favorite Year," which is much funnier than ET, Tootsie, or Gandhi.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Susan Sarandon: 'The N... · 2 replies · -3 points

She was joking. The quote was taken out of context.
http://childmurderingrobot.blogspot.com/2010/09/l...

Come on, you can do better.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Hollywood's Broke: The... · 0 replies · +1 points

DirecTV does have the right idea, but this is exactly the wrong show. "Damages" has a fantastic cast and an interesting structure, but the execution has been weak, especially in the second and third seasons. The scripts have let everyone down, and by the last episode of the third season, there was a real sense that everyone had just given up. The way the loose ends were tied up was just lazy, especially with the resolution of Tom Shayes' and Marilyn Tobin's fates.

It was all sound and fury, signifying nothing.

I do appreciate that 101 is running episodes of "The Wire", and I hope that DirecTV will try this "Damages" experiment with more shows, but, in fairness, "Damages" had its chance (too many chances, actually) and it just didn't catch on. I toughed it out because I WANTED to like it, not because I actually did. And I don't plan on watching the new episodes on DirecTV.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - America Loves Stallone... · 0 replies · +4 points

It's interesting that Stallone would commit authorial trespass on his films in this way, particularly his "Rambo" films, which I agree are four of the most interesting "war" movies of the last thirty years. In particular the first two, which are stinging indictments of the American government's treatment of its war veterans, and as such far more effective than more critically lauded films like "The Deer Hunter" and "Platoon." "Rambo: First Blood Part 2" predated John Kerry's and John McCain's shameful treatment of Vietnam war widows with their Senate POW/MIA hearings by a couple of years. The Rambo films are about how politicians let the citizens down. "Green Zone" and "Avatar" are nowhere nearly as good as any of the "Rambo" films, yet they're basically the same idea.

Not sure how much the "political climate" has changed. Kerry and McCain are still in the senate, after all.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Wonder Woman Reboot: S... · 0 replies · +2 points

Thanks! I wouldn't be the worst secretary of state.

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