Do The Right Thing -- Stand Up For Excellence
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I Would Have Preferred A More Challenging...Okay, A More Insulting Tone
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I can smell it, sense it. And I will therefore wait for streaming. I don't care how well made X is -- my inclination is to steer clear for the time being, even though it's probably a much better film than The Lost City.
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There's something I never paid attention to in the famous "you're not a loser, Eddie, you're a winner" scene from The Hustler. The "something" is this: traffic noise nearly floods this scene.
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An hour ago Erik Anderson posted a genius tweet...a tweet that, if conceptually heeded two or three years ago, could've saved Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog from itself. If that morose and tiresome melodrama had been made into a grand musical tragedy, and if a 12-years-younger version of Madonna had played Kirsten Dunst's role of Rose, the alcoholic newlywed with a gay, covertly homicidal son, it could have been something. Really. I'm not being facetious. Especially, I'm thinking, if it had been made Evita-style, as a sung-through musical.
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There are many things, I’m sure, that are lamentable or neurotic or fucked up about 40-and-under dudes in this country. But here’s one of them. Some designer out there designed these hellish slip-ons, and I can guarantee there are hundreds…okay, scores of dudes out there who are wearing them as we speak. Just strolling around and giggling with their idiot friends and making the world a much darker place by way of footwear. If I was an absolute ruler, a Ming-the-merciless of style and fashion, I would put out orders for police to arrest and detain anyone caught wearing these godforsaken things.
I like Jessica Chastain, I loved her in Zero Dark Thirty, and I certainly respect the herculean effort that went into the making and performing of The Eyes of Tammy Faye. But Best Actress cannot and should never be a Best Makeup thing…c’mon. It should be about strength, craft, pieces of a heart and the depth of a soul.
No, not those who believe that the Lia Thomas example is deeply unfair to female sports competitors and is really hurting the women's sports industry. I mean the college-age robots who are using the term "transphobic" to describe people who have a problem with the lanky, man-sized Thomas defeating her female swimming competitors. Play the video and listen to these toadies. They're so invested in progressive trans talking points, they've rejected the concept of basic competitive fairness.
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I’ll be reviewing AdamandAaronNée ‘sTheLost City (Paramount, 3.25) sometime tomorrow (Saturday, 3.19), but this paragraph from Peter Debruge’s 3.12Varietyreview conveys highly misleading and unreliable opinions. I don’t just disagree with the first and last sentences — I screamed out loud when I read them. I only saw the film last night so…
The N.Y. Times, formerly the “paper of record” and a bastion of woke Stalinism for the last five or six years (certainly as far as the usual woke-kneejerk issues are concerned), has actually posted an editorial that warns of the dangers of cancel culture, pushed by left-progressive absolutists since the new Robespierre terror began.
The editorial is titled “America Has a Free Speech Problem.” The authors didn’t have the courage to dump this problem on the lap of the radical left; they’ve used the old “both sides” tactic to claim the right is just as bad in this regard. The Trumpist-nutter righties are evil, of course, but 95% of the scolding and repression these days is coming from the left.
It’s not cool and not fair for Lia Thomas, the 22 year-old transgender swimmer who yesterday won the women’s 500-yard freestyle race and thereby became the first transgender woman to win an NCAA swimming championship, to compete against women who were born that way.
Thomas’s natural athletic superiority — built like a dude, taller, stronger, big shoulders — clearly give her an advantage over female competitors. The NCAA honchos who paved the way for Thomas and others like her to compete are helping to destroy women’s sports. It’s really notright.
Thomas is like the robot pitcher in that 1960 Twilight Zone episode, “The Mighty Casey.” Imagine if a race of human-resembling aliens with extraordinary athletic abilities had landed on earth and decided to complete in men’s sports, and started winning everything — this is what Thomas is doing.
She’s not a “woman” — she’s a dude who’s taken hormone therapy and announced that she’s trans. but still enjoys the advantage of her natural male strength.
I can smell it, sense it. And I will therefore wait for streaming. I don't care how well made X is -- my inclination is to steer clear for the time being, even though it's probably a much better film than The Lost City.
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