There are so many things that are irritating about the nominee list for this year’s Academy Awards: that Nine earned even one award, that Harry Potter earned only one (and it wasn’t even best movie of ever. Ridiculous, right?), that Matt Damon was nominated for a really bland part, that FUCKING THE BLIND SIDE is nominated for Best Picture…
You know that I could rattle off the list and deliver a ten minute rant about each category. YOU KNOW I COULD. But in the interest of remaining calm instead of attacking my computer at work, I will direct you here for the full list of nominees, and remain focused on the positive.
Now, I know what you’re thinking: why would anyone ever speak so harshly to dear, dear baby goose?
The answer is that Ryan Gosling was one of the first names that came up when I googled “members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences”. And I have an ultimatum to deliver.
Ryan Gosling, if the egregious error of naming Avatar Best Picture at the Golden Globes is repeated at the Oscars, you will look like that picture up there. I will personally attend to that.
The week between Christmas and New Years I was alone in my apartment and bored. So very bored. So one morning I decided to break in my shiny new AMC gift card and go see Avatar in 3D. I thought the trailer looked really stupid, but word-of-mouth and the fact that I don’t have 3D technology in my home compelled my to go the the theater by myself (sad face) and spend nine of the dollars (weekday matinees!) I could have spent on Me and Orson Welles.
I’ll start with the good news, because I found out about it first.
During Mad Men on Sunday, one of the commercials was a trailer for Up In the Air, directed by Jason Reitman. Reitman has also directed Juno (which, despite its horrendously twee dialogue, is a really good movie) and Thank You For Smoking, and from the looks of the trailer (and all of great reviews it’s been getting from everyone), this is more of the same. I would see it for those aerial shots alone, but the movie also has a great cast. George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Jason Bateman, J.K. Simmons, and… wait, who is that there at the 2:10 mark in the trailer?
If you can guess fifteen of the 800 reasons that this is better than Twilight, you’ll win a prize. These. They’ll come in handy as an example when writing your senior thesis: “How Extinction Could Benefit the Human Race.”
An example of a reason would be something like… Unlike the actual move, this is intentionally absurd.
This weekend offers some very promising picks. And if none of those appeal to you, there is a very special rerelease of an old favorite to check out. Hopefully you have better luck deciding which movie you want to see than I did trying to find a picture of Martin Starr in The Invention of Lying. The list of this weekend’s opening movies, plus today’s WTF news, after the jump. Keep reading →
I will let a sentence from this Variety article communicate the horror on its own:
It amounts to a teaming between the exec producers of “Twilight” and one of the leading lights of youth-geared reality shows.
I believe you are all familiar with my opinion of Twilight (see here if you need a refresher), so the fact that the producers of that are at it again is discouraging enough, without the added poison of anything having to do with reality television. But the particular reality show that they have chosen to run with makes it EVEN WORSE. Keep reading →
On my walk to class this morning, I walked past a movie theater, and whose smiling face was looking at my from the window? Corbin “Chad” Bleu, erstwhile star of the High School Musical series. It is because of the wonderful cheese of these movies that I feel for Corbin Bleu, and wish him only the best. Unfortunately, Corbin was looking out at me from the poster for his latest movie Free Style. And it does not look good. Even the poster indicates that this movie will be included in the $5.00 DVD sales at Target in about two months (although, given the fact that I bought Milo and Otis, only the best movie of all time, at Target for $5.00, that might not be so bad). I mean, just look at it. Keep reading →
Why has it been so long since I’ve updated? If I told you, I would have to kill you. Oh, alright, I’ll tell you the real reason: I just wanted you all to read that entry about Judd Apatow and Funny People, so I left it as the top post for two months. A calculated risk, which clearly failed, as Funny People didn’t do so hot at the box office. Idiots.
I have chosen a particularly bad time to resuscitate the ol’ blog, as I’m typing this out at work, with only twenty minutes left on the clock, and I have no intention of working on it later on. I just wanted to post something to let everyone know that I will be back to blogging normally VERY soon. Maybe even tomorrow… if you’re lucky.
Now, just so that there’s something movie-related in this post, I leave you with 2 things.
1) the dictum that you see The Informant this weekend, and support my other husband, Joel McHale. Polyandry, ftw.
2) this trailer for Did You Hear About the Morgans?, only for you to feel the pain I experienced watching it in the theater. If every joke falls flat in a three minute trailer, can you imagine how excruciating it is to watch the whole thing? Ouch.
We are now back to regular programming here at For Your Consideration. I do apologize for the hiatus. I went through an exceptionally lazy period, but some of Bravo’s evening programming has thrown me back into the blogging game. I hope that you find this to be good news. And I ask you to pardon my last post, as I wrote it while at the point of tiredness when coherency is simply unachievable.
My very first entry on this blog ended with some TV spots for Funny People, Judd Apatow’s third go as writer/director of a feature. The movie comes out this Friday, and given that a lot of the marketing for the film has hyped the fact that Apatow himself (or Judd muffin, as I like to call him) controlled a lot of the creative aspects of the film, he has been doing a lot of promotional work. Part of this promo tour was his stop on Inside the Actor’s Studio tonight. And, let me tell you, it was glorious. Keep reading →
