On some "we are the world" type vibe.

A post of premises really . . . respond where inspired to.

The old guy, "what else haven't I done" one.

I thought it was strange to see Errol Morris' name attached to whatever car ad that is ("all left turns").

Wes Anderson's American Express spot is cool, if a little too "look at me."

What other good ads we got now? Geico been taking a break?

Spike Lee did the Mars Blackmon Nike thing, Scorsese did a bit for American Express too, right? And Spike Jonze teamed up with Adidas? What other big name directors?

As far as local ads, any person that tries to incorporate dogs into selling cars should be dismantled at the limbs. People in the Bay Area ("Muttley") and Sacramento (Chuck Peterson) should know what I mean.

Best use of music in an ad now: Etta James' Sunday Kind of Love (though I forgot what it was for . . .lol).

he has some vintage ones on his site. He, of course, came up with the Apple white background. Which became the basis for the ipod commercials as well.

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and people... I'm especially fond of the one in which the car, whose voice sounds suspiciously like Owen Wilson's, tries to have a conversation with a crab, who only says, "I pinch." It ends with the Element, fed up with the crab's one-note conversation, telling the crab that he has some melted butter and tongs (or something) in the back. Upon hearing this, the crab says, "no pinch" then scurries away. I'm mad that the networks are no longer airing the complete spot, which I believe ran for 60 seconds.
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i kept thinking about the enchantingly beautiful fragments which could not be part of the finished whole.

Just as I was gonna post that I'd never seen that commercial before and really wanted to, it came on TV!

*cues eerie music*

Yep, that's a cute commercial. "I pinch." lol!

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it's Gutfest '89

I've only seen the short version though

I should check on that when I'm not at work.

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"No pinch, no pinch, no pinch..." LOL

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Only because of their quirkiness and the fact that they stand out in my mind.

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That's clearly what you meant.

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the soccer one with "take me out to the ballgame"

>Best use of music in an ad now: Etta James' Sunday Kind of
>Love (though I forgot what it was for . . .lol).

Just saw it.

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He eggs the guy in the face when he opens the front door and then hugs him.

He cuts the girl's ponytail off and then hugs her.

sweet then sour.

I love those.
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i kept thinking about the enchantingly beautiful fragments which could not be part of the finished whole.

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They are funny and speak to the truth.

Dazed and Confused (the kid in this one was a terrible actor, body control was awful)
Do The Right Thing (watching this movie in humid heat to really sympathsize)
Rear Window (greatest movie ever)

All excellent movies no matter the season, but the experience of watching them is enhanced even more so during the summer months. Do The Right Thing works better in the daytime, the other two at night.

Anyone else have particular "summer movies"? Or non-traditional seasonal flicks, i.e. Christmas Story in December is too obvious.

Sometime w/in the next couple months, went it starts to get to high 90's territory, the type of heat that manages to carry over to nighttime and requires two fans and three beers, when it gets dark out, put on Rear Window and thank me. It's like crack is addictive by itself, right, but if you mix it with heroin, that's gotta be triple the overdose.

The Burbs is another "shines better in the summer" flick.

This idea is bigger than okayplayer (imagine that), but it's something more immediately and blatantly noticeable here online.

Scenario:

If there is someone whose opinion you respect on movies, but then you see them post some dumb shit in The Lesson, does that make you value their opinion of movies less?

No names.

>If there is someone whose opinion you respect on movies, but
>then you see them post some dumb shit in The Lesson, does that
>make you value their opinion of movies less?

Yeah kinda. It shouldn't, but it's like when someone tells me they're a Republican. They could be the coolest person ever, but they just dropped a few notches to me.

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There's in hewre who I trust on a myriad of topics that I disagree with regarding music. I can respect their opinions in one area and ignore them in others.

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I think AFKAP made me think of this first, around the time that 21 Grams came out.

The basic premise:

Inarritu directs Amores Perros, in Spanish, with subtitles. Subtitled, the dialogue on the screen has a matter-of-fact feel to it, since you're reading, not hearing it. Inarritu directs 21 Grams, it's in English, the movie's dialogue is trite and really hard on the ears. This is not a complaint your hold against Amorres Perros because the facade of subtitles masks that shortcoming.

Same way, different board, but I can imagine nodding to music in a language that I don't understand, but if I knew what was actually being said, I might do a double take.

Are subtitles an unfair advantage?

The problem you're identifying is the same problem that Francois Ozon had with Swimming Pool. It's not that subtitles confer an advantage, it's that directing in a language not your own confers a DISadvantage.

it's like when shakira makes music in english, lol.


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>it's like when shakira makes music in english, lol.

Maybe this is the lesson the bilingual directors need to take to heart.

Lots of Swedes find Bergman dialogue a little too "written." Americans can't tell the difference.

This is also one of the reasons why recent Woody Allen films are so much more popular in Europe.

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i think this is one of the biggest reasons i enjoy foreign movies so much. especially movies spoken in pretty languages (italian, portuguese, french, shit, even spanish can be pretty compared to english). u can concentrate on the music and dynamics of the sound of the language and enjoy the written word as a separate visual component. its a really deep thing, imo.

but i dont know if subtitles can "mask" bad or awkward dialogue. i think even a moviegoer paying average attention can tell when dialogue (in action) is bad/awkward or decent to good even in a foreign film.

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plot his career path.

his high point acting wise: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

his high point professionally: Traffic

his low point acting wise: Sin City (I really didn't like how he played this)

his low point professionally: having the media essentially call him "creepy and ugly" during the whole Scarlett Johansson. But did he actually fuck?

his future: besides get fat and take on less work, what has he done recently? I put him in the 5%, but I'm wary about where he's going.


he's essentially the PR version of Mickey Rourke, right? (And that's not a knock on either of them.)

no mention of "21 grams"..
i would add that as a double "professional acting" category (b/w traffic)...

