i's of the Beholder: Happy Birthday, Russell Crowe

Monday, April 7, 2014

Happy Birthday, Russell Crowe

Today is the 50th birthday of Academy Award winning actor Russell Crowe. I have only ever seen him in two movies, actually, Í checked using IMDb, namely "L.A. Confidential" and "Gladiator". I thought he was smart casting in "L.A. Confidential", playing the main character as a then virtually unknown, but his character annoyed me. When he - warning: minor spoiler ahead - slaps Kim Basinger near the end, it was relief to me, I like screamed out: Ha, I knew it, you are just a hypocrite. Everyone with such a big mouth has to be!
Gladiator was good, not great, everything about it, but I remember thinking of Joaquin Phoenix's dark, over-the-top villain as the highlight.

Long story short, I have nothing against him, but I'm hardly a big fan. Still, the occasion of the Big Five-O is too great not to take it as an excuse to post something. A few weeks ago, another blog I follow for quite some time now, "SeriousFilm", posted this: http://seriousfilm.blogspot.de/2014/03/youtube-tuesday-fightin-round-world.html, and it made me want to search for something funny and short out of that particular South Park episode. Including the theme song, and "Russell"'s own singing.

So, way to celebrate a man's birthday, making fun of him, I know, but it's just too funny, I could watch it over and over again. Enjoy, in Russell Crowe's honor:

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This blog isn't really supposed to have one persistent theme or something like that. I'll just write about what I feel to write about, and I have no claim to express objective or even majority opinions. Among the topics I want to cover is

- I will rant about whoever I think is great or beautiful, or anything, and why, and I won't apologize or take shit for it. Therefore I chose the blog title. As beauty is and always will be in the eyes of the beholder. Both "iofthebeholder" which I originally intended, and "eyeofthebeholder" were already taken at blogspot, so I chose "isofthebeholder" or "I's of the Beholder", as in "eyes", but the "I" expresses that these eyes are my eyes only, and not anyone else's.

- I will write about movies, actors and Oscars from time to time, as I'm very interested in it, but I want to say upfront that other bloggers do that better than I ever will. I will link to some of them later, and comment on them from time to time. I consider my taste in movies quite unique, I've never met a person who seemed to have anything close to my taste, and my taste may seem full of contradictions. What I hate is people whose "taste" just reflects the mainstream opinion. If anything they shouldn't write about movies. They should work for the propaganda ministerium, which of course doesn't exist. Or does it? Yes, I'm also sometimes a hobby conspiracy theorist.

- TV will take a larger spot than in other more or less movie themed blogs, because I follow and have followed many TV series more or less religiously in my life.

- I will also mention, comment and speculate about gossip, because it's a guilty pleasure of mine. There's a great gossip site I discovered recently, and I will for sure link to it and discuss what is written there.

- Maybe I will write about politics and society at large when I feel like it, but I don't really intend this blog to be political.

- I often enjoy sick humor and mean-spirited satire, and if I find something I find so hilarious that I want to share this with the world, I probably will.

- But the joke doesn't always have to be sick to work for me. I'm an even bigger sucker for pop culture references, the kind you get in shows like "The Simpsons", "South Park", "Family Guy", "American Dad" etc., and I intend to quote and discuss them when I feel like it.

That about roughly lines out my general ideas for this blog. I hope some of it will be interesting for one fellow internet citizen or the other.