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America needs a prune (Emmys 2008)


Probably the best line of the night next to Piven’s diss of the opening.

I like Survivor but man did that Emmy hosting suck.
Even Probst was bad, and he was the one to win the Emmy.

When you precede Tinay Fey/Amy Poehler and follow Ricky Gervais/Steve Carell, it’s time to GTFO ASAP.

I would love to be in the office of the Emmy guy on the day he decided who was going to host the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards.

Maybe they wanted to avoid waves and anything politically incorrect.

I guess that’s why thoses bastards decided to cut Kirk Ellis when he was talking about the Founding Fathers!


Yeah, let’s show some respect to the writers who make the medium what it is by minimizing to the extreme their speeches (Ellis was told to “wrap it up” just as was getting on stage!).

I also find ironic that for a show that celebrates TV and coming on the heels of a writers’ strike, they chose five reality hosts for the Emmys.
Nice touch.

Regarding the actual results, I’m really happy for Brian Cranston and Breaking Bad, great show, great actor.
Happy also for Ivaneck, the guy deserves to finally win!
I like a lot Mad Men but I still feel as though it is over-hyped, especially considering the other shows nominated (except Boston Legal).
And Tina Fey still rocks.

It’s also interesting to note the downfall of the networks (and HBO). 10 wins for HBO (long is gone the 3-digit), 4 for NBC, 3 for AMC (!) and ABC, 2 for FX (!) and CBS as well as Comedy Central, and finally 1 little Emmy for FOX and PBS.

And how weird was that Forrest Gump/Punchline reunion?

No-show

Burn After Reading was funny.
It was so funny that the guy at my right almost had as asthma attack.
True story.

Sure, it isn’t oscar-worthy but it’s at least saturday-night-popcorn-movie-of-the-week worthy.

[Kinda-Spoiler Alert]

Anyway, what is interesting I thought about the movie is that it violated one of the basic rule of screenwriting: Show, don’t tell.
‘Guess the C.I.A. Superior didn’t hear about that one.

I agree with certain critics that described the characters as being here for nothing more than a couple of jokes and the ensemble is basically a mess. You don’t really get what’s going on half of the time, nor why the frak it is happening.
But what if that was the point of the movie? Life is just messy, stuff happens. Get over it.
Or maybe everything we see is what is told to the Simmons’ character, litteraly. Maybe he imagines the whole movie while reading the crappy rapport report, hence the crazy cartoonish characters.

You jump through one scene to another, trying to grasp its meaning before we jump back to Cox’s story or the C.I.A. HQ.
Hell, the actual ending is told to us!

Or maybe I’m taking all this a bit too far but isn’t that what movies (and TV) are all about?

Who watches the IMAX?

Yes Dark Knight in IMAX is awesome. One might even describe it as orgasm-inducing.
My only complaint would be the sound.
Putting your ear next to the subwoofer over at a nightclub will probably be less harmful to you than sitting at the center of an IMAX theatre during a Dark Knight showing.
But it was worth it! I do not regret shedding 16 dollars to see it, again.

Prior to DK was, among other trailers, the Watchmen trailer.
I’m not a big fan of movie adaptations of Moore’s work. After all, LXG was crap, From Hell was pretty average, and so was V For Vendetta.

As for the Watchmen movie, I also strongly dislike Zack Snyder’s “work“, let alone 300.

Alan Moore will also “spit venom all over” the Watchmen movie.
Now, it is probable that he is just bitter about all the failed movie adaptations but I agree with him vis à vis the Watchmen adaptation.
To be honest, I’ll probably watch the Watchmen movie, hopefully even in IMAX to get the full “experience”.
Yes, the trailer kicked ass in IMAX, but it looks like it will be a Watchmen à la 300-Snyder; that is, a movie with lots of pseudo-cool slowmo to enhance the “cool factor” of the scene where there is no need for it.
Just take a look back at the “THIS IS SPARTAAAAA” moment (around 2:50), and then watch the Comedian getting thrown out (around 00:45). See any similarities?
You can bet that Snyder is going to “enhance” every scene with tons of slow motion just because it’s cool.
And I hate that.
Not because slow motion sucks, but because Watchmen doesn’t need it. The tour de force of Watchmen is not neceserally the visuals but the story itsel, the characters, and the dialogues.
So frak you Snyder!

And what is this I hear about a 300 sequel?