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A MUPPET WICKER MAN!
Hey folks, Harry here... This is not an upcoming movie... sadly. This is a work of brilliant parody done to perfection. I present for your enjoyment... THE MUPPET WICKER MAN starring The Muppets...
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I like it...
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wow.
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Spot on! Got me thinking. Muppefied Empire Strikes Back!
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At least in wrongness...
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...this is bound to become legendary on the net. It made my week. Whoever did this is very talented indeed. Does this mean it might be possible (if Hollywood got a thousand Koreans dedicated to the task) to make this into a full-length feature.? I would hand over my money many times to see it.
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That was fuckin' awesome :D
That's the kinda shit I wanna see interspersed with the movie news. If you don't like it, go to another site. That was A+!!!!! -
Nice to see the memoriam to Edward Woodward at the end. Some might see this sort of thing as disrespectful but I think the opposite is true. It shows really how iconic and memorable the original WICKER MAN movie was.. and I think this Muppet version strikes a great balance between honoring that movie and slipping in the muppet-related jokes. V. Good!
Workshed - i'd love to see this made into a feature too! It'd be more entertaining than the Nicholas Cage remake and the recent Muppet movies combined. -
If you're going to put so much work into doing an awesome parody like this, couldn't ya take five seconds to figure out how to spell "Sergeant" correctly, instead of misspelling it in virtually every panel?
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when i click it just opens the same image in a bigger window.
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its done in comic book style...i see now. lol
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Hasn't hollywood already remade the wicker man with a muppet in the lead role. I mean if they'd cast kermit instead of nic cage would that movie have been any worse.
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How'd it get burned?
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I especially love the critics and their corny jokes - spot on. Great job.
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is a disturbing image that will haunt me.
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Mar 05, 2010 7:46:42 AM CST
That was good. Now how about some Wicker Tree coverage?
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I'm sure Robin Hardy would appreciate the press.
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Harry, Thank you for this.
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That was a great way to end the week. The people that made this had more regard for the original film than the Suits who made that remake piece of tripe.
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Check out this one...The Muppets homage Michael Caine's classic 1971 gangster film, GET CARTER....
GET ANIMAL...
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Now that I have, I'm kinda disappointed in myself. Is this really what my life has come to? Oh well, enough introspection. That was pretty freakin' sweet.
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You can almost hear those iconic Muppet voices speaking the lines. That was a surprisingly well-developed piece.
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If you liked that, you will like this:
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How many do you think she has?
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Didn't work, even when the spaces were taken out...
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I want more like this.
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I always knew they worshiped a furry pantheon. Christ Jesus! Love. This.
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I don't know what to say...
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But that was pretty cute.
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Take your fucking ass back over to Bleeding Cool News then, you fucking mushmouthed twat.
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Still cool tho
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nice to see that he shared it out on the site for all you to enjoy - I thought it was great!
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for life.
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That was pretty funny.
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Hope this works... GET ANIMAL.... (if this link doesn't work try GET CARTER GET ANIMAL on YouTube. Thanks guys!)
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...with Schlukkter living in fantasyland without a penis. It's only temporary, except for the penis bit. You can have Schlukkter experiencing some strange, psychedelic shit, though, while his friends are wondering what the fuck is wrong with him. That should be fun. It'll be like breaking out of the Matrix, he'll have to realize that the world is not real and find a way out.
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...so it's dangling back at our most recent digs.
It's just an interlude. The Man On The Can consumed nonO, right? I worked off that ass-umption, but I realize now I didn't make it very clear in my story. Somebody else can make it more explicit. -
I added that.
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...The Get Carter parody didn't work for me. No-where near the same level as The Wicker Muppet which looks like some serious work has gone into it.
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I was going to post it there, but I saw you weren't finished.
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The ONLY rule to improvisational writing is "Yes, and..." Meaning, you take what was last written, you accept it as valid, and you continue. Other than that, anything is possible.I had tried to lay too many foundations, forgetting that others couldn't be in my head and would have to change all the elements to fit the direction they want to go. Nothing is really set and nothing that is done cannot be undone.Does that make sense?I've got everything current at The Shelter, and I really think we all should try to force ourselves to add our new bits there. That's a selfish request, really, because trying to keep track of this thing in two or three places, I'm bound to miss something.
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1948. Black n' white.Directed by John Huston.With fewer than a dozen characters stuck in two or three rooms of a hotel in the middle of a hurricane, this film is a classic study of terrific acting and ever-increasing tension. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore and Supporting Actress Oscar winner Claire Trevor lead the cast, and the story is peppered with reflections on race, crime, and honor, post-WWII. ★★★★★
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Mixed up....both are goodbut one has the whistle quote
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Going with my son...
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Mar 06, 2010 1:42:13 PM CST
Did anybody watch Independent Spirit Awards last night?
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So, it's either watch that or Subbarize® yesterday.
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...and ridiculously, I worked for over an hour on my installment...someone has to say three nice things about it.Or three people can say one thing each I suppose...
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With the wife...
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Cheeses NCIS tangent by mentioning the US Senator.
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too much fame messes up my creative flow...
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went backward. None of us had thought The Empty Sack Demon was a character with a back-story. we assumed he was originated when the fat man got his initial Roto-Rootering.Now, the thing has opened up to infinite tangents that any of us can go on.
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Roman Polanski, one just HAS to.
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also"...but one man's watershit is another man's chocolate covered pussy juice..."
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God, I'd rather have an itchy rash all over my balls.
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a paucity of 'postrophe errors.That's always a positive.
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perhaps?
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...I didn't learn to write English until my mid teens...and for years was forced to build sentences to avoid words I didn't know how to spell. I still struggle, but talback has improved my spelling immensely...English makes no fucking sense...a mess of rules, half rules, almost never used rules, silent letters...a nightmare...
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Man on the Can and NoNo......this is getting to be some crazy shit.
"Children of Men" tonight. "12 Monkeys" sometime after that. Then "Space Cowboys", "Jumper" and "Yes Man" (wife request) -
Mar 06, 2010 2:12:29 PM CST
...I'm off to parade the child before her adoring Grandparents..
by flickapoo
...I'll say "hi" to everyone from you guys...maybe catch them up on the latest adventures of The Man Off The Can And Friends...
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you'll have to join The Google Group now, because the further adventures of nonO and man Off The can are going exclusive there.http://tinyurl.com/pedalback
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Mar 06, 2010 2:18:12 PM CST
watching TOY STORY 3 trailer on the big screen yesterday
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made me think of something. I noticed Dreamworks-esque humor creeping in. Things like Ken's metrosexuality and dinosaur computer chat. A couple of other examples that have slipped my mind already.I thought Pixar was supposed to be above all that?
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Children of men is classic as is monkeys... space cowboys is Clint so you have that and jumper is Doug liman and his films are entertaining to say the least
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Space Cowboys and Yes Man Right?Children of Men and 12 Monkeys are better than 3 and Jumper is a 2 at best. 3 star movies only please:)
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i felt like I was just standing in a parking space. I even threw in the "sawed-off ass-canon" line as a homage to Flick.
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Goddamn, is the dialogue great.
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A spherical ball the size of a car exploded into being above the seats
of the theater. The Man on the Can slithered away frantically from it,
looking back in horror. It contained no light, and the air around it
seemed dead and evil, it smelled like ozone gone horribly wrong. It
gave The Man on the Can a terrible feeling, but he liked it.
Without warning, a man phased out of the ball, landing on his feet. He
was naked, a patch of his skin was missing on his abdomen, and a scar
wrapped around his neck.
"Hello, there. Good to see you're intact, sack thing," he spoke, as
The Man on the Can looked at his face he felt he recognized the man.
"Who," he grunted, "are you?"
"Ah. You may recognize me, because I'm Gary fucking Oldman." -
The Man on the Can was dumbfounded, frightened, and intrigued. Gary Oldman began to explain, "I am a victim of nonO's. I am also the thing that created nonO. Neither he, nor I knew this. He will never know the truth now, of course, but I did what he cannot, so here I am.
"A part of me was put into this body, for reasons beyond even my comprehension. The powers that be, including myself, have more knowledge than any of what is truly happening, but it is still not enough, apparently."
Gary Oldman snapped the fingers on his right hand and a hole opened up in the ground. Up from it, shot out the deceased nonO's clothes, his belongings. Oldman caught them with a vice grip and proceeded to put on the clothes, which conformed to his shape, and put nonO's things in pockets. The clothing sizzled on his body, as if to welcome its new host. The Man on the Can looked curiously at Gary's feet.
"He had a leather fetish," Gary said with a smirk, pointing to his boots.
The Man on the Can laughed, or perhaps nonO did, and gargled, "What is the point to all of this?"
"Yes. The point," Oldman mused, "Ah! Yes, the point is lost on me at the moment. I'm sure it will come to me. I'm only human, I think."
Gary Oldman set his hand on the quilt of human skin in the front coat pocket. He smiled as he felt his own skin among the unstitched pieces beside it. His eyes widened, brow shot up.
"This is the key," he said excitedly, and then shifted his eyes to his audience and quieted abruptly.
The Man on the Can shot a suspicious look at the leather clad man before him. Gary Oldman pulled his hand out of the pocket, looked back at the portal and shouted, "Let the wild rumpus start!"
Beasts the size of houses phased out of the ball, breaking through the roof of the theater, letting rain fall upon the scene below. They were each different, they had both good and bad, beautiful and ugly features about them. Gary Oldman looked at The Man on the Can and said with a smile and a tear, "They're movies." -
into the shitback. She is a Catholic school girl with no morals.check the shelter.
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get the bad taste of the recent Wolfman out of my mouth. I eat movies and watch food.
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This parody has left me almost speechless. Magnificent!!
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Pandering. How insecure are you, as the final bastion of artistic integrity during awards season, when you have Ryan Reynolds and Ben Stiller among your presenters?Eddie Izzard is not funny.The girl who plays ALICE was nominated for her southern accent in an independent film.Isn't the word Independent followed by the phrase "sponsored by" a contradiction? Nearly all of the Independent Spirit Awards have a corporate sponsorship.ANVIL instead of FOOD, INC. Really?Lenny Kravitz walked on-stage holding his dick, literally.Roger Ebert gave a grant to a couple of documentarians.Mo'nique is not the most annoying thing about PRECIOUS. Judging from all the acceptance speeches, seems everyone associated with that, except the young lead, is a pretentious, obnoxious, narcissist.Best Supporting Male: Woody Harrelson in THE MESSENGERBest First feature: CRAZY HEARTBest First Screenplay: Geoffrey Fletcher who wrote PRECIOUSBest Supporting Female: Mo'nique in PRECIOUSBest Cinematography: Roger Deakins for A SERIOUS MAN (Can anyone explain to me, exactly, what cinematography is?)Robert Altman Ensemble Award: A SERIOUS MANBest Screenplay: (500) Days of SummerBest Documentary: ANVILBest Foreign Film: An Education (Foreign stands for "country" not "language," I guess.)Best Female Lead: Gabourey SidibeBest Male Lead: Jeff brifgesBest Director: Lee DanielsBest feature: PRECIOUS
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"Virgin only to dick."
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He's in the new TLON movie.
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The Oscar Slag will be taking place here tomorrow.
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take me jesus!
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in the preface of a later edition of the book, Carroll wrote "Because it can produce a few notes, though they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!" Notice, of course, "never" is spelled wrong to be "raven" backwards.
There have also been various answers over the years from others, convinced that Carrol was "too dumb to solve his own riddle," some of which included answers such as "Because there is a B in both and an N in neither," "Because they both have inky quills," and "Because Poe wrote on both." -
It's pretty bad when even the Right-wingers attack you as too hateful.http://tinyurl.com/yb8dmln
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20 "cover" versions of songs that exceed the originals.http://tinyurl.com/ydt8hgf
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Are you ready for a re-envisioned PET SEMETARY?http://tinyurl.com/y95cob5
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ALIEN pre-quel to be 3D.http://tinyurl.com/ybfy9o6Of course it is.
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Come in drunk, admission half-off. As well as your hand.http://tinyurl.com/yftjfyd
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God..Hollywood has no fucking ideas. Why not make a film about a demonic shit beast fought of by local cops Naval investigators and virgin Catholic school girls with strap-ons? I hear there is a scripot floating around somewhere.
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i hate myself.
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Seems AICN can insert breaks wherever it damn well pleases.
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It's infuriating.
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Oh yeah. Miley Cyrus' dad. idiots. The both of em.
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The Road to Gold(?)about the Oscars with Sandy Kenyon. Yeahhh...Sandy Kenyon is a gay douche.
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at very least.
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Casey Kasem impression.....poorly.
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http://tinyurl.com/6k835n
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...did I scare you Mac? I learned that stealth attack from Teddy.
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THAT would be epic.
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to make sure Avatar doesn't win?I's like how Bush was elected and everyone blamed Nader cause he drew votes away from Gore. So now if you flood the candidacy with options you can cripple the chances of the front runner by serving up to many options.Some rube will say, "Well I was gonna vote for Avatar but Sandra Bullock is so likeable."I don't give one fuck about Avatar OR (and almost more importantly) the Oscars but I can't decide if this is just an excuse to promote/confuse or just plane idiotic.
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you scared the shit out of me Flick.
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I usually shoot people that just walk in my house. butterbean and KingofMilwaukee are buried in my backyard. As you can see I wield uncontested power over this TB right now.
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that thing is soooo stupid. stupid plane.
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...ass-cannon.I should have commented the new additions, but I had an idea and I wanted to get it posted before other people's chapters made it obsolete.I'm such a slow writer that the story changes five times by the time I hit POST.
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...volunteers to stay aboard and ram the enemy mother-ship...
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I had usurped your character who has since been appropriated. I know we got plenty of agents on the job but I thought we needed some new blood. Some sexy bood.
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only it's a better movie in my head. I will admit that scene at the end with Bruce and Live Tyler gets me. *sniff sniff*
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...the plot. I'm only capable of these reflective little mood interludes.I'm a miniaturist...I'll just wait for quiet moments here and there to add my two sticky cents.
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Mar 06, 2010 9:51:10 PM CST
...but I suspect it'll fizzle now that it's a Shelter exclusive.
by flickapoo
...if you're going to take the time to write nonsense, you want everybody to see it...
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not that what you write is light but that everyone else is trying to force plot and your "asides" allow for a break or a new direction.
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...and nobody was home to throw him a party...
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but going to the shelter just to bullshit is hard. I understand Subs point though. He and moose do a lot of work archiving and shit. Here is your default "Thank You" moose and Subs. Just letting you guys know we appreciate the work no one else has the energy to do.
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in at the airports....will they be able to see guy and girl junk through their pants?I think I just found my new career.
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...praise for people who get shit done.
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...I recently realized that my Netflix ratings aren't always accurate or honest. In the back of my mind I'm always conscious of the fact that what I'm really doing it letting them know what kind of movies I want to see more of...so the Asian period piece with decent production values and lots of nudity might not really be a five star movie (in fact I can promise it isn't), but I'll say it is...because I want more just like it.A lot more.
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This is worse than the 2008 Election. Must be a slow week for Harry and the Boys at AICN. Where's the Michael Bay hate at? This Talkback is boring
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...of Horror...Wow.Not just the chapters, but all related comments.And again I say, wow. I'm impressed.
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he has scene. It just seems he is on a tear of mediocrity. Not his fault. I saw Children of Men and 12 Monkeys are up next so maybe we will see some different review.I do still like the idea of a strictly 3 star movie list though. I didn't love it. I didn't hate it. 3 stars.
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bush league.
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*sound of a .45 hammer being cocked back*
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Whereheat?
And Subs, it's a sad day when Izzard isn't funny.
Also Subby, that 'covers' article set off one of my pet hates. It's no crime to be ignorant (that word actually doesn't mean you're stupid), but when DJs don't back-announce (as a ploy to keep you from changing channels) and VJs are too damn lazy and generally so fucking young they have no idea (and they're bosses certainly can't be bothered to train 'em right), everything goes out the fucking window. At least early rap & hip-hop was honest about appropriation and more than that it was part of the politics of those forms. Then came the apocalypse and "Gansta's Paradise" witch to any Wonder fan is nigh on sacrilege. The worst thing I saw was a disngenuous awards performance where They "invited Wonder onstage to perform. The thing was that everyone was all like "Hey, Stevie Wonder is singing Coolio's song!" Because after months of interviews with Coolio where it was never mentioned and Grammies and so on where Wonder was never mentioned, the general pop honestly had no idea. And fuck me it's not like Songs in the Key of life is one of Wonder's lesser-knows albums! The whole thing was so fucking disingenuous it made me mental. Not sure if the initial deceit was due to Coolio or the record company thinking the picture of Coolio as a musical genius (Eddie Murphy ref FTW) was more conducive to record sales. Anyway, that shit is just rife now. I know there's nothing new in the world, but fuck me!
