Thirded! or something. I just happened to watch Law Abiding Citizen tonight and it was perhaps the worst film I've seen in recent memory. The script is garbage town and while Gerard Butler is awful in it, don't forget to include Jamie Foxx in our derision. Dude's character skips his daughter's music recital to watch a man's execution.
I saw this last night. A fiasco. An SNL sketch about Boston. A tonal mess and a Total mess. I was not laughing with this movie I was laughing at it because it was a fucking joke.
This Salon piece is the last word on Handler. Also, that Couric clip is AMAZING.
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/feature/2010/03/29/chelsea_handler_rules_all
Handler's style tends towards painfully obvious celebrity commentary with strange tourettes-like name dropping. There is a Youtube clip of her stand up where she says "Britney Spears" in the middle of a sentence that doesn't make much sense. E used to run a promo for her show that was just a montage of Handler saying various celebrity names. Hey, people love famous peoples. They're pretty.
Why are we all overlooking Adam's knowing laugh at name "Kristen Stewart"? He worked with her on IN THE LAND OF WOMEN, he knows more than he is letting on.
I agree with Ass Dan(and his great avatar!). I've always found Smith's movies to be pretty funny, if badly filmed and acted at times. I have to say, if this is the reaction Chasing Amy gets from Gabe, I can only imagine the fireball of anger and bitterness that would erupt were he to ever watch Mallrats.
I nominate Bad Boys 2 for the next round for many reasons:
1)Dead body car chase
2)Will Smith threatening to rape a teenage boy
3)Smith high-fiving Martin Lawrence after threatening to rape a teenage boy
4)What happens right before Will Smith exclaims "That is how you shoot!"
I can appreciate that we all think Hugh Laurie is a funny and talented actor, but House is a garbage show. Using this same logic, should 2012 be nominated for best picture because we all loved Lloyd Dobbler twenty years ago?
It's a hollow victory to read about a film and joke to your friends, "I bet it looks like Gladiator 2" and then it actually does. If only Ridley Scott wasn't so predictable. What was his last good movie, Matchstick Men?
Gabe, you make some great points. HOWEVER, I would like to mention that Roger Donaldson has also directed the fine films The World's Fastest Indian and The Bank Job, not to mention the classic genre piece Species. I understand your need to cherry pick his spotty track record(The Recruit is great for getting to sleep. On account of the boredom) but credit where credit is due. Unlike a lot of other directors, Donaldson appears to be getting better, learning, if you will.
I've found John Mayer a victim of his own personal song subject, himself. When he was just a normal guy on his first album opining on nostalgia, high school expectations and lost youth, I found him pleasant and empathetic. Now that he's a rich douche, that seems to cover all his song topics. Oh well.
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