Bigger. Louder. Faster. These adjectives are the most deceptive in all of advertising, because they are almost as meaningless with context as without. The idea behind a “reboot” is to personify those three tantalizing words. In the case of the re-imagining of Star Trek, you’re being sold a brand name and nothing else. This new […]
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Re-boot to the Head
Friday, May 8th, 2009
Tags: Adam Lippe, Alias, Alien, Anton Yelchin, Babylon 5, Blade II, brand loyalty, Bruce Greenwood, Captain Kirk, CGI, Charlie Bartlett, Cliché, cocky, Eric Bana, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, formula, future, George Lucas, Hank Azaria, Huff, IMAX, J.J Abrams, John Cho, Karl Urban, Leonard Nimoy, Lost, Madea, Mission Impossible III, movie review, Muppet Babies, nerd, nerds, Paget Brewster, Patton Oswalt, Paul Verhoeven, PG-13, quicksand, reboot, RegrettableSincerity.com, sequel, series, Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg, Star Trek, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, The Muppets, time travel, Tom Cruise, TV, TV adaptation, Tyler Perry, Uhura, vagina, Vulcan, William Shatner, Winona Ryder, Yakov Smirnov
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A very long interview with Outrage director Kirby Dick. It’s long. Take a lunch break so you can finish it.
Friday, May 8th, 2009
Along with allowing us to see his documentary Outrage, about outing closeted gay politicians who vote against their own interests (I’ve reviewed the movie here), director Kirby Dick was kind enough to go on a press tour. There were 4 reporters in the room, 3 if you don’t count me. Since I was not able […]
Tags: Adam Lippe, ads, Amy Ziering, beard, Bowling For Columbine, California, Chain Camera, Charlie Crist, Cruising, defense of marriage, Democrat, Derrida, Documentary, Ed Koch, Election, Errol Morris, Fahrenheit 9/11, Florida, Frederick Wiseman, gay, George W. Bush, Guy, homophobia, Hope Davis, I Am Not a Freak, Iowa, journailism, journalist, Krby Dick, Larry Craig, lesbian, Mark Foley, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Michael Moore, Michelangelo Signorile, movie review, Orson Welles, Outrage, politics, Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate, producer, Proposition 8, RegrettableSincerity.com, Republican, Robert Redford, Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan Supermasochist, Sicko, studio interference, Supreme Court, the closet, The Dark Wind, The Thin Blue Line, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Tribeca Film Festival, TV-movie, Twist of Faith, verite, Vincent D'onofrio, voyeurism, Washington D.C., William Friedkin
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Re-boot to the Head
Friday, May 8th, 2009
Tags: Adam Lippe, Alias, Alien, Anton Yelchin, Babylon 5, Blade II, brand loyalty, Bruce Greenwood, Captain Kirk, CGI, Charlie Bartlett, Cliché, cocky, Eric Bana, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, formula, future, George Lucas, Hank Azaria, Huff, IMAX, J.J Abrams, John Cho, Karl Urban, Leonard Nimoy, Lost, Madea, Mission Impossible III, movie review, Muppet Babies, nerd, nerds, Paget Brewster, Patton Oswalt, Paul Verhoeven, PG-13, quicksand, reboot, RegrettableSincerity.com, sequel, series, Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg, Star Trek, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, The Muppets, time travel, Tom Cruise, TV, TV adaptation, Tyler Perry, Uhura, vagina, Vulcan, William Shatner, Winona Ryder, Yakov Smirnov
Posted in Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi | 1 Comment »
A very long interview with Outrage director Kirby Dick. It’s long. Take a lunch break so you can finish it.
Friday, May 8th, 2009
Along with allowing us to see his documentary Outrage, about outing closeted gay politicians who vote against their own interests (I’ve reviewed the movie here), director Kirby Dick was kind enough to go on a press tour. There were 4 reporters in the room, 3 if you don’t count me. Since I was not able […]
Along with allowing us to see his documentary Outrage, about outing closeted gay politicians who vote against their own interests (I’ve reviewed the movie here), director Kirby Dick was kind enough to go on a press tour. There were 4 reporters in the room, 3 if you don’t count me. Since I was not able […]
Tags: Adam Lippe, ads, Amy Ziering, beard, Bowling For Columbine, California, Chain Camera, Charlie Crist, Cruising, defense of marriage, Democrat, Derrida, Documentary, Ed Koch, Election, Errol Morris, Fahrenheit 9/11, Florida, Frederick Wiseman, gay, George W. Bush, Guy, homophobia, Hope Davis, I Am Not a Freak, Iowa, journailism, journalist, Krby Dick, Larry Craig, lesbian, Mark Foley, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Michael Moore, Michelangelo Signorile, movie review, Orson Welles, Outrage, politics, Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate, producer, Proposition 8, RegrettableSincerity.com, Republican, Robert Redford, Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan Supermasochist, Sicko, studio interference, Supreme Court, the closet, The Dark Wind, The Thin Blue Line, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Tribeca Film Festival, TV-movie, Twist of Faith, verite, Vincent D'onofrio, voyeurism, Washington D.C., William Friedkin
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On Cold Fish:
Though the 16 year old me described the 1994 weepie Angie, starring Geena Davis as a Brooklyn mother raising her new baby alone, as “maudlin and melodramatic,” Roger Ebert, during his TV review, referring to the multitude of soap-operaish problems piling up on the titular character, suggested that it was only in Hollywood where Angie would get a happy ending. “If they made this movie in France, Angie would have shot herself.”
Well Cold Fish was made in Japan, where Angie would have shot herself and that would have been the happy ending.