QOTD: What are some examples of great Hollywood satire — TV or film — that works?
And does satire need to sting in order to be great?
Saturday Night Live
question of the day: The anti-Muslim movie trailer that supposedly prompted the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya: seriously, WTF?
This is a joke, right? No one could possibly take this seriously, could they? I kept expecting Will Ferrell to pop up.
Keith Lemon: The Film (trailer)
My IQ dropped so much watching this trailer I am no longer able to calculate how much it dropped.
question of the day: Why do Hollywood execs suddenly love Lindsay Lohan again?
It’s cases like this that make me question the conventional wisdom that Hollywood only gives audiences what they want. It appears that the public does not want to see Lindsay Lohan onscreen. Something else must be going on.
watch it: “Conspiracy Theory Rock By Robert Smigel”
Aired on Saturday Night Live once, in 1998, and has been edited out of reruns ever since…
question of the day: What do you think of the Emmy Awards results?
The Emmy Awards for excellence in American television were handed out last night, and one of the biggest winners wasn’t American at all: Downton Abbey…
Bridesmaids (review)
Progress! Hollywood has recognized the comedic value of women! If you’ve had it up to here with movies all about fat dudes who are disgusting and crude and that’s all extra funny cuz they’re fat, then behold: Bridesmaids features not one but two very overweight women who will gross you out with their flab, their sexual desires, their farts, their inability to recognize the personal space of others, and other revolting things that are doubly hilarious coming from fatties!
The Kentucky Fried Movie (review)
If I had been introduced to this film at a more impressionable age, I might today have pleasant adolescent memories of it that would color my grownup response to it today, and perhaps I could be kinder to a movie considered a comedy classic by some. But I wasn’t, I haven’t, and I can’t.
question of the day: Must we stop this obsession with movies based on reality?
William Skidelsky in The Observer recently went off on a rant that has the definite whiff of Emily Litella about it: “It’s time to stop this obsession with works of art based on real events,” insists his headline. For some reason this makes me believe he must be misunderstanding some other problem…
trailer break: ‘The Heart Specialist’
The trailer looks like a bad parody from a particularly depressing episode of Saturday Night Live. (Ed Asner?)
