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Main Discussion Area => Stream of Consciousness => Topic started by: RGMike on June 12, 2007, 11:55:40 AM
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I figured this should have its own space. Our Man Mick has done it again: he just figured out this morning that Pete Townsend's "Rough Boys" might be about, y'know, gay stuff...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/submit?blogid=38&entry_id=17526
Unbelieveable.
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Ok, just to be fair... I think LaSalle's description of Dennis Miller here is dead-on. (Tho' I stop short of feeling sorry for the guy)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?blogid=38&entry_id=17561#comments
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Ok, just to be fair... I think LaSalle's description of Dennis Miller here is dead-on. (Tho' I stop short of feeling sorry for the guy)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?blogid=38&entry_id=17561#comments
yeah, pathetic indeed. Reduced to being a Comedian/Comedian on Fox News!
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Mick's latest is a what's-your-earliest-childhood-memory? question.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?blogid=38&entry_id=18267#comments
What's interesting is that he's apparently 47 -- I assumed he was younger, given his ignorance of early '60s music and his professed love for Eminem.
But check out the comment from the woman who was called a "kike" by a nun -- that's quite mind-blowing.
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credit where credit is due: a funny line from Mick today...
"First Bergman, then Antonioni. These usually come in waves, so if I were Eric Rohmer, I wouldn't leave the house for a week."
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well, we were overdue for a Mick LaSalle post about music -- today he tells us he'd NEVER heard Laura Nyro until just recently...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/submit?blogid=38&entry_id=19593
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The man who said he didn't think the Ronettes were important has started a thtread about Great Rock'n'Roll Xmas songs -- Quelle Irony!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/submit?blogid=38&entry_id=21286&comment_id=289224
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The man who said he didn't think the Ronettes were important has started a thtread about Great Rock'n'Roll Xmas songs -- Quelle Irony!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/submit?blogid=38&entry_id=21286&comment_id=289224
There's something wrong about this url, but I noticed Mick seems to have no copy editor:This is what's weird about Zeppelin and correct me if I'm wrong: I don't anybody really listens to them passed the age of 18. OK, SOME people do, but they're not a lifelong love the way some musicians are. It's different when you get older.
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The man who said he didn't think the Ronettes were important has started a thtread about Great Rock'n'Roll Xmas songs -- Quelle Irony!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/submit?blogid=38&entry_id=21286&comment_id=289224
There's something wrong about this url, but I noticed Mick seems to have no copy editor:This is what's weird about Zeppelin and correct me if I'm wrong: I don't anybody really listens to them passed the age of 18. OK, SOME people do, but they're not a lifelong love the way some musicians are. It's different when you get older.
here's the URL for the Zep comments:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/submit?blogid=38&entry_id=21287&comment_id=289442
That may be the most idiotic thing LaSalle has ever said in print (which is saying something!) And I just told him so in the comments thread.
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Mick actually poses an interesting question in today's blog:
When I was in fifth grade, my teacher asked the class, "If you could stay one age your entire life, what would it be?"
Most of the kids wrote 15 or 16. Some wrote 17, because they'd be able to drive a car. The survey topped out at around 25 -- when they felt they could get married.
But I wrote, "49."
My teacher, who was 24 at the time and very funny and flamboyantly gay (we could tell even in 1970, so we're talking even beyond Paul Lynde here), went through the various answers, all of which he considered reasonable. Then he pointed at me and said, "Except for him. HE wants to be MIDDLE-AGED!"
so... Mick's teacher was a young Tom Ammiano? :wink:
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a post on HollywoodElsewhere (followed by many comments) about Mick LaSalle's Sunday piece on five classics he's never seen until now (he calls 2001 "unwatchable"):
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/archives/2008/02/eternal_polluti.php
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Been a while since I linked to a LaSalle blog post, but this one on "Best Who song ever" is certainly interesting...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?blogid=38&entry_id=30879
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love these letters-to-the-Chon in re: Mick...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/19/MVJQ186AR1.DTL
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love these letters-to-the-Chon in re: Mick...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/19/MVJQ186AR1.DTL
not the last one. Ebert & LaSalle in the same breath!? Ebert would be a great writer in any medium, he just happened to be a film buff. Mick? Not so much.
