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10 Awful Movies People Think Are Cool
Troy Duffy, director of a ‘cool’, albeit awful, movie.
‘Coolness’ is hard to define, as it should be. I suspect it’s difficult because coolness is an X factor. It’s the swagger generated by the totality of a bunch of compartmentalized variants or something. It’s also because coolness is not a science, it’s a feeling. However, like most things, although it can’t be defined, it can be explained. And, contrary to popular belief, explaining it is fun. It doesn’t ‘kill it’ as so many pseudo-smart, sanctimonious anti-thought peddlers would have you believe.
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Posted in All Posts, Greg's Lists
Tagged 10 awful movies, 10 cool movies, 9 songs, a delicious batman smoothie, a serious man, african queen, amelie, awful movies, big lebowski, blade runner, blood simple, blow, blue valentine, bob dylan, boondock saints, brick, bridge over the river kwai, casablanca, christopher nolan, cool movies, danny boyle, dark knight, delicious batman smoothie, derek cianfrance, donnie darko, ethan coen, fargo, first person, fog of war, freaks and geeks, gates of heaven, go, goodfellas, greg deliso, guy ritchie, inception, insheeption, intolerable cruelty, jean pierre jeunet, joel and ethan coen, joel coen, last tango in paris, lawrence of arabia, looper, michelle williams, mr. death, neil diamond, no country for old men, noah wyle, overnight, overnight troy duffy, pulp fiction, rian johnson, richard kelly, roderick jaynes, ryan gosling, seth rogen, signs, smug film, smugfilm, snatch, southland tales, the african queen, the big lebowski, the boondock saints, the box, the bridge over the river kwai, the dark knight, the fog of war, the ladykillers, the thin blue line, thin blue line, trainspotting, troy duffy, undeclared, wendy and lucy, woody harrelson
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Promised Land: Good Job, Gus
Promised Land (2012)
Directed by Gus Van Sant
Screenplay by John Krasinski & Matt Damon
Story by Dave Eggers
106 min.
Promised Land is a good movie. And Gus Van Sant is a good director. And Matt Damon and John Krasinski are good actors and writers.
This is a movie that nobody saw last year. It’s a small movie, the kind that still gets made by mega celebrities like Matt Damon but that nobody sees because the market is pretty well taken over by other kinds of movies like Taken 2 and The Vow. But I’m not here to wax pretentiously about lowest common denominato, fluff that ‘Hollywood’ is so ‘evil’ for churning out. (The hipsters have that market well cornered.) I’m here, rather, to talk about Promised Land. But first, about Gus Van Sant.
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Tagged as good as it gets, ben affleck, drugstore cowboy, finding forrester, frances mcdormand, good will hunting, greg deliso, gus van sant, james franco, john krasinski, looper, mala noche, matt damon, milk, my own private idaho, promised land movie, promised land movie review, promised land review, psycho, pulp fiction, quentin tarantino, reservoir dogs, robin williams, sean penn, smug film, smugfilm, star wars, taken 2, terry kinney, the vow, titanic, to die for
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The Idea of What a Movie Is: A Very Greg Journey Through Film
A movie.
Security camera footage is not a movie, but screened at a film festival with a name like ‘Big Brother’s Kung Fu Grip’ (or some artsy crap) it is. Andy Warhol filming the Empire State Building for nine hours is a movie—the video the real estate agent showed you of the interior of the house on Maple is not. It’s all about context and intention.
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Posted in All Posts, Greg's Essays
Tagged 12 angry men, 3 o'clock high squid and the whale, a decade under the influence, all about eve, back to the future, baraka, bunch of footage, citizen kane, cody clarke, cop out, copout, de palma, decade under the infleunce, easy rider, easy riders raging bulls, evil dead, field of dreams, genesis, greg deliso, hitchcock, idea of what a movie is, inglourious basterds, inherit the wind, jaws, kevin pollak, kevin pollak chat show, looper, microcosmos, moneyball, no country for old men, qatsi, raging bull, raising arizona, rehearsals, rocky, signs, smug film, smugfilm, spiderman, super 8, tarantino, termination: salvation, terminator, terminator 2, terminator 2 judgment day, terminator 2: judgement day, terminator 3, terminator 3: rise of the machines, terminator salvation, the idea of what a movie is, the sitter, three o'clock high, tommy lee jones, vertigo, woody allen
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A Smug Film Bonus Post About the 2013 Oscars
I hate the god damn Oscars. Basically, for all the same reasons everyone hates the Oscars, so I don’t need to get into all that here. However, I still watch every year, because the tree of disgust for Hollywood must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots. (I think Thomas Jefferson said that.)
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Posted in Alex's Essays, All Posts, Cody's Essays, Greg's Essays
Tagged 2013 oscars, a talking cat, a talking cat !?! review, a talking cat movie, air bud, alex hiatt, amour, argo, armageddon, birdemic, birdemic: shock and terror, boiler room, chasing amy, christoph waltz, clueless, cody clarke, emmanuelle revia, flight, greg deliso, leon morin priest, looper, michael haneke, most valuable primate, oscars, oscars 2013, oscars 2013 thoughts, oscars thoughts, philip seymour hoffman, plan 9 from outer space, reindeer games, smug film, smugfilm, the master, the room, the white ribbon, troll 2
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