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Re: Sly Stone: I’m Back! Family And Friends | Music | Music Review | The A.V. Club

NathanRabin — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:53:29 -0000

The Bridges and Stone are both strong contenders/locks for Least Essential. So very inessential!

Re: The Dissolve

NathanRabin — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:29:50 -0000

I gotta say I'm a little surprised a film that panders so relentlessly to the broadest possible audience fared so poorly at the box-office but I suspect this will enjoy a healthy second life as a camp quasi-classic.

Re: The Dissolve discusses the films of the summer (so far) by Dissolve Staff

NathanRabin — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:49:07 -0000

I'm excited to see so many familiar names and avatars here. I think you're going to dig this new site.

Re: The Dissolve discusses the films of the summer (so far) by Dissolve Staff

NathanRabin — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:29:31 -0000

Aw, thanks! I appreciate it. It's been a pretty crazy ride these past couple of months but between the site and the new book and Phish in Chicago and the Gathering coming up I have all sorts of wonderful things to be excited about.

Re: The Dissolve discusses the films of the summer (so far) by Dissolve Staff

NathanRabin — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:31:00 -0000

Thanks! I'm just excited to see this baby launched after all these months of planning and preparation. I love it when a plan comes together and Keith deserves much of the credit for turning this crazy dream into a reality you can actually log onto and read every day.

Re: Will Pacific Rim fans enjoy Jada Pinkett Smith’s 2008 directorial debut? Netflix thinks so.

NathanRabin — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:59:05 -0000

Aw, thanks.

Re: Will Pacific Rim fans enjoy Jada Pinkett Smith’s 2008 directorial debut? Netflix thinks so.

NathanRabin — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:04:11 -0000

Interesting tidbits about the film I learned on the DVD but wasn't able to integrate into the piece:

1. Pinkett-Smith wrote the female lead for herself, then discovered that she was incapable of directing a film and acting at the same time. So she re-cast the lead role and took a much smaller supporting role. For her two scenes, she had Will Smith direct the film, which I believe secretly makes the Human Contract Will Smith's directorial debut as well (he's credited as Executive Producer, but, sadly, did not provide an upbeat pop-rap theme song for it.

2. In the behind-the-scenes featurette Smith talks about how she had never written or directed a film before but knew she could do it because she was "smart and passionate" and people who are smart and passionate can accomplish anything they want. I would like to believe that to be true but it's probably more accurate to say that people who are rich, famous, beautiful, powerful and married to Will Smith can do anything they want.

3. If Smith were to record the HUMAN CONTRACT theme song, how would it go? That is your action item for this particular piece.

Re: Will Pacific Rim fans enjoy Jada Pinkett Smith’s 2008 directorial debut? Netflix thinks so.

NathanRabin — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:04:54 -0000

He is a very handsome man who is handsomely checked out in his ten minutes in the film. Can't blame him on that count.

Re: Will Pacific Rim fans enjoy Jada Pinkett Smith’s 2008 directorial debut? Netflix thinks so.

NathanRabin — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 12:09:10 -0000

I sure did. At least as much as you missed us. Good to be back. Good to be back.

Re: Will Pacific Rim fans enjoy Jada Pinkett Smith’s 2008 directorial debut? Netflix thinks so.

NathanRabin — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 12:13:12 -0000

That was awesome.

Re: Patton Oswalt christens The Dissolve with his thoughts on pop-culture tour guides

NathanRabin — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 12:21:58 -0000

Aw, that's really sweet.

Re: Godzilla reboot coming to Comic-Con via ominous poster

NathanRabin — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:32:57 -0000

Yeah, I've been thinking and writing alot about Godzilla for a piece I'm writing on the 1998 Godzilla and I'm really excited about this movie. If nothing else, it has to be infinitely superior to the Emmerich version, which is just a fucking abomination. Really lives down to its reputation.

