1. These are a little cheap, but I love this countdown of the top five David Lynch mash-ups. This Dirty Dancing one is pretty good, but the one for A Goofy Movie is amazing.
["Thanks to a tip from @StupidVideos, I've been immersed this morning in the wonderful world of David Lynch mashups. The experience has turned a number of innocent, joyful movie memories into nightmares for me, so I figured I'd share. Here are the fruits of my labor."]
2. Thanks to Greencine Daily for this link, where Creative Review talks about the phenomenon of advertising agencies ripping off amateur YouTube videos for their ads.
["In 1998, director Mehdi Norowzian sued the Irish advertising agency Arks Ltd for copyright infringement. He claimed Arks had copied a substantial part of his short film, Joy, in its hugely successful Anticipation advert for Guinness which featured a man performing a flamboyant dance as he waited for his pint of the black stuff to settle. Norowzian lost, the case setting a precedent over the legal rights of directors and artists when claiming the artistic content of their work had been ‘appropriated’ by an agency."]
3. IndieWire examines the case of Nathan Lee's review of the new documentary Outrage, wherein he found his piece cut down for naming the names exposed in the film.
["Kirby Dick’s new documentary, 'Outrage,' continued to skirt controversy and stir debate in its opening weekend in U.S. theaters, particularly among some media circles. As the film opened, NPR trimmed its review of the film, cutting mentions of the American political figures depicted in the movie. Critic Nathan Lee subsequently removed his byline from the article in protest and lodged a comment on the NPR site, which was also quickly removed by NPR executives."]
4. Alan Sepinwall (quoted below) and Myles McNutt look at the finale of The Amazing Race and how reliant reality shows are on their viewers having a connection to the various contestants at this stage in the genre's evolution.
["And that's become an increasing problem for me with virtually every reality show I used to follow more closely. The novelty of the genre in general and these formats in particular is long gone. So unless the show itself is irresistible in some way -- as, I hate to admit it, American Idol is for me, and as "Race" has (as it's focused more on character arcs and less on cool challenges and other tests of good vs. bad Racing) stopped being for me -- I have to develop some kind of allegiance to a contestant or team, and they have to last a long way, for me to keep watching. And the more of these shows I watch, the clearer it becomes that the chances of someone I like lasting to the end, let alone winning, are too small to make the time investment in the season as a whole."]
5. Aziz Ansari went to see Star Trek in IMAX, and when he didn't get what he wanted, he got angry and demanded his money back. Check out what happened.
["HOWEVER, we get in the theatre and its just a slightly bigger than normal screen and NOT the usual standard huge 72 ft IMAX screen. I was very upset and apparently this problem is happening all over at Regal and AMC theatres. Here’s a graphic representation of what’s happening at these 'FAKE IMAX' screens:"]
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I'm still sort of fascinated by reality competition shows, especially the ones that have been around a really long time (Survivor, Amazing Race, etc.). Somewhere along the line, I started to realize that I don't care about the whole "storyline" element of them, and just enjoy them for the game play. To me, they've become like watching football or baseball on tv. I don't really care about football players as people, and am more interested in the twists and turns of the game. So, for me, a game like Survivor, where people are always twisting and turning it in different ways, as alliances form and break in different ways, somehow stays interesting, even if I don't have a personal connection to the player.
It also helps that some friends and I divide up the players like a sports draft and have a bet riding on who wins the entire thing.
Yeah, I remember the GOOFY MOVIE one; good stuff. Hadn't seen the DIRTY DANCING one before but it's pretty great.
The Dirty Dancing clip made my day.
The video mashup is an art form, and as fun as that clip is, it's a solid reminder about the immense power of the editor.
If someone wants to spin this comment into a tangent about the dangers of auteur theory, please feel free ...
Talking about mash-ups, I love these are great.
And I mean absolutely brilliant.I got wind of them through John Lichman's Twitter feed, and I can't stop watching them.
I love these are great?
Brain fart + English.
Re #5: These bogus IMAX screens have been popping up since September of last year. Surprised that it took this long for this scam to get any attention. Another reason to be disillusioned with the moviegoing experience.
So, so right on about the fake-IMAX experience. I'm also indignant about how hard Lincoln Center works to conceal whether you're buying an IMAX or regular ticket online, but this is a whole other level of egregious.
I love the movie theater experience, and don't want it to die, but when theater chains go this far to abuse the one desirable product they've got, it's hard to avoid.
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