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oys video could have been a lot of fun think i m a slave 4 u but even skankier except for the fact that the director forgot one important element the boys besides pharrell who features on this song and a cameo from mike myers as austin powers the song was on the soundtrack for austin powers in goldmember there s only one other guy in the video and he s totally the kind of skanky unattractive guy britney put in all of her videos around this time what is the use of having a video for a song about fucking boys and then not putting any boys in the video it really baffles me sometimes how these music video directors come up with these lame concepts that completely fail to capture the spirit of the song did anyone listen to the song beforehand britney and pharrell interact for a few seconds although you d be forgiven if you forget it mere seconds later since britney couldn t give two shits about him during the interaction he s a mere prop a stripper pole of sorts for britney to dance around pharrell tries his best to make it look they are connecting but britney is just looking away from him never once looking like a believable duo what saves this video from damnation is the final 15 seconds or so when britney does her obligatory routine with mike myers austin powers it s nothing special but britney looks so happy and full of life being silly with austin powers that it makes the preceding 3 5 minutes worth it believe it or not silly britney is not a side of her we get all that often so we must relish it every chance we get previous installments baby one more time sometimes you drive me crazy the stop remix from the bottom of my broken heart born to make you happy oops i did it again lucky stronger don t let me be the last to know i m a slave 4 u i m not a girl not yet a woman posted by dame james at 5 15 pm no comments labels britney spears britney s videography music videos pop music tuesday january 25 2011 the dame wears black for andy in case you don t follow the multitude of film people i do on twitter or have an actual life that doesn t revolve around something so arbitrary as film awards today was oscar nomination day i used to be really into predicting and following the oscar race but as the years have gone on i have become more and more disillusioned with the whole spectacle sure i still live for the actual show itself and i do follow the race with a passing interest but it doesn t hold the same magic for me it once did i have realized over the years that i m much more fascinated by the non consensus personal ballots i see from online bloggers i admire i don t care if we disagree i just love seeing people pick movies and performances they truly love rather than pick stuff that falls into the category of good taste oscar for the most part doesn t do that and that is why i ve become disengaged this year however i did have one oscar wish that my beloved andy garfield would get a nomination for his work in the social network unlike my no chance in hell campaign wish for la tisdale to get a nomination for high school musical 3 andy was a legitimate contender he had the golden globe nom the bafta nom and a considerable amount of support behind him leading into today the recent sag omission stung but you never know with that group and the way they pick their nominees so i went in this morning confident believing in the power of the secret that andy would get his well deserved nomination and i d do this happy dance i was at work this morning when the nominations were announced so i was horrified to discover these two tweets on my phone during my morning break cut to my and probably andy s reaction how can you make andy cry you horrible bastards what did he ever do to you to hurt him like this you all saw the social network you all know how amazing he was so why did you ignore him in favor of geoffrey rush being old and australian ugh so many questions so little answers in honor of my new mood i quickly posted this on my twitter it is officially a day of mourning instead of ending nearly every tweet with oh andy sexual connotation implied we must now end them with poor andy to honor the memory of this now dead dream the mourning period will last for an indefinite amount of time but do not worry fellow andy lovers he will rise from the ashes once again and eventually he ll go from this to this i don t even know what that is but i love it adorable andy strikes again posted by dame james at 10 00 pm no comments labels boys boys boys oh andy oscar the social network saturday january 22 2011 so glaad to be a gay as i m sure you ascertained from this recent blog post glaad and i are not on very good terms we often disagree on what constitutes a positive portrayal of gay life in movies and tv they either like nice quiet gays coming out of the closet or loud in your face crusaders while i tend to prefer characters with a little more shading or heaven forbid an evil gay so it pisses me off that this lousy group is supposed to be representing me and my best interests anyways they recently announced the nominees for their media awards so i thought it would be fun to take a gander at what they thought was the best in gay cinema this past year outstanding film wide release burlesque easy a the girl who played with fire the kids are all right scott pilgrim vs the world i haven t seen the girl who played with fire hell i barely made it through the girl with the dragon tattoo but i have seen the rest so let s tackle them in alphabetical order as a film burlesque is a heaping pile of shit not even cher in all of her cher glory nor an impressive star turn from cam gigandet can save this fosse wannabe from being anything but a joyless soulless imitation of far better films with that being said the depiction of homosexuality in burlesque even the gay stuff that extends far beyond stanley tucci s character didn t offend me in the slightest actually i quite enjoyed the films enthusiasm for treating cher like the god of the gays she is and for giving into every cliché you d expect from a gay romp like this glitter check belting divas check catfights check cher being a bitch check cher looking fiercer in outfits than many women half her age check for once i believe glaad is looking beyond the surface as to what a gay film means and for that i must gulp applaud them know we are up to easy a and i m afraid this love fest must end i know that was quick listen i thought dan byrd was hilarious and his chemistry with emma stone made their witty repartée that much funnier but to suggest that his character s representation of a gay male is either positive or progressive is grossly offensive this is a character who asks a friend to help make other people in his school think he s straight by pretending to have sex with him because he s too much of a pussy to ignore the haters and thinks that things will get magically better when he goes to college the whole scene where he asks emma stone to help him was so uncomfortable for me to watch both times i ve seen the movie maybe it s because my own personal philosophy has always been to either come out or shut up but never ever pass for straight but i can t stand behind him as any sort of positive role model i wasn t a big fan of the kids are all right but even i can t argue about it s importance as a gay film sure i do have a reservation or two about that fact that when julianne moore s character has an affair it is with a man and