It’s 3:30 AM. Since this semester started and I have only night classes, my being awake at this hour is not unusual. I’ve been working on Nostalgia Chick episodes that won’t come out for months. Not a bad thing; being “Nostalgia Chick” is my job, and will be my primary focus once I move back to [...]
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Late night thoughts on the impossible standards we put on female characters
Posted in feminism, The Hollywood, writing on February 20, 2011 | 66 Comments »
What An Asshole
Posted in filmmaking, The Hollywood on February 11, 2011 | 41 Comments »
This entry doesn’t have much of a point. I usually try to have a point. Today, fuck it. I might get my ass handed to me for this one, but oh well, I’m almost done with this school anyway. One of the “perks” of going to the “top film school in the fucking universe” is [...]
A quick message to regarding the nature of the elusive MacGuffin
Posted in The Hollywood on December 27, 2010 | 29 Comments »
Here is my general attitude to responding to comments I get; I don’t, especially in public forums. It drives me crazy when people on TGWTG get all uppity and go after their commenters. As most of us are doing reviews on something else, being derivative in that way and “commenting”, I find it very immature [...]
Manoj’s silly bullshit
Posted in reviews, The Hollywood on July 4, 2010 | 22 Comments »
Here’s my tagline for The Last Airbender: “This summer… get bent!” Okay guys, it wasn’t that bad. Grant you, I will, that I never saw the series, but I read such reviews raving about a catastrophically awful apocalypse of a movie, so of course I had to see it. And really, I was kind of [...]
Why did we have to play god and try to cure cancer?!
Posted in reviews, The Hollywood on June 9, 2010 | 67 Comments »
I guess it’s a time honored b-movie SciFi tradition, and Splice is just carrying on the torch past 2010, but… really, guys. Are we still harboring Victor Frankenstein’s horror and guilt?
This must be how Indians felt after ‘Slumdog’… (My Name is Khan)
Posted in The Hollywood, tagged bollywood, my name is khan, shahrukh khan on February 22, 2010 | 11 Comments »
I have a real penchant for movies made about America by non-Americans, but particularly when made for a non-American audience. When the filmmakers don’t particularly care what we as Americans will think, they’re just catering to their demographic; for once, it’s not us. Maybe it’s just my American vanity, so that part of me can [...]
Insuferable Duchebags
Posted in The Hollywood on October 3, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I got a freelance editing job (“job”) a few days ago. Today, I went to go get the footage from the guy who directed it. I should mention that he graduated from my MFA program in May. On the phone he seemed like a nice enough guy. The fact that he wasn’t really willing to [...]
Ushering in a New Era
Posted in aliens, reviews, robots, The Hollywood on June 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is transcendent. Transcendent may not be an adequate term for how much this film is going to change the face of cinema. It is beyond post-modern. It’s post-intelligent. Yes, I believe this film is simply the flagship of a new era; we are entering the era of post-intelligence.
But we have luff! The Day The Earth Stood Still
Posted in aliens, reviews, robots, The Hollywood on December 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Films like this that bring in otherworldly characters and attempt to place a tangible value on the meaning of life are tangling with issues that have lacked answers since before philosophy as a study even came to exist. If you must place value on human life, what can you say it is? Is it possible to even do so without getting super-subjective and, dare I say, sentimental?