Other covers - Bjork's It's oh so Quiet - strangely not super different from the original 40s song (s). And Tainted Love by Soft Cell - the original not being half so interesting because it was straight.
And Subterranean Homesick Blues could probably have it's own category - not literal covers but close as fuck rips. Elvis Costello's "Pump it up" being one of many. I know Dylan's is a basic Blues/Talking blues riff, but it's amazing how many follow his version.
End of rant...
Actually, I once heard an awesome grunge (what a redundant name - it's just rock'n'roll, fuckers, and exactly the sorta thing being played in Sydney pubs in 1980) cover of Cameo's "Word Up". I kid you not. I'd dearly love to know who did it. Hilarious! -
Mar 06, 2010 10:37:26 PM CST
...yeah, what I meant to say is that my Netflix ratings...
by flickapoo
...are artificially tilted toward high and low ratings. A three star rating is an honest rating.I don't give as many three stars as I should because I'm trying to send a message..."more of this please!"...or..."don't ever defile my mailbox with this or anything like it afuckingain, please!".STL speaks the truth. Most movies are three stars.
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Veering from my rant on disingenuous music to showing our kids the "Good Stuff", last week I showed 'em Gremlins (they loved the microwave bit - thank God my dog's at Mum & Dad's). Yesterday it was Superman the Movie & some 60s Henson goodness (Muppets on Puppets). Today maybe some Indy or Pal's The Time Machine or 7 Faces of Dr Lao. Hmmm...
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...I think I mentioned before, but my toddler LOVES the forty year old POOH movie, but won't watch the new stuff. As someone who makes stuff for kids, I've given this a lot of thought. I like classic POOH better too, but why does she like it better? I have some theories, but it could just be that old POOH has a simpler aesthetic...maybe later she'll want the new flashy stuff.
I think my approach is going to be similar to yours...show her the good stuff early (but not too early)...before her attention span gets shortened by quick edits and flashing lights. And of course I'm being selfish too...I can't wait for family movie night...revisiting GREMLINS, GOONIES, DARK CRYSTAL, etc...can't wait. -
That shit sure doesn't work on Amazon. Basically if you don't love "their" movie you're drowned by the stupid hordes as being too fussy (they/re fucking product/movie reviews fcs!). Don't even get me started on rating the product rather than the movie itself... I tried to alert peeps about the clusterfuck on Amazon's 2 and 3 disc Wall-E Blu-rays so that like Flick we could actually give market feedback about what we want/don't want re: the bloody "Digital Copy" rort. Oh boy they didn't like that...
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Saw it when it first came out as a kid and actually didn't enjoy it as much as Young Sherlock Holmes (and neither as much as Poltergeist) in terms of Spielberg-produced stuff. Everybody raves about it so much that a few years back I thought "I must be crazy" and gave it another go. Nope. Just too contrived for me even back then I think.Ah well. I don't mind overlapping dialogue, but it just shot me in that thing. I liked Explorers better too. Ah well.
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...most things are three stars, and that's a fact. But as someone who is in the position to get rated from time to time, getting three out of five stars fucking sucks.I prefer getting nailed with one star to three stars.
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...watch out for bad guys.
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Fuck that asshole and his 1 star. That guy has no idea what he is talking about.
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Everybody salty?
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watch out for demon shit monsters.
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...nice and warm.And no wet spot.
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Shelter exclusive? The Shelter is just shy of 20 members, now, which includes all of the people who have contributed, more than probably will. Besides, the thing is so odd and scatological, posting on it here is counter-productive in very many ways. The public Pedalback exists to encourage participation from the most diverse group of Talkbackers. It's more likely that posts about anal fissures and murderous condom men, not to mention homosexual detectives and horny catholic schoolgirls, would alienate people. At The Shelter we can be as creative as we dare to be, without fear of a negative reaction.
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did you ever see the performance of Wild West with Will Smith and Big Daddy Kane and Stevie Wonder and maybe some other dip shits and everyone just left Wonder out on the stage at the end of the song.They all slapped each other on the back and walked off leaving Stevie at the piano holding his pud.
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You have no idea how many movies I've seen that I've rated a single star, just to be charitable.
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award show insults than anyone, I think. Was it this year's Grammys or last year's, when they forced him to share "Superstition" with The Jonas Brothers?
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was talking about was that we are self important attention whores. When I write the funniest shit ever put on the screen(in my not so humble opinion)I want every stupid douche on AICN to know how awesome and funny I am.Your 100% right though. It is obscure and irrelevant to most of what goes on here. I think some people are scared to come her now too cause it is all shit, vaginas and cops.
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no one has mentioned what happens to the file that is produced. We assume they'll get rid of them as soon as you get through the scanner, but I'm waiting for a website devoted to posts of the x-rays of air traveling women with huge norks.
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is post it there and pimp it here. In no time, we'll have more people trying to join at The Shelter than we know what to do with.
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Little Homo Jonas #2 yelling "What you got, Stevie?" and grabbing the microphone away so he can screw up the lyrics he hadn't even memorized. All while a living legend is up there ,that few of the Fuckwit Generation even know.
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What if we agree to post it there first and here afterwards...would that make it easier for you Subs? Maybe that was brought up earlier (I haven't read all of today yet), but I don't want the world to be deprived of our sick fucked up imaginations, and as for the 'Pedalback Mission' I personally only see the 'profit' in attracting people who think that shit is funny...Nobody else really needs to apply...We aren't for everybody...If we were, we would just be pedestrian...
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they show the process screen and just as it gets to the crotch they cut away. So airport security will be the new Catholic priest. The scanner operators should have to work in tight underwear to make sure there is no inappropriate arousal.
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You say it, I do it. I already added a new hooker over there.
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until you finish Pedaltrek, anyway.Look, I don't fucking care, really. I don't make the rules. I just make suggestions. Why would anyone post in two places, though, if it's such an issue to post even in one?With something that is dependent on following all the random bits, I can't see how it makes any sense to have to scroll through hundreds of posts here instead of finding them easily, all in one place.
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We couldn't be pedestrian if we were trying.
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I just still harbor this fantasy that there are hundreds of lurkers, like I was for over 10 years, who get a fucking blast out of this shit but don't ever comment...Course, they can always apply for membership at the Shelter, I guess...BTW, what is our vetting process for new memebers?
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here is that (lets say this goes on into the next BAMF)some random dude will pop in here for so run of the mill chat and will be met with..."..his demonic cock penetrated Gary Oldmans tear duct with astonishing force and accuracy..". Just the "WTF" factor.Once again though..I don't care. Its just fun either way.
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You guys do what you want to do. But you are begging for trouble from that one, random, Gary Oldman fan who reads about demonic, tear-duct cock penetration and wants to make an issue out of it.And, things are going to get lost if it falls to me to chase them down across multiple threads and multiple sites.
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If we recognize the handle when they register, and they've contributed here without any issue, they're in. I had a dude apply today whose name and handle I did not recognize, so I sent him an e-mail, telling him what The Pedalback was and asking him to introduce himself the next time he was in here. If he does and chooses to re-apply, chances are i can get him past the velvet rope. (I know the bouncer.)
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If you want to contribute...POST in the Shelter first....then RE-post it here as a re-run, that way there is ZERO work for you except routine maintenence. If it aint posted there first it is rouge and not considered cannon... This could also work as select chapters are only available with membership, if somebody doesn't want to post on AICN, thats okay...it becomes an exclusive...
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not at the movie cause it was great but at just how much Last Man Standing ripped it off. It isn't even a reimagining. It is almost note for note. From throwing the stick/spinning the bottle, to the "If I do...it will hurt." line, to hiding in the box.I saw Last Man Standing (no joke) the most high I had ever been in the history of my life. I loved it obviously cause the story is classic but I had no idea just how similar the two were. I know that A Fistful of Dollars falls in there as well but not that close. I'm looking forward to Sanjuro
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Just watch out for secret agents...BTW...I think I have PedalTrek:TNG satisfactorioy plotted to the end...new chapter soon...Anyway NCIS has a long way to drive to...oh, yeah, I meant to ask earlier...Where is this macabre story taking place? I am assuming...New York? Yeah, Quantico, Virginina is a little drive...
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Mar 06, 2010 11:55:49 PM CST
Fine, Cheeses. 'moose did that several times today, anyway.
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So there are randoms seeking access. Interesting.As far as I'm concerned I would rather cut down on the work that you and moose have to do Subs. It isn't your job to chronicle the nonsense we write about shit and gay sex. Cheeses has a good idea. Post it there and here if it is that important. I 'm the one so concerned with making sure the whole internet knows how funny they are.
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I'll review it tomorrow, 'cause I'm up past my bedtime.
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I'm assuming it's D.Vades hometown, though, since I've never heard of fountains from the toilets anywhere else.
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isn't he in N.C.? So that is the setting. At least thats what could be assumed. I also kinda thought it had a dark NYC vibe though.
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here tomorrow during The Oscars, are you? I'm not even going to have them turned on, but I do wanna get snarky.
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This is my broadcast and probably the most amount of people that will ever read my inner dialogue of psychotic gibberish...But, dammit, I like to make people laugh...even if they are imaginary people I create in my mind. It worked great with my imaginary friend in pre-school...Don't try to fix something that isn't broken...
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my station is airing the Oscars so they will probably cause us to go on late and I will be extra pissed off at them.
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I like to have a place where some of this stuff is available, rather than thinking it just disappears into internet limbo. And, with that in mind, yeah, I'm pretty anal in wanting to make sure the whole thing gets saved without random bits and pieces being missed.
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I won't get home until 'round 9 ish, CST, but, as long as, providing, this piece of shit I call a computer co-operates, I will live blog what's left of it for you...
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I imagine that you guys are all the coolest people EVER and your all laughing at every bit of minutia I manage to flail onto a keyboard.
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I never said it was broken or even implied that, Cheesie. I do think, however, you are forgetting the times you and others have had to deal with some troll or other telling you your shit wasn't as funny as you thought it was. If that doesn't inhibit you, fine. But I know it inhibits some, and at The Shelter they don't have to worry about that.
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We're so cool, we some times don't even let you know that we're laughing at every bit, just so you keep wondering and have to keep your A game going.
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Sweeeeeeet!
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The rest should be treated like fan fiction. You have enough to track down in the previous 60,000 posts to have to worry about keeping track of the new stuff...I say put it to a vote tomorrow...If you have a story, start a new story thread in the the shelter, then copy and paste it here... BTW, thanks again for going the extra 100 miles on all of this...That's why you're our Captain Subs...
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Type at yas tomorrow.
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as a reference to me finding internal solace in imagining that I was entertaining large quantities of persons, or even just one...That's why the simple 'ha's' mean so much here...
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Cheeses= http://tinyurl.com/yc5g3akSubs= http://tinyurl.com/y8bdfmtMoose= http://tinyurl.com/y9rjmh4Flick= http://tinyurl.com/ya3r7jxScary= http://tinyurl.com/y9jyung
Conti= http://tinyurl.com/yajwl79
D.Vader= http://tinyurl.com/ybpaq2oMe= http://tinyurl.com/y86c7u3
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its not as easy as it looks. Just ask me who you are in my head and I'll tell you one at a time;)
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That was fucking hilarious!!!! Can't wait to see everyones reactions...As for mine...Oddly enough, when I grow my hair out long, as I have more than a few times in my life, that pic ain't too far off the mark. Especially the salt-and-pepper goatee...
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Mar 07, 2010 1:00:13 AM CST
Now that I figured out the typo and saw 'Lop's pic....
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HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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( I'm eventually going to get to do a post to - Mac and Cheeses, ba-dump-dump)
Oh thank GOD I never saw the Wild West or Jonas superstition things. I think I woulda killed both Stevie and myself to put us both out of our misery. The humiliation! How dare they treat him that way - he's a Goddamned Musical Genius (© Eddie Murphy)!
On that note, I was wearing a Wonder tour shirt when I was at a Comic-con last year and got my Watchmen signed by Dave Gibbons. We had a nice little chat about how great Stevie is and Dave said he saw him on I think his first English tour when he was still "Little Stevie Wonder". Bit before my time but man, that woulda been great. Anyway, really nice fella. -
Mar 07, 2010 1:33:47 AM CST
Ship’s Counselor Flickapoo stared at the small wiggling arachnid
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that Dr. Morbius had pulled out of Lt. Calls’ right ear. Using his empathic powers he could tell that the bug was transmitting an emergency message to someone off-ship. “Its sending a warning!” he yelled. “Short range.”Stabby stood staring at the spot where he had, only a fraction of a second ago, seen a Portuguese physician juggling three tribbles in his hands without looking at them. The sudden ‘Red Alert’ claxon that droned from the invisible speakers shook the Security Officer to his senses. He slapped his chest cell phone… “Stabby to bridge…”he yelled. “Status report.”Series 7 answered, “We are under attack.”*********************“Subs, I feel sorta…” Bipolar Waitress grew faint and almost fell. She grabbed for the Captain’s arm as she went down.“Bi-polar!” He exclaimed and grabbed at her in the hopes of cushioning her fall. “Bi-polar, are you alright?”The Ambassador Reception was in full swing. First Officer Moose was wailing on his Rusty Trombone ever since Series 7 had had to report for bridge duty about 20 minutes earlier. “Is it too much Trombone?” asked Subs. “ I can order Mr. Moose to stop?”“No,” She finally answered, between fluttering eyelashes. “Something BAD has happened…HE…knows I’m…here.” With that she passed out.“Bi-polar!!!” Subs yelled. Ambassador Continentalop, who had been discussing their shared love and appreciation for ancient Earth celluloid filmmaking with his friend, the Captain, before the Waitress had fainted, asked, “Is she okay?”Subs ignored him and focused solely on the woman…”Waitress!!!” He commanded. “I NEED A DRINK!!!”Bi-polar stirred slightly and then sat bolt upright. "He’s HERE !!!!” she screamed at the top of her lungs.At that moment Captain Subs’ chest cell-phone activated. He slapped it. “Captain here.”“Sir…” it was Ship’s Android, Series 7. “You are needed on the Bridge.”“On my way…Sickbay, stand by for emergency Bamffing.”Molecules and dust and glitter and other sparkly things and molecules again started coalescing around the attractive waitress on the floor. And, then, with a loud whine she bamffed out of the room.“Captain?” asked Ambassador Continentalop. “Is everything okay?”“When have they ever been, my old friend? Just keep the party going….” It was only after the Captain had exited the Reception area that he heard the annoying ‘Red Alert’ wailing of the squawk boxes that he hoped and prayed was just that damned android over reacting AGAIN to what amounted to simple space litter…There were still plenty of bugs to be worked out of those new Series -7 model Pedalback Ship Droids…
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Teddy= http://tinyurl.com/yhg7kt9 (obvious) Colonel= http://tinyurl.com/y9uamvs Sixies= http://tinyurl.com/ygemoly Yack= http://tinyurl.com/yz9f2ylwhite_vader= http://tinyurl.com/ylnjvzzwater_shit= http://tinyurl.com/y9dyufu MadFuckingMax = MadFuckingMaxStabby= http://tinyurl.com/yexl5yp Series 7 = http://tinyurl.com/yh3cfd6 STLost = http://tinyurl.com/yk4uzsu
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I LOVE IT...That has to be a new feature at the Shelter...How I See You...Can't wait for the flood of reaction in the AM, Mac...HHHHHAAAAAA!!!!!
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Unless I am completely computer illiterate...which, I am sure, some could convincingly argue...
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MadFuckingMax is just Mad Max. No pic needed.
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I can't wait for the shit to go down.
