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Iron Man: Ice Cream Sandwich.
Iron Man II should've been called Iron Man: Vista.
Another Krishnan Guru-Murthy interview that doesn't turn out too well (the other being a somewhat infamous interview with Tarantino, wherein Guru-Murthy pressed the filmmaker about his use of violence):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALBwaO-rAsE
One of the annoying things about this and the Tarantino interview is the way Guru-Murthy just kind of chuckles at the frustration of his interviewees. I guess you could argue that this may be an understandable instinct. He's trying to ameliorate the offence with affability or something, or he's just embarrassed, or both...but, at any rate, it comes across as condescending and it's an insensitive way to respond to the discomfort of the person being interviewed. It's the body language equivalent of "why are you mad, though?" That's a curious reaction following a series of questions that have clearly crossed a line. How about a sincere apology or changing the conversation instead of doubling down on the sensational questions in an effort to get as much mileage out of the interview before it fully detonates?
I don't think the premise of his questions are out of line but the way he asked them were just asinine. He just kept phrasing "Remember when you were a terrible person? How profound that you are not anymore" half a dozen different ways. If you want to ask hard questions, you're supposed to put your subject at ease, not nervously poke its side and then act like you don't understand why they got frustrated.
Seems like that's his schtick, asking uncomfortable questions as if there's no consequence or distancing factor that accompanies the tactic. I don't know anything about this dude beyond this and the Tarantino thing but I'd wager he does this all the time with people who either don't get up and leave like Downey or shut him down like QT. It's a sensational tactic that probably gets headlines wherever he's based. Like the idea is to break the interview subject down, as if they deserve it somehow. He probably thinks he's asking hard-hitting, vital 60 Minutes-style questions but he comes off as having the tact of The Daily Show without the irony.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gittes
I can't wait until he's on Howard next week.
Heh did anyone read more leaked e-mails about Sinister Six? They wanted a Matt Damon to play Doc Ock.
http://www.blastr.com/2015-4-21/new-...-andmatt-damon
Wow at that interview. This probably happens a lot, but still. Thing is, I could see how a more capable interviewer and allround more likeable person would be able to twist the subject ever so slightly so as to not bother the person on the other end. But this was just uncomfortable.
On the subject of the leaks, has anybody else decided to not read them? It kinda bugs me that Wikileaks releases studios' dirty laundry instead of, y'know, meaningful information.
Ive read none. As Ive said before, I dont see a difference between stolen data.
Yeah not clicking that garbage.
That last question about his father and drugs was way out of line. Interviewer was a prick there.
Well, everybody seems to remember the interviewer's name now, so maybe he wins?
He wasn't exactly a nobody. He's a top news anchor in the UK.
And the same thing happened before with Tarantino, Richard Ayoade, and others.
To clarify here, he actually has to ask these questions. He tried to explain it (awkwardly) in his Ayoade interview that also went badly. Unlike in the US, British news programs are held to broadcast journalism standards set by the government, so they're not allowed to promote movies or books and do promo interviews.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lazlo
By law, if he's interviewing someone like RDJ, he's not allowed to ask fluff questions about The Avengers. He has to ask him "serious" pseudo-public-interest questions. Of course, you can easily do this without antagonizing your subject, which is where he falls short.
Huh, it releases both.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dead & Messed Up
And yeah, that Brit guy is either dumb or a troll.
Well, he's not Don Lemon, so he's got that going for him, at least.
The 5 actors in the running for Peter Parker:
- The kid from The Way Way Back
- The kid from Hugo
- The kid from Interstellar
- The kid from How I Live Now
- The blind kid from The Fault in Our Stars
Jeez, the Ultron's press interview promos are going badly.
Going to the premiere with a bunch of friends on the 30th. Just got our tickets today.
How early/late?Quote:
Originally Posted by [ETM]
I'm LOVING these 7Pm showings.
That was a lot of movie.
For me, it is to the first Avengers as what Kung Fu Panda 2 is to the first one: darker, more ambitious, emotional, but hamstrung by the fact that its relatively limited running length make it all feel too much, or not explored enough. In this case, add some extra, time-stretching instances of setting up a few other things in advance in the MCU.
People are going to dislike yet another city-leveling finale, and they are going to be right in their reasons. Yet, it's significantly more fun and interesting to me when a varied group of superheroes do it than just one or two.
It's 9PM here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dukefrukem
Due to work schedules, I'll be seeing the 11pm show that night. :cool:
I was reading Whedon's Entertainment Weekly interview and I found out that he occasionally smokes marijuana. I don't know why I'm kind of surprised by this, as I'm sure there are tons of brilliant and really hardworking people with similar habits, but yeah. Kind of surprised. I guess that idea just didn't immediately cohere with the sort of intense work ethic that Whedon has described in other interviews. He strikes me as an inveterate workaholic. Even his interview responses feel like impressive feats of extemporaneous creativity; it seems like he's always turning on the wit, which must be kind of exhausting (I think he complained about Twitter being another job or something along those lines; the effort shows, as some of his tweets are super hilarious). It's not that weed and hard-work are necessarily mutually exclusive, but somehow he just didn't strike me as the kind of guy who would be into that. Anyway, I'm not judging or anything. It just didn't match up with my impression of him for whatever reason.
These assumptions are kind of falling apart under scrutiny as I type them out; this really isn't that surprising, and he does mention that he only does it at the end of the day, which makes sense. The possibility of smoking weed just never factored into my idea of the guy, particularly since he's always emphasizing how he doesn't get much downtime. I guess this idea mostly derives from, among other things, that story about him forgoing a small window of vacation time after The Avengers, during which he was supposed to go to Venice with his wife or something. Instead, he used that time to make Much Ado About Nothing.
Maybe Angel's disastrous fourth season was borne out of dense plumes of marijuana smoke. :)Quote:
Okay, the area had good pot. Is that still a part of your lifestyle?
I think weed’s a fine thing, for the enjoyment of and, occasionally, for thinking about movies. I don’t use it socially because it does not improve my socializing. And I never, ever smoke unless it’s the last thing I do that day because there’s a long period of stupid that comes after it that’s pretty useless. You don’t need it, but every now and then it takes you to a different place.
Is there any specific idea you credit to it?
There’s one or two, but I’m not going to say which.