David Poland on the DGA’s snubbing of Atonement: “It’s not shocking that Joe Wright hasn’t been nominated for either of his two Oscar-chasing films. He is not a local and the films are not breathtakingly visual.” Not breathtakingly visual, huh? We imagine the Dunkirk Long-Shot Circle Jerk Club would disagree.- Yesterday, we learned that hacky, studio-beholden critics occasionally outlive their usefulness. Today, we bring you The Best Worst Blurbs of 2007, through which Gelf Magazine attacks the marketing campaigns that twist the words of (mostly) reputable critics into blatantly misleading, top-of-the-poster one-liners. Via The Consumerist.
- Filmdrunk thinks “it’s retarded that after Fight Club becomes a phenomenon, [Chuck] Palahniuk’s next movie adaptation still gets a first-time director (not that I think he’ll do a bad job) and a budget in the single digits.” Said adaptation, Choke, premieres at Sundance next week.
- “For this one, it was kind of a hard choice between Ron or Keith, but on the basis that Keith would probably just lie down in Central park until the world stopped spinning, I figured Ron would be the better choice to rip Lady Liberty’s head clean off.” Scaramouch explains why Ron Wood beat out his bandbate Keith Richards, to make #2 on YesButNoButYes’ list of Ten Things We Hope The Cloverfield Monster really is.
