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February 23, 2009

The Muriels Wrap Up

By Ben

On the biggest night of the year for the film industry, the Muriel Awards wrapped up by announcing the Golden Muriel for Best Picture of 2008 to Pixar's Wall*E.

My personal pick was Gus Van Sant's Milk which came in at a disappointing 12th place. Paul posted written pieces for all the Golden Muriel nominees which received first place votes and you can read what I wrote for Milk in a post from earlier today.

While you're there, you should also check out a short piece I wrote about Mickey Rourke's performance in The Wrestler.

As for that other award ceremony that happened today: eh.

Slumdog Millionaire wasn't a terrible film, but I'm going to predict that it will be remembered the same way Titanic, Crash, and Shakespeare in Love are remembered.

Lastly, I had David Lynch's Dune on this week while I was doing some work and was shocked by how terrible it was. Maybe I need to actually sit down and pay attention to it so I know what's going on but the bits and pieces I saw were awful. Anyway, I'm not writing this to rag on the film, I'm actually here to celebrate a moment from it.

You should watch the entire clip to experience the full effect of one of the most metal moments in film history. It happens at 5 minutes and 2 seconds into this clip.

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