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Mar 07, 2010 2:56:53 AM CST
Cheeses of Nazareth stood on the balcony of the Nazareen Preside
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and breathed in the sweet perpetually spring-time air. He rubbed the sleep from his eyes with his still vagina scented knuckles and tried in vain to adjust his pupils to the mid-afternoon sunlight. In a corner of his massive open air bedroom three virgins sang a magnificently uplifting Disney song without musical accompaniment. Birds began to gather on the trellises, attracted by the angelic voices of the unspoiled vocalists. Having just gotten out of his rotating bed, Cheeses stood naked to his Kingdom, the way his Father, the God of Milk, had intended. Cheeses felt his stomach gurgle, and he shook his head to clear the double, if not magnificent, horizons he saw off in the distance.He burped loudly and moved toward the Presidential Bong/Keg Ritual Alter…his first stop EACH and EVERY morning. Even before he enacted the Morning Toilet Ritual…He often felt that THAT was exactly what made him so Presidential.As he sat down on the cushions in front of his hooka/beer dispenser worship center, he bowed his head to his deity, Schroodinger’s Cat. “I am neither in the box, nor out of the box,” He recited the time honored words. “I simply AM. But I gain ’AM-ness’ thru the observation of others. All Hail the almighty .” And then, Cheeses drank from the cup and smoked from the bowl… “Lord Cheeses,” a voice interrupted. Cheeses tried to hold his hit in as long as possible before he responded. “COUGH!!! COUGH!!! …eeeeermm…Coff, coff…Wha…What is it Mac?”“I just thought you might want to know that the Pedalback Emissary ship will be here just inside of four hours…in PLENTY of time for the Parade. Estimated time of arrival…6 or 6 thirty tonight…We’ll have all the customs and immunization clearances processed by the time the festivities begin…”Cheeses exhaled and felt his consciousness expand with the Grokkness of the pure Nazareen strains of Super-Chronic. He poured himself another beer from the Holy Tap before addressing his half-computerized friend and planetary Co-ordinator. “Mac…” He replied, his eyes still closed. “What is the latest intelligence on Ass-Taste and his band of ‘Merry Homo-Surprise-Sexers‘? AND…do you want to hit this? I high-ly recommend it.”
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Was how the header above should have finished...
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I worry about your kingdom if I'm in charge of the details though.I hope I hit that shit.
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Mac, hehe... Conti's one made me laugh out loud.
In case you guys want to see what I look like, then here's a glimpse of me in action (the guy on the ground).
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Well, if you're gonna get pwned by anyone, that's the guy. Professional.
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I needed a good laugh waking up this morning.....I'm John Locke!!
3 star library reviews took a hit last night with the viewings of "Yes Man" and "Children of Men"
Yes Man 2/5: 2 for the only 2 redeeming values...Zooey Deschanel and Journey's "Separate Ways"
Children of Men 4.5/5: Depressing vision of the future with a tiny ray of hope.
Maybe Space Cowboys and Jumper will put me back on the average wagon again. Sounds like 12 Monkeys will be another one that bucks the trend.
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I keep going to post this but somehow keep losing it or something (I'm sure I typed it earlier) but basically what I was gonna ask was whether your friend's owly-books have anything in them about having armour or how they make it and so on. I almost worked on the flick (haw!) as a designer but dodged that one - I do remember asking what was up with the armour/whether there was a rationale for it like a year ago but all I can recall is that it was basically just for the metaphor. Anyway, funny how paths cross eh? I was there the other day for a meeting but didn't have time to look at the trailer. And what the hell is the bullshit with renaming it? Funny how there weren't riots due to consumer confusion when the books came out...
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I read some thing where supposedly it's the only time travel movie that's vetted by scientists because it has no paradoxes.
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Jesus, I'm having dejavu again... sure I started writing this before. So, that tax thing you asked about... Yeah I claim most of my DVDs/BDs. I think my accountant classes them as a reference library. When I get a written receipt I just get 'em to write reference. Same goes for cinema receipts. And toys, and comics, and books...
Rule of thumb is whether it's pertinent. Being a concept and board guy as well as props/set dec I do a wide range of film stuff. I'm also a character and mascot designer, illustrator and art director/designer for advertising. So Even on tv stuff I might design the characters, design and do the logo, provide the styleguide material, consult/art direct on character costumes and various merchandise (used to also do merch & apparel), provide turnarounds for sculptors (trying to find time to teach myself traditional and digital sculpting at the same time to maintain my objectivity), write backstories, design/board animated bumpers, and so on. So basically I claim books or DVDs that have something to do with any of those. I don't claim CDs/music because I haven't done music industry stuff for a long time. Likewise I don't claim Star Wars toys much anymore because I don't design the miniatures anymore either. But even when I did, I tried to be fair - those 1/4 scale figs are pretty damn expensive so I only claimed on half. Same with my new TV, which I use for testing stuff, but also for home use - I just claimed the percentage I would use for work-related stuff. I told my accountant don't do anything dodgy because I'm not smart enough to lie! Same sorta thing with books - although I do get the urge to buy 'em just for the cover design I don't claim stuff that's got nothing to do with the industries I'm in. Although if I start writing more and get into that side of things... I do claim all comics, but even there I only get a few things these days and they apply to the sorta stuff I do or it's something like Comics Journal where it's an industry resource. Smae with Video Games. I don't claim Singstar, but do claim say, Little Big Planet. And like I said earlier, Criterion collection and David Fincher stuff is like filmschool (for which I woulda paid a lot more) in a box!
The one large caveat through all this is that I'm down under and I don't know how it works over there for you - laws might be different, so check first. And even with my stuff the actual percentage of the item's worth that you can claim as a deduction varies according to category. I think movie tickets it's like 30% or something, can't recall. DVDs might be a bit less but there's also depreciation on a reference library... I leave it to the experts. Anyway, hope that helps. I got an accountant that does a lot of film biz stuff so that's probably a good idea. There are other things like if you work from home claiming a percentage of utilities and so on but I don't think I do that as it's a real hassle in terms of how much work in providing documentation and all that. So although I'm lucky I do a lot of varied stuff in areas I love, I try to be fair, 'cause it's just my luck that if I tried to get away with something the man would probably come down hard on me. When my accountant tries to explain things my eyes start to glaze over or I get angry about how the government are gouging us (only 20 million here and it's a big fucking country to pay for), so I leave it in her capable hands. Speaking of which, gotta do my quarterly in a few weeks. Ugh. Keep you receipts dude!
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White_Vader, nice to see you Vaders getting along so well.
Character and mascot design must be a nightmare... you get the feeling that everything that could be done to create a 'cute little critter' or 'funky little man' must have already been done. I was impressed with Little Big Planet for that very reason, I think the sackboy character's quite original. -
STL, shootin eh? 3 out of 5 Elk wouldn't be bad. Don't mourn the ones that got away. Do eat the ones that don't.
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Whoever did this deserves a blow job of the mind.
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http://tinyurl.com/yc3tbml
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and be a hunkyish young Peter Weller, but I must confess I more closely resemblehttp://tinyurl.com/ydprgkt
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of course,http://tinyurl.com/ydjyt22
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Tim Tebow, God's Favorite Football Player, charges $160 for an autograph.http://tinyurl.com/y98uy3f
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With Practice, Dept.Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback is accused of sexual assault for the second time in a year.http://tinyurl.com/y85qkpe
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Yeah, That's a big part of why I got it - great design right through. The thing about characters and people whether cartoony or not, is that eyes are always the most important thing. You can get away with al sorts of shit elsewhere, because eyes and then face are what we focus on. Even though Sackboy's so basic and only has button eyes, the exact size and distance from each other and position on the face make it look unique - bizarre for such a simple character! And just by putting a bit of white around those eyes the look changes completely for the girl. Which strangely enough is my only criticism - the eyes change them so much they don't look as closely related as they might. There's a bit of a disconnect. And because everything else is so incredibly consistent it stands out more than it might otherwise. But hey, tiny tiny crit which is subjective anyway - incredible game and amazingly great design!
As for the nightmare, no, there's still stuff you can do. I'm working on something now I'm reasonably happy with because I haven't seen his defining characteristic done before (might not be looking hard enough but anyway...). The nightmare is the client who insists on all the directions years of experience and knowledge or even your own development with the same project has led you to reject. I have a good rationale for pretty much everything I do, but apparently clients don't need one for idiotic decisions and will generally choose the worst path or option. That's the only trouble with the biggest clients - they're usually the worst, design by committee and all that. And that when you develop something like that it's the chicken and egg thing of there being no money until the merch from the design MAKES the money, so the budget is usually crap. That's the only problem with being at the very end of the chain... -
"The nightmare is the client who insists on all the directions years of experience and knowledge or even your own development with the same project has led you to reject." Haha, well articulated WhiteV!
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In most things i'm confident enough in my own good taste to tell good from bad but character design is one area in which I would take the consensus of a focus group over my own judgement.
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Mar 07, 2010 10:58:17 AM CST
Well, at least you won't be seeing this on The Oscars.
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Sacha Baron Cohen's not allowed to make fun of James Cameron.http://tinyurl.com/ybnaxhv
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...after a slow day, you guys got busy last night. Mac's sexy Pedalback fantasies killed me...Conti is the showstopper of course.
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...of scene to Cheeses' home planet of Nazareth.
Praise The Cat, and may existence bless us all the days of our lives. -
...in the US, deductions for the self-employed involve the dreaded Schedule C form.Until I started using it I got raped repeatedly and with vigor every April 15th. A friend went through it with me and I ended up refiling for three previous years to recoup some of my losses. I have to say that the IRS was decent and agreeable throughout.
I claim entertainment (mostly books, some movies, trips to NY etc...) that relate directly to my field, and percentages of mileage, house, electricity etc... I'm not the best record keeper in the world, but I err on the side of caution. A lot of smaller purchases that could be claimed slip through the cracks. -
Nora Inu1949. Black -n- white. Japanese. Subtitled.Directed by Akira Kurosawa.Beleaguered by the oppressive heat of a blazing summer, a rookie homicide detective searches the seedier side of Tokyo to retrieve his stolen gun. All of the usual Kurosawa elements are here: striking composition and imagery, rich characters, even in the background, themes of honor and tradition. Still, for me, the police procedural gets bogged down in allegory as it becomes a rather-too obvious examination of the generational shift in post-WWII Japan. Kurosawa regulars Toshirô Mifune (YOJIMBO) and Takashi Shimura (IKIRU) play the rookie and his veteran mentor, respectively. While Mifune's portrayal buckles under the weight of all the symbolic heavy lifting, Shimura shines. Still, a snoodge too little Hitchcock and a snoodge too much contemplation, the film ends up in a figurative and literal mud puddle.★★★☆☆ ⅝
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...that the system is set up for hardball...to deal with companies that have armies of hardened tax lawyers sweeping the leg with no mercy.As a little guy, if you don't pursue all the breaks offered you, you're fucked.
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Off to wonderland
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...you are a finely tuned machine, my friend.
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I need to see your list of 5 stars again..
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RANHIGH & LOWYOJIMBOSANJUROHIDDEN FORTRESS THRONE OF BLOODSEVEN SAMURAI IKIRU RASHOMON
★★★★☆ Kurosawa: THE BAD SLEEP WELL
★★★☆☆ Kurosawa: KAGEMUSHA, DREAMS
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Mar 07, 2010 12:18:49 PM CST
...thanks Subs. If I watch an old movie I want the full...
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...benefit of 20/20 hindsight.I watch plenty of ★★★ new movies, but with the old stuff I expect ★★★★ and up.
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A young boy went up to his father and asked him, 'Dad, what is the difference between 'potentially' and 'realistically' ?'
The father thought for a moment, then answered, 'Go ask your mother if she would sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars.
Then ask your sister if she would sleep with Brad Pitt for a Million dollars, and then ask your brother if he'd sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars. Come back and tell me what you learn from that.'
So the boy went to his mother and asked, 'Would you sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars?'
The mother replied, 'Of course I would! We could really use that money to fix up the house and send you kids to a great University!'
The boy then went to his sister and asked, 'Would you sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars?'
The girl replied, 'Oh my Gawd! I LOVE Brad Pitt I would sleep with him in a heartbeat, are you nuts?'
The boy then went to his brother and asked, 'Would you sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars?'
'Of course,' the brother replied. 'Do you know what a million Bucks would buy?'
The boy pondered the answers for a few days and then went back to his dad.
His father asked him, 'Did you find out the difference
between 'potentially' and 'realistically' ?'
The boy replied, 'Yes, 'Potentially' , you and I are sitting on Three million dollars .
But 'realistically' , we're just living with two hookers and a homo.
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...no excuses.
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http://tinyurl.com/yl7pgja
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Word.
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http://tinyurl.com/ye6oljeThough he might not actually be put on The Peebers roster until The Modern Age, this was his first Pedalback post, way back on The Oldmanback.
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Long weekend bad sleep well is 5 to me
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No elk...just pistol target shooting. I don't like to shoot animals.
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Pulling some relics from the past. Those were my first ones I got from the library. I guess I didn't put stars at that time...
No Country for Old Men: 4/5
Hellboy II: 2/5
National Treasure: 3/5
National Treasure 2: 3/5
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STL, I don't like to shoot animals either. Although I certainly do like to eat them, so, um... I guess an animal in a room with me is safe, but that fattened calf down the abattoir has my signature on its death warrant.
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Sadly, i've always been an unusual eater. In particular for most of my life the dojo has never eaten vegetables (except potatoes), you could call me a carnivore - the anti-veggie. However recently i've begun to learn the wonder and flavour of red pepper, lettuce, rocket, raw carrot - and now i want to go back in time and kick my own ass for not eating this tasty shit earlier.
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I don't think the miyagi kicking the ass of 5 bullys is gonna translate well....on the original--it was an old man beating up 5 rowdy teenager punks...now they got Jackie chan beating up 5 ten year olds..that guy would be arrested or caned
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Had a few friends that did, and about half went back to eating some kind of meat.
Chicken, pork, steak, turkey....*drool*
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Check out the Just Cause 2 demo. Just 'cause. No, seriously, it's the greatest action game ever made. It will blow your mind... out through the back of your skull.
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it is a pain in the nuts. we are constantly trying to find someplace that we can both eat and she is in a constant state of alert over her fucking food making sure nothing meat related came anywhere near it. Add to that the fact that 90% of the food service industry doesn't give a fuck and it makes for some interesting adventures. FTW.
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I don't think I could handle my wife being a vegetarian. Thank god she likes the meat. Heh. heh.
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just not if it was killed or caged inhumanely. other than that she looooooves the meat.
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as it sounds. Lots of opinions and no contribution. I hate my friends. Thats why I like you guys. You don't expect anything from me.
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...we just haven't sprung them on you...Yet.
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just wait Mac...just wait.
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Will Subby remain simply disgruntled, or will he be totally über-pissed by the end of the ceremony?
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...while I enjoyed [deleted], my horse (WTWTA) isn't even nominated...and alcohol will certainly be involved.I propose that we temporarily dispose with most reasonable politeness, gloves, and pants. They're just movies, and it's just the Oscars...it doesn't mean anything. All bears and sacred cows should be fully and temporarily pokable...no hard feelings.LET THE WILD RUMPUS BEGIN!
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screw giclee's, I want that 12" Beachhead figure.
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secure fame forever. When they open the envelope, say WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE instead of whatever is printed there. Then just stand there, ripping the thing to shreds and swallowing the pieces.Let 'em track down some Price/Waterhouse flunky to figure it all out.
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like a crazy son of a bitch."Ha! Now it's a party."
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gets all red-faced and starts spitting obscenities and snot-gobs from his nostrils.
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comes up onstage to accept the award, and she gives a speech condemning whitey for embracing cartoon cats despite their historic disregard for indigenous and aboriginal peoples.
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that get cut off?I'll say.......Mo'nique goes over, anyone who is involved with Precious and wins something will go over, Bridges won't, Waltz won't, Cameron might, I don't know Bigelow's personality but you gotta figure if the first woman ever wins she will go long but I would say they wouldn't cut her off. I'll say no less than 3 people cut off.
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They've probably already started herding the livestock across the red carpet in front of the gay fashionistas.
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they wanted. Everyone else is supposed to thank the Academy only and then go backstage.
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thank god. she is a mush mouth
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...kill some time with the Just Cause 2 demo. You'll thank me.
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Hurt Locker SHOULD win, though.
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I honestly cannot remember ever watching one of those.Final, you say? As in, Oprah's going to do them from now on?
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I agree with IB too. i think there were a number of great performances in it and not just one. I think it didn't rely on gimmicks as much and it was a movie that was "acted". I don't think it has a shot cause it is what I would like to win. Waltz will win though and that is what is most important. hands dwon the best performance in ANY film all year.
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The wife doesn't even like the Oscars. To her, just rich people patting themselves on the back. While I agree with her, I still like to watch it, now that I've seen two (2!) of the best picture nominees, I feel like I'm an expert now and can judge whether the winner deserved it or not.
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Softly?With our song?
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...pain..
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Stomp?
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So I came and listened for awhile.
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and read each one out loud.
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...I like a lot of atmosphere in a game, but that action looks badass.
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since this site is dead anyway?
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...sow fascinating?
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...yes, unless it rains.
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He's already slurring his words.
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...needs some work.
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than The Pedalback?
