tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post3153271827179759398..comments2024-03-24T13:26:57.317-07:00Comments on Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule: OSCAR ANTIDOTE: THE 2009 MURIEL AWARDSDennis Cozzaliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-83864248501952194162010-03-11T00:34:27.054-08:002010-03-11T00:34:27.054-08:00Nike Air Rift
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Antidote for next week indeed.<br /><br />Thanks a million, Dennis!Just Another Film Buffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17880550053788464732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-27645167791638710932010-03-01T20:29:16.790-08:002010-03-01T20:29:16.790-08:00I was the other vote for "Speed Racer". ...I was the other vote for "Speed Racer". I put it at #7 on my best of the decade list.Ari Dassahttp://www.theaspectratio.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-36475759921424094192010-02-28T23:25:53.459-08:002010-02-28T23:25:53.459-08:00I have watched the extended edition LORD OF THE RI...I have watched the extended edition LORD OF THE RINGS in one day, albeit on DVD, at home, with Chinese food delivery and a pause button readily available. And it is fun, but I'm not sure the films gain enough from marathon viewing to suggest that it is the proper way to watch them, in the manner of KILL BILL or CHILDREN OF PARADISE. Instead it seems that the RINGS movies are smartly/realistically structured to facilitate viewing over, say, three evenings. TOWERS opens with a great flashback/narrative path-splitting that serves to refresh the memory, widen the scope of fantasy imagery and literally plunge into the action in a way bigger than the first chapter. RETURN OF THE KING opens as small as possible, with a pastoral vignette that turns into the ugliest, smallest-scale horror in the sweep of the epic; it is the unexpected wounded heart of the trilogy. Anyway, I think these openings — and the endings — are constructed to gain power if we've spent a day or year away from Middle-earth. They play well "separately," but I don't think I'd want to separate them for voting purposes either; what's a beginning with no end, or an middle with no beginning?Chris Stanglhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06300723935864517305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-28929908195891566622010-02-28T15:22:24.225-08:002010-02-28T15:22:24.225-08:00Paul! Ha! To paraphrase Lesley Gore, it's my b...Paul! Ha! To paraphrase Lesley Gore, it's my blog and I can age you if I want to! God, I must have corrected that 40 times, and I still got it wrong! My math skills have slid in recent years, but I still ought to be able to subtract 4 from 2010 and get the right answer! Thanks for pointing it out. (Too late for anyone to draw anything but the conclusion that I'm a hopeless moron, unfortunately!) :) I'll fix it now!Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-14509940624558166482010-02-26T22:00:00.121-08:002010-02-26T22:00:00.121-08:00Thanks for the plug, and for your thoughts on Char...Thanks for the plug, and for your thoughts on Charlotte. One thing though- the Muriels were started up in 2006, not 1996. Steve would've been but a whippersnapper back in 1996. Me- well, I'm not going to go there.<br /><br />Otherwise, aces post as always. Go Tilda!Paul C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02699493473242261477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-91456938189824262942010-02-26T16:21:55.544-08:002010-02-26T16:21:55.544-08:00I'd like to know who that other vote was too. ...I'd like to know who that other vote was too. But no extra weight from me. I slotted <i>Speed Racer</i> purely in terms of its unexpected impression on me as well as its staying power in my imagination and my estimation of it as a genuine brilliant film. (Have you noticed how the Olympics have often used the same sort of Rex ghosting to compare lugers and other racers in much the same way as they were so "confusingly" employed in the movie's opening sequence, when Speed is racing against his "dead" brother's time and legacy?) <br /><br />As for <i>The Lord of the Rings</i>, those movies haven't slipped in my estimation. I simply didn't want to use up three slots of my allotted 10 here. I don't remember if I mentioned them on my year-end piece in reference to the decade, but if I didn't I should have. But no doubt the other ten movies were probably foremost on my mind-- I filled out this ballot long before I wrote the year-end piece, and these were quite literally chosen with no resource other than the top of my surely enfeebled mind.<br /><br />But I do appreciate you mentioning them, because however out of vogue Peter Jackson seems to be at the moment, it shouldn't change the fact that these were and still are superbly imagined and executed films that should already be considered classics. Have you ever contemplated sitting through all of them in one fell swoop? My wife and I considered it when they played the Aero last month, but we just couldn't mark off that much time.Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-90807013068182258202010-02-26T16:10:41.660-08:002010-02-26T16:10:41.660-08:00I'm always interested in the mathematics and r...I'm always interested in the mathematics and rationale employed by voters in these situations. So two quick ones:<br /><br />-Personally I have no quarrel with your selection, but I am curious as to whether you weighted your vote for SPEED RACER as Decade's Best. Two little votes allowed the Wachowskis to crack the Top 35 (with nary a MATRIX sequel in view)... and I'm also wondering who the other vote was.<br /><br />-Related, I'm curious about the LORD OF THE RINGS films. They are sort of notoriously not popping up in a lot of decade round-ups (lists, awards or otherwise). The trilogy once ranked in the SLIFR 100 with solitary decade fellow GOODBYE, DRAGON INN, but none of those films cracked the Muriel ballot. Just wondering if being required to vote for one RINGS movie was unacceptable, or if the films have slipped in your estimation, or if maybe you simply became interested in those other ten very good films in the meantime...Chris Stanglhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06300723935864517305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-81993214608696382812010-02-26T14:55:59.567-08:002010-02-26T14:55:59.567-08:00This was fantastic! Even though I'm sure you&#...This was fantastic! Even though I'm sure you'll get a range of decisions for the winners in each of the categories, the scope of these awards are to be praised. This is great stuff, Dennis.le0pard13https://www.blogger.com/profile/09421175808461787862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-5493567408029358802010-02-26T10:52:54.715-08:002010-02-26T10:52:54.715-08:00I's just ribbin' ya. Anyway, it is pretty ...I's just ribbin' ya. Anyway, it is pretty amazing that thanks to Netflix (I'm assuming) a performance from a movie that was barely released theatrically could hold court like that.<br /><br />Besides, if I can't even remember to put Sandra Bullock on my own ballot, <i>when I would have ranked her #1</i>, then I have no room for real complaints! Fortunately I remembered by the time I doddered into my own year-end post.Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-81986937354549882942010-02-26T10:47:41.981-08:002010-02-26T10:47:41.981-08:00Heh heh... considering Paul and I have spent the l...Heh heh... considering Paul and I have spent the last month or so broadcasting that oh, it's a crime that Tilda never really had a chance, oh, if only more people had seen the film... well, I had to do something. No ill will towards Sandy - she just happens to be an easy target right about now. :-)Steve C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01958138092537744506noreply@blogger.com