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By October 4, 2012No Comments

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Lee Daniels’ over­heated The Paperboy, star­ring Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron, for MSN Movies. The pic­ture is also a fea­ture at this year’s New York Film Festival, how snooty. 

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  • David Ehrenstein says:
    October 4, 2012 at 9:24 am

    In the final ana­lys­is this is a movie about Lee Daniels want­ing to film Zac Ephron in his underpants.
    Had he hon­estly set out to make a soft­core gay porn movie I could have some degree of respect for him (at an Andy Milligan level). But what we have here is pure sen­sa­tion­al­ism of the sort that makes “Cannibal Holocaust” look like a work of mor­al integrity.
    Why does Zac Ephron sud­denly rush into the ocean?
    So he can get stung by jellyfish.
    And what are those jelly­fish doing there all of a sudden?
    Stinging him so Nicole Kidman can pee on him.
    This film has noth­ing ser­i­ously to do with racism or any­thing else.
    A close friend of mine is quasi-friend of Lee Daniels. His reac­tion to the film? “Well it’s just Lee being Lee.”

  • billythrilly says:
    October 4, 2012 at 10:08 am

    When did Nicole Kidman turn into Pamela Anderson?