Gael, Threesomes, Diego, Orgasms, et cetera

7 Things Missing From the New Natalie Imbruglia Video, Which Was Apparently Inspired By Alfonso Cuaron's Y Tu Mama Tambien:

1. Three people in a car.

2. Two sexy Mexicans masturbating on diving boards.

3. Two sexy Mexicans running around a supermarket before asking a hot chick to go on a drive with them to a beach that they just made up, but which turns out to be real.

4. Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna spontaneously making out during a threesome.

5. A threesome in general.

6. Natalie Imbruglia having sex and then dying.

7. Subtitles.

But, do enjoy the clip of Nat's new charming-if-by-the-numbers song "Glorious", from her upcoming greatest hits (only hits?) collection titled, imaginatively, Glorious: The Singles.



Turns out PopJustice did a very similar piece about this. But, I mean, if you're out there saying your video is inspired by a movie where three hot Mexicans fuck a lot then you're begging for in depth analysis, are you not? The video has nothing on the last video she made that was inspired by a movie (The Bourne Identity in that case), which was a much more amazing song too.

Alfonso Cuaron

Something I didn't notice about the Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning. Alfonso Cuaron received two nominations. Sure, there was the one for Best Adapted Screenplay, but also the unexpected one for Best Editing, which Cuaron worked on with with Alexander Rodriguez. How interesting. Cuaron now has three Academy Award nominations in his life, yet none are for Best Director - the job he is most identified with.

10 Things I Learnt From Movies in 2006

1. Every movie set in the town of Jindabyne must mention the fact that the Jindabybe lake has a town buried underneath (Jindabyne and Somersault.)

2. Dancing penguins are much better than non-dancing penguins (Happy Feet.)

3. Movies with multi-narrative structures needed to not have so many subplots, and actually finish the good ones (Babel, 2:37, Fast Food Nation.)

4. Large casts of unknowns can sometimes be just as good as large casts of stars (United 93, 12 and Holding, 2:37, Ten Canoes vs A Prairie Home Companion, The Departed, Fast Food Nation, The Black Dahlia.)

5. Deborra-Lee Furness is just as awesome as Hugh (but not as hot, sorry)

6. One certain popcorn movie is better than all the Best Picture contenders (except for United 93) that I've seen. That would be The Devil Wears Prada vs The Departed, Little Miss Sunshine, Flags of Our Fathers, Babel and The Queen. I haven't seen Dreamgirls yet.

7. Snakes + Plane + Samuel L Jackson really does = a good mothafuckin' time!

8. Australians are still capable of making great films (Jindabyne, Ten Canoes, Happy Feet, Kenny, etc)

9. Alfonso Cuaron is infinitely better than Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu. Like, bucketloads (Children of Men vs Babel)

10. So that's how scared I can possibly get in a movie cinema. I didn't know! (The Descent)