There Will Be Blood because as much as I loved that movie I've only seen it once. Also, I just saw The Master which was phenomenal.
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Diving Bell and the Butterfly. It was largely ignored come Oscar time but another one I absolutely loved and have only seen once.
But here's the thing. It's all conjecture and speculation at this point. People are getting worked up about things that haven't even happened yet. He very well still could end up directing it. Kristen Stewart could still end up being it. No one knows. The script hasn't even been written yet. They can't even decide if they want to do a direct sequel or a spin-off focusing on Chris Hemsworth's character, which they were considering doing long before "THE AFFAIR 2012 bleep boop bop." Getting worked up about this at this point seems as silly to me as flipping out about this whole affair business in the first place. Kristen Stewart is the highest paid actress in Hollywood (why is beyond me but that's besides the point). I think she, and her career, will be fine!
Not to nitpick, but Rupert Sanders was the director, not another actor and recent reports say word is he will not be brought back to direct the sequel/spin-off.
Did his pals work there with him? If so I could see why it would be a "blast from the past" for them. It's also unclear from this maybe untrue story whether or not it was his friends' idea or his and that makes a big difference as well. But either way, yeah, I don't see why this would even register either way.
My friends and I were discussing this after the film this weekend and we came to the conclusion that Batman had fixed the autopilot and thus ejected well before the bomb exploded. This was because of the scene at the end in which a Wayne Enterprises employee tells Fox that the autopilot had been fixed 6 months ago by Bruce Wayne.
Fair enough, and it makes sense. However, it just seems to me that, as I'm old (enough) and I can remember when a small drink was actually, you know, small, people simply kept getting refills unless the refills cost money (say 50 cents). If it cost money, then people would get frustrated and upset and sometimes abstain from having more.
But that's thing. It doesn't clarify what is "one" coke. That would take a law establishing that soda can only be served in a 12 oz container (or whatever arbitrary amount was deemed suitably small enough to not be "that" detrimental to your health).
I'm all for returning to smaller portion sizes, I just don't think this would really do anything in the long run and since it doesn't have any real restrictions on how much soda a person can consume all the outrage (both ways) is amusing to me.
Well sure. Technically, the area of Los Angeles I live in is considered a food desert (which I don't really get how at all to be honest) but if you're smart you can still eat healthy on a budget (I spend roughly $30-$50 a week on food), you just have to be willing to cook.
Unless it can be shown that the lower classes in New York don't have any access to drinkable water and that soda is their only recourse, then I don't think it's applicable.
Also, from what I read, this proposed law doesn't put any restriction on how much soda a person can drink at one time, just what size container it comes in. You can still refill as many times as you want or you can order multiple sodas at one time, so isn't this whole debate of the size of the soda cup a bit silly to begin with?
Considering how expensive soda is I think it's a bit of a stretch on the class angle. Why did I stop drinking soda? Because I couldn't justify the extra expense added to my weekly grocery bill. And even if you don't think it's expensive, it still costs more than water.
When I saw X-Men in the theaters years ago, I was lucky enough to sit next to a guy who looked like Freddie Mercury and was wearing a Pizza Hut jacket. He was there with a girl that I am assuming was his girlfriend.
Throughout the movie he felt the need to "narrate" the film to his girlfriend. "That's Wolverine. His claws are super sharp!" Or, " That's Cyclops. He shoots lasers out of his eyes. He's really cool." This went on for most of the film until, during the moment where Mystique takes Cyclops glasses, he jumped up and yelled, "UH OH CYCLOPS! YOU LOST YOUR GLASSES. YOU'RE A DEEEAAAAADDD MAN!!!!!!!!"
I feel like the movie was better because of his contributions.
Completely unrelated to anything other than Milwaukee really. All of my family on my mother's side is from Wisconsin, mainly Madison and Janesville. Cool story? Cool story. All this Wisconsin and food talk makes me want a brat.
At this point I think Arya might be my favorite character/storyline in the show. I'm hard pressed to come up with an example of a better child character, and acting job, in a television drama. Honestly, I can't think of one, at least not off the top of my head.
Her exchange with Tywin Lannister was so good, but when she said anyone can be killed, just chills due to Maisie Williams delivery of the line.
Fair enough. And in full disclosure, being a former film student myself, I also have a soft spot for that sort of thing as well. I think reducing either Hugo or The Artist to just that is doing both films a grave disservice but yes, those are two strong themes in both films.
However, I still fail to see how awarding two films that, in part, celebrate a time period in the history of film when Hollywood had yet to fully capitalize on both world wars to become THE dominate force in global cinema, a time period that still embraced original ideas and creativity both in content and in form, equals something more self-congratulatory than giving an award to any other film at a film awards ceremony.
Self congratulation? I'd love to hear your explanation on how giving an award a French produced film, directed by a Frenchmen, starring French actors is an example of the good ole boys of Hollywood patting themselves on the back.
Sure there are several films that should have been nominated that weren't, in my opinion, and I don't even think The Artist was the best film of the year (for me that would be Shame) but it was a damn good film.
