I'm doing best actor first just because I want to. Ladies on top! Actually I just want to post my love for Meryl Streep and it will take more than a day to write it. Again, Ascending order because I like to detract much more than praise.
Demian Bichir, A Better Life Ok if you are in a fantastic movie you pretty much get nominated, its clockwork. What I don't understand is...this movie was fair to luke warm. I guess this is just the nod to the Hispanic plight in America. And I guess like Crash and Slumdog Millionaire I'm supposed to be uproariously moved by it. Buuuuuuuuuuuut I wasn't. Its a good story about the struggle about. It basically was La Bamba without the fun music and if Richie was played by a 30 year old Edward James Olmos, and the hilariously over the top brother was played by 20 Mexicans with face tattoos.
Jean Dujardin, The Artist meh. I mean... I didn't even know he was really the "lead" for parts of the movie. I'm scared the Academy is going to go this way. He's certainly good in it and I love his mustache but he's just in 4th place for me. Which isn't a travesty. I guess this could be summed up with "yeah".
Brad Pitt, Moneyball Oh Brad. I am not a Brad Pitt detractor, not at all. I think he was great and Seven and Fight Club...jesus I am a 28 year old white man. Ok Ok I thought he was great in A River Runs Through it and Legends of the Fall...jesus I am a 28 year old white woman. Ok whatever, I find him charming in the Ocean's 11 12 13 movies and even in Mr and Mrs Smith, I hate his wife but I can compartmentalize that hate and send it elsewhere with no issue. I will see all of this man's work for the rest of my life and I've forgiven him for ruining Inglorious Basterds for me and I look forward to the movie he's making with the guy who directed Chopper. Having said all that, he does an impression... as a baseball fan I know Billy Beane very well, and its a great impression, but Billy Beane kind of...is Brad Pitt he just throws chairs. Brad is a great actor but he rolled out of bed and just fell into the perfect role. I loved him in this movie and I loved this movie. But it goes in the same category for me as Jamie Fox for Ray and Phillip Seymour Hoffman for Capote. A great impression, except unlike those two roles this guy was basically Brad Pitt anyways.
George Clooney, The Descendants Yeah I over the top swoon for George Clooney, and this is one of his best roles. I know I've said this 100 times so I'll address it here, yes, George Clooney is not stretching hard to play this role, its his normal voice no real accent or whatever but acting is not about convincing people you're of a different nationality otherwise people would consider Dominic Moore to be a good actor. And no one does.
Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy SO I didn't know that Oldman was doing shallow bit roles for the better half of the last decade because he took time off to be a full time dad. I love Oldman, probably the best actor alive, so yes, this is partially a lifetime award from me and yes I'm a miserable uncreative failure for doing so. Oldman played the most complex character and got the most from him. He wins.
rantings of a person who has no reason to be as sure of himself as he is.
Showing posts with label Back To The Future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Back To The Future. Show all posts
Friday, February 24, 2012
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
into the mystic...
a brief vacation from all the rape and go into the nice light topic of race wars.
And just like that whitey pulled the rug out from under the blacks for a billionth time.
Basically if you remember the plot Marty is stuffed into a trunk by Biff's gang of cronies. Who I always thought deserved a name. Anyways he's almost immediately freed by the band playing the enchantment under the sea dance(only after being called "spooks") and in doing so the guitarist hurts his hand and can't play. Marty fills in on guitar plays a cover of the penguins earth angel and then plays his own song. Now in his own song he covers Chuck Berry's Johnny Be Good and that would be all fine and dandy if it wasn't for the guitarist then picking up the phone backstage and calling his cousin, who we are to believe to be Chuck "shit on a glass table while i jerk off" Berry himself. And it is Marvin who shows Chuck the inspiration for what Chuck would create in the form of Rock n Roll. I mean the writing even implied that Berry stole the song outright too. Not even the sound, they're not implying a standard zeppelining they're going for the full blown carbon copy ripoff.
For years the knock against Elvis was oh he just stole rock n roll from the blacks but the writers of BTTF take that all back with one quick sucker punch. In what would be the inaugural time traveling movie and basically the prototype for thousand of stupid string theory arguments about time tributaries and all sorts of horseshit I will touch on way too many times. But in other go into the past movies the travelers alter the future greatly and there's all sorts of consequences. Marty to have altered the future in two ways. Firstly when he arrived in the future he knocked over a tree so the name of the future mall would be "Lone Pine Mall" instead of "Twin Pines Mall" and secondly he gave rock n roll to the black man.