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have given up to the Geeks?
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when they become everything you've been wishing them to be and realize they kind of suck now.
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...and got all tuckered out from exhaustion. Poor guy. He'll sleep through the whole thing.
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How many times as the announcer idiot said the word "magic?"
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...due to a sick kid today... which means, I'm stuck here in front of my computer, doing all the work I was supposed to do this afternoon (but couldn't, seeing as how I was spending my day covered in toddler vomit and snot.) SO, I have poured myself some Blanc de Blancs. I have bathed. And, I am now ready to... have the Oscars on in the background.
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Clooney is still smokin hot.
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Jake Gyllenhaal still looks like a tool.
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BEST PICTURE- Avatar BEST DIRECTOR- Kathryn Bigelow BEST ACTING- Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Christoph Waltz, Mo'Nique BEST ANIMATED- Up BEST FOREIGN- The White Ribbon BEST DOCUMENTARY- The Cove BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY- Inglourious Basterds BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY- Up in the Air BEST VISUAL EFFECTS- Avatar BEST EDITING- Avatar BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY- The Hurt Locker BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC- Up (Michael Giacchino) BEST SONG- Crazy Heart BEST ART DIRECTION- Doctor Parnassus BEST COSTUME- The Young Victoria BEST SOUND MIXING- The Hurt Locker BEST SOUND EDITING- Avatar
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..."PRECIOUS", based on the sonnet, taken from the Greek play, borrowed from the opera, redacted from the novel, expanded from the graphic novel PUSH by Sapphire."?
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and they could get a writer to create a fictional character named Harry to write positive reviews for their shitty movies. And no one would know that anything had changed.....
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Mar 07, 2010 7:09:10 PM CST
As soon as anybody says "based," the violins need to swell.
by subtitles_off
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Jake Gyllenhaal? I'd do him.
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"Everybody's been telling me to play Mandela for more than a decade! Fucking Jeff Bridges!"
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Certainly they've given out an award already, 15 minutes in?
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Which dead guy will get the loudest applause?It won't be Michael Jackson.
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Or are you among the punished Cablevision viewers?
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Pedalbacking and playing tunes.
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...talking about fucking CLOTHES???? Jesus Christ. It's unbecoming.
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of his Oscar. Drunk ass whitey will take ANOTHER thing from a black man. Brando/Bridges won't even send an Indian to accept the award.
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Haiti?
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I don't like it when that's all they talk about, forgetting the movie side of it. I actually like some of the dresses this year, but more movie talk, please!
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MagicalIt's just an honor to be here with all these wonderful actors.What are you wearing?
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What about you, EssDub?
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Mar 07, 2010 7:30:51 PM CST
...I'm freeballing it in my best plaid flannel draw-string...
by flickapoo
...pants and a flattering Banana Republic T-shirt. Both dark blue.
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...I'm convinced.
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Neil Patrick Harris? What's he got to do with The Oscars?
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...I'm practically typing blind here...just warning you.
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...he kills as The Shoe Fairy on SESAME STREET. Google it.
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they read my shit
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...comedy duo routine.
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Ha. Who am I kidding. I'm freeballin', too.
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...we wanna make jokes, not Subbarize it for you!
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its killing me. At least Billy Crystals not singing.
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Thank you, Steve Martin!
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Are there a lot of Jews in Hollywood or something?????
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Just watch, Subs.
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... of tree-sprites, Subs. Thought it was pretty funny. Cameron is already ordering his death for it.
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If she had had the balls to pull off that joke, my opinion of her would have improved DRAMATICALLY. Oh well.
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...I feel like I've seen that movie 100 times already.No desire.
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I thought Spielberg was GERMAN... he IS, isn't he?
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Christoph WINS!!!
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...NEEEEETFLIIIIX!!!
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on the internet. It has to be dripping. I do wish Woody could have won. To bad Waltz was amazing.
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...cue ze musik!
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he's so dreamy
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LESS than zero. And I like Bullock.
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a SNOOZEFEST???? NO ONE looks excited to be there.
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...family that takes in an African American young football prodigy with pro potential.
The fact that they would talk to him...touch him...hug him...so brave. -
...but I see a lot of excited faces.
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Matt Damon is awesome-O.
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In fact, so do I. Where DEƒUCK® is my Champagne?
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that other movie about Truman Capote.
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I didn't believe or respect their opinions.
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Mar 07, 2010 7:54:49 PM CST
True dat, Subs... but he didn't deserve it for this one.
by scarywaitress
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Warming the cold, dead hearts of Republicans everywhere.
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I've seen tonight.
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just stand there and look...not pretty.
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I hate Kimmel, but I might have to see that.
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in UP. That was CHOICE. Oooo, what is THAT? I will explore it now. That is not food. SQUIRREL!!!!
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...suck it triteboy!
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So bizarre. But, he's brilliant, so he's still hot.
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...contender.
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kinda nervous...fuck you hick
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...FUUUUCK YOOOU NEEETILIIIX!!!
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dress like Amanda Seyfried there. I feel lucky that I don't have to wear grubby clothes to work anymore... but my shapely ass will STILL never see the inside of a ball gown. [sigh]
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...I will watch that Diablo Cody flick. I will watch it just for her.
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Maybe I'll Google it later.
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...flick in the middle of the telecast.
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any of this sound familiar Flick?
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how bout the teabag scene in Pecker.
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They ROCK.
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a funny and clever intro. Whodda thunk it.
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lets enjoy.
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...but a great sense of humor goes a LOOOOOOONG way.
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I wouldn't be so quick, Mac.
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just missed their success. That is so sad to me.
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proven.
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Because that would have to have gotten WAAAAY old by now.
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...ever. I only counted two negative comments.
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...and HOW COOL IS IT that they're all showing up??!?!?!!?!?!?
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...MORE CLAPPING FOR HUGHES MOTHERFUCKERS.
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What the hell happened to HIM?
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extended obituaries?
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Those not-supposed-to-be-live mikes... what did they say? I dodn't catch it...
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Mar 07, 2010 8:28:51 PM CST
...I caught this Mulligan girl on Charlie Rose one night...
by flickapoo
...she's a bright young thing.
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Mar 07, 2010 8:32:57 PM CST
...I think it won because it was linked on Huffington Post.
by flickapoo
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...you guys better keep me company...[sniff]...
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The lady stole that mans thunder
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They made Bana unrecognizable.
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...we get it, you've got the pointy ear thing down.
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strange. won't help the Hurt Locker
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Whoo hoo
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like something that will put make-up artists out of business?That's actually funny.
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"I want to plug my tail... into your dragon."
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...IT WON'T MAKE YOU GAY.
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Jake Gyllenhaal? I'd do him.
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PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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That's so much more than it deserves, it isn't even funny.
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in front of celebs. good one Steve. hahahahahhaha
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...I make it on the stove, in a pot, with oil, and fire, and shit.
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...I'd like to see.
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didn't see Up in the Air. I'm sure she was good.
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she can do it up right tonight. Jesus this speech is pretentious. Going over.
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that [dramatic pause] a foul-mouthed comedienne host of a fourth-rate reality show can now [dramatic pause], regardless of her gender and skin color [dramatic pause], carry the entire weight of all the hopes and dreams of every person of color [dramatic pause], amen.
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Good on yas!
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Nice.
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...buddy.
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No help from me.I'm useless.
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...like that, but I don't usually like exclusively black movies...PRECIOUS, Tyler Perry stuff, even Spike Lee...I wish I did.
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Fucking great film.
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Really?
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...asked for help resisting the gayness. We're like Odysseus' men, lashing him to the mast...
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He can't stand peanut butter anywhere near his chocolate.
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Mar 07, 2010 9:18:05 PM CST
Now there's a tribute to horror movies? Is Sixies in the future?
by anonymoose
Ha! Adam and Steve sleeping in the Paranormal Activity bed!
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Both of them
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Hi, everybody...
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hey Cheeses
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...that seem odd.
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Besides the hearts of more geeks than have seen [deleted]?
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...lashing a dude to the mast joke, and you just left it right there on the ground man...
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it lost to Hurt Locker
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The second part is almost a fact. No, it didn't win.
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feeling the wrath of the Oscar-partiers.
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but I've never experimented with bondage, so I couldn't come up with a good joke there.
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Was it always just loud explosions and stuff?
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I just said more geeks have seen it than have seen [deleted]. That, too, is a fact.
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I'm a big boy. I can take it.
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Mar 07, 2010 9:34:46 PM CST
I'm gonna watch the thing with the wife tonight (our time)
by white_vader
I bailed after NPH - see youse tomorrow after the 5 hours it takes me to catch up/or I read Subby's Subbary.
Oh and whoever asked about what NPH was doing at the Oscars? He put in a brilliant performance as STEEEEEVE the monkey in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. YELLLLOWWW!
Laterz.
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Mar 07, 2010 9:34:46 PM CST
No, you said more people liked T2 than saw Avatar. I doubt that.
by anonymoose
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Told you real people vote for these Oscar things. real people don't like losing their jobs to James Cameron's computers.
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win over something like Avatar or Star Trek or even Transformers. I don't how they make these decisions but it just seems obvious that some huge si fi epic would be much more labor intensive.
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Mar 07, 2010 9:38:09 PM CST
Demi to introduce the memorium, with Ghost soundtrack playing.
by anonymoose
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Mar 07, 2010 9:41:51 PM CST
The guy who played the evil army guy from [deleted]...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
is there...? Was he nominated for something, or just hoping to join ripley on stage with the Cam-man at the fianl climax award?
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commercial with Cindy Crawford? She looks the same(great) and I think her knockers got bigger.
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How long has it been since she's acted in anything? Is she even still considered an actress?
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Parker Posey. not sure what it is.
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Yes, she's been in like five movies in the past decade, several recently.
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More people have seen Transformers 2. That is based on tickets sold. One would have to assume those people liked it.I'm not a scientist. I don't know any facts. I just talk shit in Pedalback.
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...to this year's In Memoriam, what with all the death and all.I'm a little disappointed, I was expecting a sobfest.
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Jean Simmons or Karl Malden?
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...pick on the biggest dog in the room, I always have.Think of it as a sign of respect.
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Did EssDub fall asleep?
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...a decent fighter, and an excellent sprinter.
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than Michael Jackson. Yup. I think more.
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My brother from another mother, 'moose, is in charge of that now, too.
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...ballerina/dancer on stage.Every single one.
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Is anyone ELSE fucking bored to fucking TEARS???!?!?!?!?!? I'm doing my taxes, thank you.
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Damn! That sound like fun!
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couldn't make his way to the podium and seems totally lost. GOOD speech though.
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sit down ass.
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Best Visual Effects. Huh. Who would've thunk?
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look humble and gracious.
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Subspace alert...
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Making Eli Roth look like a bad ass.
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look like Stanley Kubrick
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...but he shows up for fucking work...you gotta give him that.
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...shhhhhh. Don't rub it in.
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not what i want from my movies.
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You don't need to watch to know Mo'nique's insufferable and James Cameron is worse. When Mac typed "sit down" I assumed he was talking about Cameron.
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Mar 07, 2010 10:07:10 PM CST
I thought Tyler Perry was supposed to be funny...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
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these secondary awards
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Ethan
shoulda too -
...Bigelow?Hands up.
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and get back to you on that one, Flick.
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he probably put more effort into explain the science behind "doing it" after they fucked than the actual act.
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http://tinyurl.com/y8slze9And I've got to assume it's even an unflattering photo.
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and, if I had ever worried about who had slept with a chick before me, I would have NEVER have gotten laid....Of course, I grew up in a world before AIDS, which was the very definition of Game Changer...
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Keanu, Swayze, Fienes,Pasdar, Henricksen? more worried about these dudes.
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That Skeleton he sitting next to now.. do you think he superimposes navi on top of her when they y' know do it?
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...Na'vi a foreign language.
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If you know what I mean
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AIDSAvatarnot necessarily in order of severity or importance
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Cameron's current significant female used to be so very pretty. I saw a recent photo of them together, and she looked like she might be really ill or something.
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Mar 07, 2010 10:23:41 PM CST
...like Lucas, Cameron specializes in the throat sack fuck....
by flickapoo
...it's like titty fucking, but different.
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Now that was a game changer.
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used to just make up rules when we played Monopoly.He was a game changer.
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...not much noise, but good things.
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or Freeman just cause. God this set up is fucking embarrassing. Who wants to sit there getting there dick sucked in public. Clooney looked miserable til they started talking about him.
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Mar 07, 2010 10:28:00 PM CST
...George Clooney never ejaculates. He goes indefinitely...
by flickapoo
...and just keeps it for himself.
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That is how it's done.
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...granddaughter, and having people still love you, FlickaPoo included.
True greatness. -
whats his fuckin problem
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THE DUDE!
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...not loving this speech. It's cool. The Dude abides.
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Mar 07, 2010 10:37:21 PM CST
That dude had sunglasses on at the Academy Awards...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
Are the lights REALLY that bright in there?
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Looks like they didn't run too long this year.
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That t bone..that's what he does
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they wear sunglasses.
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he just kept saying "Man" all the time. Sounded like a hippie stereotype.I love Jeff Bridges.
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That t bone..that's what he does
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Oprahs smiling too fucking hard
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Good God. It's like they decided to turn the Best Actor/ Best Actress presentation into an AA meeting. This is PAINFUL. For what it's worth, i missed the Best Actor part... toddler woke up crying. It is going to be a loooong night at the Waitress house.
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but, I prefer a good marbled Rib-eye...
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...AND YOU WIN AN OSCAR!...AND YOU WIN AN OSCAR!...AND YOU WIN AN OSCAR!...AND YOU WIN AN OSCAR!...AND YOU WIN AN OSCAR!...AND YOU WIN AN OSCAR!...AND YOU WIN AN OSCAR!...AND YOU WIN AN OSCAR!
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That sucks..
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that the fat black chick from Precious is Oprah’s clone…And did Sean Penn just suck the Academy's cock?
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but I have a hard time believing that performance was Oscar-worthy, based on the clips I've seen. But whatevs. I love Meryl, and that Julia Child performance was gold.
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but I have a hard time believing that performance was Oscar-worthy, based on the clips I've seen. But whatevs. I love Meryl, and that Julia Child performance was gold.
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You get that OTHER thing I sent ya?
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Hurt Locker was good... but for what Avatar achieved, it deserved Best Pic. I think history will validate me... although, if this is retribution for Titanic's win, I am mollified. I detest Titanic, and that it won.
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...testing...
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Kick me out of The First Annual Pedalback Oscar Slag.Was that your idea, Flick?
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...thought you'd all be impressed. I'm pissed, though, thought my return would be bigger, fatter, juicier... more... delicious... riper... more bulging. Humpf. Maybe it will look better after another glass of suh'in suh'in.
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I'll owe since I was unemployed for half the year.
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Yeah I got locked out...I blame oprah
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...thought you'd all be impressed. I'm pissed, though, thought my return would be bigger, fatter, juicier... more... delicious... riper... more bulging. Humpf. Maybe it will look better after another glass of suh'in suh'in.
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Just in time to see Sandra Bullock give a good speech.Kathryn Bigelow? Um, not so much. Even with two chances.
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All is right with the world again.
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...I don't like her movies much, but I like her.
And her little production company makes a solid profit I hear. Good for her. -
You miss Jon Stewart, now, do ya?
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...he was too good for the Oscars.
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1. More Robert Downey Jr, Cameron Diaz, Sigourney Weaver, and uncomfortable humor courtesy of Alec and Steve. 2. More singing and dancing from NPH. Less sharing moments for Best Actress/Actor categories. This is NOT a support group, for chrissakes. LESS Barbra Streisand... that's kind of a given, though LESS Jeff Bridges speeches (sorry, Dude, but that blew) ...and, finally, less Oprah please. This is the Oscars. If she ain't in a movie, she ain't belong on the stage. Yeah, I said it! What?
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Mar 07, 2010 11:17:36 PM CST
Tom Cruise escaped serious injury in his accident today.
by subtitles_off
Thank Xenu.
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I think it's less funny without the numbers.
oh well.
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...not gay enough.
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The Academy just didn't realize it...
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mostly because he's too smart. I actually thought Alec and Steve did a righteous job. Entertaining, uncomfortable for the attendees, looked sharp in their suits, nice banter... all we're looking for for the Oscars is mildly amusing, anyway. Admit it.
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...fuck Uma and Oprah.Well, not Uma.
Wait, I mean YES Uma, not Oprah.
