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I am giving serious consideration to not watching the Academy Awards for the first time in . . . counts on fingers . . . nine years.
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Indy IV
The first trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is up. They’re calling it a teaser, but I don’t think it really fits that description, what with having actual movie footage and dialogue in it. [HT: Flibbert]
There Will Be Blood
Spoilers, as always. My sister and I went to see There Will Be Blood yesterday. Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil!, on which the film is based, is little in evidence, thankfully. I do not enjoy Sinclair, because his narratives expect the reader to sympathize with his Socialist views. I am a miserable failure at sympathizing with Socialists. I was worried that There Will Be Blood would be all anti-industrial in theme, and it mostly wasn’t. The first three acts are really quite good. Plainview is competent and knows it. He puts on a hard sell, but he doesn’t swindle people. He expects only what is coming [ . . . ]
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Over-the-Shoulder Boulder Holder
William Gluckin & Co. v. Int’l. Playtex Corp., 407 F.2d 177 (2d Cir. 1969), is an opinion upholding the issuance of a preliminary injunction against Playtex, manufacturer of, ahem, ladies’ support garments, prohibiting Playtex from prosecuting a lawsuit it had filed against Woolworth & Co. for selling brassieres manufactured by Gluckin at Woolworth’s stores in Georgia. See, what happened was this: Playtex had a patent, and Gluckin (allegedly) infringed the patent and sold the infringing unmentionables to Woolworths, who sold lots of them in Georgia. Woolworth’s, Playtex, and Gluckin were all New York corporations amenable to suit in New York, but Gluckin was not [ . . . ]
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Atonement
Expect subtle spoilers. I went to see Atonement this afternoon. I was a tad disappointed. First of all, the movie couldn’t decide which story it was trying to tell. I wanted a love story. It was supposed to be a love story. But it couldn’t focus on the romance. It spends reels 1–3 and 6–7 on Birony’s story of guilt and atonement, while reels 4 and 5 are spent on Robbie’s WWII Interlude. It spends a lot of time with Robbie in France, following him as he tries to “come home” to Cecilia, which would all be well and good if we had spent a little more time with [ . . . ]
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The Take
This Christmas saw the addition of 53 titles to my DVD collection. Here they are: 9 to 5 A View to a Kill Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy Batman Batman Returns Blade Runner Dial M For Murder Diamonds Are Forever Die Another Day Dr. No Family Plot Foreign Correspondent For Your Eyes Only Frenzy From Russia with Love Goldeneye Goldfinger Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix I Confess License to Kill Live and Let Die Marnie Moonraker Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941, d:Hitchcock) North by Northwest Octopussy On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Psycho Ratatouille Rear Window Rope Saboteur Shadow of a Doubt Stage Fright Strangers on a Train [ . . . ]
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The Golden Compass Preshow
Before watching The Golden Compass, I got to sit through lots of ads and trailers. Citizen Soldier The National Guard has a new and appallingly bad recruiting campaign, featuring a (commissioned?) “song” and “music video” by allegedly “popular” alternative rock band, 3 Doors Down. The video, which is over four minutes long, cuts between shots of the band performing on a blasted heath under a tenebrous sky (complete with bad, fake anamorphic lens flare), shots of National Guard soldiers helping recovery efforts in a disaster area of uncertain origin and locality (complete with obnoxious narrow shutter effect, a.k.a. the Saving Private Ryan Effect), and shots of [ . . . ]
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