Go is a total nostalgia trip. Do
YOU remember the time when:
- Sarah Polley could headline a film?
- Sarah Polley starred in films instead of directing them?
- Sarah Polley could act? (See evidence against.)
- Sarah Polley looked uncannily like Sarah Cracknell?
- Sarah Polley was important enough to be mentioned this many times in one post?
- Jay Mohr was in every other film? (I love Jay Mohr. I don't know why. Don't you miss him? I know he's still alive.)
- Katie Holmes looked human?
- Katie Holmes could act? (See evi... oh, you know.)
- Katie Holmes had a haircut that didn't suggest she becoming her husband? (Seriously, what is going on there? If I didn't know it was for a tv show I'd be seriously worried. (This point sponsored by a current tv advert mentioning the Tom Cruise haircut.))
- Katie Holmes didn't have to stand in a ditch to be shorter than the men around her?
- A film could have a sense of morality about drugs while still being fun and not being a lecture in the vaguest sense?
- A film could have a gay couple as central characters without it being their defining characteristic, or even important in the slightest?
- Scott Wolf got to star in a movie? (Why did Katie Holmes become the famous one again?)
- William Fichtner was creepy? (Oh... wait.)
- Taye Diggs! was funny? (He deserves the exclamation, because when he appeared I exclaimed exactly that in my head.)
- Doug Liman made good films? (This brief period ended in 2005.)
- I was just eleven years old? (Isn't that alarming.)
Watching Go is so nostalgic that when I thought about it again this morning I felt like I'd actually seen it years ago and my viewing last night was a joyful revisit. It was in fact the first time I'd ever seen it.
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Go is a total nostalgia trip. Do YOU remember the time when:
5 comments:
Um, The Secret Life of Words?
I agree whole-heartedly. It's a really comfortable film to watch. It isn't preaching and it isn't Fear and Loathing. Lots of interesting things going on.
Totally agree on Holmes as well. I used to like her when she had long hair.. Teaching Mrs. Tingle is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. Lol.
J.D.: I haven't seen it (should I rectify that?). But I was being kind of flippant with the Sarah Polley stuff (I have no problem with her directing, either).
You really should, man. I loved it, and she's brilliant in it.
It's perhaps more "Remember when Sarah Polley could headline a film that wasn't Canadian". You're right about Don't Come Knocking though. She was appalling awful in that.
I love Go! though. Amazing stuff.
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