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Did they repeat the line-up presentation from last year?I know most everybody hated that, but I'm in favor of it. It's a great concept, totally dependent on what the presenters have to say. So, yeah, it's bound to suck about half the time, but I like that kind of thing a lot better than having to hear the latest "it" boy and girl crack Bruce Villanch jokes.
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The less being said, the better the job they did, is my algorithm. You just want someone who knows enough dirt, and who doesn't have to worry about their career if they say what we all want them to. Exhibit A: Steve Martin. Exhibit B: Alec Baldwin.
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Fuck Uma. And fuck Oprah. Just not in the same way.
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I gotta leave you alone on that boat, Flick. Flamboyance makes me want to crawl out of my skin.
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I guess everybody got kicked off. This site may really be on its last legs.
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...give and take.
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I'm honestly surprised The Hurt Locker took Best Picture. I had a very strong feeling Kathryn Bigelow would get Director, but Best Picture over Avatar? No freakin' way! I will add that I am VERY disappointed Quinten didn't win Best Original Screenplay, especially since all the tension in his film was built out of the dialogue, which I thought was brilliant. Ah well. At least Up in the Air was completely shut out. That oughtta make Series happy.
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Mar 07, 2010 11:28:29 PM CST
...this site is like the Galactica in the last four episodes...
by flickapoo
...all creaks, groans, and failed welding.
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I wonder if they filmed two versions of that report? One, all complimentary, in case it won Best Picture and another, the one they're airing.
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with an episode of Project Runway. No, with an episode of The Models of the Runway. This year was lame. EXCEPT for Robert Downey Jr/Tina Fey, and Cameron Diaz/Steve Carrell. The two bright spots of the night.
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I get one of my dungeon boys to do the lashing? I don't really wanna touch you when you're naked.
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...that's a silly attitude...
You're one of the best ten movies (supposedly)...YOU LOST!
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...I'm a pretty stunning 37.
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I'm afraid I might like it and have to rethink my position on flamboyance.
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But, in my case, the surprise is all pleasant.What won Original Screenplay?
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thinging that Martin and Baldwin did a good job hosting the Oscars is not the same thing as saying they were on their game, or that it was a great performance by either of them. Hosting the Oscars = setting the bar REALLY low. You guys all get that, right?
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Most of the presenters are introduced by Offstage Voice Guy, anyway, aren't they?
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It's late, my kid is UNDOUBTEDLY not going to sleep through the night, and I have work tomorrow.
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...LOCKER didn't strike me as Best Picture, and it certainly wasn't the best movie I saw all year. And I didn't see as many movies as I should have.
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I think BASTERDS deserved Screenplay more than HURT LOCKER. Definitely.
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Amen. Not cool. I'm just saying, for sheer spectacle, Avatar deserved props. What do we think the fallout will be over this?
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See you gents in the morning! Coffee is on me...
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...didn't deserve screenplay, director, AND picture.It's a woman/Iraq thing.
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No THE COVE, either.My admiration for BASTERDS as grown over the months.But, of the ten films that were nominated, HURT LOCKER was the best one. I stand by that. BASTERDS is a close second, but it's still got a few too many Tarantinoisms for me. One, those damn graphics. Two, the misuse of the "Theme from 'Cat People'". Three, Eli Roth.
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from geeks. As usual.Everybody else will move forward with their lives.
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He really likes Bigelow but Hurt Locker just struck him as... "Eh". I wonder if Hurt Locker winning was Avatar backlash or vote-splitting. I totally think Basterds deserved the screenplay award though.
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high art. I'll swear by that until my dying day.
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...I really can't believe it wasn't even nominated...for anything.Think about that. Not for ANYTHING.
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...the asscrack of dawn waits for no man.
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hairy legs.
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Tom Hanks didn't even read the Best Picture nominees? He just went straight to the winner before anyone in my room had time to breathe. "The last time there were ten Best Picture nominees, Casablanca won, let's see who gets to join Casablanca-- THE HURT LOCKER." WTF dude?
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Best Movie of 2009.Exclamation point.
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I loved it. Music from all the iconic horror films- JAWS, Psycho, The Exorcist, Halloween, The Omen. I loved it.
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AsimovLives is spinning in his grave....
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I love that stuff.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHA!Funniest ten minutes I've seen on TV in months.
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To spin in one's grave, one must be dead. Asi's not popular with some of you, but you don't wish him dead!
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Film montages and lots of clips. That's what the Oscars should be.Maybe nominees' pre-filmed reminiscences about their experiences making their nominated film.
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I watched 90% of the Oscars with my lady- I watched enough to know that person who won the Oscar for Best Makeup is going to end up in a shallow grave thanks to that ungracious speech she gave.
And what was the deal with Tom Hanks skipping all formalities? He faked out James Cameron. Nobody does that and lives to see Monday. -
Sandy Powell. She sucked.
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Last I heard, he was decapitated...But, the head continued to talk..
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And they still are today, EssDubb. I love seeing scenes from films that share a similar mood or theme or emotion, whether its a jubilant celebration or a car chase, spread across different films from different eras, I love it. I can recall previous year's montages where the camera zooms through the streets of LA and they digitally inserted characters from what seemed like hundreds of different films, and it was such a joy to try and pick them all out. The Tribute to Horror may have been my favorite thing about the Oscars this year bc it was so much fun seeing what respectable horror films they showcased next to clips from less-respectable horror films, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 or Friday the 13th part V.
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Handsome Mens' Club.YouTube it or Hulu it tomorrow, whatever you gotta do.
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HOOAH!
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I think there's a "Some Guy & Some Other Guy Got to The Movies" planned for tomorrow.
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Thanks, Cheeses.
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Where's this IRON MAN 2 trailer at?
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Check it out Yackster. Its all over the internets at this point, I think. Everyone jumped on it.
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Looks nifty. Mickey Rourke looks promising, even if his whip weapon concept is utterly ridiculous (I know, it's based on the books, but come on- whips?).
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... ere break of day. Gotsta work in the AM. Catch ya later, Yacks, enjoy the IM2 trailer.
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They're all the rage in the raves nowadays.
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'Til the Morrow...'
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I'll try to jump in earlier tomorrow!
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were going over. Our local station was completely caught off guard. It looked like 12 people all trying to fuck the same glory hole.Tom Hanks: "The Oscar goes to the Hurt Locker.."Cue total anarchy at my station. Worst newscast in the history of the world. All cause Jimmy Fuckin Kimmel has to do some live post Oscar roast. So ABC execs knew the Oscars had to end at such a time and leave a half hour for local news before Jimmy Kimmel. That is why it ended so abruptly, and ruined my career;)
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Overall entertaining but mildly predictable..but alas no upsets. 'cept screenplays. Subs I'll be around just say the word
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You're right about no surprises, Sixies, except in Foreign Film, which was supposed to be between THE WHITE RIBBON and A PROPHET. At first adapted screenplay was a surprise for me, but then I thought about how Reitman has come off as a poor sport.
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I'll say it. I'm enjoying the hell out of all the morning after "my blue pussy hurts."
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It's just nice to see things turn out right, contrary to expectations, every once in awhile.
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Of the many films of last year I think time will be kind to only a few of them...I think in the Years to come the films I will continually revisit will be watchmen, WTWTA, basterds, D9 and yes-- avatar.hurt locker was a In the Moment win like Shakespeare in love..in no way is it a bad film, but not the best
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I thought Gabourey Sidibe had a real shot to be that surprise.
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I did like THL a bit, but of the six best picture nominees I saw, it was fifth on my list of preferences for the award. POINT BREAK and STRANGE DAYS are still my favorite Bigelow movies.
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...Subs, where are you hearing the cry of weepy blue pussies?
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than PRECIOUS, a film based on a novel written by the Black Sinead O'Connor who has to have her name mentioned even though she didn't write the movie and the movie is the movie not the novel upon which it's based, um, Sapphire, would win Adapted Screenplay. I was kind of surprised at what counts as an Adaptation. Did you know the only thing IN THE LOOP was adapted from was prior skits on some British comedy thing?
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On moviefone's recap. And MSN's characterization of THE HURT LOCKER's "shocking, surprise win as Best Picture."
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The broadcast said it was "based on a character." I'll be getting that one when I'm done with KINGDOM OF HEAVEN: DIRECTOR'S CUT.
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You really loved A SERIOUS MAN that much, Col.?
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WTWTA. Great. THE COVE. Great.Oh, I forgot, none of them were even nominated.
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Mar 08, 2010 7:55:40 AM CST
How can people say THL was a "shock" to win best picture?
by colonelfatheart
It won almost every major guild award. It just kept piling up win after win. And THL's best picture win certainly wasn't a surprise that late in the night after it had won for screenplay, editing, and directing. The media really did buy its own hype, huh?
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Mar 08, 2010 7:57:19 AM CST
Yes, I did love A SERIOUS MAN. At least on first impression.
by colonelfatheart
It troubled me. It almost ruined the rest of the day after I saw it. I want to revisit it as soon as possible.
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Fisher Stevens! Yes!
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Just seeing that list of ten pictures, catered to the masses, I thought this was the year that The Oscar had given up any pretense of being artful. I really expected it to be all-[deleted], all-the-time. That's why I wouldn't watch it.
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...last night I made relatively few type-Os...and even managed an appropriately timed Odysseus reference.
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Gheesh, she always looks so uncomfortable at these things. She really is a modest, self-effacing artist, and she hates carrying around that weight of "Greatest Woman Ever In Film" around. At least, that's my take on it.
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It was a masterclass in suspense filmmaking, stringing one taut and dazzling set piece together after another. But it didn't resonate with me because, really, it was just POINT BREAK with bombs, thematically. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, the closest corollary to THL in terms of recent Oscar success, also was constructed as a suspense machine, but its implications felt much more troubling (there's that word again) and metaphysical. THL tells you from the opening frame that "War is a Drug." I hated that part of the movie. At that point I'm thinking: Well, what's the point of watching it? Thankfully, it ended up being very, very good.
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men lashed to masts? I thought he was gonna make a meme out of it and talk about Prometheus getting gnawed on by birds and Heracles chained to two pillars, etc.
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Around.
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Mar 08, 2010 8:04:53 AM CST
...I wish I had bombed the official TB every few minutes...
by flickapoo
...with identical cut and paste PSA announcements about WTWTA being the best movie of 09 though...like a flooding or snow alert...AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHT!!!...AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHT!!!...AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHT!!!----THIS IS A RECORDED ANNOUNCEMENT...
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Flick, I imagine, and others, would say UP. None of those other films "resonate," as I understand the word.THL resonates more with me than the others because its obvious intent is to reconcile all the macho bullsh! that has been enculturated over the last thirty years, and I'm totally down with that.
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Upon rewatching it I only tensed up once..the tension is deflated so yes the film isn't as good... a serious man too I will go back to cause I'm a fanboy
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I woke up too late.We go live at 9:30 A.M. Cool?Just follow my lead. Are you Some Guy or Some Other Guy?
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Those were the three for me. AVATAR comes right after, in that it really resonated with my inner 10-year-old on a fun level (I hadn't take my inner 10-year-old out for ice cream in a while) and it appealed to my love for deep focus aesthetics.
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THE HURT LOCKER is POINT BREAK with bombs.
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...crawling with flamboyant showbiz homosexuals...pounded by waves, and all of us manning a proud but rickety and nearly foundering wooden boat...and you, lashed to the mast...straining and howling..."I TAKE IT BACK! LET ME AT'EM! I WANT TO WATCH [DELETED], I WANNA WATCH IT RRRRAAAAAAWW! I WANT A BLUE TAIL IN MY BUTTOCKS!! I HAVE TO SHOW AMERICA THE REAL MEEEE!! GRRRRRR...AHHHGHH...RELEASE ME YOU SCURVY DOOOGS!! AAAAAAAAAAAGGHH!!
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Mar 08, 2010 8:16:16 AM CST
I say all this without having seen WTWA, regrettably.
by colonelfatheart
It's coming up soon, though.
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or AN EDUCATION. I have to assume any one or all of those three might be better than the winner. I don't know. I saw all the others, and I do know, they're correctly ordered, HURT LOCKER, followed closely by INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, followed by five other films that shouldn't even be mentioned as Best Picture nominations.
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...oh, man.
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Had been looking forward to it for months, if not a year or so. But when it came out, all sorts of external forces conspired to keep me away from the theater.
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"Oh, it's probably just mopey hipster bullshit anyway. And I'm really sick of Karen O these days." I kick myself in the jimmy over that about twice a week.
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Mar 08, 2010 8:21:30 AM CST
POINT BREAK is the thing with Patrick Swayze in a Reagan mask, y
by subtitles_off
You really can't be serious. Acting, tone, setting, subject matter, theme. None of those things are comparable between those two pictures.
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...myself over that one.
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See a serious man
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you have a mast waiting for you to be lashed to it. Those were the two great theater experiences of my year. I skipped from the cinema like a little girl in first flower after both of those.
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Mar 08, 2010 8:26:06 AM CST
I am serious. Cameron gets shit for co-opting from his
by colonelfatheart
own movies, why shouldn't Bigelow?Addiction to adrenaline, risking one's own life to get a charge, putting others in danger to do that, seducing a wary participant into your philosophy, if only for a moment. The uneasy relationship between the male protagonists. Setting, oh sure, absolutely, I'll grant you that. But really, Renner is the Swayze character and Mackie is the Keanu character. Obviously, the acting is loads better in THL, and the stakes are higher, but it's the same idea.
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doesn't bother me, just as Cameron relying heavily on POCAHONTAS &c. doesn't bother me. Just make a good movie, which, in my opinion, they both did.
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I could do this all morning, but work calls. I'll be back soon, though.
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One, POINT BREAK, is a junky engorged penis - all 80s feathered hair and pussy protagonist swayed by macho cliches - and the other are most of those things reversed in an unglorified - for the most part - context. They're comparable only as opposites.
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...on SESAME STREET is pretty great.I think he's found his true calling...he's a melodic Muppet wrangler.
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Lettuce split the difference and do it in one half hour.
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"God forsaken right to be loved" to "God given right to be loved"?I'd hate for him to be on Sesame Street with bad vocabulary.
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...it's a love story between Bodhi and Johnny Utah...this isn't the mast talking here, POINT BREAK is one of the gayest movies ever made. Every action sequence is a stand in for sex.It's great, and very funny.
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...the Muppet wrangler.
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i like it..except it gave juliette the weird impression she should start singing.
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I'll drop the intro. Then, as Some Guy, you get first remark, and I'll go second. Try to remember to always have "Some guys says," so it'll be easy for late-comers to follow.Last time an hour flew by. That's what we'll shoot for again. When you want to quit just post your "star" rating. That's the wrap-it-up cue.
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That's the "swayed by macho cliches" part I was talking about. And no movie is gayer than RAMBO. PREDATOR comes close.
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And POINT BREAK is very much a deflation of Hollywood machismo in its own way. Although, unlike THE HURT LOCKER, it actually goes the extra mile and intimates that this choice of macho b.s. lifestyle dooms Bodhi. Okay, I really have to get going.
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RAMBO or TOP GUN, say. Okay, really, really, REALLY have to get going.
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THAT'S the gayest film, ever.
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An Oscar was never on her personal radar. That makes her accomplishment with HURT LOCKER even more astonishing.
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...Bigelow knew what she was doing...it's all too perfect and obvious in hindsight. Hell the token girlfriend is cute, but boyish and flat chested.RAMBO is gay in an overall muscles and baby oil sort of way, POINT BREAK is an actual romance...and a good one.
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And I have to ask a serious, though seemingly cruel, question: When will she ever be heard from as an actress again? She did a phenomenal job of acting in her movie. You can tell that just from seeing film clips and seeing the difference between the on-screen character and the actress. But, this was her moment. There will never be another one.
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Nah. Not gonna happen.
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Have you seen it?
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...with some scented candles.It will...change you.
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With Gary buddy and James le gros..point break is classic
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(cue music, something attention grabby and all TVish)The views expressed by Some Guy don't necessarily represent the views of this station, The Pedalback, or any of its advertisers. Hell, they might not even represent the true views of Some Guy. Same thing for Some Other Guy unless he says otherwise. Any use of the blah-blah-blah without written consent is prohibited, and we don't just mean it's discouraged, we mean we'll track down your pirate ass and kick it.As for SPOILERS, well, both Guys have already seen the movie, so you can't spoil it for us, but thanks anyway. Oh, you were worried we might spoil it for you? Well, then, maybe you should be ignoring us. Anything said by Some Guy or Some Other Guy might expose a secret, offend you, anger you, or cause convulsive reactions and subsequent beverage spilling. Neither Guy is responsible.In this episode, Some Guy & Some Other Guy discuss... (fade music on 3...2...1) Tim Burton's ALICE IN WONDERLAND. -
Alice in wonderland has been hyped as one of the tentpole films from Disney this year..in an effort to revisit past glorys and placing asses in theaters (rather than going the eisner approved DTV route)is it successful--eh..more on that later..did i enjoy it..sure.why not? just barely though because my cynicism was creeping into me as i watched it with my son and waaaay to many emo hot topic tweens.
