Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Newspaper Stuff & Movies
Forgot to mention last post that I went to a sneak preview of the new Billy Bob Thorton/Jon "Napoleon Dynamite" Heder movie School For Scoundrels last week.
Believe it or not, it was surprisingly funny. Jon Heder might manage to save his career after all, if that and the upcoming Blades of Glory do well at the box-office (though the latter one surely will, since it stars Will Ferrell). The only question is, if he does manage to continue working in Hollywood for a while, will he be able to branch out and do something new or will he always play the shy/geeky/unconfident social outcast? Time will tell.
I only bring this up because I got an email tonight from the paper asking if I'd write a feature on the film. The email contained a transcript of a college press conference call with Mr. Thorton and Mr. Heder themselves that I'd be able to use. A conference call that I of course didn't hear about until now. That's two conference calls I haven't been able to be in on for one reason or another - the previous one was with the director of some new Orlando Bloom movie called Haven. Hopefully next time one of these things happens I'll be able to get in on it. I want to talk with the celebrities, dang it!
Furthermore, the email asked if I'd be able to write it by tomorrow evening, since for whatever reason they've decided to only run Arts & Entertainment news on Thursdays. With the homework I have to do tonight and the classes I have tomorrow, it won't be happening. Come on - you'd think they could at least give me until Thursday night and run the piece on Friday. Isn't that when most other productions run movie news anyway?
So anyways, yeah. Hopefully I'll get some tickets to some screenings or something. I'd like to get on a decent pace and have an article or two published weekly.
Also: I just finished watching United 93. I'm not sure what I can say about it, though I can without a doubt say that I didn't exactly love it. In fact, I think I can safely say I didn't even much like it, and think it's one of the most overrated films of the past year. It just didn't do much for me. During some scenes I actually felt bored. While watching the scenes with air traffic control I was thinking, "Get back to the plane!" and by the end I was thinking, "What's going on with air traffic control?" I'm even trying to figure out if I can venture to call the film well-made or if it was the equivalent of emotional pornography. Though the same claims have been made by some people about The Passion of the Christ, at least that film was put together well and pretty (in its own gruesome way) to look at. I'm not sure I can say the same about United 93.
Maybe it was just because I already knew what was going to happen. I guess I'll have to watch World Trade Center and see how that goes, since I don't know anything about the guys it focuses on.
Believe it or not, it was surprisingly funny. Jon Heder might manage to save his career after all, if that and the upcoming Blades of Glory do well at the box-office (though the latter one surely will, since it stars Will Ferrell). The only question is, if he does manage to continue working in Hollywood for a while, will he be able to branch out and do something new or will he always play the shy/geeky/unconfident social outcast? Time will tell.
I only bring this up because I got an email tonight from the paper asking if I'd write a feature on the film. The email contained a transcript of a college press conference call with Mr. Thorton and Mr. Heder themselves that I'd be able to use. A conference call that I of course didn't hear about until now. That's two conference calls I haven't been able to be in on for one reason or another - the previous one was with the director of some new Orlando Bloom movie called Haven. Hopefully next time one of these things happens I'll be able to get in on it. I want to talk with the celebrities, dang it!
Furthermore, the email asked if I'd be able to write it by tomorrow evening, since for whatever reason they've decided to only run Arts & Entertainment news on Thursdays. With the homework I have to do tonight and the classes I have tomorrow, it won't be happening. Come on - you'd think they could at least give me until Thursday night and run the piece on Friday. Isn't that when most other productions run movie news anyway?
So anyways, yeah. Hopefully I'll get some tickets to some screenings or something. I'd like to get on a decent pace and have an article or two published weekly.
Also: I just finished watching United 93. I'm not sure what I can say about it, though I can without a doubt say that I didn't exactly love it. In fact, I think I can safely say I didn't even much like it, and think it's one of the most overrated films of the past year. It just didn't do much for me. During some scenes I actually felt bored. While watching the scenes with air traffic control I was thinking, "Get back to the plane!" and by the end I was thinking, "What's going on with air traffic control?" I'm even trying to figure out if I can venture to call the film well-made or if it was the equivalent of emotional pornography. Though the same claims have been made by some people about The Passion of the Christ, at least that film was put together well and pretty (in its own gruesome way) to look at. I'm not sure I can say the same about United 93.
Maybe it was just because I already knew what was going to happen. I guess I'll have to watch World Trade Center and see how that goes, since I don't know anything about the guys it focuses on.
# posted by Andrew Johnson : 9/19/2006 10:48:00 PM 
