Oscar Rant 2007

[angharad76]

Here it is. It took me longer than I anticipated, but I'm satisfied with it for now. I'm also pleased that, unlike everyone else in the universe, I managed to get through a discussion of Black Book without mentioning the "dyeing the carpet to match the curtains" scene. (Of course, I just mentioned it. Oh well. I guess it's impossible not to comment

Comments

[drl909]

Ellen Page is 2007's equivalent of Bill Murray in Lost in Translation: good performance, just a shame the rest of the movie isn't very good. (She rocked as David's daughter during the first season of ReGenesis.)

You're wrong on the Best Use of Music, by the way, which almost certainly belongs to something in Hot Fuzz. (Probably the Kinks' "The Village Green Preservation Society".)

[angharad76]

Have to disagree. This is what I wrote about Bill Murray's performance back in 2003: "Not only did I not get or like Lost in Translation. I didn’t think Bill Murray was particularly great either. He did his typical mugging, just more subdued and world-weary. He cocked an ironic eyebrow here and there, and occasionally created moments of hilarity reacting to certain, particularly foreign, Japanese behavior. However, his was a performance of moments, not a cohesive whole. Never did I get the impression that there was a character there, just a collection of Bill Murray’s expressions from other films. Truly, he was much better in Ghostbusters."

Looking back, I think I might have been too generous. Most of the work he's done since then has convinced me that he's really a one-trick pony.

I don't think Page gave the best performance in Juno either. I thought Bateman, Garner, Simmons, Janney, and Cera all gave better performances than she did.

None of the music in Hot Fuzz stood out to me. While the Kinks' title sounds promising in the

[samcallahan]

Hey, I read it. I read it so I don't have to watch all those movies, but I'm a heathen like that.

[angharad76]

One of the things that makes the rant difficult now is hunting down all those movies. So many films don't get the releases they once did. And others are buried in their release without studio support.

Honestly, though, I think we're in a really sad place when it comes to films. I haven't seen a movie in a long time where I thought I had to tell everyone I know to go see it.

Louise Rainer called - she wants her telephone back.

[wwolfe]

I love a good historic reference