Last Friday, I suggested that the prologue to Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympiabe featured ahead of Olympics coverage. But I’ve changed my mind after seeing this montage created by L.A.’s Cinefamily (the gang behind the recently revitalized Silent Movie Theater) & Pimpedelic Wonderland for a 4th of July event last month. It clearly says everything there is to say about America, and it would certainly pump us up adequately for patriotically rooting for the U.S. teams. Plus, unlike like Olympia, it’s not made by Nazis; like Olympia, though, it has nudity!
The only thing possibly more appropriately American than this video is Entertainment Weekly’s new interviews with Barack Obamaand John McCain about their pop culture preferences, a feature that finally allows us to make up our minds based on things more fun than “important issues”. I don’t know about you, but I’d never vote for anybody who honestly thinks We Were Soldiersis the best Vietnam movie of all time. Thanks, EW, for keeping me from making a terrible mistake on Election Day.
Anne Thompson’s respecting the Beowulf review embargo for the time being, but she can’t resist poking a bit at the flick’s major bait: gold-painted naked Angelina Jolie:
…in one scene when Angelina Jolie rises up out of her cave pool to seduce the mighty Beowulf, who has just killed her only son, Grendel, she walks on water, revealing that she is not only painted in gold, a la Goldfinger, but sports a tail and stacked high heels. Please. Barbie Doll stilettos in 5th century Denmark?
Two of the men I asked about this, intelligent film critics both, said it didn’t bother them. I guess Jolie worked her magic.
We’ve had a bit of trouble getting this episode to go through the iTunes feed, so we hope this re-post will fix the problem. The original post, with episode description and embedded player, is here.
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Anne Thompson’s respecting the Beowulf review embargo for the time being, but she can’t resist poking a bit at the flick’s major bait: gold-painted naked Angelina Jolie:
