Thursday, February 03, 2005
Remembering Why Joan Woodward Is So Lucky
From Pejmaneque´s "A LITTLE YOUNG, AREN'T WE?":
Bryan:
Yes, he was good in "Catch Me If You Can". Maybe this is the Academy's way of saying that he should retire now before he ruins a good run.
Alessandra:
Was there something to act in "Catch Me if You Can?"
I just remembered Paul Newman in "Long, Hot Summer," jesus, what a difference than this little boy.
If the Oscars weren´t already so nauseatingly about marketing, now everything else has to be the same farse.
D.J.:
Props for the "Growing Pains" shout out. For final proof that Leo can't act, try to suffer through Gangs of New York. He seemed utterly oblivious to the fact that the film was one big campy joke. Watch him wrinkle his brow and pretend to brood while Daniel Day Lewis chews on the walls. It's a striking contrast: one grown-up actor who knows how to have a good time, and another pretentious prick without a hint of humor in him. And that's the final rap on this Leo guy: No sense of humor, and a whole lot of sense of Leo. He sucks.
EssEm:
Why people find this girlyboy
talented or attractive is beyond
this old dog.
I´m going to copy this here, even though it´s only tangentially related to the above, but I liked it.
Comment from Proverbial Wife:
Lewis and Taylor are saying something important. The greatest real influence is made by excellence. May I achieve this, and not for my sake.
Sunday at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Hollywood movie star Leonardo DiCaprio was given the Platinum Award for lifetime achievement.
Since when do lifetime acting awards go to actors in their 30's? And since when do they go to actors who cannot act?
Bryan:
Yes, he was good in "Catch Me If You Can". Maybe this is the Academy's way of saying that he should retire now before he ruins a good run.
Alessandra:
Was there something to act in "Catch Me if You Can?"
I just remembered Paul Newman in "Long, Hot Summer," jesus, what a difference than this little boy.
If the Oscars weren´t already so nauseatingly about marketing, now everything else has to be the same farse.
D.J.:
Props for the "Growing Pains" shout out. For final proof that Leo can't act, try to suffer through Gangs of New York. He seemed utterly oblivious to the fact that the film was one big campy joke. Watch him wrinkle his brow and pretend to brood while Daniel Day Lewis chews on the walls. It's a striking contrast: one grown-up actor who knows how to have a good time, and another pretentious prick without a hint of humor in him. And that's the final rap on this Leo guy: No sense of humor, and a whole lot of sense of Leo. He sucks.
EssEm:
Why people find this girlyboy
talented or attractive is beyond
this old dog.
I´m going to copy this here, even though it´s only tangentially related to the above, but I liked it.
What makes for a good, Christian movie? In brief, a good, Christian movie is one that is well-crafted and true. A film that does not strive for artistic and aesthetic excellence cannot be a good film. It will be a shoddy or uneven film, making whatever story or message is being told almost impossible to digest, no matter how biblically sound it is. Likewise, a film that does not bear allusive witness to the truth cannot be a good film. This phrase "allusive witness" is intentional, for we are not suggesting the evangelistic film. We're suggesting rather the film that witnesses allusively, obliquely, to the splendor of goodness, the shabbiness of sin, [...], the yearning for the divine, the playfulness of creation—all things true—"What Is a Good Christian Movie, Anyway?" (Part 1) by David O. Taylor, posted 07/13/04
Comment from Proverbial Wife:
Lewis and Taylor are saying something important. The greatest real influence is made by excellence. May I achieve this, and not for my sake.
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