en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/362281 Comments by filmklassik http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/24/crystal-eager-to-pound-gop-idiots-on-oscar-night/#IDComment300746265 Let's not kid ourselves, folks. This economy ain't "bumbling" -- it's actually improving. The stock market is going up and unemployment is going down, which means Obama is going to be re-elected in a walk and if you think I am happy about that, you're crazy. I deplore the European, "statist" form of democracy Obama loves and is nudging us closer to. I deplore Political Correctness which seems to be running riot in this country. And I deplore the Presidents relativistic stance on foreign affairs, particularly regarding the Arab states. That's a lot to deplore, folks. But this guy seems to just catch the lucky breaks when he needs them most (the housing crisis, the McCain nomination, etc). Hope I'm wrong... but I doubt I am. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:19:38 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/24/crystal-eager-to-pound-gop-idiots-on-oscar-night/#IDComment300746265 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/23/j-edgar-blu-ray-review-solid-start-weak-finish/#IDComment300289068 Yeah, I'm a textbook example of one of those "Hollywood people" you're talking about. I have few qualms about referring to my beliefs as Libertarian. (And, as it happens, most of my beliefs ARE Libertarian). But if I went ahead and called myself Conservative, well, look out! Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:06:45 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/23/j-edgar-blu-ray-review-solid-start-weak-finish/#IDComment300289068 http://tv.breitbart.com/piers-morgan-comedians-gop-candidates-have-no-character/#IDComment300162689 Damn. Because he always keeps his politics to himself, I used to think Carrel might be (gasp!) a Hollywood Conservative. Wrong again. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:06:14 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/piers-morgan-comedians-gop-candidates-have-no-character/#IDComment300162689 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/20/the-top-10-best-film-composers-of-all-time/#IDComment297521198 Yeah, OUT OF AFRICA's among the most moving and melodic scores ever written. Sorry but there's just no way of compiling a list of the top 10 movie composers when three-times that number (at least) of genius tune-smiths have been working that trade for the last eighty years. Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:59:23 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/20/the-top-10-best-film-composers-of-all-time/#IDComment297521198 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/19/comedy-cowards-snl-hammers-gop-gently-teases-first-ladys-obesity-campaign/#IDComment296624501 It sickens me when this show (and so many others) is so nakedly partisan toward the Dems and Progressive issues in general. Maybe that's why the sketch "Hows He Doing?" sounds bracingly funny and refreshingly candid about Obama's invulnerable appeal to certain voters. Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:16:49 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/19/comedy-cowards-snl-hammers-gop-gently-teases-first-ladys-obesity-campaign/#IDComment296624501 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/18/alec-baldwin-andrew-breitbart-a-festering-boil-on-the-anus-of-public-discourse/#IDComment295919637 Can we please all just remember what an unreconstructed asshat Baldwin is the next time he goes and says something mildly conservative -- which he does like once or twice a year -- and dozens of BH'ers all rally to his side? He is as Liberal as LIberal gets. Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:47:38 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/18/alec-baldwin-andrew-breitbart-a-festering-boil-on-the-anus-of-public-discourse/#IDComment295919637 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/18/welcome-to-china-white-house-gives-hollywood-another-reason-to-make-bad-movies/#IDComment295912071 What's interesting is that the Chinese themselves are conservative in their lifestyle. It's still a communist country, absolutely, but Chinese citizens are for the most part modest in their customs and sexuality. Wonder if Hollwyood will modify its product accordingly. Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:33:19 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/18/welcome-to-china-white-house-gives-hollywood-another-reason-to-make-bad-movies/#IDComment295912071 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/17/like-a-boss-springsteen-says-us-needs-to-be-more-like-sweden/#IDComment295250385 I loved GREETINGS FROM ASBURY PARK NJ and THE WILD THE INNOCENT AND THE E STREET SHUFFLE and BORN TO RUN... and I dig a few tracks on DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN and a few scattered tracks on most of his albums since then (like THUNDERCRACK, LUCKY TOWN and THE LAND OF HOPE AND DREAMS) but most of Bruce's output since the late 1970s has been spotty. He is an enormously talented guy but like his equally gifted singer/songwrtier buddy Jackson Browne, the man has NO CLUE when it comes to politics. None whatsoever. Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:31:02 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/17/like-a-boss-springsteen-says-us-needs-to-be-more-like-sweden/#IDComment295250385 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kwilliams/2012/02/15/bh-interview-radio-host-michael-medved-on-liberal-humanitarians-and-pop-culture-bias-part-1/#IDComment293519099 Yeah, what's so dismaying about what Medved is saying here is that I see no solution for it. And I'm sorry, folks, but just saying "Well, we'll create our OWN content then" is incredibly simplistic and impractical in the real world of film and televsion, because for all intents and purposes, THEY control content and distribution. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:29:04 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kwilliams/2012/02/15/bh-interview-radio-host-michael-medved-on-liberal-humanitarians-and-pop-culture-bias-part-1/#IDComment293519099 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2012/02/15/hollywood-still-eager-to-cut-checks-for-obama/#IDComment293382520 I'm no Liberal but let's not promote false information, Syrin -- unemployment and poverty are not at "record" levels. Far from it. The debt, on the other hand, is (and it may sink us). Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:33:03 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2012/02/15/hollywood-still-eager-to-cut-checks-for-obama/#IDComment293382520 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2012/02/15/thought-police-victory-lap-ratner-to-direct-produce-videos-for-glaad/#IDComment293380829 I'm sure that for him it came down to a cost/benefit situation. Ratner weighed what he had to gain by groveling versus what he had to lose by not playing ball. To me it's analogous to greasing the palms of a union boss in order to stay in business. To keep a construction site operating, let's say. You don't ENJOY doing it... but you do it anyway. Pretty sick. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:30:40 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2012/02/15/thought-police-victory-lap-ratner-to-direct-produce-videos-for-glaad/#IDComment293380829 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/15/the-horrors-of-hollywood-parenting/#IDComment293374790 No it's a PRETTY good article, Katrick. I'm not sure that what's happening to Beatty and Benning's kid doesn't fall outside the scope of Shapiro's thesis. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:22:18 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2012/02/15/the-horrors-of-hollywood-parenting/#IDComment293374790 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/12/big-movie-flashback-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three/#IDComment291588130 Problem is you can't do a big-budget thriller nowadays and LEAVE OUT all the tedious backstory. The studios simply won't allow it and, more importantly, the stars themselves seem to dig it, too. Alas... Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:26:42 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/12/big-movie-flashback-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three/#IDComment291588130 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/12/big-movie-flashback-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three/#IDComment291586753 Hmm. Okay, I am beginning to understand your screen name now. We'll just have to agree to disagree. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:24:29 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/12/big-movie-flashback-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three/#IDComment291586753 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/12/big-movie-flashback-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three/#IDComment291585116 Well, one of the definitions of the term "movie star" is someone who is enormously charismatic, but is always (or almost always) playing some variation of themselves. James Stewart, Cary Grant, John Wayne were protean talents but c'mon folks, let's not kid ourselves, they weren't "chameleons" in the sense that, for example, the unbelievably brilliant but somewhat LESS charismatic Alec Guiness was. Nor did we want them to be. We wanted them to be who they were. So saying that a particular actor has a "limited range" does not necessarily signify a lack of talent or charisma or make them any less great, since so many of America's favorite iconic stars (once again, Stewart, Grant, Eastwood, Wayne, McQueen, Bogart, Cagney, Woody Allen) are almost always (they would OCCASIONALLY try to "stretch" by doing a character part) playing variations of themselves. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:22:26 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/12/big-movie-flashback-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three/#IDComment291585116 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/13/something-gays-muslims-need-never-fear-cbs-grammys-mock-catholic-church/#IDComment291568919 Sure it does. High profile media types will as a matter of course single out Catholicism and "right wing Christianity" for rebuke and condemnation. (Michael Moore was doing that very thing three days ago). But do they ever -- and I mean EVER -- single out Islam for IT'S oppressive policies? You should live so long. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:59:03 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2012/02/13/something-gays-muslims-need-never-fear-cbs-grammys-mock-catholic-church/#IDComment291568919 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/12/big-movie-flashback-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three/#IDComment291146716 Nope. Sorry. Strongly disagree. That wasn't a "hole in the script." Any hack writer could have contrived a by-the-numbers shoot-out (or the equivalent) where Robert Shaw gets his comeuppance in utterly predictable fashion. But the way they did it was smarter. And cooler. And a helluva lot more unexpected. And it was oddly true to the character. And yeah to me it was every bit as satisfying. Kudos to screenwriter Peter Stone for coming up with it (it wasn't in the book -- neither was the absolutely brilliant "gezzundeit" ending!) Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:39:03 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/12/big-movie-flashback-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three/#IDComment291146716 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/12/big-movie-flashback-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three/#IDComment291145517 Disagree. Travolta is enormously talented and boasts star quality to burn (especially in middle age, just watch GET SHORTY again if you don't believe me)... but... The remake of PELHAM 1 2 3 pales in comparison to the original. Love Travolta in BLOW OUT, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, PULP FICTION, GET SHORTY, PRIMARY COLORS, etc. He just has more bad films on his resume than good ones. He needs to pick his roles better. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:36:45 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/12/big-movie-flashback-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three/#IDComment291145517 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/12/big-movie-flashback-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three/#IDComment291143023 A nearly perfect movie, and the ending is glorious. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:31:57 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/12/big-movie-flashback-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three/#IDComment291143023 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/12/big-movie-flashback-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three/#IDComment291142858 Agreed. Its cool and interesting to see what it looked and felt like ON FILM... not in real life. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:31:37 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cftoto/2012/02/12/big-movie-flashback-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three/#IDComment291142858