Feb 09 2009
Guy Ritchie Is A Filmmaker?! LOLWut?
Sometimes the Internet causes me great pain. One of the best things about my new writing gig over at Kiwibox is that whenever people respond, they get these things called Kiwipoints. They’re like regular points, but green and kind of fuzzy. Anyway, because people get Kiwipoints to respond to things like my DVD review of Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla, I get some response whereas over at Den of Geek I get basically nothing written back to me. Such is life.
Anyway, I make a throwaway joke about Mr. Madonna also being known to some people as a filmmaker. One of the responses left was, and I quote “HMMM seems interesting, I didn’t know that Guy was a
filmmaker…i’ll have to check it out!”
Now, I want to cut the kid some slack, because she’s only 17. That means when Guy Ritchie’s last good movie came out, she was 9 years old. When he broke onto the scene by winning an MTV movie award, she was 7. Still, the fact that my joke was actually true kind of gave me a shooting pain behind my eyeball that I can only assume is a massive hemorrhage developing in the logic center of my brain. Gushing nosebleeds are normal, right?
To make things better, I had to spend this weekend seeing the #3 movie at the box office, the lovely/creepy little stop motion animation masterpiece Coraline. It’s the best 3-D movie I’ve seen all year. It’s also the second 3-D movie I’ve seen all year. If you have an issue paying a little extra to see a movie in 3-D, let me tell you right now it’s worth the extra dollar. It makes great movies better, and sleazy movies even trashier.
I was schooled recently regarding Coraline. I kept wondering why the ads kept promoting it as being from “the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas.” Why not just say his name? Tim Burton is household enough, right? Oops. I always thought Burton directed Nightmare. It took me fifteen years to learn otherwise.
Everyone thinks Tim Burton directed Nightmare. That’s why they don’t say Henry Selick’s name. It’s a shame he doesn’t get the credit for what he did, because Nightmare is great.
If it’s any concilation I always read your articles at DoG. But unless you’re writing a list people don’t seem to want to leave comments anymore.
It helps some. :) One of the problems I have re: leaving feedback, as I read most of the stuff that gets posted, is that it will no longer let me log in and leave comments. I enter my name and password, and it bounces back to the home page. When I go back and try to comment again, it repeats the process as if I weren’t signed in. Don’t know what’s going on!
American life style has dominated the world.Unfortunately on other part of the world like middle east we just watch those styles through Hollywood movies which are not real.This era belongs to americans, so if you are an american enjoy it.