“I see the worst in people.” - Daniel Plainview
Daniel Day-Lewis’ character in There Will Be Blood wasn’t watching The People’s Choice Awards when he said those words, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t thinking about them.
In one of the best movie years in recent memory, The People chose Pirates 3 as their favorite.
Pirates 3.
Their favorite.
Of all the movies that came out in 2007, they liked the threequel about pirates better than any other.
In the words of another character from another of 2007’s truly great movies: “I don’t know what to make of that. I surely don’t.”
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Is it possible that poor Pete Hammond was right all along?
*sigh* Never underestimate the intelligence of the American public.
Or any public. For that matter….
Bread and circuses.
Well, not exactly a surprise. The first ‘people’s choice awards’ were all year at the box office which just means that a lot of people _saw_ this movie and remembered it more fondly than Spider-Man 3/Shrek 3/ Transformers - and given that company it’s hard to blame them.
Well that’s certainly an optimistic way of looking at it Jeff. I guess Ratatouille was just too much to hope for.
Could have been worse. Transformers and 300 were both big crowd pleasers, but thankfully Depp trumps them all.
I should also point out once again for the record: Didn’t see Pirates 3. I sort of feel like I saw the first 2 and I get the basic idea. Fair enough? Why torture myself further?
Considering it’s the same director, same cast and shot back to back with the second, I think you’re safe in that assumption.
Sweet. You’ve just saved me 3 hours. Now if I could only get back the 6 I blew on those others…
Ditto, Craig.
Worst of all, because of my film class, I actually had to see the second Pirates movie A SECOND TIME in a movie theater. After that, I felt like I had seen enough Pirates movies for the rest of my life. I had zero intention to see the third installment after that.
When I went through College - we never call it that - in NZ there were no film classes though we were aware such things existed in the US. Sounds like fun to combine natural and academic interests.
It is pretty cool, sartre. When did you come to America, if I may ask? :-)
We passed through Ellis Island immigration in 1904
:-)
Arrived in SF July 2006. Fortunately we had friends Ross to help ease the transition. My wife completes her Berkeley graduate studies in May and we’ll probably depart these fair shores around August. If we stay in the US, we’ll almost certainly move to NY or Washington. But a little part of us will forever be East Bay Northern Californians.
You picked a fine chunk of real estate with which to get aquainted with our country Sartre. If only the rest of the country was more like it…
One day you will have saved enough money Craig to leave South Central LA.
Can’t wait until I am old enough to leave South Africa for the USA permanently, soon is not soon enough!
We’ll still be here when you come of age Nick (I hope), take your time.
Wow, Alexander. Did you just finish college?
Unless you’re a grad student, you must be *ahem* rather young.
But if that is indeed the case, there are certainly a lot of positives attached to that. You have a lot of depth & intellectual fervour. Qualities that I’m sure are evident in some but not necessarily attributes that we would associate with people under 25, say.
Well, Hilary just won the primary.
Maybe there is hope for the future…
The sad this is, even if “the people”actually watched the year’s best films, like “There Will Be Blood” or “No Country for Old Men” or “Zodiac,” they wouldn’t like them because they aren’t Bruckheimer-style blow-em-ups. Who wants to think when you can turn your brain off and watch cars turn into giant robots and fight each other?
What a sad state of affairs we live in.
But then again, these are the same people who elected George W. Bush twice.
TWICE!!!! That’s what continues to kill me.
On the other hand, having these movies appeal only to small niches of people plays into my exaggerated sense of superiority over the masses.
This is delusional, I know, but it helps me sleep at night.
True…I think if smaller films achieve great mainstream success I will probably be suspicious of them no matter how good they are. So maybe it’s best they stay in the niche markets, even though they deserve so much better.
“I see dead people.” Haley Joel Osment
Yeah, the electing him TWICE is what really makes me sad. Blame electoral college. And Ohio.
*glances around surreptitiously for Ohio-ans on the site*