Strangely enough, I'm on-topic.
I just saw Magnolia. Oh my God. All 188 minutes of it, there was just a big "Wow" inside me. I want to write something about it, but I can't find the words. Just, wow.
Just call me the computer whisperer.
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Polter-Cow - Jul 20, 2004 1:01:27 pm PDT #1028 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
JZ - Jul 20, 2004 1:11:07 pm PDT #1029 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Heh. P-C, this fills me with relief, as I've been pimping Magnolia to Hec for the last year and a half. Since in pop-culture-consuming sensibilities sense you are frequently Hec and he is frequently you, this bodes well for his impression of the object of my mania.
I fear, however, that you may now be dead to Steph.
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2004 1:14:56 pm PDT #1030 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If he even existed, he'd be dead to me. But he doesn't exist, so that's fine.
t resumes Magnolia hatred
Scrappy - Jul 20, 2004 2:16:09 pm PDT #1031 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Tep will love me, as I saw De-Lovely on her rec and enjoyed it.
Then she'll hate me, as I join P-C and the splendiferous JZ in Magnolia love.
It's going to be hard on her, I fear.
Betsy HP - Jul 20, 2004 2:38:18 pm PDT #1032 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
The NYT says if Catwoman dies, it'll take African-American actresses' bankability down with it.
[Hmm. My first reading was that they were generalizing about all AA actresses, but on second reading maybe it's just Ms. Berry who'll crash and sink.]
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2004 2:45:01 pm PDT #1033 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
She's the only one with bankability, so yeah, probably her.
bon bon - Jul 20, 2004 2:48:11 pm PDT #1034 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
It's unfortunate that she, with her limited skill set, is being used generalize for the bankability of black actresses. The movie will fail both because it sucks and she's not bankable. She hasn't been bankable of yet!
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2004 2:51:40 pm PDT #1035 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thing is -- who else is there? I think she's a great excuse to say that black women can be bankable, but I agree with the article -- she's pretty much a sex object. Black women have been able to be sexy. That's not news. But she's not even a black Charlize Theron.
Jessica - Jul 20, 2004 2:57:19 pm PDT #1036 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
In the zero-sum calculations of the movie industry, Ms. Berry's bankability as a star will be judged largely on whether she can "open" "Catwoman," a Warner Brothers film — meaning whether she can make it a financial winner. If it succeeds, it will place her among a rarefied group of top-paid female stars, only a few of them established box office draws, and signify yet another achievement for African-American actors.
This makes it sound like her success would be a landmark for black female actors, but her failure would be her own.
"This movie presented to me a whole new challenge, something I haven't done," she said in an interview. "It allowed me an opportunity to hopefully prove — if I'm really lucky, if the movie god is watching — that a woman, especially a woman of color, can open one of these summer movies."
She's got her Oscar, so now she wants to prove she can succeed as a sex object in a terrible, shallow, exploitive summer movie? Who's she been taking career advice from, Cuba Gooding Jr?
Aims - Jul 20, 2004 2:58:17 pm PDT #1037 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
If she makes Snow Bitches next.....