Heh heh, "globes"
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thehefnerOkay, I'm actually kind of surprised by how seriously people seem to be taking the Golden Globes this year. When did "Oscars Jr." suddenly become a real event of any importance? (I mean, one could well argue that the Oscars themselves are meaningless, as I would... that said, I'd freak if I won). Seriously, between my peeps here at school and dicechan and 2sick2pray, people seem to have been watching this award show with fingers crossed, ready to burst out in tears when their favorites lose.
Now, for one thing, who here has seen "Lost in Translation"? It's being hailed by critics as a masterpiece for all time, one of the greatest love stories ever, completely touching, brilliant, beautiful, and worthy to fall into the ranks of the all-time greats. Now, I love Bill Murray and Scarlett Johanssen was great in Ghost World and The Man Who Wasn't There. But I have not yet seen this movie, and the sheer hype is kind of turning me off.
Add to that, my mother saw it, my mother who has mostly the same tastes and appreciation for quality films as I do (depending on our definitions of "quality" of course), and she... well, she didn't like it, but for the sake of the sheer overpowering number of critical praise, was willing to concede that perhaps she just "didn't get it." But she found it boring and dull as all fuck, waiting and waiting for something, anything to happen, and said that Bill's so-called subline, nuanced performance was stiff, boring, and showed absolutely no change in emotion whatsoever. So tell me, what is the big deal with this movie? Anyone? Anyone?
I will say this, though. I may not have seen the film, but I think it's safe to say that it wasn't a comedy, or at least it was a comedy/drama. Regardless of how fine a film it was or how much I might like it, something in my gut tells me that the fact that it beat BIG FISH and FINDING NEMO for best comedy is a huge fucking travesty.
Big Fish isn't going to win any awards, I know this and have resigned myself to it. This, THIS brilliant little gem is too odd, too different, to be approved by the stinking masses. But Finding Nemo losing best comedy? Uh, WHAT? I doubt even the staunchest of you "Lost" fans can support that decision.
Bill Murray is a fucking funny guy. But Depp owned that role, he made that role more than his. Like Harrison Ford with Han Solo, he created a fucking icon that will endure in the halls of pop culture for generations. I mean, I'm not the biggest fan of that movie, but come on, from a pure acting standpoint, he deserved that bad boy! GAH!
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Huh. I guess one does tend to get swept up in the fever, don't they?
Random Thoughts: "Mystic River," and "Lost,": I must see both but will probably be disappointed. I can see both beating ROTK in the Oscars. The industry at large resents ROTK. Clint Eastwood is the man, even if he is crumbling to dust before our very eyes. I need to see "The Office" now. I'm strangely intrigued to see Tom Wilkinson play a transexual. After seeing the Michael Douglas retrospective, one has to ask the question: which of any of those films of his did he do that garners him actually getting a lifetime achievement award?
Now, for one thing, who here has seen "Lost in Translation"? It's being hailed by critics as a masterpiece for all time, one of the greatest love stories ever, completely touching, brilliant, beautiful, and worthy to fall into the ranks of the all-time greats. Now, I love Bill Murray and Scarlett Johanssen was great in Ghost World and The Man Who Wasn't There. But I have not yet seen this movie, and the sheer hype is kind of turning me off.
Add to that, my mother saw it, my mother who has mostly the same tastes and appreciation for quality films as I do (depending on our definitions of "quality" of course), and she... well, she didn't like it, but for the sake of the sheer overpowering number of critical praise, was willing to concede that perhaps she just "didn't get it." But she found it boring and dull as all fuck, waiting and waiting for something, anything to happen, and said that Bill's so-called subline, nuanced performance was stiff, boring, and showed absolutely no change in emotion whatsoever. So tell me, what is the big deal with this movie? Anyone? Anyone?
I will say this, though. I may not have seen the film, but I think it's safe to say that it wasn't a comedy, or at least it was a comedy/drama. Regardless of how fine a film it was or how much I might like it, something in my gut tells me that the fact that it beat BIG FISH and FINDING NEMO for best comedy is a huge fucking travesty.
Big Fish isn't going to win any awards, I know this and have resigned myself to it. This, THIS brilliant little gem is too odd, too different, to be approved by the stinking masses. But Finding Nemo losing best comedy? Uh, WHAT? I doubt even the staunchest of you "Lost" fans can support that decision.
Bill Murray is a fucking funny guy. But Depp owned that role, he made that role more than his. Like Harrison Ford with Han Solo, he created a fucking icon that will endure in the halls of pop culture for generations. I mean, I'm not the biggest fan of that movie, but come on, from a pure acting standpoint, he deserved that bad boy! GAH!
...
Huh. I guess one does tend to get swept up in the fever, don't they?
Random Thoughts: "Mystic River," and "Lost,": I must see both but will probably be disappointed. I can see both beating ROTK in the Oscars. The industry at large resents ROTK. Clint Eastwood is the man, even if he is crumbling to dust before our very eyes. I need to see "The Office" now. I'm strangely intrigued to see Tom Wilkinson play a transexual. After seeing the Michael Douglas retrospective, one has to ask the question: which of any of those films of his did he do that garners him actually getting a lifetime achievement award?
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Date: 2004-01-26 04:47 pm (UTC)The funny thing, I didn't see it as a comedy. Sure, it starred Bill Murray, but he's done drama before (Razor's Edge). The movie is bittersweet. It's never a comedy in the Stripes or Ghostbusters sense. I'd rather call it a romance, though it's not really that, either.
I thought it was the best movie of the year, which, if you assert that it's a comedy, makes it the best comedy of the year.
My favorite comedy this year was Love Actually. I can't say I think of Nemo as a comedy either, really. I rarely laughed at it, and while that's not required at a comedy, it's a good clue.
I can definitely get your mother's opinion of Lost, and I know that she's not the kind who's bored if you're not telling fart jokes or blowing up a car. It is unbelievably pretentious of anybody to claim that she missed the subtleties of the movie. She saw them, I'm sure, and it wasn't enough to sustain her interest in what is otherwise a film that really does go absolutely nowhere at all. It just charmed me, much like Love Actually charmed me, with good performances and stories that happened to work for me.
I can tell you I loved it. I enjoyed watching Bill Murray do the sad-clown routine, and I thought his performance was nicely understated. But the hype can easily kill a movie, because the distaste it causes easily becomes self-fulfilling.
My recommendation is, see it, and I hope it works for you. If not, I hope it's not too bad a waste of your time, which is far more valuable than the $9.25 you'll spend to see it.