loaded question: what movie that you love would you change the ending of, and how?
Inspired by China’s new censoring of the ending of Fight Club, in the most bizarre way…
Fight Club
Gone Girl movie review: proof of wife
Ruins itself as even high-toned cinematic junk food when its justifiable cynicism morphs into something manipulative and dangerously disingenuous.
when did movies start sucking?
I’ve given green lights to plenty of films in recent years, but I can’t shake the sense that, in the aggregate, movies suck, and have been sucking since 2000.
if R-rated movies were kids’ books (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
watch it: The Girls on Film perform a scene from Star Trek
What happens when you replace the guys in famous movie scenes with gals?
question of the day: What’s your favorite movie ending?
I might have to go with the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark, with the ark being packed away into a warehouse, presumably never to be seen again…
Friday night fortune cookie: Tyler Durden says…
“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”
Scream 4 (review)
You wanna know who the killer is? I’ll tell you who the killer is. In fact, there’s two killers: that’s the twist. Director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson worked in tandem here to murder the horror comedy… or at least their own franchise. Not that it wasn’t dead already.
Armond White makes Annette Bening cry; Fight Club: The Musical?; Wal-Mart woos NYC with ad campaign; more: leftover links
Plus: Will Natalie Portman’s pregnancy win her an Oscar?; watch out for ‘Ghost Rider 2’; accusations of fraud and corruption at the Golden Globes; more…
what he said: Patrick Goldstein at The Big Picture…
…on The Social Network as such a dramatic contrast to the appalling quality of most Hollywood big-screen scriptwriting these days…
