Posted by BuddyChrist at hh-ce-1.net.monmouth.edu on September 30, 2000 at 23:07:08:
In Reply to: A Day At The Movies (almost famous, member da tits posted by VioLenT BoB on September 30, 2000 at 22:54:12:
: Well, nothing like catching an upper respiratory infection to make you catch up on your cinematic viewing. Braving the cold weather (hell any weather is cold when you're running a 102.1 fever) I went to the Monmouth Mall and decided to give my daily bread to View Askew Alumni Jason Lee, Ethan Suplee, and Eion Bailey. Pretty much any guy's name who ends with the syllable EE.
: I always thought that Say Anything would be my favorite Cameron Crowe film. Thought he'd peaked there, but boy was I wrong. The film itself is magical in its capture of adolescence end, as well as a lifestyle of misplaced artistry.
: For Jason, i would say it was a wonderful, artfully understated performance as a typical lead singer of the seventies. Your representation of the character's love of performing couple with your resentment at taking second fiddle to the lead guitarist was reminscient, at least to me, of Banky's insecurity with being an inker. Though the analogy spans two films as well as two professions.
: I was slightly pissed as I left the theater though. A mid-forties film poseur was rattling on to his fiancee (i think, no ring anyway) about how the deciding factor of the film's greatness for him was not the writing, directing, or performances, but the fact that such greatness came from a film with no stars. He was rather shocked when I rattled off the numerous films that Jason had done, couple with Anna Paquin's Oscar, Jimmy Fallon's status on Saturday Night Live, Billy Crudup's excursion as Steve Prefontain as well as his portrayal of a molested boy in Sleepers. Mentioning Philip Seymour Hoffman's bountiful resume was enough to shut the man up, and make he and his companions wonder where the walking IMDB with the cigarette and deep hoarse cough had come from.
: On the other hand, while I enjoyed Remember the Titans, I also disliked the tone. Positivity is great. Showing the American populace how we can all overcome adversity and racial tension is fine. But I don't want to be spoon fed it. You want to overcome race issues. Put black characters in white moves, strong black characters. Put a white character in a black movie and don't make one joke about the size of his dick. Put characters of all races in a film together that is not about race but rather about anything else...like Space Gators.
: If a film's world could reflect the melting pot the real world is we would be taking steps in the right direction rather than furthering the notion of a segregated melting pot, where only certain exceptable races may enter, or only qualified members of other races may tread (i.e., Minstrels).
: A great message in the film, but defeating the purpose entirely in the portrayal of it. I'm sick of guilt films like Amistad. And I'm tired of everybody goes home happy films.
: And for the love of God, the one true thing that all races desire is the untimely death of John Leguizamo.
: Allright I'm off my alliterating, agitating soap box now, and I think I'll go back to coughing up a lung.
: VB
: I'm always on the board, I'm uncool.