I recall him saying exactly that in a podcast about a month ago.The Social Chair said:It was probably the Dr V story that triggered his defensiveness.
I recall him saying exactly that in a podcast about a month ago.The Social Chair said:It was probably the Dr V story that triggered his defensiveness.
When I asked Jackson what it meant to have Curry express such strong support, Jackson said, "He's dysfunctional. According to Bill Simmons and Wojnarowski and all those guys, (Curry) doesn't know what he's talking about. So in all seriousness, I don't expect anything less. He's a guy I have tremendous love and appreciation for, he's a franchise guy, he knows how we go about doing things, and I'm extremely blessed to be his head coach."
Retroactive Verdict: The Warriors made that trade to (a) clear enough cap space to sign Andre Iguodala, and (b) contend for the 2014 title. They aren’t contending for the 2014 title, just the “Ridiculously Entertaining, Perpetually Frustrating, Probably Headed For A First-Round Exit And A Coaching Change” title. Everyone wants to play them in Round 1. Everyone.
ifmanis5 said:That... thing... is about as bad as his current Twitter feed. I guess he never heard of Jackie Chan? Or anybody not in a Blockbuster? His movie taste would be ironically funny if he didn't actually realize that most of his favorite movies are fucking terrible.
McQueen released The Towering Inferno in 1974, a star-studded disaster flick that earned a “Best Picture” nomination and inadvertently kicked off the Disaster Movie era
DrewDawg said:
Jackie Chan was in there.
joe dokes said:And *this* is what irritates me some much about Simmons. He tries to be a culture guy, but his cultural awareness extends back as far as 1990 or so.
Poseidon Adventure came out in 1972. And the Captain was Leslie Nielsen!
"Earthquake" also came out before Towering Inferno. It had "sensurround."
Sure, buried deep in some crap movie. The whole exercise is an error-filled farce. It's not even fun.DrewDawg said:Jackie Chan was in there.
URI said:
And Airport came out in 1970.
Simmons is a clown.
IHateDaveKerpen said:
He was, yes - for "Rush Hour 3." I think ifmanis5 was hoping Chan would score higher for his first big wave of films to make it to America.
The Social Chair said:Kind of weird to do this piece and almost completely ignore Asian cinema.
DrewDawg said:One of his rules was something about it had to be believable that the "hero" was actually able to kick all that ass and listed a bunch of guys that were disqualified, like all the guys that played Bonds, Tom Cruise, etc. So, is he talking about the ACTOR or the CHARACTER. Because Bruce Willis would seem to go on that list if it's the actor--the whole point of Die Hard was that, yeah, he's a cop, but he's just a regular guy cop. And if it's the character and you're giving in to the universe of the movie, how can you disqualify guys like Jason Bourne?
And this is the thing that has always bugged me about Simmons' pieces, the arrogance.
DrewDawg said:One of his rules was something about it had to be believable that the "hero" was actually able to kick all that ass and listed a bunch of guys that were disqualified, like all the guys that played Bonds, Tom Cruise, etc. So, is he talking about the ACTOR or the CHARACTER? Because Bruce Willis would seem to go on that list if it's the actor--the whole point of Die Hard was that, yeah, he's a cop, but he's just a regular guy cop and looks the part. And if it's the character and you're giving in to the universe of the movie, how can you disqualify guys like Jason Bourne?
DrewDawg said:One of his rules was something about it had to be believable that the "hero" was actually able to kick all that ass and listed a bunch of guys that were disqualified, like all the guys that played Bonds, Tom Cruise, etc.
IHateDaveKerpen said:
Totally. How he somehow ends up disqualifying Damon is beyond me. The Bourne movies were unadulterated badassery.
He's just making it up as he goes along.
Is it arrogance or ignorance? Even people who dont like "old" movies know who the stars were and what they were about. Sometimes I wonder if Simmons could provide anything relevant about movie stars from before 1970. If you said, "Frankly Scarlett, I don't give a damn," he thinks you're talking Johansson.And this is the thing that has always bugged me about Simmons' pieces, the arrogance.
He's using his position as a writer to publicly justify to himself that the movies he likes are, in fact, worth liking.
drleather2001 said:
It's both.
John Marzano Olympic Hero said:
This last piece really makes me wonder if Simmons is either kind of lazy or kind of dumb.
drleather2001 said:He's using his position as a writer to publicly justify to himself that the movies he likes are, in fact, worth liking.
So what if the critics don't agree; it's in print just the same, so the viewpoint is equally as valid.
He's essentially adopted the Fox News ethos and applied it to Stuff Bill Simmons Likes.
TroyOLeary said:
He also does the Peter King thing where he conflates his own perspective to a global one, which leads to a lot of revisionist history.
No better example than:
"America’s hopes were high for Sly’s latest comeback movie. How high? I drove 100 miles from Boston to Hartford, weaving through holiday-week traffic on the Mass Pike and I-84, just to see Daylight with my buddy Gus. That’s how high."
Nevermind that Daylight finished 1996 as 48th in domestic gross, 35th in opening weekend (the best indicator of "hopes"), and was a critical failure.
John Marzano Olympic Hero said:This last piece really makes me wonder if Simmons is either kind of lazy or kind of dumb.
Reverend said:
This doesn't even address the fact that Neeson kicked ass when Simmons was watching action movies. Even if you ignore Qui-Gon Jinn and Ras al-Ghul, Neeson was Darkman for chrissakes.
drleather2001 said:
He was also Sir Gawain in the 1984 movie "Excalibur", in which I presume he kicked a little ass, and Priest Vallon in "The Gangs of New York", in which 80% of his (albeit short) part involved swinging a giant cross around killing people.
Reverend said:
I was looking at his filmography and decided not even to bother going over all the examples. He was uncredited in The Delta Force for chrissakes. He was type-cast as "guy with gravitas" with a tendency towards kicking ass ages ago. Heck, even his role as the voice of Aslan could be invoked here...
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SydneySox said:I don't really like the genre, him or this movie, but he was also in the wildly shit 'A History of Violence' which is essentially the film 'Taken' is, and in that film he has a mysterious history that lends itself to violence.
I don't mind good film writing about anything or any genre if it's committed and fun, but the salient point in all this is TroyOLeary's, above, where extrapolates his own feeling into one representative of the masses as if he speaks with the voice of a generation. Writing an article expressing a love of a genre and then sharing thoughts and feelings as a good fun column is usually pretty great to both those that agree with you and those who don't because you aren't saying anything definitive, you're making a case. Simmons stopped doing that sort of thing a long ago.
Who was? Leeeeeeeum?SydneySox said:I don't really like the genre, him or this movie, but he was also in the wildly shit 'A History of Violence' which is essentially the film 'Taken' is, and in that film he has a mysterious history that lends itself to violence.
Fuck this, I'm keeping my post up.SydneySox said:No - he wasn't. Sorry, my bad. That was from my memory and yeah, it's actually Aragorn.
So he's off the hook. :astonished:
Great column!