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love these letters-to-the-Chon in re: Mick...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/19/MVJQ186AR1.DTL
not the last one. Ebert & LaSalle in the same breath!? Ebert would be a great writer in any medium, he just happened to be a film buff. Mick? Not so much.
BTW, true to form... Mick hated Moon (he had the litle man asleep in the chair today) and I saw it this afternoon and liked it. Iit's sort of a mash-up of Silent Running, the middle section of 2001, and the Soderburgh/Clooney version of Solaris. Sam Rockwell alone on the moon; Kevin Spacey voices his computer, doing his best HAL-9000 imitation.
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love these letters-to-the-Chon in re: Mick...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/19/MVJQ186AR1.DTL
not the last one. Ebert & LaSalle in the same breath!? Ebert would be a great writer in any medium, he just happened to be a film buff. Mick? Not so much.
His writing is pretty straightforward and plain, which I appreciate, but Ebert, for example, seems like a better writer.
I used to hate Mick's reviews. It seemed most of what he liked I hated and vise versa. Lately, though, I've found myself agreeing with his opinion more than before. Perhaps it's b/c I don't see that many first release movies and I just hit an extended streak that gibes with his opinions, maybe there's something in the building (we work in the same building -- although he also works in screening rooms more than I me, dangit.). Maybe my opinions have been colored by reading his opinions before I see he movie, which is why I generally avoid reviews before I see a movie. I usually seek them out afterwards. But if I see something like the Critical Consensus, I will usually scan it, and notice esp what's at top and bottom, and I do think those aggregated critics' ratings do affect my choices.
Mick's area of expertise is early cinema, specifically the pre-code era -- I believe he's written books on that subject. Not many pre-code movies being released these days though -- :)
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Mick sez he feels sorry for Mark Sanford, but the comment-posters (so far) are having none of it...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?entry_id=42501&o=2#commentslistpos
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So of course, Mr "I don't know anything about music but I'm happy to give my opinion anyway" had to whine about Woodstock. The comments section is priceless, as usual.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?entry_id=45196&o=1
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Too bad Mick wasn't in Union Square a couple days ago. He might have seen this and shot himself in anguish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHakN-JlBa8
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Too bad Mick wasn't in Union Square a couple days ago. He might have seen this and shot himself in anguish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHakN-JlBa8
pretty cool. Wolfgang's Vault -- who sponsored it and filmed it with several HD cameras -- called it a "flash mob" action, but since it was obviously rehearsed shouldn't it be called something different? aren't Flash Mobs more spontaneous?
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Too bad Mick wasn't in Union Square a couple days ago. He might have seen this and shot himself in anguish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHakN-JlBa8
pretty cool. Wolfgang's Vault -- who sponsored it and filmed it with several HD cameras -- called it a "flash mob" action, but since it was obviously rehearsed shouldn't it be called something different? aren't Flash Mobs more spontaneous?
I was kinda thinking the same thing--that a flash mob is more participatory than it is a performance, which this certainly was. Like the word "blog," it seems like the term has been co-opted to mean something entirely different than its original intent.
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Leave it to our Mick to go with this oh-so-classy opening sentence to his review of a new-to-DVD Mama Cass special:
"Over the past few years, I've come to appreciate Cass Elliot and move beyond the ham-sandwich urban legend to admire the unique place she occupied, for a brief time, in our popular culture...."
The special itself sounds pretty great.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/30/PKDC19ATS3.DTL
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Too bad Mick wasn't in Union Square a couple days ago. He might have seen this and shot himself in anguish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHakN-JlBa8
pretty cool. Wolfgang's Vault -- who sponsored it and filmed it with several HD cameras -- called it a "flash mob" action, but since it was obviously rehearsed shouldn't it be called something different? aren't Flash Mobs more spontaneous?
