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Post by freeman on Apr 6, 2011 12:48:26 GMT -5
According to Carrie's blog yesterday, this Steven Tyler duet was in the works for a while. I don't know how long, but they really got it right! :) They should totally do a crossroads together!!!!!! That would be awesome!!!!
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Post by jptexas on Apr 6, 2011 15:06:30 GMT -5
^^StevenTyler/Carrie crossroads----Hmmm-----Magic.
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Post by vinman on Apr 6, 2011 16:40:07 GMT -5
Another indepth interview with Carrie from the OCREGISTER
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Post by freeman on Apr 6, 2011 17:21:10 GMT -5
I'm lovin' all these interviews!!!
"Q. Could you tell us a couple of the scripts you passed on? A. (laughs) No. I wouldn't want anyone to be upset that I was asked first."
Darn you Carrie!!! Stop being so kind! Seriously though, I would like to know what she passed on.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2011 18:48:33 GMT -5
Another Tweet from Tony. This. Will. Be. Huge. Tony Thomas I got to hear Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood's upcoming duet "Remind Me." Here comes the vocal event & PASSION song of the year! Each trade off recalling a romantic situation w/ the other singing "...remind me." A bit steamy...YES! I'll have to wait for Brad's album to play it for you on KMPS 94.1 FM (no I don't have a copy of the song). You are going to LOVE it!! (From Tony Thomas, Music Director 94.1 KMPS Seattle )
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Post by kt1990 on Apr 6, 2011 18:58:45 GMT -5
Has this been posted? Sorry if it has, lol. Slant gave Soul Surfer an absolutely scathing review... slantmagazine.com/film/review/soul-surfer/5398 Soul Surfer 0/4 Stars
by Glenn Heath Jr. on April 3, 2011
Religious faith was pivotal to pro surfer Bethany Hamilton's long recovery and rehabilitation after her arm was severed during a brutal shark attack off the coast of Maui. So it's hard to blame Soul Surfer, the lily-white cinematic adaptation of Hamilton's traumatizing and ultimately redemptive experience, for leaning heavily on Christian themes. However, the film's disturbingly simplistic execution of these weighty elements is unforgivable, consistently pandering to the lowest common denominator with easy questions and even simpler answers about hope, love, and redemption. Director Sean McNamara's thoughtless and toothless drama compresses genuine full-course emotions into cringe-inducing appetizers during every familiar juncture of the sports-film arc. The footprints of the hero's journey are practically stamped on the screen, and this path leads directly into a suffocating deep end.
Soul Surfer's Hawaiian screensaver landscape is some sort of vanilla-wafer paradise, where one can get home-schooled, go surfing for lunch, and conduct a beachside Sunday mass without any real-life interruption. A textbook voiceover narration by 13-year-old Bethany (AnnaSophia Robb) explains her lifelong connection with the water—she's the daughter of two hardcore beach rats, Cheri (Helen Hunt) and Tom (Dennis Quaid)—and her goal of becoming a professional surfer. The childish manner in which McNamara frames Bethany's angelic purity and determination makes the achievement of that dream a foregone conclusion rather than a conflict. Therefore, every obstacle down the road becomes little more than a steppingstone to ultimate religious and ideological salvation.
Bethany's surfing competitions dominate the island-time atmosphere of act one, with bits of tertiary exposition thrown in to introduce her two brothers, best friend, and fellow surfer Alana (Lorraine Nicholson), and the obligatory villain/badass, Malina (Sonya Balmores), who competes with them on the circuit. The only brunette in a sea of blondes, Malina's antagonist role is solidified by her inability to recognize Bethany's soulful combination of hard work and purity (the girl doesn't even shake hands!). Sitting atop a pedestal on the polar opposite side of the moral spectrum is Bethany's church counselor, Sarah (Carrie Underwood), whose sage advice only comes in two flavors: trite and pompous. When Sarah's not making Bethany feel guilty for choosing surfing over God, she's leading missions to third-world countries helping to feed and cloth those poor souls "over there." Once again, the subject matter is not the problem, but the increasingly condescending tone it takes when dealing with non-white characters.
