I'll...confess that the fact Kathryn Bigelow, Cameron's ex-wife and the director of The Hurt Locker, has a good shot at beating him for both the best director and best picture Oscars this year gives me a sense of anticipatory schadenfreude like you would not believe. For all I know, James and Kathryn speak on the phone every day and wish each other's movies nothing but good fortune, but anyone who's ever watched as a smug ex goes on to enormous success has to place him- or herself squarely in Bigelow's camp. It's almost a good-vs.-evil thing. (Not to mention that Hurt Locker is by far the better movie, but these are the Oscars we're talking about. Score-settling is at least as valid a criterion as quality.)
Friday, January 8, 2010
Anticipatory schadenfreude!
Over at Slate's Movie Club, Dana Stevens gets off the best shot by far in all of the year-end retrospectives. This is delicious.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Thw Twilight Zone in 6
I love The Twilight Zone, I really do. Seen every episode, can probably recite many of them from memory, and my personal best sustained viewing time for a holiday Sci-Fi network marathon is 43 hours.
That said, I'm the first to recognize the show's flaws, from its uncanny ability to find the absolute worst child actors ever (The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street), to some truly craptastic special effects (almost any episode involving an airplane), not to mention the adorably quaint belief that in the future spray-painted vintage football helmets and stretchy jumpsuits would provide suitable protection for interplanetary travel.
But one thing you begin to notice when you've spent a certain amount of time watching TTZ is that over its five seasons, there was a rather significant amount of repitition of themes, premises, and formats. And so, as a service to those of you who may be wishing to brush up on your cocktail-party TZZ-related banter ability, or need a term paper topic for your pop culture class, I've compiled the following extremely condensed guide to approximately 133 of the original 156 episodes of The Twilight Zone.
Here ya go:
That said, I'm the first to recognize the show's flaws, from its uncanny ability to find the absolute worst child actors ever (The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street), to some truly craptastic special effects (almost any episode involving an airplane), not to mention the adorably quaint belief that in the future spray-painted vintage football helmets and stretchy jumpsuits would provide suitable protection for interplanetary travel.
But one thing you begin to notice when you've spent a certain amount of time watching TTZ is that over its five seasons, there was a rather significant amount of repitition of themes, premises, and formats. And so, as a service to those of you who may be wishing to brush up on your cocktail-party TZZ-related banter ability, or need a term paper topic for your pop culture class, I've compiled the following extremely condensed guide to approximately 133 of the original 156 episodes of The Twilight Zone.
Here ya go:
Be careful what you wish for.
The enemy is just like us/is us!
Conformity bad, individuality good.
It's a cookbook!/She's a robot!/The other planet is Earth!
You can't change the past. And even if you could, you really, really wouldn't want to.
We're dead/in the future/in the past/post-apocalyptic/the creatures in the zoo/very small/very large, and don't know it!
There you are.
The enemy is just like us/is us!
Conformity bad, individuality good.
It's a cookbook!/She's a robot!/The other planet is Earth!
You can't change the past. And even if you could, you really, really wouldn't want to.
We're dead/in the future/in the past/post-apocalyptic/the creatures in the zoo/very small/very large, and don't know it!
There you are.
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