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Re: The "Mick LaSalle is an Idiot" Thread
« Reply #45 on: February 11, 2011, 07:36:26 PM »
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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Re: The "Mick LaSalle is an Idiot" Thread
« Reply #46 on: February 25, 2011, 01:13:14 PM »
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« Reply #47 on: January 17, 2012, 09:23:24 AM »
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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« Reply #48 on: January 17, 2012, 09:36:40 AM »
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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« Reply #49 on: January 17, 2012, 03:51:41 PM »
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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« Reply #50 on: January 17, 2012, 05:19:16 PM »
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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Re: The "Mick LaSalle is an Idiot" Thread
« Reply #51 on: February 07, 2012, 07:50:44 AM »
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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Re: The "Mick LaSalle is an Idiot" Thread
« Reply #52 on: February 07, 2012, 07:52:39 AM »
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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« Reply #53 on: February 07, 2012, 10:10:09 AM »
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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Re: The "Mick LaSalle is an Idiot" Thread
« Reply #54 on: February 07, 2012, 10:48:48 AM »
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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Re: The "Mick LaSalle is an Idiot" Thread
« Reply #55 on: February 07, 2012, 10:50:28 AM »
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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Re: The "Mick LaSalle is an Idiot" Thread
« Reply #56 on: February 07, 2012, 11:04:27 AM »
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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Re: The "Mick LaSalle is an Idiot" Thread
« Reply #57 on: February 07, 2012, 11:10:16 AM »
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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Re: The "Mick LaSalle is an Idiot" Thread
« Reply #58 on: February 27, 2012, 08:55:04 AM »
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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Re: The "Mick LaSalle is an Idiot" Thread
« Reply #59 on: March 09, 2012, 09:02:50 PM »
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/