I was kinda thinking the same thing--that a flash mob is more participatory than it is a performance, which this certainly was. Like the word "blog," it seems like the term has been co-opted to mean something entirely different than its original intent.
Yeah, I too object to it being called a Flash Mob, but PR folks love latching onto that kind of shit.
It's much closer to ImprovEverywhere's stuff, specifically the Food Court Musical:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYZ6rbPU2M
Which is not to say it wasn't also great.
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Too bad Mick wasn't in Union Square a couple days ago. He might have seen this and shot himself in anguish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHakN-JlBa8
pretty cool. Wolfgang's Vault -- who sponsored it and filmed it with several HD cameras -- called it a "flash mob" action, but since it was obviously rehearsed shouldn't it be called something different? aren't Flash Mobs more spontaneous?
I was kinda thinking the same thing--that a flash mob is more participatory than it is a performance, which this certainly was. Like the word "blog," it seems like the term has been co-opted to mean something entirely different than its original intent.
Yeah, I too object to it being called a Flash Mob, but PR folks love latching onto that kind of shit.
It's much closer to ImprovEverywhere's stuff, specifically the Food Court Musical:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYZ6rbPU2M
Which is not to say it wasn't also great.
Yeah, those are great. I love musicals! But here the name "ImprovEverywhere" is a misnomer: They rehearse all those scenes. If any "civilian" ever jumped in and tried to sing along or "assume a role" in the midst of their theater sports they'd be flummoxed.
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Too bad Mick wasn't in Union Square a couple days ago. He might have seen this and shot himself in anguish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHakN-JlBa8
pretty cool. Wolfgang's Vault -- who sponsored it and filmed it with several HD cameras -- called it a "flash mob" action, but since it was obviously rehearsed shouldn't it be called something different? aren't Flash Mobs more spontaneous?
I was kinda thinking the same thing--that a flash mob is more participatory than it is a performance, which this certainly was. Like the word "blog," it seems like the term has been co-opted to mean something entirely different than its original intent.
Yeah, I too object to it being called a Flash Mob, but PR folks love latching onto that kind of shit.
It's much closer to ImprovEverywhere's stuff, specifically the Food Court Musical:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYZ6rbPU2M
Which is not to say it wasn't also great.
Yeah, those are great. I love musicals! But here the name "ImprovEverywhere" is a misnomer: They rehearse all those scenes. If any "civilian" ever jumped in and tried to sing along or "assume a role" in the midst of their theater sports they'd be flummoxed.
Fair point about "Improv", however they have done other stunts involving civilians, including:
- Best Gig Ever (http://improveverywhere.com/2004/10/24/best-gig-ever/)
- Surprise Wedding Recption (http://improveverywhere.com/2009/06/02/surprise-wedding-reception/)
- McDonald's Bathroom Attendant (http://improveverywhere.com/2005/02/13/mcdonald's-bathroom-attendant/)
They're also the mad geniuses behind the MP3 experiments. Check 'em out:
http://improveverywhere.com/
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Mick's got a blog post about old movies (shocker!) and how he discovered/became obsessed with Greta Garbo when he was 20. And at one point he says:
"I made friends over the phone with the guy who programmed the Late, Late Show in NY, and he either started running one or two Garbo movies just for me every month or it was one heck of a coincidence"
BWAHAHAHA! I couldn't resist making this comment:
"Er, dude, that guy was gay and probably assumed you were too -- not too many 20-year-old straight guys in 1980 were obsessed with Greta Garbo. ROTFL!"
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Mick's got a blog post about old movies (shocker!) and how he discovered/became obsessed with Greta Garbo when he was 20. And at one point he says:
"I made friends over the phone with the guy who programmed the Late, Late Show in NY, and he either started running one or two Garbo movies just for me every month or it was one heck of a coincidence"
BWAHAHAHA! I couldn't resist making this comment:
"Er, dude, that guy was gay and probably assumed you were too -- not too many 20-year-old straight guys in 1980 were obsessed with Greta Garbo. ROTFL!"
good one. Mike, you need some sort of awesome avatar for your SFGate username!
