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Remember that time a movie where Johnny Depp explains vaping to Angelina Jolie made everyone super mad at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association? That\u2019s right, we\u2019re talking this week about The Tourist<\/i>, a film so notorious in Oscar buzz history that we\u2019ve invited a special guest to unpack it: deputy editor for VanityFair.com Katey Rich!<\/p>\n
The Tourist<\/i> had a labored pre-production history that eventually landed it in the lap of recent Foreign Language winning director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. However our Oscar-watching eyes were mostly (perhaps cynically) directed toward its stars: a waning Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie as an arresting but nondescript fancy European lady. Toss in a very convoluted plot of spies, assumed identities, and flatlining humor and you have a recipe for a critical and commercial misfire.<\/p>\n
But immediately after The Tourist<\/i> thudded into theatres, it earned its notoriously generous Golden Globe nominations. We dissect the movie\u2019s lunacy, defend the HFPA\u2019s recent Musical\/Comedy picks, and most importantly, we Consider Melissa Leo.<\/p>\n
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