But nothing in Soul Surfer's tedious early moments can prepare the viewer for the sheer ineptitude and silliness of Bethany's brutal shark attack. Paddling in high waves with family friends, Bethany's right arm is consumed by a CGI shark straight out of Sharktopus. The brazenly cheap look to the special effects sends the film into Mystery Science Theater 3000 territory, and it's certainly the most hilariously awful surprise attack by a shark since Samuel L. Jackson got devoured by one in Deep Blue Sea. As the strangely calm Bethany gets pulled ashore bleeding profusely, McNamara ups the intensity by infusing the soundtrack with ghostly chants, as if the island gods were readying to transport our hero into the afterlife. A pattern of fast cuts, snap zooms, and helicopter birds-eye shots leads to a calm dream sequence where Bethany envisions herself riding the perfect wave into a bright white light. The entire sequence unveils an unsettling pattern of sledgehammer visual cues and religious symbolism, something Soul Surfer takes to increasingly absurd levels as it escalates the drama.
If the buildup to Bethany's tragic incident is defined by a sense of entitlement and growing arrogance, then the following trajectory of her rehab/life lessons/victory lap is represented by an increasingly disturbing religious doctrine built around ideological submission. As Bethany comes to grips with her disability, two diverging viewpoints begin to circle her character. On the one side, you've got the mass media, human sharks attempting to solicit Bethany's story for profit. In one of the many awkward side plots, Tom agrees to allow Inside Edition to buy Bethany a prosthetic arm in return for a "small interview." During the disastrous presentation, even the family dog can't take the stupidity on display, chewing on the prosthesis strap in one of the film's few real moments of action.
The bloodthirsty media is combated by a faith-based platform, personified by Sarah's increasingly strong influence over Bethany, whose dwindling confidence is restored during a humanitarian trip to Tsunami-ravaged Thailand. In a third-world tropical hell, Bethany's purity shines bright as she teaches an indigenous child to surf and inspires the rest of the demoralized populace to take to the water and splash around in unity. It's the film's most blatantly manipulative and insincere attempt at emotion, like a satirical riff on the pomposity of American Idol's "Idol Gives Back" segments of recent years. Except, it's all deadly serious.
When Bethany returns to the sanctity and safety of Maui, reborn and ready to surf competitively with one arm, the cursory sports film clichés pop up again. The anti-climactic duel between Bethany and Malina just proves how successfully Soul Surfer strangles every dramatic scene with indulgent visual aesthetics, referencing a higher being guiding all of us from above via haloed lens flares and booming musical crescendos. In one final stab at resonance, McNamara tries to connect "the energy of the ocean" and Bethany's relationship with religion, but neither feels at all earned or engagingly fleshed out. Soul Surfer just sits there lifeless on a numbingly bland narrative template, waiting for a big wave of originality to validate its existence. That creative infusion never comes. The audience gets put out of its misery by Bethany's final shotgun-blast of reflective wisdom, which feels like a prayer we already know is false, a punchline we don't need to finish: "In the end, I realized life is a lot like surfing…" But isn't everything?
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Post by realityBITES on Apr 6, 2011 19:39:43 GMT -5
It has gotten pretty mixed reviews. I thought most of them would be like Slant, to be honest. lol
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Post by freeman on Apr 6, 2011 19:57:13 GMT -5
Slant is just stupid. I mean come ON!!!! 0/4 Stars. Any reputable reviewer would not be so arrogant to give something that awful of a score. And they have always hated Carrie, so it's no wonder they hated it.
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Post by Typo on Apr 6, 2011 20:16:57 GMT -5
I thought this was kinda interesting: It has gotten pretty mixed reviews. I thought most of them would be like Slant, to be honest. lol Yeppp. It's done much better than I had expected as far as the critics go. It's not like Carrie's acting is getting dragged, either. Carrie has actually gone unmentioned in the majority of the reviews. Even that Slant review posted above is more of a shot at the Sarah Hill character than Carrie's acting.
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Post by fischbone on Apr 6, 2011 21:17:36 GMT -5
So anyone think Carrie will be a surprise on AI tomorrow? If so, I hope they don't try to recreate the duet between her and Steven. I would like to see them sing together again, just not the same thing. They will probably never top the performance from the ACMs if they try to recreate it!
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Post by leilamaurizia on Apr 6, 2011 21:23:39 GMT -5
I was thinking the same thing, (see my post on the previous page) BUT I just remembered seeing Carrie's schedule at the OFC. She's scheduled to be at the advanced screening of Soul Surfer in Nashville.
Apr 7 2011 Soul Surfer Screening Nashville, TN Green Hills Cinema 16
Unless that's a decoy and she really won't be at the screening and they're keeping her Idol appearance a surprise... hee.
