"It's sort of freaking me out."

This has nothing, really, to do with movies, but it made me laugh aloud. Had I been drinking Coke, there would be Coke all over my keyboard etcetera. This Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, made some remarks to an AP reporter that essentially equated homosexual acts with bigamy, polygamy, incest, etc. Basically, he treats any sex act that takes place outside of a married, heterosexual relationship as somehow amoral and eligible for regulation by state and local lawmakers. (What was that about the GOP getting big government off our backs? But I digress.)

Anyway, Santorum claimed that the story was misleading — he wasn't misquoted, but he was quoted out of context. So the AP released a more complete transcript, which is even more illuminating of the guy's thinking. It's good reading if you enjoy this kind of stuff, but what makes it really precious to me is the AP reporter's comments toward the very end of the piece, after Santorum starts talking pedophilia and bestiality. As a proud graduate of journalism school, I got a real kick out of imagining this exchange taking place.

And if you come here solely to read stuff related to movies, well, I apologize for wasting your time.

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry, motherfucker.

The new trailer for Ang Lee's The Hulk is pretty exciting. Yes, the CGI looks phony, but CGI always does. What's stunning is the character animation work that seems to have been done on the mean green guy. The guys at ILM are convinced that, however cool Gollum may have been, their work here is an evolutionary leap forward, and what's been seen to date seems to show that they walk it like they talk it. My only complaint at this point is that it looks like The Hulk nails the Marvel Comics atmosphere so well that it may feel like a wee bit of a retread in the shadow of Sam Raimi's terrific Spider-Man. At any rate, Make Mine Marvel!

There's more fun to be had at killbill.jp, where a genuinely gross teaser for QT's new one awaits. Click your mouse 20 times like it asks, then type in "KILL." Sick. In a good way. (Warning: Flash or Shockwave, I forget which, required.)

There's also a new trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean that shows Johnny Depp doing what struck me as a reasonably good impression of Daniel Day-Lewis's Bill the Butcher (though I guess it's unlikely that he had seen Gangs of New York when he shot this one, yes?) and seems to support my suspicion that Gore Verbinski is not the right guy to direct an action movie, even one where the Harryhausen skeletons are the real stars of the show.

Trackback Pings

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.deep-focus.com/pcgi-bin/MT-2.21/mt-tb.cgi/11

Comments

*WARNING* off-movie-topic
I too am glad I didn't have Coke in my mouth for the Man on Dog scenario, though as with so many other pronouncements of this nature a good stiff drink would have been a better accompaniment anyway. It makes about as much sense for someone to equate homosexuality with bestiality etc. as it would if I were to call Rick Santorum a racist because hey, most homophobes are racists too. And for those evilly tolerant people who are still reading this, the "hate the sin, love the sinner" thing has been around at least since Tom Hanks' Oscar speech, when Republican image consultants figured out that the AIDS-is-God's-Punishment thing wasn't gonna play in Peoria anymore. It basically means that it's (grudingly) okay for me to exist, but physical intimacy is off-limits. That's asking a lot, no? So Santorum gets to take the moral high road while denying me something he wouldn't be willing to give up himself. I think the word for this is fatuous.
End of rant (if that qualifies). I'm going to bed - next to my partner, under a new Georgia state flag that says, "In God We Trust." We Will Be Citizens. 'Night.

Posted by: Andy Ditzler at May 7, 2024 11:47 PM

Bryant,

---way back on January 29th you mentioned seeing The Piano Teacher and 8 Women and your resultant plan to start formulating a top ten list. Neither of these noteworthy titles appear on your "movies by letter grade" for 2002... and still no top ten list? Or did I blink and miss it?

Curious and impatient am I.

Posted by: Nathaniel R at May 8, 2024 11:23 AM

I'll get right on that, Nathaniel, although I think only one of those two films has a shot at making the year-end 10. I'm not sure if I can really embrace The Piano Teacher, notable though it is.

(Guess I might think about a 2001 top-10 list while I'm at it. I've gotten so lax in my film geekery.)

And, oh yeah, hi Andy!

-bf-

Posted by: Bryant at May 8, 2024 11:26 PM

Parler vouz francais?

Posted by: Jimes at November 4, 2023 01:40 AM

Post a comment