tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9688582.post9123756893584259080..comments2023-08-16T10:10:36.008-04:00Comments on Silly Hats Only: Muriel Awards: Best ScreenplayPaul C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02699493473242261477noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9688582.post-50015449577653866512007-02-13T10:57:00.000-05:002007-02-13T10:57:00.000-05:00Welcome Laura Mae Beeson! Hey Kent, how long do y...Welcome Laura Mae Beeson! Hey Kent, how long do you think before she'll be cinema-savvy enough to vote in the Muriels?Paul C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02699493473242261477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9688582.post-31132905399047586572007-02-13T09:24:00.000-05:002007-02-13T09:24:00.000-05:00Steve- Tobias gave us both shout-outs in the talkb...<I>Steve- Tobias gave us both shout-outs in the talkback. Maybe I shouldn't be geeking out, but what the hell, it's my birthday. I'm just in a good mood all around.</I><BR/><BR/>I saw that! It took all I could do not to post something like "OMIGOD SCOTT TOBIAS TOLD ME GOOD JOB! OMIGOD!" Because that would just be bad form.Steve C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01958138092537744506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9688582.post-33443137343287993032007-02-13T05:09:00.000-05:002007-02-13T05:09:00.000-05:00Baby found: Laura Mae Beeson, 2/13/07, 12:58am, 6...Baby found: Laura Mae Beeson, 2/13/07, 12:58am, 6lbs 10oz, 19" long. My nose.Kzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03490735195424831433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9688582.post-17514661656439394162007-02-12T23:41:00.000-05:002007-02-12T23:41:00.000-05:00Congrats, Kent. What's the status on the little o...Congrats, Kent. What's the status on the little one?<BR/><BR/>Steve- Tobias gave us both shout-outs in the talkback. Maybe I shouldn't be geeking out, but what the hell, it's my birthday. I'm just in a good mood all around.Paul C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02699493473242261477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9688582.post-60629482300678312582007-02-12T22:17:00.000-05:002007-02-12T22:17:00.000-05:00a) Technically, I'm not a new dad yet, but, hopefu...a) Technically, I'm not a new dad yet, but, hopefully, I will at 8:15pm PST.<BR/><BR/>b) Steve, thanks for posting the link to the Onion poll - I forgot about it.<BR/><BR/>c) Onion poll was a bitch this year for me -- last year, I gave great blurb (imo), but this year it was blood-from-stone time. Luckily, they printed the best one I had.<BR/><BR/>e) That really is an awesome Departed blurb, Steve<BR/><BR/>f) Dude, where's my baby?Kzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03490735195424831433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9688582.post-7968997410061398492007-02-12T17:24:00.000-05:002007-02-12T17:24:00.000-05:00I remember watching The Big Lebowski in 8th grade ...I remember watching The Big Lebowski in 8th grade and LOVING it. Four years later, every other person in my high school claimed to be an expert.<BR/><BR/>I can't imagine Kiss Kiss Bang Bang reaching the cult-fame of TBL, though. It's a great movie, but nowhere near as funny as Lebowski, or even was watchably weird.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08310290563393412068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9688582.post-1831507066807313802007-02-12T13:49:00.000-05:002007-02-12T13:49:00.000-05:00Not only did we get quoted, but my top 3 picks end...Not only did we get quoted, but my top 3 picks ended up taking the top 3 spots in the poll (although not in the same order). So I'm pretty pumped about that.<BR/><BR/>And KISS KISS BANG BANG is full of great non sequiturs- the dude in the robot suit, the repartee between Mr. Frying Pan and Mr. Fire, and so forth. So trying to pick just one is futile, and sort of detracts from the rest of them.<BR/><BR/>Ain't It Cool News is so misguided most of the time, but they were dead-on when they proclaimed KKBB to have the potential to be this decade's THE BIG LEBOWSKI. I hope they were right that, 5 years from now, I'll walk into a video store somewhere and hear some random college-aged guy extolling the virtues of KISS KISS BANG BANG to his uninitiated friend. Then I'll think, "yeah... I was in on the ground floor, buddy."Paul C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02699493473242261477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9688582.post-34484068658442288302007-02-12T12:41:00.000-05:002007-02-12T12:41:00.000-05:00In other news, The Onion AV Club Film Poll results...In other news, <A HREF="http://www.avclub.com/content/node/58467" REL="nofollow">The Onion AV Club Film Poll results are up.</A> Paul and I scored two quotes, and brand-new papa Kza scored one. Huzzah!Steve C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01958138092537744506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9688582.post-12304679810137566502007-02-12T01:45:00.000-05:002007-02-12T01:45:00.000-05:00Thank you Ms. Sekwa, but I think the best thing ab...Thank you Ms. Sekwa, but I think the best thing about anything I've written on <I>The Departed</I> was when I quoted Andy Nowicki at length about the homosexual implications in the film.<BR/><BR/>And if we're nominating stuff, I hereby nominate that line from <I>Kiss Kiss Bang Bang</I> as Best Non Sequitor of the Decade.Steve C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01958138092537744506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9688582.post-33111091907554980062007-02-12T00:06:00.000-05:002007-02-12T00:06:00.000-05:00Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, woefully underwatched.I think...Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, woefully underwatched.<BR/><BR/>I think one of the halmarks of the great director is the ability to take B grade material and make it sensational. Hitchcock made a career out of it, and Scorsese did a wonderful job with The Departed.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08310290563393412068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9688582.post-8099851498827787782007-02-11T21:44:00.000-05:002007-02-11T21:44:00.000-05:00Having read them all, I'd hold out judgment until ...Having read them all, I'd hold out judgment until they've all been posted. <BR/><BR/>But what do I know? I'm just a bear! I suck the heads off of fish!Paul C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02699493473242261477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9688582.post-46670404141075490232007-02-11T21:23:00.000-05:002007-02-11T21:23:00.000-05:00Even though we don't have a category, I hereby vot...Even though we don't have a category, I hereby vote Steve's "blurb" on The Departed, "BEST EFFIN MOVIE MINI-CRITIQUE OF 2006"<BR/><BR/>I bow to you, sir.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com