Re: Godzilla reboot coming to Comic-Con via ominous poster

NathanRabin — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:34:42 -0000

Ha! That is possibly the first time anyone has referenced Maria Pitillo. Anywhere.

Re: Future Days Of Future Past will be previewed in current Wolverine

NathanRabin — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:51:07 -0000

Oh, thank God. I had been worrying about headless Deadpool for nothing.

Re: The forgotten blockbuster The Golden Child marks the beginning of Eddie Murphy’s “not trying” phase

NathanRabin — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:28:26 -0000

Yeah, there are certain decades that I just love cinema-wise on an uncritical level. I'm totally with you that I would much rather watch a bad movie from the 1980s or the 1970s or the 1990s, then a bad movie from today. That's partly attributable to nostalgia and the place movies like this played in my childhood and partially because they're interesting time capsules and sociological documents even if they're not always particularly interesting films.

Re: The forgotten blockbuster The Golden Child marks the beginning of Eddie Murphy’s “not trying” phase

NathanRabin — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:29:35 -0000

Yeah, I've seen LEGAL EAGLES and found it surprisingly boring. The only thing that really stands out about it is Daryl Hannah's performance art, which is just as jaw-droppingly embarrassing as you might imagine.

Re: The forgotten blockbuster The Golden Child marks the beginning of Eddie Murphy’s “not trying” phase

NathanRabin — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:30:26 -0000

I'm definitely thinking of writing up THE FOUR SEASONS. It was the Marigold Best Exotic Hotel XXX Fuckfest of its day.

Re: R.I.P.D. / The Dissolve

NathanRabin — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:43:31 -0000

Yeah, I love Jeff Bridges and he's fun here but he's really piling on the shtick.

Re: R.I.P.D. / The Dissolve

NathanRabin — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:44:30 -0000

Yeah, I think if I stopped and really thought about the rules of the universe the film takes place in (something the filmmakers don't seem to have done) it would have seemed even flimsier.

Re: R.I.P.D. / The Dissolve

NathanRabin — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:45:20 -0000

Nah, you really don't need to. It prominently also involves a gay porno tape involving Hitler and a souped-up station wagon but it's nowhere near as entertaining as that description makes it seem.

Re: The forgotten blockbuster The Golden Child marks the beginning of Eddie Murphy’s “not trying” phase

NathanRabin — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:47:50 -0000

Definitely. I love Ritchie and think he's one of the most consistent and underrated American filmmakers of the 1970s (and that's really saying something) but his sly satirical touch is entirely absent. In the producer's memoir (which of course I have read), he describes Ritchie as a guy who made sports movies, not comedies, which really enraged me. The guy made some brilliant comedies. THE GOLDEN CHILD just wasn't one of them.

Re: The forgotten blockbuster The Golden Child marks the beginning of Eddie Murphy’s “not trying” phase

NathanRabin — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:49:03 -0000

It didn't take long for Murphy to stop trying, did it? Five years in, he already seemed thoroughly tuned out.

Re: The forgotten blockbuster The Golden Child marks the beginning of Eddie Murphy’s “not trying” phase

NathanRabin — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:50:52 -0000

Sea of Love was actually very well-regarded at the time (it was the erotic thriller it was okay to like) and HARLEM NIGHTS was Eddie Murphy's directorial debut (and swan song), a labor of love period piece that cast him opposite Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx. Should have been amazing. Instead it was hateful, misogynistic and awful. There's a reason it's been forgotten.

Re: The forgotten blockbuster The Golden Child marks the beginning of Eddie Murphy’s “not trying” phase

NathanRabin — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:51:57 -0000

Yeah, I was really surprised by some of the stuff that has cracked the top 25, like Russ Meyer's SUPERVIXENS and BREAKIN' (but not, it should be noted, BREAKIN 2, the subtitle of which escapes me at the moment).

Re: All right nerds, here’s what happened at Comic-Con

NathanRabin — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:21:52 -0000

That is a damn fine suggestion. Definitely one to take under consideration. There is a whole lot to unpack with that film.