Now in what I've learned of the space time continuum you can't go back in time and effect your own present but you'd be effecting a different dimension. And when Marty set the course for his parents meeting off course all he did was touch off a series of events in an irrelevant dimension that Marty would never be a part of unless he stayed there. So I understand this but you have to go by this movie's rules for reality and the effects there in.
A point of pride for blacks has always been that Elvis stole his songs from the black man and he had undeserved fame and fortune that was made from other people's sweat. And they'd be 100% right. So to take this from them is just kind of disgusting. The unmitigated gall of the writers of BTTF to use the benefit of altered reality and the space time continuum to bring about a chick/egg scenario with rock n roll. Did McFly give rock n roll to Chuck Berry or did Chuck give it to America and thus to McFly. What racist douche bags the writers are of this movie to have McFly's one "Gump like" alteration of pop culture and history alike be a backhand to black musicians and pretty much black culture.
Now I love LOVE Michael J Fox. So I'd like to point this out to people that before this critique. The idea, that some pukey highschooler who plays bad bendy metal solos with his shitty high school band would create the spark. The spark that gave birth to an American phenomenon and what could be our best gift to the world outside of medicinal works, automobiles and Katy Perry's tits in rock n roll: is just offensive. To spit in Chuck Berry, Little Richard and i'll even take it into blues and name guys that would hate my guts for naming them in a shitty blog review of a Disney movie but fuck it i wanna show my music dick LEADBELLY AND ROBERT JOHNSON's collective face is nothing but sheer Disney bigotry.
"Hey Chuck its your cousin Marvin. Marvin Berry. You know that new sound you've been looking for well listen to this."
And just like that whitey pulled the rug out from under the blacks for a billionth time.
Basically if you remember the plot Marty is stuffed into a trunk by Biff's gang of cronies. Who I always thought deserved a name. Anyways he's almost immediately freed by the band playing the enchantment under the sea dance(only after being called "spooks") and in doing so the guitarist hurts his hand and can't play. Marty fills in on guitar plays a cover of the penguins earth angel and then plays his own song. Now in his own song he covers Chuck Berry's Johnny Be Good and that would be all fine and dandy if it wasn't for the guitarist then picking up the phone backstage and calling his cousin, who we are to believe to be Chuck "shit on a glass table while i jerk off" Berry himself. And it is Marvin who shows Chuck the inspiration for what Chuck would create in the form of Rock n Roll. I mean the writing even implied that Berry stole the song outright too. Not even the sound, they're not implying a standard zeppelining they're going for the full blown carbon copy ripoff.
For years the knock against Elvis was oh he just stole rock n roll from the blacks but the writers of BTTF take that all back with one quick sucker punch. In what would be the inaugural time traveling movie and basically the prototype for thousand of stupid string theory arguments about time tributaries and all sorts of horseshit I will touch on way too many times. But in other go into the past movies the travelers alter the future greatly and there's all sorts of consequences. Marty to have altered the future in two ways. Firstly when he arrived in the future he knocked over a tree so the name of the future mall would be "Lone Pine Mall" instead of "Twin Pines Mall" and secondly he gave rock n roll to the black man.
Now in what I've learned of the space time continuum you can't go back in time and effect your own present but you'd be effecting a different dimension. And when Marty set the course for his parents meeting off course all he did was touch off a series of events in an irrelevant dimension that Marty would never be a part of unless he stayed there. So I understand this but you have to go by this movie's rules for reality and the effects there in.
A point of pride for blacks has always been that Elvis stole his songs from the black man and he had undeserved fame and fortune that was made from other people's sweat. And they'd be 100% right. So to take this from them is just kind of disgusting. The unmitigated gall of the writers of BTTF to use the benefit of altered reality and the space time continuum to bring about a chick/egg scenario with rock n roll. Did McFly give rock n roll to Chuck Berry or did Chuck give it to America and thus to McFly. What racist douche bags the writers are of this movie to have McFly's one "Gump like" alteration of pop culture and history alike be a backhand to black musicians and pretty much black culture.
Now I love LOVE Michael J Fox. So I'd like to point this out to people that before this critique. The idea, that some pukey highschooler who plays bad bendy metal solos with his shitty high school band would create the spark. The spark that gave birth to an American phenomenon and what could be our best gift to the world outside of medicinal works, automobiles and Katy Perry's tits in rock n roll: is just offensive. To spit in Chuck Berry, Little Richard and i'll even take it into blues and name guys that would hate my guts for naming them in a shitty blog review of a Disney movie but fuck it i wanna show my music dick LEADBELLY AND ROBERT JOHNSON's collective face is nothing but sheer Disney bigotry.
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