Turn to Bollywood. All singing, all dancing, no kissing.
Posted on 04/03/2012 6:38:29 PM PDT by Borges
The Razzies could be a great awards show for the everyman. They could spoof the self congratulatory place that is Hollywood. Bloated films like "The Tree of Life" and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" would get their comeuppance.
Instead, the Razzies prefer to act as a confirmation of the wisdom of its Hollywood counterpart, the Oscars. They proved this year that they prefer to nominate people like Gov. Sarah Palin in an effort to suck up to their liberal friends and attack production houses like Adam Sandler's Happy Madison rather than going after the crap Hollywood attempts to force on the public as "high art."
The Razzie Awards, which revealed its winners last night, are run by John Wilson and are meant to award the very worst in show business, but that seems to be their last goal lately. This year, Palin nabbed a nomination for Worst Actress for the film "The Undefeated" (she didn't win). This is clearly nothing more than a political jab meant to alienate those stupid Glenn Beck loving, Ayn Rand reading conservatives.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a Swedish film. Just shows how pathetic Hollywood is.
Won’t someone with money and show business talent please start another entertainment production center besides Hollywood? Why does everything in the media have to come from Hollywood and New York?
Anyone still doubt that we’ll be shootin’ at these maggots sooner or later ?
The original film was. The novel was filmed again by David Fincher as an American production.
The people who give out the Razzies?
You know perfectly well what it meant.
Did you even read the article?
The nomination of Sarah Palin is a clear partisan hitjob, but Jack and Jill a movie for the everyman? What complete and utter nonsense! I watched the movie and it was really really really bad. It deserves all the ridicule it gets. The Razzie organizers are scum but that does not mean they cant spot obvious crap like the rest of us. This is not Rocket science.
The Razzie Awards, which revealed its winners last night, are run by John Wilson and are meant to award the very worst in show business, but that seems to be their last goal lately. This year, Palin nabbed a nomination for Worst Actress for the film "The Undefeated" (she didn't win). This is clearly nothing more than a political jab meant to alienate those stupid Glenn Beck loving, Ayn Rand reading conservatives.
.. was enough to tell me which side they're on.
So color me testy lately .. oh well.
That was the article’s thesis and it was one of the more idiotic assertions I’ve heard in a while. Adam Sandler films are for the ‘Everyman in Flyover Country’ and anything mildly difficult is ‘crap’.
Yes, I’m aware of that. But all Hollywood did was copy it. Nothing to brag about.
The Razzies. Is that anything like Michael Medved’s Golden Turkey Awards books that he co-wrote with his brothers in the 1980s?
How about a counter award to the Grammys?
Making an English version of a foreign language film is a practice going back to the earliest days of the film industry. Besides this wasn’t some hack doing it. Fincher imposes an idiosyncratic signature on his work. He’s a much more important filmmaker than the guy who made the Swedish film.
Turn to Bollywood. All singing, all dancing, no kissing.
Best Bollywood dance scene . . . ever filmed on a moving train!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOYN9qNXmAw
(also one of the most popular pop songs on the 90s around the Indian world)
No wonder 15,000 Indians a year die in train accidents. Brakdancing on train roofs! Sheesh!
I was mesmerized by that video, and it wasn’t just the beautiful woman wiggling around.
No, it’s easy to be mesmerized - and not just by the pretty girl. Even the song itself is more than it first appears. Apparently it is based on a Sufi Muslim poem about love.
http://www.bollywhat.com/lyrics/dilse_lyr.html
The male actor, Shahrukh Khan, who is lip synching in the video is the richest actor in history. He’s a huge star around the world. His latest net worth was 540 MILLION dollars!
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