Well, I’m sitting here eating pasta and watching NCIS and trying not to worry about my sick cat all by herself in some strange cage at the vet’s office. (Or worse, surrounded by the smells and noises of strange people and animals! O, the felinity!) Anyway, since I have the tv on I get to see all the commercials for Hollywood’s idea of what makes uplifting Christmas viewing. Evil priests and mean nuns (Doubt); aliens destroying the world because we suck (the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still); and then for the Watergate-was-our-finest-hour crowd, that movie about the David Frost interview of Richard Nixon. This last one is particularly grating and here’s why: I remember what David Frost looked and sounded like, and he did not look and sound like a member of Oasis. I remember what Nixon looked and sounded like. He did not look and sound like someone doing a comedy parody of Nixon.
That is all.
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December 18th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Actually, I think Rich Little would have been more believable than Frank Langella.
Gad, when did Dracula get so frickin’ old!?
December 18th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Yeah, tell me about it.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
I’ve only caught the film trailer on television, but I, too, thought the guy doing Nixon sounded preposterous. The first person I thought of was not Nixon, but David Frye doing Nixon.
December 28th, 2008 at 8:22 am
I went to see the DESS remake; as much as one justifiably mocks Keanu’s rock-like immobility, I think he did well enough in this… the limited interest evoked by the film being much more of the plot than of his making.
December 28th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Well yeah — if there’s any actor who can play an inscrutable alien, it’s Keanu Reeves.