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What I Learned on YOMYOMF This Week – November 14 – 20, 2010

  • November 20, 2010 4:23 pm

While I continue to write about Inception, it may surprise you to learn I’ve taken to spreading the good word about a different bit of entertainment elsewhere in my life.

As of late, I’d been trying to get my dear ninang (that’s ‘godmother’ in Tagalog) to get hooked on Mad Men.  After taking just a little under a year to finally get through the first season, she recently burned through seasons two and three over the course of a week or two.

I’d say I’ve just about done my job.  The funny thing is that occasionally I will sit and watch an episode with her and during some scene with Jon Hamm, she will just randomly say, “He is so good-looking.”

Okay, so maybe it’s not so random, but then we’ll have a two-minute conversation about why he is good-looking and where his looks fall in the history of looks and before we know it, I’ve got to rewind five minutes of Mad Men because we’ve talked too much and my math is bad.

Look: the bottom line is now my ninang loves Mad Men and has discovered the Adonis-like man Jon Hamm.  That’s all I wanted to tell you guys.

Alright, with a clap of my hands I will tell you about the hot topics from this week: Pacquiao being a badass; saving Thanksgiving from vegetarians; and having an appetite… FOR MURDER!

If that doesn’t get you to click on, I don’t know what will.  Oh, wait:

Best Movie Trailers Ever

  • July 18, 2010 5:03 pm

When I go see a movie on opening weekend, sometimes I get most excited with the Coming Attractions or theatrical trailers. But now, with the internet, movie trailers have become an event in itself. For example, a teaser for the upcoming trailer of the Twilight movies is pretty much industry standard now. Trailers at sites from Apple and Yahoo are ubiquitous. YouTube is another bastion. But with media at our fingertips, there’s just more crap nowadays and the art behind crafting a good trailer has diminished considerably. How many people bemoan the fact that all the cool stuff or funniest parts are spoiled in the trailer? This summer alone,  Despicable Me, Predators, Iron Man 2 all come to mind right now.

Spoiler Alerts Or The Date From Hell #134

  • July 15, 2010 12:08 am

SPOILER ALERT: Yes, this post contains spoilers…for anyone stuck in a time warp and still living in 1992. If that is you, stop reading immediately!

So this past weekend, I’m out with a woman who appears to be very nice and normal. We go to a movie and then for a bite afterwards and we’re enjoying what can be described as a very pleasant conversation. We’re discussing Predators, the film we just saw, and a twist that happens with Topher Grace’s character near the end (a twist, I might add, that anyone who has seen more than one film in their lifetime will figure out early on). Predator woman goes on about how she loves movies that contain “surprises.” I tell her my favorite film “surprise” is in The Crying Game when the audience finds out that Jaye Davidson’s character is a dude with a dick and not a woman.

Predator woman’s expression suddenly changes. She looks annoyed and/or upset. “I haven’t seen Crying Game yet,” she says to me. “Now you’ve ruined the movie for me. That’s not a very nice thing to do.”

What the fuck? Oh man, here it comes…

“You gave away a very important spoiler to someone who hasn’t seen that movie,” she continues. “You really shouldn’t do that ‘cause now I know what the surprise is and you can only watch a film once with virgin eyes.”

1,001 Reasons I Love Movies: (#11) The Shower Scene In ‘Psycho’

  • February 21, 2010 2:14 am

My fellow Offenders Iris and Elaine have been blogging this month about the films they think should have been nominated for Oscars (see examples here, here and here). Of course there were also many deserving individuals who never won the gold statuette and I think none of the “losers” were more deserving than director Alfred Hitchcock. Known as the “Master of Suspense,” Hitchcock helmed such classic thrillers as Notorious, Vertigo, North By Northwest, Rope, The Birds and, of course, Psycho.

In fact, the shower-murder scene in Psycho may not only be the most famous sequence in all of Hitchcock’s films, but one of the most famous in all of cinema. In an era of extreme horror films like the Saw series, this scene may no longer have the same power to shock audiences like it did when it was released in 1960, but it still retains its power 50 years later. Hitchcock should have won a directing Academy Award for this sequence alone. But since he didn’t, I’d like to pay homage to it as part of our Oscar “flavah of the week” by examining what makes Psycho’s shower-murder one of the most effective moments to ever be captured on celluloid.