2008 Woodie Awards
Too much time on your hands?
Katie Andriulli and Brendan Faughnan
Issue date: 2/12/03 Section: Arts and Entertainment
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
We ask you this: what is the only thing better than an Oompa Loompa? That’s right, a SINGING Oompa Loompa. Gene Wilder’s campy performance almost masks the pedophilic extravaganza that is this classic piece of modern cinema. You know it, you love it, watch it again to get in touch with your inner child.
Trainspotting (1996)
Who knew a movie about Scottish heroine addicts could be so entertaining! This film is a tripped-out look into the lives of four dysfunctional soccer buddies whose daily activities include shooting strangers with bb-guns, shooting up and starting barfights. The cast includes the always great Ewan McGregor, The Full Monty’s Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller, best known as the guy from Hackers who was married to Angelina Jolie (pre-Billy Bob.) Check this one out for its great soundtrack and classically quotable voice-over in the last scene. Or at the very least, see one of the most purely disgusting toilet scenes ever captured on film. Not for the squeamish or for viewing in a public. Believe you me.
American Psycho (2000)
Unlike its pathetic sequel American Psycho 2: All American Girl, this film has a plot, a script and ridiculously good acting on the part of Christian Bale. This is one ex-Newsie you don’t want to mess with. As Patrick Bateman, a suave New York businessman by day and serial killer by night, Bale vacillates between being genuinely creepy and darkly humorous. And, quite frankly, what’s not to love about a horror flick in which the murderer does his thing while listening to Robert Palmer’s “Simply Irresistable.”
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
In this film, undoubtedly the finest installment in the trilogy (please, don’t even try to make a case for the other two, especially not the second one … that kid that followed them through the Temple of Doom was annoying to a Jar Jar Binks magnitude). Sean Connery, the Jewel of Scotland, steps in as Indy’s father, adding a great new dynamic to the franchise. Father and Junior join up to kick a little Nazi ass… when are they going to go after the communists?
We ask you this: what is the only thing better than an Oompa Loompa? That’s right, a SINGING Oompa Loompa. Gene Wilder’s campy performance almost masks the pedophilic extravaganza that is this classic piece of modern cinema. You know it, you love it, watch it again to get in touch with your inner child.
Trainspotting (1996)
Who knew a movie about Scottish heroine addicts could be so entertaining! This film is a tripped-out look into the lives of four dysfunctional soccer buddies whose daily activities include shooting strangers with bb-guns, shooting up and starting barfights. The cast includes the always great Ewan McGregor, The Full Monty’s Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller, best known as the guy from Hackers who was married to Angelina Jolie (pre-Billy Bob.) Check this one out for its great soundtrack and classically quotable voice-over in the last scene. Or at the very least, see one of the most purely disgusting toilet scenes ever captured on film. Not for the squeamish or for viewing in a public. Believe you me.
American Psycho (2000)
Unlike its pathetic sequel American Psycho 2: All American Girl, this film has a plot, a script and ridiculously good acting on the part of Christian Bale. This is one ex-Newsie you don’t want to mess with. As Patrick Bateman, a suave New York businessman by day and serial killer by night, Bale vacillates between being genuinely creepy and darkly humorous. And, quite frankly, what’s not to love about a horror flick in which the murderer does his thing while listening to Robert Palmer’s “Simply Irresistable.”
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
In this film, undoubtedly the finest installment in the trilogy (please, don’t even try to make a case for the other two, especially not the second one … that kid that followed them through the Temple of Doom was annoying to a Jar Jar Binks magnitude). Sean Connery, the Jewel of Scotland, steps in as Indy’s father, adding a great new dynamic to the franchise. Father and Junior join up to kick a little Nazi ass… when are they going to go after the communists?