Best Picture – The Artist
Best Director – Michael Hazanavicius
Best Actor – Jean Dujardin
Best Actress – Meryl Streep
Best Supporting Actor – Christoper Plummer
Best Supporting Actress – Octavia Spencer
Best Score – The Artist
Best Makeup – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2
Best Costume Design – Hugo
Best Original Screenplay – The Artist
Best Art Direction – Hugo
Best Cinematography – Tree of Life
Best Film Editing – Hugo
Best Doc Short – Saving Face
Best Foreign Language – Footnote
Best Animated Feature – Rango
Best Adapted Screenplay – Hugo
Best Short Film Live Action– Time Freak
Best Sound Editing – Drive
Best Sound Mixing – War Horse
Best Visual Effects – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2
Best Doc Feature – Hell and Back Again
Best Original Song – The Muppets
Best Short Film Animated – A Morning Stroll
I didn't think the Frank video at the end really marred the episode, but it definitely wasn't the best way to end the episode. Of course, thankfully, it doesn't end with that, it ends with the Dennis' creepy 'chuckle' which was perfect.
I actually really enjoyed last night's Sunny. Was it packed with as many laughs as the other episodes this season? No. The laughs it did have were great though. Also, it was the little things for me. Mac nodding off on the bar stool at the beginning, when Dee and Charlie are arguing, only to wake up and then exclaim "Now this is interesting" when Frank and Gino go at each others throats was a great little moment. The "those were the days," dialogue exchange also fantastic. And the end when Charlie says "Eeeeeeehheeee, that was a little racist" killed me. All in all, I thought it was a solid episode.
Loved last night's Sunny. So many great lines. "Eat a dick" of course. Mac's "Goddammit! I don't know how to express myself unless through anger and personal attack!". "Pickles will prevail!" "And Puss". Also, Charlie mimicking Mac's stances with Mac exclaiming "Stop standing like me!" was a great moment.
Not at all. Lines of dialogue pertains to the lines on the page not the entirety of what the character says before someone else speaks.
Also, dull characters are very subjective. I personally find Ryan's "unnamed Driver" fascinating. Who is this guy? What is his background? He obviously has getaway driving down to a science. Why? Why does he have so much rage bottled up? None of it is ever explained, but I'm ok with that.
You only really get a glimpse of his character once, at the end of the elevator scene right before the doors close (which coincidentally I thought was one of the best sequences in the film). I found it a fascinating glimpse.
While I can see how the early scenes could be taken as slow, stiff and unnatural, I rather enjoyed them. Non-verbal dialogue is something that is pushed to the wayside in these days of Aaron Sorkin, my dialogue is so clever I have to bust my nose to write it. I don't think it would have worked with with other actors but Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan put in excellent performances. The unusually long beats and sparse dialogue let them and consequently their characters breathe.
You don't actually know that much about either character, but yet you do through those early scenes. For example, when Ryan has lunch with Carey and her husband the emotions she expresses says far more then opting to fill out (with more dialogue) the fragments of story that are verbally expressed.
The director Joseph Losey partnered up with Harold Pinter to write the scripts for Losey's films. The first thing Pinter did was tell Losey to cross out every other line of dialogue in the script. It's films like Drive that I think show why that can be a good idea.
The "cosmic stuff" is actually only about 25/30 minutes of the film ...but technicalities I suppose. While I loved the cosmic Kubrick-esque sequence/content I personally found the portions of the film that focus on the kids/family resonated with me more. I chalk it up to whether you are more inclined to the grandiose or the minutia. This is not to suggest the two are distinctly separate, far from it, but what is at the forefront is distinctly different between the two.
I actually haven't watched enough to catch on to the "signature stare down". I think I watched two episodes last season. Is Joe the bald one or the guy with the glasses?
Wow. The author of the food show article really doesn't like Gordon Ramsay. I actually watched all two hours of Masterchef last night. Sure it's comes with the obligatory bullshit melodrama that seems to become increasingly pervasive in reality TV regardless of the subject matter, but it was far from the cruel humiliation fest Troy Patterson made it out to be. 90% of what they showed were people who made it to the next round, and while there was criticism there was a lot of compliments going on and that's not even discussing the fact that a vast majority of the judges' criticism is directed towards the food not the person who cooked it.
Any way, I found myself wishing they had shown more of the people who didn't get to the next round because I wanted to see what they had cooked and why the judges didn't like it.
Of course I'm a fan of Kitchen Nightmares (British version, not the focus on the melodrama American iteration) and the F word so I suppose I'm biased the other way.
Yeah, I translated mine on my own using some tools I found on the internet at the time so I'm sure I probably screwed it up somehow, but like you said who would know? Also, depending on who is asking me, I'll make things up and change what it says. That being said, I've been surprised by how many people actually recognize that it is elvish these days.
I have one tattoo. It's in elvish and it says "Not all who wander are lost". I got it about a month before I graduated from college. I was about to embark on that transition from school to the "real world" (even though I worked full time during college but you know) and it was a great way to mark a moment in my life where I wasn't sure where I was headed, but I knew it was the right direction. Oh and I got to release my inner nerd.
Of course this lead to a woman ten years my elder getting my personal info from Jiffy Lube and semi-stalking me because she also had an elvish tattoo and evidently that meant we were soul mates, but who doesn't that happen to?
Re: Bookgum. As I understood it, Anamericanpatriot simply got too busy with life stuff and thus didn't have the time to dedicate to running it, and thus things simply stopped.
Re: Facebook: I already follow on Twitter. Between visiting the actual site and Twitter telling me to visit the actual site, having Facebook also telling me to visit the site seems like overkill (blasphemy I know).
"I am against the hyper-sexualization of women."-MISS AMERICA. Because between Sesame Street and Beauty Pageants, Sesame Street is and has been far more damaging to America's youth. Obviously.
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