Published by drockwood February 24th, 2007
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I had no interest in this Number 23 movie. Jim Carrey plus Joel Schumacher plus an appallingly flimsy premise. Yeah I read RAW novels and looked for 23 conspiracies too, and then one day I had sex. They’re about 20 years late on this fad, and besides if we want to over-analyze number coincidences that never pay off then that’s what Lost is for.
But anyways the reviews for this debacle have officially piqued my interest (8% on RT). Every few years a film comes out that inspires critics to new new levels of poetic vitriol in their attempts to wrap their heads around how awful the experience really was. It takes a special type of monstrosity to illicit unfavorable comparisons to Batman & Robin. And that is just the type of monstrosity I would like to stand in line an pay 8 dollars to witness and then write a review of.
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Published by drockwood February 12th, 2007
in reviews.
Directed by George Hickerlooper and staring Cienna Miller, Guy Pierce, Hayden Christensen.
I don’t know you, you’re just an annonymous internet surfing lurking my blog, I doubt we’ve ever met, but all that aside I’m gonna go out on a limb and say you would hate this film I just saw called Factory Girl. It’s pretentious and self important, and the flawed heroine is ultimatly unsymathetic. But the point that I’m going to make eventually is that you should give it a chance and see it anyways.
You could say that it’s a biopic of sorts documenting the high society adventures of Edie Sedgwick played by Cienna Miller. Miller plays her character as a bit of a cypher, a woman who needs to be all things to all people, one could get the impression she is courting the affections of the entire world. She is simultaneously a herion, a fascinatingly flawed character, a stuck up brat, and a hapless sap. She falls in with a crowd of bohemian future celebrities drifting in orbit around Andy Warhol played by Guy Pearce who creates a performance that’s part impression and part parody. His character is the lynch pin of the film so it’s fortunate that his is probably the best performance in the show.
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Published by drockwood February 7th, 2007
in tv shows and Lost.
Before I get to all the reason’s why I believe Lost has come back swinging, making all us naysayer’s eat crow, I’d first like to congratulate the creators for pulling what has to be simultaneously their eeriest, goofiest, and most suspenseful cliffhanger yet. Kate, Locke, Sayid spying on others village and they see Jack playing football with… Mr. Friendly! At first we think he’s making an escape attempt but then he catches the football, spikes it and does a victory dance while Michael Gianachino’s signature cliffhanger music plays like a piano crashing. A perfect moment of ominous absurdity. And Mr. Friendly was there! Remember when Mr. Friendly used to be scary? Back before his name was Tom. Well neither did I until this scene reminded me. It was a victory dance that marked Lost’s comeback as much as anything else. Congratulations Lost, you’re back in full form, psyching us out, shattering our expectations and putting us back where we belong, on the edge of our seats.
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