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Post by countryfan1985 on Apr 6, 2011 21:24:21 GMT -5
^maybe, we just have to wait to tomorrow to found out for sure but i like for Carrie to be on there to promote her movie Soul Surfer or doing something huge. Don't forget about Jay Leno tonight. ;)
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Post by fischbone on Apr 6, 2011 21:32:35 GMT -5
I was thinking the same thing, (see my post on the previous page) BUT I just remembered seeing Carrie's schedule at the OFC. She's scheduled to be at the advanced screening of Soul Surfer in Nashville. Apr 7 2011 Soul Surfer Screening Nashville, TN Green Hills Cinema 16 Unless that's a decoy and she really won't be at the screening and they're keeping her Idol appearance a surprise... hee. Oh well, that settles it then. They will have the superstar of Constantine on the show instead! It probably isn't a decoy because I remember seeing a contest to win tickets to that screening with her there. I guess we'll have to wait for her appearance....
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Post by realityBITES on Apr 6, 2011 21:46:18 GMT -5
Oh man, I was kinda getting excited! But I have no doubt she'll be @ the finale performing the duet with Brad.
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Post by Typo on Apr 6, 2011 21:52:52 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2011 22:50:37 GMT -5
Carrie's scheduled to be at the advanced screening of SS tomorrow in Nashville. :)
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Post by logansgrandma on Apr 6, 2011 22:51:10 GMT -5
They could have taped Carrie's performance (if she's even on there) beforehand as they did when she performed with Randy.
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Post by logansgrandma on Apr 6, 2011 22:52:15 GMT -5
haha that was funny! Don't mess with Carrie!
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Post by Typo on Apr 6, 2011 23:42:57 GMT -5
Loved tonight's interview. She really does have the best sense of humor. And, she looked stunning as well.
For those that missed the broadcast:
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Post by vinman on Apr 7, 2011 4:44:48 GMT -5
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Post by kt1990 on Apr 7, 2011 6:31:44 GMT -5
I loved her on Jay Leno!
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Post by TFMachado on Apr 7, 2011 8:08:58 GMT -5
WOW... I think that was probably one of her best interviews ever... she was soooo comfortable and funny... I was literally laughing out loud here!! Can't wait for Ellen today!!
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Post by desertfloods on Apr 7, 2011 9:30:48 GMT -5
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Post by leilamaurizia on Apr 7, 2011 9:53:23 GMT -5
I just watched her on Ellen already here in the Philippines. I'm kinda amazed that we're actually ahead, haha! I won't spoil anything except to say that you should tune in from the beginning (not just tune in to the interview portion) if you're one of those fans (like me) who wants to see everything Carrie.
ETA: Here's another vid of HGTA w/ Vince. Much closer view and includes shots from the video screen.
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Post by pokepikalem on Apr 7, 2011 11:23:44 GMT -5
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Post by jenglisbe on Apr 7, 2011 13:42:59 GMT -5
^ ^ I got chills so many times during that. You still can't get the full effect of her vocal at the end because of the crowd, though. I hope the vocal is more clear on the televised version, but I also want to see the crowd reaction because it adds to the impact. When they start standing in that video, it's a great moment.
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Post by Typo on Apr 7, 2011 16:37:36 GMT -5
Ellen was asking some basic ass questions but it was still a cute interview. It really goes without saying at this point but Carrie looked gorgeous.
'How Great Thou Art' for Girls Night Out sounds divine. The only part that I was iffy about based on the previous video recordings - the final 'greeeeeeat' - sounds just fine in the video posted above. The audience reaction just shows how respected Carrie is in the industry. She had that crowd down-right captivated.
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Post by leilamaurizia on Apr 7, 2011 20:04:09 GMT -5
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Post by cufan7 on Apr 7, 2011 21:35:39 GMT -5
Ellen was asking some basic ass questions but it was still a cute interview. It really goes without saying at this point but Carrie looked gorgeous. 'How Great Thou Art' for Girls Night Out sounds divine. The only part that I was iffy about based on the previous video recordings - the final 'greeeeeeat' - sounds just fine in the video posted above. The audience reaction just shows how respected Carrie is in the industry. She had that crowd down-right captivated. I try to believe that.... But then why hasn't she been winning female vocalist awards the last couple years? Or even getting nominated for EOTY? I feel like Carrie just continuously pumps out showstopping performances and still doesn't exactly get reciprocated.
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Post by bigbluenote on Apr 7, 2011 22:15:39 GMT -5
"He's pretty cute"
"I'm glad people think I'm that powerful. If you play for any professional sports team, do not mess with me, I will get you traded to Lord knows where"
"Everybody loves her, so it wasn't difficult for me to play that part"
LMAO!!!! Awesome quotes!
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