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missed this post on Friday: Mick prefers the No Doubt cover of "It's My Life" to the Talk talk original. Safe to say he's in the minority on that one.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?blogid=38&entry_id=50227
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missed this post on Friday: Mick prefers the No Doubt cover of "It's My Life" to the Talk talk original. Safe to say he's in the minority on that one.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?blogid=38&entry_id=50227
Mick has gone on record as saying he usually prefers more youthful pop performers, as he thinks the energy and vibrancy they bring are better suited to what many a pop song is trying to say. I'm mind reading here, of course, but I think that explains his preference for No Doubt over Talk Talk. Plus Gwen is sexier that the Talk Talk dude.
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missed this post on Friday: Mick prefers the No Doubt cover of "It's My Life" to the Talk talk original. Safe to say he's in the minority on that one.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?blogid=38&entry_id=50227
Mick has gone on record as saying he usually prefers more youthful pop performers, as he thinks the energy and vibrancy they bring are better suited to what many a pop song is trying to say. I'm mind reading here, of course, but I think that explains his preference for No Doubt over Talk Talk. Plus Gwen is sexier that the Talk Talk dude.
If you got a thing for Gwen Stefani, it definitely improves the song. What's not to like?
ETA: Of course, no amount of sex appeal is going to make me prefer Madonna's "American Pie" over Don McClean's... wait, I'm not sure I phrased that right. ???
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missed this post on Friday: Mick prefers the No Doubt cover of "It's My Life" to the Talk talk original. Safe to say he's in the minority on that one.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?blogid=38&entry_id=50227
Mick has gone on record as saying he usually prefers more youthful pop performers, as he thinks the energy and vibrancy they bring are better suited to what many a pop song is trying to say. I'm mind reading here, of course, but I think that explains his preference for No Doubt over Talk Talk. Plus Gwen is sexier that the Talk Talk dude.
If you got a thing for Gwen Stefani, it definitely improves the song. What's not to like?
I pretty much can't stand Gwen Stefani, but I also don't remember anyone having anything nice to say about her version when it came out.
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missed this post on Friday: Mick prefers the No Doubt cover of "It's My Life" to the Talk talk original. Safe to say he's in the minority on that one.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?blogid=38&entry_id=50227
Mick has gone on record as saying he usually prefers more youthful pop performers, as he thinks the energy and vibrancy they bring are better suited to what many a pop song is trying to say. I'm mind reading here, of course, but I think that explains his preference for No Doubt over Talk Talk. Plus Gwen is sexier that the Talk Talk dude.
If you got a thing for Gwen Stefani, it definitely improves the song. What's not to like?
ETA: Of course, no amount of sex appeal is going to make me prefer Madonna's "American Pie" over Don McClean's... wait, I'm not sure I phrased that right. ???
Doesn't Madonna's Pie have a faux Brit accent? "Oy! No shoving, mates! Just queue up orderly-loike."
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And the sign said "short-haired stupid bloggers need not apply"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?entry_id=50786>a=commentslistpos#commentslistpos
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And the sign said "short-haired stupid bloggers need not apply"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?entry_id=50786>a=commentslistpos#commentslistpos
Oh, the joys of brain dumping. There are probably any other number of idiots that have blogged similar out-of-nowhere stuff, but Mick has a big audience and it gets noticed... sheesh..
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And the sign said "short-haired stupid bloggers need not apply"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?entry_id=50786>a=commentslistpos#commentslistpos
Oh, the joys of brain dumping. There are probably any other number of idiots that have blogged similar out-of-nowhere stuff, but Mick has a big audience and it gets noticed... sheesh..
I love when he posts something idiotic about music -- the comments are always priceless.
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And the sign said "short-haired stupid bloggers need not apply"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?entry_id=50786>a=commentslistpos#commentslistpos
One thing we can deduce from this: Mick listens to 10@10. Monday's set was 1971, and AL played "Signs" in the no. 2 or 3 slot, iirc.
