Movie Moan: F**k You Jamie, Duplicity!
Wed, November 23, 2011 The battle between Jamie and Kristina blows up into all-out war in this episode.......and all over a disagreement about Julia Roberts career.
But before that, Jamie jumps into the fray alone to review 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1'. How can someone who hasn't seen the other films even begin to understand it? You're about to find out.
Phil saw something equally pointless this week in the new documentary 'The People vs. George Lucas', poof positive that some people still can't shut up about 'Star Wars' even if we have.
In the news, the Golden Globes prove they don't care about the feelings of the celebrities they want to honour with golden trophies by hiring Ricky Gervais to host it again. The seeming futility of a 'Doctor Who' movie rears its head again, and Jamie has something personal to tell Bryan Singer directly but you're invited to eavesdrop.
Finally, there were so many trailers this week to talk about that we had to skip the 'moan of the week'. From the success of 'The Hunger Games', the earnestness of 'Brave', and the horrors of 'Mirror, Mirror'. Will Jamie and Kris still be speaking to each other by the end of the show?
Reader Comments (5)
Great podcast, guys. But c'mon, obviously Affleck is going to play the shark in Jaws 5.
How one can claim Deep Impact beat Armageddon in anything outside of "critical" response(and just barely mind you) is kinda weird.
Outside of it's competition free opening where it won by about 5 mill. Armageddon wiped it out. That being said the budget for Deep Impact is one well kept secret.
The battle of which Snow White will be better will come down to weather Hunstmen will be seen as a dud by fanboys and the GA.
People vs George Lucas was a good documentary but the fans should really stop giving Lucas money if they want to continue bitching.
PS: Welshfilmbuff is still missing!
Jeez, I didn't realize my overlong ramblings were missed! Here goes...
The People Vs George Lucas is too much of a fan wank film to be truly interesting or worthwhile (and I don't regret downloading it). It made me resent the fans, more than Lucas himself. Sure, I can understand some of their irritations, but the film seems to forget certain facts just to bash Lucas for the sake of it ; they bring up the Ted Turner/colourization controversey and how Lucas was heavily involved in the legistlation to protect filmmakers' films from being changed. They mention this to make Lucas look like a hypocrite... the difference being that those filmakers didn't have any say in what happened to their own work. It's not as though Lucas hasn't been privy to his numeurous changes, so that argument doesn't hold water. You could say "WHAT ABOUT KERSH AND MARQUAND!", but I doubt Kersh really cared and even if Marquand had been alive to see the Special Edition of Jedi, his anger probably would've burnt out by that point, due to the fact that Lucas fired him while the film was still in production. Even more lazy on behalf of the docummentary makers, is that they fail to mention that Lucas was constantly changing his films long before the 1997 Special Editions, due to cinematic re-releases. I guess most people didn't noticed back then, because media wasn't consumed the way it is now... but it's still an oversight on the part of the documentors. Another thing that they bring up is why does Lucas insist that the prequels are for young children, but yet there are plot elements that kids (possibly) wouldn't understand (the guff about trade regulations). A valid point, I suppose, but this is George Lucas we are talking about! Did you actually think your "Saint" was a (SHOCKHORROR) normal human being! Blasphemy! In his narrow worldview of running LucasFilm for decades, he proabably thinks it's a perfectly regular way normal people function in day to day life. One major thing that the doc highlights (though it does it seemingly by accident for the most part), is that ultimately, the fan's have brought most of this crap on themselves, but yet few of them will admit to that. I dare say that when Lucas sees constant fan edits of his films and general crap on the internet from unimaginative geeks, he honestly thinks the fans want his (now recycled) tablescraps.
Then again, I'm probably the wrong age to get worked up about the subject in the way that people in their late 30's/early 40's seem to. Trying to think why I liked Star Wars in the first place, I remember having more fun playing with the toys (at a time when they were starting to become scarce) than I do watching the films (though I did like them). The 1997 Special Editions didn't bother me, because at that point I hadn't seen them in a while and it was the first (and only time) I ever saw them on the big screen... it wasn't until the 2004 DVDs came out that George's tinking got to me, because it got to the point where it didn't make any sense (Hyden as a ghost at the end of RotJ is bullshit, no matter how many people try to defend it). And I was genuinely depressed by the use of "NOOOOOO!" at the climax of Jedi, recently! I know the Star Wars films have never been known for their nuanced performances, but what Prowse (if he was still working on the project at that point, because like Marquand he got fired) did in that scene is genuinely poweful. He's wearing a plastic mask and you can't see his face, but you totally understand the conflicting feelings going on in his brain, just by the way he turns his head. The scene is helped greatly by John Williams' music, but that still doesn't take away from what Prowse (?) did. Now, thanks to that shitty soundfile that was recycled from "Sith", all of that genuine, human emotion (no matter how subtle it seemed) has been replaced with a melodramatic flourish that just makes Vader seem even more of a pantomime villian. Oh well, I haven't bought (or downloaded) the Blu-Rays so I shouldn't complain too much... that won't stop most of the "true fans", sadly.
Welshfilmbuff has returned! Hooray!