Day: November 12, 2005

catwoman

there was some discussion of this film in the “oscar bait” comments, but i believe it deserves a topic of its own. thanks to hbo ondemand i was able to watch this without having to endure the sneers of the terminally hip check-out kids at netflix (okay, vidiots, santa monica flashback). it is, as chris, commenter joshua, and every critic who reviewed it have noted, an extremely crappy movie. and from what i can tell, a very expensive piece of crap. so, is it worth talking about? perhaps if we’re bored we could try to tease out the bizarre narrative of female empowerment that runs through it–and which might be symptomatic of what has become of feminism in the american mainstream: through your crap shall we know ye.

anyone? chris?

the return of beavis and butthead

the “mike judge collection” looks good. 40 of his favorite episodes, with the narrative bits separated from the music-video bits (which makes sense to me). and apparently, we’re not being set up for a scam wherein we buy this collection and then get hit with the complete seasons one by one. judge has said that only non-overlapping collections of his favorite episodes will be released. if i hadn’t caught a lot of the comedy central marathon from last week i don’t know if i would have wanted to buy it, but having done so, i must (damn you, evil marketing geniuses!). plus “the great cornholio” is in this set. unfortunately, i don’t think the great i.n.s episode in which cornholio is deported is on here–i remember watching this at a super bowl party at ned’s (it was mtv’s half-time counter-programming); probably will be in a later collection. i hadn’t really paid a lot of attention to the show till i saw that episode (i think sean portnoy forced us to watch)–it was when i realized that i’d been missing something really, really smart.

i know michael’s a fan–anybody else?