He's also clearly unfamiliar with the concept of "allegory." And he's a tool.
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And the sign said "short-haired stupid bloggers need not apply"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?entry_id=50786>a=commentslistpos#commentslistpos
One thing we can deduce from this: Mick listens to 10@10. Monday's set was 1971, and AL played "Signs" in the no. 2 or 3 slot, iirc.
He's also clearly unfamiliar with the concept of "allegory." And he's a tool.
I don't know -- I think he was just having a little fun. Heard the song and then his mind went for a walkabout. And he wrote it down. Not a big deal.
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And the sign said "short-haired stupid bloggers need not apply"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?entry_id=50786>a=commentslistpos#commentslistpos
One thing we can deduce from this: Mick listens to 10@10. Monday's set was 1971, and AL played "Signs" in the no. 2 or 3 slot, iirc.
He's also clearly unfamiliar with the concept of "allegory." And he's a tool.
I don't know -- I think he was just having a little fun. Heard the song and then his mind went for a walkabout. And he wrote it down. Not a big deal.
you're right. It's not a big deal. But we have to fill airspace somehow! :)
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And the sign said "short-haired stupid bloggers need not apply"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?entry_id=50786>a=commentslistpos#commentslistpos
Oh, the joys of brain dumping. There are probably any other number of idiots that have blogged similar out-of-nowhere stuff, but Mick has a big audience and it gets noticed... sheesh..
I love when he posts something idiotic about music -- the comments are always priceless.
Liked the unintentional comedy from the commenter who asked why he was "quoting Tesla lyrics."
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Actually, Mick's not an idiot today... he's posted a pretty good piece about Robert Downey Jr and why his career, artistically speaking, could be in trouble (message: don't turn into Nic Cage!)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/07/MVAE1D9TCV.DTL&type=movies
But the Chron gave the Iron Man 2 review to the useless Amy Biancolli. Poor Mick!
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Mick channels Emily Litella:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?entry_id=64166>a=commentslistpos&plckItemsPerPage=10&plckSort=TimeStampDescending&plckFindCommentKey=CommentKey:37d80c91-9c84-4cf2-9af1-957180eba7aa#commentslistpos
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Mick channels Emily Litella:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?entry_id=64166>a=commentslistpos&plckItemsPerPage=10&plckSort=TimeStampDescending&plckFindCommentKey=CommentKey:37d80c91-9c84-4cf2-9af1-957180eba7aa#commentslistpos
I commented on the above blog entry that "even Emily Litella wouldn't've found that funny, Mick" -- and he replied "who's Emily Litella?" Seriously. The guy's only 4 years younger than me and he never watched SNL?
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I can't resist pointing out that Yogi Bear, which has a 35/100 score on Metacritic and a 13 (!) on Rotten Tomatoes -- critics can't resist calling it "un-BEAR-able" -- got a very favorable review from contrarian Mick, who called it "refreshing and politically charged". Er, seriously?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/17/MVI41GPGP1.DTL&type=movies
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there's something about Mick:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?entry_id=81460
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Mick's man-crush on Adam Sandler continues unabated:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/10/MV0M1HLB6V.DTL
as usual his is the best review the movie has gotten -- it's at 35 on Metacritic and 29% on RT.
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Mick's man-crush on Adam Sandler continues unabated:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/10/MV0M1HLB6V.DTL
as usual his is the best review the movie has gotten -- it's at 35 on Metacritic and 29% on RT.
I stopped reading at "Adam Sandler's acerbic sweetness." In the first graf.
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someone else discovers the Joy of Mick:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/25/MVP41HRF2K.DTL
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This could have gone into the List thread, but considering some of the choices (and omissions) in Mick's list, I thought I'd revive this thread:
http://blog.sfgate.com/mlasalle/2012/01/17/the-100-best-comedies-since-1960/
Hmmm, since the last time I looked at this, he's added Young Frankenstien, so maybe he hadn't finished (there were only 80 when I first saw this). And that means maybe Airplane! just hasn't been entered yet. Or MP and the Holy Grail, or ...
