#ImWithTweet
Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 9:00AM I know I promised no political talk on the blog until September so I'll let others do the talking as it was such a big political week that it's hard to avoid. That's reflected in our roundup of amusing tweets this week. But first let us begin with this giddy tweet from Patches who claims he had had a few drinks when he wrote it but to us it's the perfectly clear minded truth.
More after the jump of course...
Movies are insane. People pretending to be other people! Depicting reality, yet constructing it! Angles! Mood! Holy hell. Movies.
— Maester Patches (@misterpatches) June 10, 2016
Now that we're all getting behind Hillary Clinton, let's admit that Anne Hathaway has never once been bad in a movie.
— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) June 8, 2016
100% true. Well 97% true. Eyesore in Wonderland is the aberrance.
A woman senator endorsing a female presidential candidate on a woman’s primetime news show?
— Stephanie Haberman (@StephLauren) June 10, 2016
Why, I do believe this passes the bechdel test.
look I'm sure a female clinton presidency can be okay, but it's going to ruin my childhood memories of the original clinton presidency
— Tom Brown (@Alakaiser) June 9, 2016
Omg. I just realized. Of COURSE God is a woman. That's why the Bible is an entire book filled with men explaining what she said.
— Jen Kirkman (@JenKirkman) June 8, 2016
First woman in history about to make nomination-clinching victory speech.
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) June 8, 2016
1000 men on cable news: "Here's what she needs to say."
While we're making feminist history, can we outlaw the annual tradition of Oscar pundits trying to call it "a weak Best Actress year"?
— Nathaniel Rogers (@nathanielr) June 8, 2016
There are no weak Best Actress years. There are only years wherein people don't acknowledge actressy movies.
— Nathaniel Rogers (@nathanielr) June 8, 2016
Let's just please not forget that Julianne Moore already broke the glass ceiling in 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park' pic.twitter.com/OYLvJTA7Qu
— Russell (@RussellFalcon) June 8, 2016
2016 films in which a wealthy couple hires a young woman to care for their son, who has to be carried around: THE BOY, ME BEFORE YOU.
— Eric D. Snider (@EricDSnider) June 6, 2016
omg in an essay one of my students just confused "emulate" and "immolate."
— Colin Dickey (@colindickey) June 5, 2016
"Find the writers you admire and immolate them."
Awww.. Apocalypse just wants peace. He offers flowers in hopes the peace will continue through primaries tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/dZvydGvDWz
— Edward Douglas (@EDouglasWW) June 6, 2016
Nothing to add here. (Thx @MajorSpoilers) pic.twitter.com/bttGIOM8b0
— Scott Johnson (@scottjohnson) June 4, 2016
One day I'll write about Ginger Rogers' career outside of musicals. It's a shame how few people regard her as a great actress.
— Sara Freeman (@CelluloidAngel) June 10, 2016
Decisions decisions decisions pic.twitter.com/nCstBo6v1B
— Adam Feldman (@FeldmanAdam) June 3, 2016
Reader Comments (15)
Anne Hathaway has never been in a bad movie except Alice? Looks like someone hasn't seen the 'Princess Diaries' movies. Or 'Valentine's Day'.
MrW: it's "bad in a movie" - which is different.
The best thing about "weak best actress years" is that what it always means is "no Oscar bait starring women", so the Oscars needs to look outside to fill the category, and you get nominees like Charlotte Rampling in an Andrew Haigh movie, Marion Cotillard in a Dardennes movie, Emmanuelle Riva in a Haneke movie and the entire 1975 lineup.
I'd put BRIDE WARS in there, too.
The annoying thing about that Julienne Moore/glass ceiling tweet is that nobody did one with THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE as a "before" or something to that effect.
@Mike: Oops. In my defence: I've only been reading for some 30 years, so I'm still pretty new to this putting words into the right order thing...
MrW: I made the same slip myself, and had to reread it slowly because no one on the planet would say that Our Anne has never been in a bad movie.
Good point that "It's a weak Best Actress year" is said a bit too often, but every acting category has especially weak moments. Lead Actress 2005, Lead Actor 2015, Supporting Actor 2010 (anywhere from two to four counts of category fraud, depending on your standards, what the hell!?) and...whatever it was that infected Supporting Actress in 1998.
I love Anne Hathaway but... she has been in some bad movies. Valentine's Day, that first Alice movie, Princess Diaries 2, and the abomination that is... Bride Wars which I think is the worst film she's been in and she shouldn't have to slum herself with someone as mediocre as Kate Hudson.
Love and Other Drugs was horrendous. Almost insultant.
I'm SO not with her.
Is it time for the Anne Hathaway backlash backlash? Hope so.
everyone -- it was not "anne hathaway has never been in a bad movie" but "Anne Hathaway has never been bad in a movie" -- very big difference!
I was really hoping my shady comment about Jon Hamm in the possible Archer movie would make it. Alas!
And I wouldn't say Anne was bad in That Dread Movie I Shall Not Name, more of an interesting failure of a performance.
I thought she was pretty bad in Havoc.
Shame that Ginger Rodgers tweet got buried under all those stupid gender politics bullshit ones.
On a sidenote I am still annoyed at Princess Diaries. The books were quirky, fun teen novels as well as basically satire of the exact type of films the adaptations ended up being. Disney live action department of the 00s was the worst, I need to remember that since I am not a fan of the live action adaptations but at least they are so much better than what their live action films for females used to be.