not another woman but i obviously understand why it happens and it s necessity to the story doesn t mean i have to agree though either way this film is on it s way to an easy win so congrats and finally we have scott pilgrim vs the world i liked this film far more than i ever thought i would the trailer made it seem overly quirky even by my standards but in the finished product everything sort of fell into place keiran culkin plays the gay roommate of michael cera s scott pilgrim and while i liked the character once again i m not sure if it was entirely a good gay creation culkin s character wallace is wickedly funny yet he also steals his female best friend s date has sex with him while in a relationship with another guy and then tells scott when he questions it that basically it s okay for him to do it because he s gay in the words of cher horowitz as if how revolting with that being said i did enjoy that wallace and scott s friendship was never once threatened by his homosexuality scott could care less either way that s quite a big leap forward in the depiction of gay straight male friendships in the movies so all in all not exactly a bad batch of films here the only one i would be quick to replace is easy a although i m not exactly sure what to replace it with black swan perhaps and as much as i bitch about glaad let s all be grateful that they didn t go for something completely horrible like as glenn suggests kick ass or even valentine s day for that dumb twist ending posted by dame james at 2 30 am 1 comment labels cher gay stuff julianne moore le cinema stanley tucci thursday january 20 2011 sometimes i m a total sap posted by dame james at 12 00 am no comments labels big parade john gilbert le cinema silencieux saturday january 15 2011 well played black swan even if you like me weren t totally bowled over by black swan there s no denying that its marketing campaign is all sorts of brilliant from the multitude of posters to its trailer and the general word of mouth for months on end black swan has quite possibly been the most buzzed about film of the year and in a year when a massive christopher nolan film was released that is saying a lot the most impressive feat of this campaign however is perhaps small in scale but enormous in terms of impact i was speaking with my mother yesterday and she was asking if i had seen black swan yet i told her yes and that she would most likely enjoy it she then told me that she was so excited to see it she asked her co worker if she wanted to go see it with her in theaters they couldn t go see it because it hadn t opened in their area yet but i was still stunned my mother works at a library and gets free movie rentals whenever she wants she s also the biggest cheapskate on the planet so she would rather wait until the dvd comes out instead of paying money to see it in theaters the last movie she saw in theaters was the da vinci code way back in 2006 and that was only because my dad was a big fan of the book and wanted to see it to be honest i can t remember the last movie she saw in theaters just because she wanted to see it so to sum everything up darren aronofsky and his marketing team deserve all the praise they have earned thusfar they may not win the best picture oscar come march but i think my mother s 8 for a movie ticket is even more valuable posted by dame james at 9 11 pm no comments labels darren aronofsky friends and family say the darndest things natalie portman friday january 14 2011 top 20 rentals of 2010 i consider a rental any movie i have seen in 2010 that wasn t actually released in 2010 or in the case of a few films some films released in 2009 although there weren t as many gems as there were last year the quality of these films is very nearly equal to those here s what i thought was the best in order from top to bottom a the mother and the whore jean eustache 1973 the grand finale to the french new wave movement eustache and star jean pierre léaud evoke both the talkiness of godard and the romance of truffaut in this evocative emotive drama of love léaud s shining moment as an actor some of his monologues would put more traditional actors to shame the trial orson welles 1962 a two hour nightmare perfectly captures the increasing confusion and insanity while never forgetting the sense of dread and doomed fate that hangs over anthony perkins josef k twist and shout bille august 1984 two danish best friends one emotionally damaged the other in love deal with racing hormones while balancing adult sized burdens not limited to pregnancy a mental mother and an abusive father twist and shout sounds unremarkable even slightly rote but sensitive direction from august makes you care deeply about these damaged people more on twist and shout applause rouben mamoulian 1929 the first proof that these new fangled talking pictures may prove to be just as fruitful artistically speaking as their silent predecessors more on applause z costas gavras 1969 costas gavras breakthrough film is the rare political thriller that manages to be both an intelligent indicting commentary on the then and now political climate and compulsively watchable entertainment the raoul coutard cinematography with his usual palette of severe reds and blues and jean louis trintignant who manages to make his blue sunglasses an extension of his character make this high charged film cool a le samouraï jean pierre melville 1967 speaking of cool alain delon is the very definition with his perfectly positioned hat and icy cold demeanor in this stripped down both dialogue wise and visually gangster film another woman woody allen 1988 gena rowlands plays woody allen with surprisingly fantastic results in this sober introspective drama more in line with interiors than hannah and her sisters claudine john berry 1974 diahann carroll and james earl jones tackle the race problem in 1970 s new york with the kind of head on confrontation of the issues and stylized delivery more associated with sketch comedy the bunifa sketches on madtv for one than the usual race film we think of then and now tout va bien jean luc godard and jean pierre gorin 1972 godard and gorin s call to arms in a post 68 france is one of the most reactionary films i ve ever seen after watching the film i wanted to riot in the streets and protest everything that s wrong with this country such is the power of godard when he s in the right mood no end in sight charles ferguson 2007 nothing in no end in sight is exactly a breaking news headline when viewed in 2010 but considering the film came out in 2007 it s almost downright prophetic they won t forget mervyn leroy 1937 a white northerner is accused of murdering one of his southern students the prosecutor has very little in the way of tangible evidence so he turns the town violently against the accused eventually turning the case into a nationwide battle between the good ole boys of the south and the uppity northerners this warner brothers surprise surprise flick is one of the most damning and truly progressive films of the entire studio era the sundowners fred zinnemann 1960 the rare family drama that works as both a 60 s era big budget crowdpleaser and an introspective look at the inner workings of an atypical family the characters are just as full of disappointments as they are triumphs edvard munch peter watkins 1974 a biopic of the now famous painter who battled a hostile art community who refused to see his work as legitimate art told in a highly unusual wa...