Videogum » Ed Harris http://videogum.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:45:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: A History Of Violence http://videogum.com/244061/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time-a-history-of-violence/franchises/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time/ http://videogum.com/244061/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time-a-history-of-violence/franchises/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time/#comments Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:45:05 +0000 Gabe http://videogum.com/?p=244061

When A History of Violence first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005, Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott reported in an early version of a New York Times “blog” that there were boos in the audience. At least that’s how I remember it. The New York Times has done a bad job of maintaining their early blog experiments about old Cannes Film Festivals. It was something to the effect of people booing and Manohla Dargis being surprised and also maybe she yelled at someone in the audience to shut up? This story is starting to sound more and more far-fetched the more I recreate it from memory, but based on her glowing review, which IS still available, it’s clear that were someone to have booed in the audience, she would certainly disagree with them, if not to the extreme extent of actually shouting them down. The point of all this apocrypha, I suppose, is to point out that from it’s very beginning, David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence was a movie that spurred debate. Some people liked it very much, and some people shouted at it from their theater seats like a bunch of Joes Wilson.

As it turns out, I happen to be in the former camp. WOWOWOWOW! Did your head just spin around on your neck so fast that it twisted right up and popped clean off?

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]]> 236 Celebrated Diamond Ad Is A Total Ripoff Of A Scene From Stepmom http://videogum.com/28331/this_celebrated_zales_ad_is_a/hate-watching/ http://videogum.com/28331/this_celebrated_zales_ad_is_a/hate-watching/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:38:50 +0000 Lindsay Robertson BLOWING THE LID OFF: Adrants describes this Zales ad as “Ball Of String Captures Moment Of Love” (yeah, I still watched it even with that description, nullus), but as even the most hate-watchy student of chick flick classics knows, this ad is nothing but a total ripoff of a scene from Stepmom. And not just any scene from Stepmom: the most famous scene from Stepmom. The “string scene.” Let’s side-by-side this shit! I am so mad!:

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