Film This Weekend at the Movies
posted by on June 13 at 15:10 PM
I have no news to share, but goodness gracious, have you seen this LOL cat?
Opening this week!
Paul Constant reviews The Incredible Hulk (“As in many superhero movies, the third act has problems—how do you keep your villain from becoming a caricature when he’s a giant evil monster whose sole motivation seems to be finding a really tough guy to fight?—but the movie is such great fuck-shit-up fun that it can successfully smash through any cliché in its way”).
I discuss the stylistically crippled The Tracey Fragments, which is nonetheless a don’t-miss for Ellen Page fans. I think it’s a more interesting performance than her turn in Juno, in a way, since it shows her pushing back against clichéd writing—something you rarely see from so young a performer. I never saw Hard Candy, though.
David Schmader compares The Promotion to Election (“From the subject matter and narrative voiceovers to the full-on homage shots, Steve Conrad’s film is colored and contextualized by Alexander Payne’s classic, but eventually finds its legs and grows into something of its own”).
Charles Mudede praises War, Inc. and also talks to John “I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen” Cusack.
Lindy West writes about Moby’s special celebrity visit to the Seattle True Independent Film Festival.
Tucked away in Film Shorts this week are repeat screenings of Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait at Northwest Film Forum and The Dhamma Brothers at the Grand Illusion, plus the remaining STIFF movies.
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Yes I have seen that LOL cat and its still is hilarious.
For future reference, I believe "LOL cat" is actually spelled lolcat.
I prefer the Cat Bus from My Neighbor Totoro.
I prefer images of martin Selig with a knife in his neck.
That cat is going to scratch the fuck out of Martin Selig.
It's funny how the Stranger can never create new Internet crazes/memes, but continuously appropriates dated ones from elsewhere.
I do like monorail cat though.
It's awesome that M. Knight's awful new "movie" doesn't even rate a mention in your roundup
@7: See above. It screened too late for us to review in the print edition and I've been so busy w/ SIFF I thought I'd skip it--but hwhat?! Intelligent design? I'm so there this weekend.
Anyway, complain to the studios who don't care if alt weeklies with Tuesday deadlines get to review a movie or not.
Hard Candy is awesome fwiw
Thank you for the laugh. Monorail cat is even better than the Mythbusters lolcat ("im in ur discovery channel ... bustin ur mythz".)
I once had a long conversation with a co-worker about lolcat misspellings. He thought the misspellings were racist or at the very least mocking people with imperfect English skills. I thought the misspellings represented how cats, if they could type, would make lots of silly errors because they're used to speaking cat and also because their big fluffy paws would get in the way.
That is my favorite lolcat! I was very conflicted about it because, dude, it's lolcats. But, I could not stop laughing about it. Pretty much every time I saw it I was rendered helpless with giggles, and I am not a giggling kind of person.
The only thing that comes close is Teasing Cat on youtube, which is also phenomenal.
Good times.
"such great fuck-shit-up fun"
Constant, please explain what this means.......
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