So Link We All
Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at 10:37PM EW reunites the cast of Battlestar Galactica for a panel
Variety Ava DuVernay to deliver the UCLA Commencement address
Awards Daily Jazz interviews RuPaul about the phenomenon of Drag Race
Towleroad Colton Haynes dishes about his management team in Hollywood who tried to keep him in the closet
Film School Rejects this needed to be written -- an article on the terrible but now familiar and horrifically disingenuous Hollywood excuse "we didn't make it for the critics but the fans!"
Criterion Closet Barry Levinson (Wizards of Lies, Rain Man) picks some classics from those famous shelves including Jules et Jim and Spartacus and also fantasizes about Orson Welles
MNPP sound advice for Tom Hardy on that Jafar in Aladdin rumor - DON'T DO IT.
i09 the costumes for Black Panther could be a godsend for the black cosplay community
Variety releases a list of 10 comics to watch including John Early (yay), Bollywood star Vir Das, and The Daily Show's Hasan Minhaj
Coming Soon Michelle Monaghan reprising her character for the sixth installment of Mission: Impossible
Finally...
TFE remember when we shared our "best 25 list" because of that random NYT best of new century list. Everyone is doing it including...
The New Yorker with Richard Brody's list. I like Brody so much and the list is quite eclectic but I will never ever understand the mass fascination with Scorsese's Wolf of Wall Street. It's such an obnoxious self indulgent movie. Scorsese has made much better films... even within this new century!
Reader Comments (14)
The movie I can't understand in Brody's list is American Sniper
Fully agreed on Wolf of Wall Street. Happy to see Josephine Decker on Brody's list though!
PS: Any possibility of a Wonder Woman podcast? I know you and Katey loved it and that Nick haaaaated it.
Idk. Wolf of Wall Street is a much better film than many I'm seeing on these lists. Although I wouldn't include it I'm not sure why people go out of their way to bash it; it's not exactly showing up on most of these.
The Film Twitter gays including Nathaniel, Joe, and Nick hated The Wolf of Wall Street the minute the trailer for it dropped.
Ugh, Tom Hardy as Jafar?! You've got to be kidding me...
Re: Colton Haynes, didn't Anne Heche's representatives tell her the same thing when she started dating Ellen Degeneres 20 (!!!) years ago? I can't (but can) believe this is still happening. For shame.
The Wolf of Wall Street's mortal sin is its absurd, self-indulgent length.
I thought wolf of Wall Street was absurdly long, poorly made frankly (I think the camera work and editing is appallingly poor and sloppy), and mostly pretty boring. It really bothered me that all of the discussion around the was almost exclusively about whether or not you were or weren't offended by what's it's message was and its content as opposed to whether or not it was even well made. And I also had a problem with the arguments people were making about those who didn't like the film being in denial about this lifestyle appealing to them.
But sure, blame film twitter gays.
Wolf of Wall Street is easily one of Scorsese's worst. It's the same 'Goodfellas in Wall Street' copy. The over-the-top fight scene between Leo and Jonah Hill has to be one of the most laughable pieces of cinema imaginable. Save for the appearance of Margot Robbie - this movie is cringe-worthy.
Amitabh Bachchan is Indian rather than Arabian but I would suggest him as a great Jafar. If they want someone younger Riz Ahmed (British Pakistani) is also right there. Bachchan would also be great b/c he would directly contradict the "only white guys are bankable globally" argument since he's a decades-long Bollywood megastar. No need for Tom Hardy.
That FSR article is great but I wish it had tied the critics vs. fans argument to the larger war on expertise. Anyone with experience or training is "biased" or "elitist" when they go after things that are bad. The whole "we did it for the common man!" thing is just gross pandering that clearly works sometimes and, unfortunately, works a lot right now.
ok, now I need to see Wolf of Wall Street. I'd originally avoided it as I think Scorsese has gotten horribly self-indulgent since his glory days of Taxi Driver & Goodfellas (the latter being his last great film, imho), but anything that excites this much passion should be viewed, I guess. Plus, I'm trying to catch the last dozen or so Best Picture nominees (since 1990) that I've somehow missed.
I also note that there is so little on Brody's list I've even seen, let alone loved; other than Margaret none of his picks would be on my Top 25 list. I'll have to compose mine sometime soon.
I still consider "Battlestar: Galactica", the best TV show I've ever seen. Over "The Simpsons".
... and superior as sci-fi to both "Star Trek" and "Star Wars".
"The Wolf of Wall Street" is a masterpiece, period. I undestand why people may dislike it, but Marty is doing his "American Psycho", and it would be specially disturbing for Americans... not for a communist/ecologist like myself. It's a too accurate depiction of the excesses of capitalism, using actual events to the extreme of caricature... it's my fave Marty film of all time. On the other hand, "American Sniper" is just fascist propaganda, a disturbing glorification of a self-admited mass murderer who did love his job and regretted not having killed more people (blind obedience, all targets deserve to die, no questions asked!). Plus it did deliberately omit the darker aspects of Chris Kyle's personality and biography, to portray a serial killer, as a hero.
a) Wolf of Wall Street made me laugh so hard I thought I'd wet myself.
b) I keep meaning to finish Batlestar Galactica, but it got SO BAD in season three.
Arkaan - season 1 is fantastic. Season 2 even better. 3 is inconsistent but still very worth watching for when it is on game.
I'd skip season 4 tbh.