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14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Whitney Houston Dead a... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks Pappadave.

Whitney is now enshrined as singing the best Star Spangled Banner. A near second however was Kristin Chenoweth at the NFC Championship game last month in San Francisco.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMW98ujRusY

You can feel and see surprise and joy spread over the stadium as the quality of her performance becomes apparent.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Whitney Houston Dead a... · 2 replies · +10 points

Here! Here! Greatest Star Spangled Banner ever.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'In Time' Blu-ray Revi... · 0 replies · +3 points

God love you John, but this is a movie Marx would love, not Friedman. It posits that the rich are rich because they cheat, while Marxist economics animate the fallacious rules driving the story.

Full review at ViewGuide: http://www.viewguide.com/movie_reviews/3345-in-ti...

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Top 10 Ways Hollywood ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Well taken John, especially the need to stop insulting the customer and to stop making partisan movies. The "surprise" success of The Hurt Locker a couple of years ago proves the point. Reviewing it then, I wrote what a pleasure it was to see "a Hollywood movie that doesn’t paint members of the US military as saps, losers or psychos."

Then went on to say "Hollywood honchos and coddled critics think that Americans aren’t interested in Iraq War movies. Wrong. We’re not interested in self-defeating, self-abasing, and self-loathing Iraq War movies."

The same holds true today.

My full Hurt Locker review is at ViewGuide: http://www.viewguide.com/movie_reviews/2155-the-h...

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'The Descendants' Revi... · 0 replies · +1 points

The movie perfectly captures Obama’s Hawaii.

It’s said that our President doesn’t understand our country, its people or its economy. Extreme voices have even declared him unAmerican. He’s not. He’s Hawaiian. While not a descendant of Hawaii, he’s most certainly a product of the Hawaii depicted in The Descendents.

Details in the Reality commentary of my ViewGuide review: http://www.viewguide.com/movie_reviews/3355-the-d...

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Critics’ Favorite 80... · 0 replies · +4 points

I found Raging Bull as much a meditation on the corrupting influence of fame and fortune as anything else.

My full review http://www.wikpik.com/movie_reviews/1753-raging-b...

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Easterbrook: 'Avatar' ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Reinforcing my point, yesterday's WSJ reported "Behind Momentum of 'Avatar' Are Big Sales Boosts From Abroad" (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704...

Outtakes:

- Avatar is already the most successful movie ever in Russia. It's also huge in France.
- "Two thirds of the total box-office receipts so far have been generated abroad."
- "Some moviegoers abroad are drawn to what they see as an anti-capitalist message in the film's plot."
- "Francois Eygun, a 19-year-old student in Paris, saw in the film's plot a message about U.S. foreign policy: 'With what is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan it is quite relevant.'"

That young Frenchman figured it out pretty quickly, didn't he.

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Easterbrook: 'Avatar' ... · 4 replies · +6 points

Good thing Avatar's seditious anti-Americanism is getting more attention. At the movie’s nadir – former US Marines destroy a civilization’s iconic tower by shooting missiles into its base and then watching it topple – it becomes clear that James Cameron has foisted an obscene world on us in which 9/11 is fodder for popcorn propaganda. Nothing if not brilliantly calculating, he must figure that global audiences will be enticed to buy tickets for the privilege to jeer Americans.

My full review here: http://www.wikpik.com/movie_reviews/2125-avatar

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Avatar' Open Thread: ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Avatar's fundamental reality conceit isn’t biological or physical but circumstantial. It asks us to believe that The Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Save the Whales, and the rest of the Left Wing Environmental Complex will have disappeared in 150 years so that Earthlings can rape and pillage a foreign land more beautiful and populated than the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Pigs will fly before that happens.

Full review at http://www.wikpik.com/movie_reviews/2125-avatar

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Avatar' Contrarian Ro... · 0 replies · +1 points

Avatar measures up to its considerable hype and fills its nearly 3 hour length, yet its reprehensible politics and high-toned B-movie story suggest it’s likely to go down in history as little more than technical triumph.

Avatar’s worldview starts where the HuffPost’s leaves off.

Call it HuffMeth: Left wing whack – 3D tweaked.

Avatar’s whole rape and pillage ethos went out with Nam yet looms like a Deathstar in Hollywood’s tragically hip worldview.

At its nadir – former US Marines destroy a civilization’s iconic tower by shooting missiles into its base and then watch it topple – it becomes clear that we’re now in an obscene world in which 9/11 has become fodder for popcorn propaganda. Cameron – nothing if not brilliantly calculating – must figure that this is how you entice global audiences to buy tickets for the privilege of jeering Americans.

Full WikPik review at http://www.wikpik.com/movie_reviews/2125-avatar

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