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parma_violets

Everywhere I Go, I Have A Huge Cult Following Me

Jul 27, 2006 09:11

Envious of all the attention M Night Shyamalan's been getting recently, Kevin Smith tries to snatch his title of Most Insecure Director In The World back. To no avail, I fear, unless his next movie features Silent Bob being cruxified.

Is it me, or are all the celebrities trying to start their own personality cults now? Shyamalan's followers are ( Read more... )

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parma_violets July 27 2006, 17:00:37 UTC

Heh heh. I'd like to thank the Academy...

thermaland July 27 2006, 09:27:14 UTC

Oh no, this Daniel Pearl film really is a terrifying prospect. Who wants to go to the cinema to see the reenactment of something so horrible? Especially when the facts are murky. Can the widow really have agreed to this?

There was a nice "Angelina Jolie has announced that she is adopting your baby" story in the Onion the other week.

parma_violets July 27 2006, 17:05:01 UTC

Yeah, I remember when the US State Department was serving cease-and-desist notices to sites hosting the video of his beheading. Those site owners must be livid - if only they'd thought of signing a three-picture development deal with New Line, they'd be laughing.

I kind of hope this is going to be another Freedomland debacle for Winterbottom - that is to say, he's lured out to Hollywood by the promise of doing something relevant and political, then gets fired when the studio realise he wants to make it all political. And relevant.

momentsmusicaux July 27 2006, 09:51:31 UTC

Have you seen Atlas Shrugged 2, as told by Bob the Angry Flower?

parma_violets July 27 2006, 17:05:32 UTC

I haven't. But it already sounds a lot more cogent and meaningful than the original.

momentsmusicaux July 27 2006, 17:12:43 UTC

The sequel.

Not having read the original, I couldn't possibly comment, of course ;) But yeah.

parma_violets July 27 2006, 17:19:20 UTC

Hahahaha! Yes, that sums up my issues with the book fairly neatly.

I always promised myself that, if I was ever travelling through America, I'd piss on Ayn Rand's grave. Presumably, as it would be an act committed purely for selfish enjoyment, she'd appreciate it far more than me resting some flowers on there or something.

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londonkds July 27 2006, 10:19:51 UTC

Isn't "Atlas Shrugged" the "novel" that includes a 200-page verbatim political speech? Are they going to do that on film?

parma_violets July 27 2006, 17:06:41 UTC

God, I hope so. Having Angelina Jolie sit in centre-frame and lecture the audience for five hours straight might be the only thing that could kill off her career.

baron_scarpia July 29 2006, 13:55:13 UTC

As a bad film watcher I think I'd just convert such a thing into an endless loop and show it to people I don't like.

parma_violets July 30 2006, 12:42:41 UTC

Frankly, I don't think you'd need to bother with the loop. If they're not running away in terror by the end of the first hour, they're beyond hope.

violetcreme July 27 2006, 10:21:23 UTC

"we've had able-bodied actors playing disabled for an Oscar, and beautiful women (and Nicole Kidman) uglying up - maybe the next trend will be artistically justified minstrelry?"

and

"More worrying is the rumour that Brad Pitt might be playing Daniel. I think we can all agree that the last thing this troubled world needs is Gigli Goes To Afghanistan."

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HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !

Sir, you rock.

PS. Also agree, Angelina is slowly turning into Mother T. before our eyes . If she and Bradley can stop making movies and go and open up an orphange somewhere I would be most happy about that. I doubt Bradley is ever going to reach the heights of 'Seven' again, so....

parma_violets July 27 2006, 17:14:31 UTC

Yeah, Brad's the one who kind of depresses me. I mean, with Angelina there's no sense of talent going to waste, since she was never any good in the first place, but Brad, you once worked with Terry Gilliam! Have a bit of self-respect!

When the Fametracker forums - God rest their internetty soul - were still up and running, we all used to scoff at Angelina's campaign to become the next Pope. People liked her because she was 'sexy' and 'wild' (I use quotes because it was always an invented image, in my opinion) - why would they follow her into the Earth-mother stage of her career? If only we knew. She was so far ahead of the game in fostering her own weird cult.

And you have to wonder what she actually learned with the UN. To my eyes, their Miracle Baby Birth in Namibia was the worst wealthy-Westerners-go-to-foreignland cliche; pick a third world country because it looks 'rural' and 'authentic', go over for a short period of time and pump ridiculous amounts of money into the economy, then leave and just assume the country can ( ... )

nikephros July 27 2006, 19:29:49 UTC

Yes - yes!

what he said, really.

violetcreme July 28 2006, 19:13:17 UTC

I know. I can just see the future Branjelina movie series and it's a sad, sad thing. Brad on his own had it, now...it's all a joke.

That birth in Namibia was one of the most tasteless, manipulative thigns I've ever heard of ! Make this big fuss about going to Africa, dawn of mankind, keeping it real blah blah and then have a C-Section in a 5 Star resort ! WTF ? She clearly thougth she was in 'The Constant Gardener' or something. Stupid bint.