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Why the Wild Things Aren’t Nominated
I don’t care about the Oscars and I don’t follow his conclusion but it still aggravates me how crap it was so I must excerpt the bitterness.
I mean, do you remember that first trailer, with the Arcade Fire’s specially re-recorded version of “Wake Up”? It’s impossible, having seen the movie, to re-capture the emotions this tour de force of nostalgic button-pushing evoked […] Spike Jonze’s long-awaited masterpiece, with a script by Dave freakin’ Eggers, promised to take us back (to childhood) and forward (to a post-corporate-bullshit world of meaningful, auteur-driven cinema) at the exact same time. October could not come too soon!
This was before we knew that Eggers’s script would be a saggy, seemingly random compilation of psychotherapeutic clichés. This was before we knew that halfway through the film we’d begin to feel like idiots for watching a bunch of overgrown muppets complain about their feelings. This was before we knew that Tony Soprano and Lauren Ambrose would be portraying the most annoying ex-couple on your nursery-school playground.
Posted on February 2, 2010 ()
What it says up top.
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Around the World with Deanna Halsall
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A Dangerous Method Trailer
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