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Big Hollywood : L.A. Elementary School Invites Porn Star To Read To First Graders

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:32:17 +0000

The whole "Read Across America" thing is just an insidious corporatist "educational" masquerade: http://childmurderingrobot.blogspot.com/2011/11/o...

Big Hollywood : 'Scream': A Look Back at the Trilogy

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:53:15 +0000

For fans of horror films in general, "Scream" in particular, the horror blog Thrill Fiction has a post on the movie that inspired "Scream", "Popcorn": http://thrillfiction2009.blogspot.com/2011/04/bef...

Big Hollywood : What Shoulda’ Won 1990’s Academy Award for Best Picture

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 04:08:42 +0000

The Grifters Metropolitan Darkman Goodfellas Exorcist III In that order.

Big Hollywood : What Shoulda' Won Best Picture: 1987

Mon, 6 Dec 2010 04:38:37 +0000

Angel Heart The Untouchables RoboCop Full Metal Jacket Evil Dead 2 Close call, since those are all great movies that have aged very well, but RoboCop probably should have won.

Big Hollywood : What Shoulda' Won 1984's Best Picture? Who Cares?

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:32:58 +0000

Best picture nominees should have been: This is Spinal Tap The Terminator Purple Rain The Pope of Greenwich Village Ghostbusters Co-winners: Spinal Tap and Terminator.

Big Hollywood : What Shoulda' Won Best Picture: 1982

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:26:46 +0000

"First Blood" is the greatest film ever made about America's involvement in the Vietnam War. Should have won best picture. Second choice: "My Favorite Year," which is much funnier than ET, Tootsie, or Gandhi.

Big Hollywood : Susan Sarandon: 'The Nation Mourned' My Split With Tim Robbins

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:38:49 +0000

She was joking. The quote was taken out of context. http://childmurderingrobot.blogspot.com/2010/09/l... Come on, you can do better.

Big Hollywood : Hollywood's Broke: The Real Story Behind DIRECTV's 'Damages' Renewal

Sun, 8 Aug 2010 23:33:24 +0000

DirecTV does have the right idea, but this is exactly the wrong show. "Damages" has a fantastic cast and an interesting structure, but the execution has been weak, especially in the second and third seasons. The scripts have let everyone down, and by the last episode of the third season, there was a real sense that everyone had just given up. The way the loose ends were tied up was just lazy, especially with the resolution of Tom Shayes' and Marilyn Tobin's fates. It was all sound and fury, signifying nothing. I do appreciate that 101 is running episodes of "The Wire", and I hope that DirecTV will try this "Damages" experiment with more shows, but, in fairness, "Damages" had its chance (too many chances, actually) and it just didn't catch on. I toughed it out because I WANTED to like it, not because I actually did. And I don't plan on watching the new episodes on DirecTV.

Big Hollywood : America Loves Stallone and Stallone Loves America

Sun, 1 Aug 2010 02:58:18 +0000

It's interesting that Stallone would commit authorial trespass on his films in this way, particularly his "Rambo" films, which I agree are four of the most interesting "war" movies of the last thirty years. In particular the first two, which are stinging indictments of the American government's treatment of its war veterans, and as such far more effective than more critically lauded films like "The Deer Hunter" and "Platoon." "Rambo: First Blood Part 2" predated John Kerry's and John McCain's shameful treatment of Vietnam war widows with their Senate POW/MIA hearings by a couple of years. The Rambo films are about how politicians let the citizens down. "Green Zone" and "Avatar" are nowhere nearly as good as any of the "Rambo" films, yet they're basically the same idea. Not sure how much the "political climate" has changed. Kerry and McCain are still in the senate, after all.

Big Hollywood : Wonder Woman Reboot: Strident Feminism Is the Problem, Not the Costume

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 18:39:49 +0000

Thanks! I wouldn't be the worst secretary of state.

Big Hollywood : Wonder Woman Reboot: Strident Feminism Is the Problem, Not the Costume

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 18:07:06 +0000

I disagree -- I think if more people were bondaging each other up, we'd have a lot less conflict. Maybe if everyone was getting more and more fun sex, they'd be less likely to, for instance, protest against crop modifications that could help starving people in Africa grow their own food.

Big Hollywood : Wonder Woman Reboot: Strident Feminism Is the Problem, Not the Costume

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 16:17:16 +0000

William Moulton Marston was a "bit of perv" because he was into bondage and lived in a polyamorous relationship? That is the problem with Wonder Woman right there. Fans and creators are judgmental prudes who can't handle any sexuality that's different from the norm. It's not just a problem with Wonder Woman -- most male characters don't get sex lives, either. Rather than deal with the implications of WW's startlingly original origin (Amazon princess, bondage), they fall back on the inaccessible ice queen idea. And give her a dowdy new costume that makes her look downright matronly. http://childmurderingrobot.blogspot.com/2010/06/w...