It's time for the FIRST ANNUAL GIGS AWARDS, or FAGA for short (Next year will, of course, be SAGA.) Each day between now and the new year, I will post my favorite in a category such as movies, songs, fictional character, etc. And of course you have the opportunity to tell me what you favorite is. Please keep in mind the winners are what I saw, read, heard this year, not what actually was released this year. So without further ado, today's category:
MOVIES
"Hey, baby, you look like you could use a stiff one!"
As if you couldn't guess, ( "Is it charm, is it poise?), no it's Hairspray." No other movie this year made me laugh as much as this one. Who would have guessed that Travolta's return to the musical oeuvre ( I love that word!) would be dressed as a woman, and a woman who wore the coolest dress, made of pink sparkles! And how bout that Nikki Blonsky? How amazing was she? No doubt that this might be the only movie she wil be in, but what a way to break into Hollywood! And that supporting cast! Bynes, Walken, Snow, Efron, Latifah, and Marsden! Could your big break BE with better actors?!??! But the real prize should go to Adam Shankman, who has been a Gigs fav since he choreographed the Buffy musical episode. For an added happy, watch the movie with Adam and Nikki's commentary. You'll learn that, yes, it was alluded that Corny got that girl pregnant at the beginning of the movie, and that Nikki is indeed a very comfortable girl on her 4'11" frame. What a great role model for teens (better than, ahem, any of the Spears clan. Or anyone in Hollywood for that matter).
Runner Up:
The Lookout with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Wowee! Talk about nail biting! One of the BEST young actor working today. The other being Ben Foster. Put these two onscreen together and watch it explode!!!!!
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Rating a movie solely based on pure fun and good times at the movies, I would have to agree with "Hairspray" in the top spot. It's one of the only movies I have watched more than once this year, and it just gets you in a good mood! Not to mention that technically it's a very strong movie too! There's only one glaring flaw in the movie. Next time you watch, note the scene in Maybelle's record shop where Tracy decides she is going to march with them in their protest against the station. Maybelle says something to the effect of "Meet us at the church at 4PM for the march." The next scene shows Tracy's parents coming into her bedroom to wake her up, but Tracy has "faked" being in bed by putting pillows under the covers- cut to the next scene where Tracy is arriving to march....in the morning. I just wish someone could have changed Maybelle's original line to say "Meet at the church at 8!" and it could have worked. But that's my only quip with the movie - I love it, and it's going to be on my top ten of the year for sure!
Dan, I wondered about that too! But my guess is that scene when Edna wakes Tracy up was shot to be used somewhere else in the film ( I don't know where) and they wound up sticking it in there. But that's only my guess, and you are right. It's a BIG boo-boo. Still, if that's the worst of it...
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