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For decades everybody has been telling him he can't tell a story, so, finally, he gives them what they want - a generic, fantasy-based movie with a standard video-gamey plot - and they still aren't satisfied.
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he MIGHT not tim burton anymore!!!he has been in a decline since mars attacks (big fish excluded) and seems to now be a studio man (from the HAPPY place he hated working at cause they were stifling his creativity) and it just seems like hes stuck in idle.
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sure, very little of Lewis Carroll's illogical literary inventiveness is on-screen. It wasn't much present in the Disney cartoon version either, and this is sequel to that.
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Tim Burton's gotta eat. These aren't the times that reward quirky art. At least he must be getting his inner designer thing tickled. ALICE is a wonder, at least, of interesting visuals.
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tru dat...but the fault i find with the film is i really thought it was a half-assed disneyfied remake of HOOK..and i love me some HOOK..
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alice is visually stunning...but nothing unexpected from a burton film..its predictable from the plot to the score to the art direction...SOME GUY DID like the flashback scenes..
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it's half-assed. Half-assed in exactly the same way AVATAR is half-assed. The story has been reduced to the generic fantasy plot you've seen over and over since WIZARD OF OZ. So, let's focus on that other part.It'll be very interesting to me to hear fans of AVATAR complain about this. Basically, I'm sick of all-CGI, 3D, but I was never a fan of it in the first place. To say you don't like the 3D in this but you love the 3D in AVATAR will be making the specious argument that you prefer your gimmick all soft and glowy as opposed to dark and angular.Me, I just want to find a bottle labeled "Flatten Me" and pour it all over Burton's head.
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not at Some Guy.But, seriously, compare the finale of ALICE to the Balrog / Gandalf battle in LOTR. Isn't Burton's version of, essentially, the same scene, much better realized?
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to bash avatar..SOME GUY saw ALICE in 2D and that was plenty...i could see where the 3D wouldve been when animals flying around all over the place for the sake of charging a few more bucks..avatar in this GUYS humble opine was more subtle in the way they presented 3D
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you think ALICE scene was better realized or jabberwocky better? SOME GUY speaks in Mraz
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you ain't the boss o' me.The CGI then? It ranges from the remarkable (Helena Bonham Carter's giant fukken head) to the atrocious (Crispin Glover), but, to quote The Hatter, it quickly lost much of its muchness.Why couldn't they have trained a real dog, real horses, a real Crispin Glover?
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that disney wanted depp front and center so rather than make a straight up "reimagining" of ALICE, they went this route and put Depp in every goddamned scene they could..and his cap'n jack/shrek/madonna thing was not doing it for me...
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The pacing, the CGI character of the creature, the interaction with the actress, everything.
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...ahahahahahah!
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Johnny Depp's Sad-Angry-Only-Occasionally-Looney Hatter is the worst thing in the movie. Abominable.
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with the CGI..i actually like HBC..and for sadist's sake i kept imagining burtons ex, Lisa Marie as the white queen...now THAT wouldve made it interesting to say the least.
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...hahahahahahah!
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and OTHER GUY cant take that away...dammit!
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Anne Hathaway's White Queen is terrific. One of the few examples of one of the book's central themes - the pomposity of governments - actually used in the movie.
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thinks they needed to train johnny Depp..give the man direction and not just let him run loose..for every cap'n jack (which worked in the first film due to him being an ensemble character) you have a willy wonka.
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any of your stuff. Some Other Guy has plenty of unused junk crammed in his closet already, thank you.I'm just trying to make the point: These things that Generation geek has such a hard-on for are all present in this thing. What's the problem?
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is a victim of his own success. Everyone has conferred an aura of brilliance around him, so they are averse to telling him when he's off his nut, I imagine.Plus, I don't think Burton socializes a lot. For him to say no to Johnny Depp would be to put his one off-set friendship at risk.
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Hiya, Jersey.
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says yes to anne hathaway..something prim and proper..that found her offputting (in a good way)i also like the blue catepillar and the cheshire cat..which makes me have wanted to see a straight up telling of the book..kooky and all..this whole RETURN TO OZ dreariness and pastiche of characters added into the film and parts beefed up to sell more shit i guess caught me on the wrong day..
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The Chesire Deux es Machina. Oddly, I think Stephen Fry had the most fun with the voice acting.
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...stories...all cleverness and no emotion...they don't really engage me.Might this movie pleasantly surprise me then? With its "generic fantasy" plot? Because outstanding visuals + fantasy plot = a good evening at my house.An evening of cold cleverness and weird characters not so much.
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I liked the little practical make-up joke that's there before the climax. I really wish there had been more of that. More real sets, more real props, more real animals, chewing their cuds like in BABE.
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like the IDEA of the cheshire cat...until the end when he gets his head "chopped off"..
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yeah, pal, I think it'd be a good time for you and any Toddlerjersies might be wanting to snuggle up and have some fun.The dialogue - except that which is mush-mouthed by Depp - is fun, too.
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evaporating powers and shape-shifting powers were the same thing.
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yeah--at home sure it might be a better viewing experience.i coulda waited for this one in hindsight..but the climax of the film (where throughout the ENTIRE film they tell you whats gonna happen) just seems like a rip on NARNIA where the kiddo puts on a suit of armor to fight the baddies..it might work for my son but i didnt feel anything..i was inert..
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dammit
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everyone of BEETLEJUICE and all of its enjoyable, practical effects. Now that Burton can have every one of his ideas done on a computer they seem much, much, much less special. But, that's the world you all want. The man can't stand in the way of The Future of Cinema, after all.
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...thanks Some Guys.
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just cause its there doesnt mean you have to use the comp.
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How are video games supposed to end?You set up a character, put it in a setting, give it an object to find, set it on its way this way, turn it around and send it that way, place some obstacles in its way, and then have it kill something.Inert? This is exactly the fantasy map that millions spend hours with every single day.
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Burton will get more jobs than his friend Henry Selick.Look, I absolutely think ALICE would've been a much better movie with much less computer. I'm just saying what, really, do you expect? From now on, it's all computers, all the time. Welcome to my nightmare.
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To answer the damn phone!
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has the leverage to say FUCK OFF to computers or go somewhere else..he should be in the position to dictate what the fuck he does..has he learned nothing from BATMAN?
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Some Little Guy liked it, at least?
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"hello, caller two. You have a nice voice. What are you wearing?"
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and i did in parts too...SOME GUY was just upset at the potential that couldve been..i like the bookends of the film...except the VERY end..do i see a cross pollination of the two film franchises in the future?
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past films of burton...was it all a fluke?is BATMAN even good?or was it just cause it was different and we needed a dark comic film?SOME GUY just doesnt know anymore..
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there's no franchise potential in this. Everything that could be done has been done.A straight-up adaptation of Lewis Carroll would have modern audiences running for the aisles. And any attempt to take these characters and extend their stories would be silly.
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caller number two is putting on something more comfortable
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"Caller Two, say something. the sexy breathing is driving me crazy!"
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i can see disney doing more alice adventures in PIRATE territory...they are that dumb..this is the company that made the live action classic GUS and THE COMPUTER WORE TENNIS SHOES
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yes past Burton films were just as good as you thought they were. His latest films have all been BINO. Some of the visual cleverness applied to generic ideas.
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PRANK CALLER! PRANK CALLER!
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But seriously... looking at the previews, did anyone REALLY expect much different than what we're hearing here? REALLY? I saw: 1. LOTS of CGI 2. Depp in a lot of makeup, doing that "I have something shoved up my ass" smile he basically wears whenever a movie camera is filming these days 3. Did I mention LOTS of CGI? The simple fact is- as many of us suspected when CGI started to get easier, cheaper, and therefore more popular among filmmakers- that after a certain point, it becomes a crutch. It becomes THE WHOLE POINT of the movie. [deleted] managed to really go over the top, thereby succeeding at making "being the point" actually worthy of note... other movies are going to have to REALLY step it up to achieve the same. Which begs the ultimate question... if Tim Burton can't make it cool, and GOOD films like WTWTA don't even get recognized... where does that leave us? As geeks?
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burton that is..sleepy hollow was pushing it in my opinion..and BIG FISH is the crown of his input lately though i only saw SWEENEY once...and i dont really remember being impressed (other that the art direction and visuals of course)
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there is really no point in complaining about what Burton's ALICE isn't. It is what it is, and what may be is something else entirely, and neither has an "N" in it. An entertaining diversion with funny talking animals and smarter-than-average dialogue, with the flamboyant poke in the eye that is Johnny Depp and too much CGI-ishness.Some Other Guy gives it ★★★☆☆.
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if anyone can gel into CGI and make it look good and tell a good story--burton can..at least i think he can..this film just was too loud and very lucas-y
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They're the same animal. This one has smarter dialogue and more diverse characters.
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No one can. The CGI that has come closest - Gollum in LOTR: TT - still is less intriguing to me than practical anything.
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...has been adapted so many times, because it's essentially a story for the page...what with the math games, word puzzled, puns, spelling gags etc...
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It's about him giving the audience what they ask for. The audience has gotten small-minded while the pictures have gotten bigger and uglier, to paraphrase Norma Desmond, uh, sorta.
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is a little more harsh on the film though its not as bad as CHARLIE AND THE CHOC FACTORY..i did like the minor things in it--as stated earlier..the blue catepillar, cheshire cat, the book ends..its just \everything i was expecting from a burton film, which is probably the worst thing i could say from the man who made BEETLEJUICE and PEE WEES BIG ADVENTUREand i think avatar CGI is totally different from this..whereas you couldnt do the effects practically with avatar like ALICE..yes they are in essense the same technique but used with more grace in one filmeven with expectations low, SOME GUY gives it ★★☆☆☆1/2
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...BEOWULF AND GRENDEL? A Scandinavian production with virtually no special effects and shot mostly outdoors with natural light.
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With make up and props? Are you kidding me? What DEƒUCK®?I love you, but you're on gas.There are High School gymnasiums next prom season all over the country that are going to replicate - EXACTLY - the entirety of the [deleted] experience.
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...GULP.[beads of sweat on Pedalbacker's forehead]
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Thanks.
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I don't know how Siskel & Ebert could cram 4 movies into a half hour.
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if you saw the oscars last night..you wouldve seen ben stiller dressed as a 5 ft 6 inch NAVI..it wouldnt have been as conivincing as the way Cams pulled it off..i leaned to my wife when we watched it saturday and i told her during a forest scene early in the film that NONE OF THAT IS REAL..she was flabbergasted.
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The aliens in ALIEN and ALIENS were all practical and all more convincing than the Na'Vi. Period.
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but in ALIEN you really dont see the alien..just bits and pieces and that film is a maze of shadows..ALIENS is pretty dark too..have an alien run around in broad daylight and it takes away some effectiveness
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photo-realism to buy Lon Chaney Jr. as a werewolf, Maurice Adams as an orangutan, or a three-inch tall sculpture as a giant gorilla.My brain is trained to work. I don't need an ever-increasingly convincing unreal experience.
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Giant blue cats running around a YES album cover was completely ineffective for me.
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Mar 08, 2010 10:29:00 AM CST
Jebus! look at what inflated ticket prices can do for you!
by subtitles_off
ALICE made over $100 million in three days.
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and what yer eyes and mind will accept...knowing that the Navi or gollum arent real, your mind will never accept that it is..if a viewer cant take that leap, then the rest is all for naught.
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...make [deleted] and the Na'Vi that way...and have it feel as real as it did.I'm shocked to be saying it...I thought CG Spider-Man was an abomination.
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My mind accepting Gollum. Accepted it utterly. You know why? it was a spectacularly well-written character. The Na'Vi are as flat as they are tall.
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...hell, even in 2-D TARZAN they had to use computers to get that sense of running and leaping through vast volumes of space.
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You see too much Alien, it looks like shit. But then, those were CGI aliens... and they still looked like shit. Huh. Not sure what I'm saying with this... other than Aliens 3 SUCKED.
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Mar 08, 2010 10:34:54 AM CST
...what the jungles of Pandora gave you was the feeling...
by flickapoo
...of being shot out of a cannon. Thinness of story aside, if the trick worked on you (physically, your eyes, brain, etc...) it was unbelievably exhilarating.
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i dont think its gonna make a third of what avatar made though..and yes--im sick of 3D already and ive only seen one film...all the ads i saw yesterday and the day before were for 3D films (also being released in 2D BTW)of course the studios are gonna go 3D..they make more money even though they spend a little more to convert..and it also curbs film piracy...its a win win for them..i say i want my flat films back..i with ya subs..just not with avatar.
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...if only for the use of space...moving a virtual camera around to make you feel as though you were there...not just on the ground, but flying, falling, leaping...
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Not with your mis-use of the words "unbelievably exhilarating"?Come on!
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Mar 08, 2010 10:39:21 AM CST
It's funny... Gollum, to me, suffers from the OPPOSITE
by scarywaitress
of the Na'vis' problem. There was actually a BIT too much of Gollum for me... every time I see that character, I am well aware that this is a tour-de-force of acting going on here... and that's not praise. With the Na'vi... with the exception of Neytiri, who I thought was done well... there was too little meat beneath the skin, so to speak. In the end, it's all about the writing. You can go either way, just like with any real actor. When filmmakwers figure this out, we might get some really interesting things.
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is less of an accomplishment than flying a physical camera around downtown Manhattan, and no one was harrumphing that Raimi should've gotten an award for Spider-man.
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heeeeey..i liked Alien³! and considering all the shit that happened during production im happy it came out as good as it did...Ressurection on the other hand...
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is there anything Some Guy worthy coming in April, or do we have to wait for IRON MAN2?
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i really havent seen what i saw in Avatar
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...everything.
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points. 6DB, I loved Cheshire too, he was my favorite part, but then he always has been in Wonderland. He was also one of the most successful uses of 3D in the film. There are times when he is floating right in front of you and it's awesome. And I wanted more of that.
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You just won't admit it.
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Resurrection, any day. I thought A³ was some tired shit... I mean, if I saw ONE MORE EVER-LIVING SHOT where they had someone in the foreground, with the shot set up so there was plenty of background visible, and OH! THERE IT IS! the alien slowly moving into position, but the person in the foreground doesn't know it! OH! OH! TURN AROUND!!!!! That movie felt so contrived. The aliens were WAY overkill, too... it's like they said, "Well, Cameron went bigger, and made it work... so if we go even BIGGER, it will be exponentially COOLER!!!" except, of course, they were wrong. Very, very wrong. I block this movie out. At least with Resurrection- bad as it is- they did an interesting riff on the Ripley character. The whole "genetic memories" part didn't fly, and the alien baby at the end was god-awful, but the Ripley character was interesting. AND, she got to kick some ass.
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i'll look ahead on the sked-
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It is a dream world after all. And in dreams as bizarre as things may be they almost always look real in the context of the dream.
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More than half the movie is created by computers not cameras. This baffles me.
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Cinematography is the realm of setting up the shot, determining how every shot looks, right? In [deleted], they not only had to set up every shot, but they had to design it from the bottom up. It came 100% from Cameron's brain Realizing that on the screen, in a way that felt utterly convincing, was CERTAINLY a feat of Cinematography. I actually think that [deleted]'s victory in that category was more groundbreaking than people realize. It sent the message that point-and-shoot film isn't the only way to go any more. That's big, to me. THAT is actually game-changing.
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Avatar didn't win Best Picture or Director and Jason Wrongman didn't get Best Adapted Screenplay. Only things I didn't agree with was Bullocks. Just from the clips they showed, cause I will never watch that movie, she looked awful with that obviously fake Southern accent. Don't get it.
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...one of the things that impressed me is the way the camera moved around like a "real" movie...brushing past foliage, bumping over logs...I think it was a big part of the convincingocity of the CG.
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The only caveat of the third film for me is it's a retread of the first film...but I do like the characters and I love the look of it and that score! And the ending..if only they had the minerals to let it end that way..alien 4 just seems like die hard in space..the tone is off a tad for the alien series..I do think there are some nice parts in it..you can't go wrong with mike wincott but I push eject around the time Winona gets shot..
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I expect I will be disappointed, but I like Bullock, so I'll see it.
