Frigid 50
Film Threat's annual listing of the Frigid 50: The Coldest People in Hollywood went up today...and it takes forever to load. It's like trying to visit a graphic-heavy website in 1997 on dial-up. Plus I disagree with their putting Mel Gibson at the top of the list. He's been dead meat for so long it looks like up to me. Apocalypto may or may not be as good as Edward James Olmos says it is, but it's picking up some heat now. And the re-cut, supposedly tougher Payback will be out on DVD next year. (Paramount Home Video refused to send me a copy, but a guy from New York is sending me one.) Mel's career may be so profoundly and tectonically dead that I may be missing the bigger picture, but i see at the very least a slight upswing. Maybe. Unless Apocaylpto is, like, really tedious.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on November 17, 2006 at 4:17 PM
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Jennifer
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Who in the hell is Film Threat, and who cares?
Posted by Jennifer
at November 17, 2006 5:40 PM
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austin111
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Cool list.....! Some good advice especially for Colin Farrell, who could use some. I'm especially fond of the Borat addition. The schtick is getting old fast.
Posted by austin111
at November 17, 2006 6:39 PM
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Arrow77
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I found that list completely idiotic. Yes, some of them were true but it is filled with names that are wishful thinking more than anything else. Saying Borat is cold is more than prematured and until Apocalypto officially flops, Mel Gibson is still a director coming off one of the biggest hits in recent years.
Posted by Arrow77
at November 18, 2006 1:46 PM
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Hallick
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Well, the page loaded up just fine for me, but I think I'd rather have spent the time staring at a blank screen anyway. Nothing inspired in the rankings or the texts. And it's retardedly self-serving to put Jennifer Aniston so close to the top when that movie did a lot better than expected or deserved.
Posted by Hallick
at November 18, 2006 2:25 PM
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D.Z.
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It wasn't Mel's name which made The Passion a hit. The last time his name was synonymous with a hit was for "What Women Want".
Posted by D.Z.
at November 18, 2006 2:33 PM
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Arrow77
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That it's his name who made the film or not isn't the point. He's the one who directed the film and he deserves credit for it. The movie he directed before that is Braveheart, which was another huge success. Until the streak is broken you can't call him cold and even then, it needs to be a major flop to qualify as the coldest.
Posted by Arrow77
at November 18, 2006 4:53 PM
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Jennifer
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D.Z., you seem to be forgetting about a film called Signs. That was the last film Gibson acted in, and it made over 200 million dollars.
Posted by Jennifer
at November 18, 2006 5:21 PM
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D.Z.
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Jenn: Thanks for the reminder, but I don't think it was exclusively because of him as much as the aliens, and the The Sixth Sense guy. While Mel's name did add value to the production, it probably would have made money anyway. There weren't any big stars in Close Encounters of The Third Kind, and that made money, too.
Posted by D.Z.
at November 19, 2006 12:42 AM