Letters to the Editor
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and I just -love- the ads for it
Because pretending to say "motherfucker" is, like, so edgy.
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Justin Long?
And so goes the complete implosion of movies, commercials, 'comedy' and action into one big morass. Hollywood is laughing at you. It hates its own audience.
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Justin Long's God Comment
I saw Justin on the Comedy channel doing little comedy/skit/commercials promoting the movie. Most of the breaks were funny and would make people want to see the movie, especially the younger crowd. He said the movie was better than alot of things and spelled them out. When he said it was better than God, he turned me off forever. If people think that is funny more power to them but I will never see him in the same light nor will I care to pay to go see him in anything.
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@anonymous
f people think that is funny more power to them but I will never see him in the same light nor will I care to pay to go see him in anything.
Anything that keeps one more moron out of the movie theaters is OK with me.
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in defense of Justin Long (and the Beatles)...
Anonymous:
When he said it was better than God, he turned me off forever. If people think that is funny more power to them but I will never see him in the same light nor will I care to pay to go see him in anything.
I guarantee God would see this movie and admit it was better than he was, because unlike his most ardent fans, I'm guessing God has a great sense of humor. And since he also created the hyperbole, he'd probably be glad to see it used properly.
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God Comment
The google news page picked up this story.
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Re: Justin Long's God Comment
That's ok.. You probably shouldn't be venturing out from your church/bunker anyway, because Satan might get you to admit to liking anything that wasn't sanctioned by some made-up mythological sky-fairy anyway. Reruns of the 700 Club and Veggie Tales are all you should need.
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Justin Long
I'm inclined to like Justin Long ever since his small but adorable geek sci-fi turn in Galaxy Quest. He IS an actor. A quiet, understated one, but a good one.
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I gotta say that
Evan Allmighty was amazingly refreshing. A movie that didn't try in the least to be too cool and didn't have to swear or have gratuitous nudity or dumb angry dysfunctional stereotypes it thought was real, was really really nice to see.
The thing I hate about BW films is that they're all half out of screen winking and leering at the audience about how much more cool they are than you. I don't think '16 Blocks' WAS a movie. It was an interview about a movie. Or maybe it was a reality show about casting a movie. I'm not sure.
Was this like that?
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Die Hard
Like so many contemporary action pictures, it's mostly a series of situations strung together, manufactured occasions for car chases, butt kickings, and florid explosions. (That's not something you could say of the first "Die Hard," a picture with a beaten, bloodied, bitterly funny soul, which may be part of the reason the picture is beloved even by people who claim not to care much for action movies.)
Thanks, Stephanie. That's all I needed to know about this movie. I always hope that the next Die Hard movie will be as good as the first but they never are.
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Justin Long Sucks The Bone
And Bruce Willis is even worse.
Why can't somebody give John Hodgeman a starring role in an action film?
Everything else Hollywood sucks massive donkey dick.
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Better than GOD
Damn, he's right - It is better than me!
p.s. don't be such a weenie, Anonymous. Nobody cares whether you go to his movies or not.
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He's just like that in person
I didn't really meet him but I almost ran over him with my bike on the bike path at Santa Monica beach a couple years ago.
I think it was his birthday or something, that's what I read later in the tabloids.
He was being a royal jerk -- he was not just walking his entourage on the "Bikes only" part of the path but he himself was walking in the wrong lane so that oncoming bicycles had to swerve around him.
It wasn't until I narrowly avoided crashing into him that I recognized that face, that voice, and those obnoxious arms reaching out to pretend to grab me.
But he has so much charisma, even in that brief encounter I couldn't stay too mad at him.
I didn't turn my bike around to yell at him and call him an asshole, which I think is probably the proper thing to do under those circumstances.
If I weren't such a good bike rider, I could have ended up in the tabloids as the woman who ran over Bruce Willis with her bike on his birthday.
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I almost
hit Steve Martin with a golf ball once while he was walking across the pitch and putt where they were filming LA Story, does that count?
BW IS an asshole, but Die Hard was a good movie. The sequels never match up to the orignal though...
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BW gets some slack from me
First because I loved him in Moonlighting when he had hair.
But really, because he does so many small films with small potent roles that he obviously enjoys more than he profits from; many are sleepers and he frequently isn't even in the credits.
He can pay the bills with Die Hards #5 and onward, as far as I'm concerned. Of course, his politics are not reason to cheer, but I don't go to movies for politics, unless it's a Michael Moore film.
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god stuff
Those of you slamming the person who was offended by the god remark are acting pretty pathetic. I'm an agnostic who leans left politically, and I'm not inclined to get offended easily, but the person who did feel that way wrote a reasonable letter stating a feeling. Didn't tell you how you should feel, just stated their own feeling. Then here come all you guys jumping on that writer, as if you know a single thing about him or her.
Can you say knee-jerk? You are showing yourselves to be exactly what you criticized the letter-writer for (being an unthinking dittohead type, which in fact the letter did not exhibit at all). Maybe you should think about why the left so often has trouble connecting with folks who locate themselves somewhere else on the spectrum. Not to mention that the comment is an idiotic one--hackneyed in its "I'm so trendy because I'll just say ANYthing" mentality. About as clever as those Apple ads that are also simplistic in their depiction of PC users as red-state dopes with bad haircuts.
How about taking a look in the mirror, counting to ten, reaching down inside yourself, and trying to find some self-awareness and some capacity to understand where another person is coming from?