This pleases me.

"You better lawyer up, asshole, because I’m not just coming back for thirty percent. I’m..."

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:36:21 -0500

““You better lawyer up, asshole, because I’m not just coming back for thirty percent. I’m coming back for EVERYTHING.””

- The Social Network

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let’s say you have no idea what we do and leave it that, alright? Nada. Zip...."

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 14:22:17 -0500

“Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let’s say you have no idea what we do and leave it that, alright? Nada. Zip. None. If you had any idea about what we do we would not be good at what we do, would we? We be c—-s. Are you callin’ us c—-s?””

- The Departed

"No one gives it to ya. Ya have to take it."

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 13:59:06 -0500

““No one gives it to ya. Ya have to take it.””

- The Departed

"OY. ABSIMFFFFFFF."

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:12:41 -0500

“OY. ABSIMFFFFFFF.”

- Get Him to the Greek

"The Doug we’re looking for is a white."

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:37:59 -0500

“The Doug we’re looking for is a white.”

- The Hangover

"Your mouth is smiling, but your eyes look all sad. WHY?"

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:37:15 -0500

““Your mouth is smiling, but your eyes look all sad. WHY?””

- Get Him to the Greek

"Jesus, he’s like a gremlin. Comes with instructions and shit."

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:43:31 -0500

““Jesus, he’s like a gremlin. Comes with instructions and shit.””

- The Hangover

"You look like you’ve got some pain behind those eyes. There’s only one cure for that...."

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:43:11 -0500

“You look like you’ve got some pain behind those eyes. There’s only one cure for that. Weed! Ya got any?”

- Forgetting Sarah Marshall

"Well, take a look. It’s a goddamn Hostess truck. I could use a Twinkie."

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:37:00 -0500

“Well, take a look. It’s a goddamn Hostess truck. I could use a Twinkie.”

- Zombieland

The Art House Film Strikes Back?

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:28:47 -0500

They’re those movie titles that make you do a double-take when you see their names on nomination lists.

“I’ve never even HEARD of that!”

Those, my friends, are art house films. And they’re popping up more and more outside of the art house.

“Blue Valentine” and “Somewhere”, two of the best films of the year, are low-budget films with raw camera work, gritty realism, and powerful messages. The former stars Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling as two adults trapped in a marriage where despair and unhappiness threaten to tear them apart. The latter is Sophia Coppola’s (Lost in Translation) dive into the head of a hedonistic actor as he struggles to maintain a relationship with his young daughter.

Neither of those plot lines sound very happy do they? They’re not supposed to.

My experience with bonafide art house films is limited. They don’t come out in Atlanta, and for good reason. No one would go to see them. They have a very limited audience, and not many people want to go to a the movies and see someone wallowing in misery.

Fortunately, that limited audience gives the films all of the recognition that they need in order to make a statement to the rest of the world.

Movies are not about how many cars you can blow up in 120 minutes (Michael Bay) or how many different ways the same sex joke can be told (Judd Apatow).

Movies are about feeling and living and being and experiencing everything that you don’t get to in your normal life.

Art house films capture the lost essence of the film world and say one thing:

Movies are about something bigger than yourself.

"You can’t be me. You had a hard enough time being you."

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:38:55 -0500

“You can’t be me. You had a hard enough time being you.”

- The Fighter

Summer Movies

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:54:24 -0500

With the new year, IMDb started posting a slew of previews for the blockbuster movies that are coming out during the summer. “Fast Five” (Fast and the Furious 5), “Thor”, and “Green Lantern” — just to name a few — are going to be some of the biggest of the season.

What I don’t understand, though, is the backlash of criticism that these previews have been met with. The ratio of positive-to-negative comments is staggering. Everyone and their mother is coming out of the woodwork to say how, “Oh God, another Marvel let down!” or “Vin Diesel’s bald lol.” while making sure to point out that the plots are filled with holes and the cinematography isn’t Oscar-worthy.

Who cares?

What happened to the days when we went to the movies because we wanted to be entertained? Not every movie has to have a deep, sentimental message that sends the audience into an emotional state of catharsis. Sometimes I want to go a movie and just escape the suffocating reality that we live in. Sometimes I want to forget that we’re in a recession and that unemployment is at an all-time high.

Sometimes I just want to see shit get blown up.

"Hell fuckin’ no. That’s the most racist, condescending shit ever made. What the fuck you..."

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 02:55:53 -0500

““Hell fuckin’ no. That’s the most racist, condescending shit ever made. What the fuck you callin’ me? A house nigga?”

- Get Him to the Greek

"That guy did not just get off the fuckin’ couch. If he did, I want a couch like that."

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:22:08 -0500

“That guy did not just get off the fuckin’ couch. If he did, I want a couch like that.”

- The Fighter

"What are you doin’ runnin’ in here like a Silverback fuckin’ gorilla?"

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:46:08 -0500

“What are you doin’ runnin’ in here like a Silverback fuckin’ gorilla?”

- The Fighter

"Just a boy?! No. That dude was a fucking man."

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 18:56:25 -0500

“Just a boy?! No. That dude was a fucking man.”

- Forgetting Sarah Marshall

"This is why I don’t subscribe to logic. It’s just a two-syllable word for ‘cock..."

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:52:37 -0500

“This is why I don’t subscribe to logic. It’s just a two-syllable word for ‘cock punch with a wrecking ball to the groin of fun.’”

- Ethan MacMannus

"Just shut up. Listening to you two is like open mic at the trailer park."

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:55:45 -0500

“Just shut up. Listening to you two is like open mic at the trailer park.”

- John Becker

So close.

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:48:02 -0500

So close.

"Well, look on the bright side. At least he doesn’t smell like bong water.” …..."

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:18:49 -0500

““Well, look on the bright side. At least he doesn’t smell like bong water.” … “Ahhhh, the nectar of the gods!””

- GLΩRY DAZΣ