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Are you saying that Toy Story 3 may be considered for a Best Cinematography oscar? Cinematography is the Direction of Photography and should include the use of a camera.
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for Special Effects.
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I just think she's an average Actress at best and I think her work in Blind Side is the very definition of overrated.
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Like 300 or sin city..then it went to a comp
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But it isn't a camera moving around it is computer animation. There is no Direction of Photography involved it is all cgi. Cinematography is an artform and if you've ever shot in film you would know that is a very difficult one at that which requires enormous technical skills and knowledge as well as talent as a visual artist.
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stoopid crash
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I do agree that animated films should be considered for production design, so then what about cinematography? Certainly the work in WALL-E had the look of being Oscar-worthy (Deakins was an adviser on it). I think it gets slippery. Like makeup, for instance? Why does makeup have to be practical? Or is it fair to consider digital augmentation against the practical stuff?
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i see what yer saying..if anything Cams just blurred the lines with visual effects, cinematography, art direction, etc...i was confused with the sound categories..well now...
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Mar 08, 2010 11:09:26 AM CST
Back to my way, way earlier point about Bigelow, Subs:
by colonelfatheart
I see it the other way around. I'm happy that THE HURT LOCKER has gotten these accolades because it forces critics to reconsider her prior works, particularly POINT BREAK. THL and its success vindicate my appreciation for POINT BREAK.
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...should be up for cinematography. Yes. I think old-school moviemaking deserves its due... but if someone does an amazing mo-cap film, it should be in the running for Best Cinematography. Just my opinion, there... I'm not on a soapbox.
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Talk about Backpedaling!
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I'm still holding off on seeing ALICE. Not enough to convince me. The fact that I was bored by SWEENEY TODD, disappointed by CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and underwhelmed by BIG FISH have made me put the bar very high before I consider watching another new Burton flick.
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Oscars 3/5
Thanks for Other Guy/Some Other Guy review for Alice in Wonderland. I still won't go see it though. Maybe a library viewing in the future.
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I think Sin City was visually beautiful and wouldn't mind if it had gotten nominated for Best Cinematography. But, purely animated films, no. There needs to be a camera involved for it to be cinematagraphy. And a a lot of the scenes in Avatar were not mo-cap. Pretty much only the close-ups were mocap as far as I can tell. The flying dragon scenes were obviously purely cgi and hence qualified for a Special Effects award.
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I'm troubled by the notion that Hollywood regards TWILIGHT as a part of the genre. Are you fucking kidding me?
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Mar 08, 2010 11:18:38 AM CST
I'm with Col. I am over Burton and his brand of crazy.
by scarywaitress
I'm just not feeling it... and I get that he and Depp are simpatico, but I'm tired of that flavor on the screen. Next.
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was a real low point. Awful, awful, awful.
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its worth a look at home..but dont rush to the theaters for this one...possible NEXTs--clash of the titans..hot tub time machine..but these arent really debatable..
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One of my favorite jokes of the night. Especially considering that no one in the audience thought it was funny and the Precious crew seemed actually slighted by it.
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get short shrift? ... And WTF is with that perfunctory "salute" to Roger Corman and Lauren Bacall? Corman is responsible for the careers of half the people in that room, and Bacall is a living link to Hollywood's golden age. Awful. But, hey, ratings were up. Expect more of Miley "Mercedes McCambridge" Cyrus and the TWILIGHT tweens next year.
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I don't think I would have seen it if it wasn't in 3D. I felt it definitely added to my enjoyment of it and maybe that's why Subs seemed to like it more than you did although he would never admit to that.
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Mar 08, 2010 11:29:06 AM CST
...I'ma let you finish. I didn't really catch this last night..
by flickapoo
...I blame the demon alcohol...
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...I like that. A female Alfie.
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is that it's become blase. If anything, Alice wasn't crazy enough and it's Alice Freaking Wonderland! Even my girlfriend thought it was too tame and could have been darker and weirder. A missed opportunity in my book. It's a sad day when Tim Burton has become the Ron Howard of gothic fantasy.
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Yes, Stabby. Very yes. That's exactly what he is. He's to gothic, or "weird," fantasy what Howard is to "true story" Oscar bait.
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I mean we're all technically dying, but is she dying at an accelerated rate due to an eating disorder or cancer?
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Weekend, March 6-7, 2010...Saturday...Node #44117...'moose finds a new meme with YouTube's autocaption. Here's a funny parody: (http://tinyurl.com/yhwlzme) ...EssDub discovers the scat-horror jam and likes the way it disgusts her. ...Speaking of, 'moose has opened a portal, and Flick returned with a bit that extends the back-story. The entire thing, from beginning to right now, can be found in The Google Group Shelter. ...BAMF! to Node #44180 ...59,979th ...☆☆RIGHT-BRAIN CINEMA☆☆™: KEY LARGO - a classic of acting and developing tension without gimmicks. ★★★★★ ...What's Sixies got against Muppets, and how come the bitches get to stick around this time @ 1:29:15 P.M.? ...Flick, you don't have to watch PRECIOUS. I'm gonna watch it for you. Here's a nickle, anyway. ...Six nice things about Flick. Twice as many as he required. ...Col. praises the snappy banter of AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. ...Gary Oldman makes a cameo in the scat-horror jam. And a Catholic school-girl is set up to be punished for naughty, naughty thoughts. ...Subbarizing® The Independent Spirit Awards, brought to you by Acura®, Piaget® and The Eberts. ...Alien prequel from Ridley Scott will be 3D. ...Mac has a new personal policy (very funny). (http://tinyurl.com/6k835n) ..."Plane idiotic," says Mac. "Stupid plane." ...Mac, Flick, and later, Cheeses, all want to keep the horror scat-jam here, so that's where it's going to be, I guess. ...Stevie Wonder deserves much, much, much, much better than being reduced to inspiration for Coolio and The Jonas Brothers. ...white_vader continues to expose his kids to the good stuff. ...Hopefully, the airport scanner adds, just like a regular camera. Bigger and longer make up for having some wage-slave peep your privates. ...Mac noticed LAST MAN STANDING is a YOJIMBO rip-off. Sunday...The opposition to Shelter Exclusivity seems to boil down to ego and the idea that there is some vast audience of peeps out there who wish to share. ...Mac casts actors in his head to play the parts of The Peebers. (http://tinyurl.com/ya3q58e) and (http://tinyurl.com/yc9j2yn) ...Cheeses' Pedaltrek continues. ...Cobra--Kai self-identifies. He's the guy in white. (http://tinyurl.com/py54fa) ...I'm Batman! ...STLost rates a couple of films. 2.5 and 4.5, averaged, still counts as 3-star cinema. ...Creative tax deduction ...Cobra and white_vades like the design of "Little Big Planet." ...☆☆RIGHT-BRAIN CINEMA☆☆™: STRAY DOG - forced allegory mars Kurosawa's noir. ★★★☆☆ ⅝ ...Flick's dad shares a great joke. (http://tinyurl.com/ya368u9) ...Flick promises to update his Profile at The Shelter with a photo. Lettuce check, shall we? ...STLost stumbled onto The Pedalback near its beginning and didn't even know it. (http://tinyurl.com/ye6olje) ...Cobes doesn't eat his veggies. ...Sixies thinks Jackie Chan as Pat Morita is a bigger stretch than Will Smiff Jr as Vinny's cousin. ...The First Annual Pedalback Oscar Slag. 'moose liked The Oscars, it seems. EssDub didn't as much. Flick stayed sober enough to spell Odysseus. Everybody praised Neil Patrick Harris and the tribute to John Hughes. AICN crashed right as Sandra Bullock won Best Actress, forcing me to break my own rule and turn the TV on.
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But you can bet that Cameron secretly wishes he was still with bigelow.
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Mar 08, 2010 11:48:30 AM CST
Make-up has to be practical because that's what make up is!
by subtitles_off
Dammit! Make up is material applied to a face to make it look different than it does.
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Mar 08, 2010 11:50:17 AM CST
From what I hear/read, it appears Amis is the perfect
by colonelfatheart
wife for Cameron. Independent, yes. Opinionated, yes. But kind of a crunchy earth mother type. Maybe that's why she looked so terrible last night. Maybe she has an aversion to makeup and vanity products and eats foods low in iron.
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I'm a softie for practical effects. AMERICAN WEREWOLF reminded me once again why I love those older monster movies. However, it's all about the end product. What appears on the screen? Does it matter of a face is changed realistically with practical effects or CGI? I'm not prepared to come to a conclusion on this. It's just something I think about it.
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There's nothing special about the 3D-ishness of ALICE. (Just like I don't think there's anything particularly special about [deleted]). Um, possible exceptions: hookah smoke and an exraordinarily beautiful butterfly in the last seconds before ASvril Levigne or whatever the fuck that caterwauling is comes on and makes you wanna puke up a spleen.
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Yes. It matters. Words matter. Definitions matter. What something is is what it should be called.There's make-up in D9. All of it is on the faces of real human actors. That stuff that makes a prawn or a Na'Vi? Whatever you want to call it, don't call it make-up.
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And a green screen is a set, but not a particularly engaging one.
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Most of the time, I find CG to be shit and I yearn for the days of practical effects, as I'm sure there were people who yearned for the days of Val Lewton and the Universal monsters once Dick Smith, Rob Bottin and Rick Baker started making their mark on cinema.
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Don't you wish they kept that butterfly flying around during that initial credit sequence with the growing mushrooms? That would have been worth the price of admission alone for me. And that was my chief problem with the 3D in Alice. The things that were really cool like floating Cheshire were too sparse and not played up enough. But, I must admit I actually ducked the first time the March Hare though his teacup at the camera.
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Make up is make up. It is practical. that is the definition of it. CGI is design, and it is a technical application. Those are different than make-up as boy parts are different to girl parts.You have to know the difference, even if you decide you like both.
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Oh definitely. How sexy is Bigelow now that she won the Oscar®? I'm shallow like that- but yeah, I get excited over women winning popularity prizes. When I go to Walmart, I like to peruse the "Employee of the Month" wall to see if there's any cute prospects.
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Cameron is not prize himself. He looks like the Quaker Oats guy. And Bigelow was way out of his league. And now she's equal career-wise.
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...figure skating, like me....go pretty girl!...don't fall!!...don't cry!!!
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to be 3D rather than 2D, except for gimmicks like those tea cups.And, I'll repeat the same thing regarding [deleted] and every other 3D thing that's out there on the horizon.Now, if you tell me I can walk through a theme park attraction in the future without goggles on while animated mushrooms actually grow around me, I'll tell ya I've changed my mind about 3D.As long as I've got to sit in a chair pretending a bunch of fake shit is real, well, like Flick said, there's something wrong with my brain. My brain finds that a pointless distraction.
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I take practical over the CG stuff. I just wonder, when we fully get to that point where CG indistinguishable from the practical stuff, what's stopping filmmakers from saying: "I don't want my stars in makeup for four hours every morning when I can have computer artists generate 'makeup' concurrently as the film is made and moreso in post."
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...anything interesting happen last night?
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As far as fantasy films go. There will be no more fantasy make-up. It will have to be named something else.
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seeing Bigelow on the stage last night, my regard for her sexiness plummeted.
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I'm one of the dirtiest-minded guys on Earth when it comes to that sport. I even watched that Trachtenberg movie ICE PRINCESS more than once- it's fucking hot.
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Mar 08, 2010 12:16:10 PM CST
...first movie shot in 3-D (not retrofit) starring Christina...
by flickapoo
...Hendricks will be the real game changer.
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Much to the chagrin of Asi. Actually the makeup in TwiTrek was pretty terrible. Scotty's pet was awful.
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and sounded dumb as a tube sock. Granted, she was nervous, surprised, excited, whatever. But she had no poise. She didn't seem at all together.Sandra Bullock, on the other hand, gave me issue between my legs.
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...SKATING FANS UNITE!
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...make French toast.If you know what I mean.
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I need to ask a really stupid question, and I think, one, she will know the answer, and, two, she won't make fun of me for asking it.
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but agree with you about the 3D in Avatar. The disjointed dream world of Wonderland totally lends itself to 3D treatment. As opposed to the 3D in Avatar particularly in the real world scenes where the 3D effect became disconcerting and actually made it seem less real.
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...brushed with extra-virgin olive oil...
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she kinda came off as a ditz...definitely the second time around. she shoulda said thanks and thats it..but then she started rambling and repeating herself...and then the stuttering...dear god the stuttering..granted, if that was me..i prolly do the exact same thing.
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but it would have to be disjointing, disquieting, frightening and a bit nauseating. The straight-forwardness with which Burton has presented it is, in mine own, nothing particularly special.It's dog run this way / dog run that way stuff.The environment needs to be dimensional the same way a painting or an illustration NEEDS to be dimensional. That is, it doesn't.
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...and the French have a saying..."in the dark, all cats are gray" This is all coming together...full circle.
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Mar 08, 2010 12:25:13 PM CST
C-lop, I had one angry moment last night- when A PROPHET lost
by yackbacker
Otherwise, the Oscars were fairly benign.
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when he did his "King of the World" speech. That was part of the deal and why he pushed for her to win so hard.
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Mar 08, 2010 12:27:52 PM CST
OK, so if Bigelow isn't the wife that Cameron beat on,
by subtitles_off
who is and how many times has he been married?
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But if it is then I can't think of a better use for it then Wonderland. And to me it added to my experience. My problem with 3D is that it is not consistence. There are still times when it works for a scene and others not so much. In the fields of giant mushrooms it worked. Inside the Red Queen's castle, not so mcuh.
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He'll get wife #6 in short order- I predict it will be Miley Cyrus.
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Certainly, he's not going to let me get away with a three-and-five-eighths star rating for STRAY DOG.
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Still not as bad as Demme's when he won for SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. "I'd, uh ... uhhhhhh .... uh ..."
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"The whole fucking world is 3-D! What's the big deal?"
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I guess that's what I'm saying. I also think Wonderland lends itself to a nonsensical script, too. But, my point was, we don't live in times that encourage or would allow that.
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Mo'Nique was very good, Michael Giacchino's was warm and Pete Docter's wife made his speech good (with all of her crying).
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Chrissy, he's only a few years older than I am. Obviously, dude's a dick.
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Est cela de l'Avatar ou de Femme-Chat?
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Yack, can I live with you guys? I don't eat much. I basically can exist on a single chair. i don't mind doing laundry, even.
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Mon français est terrible.
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He actually was probably one of the more sane characters in the film. I wish Depp had channeled his Hunter S. thompson instead of Michael Meyers' Scottish caricature.
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Throw in some lawn work and you're in the family.
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s'est rapportée à une énonciation française. Ainsi, je l'ai traduite.
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"sane" I don't know about, but he certainly isn't looney. He's all over the map. He's Scottish. Why? He's morose. Why? He's violent, then he isn't. Why?I guess you could say, because he's crazy, silly, but I didn't get "crazy" from him - I got confused.
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I will mow. I will not dig.
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What DEƒUCK®? The crowd I was with loved that scene, though.
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The French translation of "Flick" is "La chiquenaude"?
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I'm just going to be typing that randomly for a few days.Funniest thing I've seen in months.
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Do all the characters have real names?[Yes, I just admitted my knowledge of Carroll is all absorbed from sources other than Carroll. Sue me.]
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So maybe it is better than A Prophet. But I seriously doubt it.
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Very disappointing performance from Depp. I agree that it was all over the map. I don't think he had a clear idea of the character like he did with Sparrow. maybe he should have found someone to model the character after like Keith Richards was his inspiration for Sparrow.
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...or nom de guerre, depending on my mood.Come to think of it, nom de guerre would make a cool handle.
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I hadn't seen the movie in over a decade so maybe it doesn't hold up. I'll have to check it out but I remember thinking it was the bees knees.
But I had the opposite reaction to KEY LARGO that you had. I thought it was a good movie, but I was overall disappointed in it. One of the reasons it didn't work for me was Lionel Barrymore - he always grated me wrong.
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And what was with the kabuki make-up? None of the other characters had so much shit on their faces.
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...to change depending on his mood.Did the wandering seem intentional? Did it suggest a pattern?
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At least not obviously so.
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Any other actor would cease to be given any scripts following something like this.
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Jebus! I've never written a worse sentence.
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I did not get that impression at all. To me it just came across as lazy acting.
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And, all my old school teachers have retroactively changed my grades from A's to C minuses.
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...in theory. Of course it could also just be a clever retroactive justification.
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Gerard Butler in 300, there's so much else going on that is entertaining, it doesn't destroy the whole movie.Paradox.
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and the actress' performance was perfect.
