Should've known by the way you were showing off The Last Shadow Puppets – Bad Habits
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This is here because it started out as a fake name – not really a fake name, a placeholder, like THAT 70’s SHOW was until it tested better than the intended title, TEENAGE WASTELAND – but later became the permanent, and infamous, title. While the script was in development, the title SNAKES ON A PLANE was used to reference the content while another named was de... 30 FAKE PRODUCTION TITLES THAT FOOLED THE WORLD | One. Perfect. Shot. | Honoring Cinema's Past - Frame by Frame
Nolan’s second misnomer is my favorite and the furthest off-target of the group. I’m pretty sure this is a discarded GILMORE GIRLS episode title, or a terribly syrupy pre-teen novel. Either way, it sounds nothing at all like the darkest superhero movie ever made (to date), and in... 30 FAKE PRODUCTION TITLES THAT FOOLED THE WORLD | One. Perfect. Shot. | Honoring Cinema's Past - Frame by Frame
I <3 Saoirse Ronan, and she did a really good job here, but I hope Brooklyn is the last time that she plays a shy, angelic European girl. She has a lot of talent and I’d like to see her cast against-type rather than play another character with a lot in common with her real life persona.
I really liked Brooklyn. Emory Cohen is going to be around for a while and Saoirse (“Sur-Sha”) Ronan is going to be a star if she isn’t already.
This movie doesn’t knock anything out of the park and doesn’t have even an outside chance at Best Picture, but it’s nice to see a movie get recognized for doing everything well rather than going for the glory and golden statues.
Side note: do studio execs see something in Domnhall Gleeson that I don’t? I think he’s very talented, but his skillset doesn’t lend itself that well to playing Mr. Steal Yo Girl, giving orders to Leo and Tom Hardy, and commanding a Sith army.
This was surprising but not undeserved. I wasn’t blown away by Dano and think Hardy was better than ‘Dris while he was on the screen, Fitzgerald was just less central than The Commandant.
There are people out there who preferred Hardy’s performance to Leo’s and I can see where they’re coming from. There were moments – especially towards the beginning – where I felt the same way. The problem is that Hardy didn’t adapt to his character’s predicaments, which made him an intriguing frenemy but a pretty dull villain. Whereas Leo’s performance was tailored to Glass’s journey and steadily improved throughout.
Regardless, this is a nice reward for Hardy’s great 2015 and the first Oscar nomination of hopefully many for one of the best actors going.
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This is a reference to the anti-war song “No Man’s Land” (aka “The Green Fields of France”) penned by Eric Bogle in 1976 after seeing the grave of a WWI soldier.
The original lyric:
It is also likely a reference to the cowboy ballad The Streets of Laredo, with which Dylan was almost certainly acquainted.