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This could have gone into the List thread, but considering some of the choices (and omissions) in Mick's list, I thought I'd revive this thread:
http://blog.sfgate.com/mlasalle/2012/01/17/the-100-best-comedies-since-1960/
Hmmm, since the last time I looked at this, he's added Young Frankenstien, so maybe he hadn't finished (there were only 80 when I first saw this). And that means maybe Airplane! just hasn't been entered yet. Or MP and the Holy Grail, or ...
considering he had Adam Sandler's Click on his Ten Best Films of 2006 list...
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This could have gone into the List thread, but considering some of the choices (and omissions) in Mick's list, I thought I'd revive this thread:
http://blog.sfgate.com/mlasalle/2012/01/17/the-100-best-comedies-since-1960/
Hmmm, since the last time I looked at this, he's added Young Frankenstien, so maybe he hadn't finished (there were only 80 when I first saw this). And that means maybe Airplane! just hasn't been entered yet. Or MP and the Holy Grail, or ...
considering he had Adam Sandler's Click on his Ten Best Films of 2006 list...
one commenter on SFGate summed it up pretty well: "if this list is really trying to look at the last 60 years, there are a bit too many mediocre films from the past 15."
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This could have gone into the List thread, but considering some of the choices (and omissions) in Mick's list, I thought I'd revive this thread:
http://blog.sfgate.com/mlasalle/2012/01/17/the-100-best-comedies-since-1960/
Hmmm, since the last time I looked at this, he's added Young Frankenstien, so maybe he hadn't finished (there were only 80 when I first saw this). And that means maybe Airplane! just hasn't been entered yet. Or MP and the Holy Grail, or ...
considering he had Adam Sandler's Click on his Ten Best Films of 2006 list...
one commenter on SFGate summed it up pretty well: "if this list is really trying to look at the last 60 years, there are a bit too many mediocre films from the past 15."
Mick seems to think we are in a Golden Age of comedy.
Personally, I don't think The Hangover will age very well.
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another reason Mick's an idiot: he doesn't like Fassy! But... NOBODY doesn't like Fassy!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/05/PK831MQONA.DTL
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another reason Mick's an idiot: he doesn't like Fassy! But... NOBODY doesn't like Fassy!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/05/PK831MQONA.DTL
Penis envy? ;)
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another reason Mick's an idiot: he doesn't like Fassy! But... NOBODY doesn't like Fassy!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/05/PK831MQONA.DTL
I don't even know who he is. Is there a movie old people watch that I might have seen him in?
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another reason Mick's an idiot: he doesn't like Fassy! But... NOBODY doesn't like Fassy!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/05/PK831MQONA.DTL
I don't even know who he is. Is there a movie old people watch that I might have seen him in?
His first big break was on Band of Brothers; he was also in 300, Hunger,
and last year he was in:
Jane Eyre
Shame
A Dangerous Method (as Carl Jung)
X-Men: First Class (as "young" Ian Mckellen)
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another reason Mick's an idiot: he doesn't like Fassy! But... NOBODY doesn't like Fassy!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/05/PK831MQONA.DTL
I don't even know who he is. Is there a movie old people watch that I might have seen him in?
I am with you, Geoff. His recent exposure in the film "Shame" (which I have not seen) has other members of the board agog. But I pretty much don't know who he is either. He was in "Inglorius Basterds", which I did see, but I don't know which character he played. So there you go.
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another reason Mick's an idiot: he doesn't like Fassy! But... NOBODY doesn't like Fassy!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/05/PK831MQONA.DTL
I don't even know who he is. Is there a movie old people watch that I might have seen him in?
I am with you, Geoff. His recent exposure in the film "Shame" (which I have not seen) has other members of the board agog. But I pretty much don't know who he is either. He was in "Inglorius Basterds", which I did see, but I don't know which character he played. So there you go.
I saw the film too, guess I'll have to IMDB it.
