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Cinematical Seven: Wicked Hangovers on Film
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If Benjamin Franklin is right (and I suspect he is) that beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy*, then hard liquor may be proof that Satan exists, and laughs at our agony the morning after indulging. But if there's a silver lining to a hangover, it's that it inspires a movie actually called The Hangover, allowing us to laugh about our own drunken antics ... and sigh in relief that they've never been bad enough to land us with a tiger, a baby, or a Mike Tyson punch. Then again, depending on what college or parties you've attended, you may have preferred to wake up with all three and a missing tooth rather than whatever or whoever you found yourself with. It doesn't always stay in Vegas.
So, in honor of the hard-partiers in The Hangover, here's seven wicked hangovers captured onscreen. It's difficult to narrow it down to just seven, so I've tried to represent just about everything except Cocktail. There's individual scenes, dark tales, and laugh out loud fratboy antics here, and ranked completely at random. They might actually make you think twice about accepting another shot of tequlia. Of course, if we ever learned from cinematic example or past experience, we'd probably never bite the lime or shout "Nastrovia!" more than once in our entire lives.
*There's no proof Franklin ever said this, but let's just lie and say he did
So, in honor of the hard-partiers in The Hangover, here's seven wicked hangovers captured onscreen. It's difficult to narrow it down to just seven, so I've tried to represent just about everything except Cocktail. There's individual scenes, dark tales, and laugh out loud fratboy antics here, and ranked completely at random. They might actually make you think twice about accepting another shot of tequlia. Of course, if we ever learned from cinematic example or past experience, we'd probably never bite the lime or shout "Nastrovia!" more than once in our entire lives.
*There's no proof Franklin ever said this, but let's just lie and say he did
What, no Libertine?
Filed under: Drama », Independent », Distribution », The Weinstein Co. », Johnny Depp », NSFW », Cinematical Indie »
Late last year, The Weinstein Company released The Libertine, Lawrence Dunmore's long-awaited,
unrated, Johnny Depp-starring staging of the wine-soaked life and syphillis-stoked death of the Earl of Rochester, for
one week for academy consideration. The plan, according to a Weinstein rep that we spoke to in November, was to
then put the film back in theaters in January. But its initial re-release date was yesterday, and, needless to say,
it's hardly playing at a theater near you. Coming Soon still has The Libertine listed as a January TBA
release, but there's not a hint of a release date on the film's official
site. I couldn't get anyone on the phone at Weinstein yesterday, but it seems pretty clear what's going on here:
Depp has thus far failed to earn any significant nominations, and the film made not a single notable critic's list, and
so the distributor assumes there's no financial incentive to give it a wide release. Do you think this is valid? It's
not a great picture, but it is worth seeing, and one would imagine that Depp could draw a reasonable audience to
anything. Johnny Depp superfans, rise up in revolt!Caption This Winner Announced
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy », Johnny Depp », NSFW »
'It may be the claret, my reputation catching up with me, or just sheer boredom: but the prospect of a little bit of 'interspecies love' does not appear to be out of the question right about now."
-- Ron Mwangaguhunga gets the stars. Thanks for playing, kids – stay tuned for a new caption contest next week.
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