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and hope that by the time its all said and done, he's spoken of alongside the greatest of greats. i think he has the potential to be that good. i really cant see anyone else at a higher level than he is, now as in working actors.

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He definetly was incredible in that. Him and Depp played their characters perfectly.

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Billy Madison and Austin Powers are both more quotable than The Big Lebowski as far as 90s comedies go.

That was for Mynoriti.

I thought I would have this movie on permanent repeat... but it just didn't do much for me.

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I'm shocked, too.

>I thought I would have this movie on permanent repeat... but
>it just didn't do much for me.


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But I don't really quote either as much as Lebowski. It used to be cool to quote Austin Powers but I haven't heard anyone do it in a long while. The only thing I really quote from Billy Madison is "Everyone in this room is dumber for having listened to that response. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.

There are so many great lines from Lebowski. "Some new shit has come to light, man." "You're out of your element Donnie." "This what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass." The list goes on and on.

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at least come with a contender.

I loved Austin Powers but people's excessive quoting of it have all but ruined it for me.

I can't even think of a Billy Madison quote

do better ricky

I AM THE SMARTEST MAN ALIVE!

Don't tell me my business, Devil Woman.

I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

That was the grossest thing I've ever heard in my life!

Donkey Kong sucks. . . .You know something? YOU SUCK!

No I will not make out with you!

T-T-T-TODAY JUNIOR!


Okay, quanity-wise, I don't think Billy Madison is seeing The Big Lebowski--just reread the archived post--but I've quoted all of those above lines with greater frequency than anything from that Coen Brother's creation. On that note, may I remind you, the c is silent.

She's a fine piece of ayse... I know from experience./No, you don't

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Lebowski stands to time much better. I havent quoted AP or BM in years. I'll quote Lebowski tomorrow.

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Still.

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Grizzly Adams DID have a beard.

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i mean i know more people who can recite Happy Gilmore quotes than Billy Madison ones.

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The only thing worse than watching Crash is that once you watch it, you have to have an opinion on it. Like, if someone asks, "have you seen Crash?", in the past I could say, "no, not yet", and just dead the conversation right there. Now, since I've seen it, I have two options: lie or run the risk of hurting someone's feelings. Third option: make disparaging remarks about Tony Danza.

I had to see it for a class. It wasn't my choice.


(At least it was better than Cronenberg's.)

Then they really need to re-evaluate their value system. All you have to do is try to be diplomatic, explain to people why you feel the way you do (in this case why Crash wasn't as good as it could/should have been) and hope that their social skills are developed enough to not take your opinions as an affront to their poor taste.

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I tend to be on the "it was okay but certainly didnt deserve the Oscar" fence and so therefore I find myself being very negative when talking about it just so I can take a stance.

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that you find it awful seems to wound them somehow. Like they need to defend its appeal to their white liberalism but they lack the grounds to debate about it.

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multiple people I've told this to: "What?! That movie is AMAZING! Everyone learns their lessons in it! It's SO GOOD!"

me: "The acting was good. There were good scenes in the movie. But there was really no plot to speak of, just a bunch of random things that were happening, and then the coincidences at the end were too much for me."

multiple people: "You're missing the point though. There's a REASON those coincidences happened. And blahblahblah"

(I swear, I've had this conversation at least 5 times)

I found out my co-workers are all crash haters. before I could only find one person at a time... like on some secret handshake shit... but this is huge! It's like if king_friday were to find out his 4 new co-workers are all commies.

and you couldn't be more on point. I bring it up as little as possible. learning this info was a gradual process. we had to sniff each others asses for a while.

I thought it was a good movie, maybe not the best ever, but pretty impressive.
Is this gonna become our new 'Magnolia', where you either absolutely love the movie or you can't stand it. Can't I just think the movie was cool?

"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

so it's all good lol

I don't know what I'd do if Mynorti wasn't my friend.

"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

or at least counseling

Okay, "almost" and "ruined" are a little too strong, because, in the end, I love this movie like family member. However, about 70% of the narration and pretty much Richard Dreyfuss' entire part could have been cut out. I choose to turn the movie off when all the characters as kids leave each other.

>Okay, "almost" and "ruined" are a little too strong, because,
>in the end, I love this movie like family member. However,
>about 70% of the narration and pretty much Richard Dreyfuss'
>entire part could have been cut out. I choose to turn the
>movie off when all the characters as kids leave each other.

I have to diagree. His reading of "Chopper...sick balls", and of course the way Reiner put the scene together, makes that so memory worthy.

I was thinking about making a post about narration, or at least narrators who I couldn't watch a show without. Although mine was more focused on television: the woman from HBO's Autopsy series, the guy from The New Detectives, Ron Howard on Arrested Development.

My favorite performance in all of Boogie Nights, and there's literally a wealth of them, comes courtesy of Thomas Jane, especially as he sits gone out of his mind on Alfred Molina's couch. His face in the midst of all those firecrackers is really quite amazing. I never saw The Punisher, but I'd venture a guess that dude deserves better than that.

In Boogie Nights, he's essentially a co-star of a co-star. Is there a name for that type of role?

He's been in some good/great/interesting films and some complete POS's. Did Aaron Eckhardt take some of his roles? What happened there? I have a feeling he's decided to go the action hero path.

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that being said, I have a strong theory on why he never gets any great roles...
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...it's his name.
I'm serious. I think it's because of his name.
And you're right by the way, he does deserve better than The Punisher.

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