I refuse to think "staying true to the source material" should ever mean "keeping the character's race intact." Are you saying that if it wasn't Idris Elba but rather like, Tyler Perry, you would object based on sticking to source material? And not based on Tyler Perry sucking? Wait, Tyler Perry is too easy for this question. What if it was Will Smith?
I just like to imagine that these people actually just think Hip Hop DJ is a euphemism for "black guy." Like when I was a kid I thought it was "for all intensive purposes." Like that, but with racism.
I actually did not know what IMO stood for, and I've been meaning to google that shit for literally years and just haven't. And I bet IMHO stands for "In My Humble Opinion" right? Shit. Mind=blown, so sarcasmo.
I'm so with you on being like, viscously indifferent to Scott Pilgrim. I saw it, and I was like "Fine. Yes, that was a movie I watched." I have almost no other response toward it.
I too think that "people in the world are suffering" is kind of a reductive and boring counterargument. BECAUSE WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT ANYTHING? This isn't humansufferinggum, so I feel like if we're going to get upset about Kanye's tweets there are a couple of thousand words (that we have all written) complaining about the Monopoly movie or whatever that we should go back and redact. Like, "people are suffering so we can't complain about x" can be your standard, but you have to apply it across the board.
I first understood GWB's comments to mean this was the point at which he felt the most bad. But seeing the quote in context, it's apparently the part he's MADDEST about. I understand that Kanye can be irritating (though I don't really think he ever means to compare his problems with Matt Lauer and the Nightmare Factory to genuine human suffering) but I don't understand how anyone can come away from this thinking anything other than George W. Bush is far and away the biggest asshole of these three assholes.
If I was a terrorist I would put a bomb in a hollowed out Cinnabon. Plenty of room! Even the crustiest, angriest TSA employee wouldn't fuck with a guy's Cinnabon, because this is still America in a good way sometimes.
I actually think to hear Joaquin pitch it as a reality TV/celebrity culture parody at least makes the whole project seem sort of coherent. I mean, before when I first heard it was fake and all of the celebrities were in on it, I thought, "okay so it's like Borat but EVERYONE knows it is a joke." And the only thing Borat had going for it WAS the fact that some people didn't know it was a joke. So the whole project, for few days, seemed to me like two idiots imitating Borat without understanding the central gambit. But now it is... less like that.
What's weird is, Letterman was in on the first interview anyway. So the boiling-beneath-the-surface rage here is also fake, this is another layer of fake on top of everything else. If there are any more layers of fake anger and failure layered onto this shit we're going to end up in limbo and something something - I can't even write Inception jokes anymore. But you get it.
I find the idea of crying while eating, both the actual act and the website, to be immensely disturbing, and yet this picture, which is obviously not exactly that, makes me so happy. Figure that one out, doc.
I'm going to steal that line for every single fight I'm having on facebook right now with everyone I know (because apparently everyone I know is a jerk. I'm skipping my family reunion next week)
I was going to be like, didn't the MTV Awards just happen? But then my 15 year old inner-self reminded me that those were the MTV Movie Awards that just happened, and these awards are for music videos. Then I was going to gripe about how there are no music videos on MTV anyway, but even my 15 year old inner-self recognized what a tired thing to say that was.
Am I the only person who [spoiler alert?] didn't understand why at the end of the movie Scott's allegiances shifted back and forth from Ramona to Knives and back again and back again? When was Knives ever a viable option? It felt cheap, and ultimately undermined the relationship between Scott and Ramona, like oh, I'm sure they will live happily ever after given that it seems like neither one of them particularly wants to date the other one! But I should defer to the nerds. It's entirely possible that there was something in the book that is missing here.
I literally can't figure out why I didn't like this movie. I liked every piece but not what they added up to. It is a peculiar sensation. Not a good one. But I did dig my bass guitar out of the basement.
I want to give that anchor props for keeping his "desk voice" and "voice over voice" consistent. "I've never seen anything QUITE... like ALvin GREENE."
Sometimes I watch these things and sometimes I just can't. I go back and forth on it (that's what she said) and when I DON'T want to watch these kind of videos I feel like a good person. Today, I clicked on it. I need to re-evaluate my life.
I don't know, I'm okay with opening my jeans and finding Steve Carell & Zach Galifiankis. I mean, it might be hard to explain to a woman, but in the the end I feel like everything would work out.
I think there is a lot of unnecessarily enthusiasm about Comic-Con (like on most of twitter right now) and I think this is a nice corrective to that. Preach it, Gabe! Nothing is immune to criticism. Except Inception.
I liked Shutter Island, but I kind of found myself wishing I hadn't seen it when I was sitting in the theater for Inception, you know? Thematic similarities were slight, but not slight enough.
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