2 posts tagged “movies”
November 21,2006 | LOS ANGELES -- Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind "M-A-S-H," "Nashville" and "The Player" who made a career out of bucking Hollywood management and story conventions, died at a Los Angeles Hospital, his Sandcastle 5 Productions Company said Tuesday. He was 81.
I am grateful that I had a chance to see him at an event at the MT&R on Halloween (with Garrison Keillor, no less); to call him "caustic and irreverent" is an understatement. He was hilariously bitter, sharp as a tack even at the age of 81.
While I haven't seen many of his films, I really enjoyed the few I had; he will be missed.
When it comes to directors I find obnoxious, it is impossible to top M. Night Shyamalan. So allow me to engage in a little schadenfreude as the reviews for Lady In The Water begin to pour in:
"Shyamalan's most alienating and self-absorbed project to date."
"A flaky ego trip disguised as a fairy tale."
"You won't see anything else like it this summer, and you'll be really glad about that."
"Maybe the theme is that you should try to score some of that stuff Shyamalan must be smoking." (Note: This was considered a positive review.)
"Like Splash reworked by a grandiose Sunday-school teacher."
"I just want to punch this movie right in the face."
"You wonder if Shyamalan has crossed from mere self-regard into actual mental illness."
No post about M. Night Shamabama would be complete without a link to the brilliant WHAT A TWIST! sketch from Robot Chicken.
