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"Oscar nominations"

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Anonymous James Kabala said...

What was the Borat screenplay adapted from?

1/23/07, 3:08 PM

Anonymous James Kabala said...

I've seen Little Miss Sunshine, and while it wasn't an awful movie, not once did it occur to me that I was watching a Best Picture nominee.

1/23/07, 3:12 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

"Borat" was adapted from the Borat segments on the Ali G show.

1/23/07, 3:52 PM

Blogger Alex said...

Man, I assumed De Niro would do better. Kind of a snub. Plus that movie was much better than Babel, or most of the crud this year.

1/23/07, 4:10 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The difference between Babel and dogs playing poker is that dogs playing poker is entertaining. If you can put the jigsaw together, haha!, it's dogs playing poker! They're cute and funny, or if you're not into cute and funny, they're at least ironic.

If you put Babel together it's still 142 minutes of crap without cute or funny or even or irony to redeem it. Babel is just tedious.

1/23/07, 9:12 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

Thanks, I'll add the dogs playing poker comment to the blog.

1/23/07, 10:33 PM

Anonymous Max said...

Have Bollywood films ever been entered for Best Foreign Picture?

1/24/07, 6:28 AM

Anonymous Felix said...

De Niro appears to have sunk into self-parody sometime during the late 1980s and his career has been unwatchable since.

1/24/07, 6:31 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sure, Shepherd isn't a thrill a minute, but if it was it wouldn't be a reasonably authentic presentation of the "spy mind" (at least circa 1960). It also creates a genuine feeling of tension between job and family responsibilities. I didn't think the movie was principally an attack on WASPs, but its characterization of the Yalie upper crust at that time, which could be viewed as a touch ridiculous from our later viewpoint, probably wasn't too far off the mark. One positive on Departed was its live-wire quality, that sense that everything was potentially on the table for the director. However, it didn't leave me much to reflect on later, was contrived in the plot, and not as tightly executed as Shepherd.

1/24/07, 9:04 AM

Blogger Chip said...

Steve,

Did you ever get around to reviewing Children of Men?

1/24/07, 9:48 AM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

I liked the Good Shepherd quite a bit, but I was able to keep track of what was going on, which my wife, for example, couldn't. For most people, it would be a good DVD movie to watch with at least one other person, and stop repeatedly and discuss what was happening.

The one lack of restraint in the movie went all wrong: Angelina Jolie's casting. Better to have an Aryan from Darien like Chloe Sevigny as the CIA man's wife. Jolie is kind of like casting the young Sophia Loren in the role -- you just want to call out to Matt Damon to open his eyes and take a look at his wife.

1/24/07, 1:15 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I agree that Angelina Jolie was totally out of place (you could argue she was cheapened by the early sex, driving Damon to Europe, but it's unconvincing), although other big names fit in well. Also, the meaningful plot turns were all predictable. I'm not sure if Damon was outstanding in his role, or if the range required to play a circumspect intelligence mastermind was so limited that it seemed so. One thing worth mentioning is that the visual style of the movie, with its emphasis on order, seemed to fit the deliberate pacing and contribute to the mood.

1/24/07, 2:53 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve,

Did you review The Fountain?

Dave

1/24/07, 8:43 PM

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