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another reason Mick's an idiot: he doesn't like Fassy! But... NOBODY doesn't like Fassy!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/05/PK831MQONA.DTL
I don't even know who he is. Is there a movie old people watch that I might have seen him in?
I am with you, Geoff. His recent exposure in the film "Shame" (which I have not seen) has other members of the board agog. But I pretty much don't know who he is either. He was in "Inglorius Basterds", which I did see, but I don't know which character he played. So there you go.
same here.
I watched the Golden Globes and George Clooney won an award over Fassbinder. In his acceptance speech, Clooney made some joke about Fassbinder doing full fronal nudity in Shame and said something like "Dude, you could play golf with that thing!" and then mimicked a golf SCHWING with his hands behind his back. So he's well known for that specific "talent." *titter*
Viggo Mortensen appears w him in A Dangerous Method, David Cronenberg's movie about Freud and Jung. Viggo was on some talk show (Kimmel?) and spoke about Fassbinder's strange way of acting, which seemed very method-y, like jogging in place to get very winded before a shot, always appearing that he is going to jump at the other actors, like on the edge of his sanity or something. But he didn't mention his penis. So the dude is also known as an actor!
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The SF Chronicle's Mick LaSalle will be the guest on KQED's Forum with Michael Krasny today at 9 AM. 88.5 FM
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OK, my turn!
Mick's "All-Time Sexiest Men of Pop Music" is just plain laughable. Keith Moon? Really?
http://blog.sfgate.com/mlasalle/2012/03/08/all-time-sexiest-men-of-pop-music/
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OK, my turn!
Mick's "All-Time Sexiest Men of Pop Music" is just plain laughable. Keith Moon? Really?
http://blog.sfgate.com/mlasalle/2012/03/08/all-time-sexiest-men-of-pop-music/
LaSalle is bad enuf as a film critic, but he should NEVER write about music. Ever.
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I note that Mick's movie reviews are now behind the new "sfchronicle.com" paywall. He can hint in his blog (still free) about what he likes or doesn't, but the actual reviews you gotta subscribe for.
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Credit where credit is due: Mick's great put-down of After Earth:
"M. Night Shyamalan is branching out, coming up with new ways to make bad movies. His plan must be to exhaust all possibilities, so as to eventually come full circle and make a good one by accident. "
ROTFL!
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Credit where credit is due: Mick's great put-down of After Earth:
"M. Night Shyamalan is branching out, coming up with new ways to make bad movies. His plan must be to exhaust all possibilities, so as to eventually come full circle and make a good one by accident. "
ROTFL!
and as soon as I pay Mick a complement, he writes something idiotic -- today's blog post is a debate on whether M Night Shaymalan or Guy Ritchie is the "worst Filmmaker Ever". Seriously? in a world where Uwe Boll is still making movies?
Beth Spotswood, OTOH: genuis...
http://blog.sfgate.com/culture/2013/05/31/old-people-at-the-movies/
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Credit where credit is due: Mick's great put-down of After Earth:
"M. Night Shyamalan is branching out, coming up with new ways to make bad movies. His plan must be to exhaust all possibilities, so as to eventually come full circle and make a good one by accident. "
ROTFL!
and as soon as I pay Mick a complement, he writes something idiotic -- today's blog post is a debate on whether M Night Shaymalan or Guy Ritchie is the "worst Filmmaker Ever". Seriously? in a world where Uwe Boll is still making movies?
Beth Spotswood, OTOH: genuis...
http://blog.sfgate.com/culture/2013/05/31/old-people-at-the-movies/
I don't hold Mick responsible for his blog posts. I'm pretty sure sfgate forces him to do them, and he's gotta eat. The format isn't really condusive to intelligent observation.
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Been a while since I posted in this thread, but this is kinda interesting -- Mick unearths an interview he did 20 years ago that never saw the light of newsprint. IMHO David Mamet totally schools him here. YMMV.
http://blog.sfgate.com/mlasalle/2014/01/31/the-long-lost-david-mamet-interview-from-1994/