- It's not possible for the greatest action hero of comic book lore to have a boring backstory, right? Wrong.
- I wouldn't be surprised if seeing what his beloved genre had been reduced to may have hurried John Hughes to his grave.
- I like overblown digi-super-spectaculars as much as the next guy, but seriously. Smurf tigers getting their Baraka on under the Tree of Life?
- The last note I took for this movie was "Just die already." If wishing death upon one of the twentieth century's great feminist icons is what Mira Nair had in mind, bravissima.
- A special sort of train wreck that unfolds like some fever-dream, recycled-parts mash-up of Anchorman, Mad Love, and a drunkenly self-amused improv sketch.
- Finally, a film that deals with the plight of the wealthy Canadian immigrant.
Friday, January 15, 2010
MISOGYNY PRETENDING TO BE FEMINISM: NYMag polls 43 major film critics to determine the ten worst films of 2009. The critics' comments on particular nominees include:
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The joy was in trying to identify these, and seeing just how many movies I had forgotten existed immediately after they left theaters (save, perhaps, for the week before and after the DVD release).
ReplyDeleteI actually liked The Awful Truth a lot! It was much funnier than The Proposal and right up my romcom alley.
ReplyDeleteListen, Eric Kohn, if that is your real name, let's talk. Have a seat. You called Wolverine " the greatest action hero of comic book lore." Huh. Ahead of Batman, Spider-Man, Superman, Thor, every member of the Avengers, etc, etc? All this for a bub-speaking Canadian with weird sideburns who specializes in stealing teammates' girlfriends? Ahead of Iron Fist? Luke Cage? Cloak & Dagger, even?
ReplyDeleteAlso, you're dead wrong on Away We Go.