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14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Red State' Review: Ke... · 1 reply · +1 points

Smith just hasn't been the same since the failure of JAY AND SILENT BOB GO CANADIAN, EH?...

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - It Is Still Safe to Cr... · 0 replies · +2 points

She's a terrible actress (so bad that even Kevin Smith, no stranger to getting horrible performances from alleged professionals, had to cut nearly all of her "work" from the release-cut of "Jersey Girl"). About her singing ("singing"?), who can tell? With all the processing and auto-tuning in the dance-pop genre, it's impossible to know if she's actually any good.

The only thing there's no question of is the talent in her backside... where her head seems to be...

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Rand Was Wrong, Hollyw... · 1 reply · +2 points

"But a VERY faithfull Objectivist universe will buy this dvd in droves when it becomes available..."

This.

Hardcore Randians (heck, even your typical Objectivist-leaning libertarians) aren't exactly known for being all that social. Getting the bulk of them to attend a movie screening -- with the general public, at that! -- was probably a non-starter. But getting them to buy a copy they can own and touch and frame and venerate, getting them to put copies on their varied and sundry techie devices (that only they can watch, individually)? Oh, yeah. That's a winner. I fully expect the film to be a huge hit on whatever digital platforms will have it, while it'll do well enough on disc -- but not =insanely= well -- to get the other two films greenlit (how else can that big box of Atlas hit stores for the holiday 2013 season?).

(Not being snarky about the "own and venerate" bit. As a semi-Objectivist-leaner myself, with plenty of Rand ephemera piled up, I understand the impulse -- and, having friends who've gone completely Randroid, I've seen the impulse acted upon. It's real. Kinda freaky, but real.)

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Pete Townshend At 66: ... · 1 reply · +2 points

My copy of FACE DANCES has Entwistle's great "The Quiet One", chart success (and great live number) "Another Tricky Day", along with the rather ubiquitous (but undeniably deserving as such) "You Better You Bet". IT'S HARD features the title tune, the underrated (in the US, anyway; in the UK, it's considered among the most indispensable of the bands tracks and generally appears on greatest-hits collections) "Athena", and the VH1 favorite "Eminence Front".

That's not bad, three important tracks from each album in what was supposedly their decline phase. I'll grant that the post-IT'S HARD comeback album ENDLESS WIRE isn't all that memorable, but it's still quite good.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - IMF Chief Thinks Socia... · 0 replies · +2 points

There's too much truth in Gutfled's gut to survive in FNC prime-time. You either have to be a bland centrist/populist suck-up (BO'R, GVS) or a shameless and mindless partisan hack (Hannity). Nobody wants to sit through an incarnation of RED EYE that's been Hannitized for the Establishment's protection.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Cannes Expels Director... · 0 replies · +1 points

Dude's responsible for that steaming pile of anti-human leftist cant, DOGVILLE. Nobody should have to live with the smear of Nazism on his record but, if someone has to, von Trier deserves to be at the head of the line.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Patricia Heaton Has Lo... · 1 reply · +4 points

The B2Y thing was very odd. It was paired with Brad Garrett's "’Til Death" before the WGA strike. Despite actually improving over the lead-in and veteran Garrett show's ratings, B2Y was cancelled and "’Til Death" renewed. Garrett, of course, has become an outspoken and vulgar anti-conservative (his crude rants aren't coherent enough even to be called "liberal") since ELR's demise, while Heaton and Grammer were... well... Heaton and Grammer. But it was pretty much impossible to find the MSM article that addressed the subject in even a tangential fashion.

(It's been difficult to watch Garrett's dissolution into attack stooge for the Hollywood left. Been a fan since I was in grade school and he was a voice-impersonator stand-up. The guy's got chops, Just no cojones...)

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Good News: Superman Lo... · 0 replies · +1 points

"All these Robins who aren't Dick Grayson (all ... two of them?) get mixed up in my head. "

Four. (Five, if you count the radically different pre- and post-Crisis Jason Todds.) Jason, Tim, Stephanie (for, like, five seconds, but she counts) and now Damian (Bruce's son and Ra's al-Ghul's grandson).

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Good News: Superman Lo... · 0 replies · +1 points

It can take less than that. Even with a slow artist, the turnaround from final script to printed material on shelves can be under three months. Case in point: the current highly-hyped FLASHPOINT's final script hasn't yet been turned in (as of 12 May, anyway), but is scheduled to be in stores in August. Even accounting for the fact that it's drawn by a Kubert not named Joe.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Fast Five' Opens Ever... · 1 reply · +3 points

BLUES BROTHERS' two main chase scenes =combined= are great but, for a single sequence, it's hard to top the one in the second half of DEATH PROOF.

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