I agree with you for the most part. What I thought was interesting about this was that before the movie came out, everyone did seem to "know" it was a hoax or performance art or whatever you want to call it. Then the reviews started coming in, and it seemed like a lot of critics (including Ebert, who is not stupid) honestly didn't know what to think. So that made me wonder if maybe they pulled off something interesting? I don't know what exactly, and I probably won't find out for a long time because I have too many other movies to catch up on. But maybe it's not such a terrible thing that they tried to do something different, even if they failed. And I just think it's weird that everyone's piling on (albeit hilariously) but not a single person seems to have seen it.
It seems like every thread about this movie is basically an orgy of condemnation without investigation. It reminds me of when all those Catholic groups protested The Last Temptation of Christ (but with apathy replacing moral outrage).
Does anyone who's actually seen the movie have an opinion about it?
You know how you used to do Friday Fights with Lindsay? I really liked those. It would be fun if every week you have a Wednesday Fight (but with a better name) with a different guest about...oh I don't know, could be anything really! Maybe debate the shit out of some old movie, like you did with Salo.
But you probably have something else planned.
Okay, that's pretty gross. But let's be fair -- LGG is a lot more likely to be aware of the sexual deviance of a dirtbag quasi-fashion photographer than President Obama.
Is it me, or are these recaps getting more and more perfect? I'm pretty sure Gabe's last Mad Men recap of the season will reach apotheosis and ascend bodily into heaven.
Affleck's defense of the movie is total horseshit (OF COURSE they were trying to trick people), but I haven't seen the movie yet and the more I read about it, the more interesting it sounds (even though the trailer made it look pretty awful, because trailers always seem to make movies look either much better or much worse they they really are).
I like David Edelstein's explanation of why Roger Ebert was taken in by it: "I think Roger is such a big-hearted, pro-AA mensch that his first thought on watching I'm Still Here was, 'We must get him to a meeting!' Has a public figure ever shed so much cynicism over the course of a lifetime? "
http://nymag.com/daily/movies/2010/09/quelle_surprise.html
If you're going to keep making the "children of Darfur" jokes, wouldn't it make more sense to show a picture of children who, I don't know, actually live in Darfur? Here, I found you a pretty good one.
http://www.dosomething.org/files/imagecache/500_either_way/files/project_photos/Darfur_children_sit_under_tree.jpg
Eyes Wide Shut (worst Kubrick movie)
Dr. T and the Women (worst Altman movie)
Deconstructing Harry (worst Woody Allen movie)
All the King's Men (worst remake)
Christmas with the Kranks & Love Actually (tied for worst holiday movie)
The Bucket List (worst dying-person movie)
Sex and the City (obvious)
The picture itself actually bothered me less than your glib (initial) response to our comments. We all have lapses in taste or whatever, but I feel like it's a little passive-aggressive to post something that seems obviously calculated to get a response and then tell us to “relax” when we actually respond to it.
(1) Didn't most people agree with the war at the time only because Bush & Co. manufactured evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaeda?
(2) Backwaxer never said the war WAS genocide, he said the U.S. "started a bunch more wars doing things *like* this," which is demonstrably true.
(3) If we had never invaded Iraq, it's possible that "people" (read: Americans) wouldn't have been any "happier," but a lot more humans would be alive.
jell
–verb (used without object)
1. to congeal; become jellylike in consistency.
2. to become clear, substantial, or definite; crystallize: The plan began to jell once we all met to discuss it.
Origin:
1820–30; back formation from jelly
Don't fuck with Mr. New York Times, huckabeast.
It's like a bad parody of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I have a feeling this isn't Gabe but one of his guest bloggers. Gabe would've known this wasn't working and scrapped it, but he's too nice to spike someone else's work.
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