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And seriously, the trailer for fucking MACGRUBER looked good. I know it will suck (it is an SNL skit turned into a movie) but I got to give credit to whomever made that trailer. They did a bang up job. Even Val looks funny in it (a deadpan, serious funny).
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was he's bat-shit. He's not supposed to make any sense.The Hatter in Burton's film is Frodo.Hey! Now it makes sense that he looks like Elijah Wood! Fuck me!
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That's it, or he just wanted an excuse to fuck around.
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Yeah that came out of left field...it didn't fit the film at all nor his character nor any Burton stuff either...I expect that shite in the cat in the hat..not depp
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She's in another current indy with Hal Holbrook. (Sorry, I'll try to track down the name.) In it, she plays southern white trash.I think she was extraordinarily gifted at acting with a bunch of stuff that was never there on-set with her. That can't be easy, as Sam Worthington has proven again and again.
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goes to see THE CRAZIES? Color me a bright shade of what DEƒUCK®.
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And, she's working with Gus Van Sant. She may be one to watch.
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http://tinyurl.com/ylmq3ce
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I read that on Netscape today.
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30% think the show was "bad."http://tinyurl.com/ye4rv8e
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Not.
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I like older movies, but I really like FREE.
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movies than Michael Jackson?
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did anyone else like the flashbacks to the younger alice witht the majestic music and sense of wonder and innocence?now thats what i wanted...
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Sorry, but anybody who pays for cosmetic surgery, unless they've been disfigured by disease and-or accident, gets no sympathy from me.
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For CANNONBALL RUN alone. But add THE APOSTLE and she is more than just a pair of tits and nice body.
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Interesting. I wonder if that's because he thinks I'm kind of a dick.
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That was one of my favorite sequences, as well.
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that was one of my favorite parts to and it made me think of what could have been if Burton had done a straight treatment of the material.
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Can anyone explain it to me?
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might as well try not to offend people..this was a big year of deaths and they botched it up...they left the equalizer off too..
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http://tinyurl.com/y8pybot
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...best short doc guy?
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...and you're less chatty than some...your handle is well chosen.I thought that overall, Mac's casting was hilarious and...dare I say it? Subtle.
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Has been since Elvis first shook his hips. I'm really, really, REALLY, sick of flamboyance.
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You missed The Some Guys.
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when the best live action feature won..the director started talking and giving his speecha nd then a lady who walked up with him (you didnt see her in the tight frame) so it looked like she crashed the stage..fucking rude...i noted it above at...8:36:55
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He kind of rolled with it. They both won the award and I kind of got the impression that she was nuts and dude knew it and was like 'whatever!'
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http://tinyurl.com/yf3p24h
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still how many more times are these people gonna be up there to get an award?i wouldve elbowed that bitch in the adam's apple!
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why'd the bitch bum-rush the stage? That's like David Lee Roth punching Sammy Hagar in the mouth just because "Poundcake" charted higher than "Running With the devil."
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and I don't think her intent was malicious, but she was just lost in the moment. But I hear ya. If it were me I would have done the same.
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Oh, I'd've socked the bitch!
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They're not friends.
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Mar 08, 2010 1:32:56 PM CST
Kristen Stewart sucks the joy out of everything around her
by yackbacker
She couldn't smile if the future of humanity depended on it. She makes Rhianna look like a regular laugh riot in comparison!
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Right or mostly wrong, women have been sexualized since cave-man days.It IS flamboyant, however, if the woman is wearing a bridal gown and dry-humping a stage.
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I was just watching the climax of MOHICANS the other day. Everything works in that sequence. EVERYTHING.
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it IS flamboyant if the woman is thrusting her hips to suggest being penetrated while wearing a lobster on her face. Yeah.
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until they can use it to their advantage on a sunday night in front of billions (sans cablevision subscribers)
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Some times, I do have to look the other way. No offense meant.
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...but complaining about the "sexualization" of women is like complaining that steak is delicious.It is. They are. Yum.
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using photos of film stars / characters. Your photo is Heston as Moses.
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after she won her award monique, rather than fielding questions from reporters selected for her, chose her friends to ask questions...stating that these people are been interviewing her before she was popular and shes being loyal..you go girl!
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...huh?
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Mar 08, 2010 1:40:53 PM CST
If I see a guy wearing pink make-up, my skin doesn't crawl.
by anonymoose
If it looks good on him, more power to him.
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Madonna fucked that up for them when she turned it into "business savvy" and "artistic bravery" and all that mularkey.
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Would Bigelow (and her movie) have won those big awards if she was not going up against her ex-husband, who happens to be a pretty notorious cocksucker?
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"dammit I posted that link hours ago," I thought you were complaining that we hadn't noticed it before. My bad.
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the answer is yes. I still believe, of the nominated films, Bigelow's is one of the most deserving. The other, BASTERDS, didn't win anything, though.
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...for the common good.There is a transvestite in my town who looks like a younger Clint Eastwood. There's a ruggedly handsome man under there...but one ugly motherfucking woman, especially in Uggs and pink tights. It's just rude.I can think of many cases where the opposite is true. You have to take it on a case by case basis.That's my big, fat, indefensible theory for the day.
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my skin doesn't crawl unitl he gets on his knees and fakes fellatio with his guitar player.'moose, are you and I on permanent battle-mode, now?
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People are already saying you "pulled a Kanye." What happened?
BURKETT: What happened was the director and I had a bad difference over the direction of the film that resulted in a lawsuit that has settled amicably out of court. But there have been all these events around the Oscars, and I wasn't invited to any of them. And he's not speaking to me. So we weren't even able to discuss ahead of the time who would be the one person allowed to speak if we won. And then, as I'm sure you saw, when we won, he raced up there to accept the award. And his mother took her cane and blocked me. So I couldn't get up there very fast.
Can you explain the reason behind the conflict?
BURKETT: The movie was supposed to be about the entire band, Liyana. And the [band members] were very clear they did not want to participate if it ended up being just about one person. The director and HBO decided to focus solely on Prudence . . .
And that led to the rift. But didn't you see him at other events to discuss what would happen if you won?
BURKETT: He won't talk to me! This whole week, there have been events thrown by the International Documentary Association, and he hasn't passed any of the invitations on to me.
The movie was my idea. I live in Zimbabwe. Roger had never even heard of Zimbabwe before I told him about this. And you know, I felt my role in this has been denigrated again and again, and it wasn't going to happen this time.
How do you feel about the final product?
BURKETT: The final product, it's not that it's bad. It's not what I envisioned when I came up with this project. And it's not what we promised the boys in the band. It's just not what we wanted it to be.
About 15 minutes later, Salon reached director-producer Roger Ross Williams by cell phone as he celebrated backstage with family and friends. We asked for his side of the story.
How did that happen?
WILLIAMS: Only one person is allowed to accept the award. I was the director, and she was removed from the project nearly a year ago, but she was able to still qualify as a producer on the project, and be an official nominee. But she was very angry -- she actually removed herself from the project – because she wanted more creative control.
But couldn't you decide ahead of time who would speak?
WILLIAMS: That was handled by the publicist for the academy. I don't know what they told her. The academy is very clear that only one person can speak. I own the film. She has no claim whatsoever. She has nothing to do with the movie. She just ambushed me. I was sort of in shock.
You seemed to run up there pretty fast. Didn't you see her coming up the aisle? What did you think was going to happen when she got there?
WILLIAMS: I just expected her to stand there. I had a speech prepared.
She claims she found the movie's story, that she brought it to you.
WILLIAMS: No, not at all. The truth is that she saw the band perform [in Zimbabwe], and told me about that, and then I opened up a dialogue with the [King George VI School & Centre for Children with Physical Disabilities] school and went on my own – which you would've heard about in my speech -- and spent $6,000 going to Africa shooting myself. And when people expressed interest in the film, I asked her to come on board. And then I regretted that decision. Then she sued.
It was quite a tussle. Does this diminish the Oscar at all?
WILLIAMS: Absolutely not. It's such a career achievement, to win an Academy Award. This is what the business is. There are times when there's disagreement and dispute and you always hope that people will rise up to the occasion. It doesn't diminish it. She disowns it and doesn't want any part of the film. I'm so proud of the movie .
OK, did your mother try and block her with her cane?
WILLIAMS: My mother got up to hug me. And my mother is 87 years old. She was excited.
What are people saying about it?
They're saying it looked like she pulled a Kanye.
WILLIAMS: She did! She pulled a Kanye. And it's a shame, because this is such positive, happy film.
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...I think between the Iraq thing, and Yack's theory...I think they both played a part.
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it's an Academy mistake for awarding her. Yet, a reserved person's ego wouldn't have allowed jumping over an 87 yr-old's cane and rushing onto the stage to make some crack about a man not letting a woman speak. She's wrong.
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and someone else made HURT LOCKER? There's absolutely no way of telling, but I think Bigelow's PRECIOUS would have won in my mind. It's not in any way meant to diminish LOCKER, it's a good film, worthy of the nomination for sure, but I think the personal dynamic of Bigelow v. Cameron was a large factor in influencing votes.
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it's kind of mundane and disappointing.Now, if Gabby had marched up there and knocked Bullock over - you know she could - we could've had something to talk about!
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im telling ya..they ambush actors and ask them if they are making a sequel to a film from fucking 20 years ago..they are run by a buncha chris farleys over there...
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for calling troy duffy a mick douche..
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I think it would've been anybody vs. Cameron. The fact that they're exxes, I think is irrelevant. She was their choice as the best since, and I've been saying this forever, they're not going to honor a movie that puts most of them out of business. They just weren't.I know I predicted [deleted] would win, but I was just trying to cushion the blow for myself.
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without seeming insensitive. Then I remembered that I'm on the Pedalback here, so fuck all that. People need to stop saying that Bigelow DIDN'T win because she's a woman. No, it clearly was part of the equation. The stars aligned. She made a very good and timely action movie (a domain usually reserved for men) in a year when her biggest competition turned out to be her ex-husband, a notorious egomaniac.
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to the Oscars. Dude was actually pretty graceful with the situation. That's why I thought it was amicable. But can you imagine if he had taken the mic back from her by force. And he had every right to.
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Damn you Yack! God damn you to Hell!
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that a "polock douche" is not? Either way, you're just being an ethnist.
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Sometimes you have to advocate. Sometimes you have to consciously choose someone/something that's historic, especially when they/it are good.
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He had nothing to do with it. besides, I mow his lawns now.
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didn't win nor Jason "overrated nepotistic" Wrongman.
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You don't wanna Be a part of the film.. You don't go to the party. Fuck that.
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this question would be moot. So, as far as I'm concerned, it's a non-issue.
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★★★ movies in that list of nominated films. UP IN THE AIR was no better, no worse than the rest.And, a ★★ film was considered a front-runner.
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I'm just tired of the flak against flamboyantly gay males, and how it almost immediately jumps to sex (because, as we all should know, gay sex is yucky). Being flamboyant doesn't mean you have to be on stage, faking fellatio. That would be generally offensive, even if it were a male and female, or two females, right?
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INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS: ★★★★★ UP: ★★★★★ A SERIOUS MAN: ★★★★1/2 AVATAR: ★★★★ THE HURT LOCKER: ★★★1/2 DISTRICT 9: ★★★
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Truly. If you think I do, you're mistaken.My "flak" against Adam Lambert, Lady GaGa, Johnny Weir, and the rest is not against their sexuality, it is against their "look at me, I'm a precious, original snowflake" bullsh!Let's straighten that right DEƒUCK® out.
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...the campaigning for the Oscars, all the different events leading up to voting, the traditional winning narratives (The Little Movie That Could, The Movie Everyone Loves, The It's Time Award, etc...)?Good article, lots of behind the scenes dirt.
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made his rep on ambiguous sexuality. you know what? When Prince was hosing down the crowd with foam "semen," I was disappointed in him, too.
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Mar 08, 2010 2:15:00 PM CST
I think is safe to say that the Academy is sick of Tarantino's
by stabby
schtick.
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I should rate 'em then.AVATAR ★★UP ★★★UP IN THE AIR ★★★HURT LOCKER ★★★★★BASTERDS★★★★ ½ PRECIOUS I'll tell you tomorrow.D9 ★★★I haven't seen the other three
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...I like sex. And foam "semen" is funny and a cool stage effect.Except when the Jonas Brothers hose down little girls...or maybe more so, I can't decide. It's certainly spectacularly ludicrous.
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deserve one star taken away from my original rating, but they are what they are.
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...I haven't seen BASTERDS or SERIOUS MAN yet...FUUUUCKA YOOOOOU NEEETFLIIIIICKS!
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...but Johnny Weir is pretty much awesome from what I've seen.
Lady Gaga, too, relishes sexual ambiguity, something she has in common with one of her major influences, David Bowie (the other is Freddie Mercury). She even enjoys the rumor that she has a penis.
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So for some reason I saw Mac's name as Yacks. Don't ask me why.
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...I'm sure you like it plenty.I was serious about the rest.
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Mar 08, 2010 2:23:41 PM CST
"you did go from make-up to onstage fellatio pretty quick there,
by subtitles_off
You typed "a guy in pink make-up doesn't scare me" as if that's your - or mine - definition of flamboyance. I'm making it clear what I consider to be flamboyance. You want to have an argument about it, tough, because I've got plenty of better things to do.
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Lettuce do it and get it over with.Flick's got your back.
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He did all kinds of overtly sexual and homoerotic things on stage, like jamming his guitarist's head into his crotch. It was kinda awesome, in a "fuck you, establishment" kind of way. Now, I probably wouldn't care for it so much, mainly because I've outgrown the music and the aesthetic, but I don't mind when rockers or performers do it. Go for it, kids, that's what I say.
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Stay off the
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...people close to him are under attack or judgment in this fight.I say we skip this one and stick to movies.
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...anything said in the Flamboyant Drunken Wild Oscar Rumpus seriously.
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That said, I like my gays like Liberace, Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Riley. Flamboyant and it's quite obvious their sexual orientation, yet they don't flaunt it.
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It's just last night, when you weren't watching the Oscars with the rest of us, which is what I thought was going to happen (since you asked us to hop on here for the event). It was a letdown, and an annoyance, to me. That's the bug that got to me, I think.
Then this whole thing I was reading about how flamboyancy sickens you was the last straw, for me, because of some guy I met the other day who was talking like that, but in a much harsher, hateful tone. -
Why, exactly, did I ask everyone to be here last night?
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I didn't read the full comment, I guess. I saw the announcement that the "Oscar Slag" would be happening, and you asked us not to leave you alone for the Oscars. I didn't catch that you weren't going to watch them.
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...although, between you and me, I never thought he'd be so stubborn as to not join us at some point...if only out of pure blind hatred for [deleted], and to join in the fun...[insert winky emoticon with tongue sticking out here]
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...and propriety were temporarily and intentionally suspended last night.Arguing about what happened at the Flamboyant Drunken Wild Oscar Rumpus is like arguing about what happened last night during drunkensex.It was drunkensex, that's the whole point...you don't bring that shit up in the cold, sober light of morning. Just wash the sheets.
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When I'm out with friends or on dates, we'll go see movies (like Transformers 2) and do things I don't want to do, personally. However, I do it because I'm with friends or a date and it's something to do together.
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...precisely because it's so flamboyant...about everything.Flamboyant boobies and vaginas, flamboyant oiled up dudes, flamboyant blood spray, one guy had his face flamboyantly ripped off (practical, not CG!)...I mean like scalped, but his whole face.That show is flaming in every way.
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It's everything 300 -- which I think has its moments -- should have been. Just ridiculous. I love watching it.
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Sorry, I just found out that [DELETED] didn't win best picture or director. Phew, I was really sweating that.
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http://tinyurl.com/mblmdns
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I probably should for that and The Pacific, though.
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...I like my beer cold, my dinner warm and my homosexuals flaming.
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I take it you don't have that?
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...I'm not more pissed at Netflix for not sending me ANY new movies. Ever.
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I could stream it on Netflix, though.
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a man who loves 80s flicks and hates avatar?cmon!
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I would tap Lady GaGa.
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thanks avatar and Cams for that
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...about a marble whose wife has been kidnapped.
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...but I get what you're saying.
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...WIFE-HARM! NO!
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are high-fiving each other, happy with the fact they signed Jeff Bridges to the sequel before he won the Oscar? Granted they've been working on TRON LEGACY for awhile, but I can only imagine The Dude bursting into the producer's office, fresh off an Oscar win and weeks before signing on for Tron Legacy:
Jeff: "The Dude wants more money! It will tie the room together, MAN! Muahahahaha!"
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...I'll turn it up loud. In winter. If the windows are up.Spring is coming. Back to Gogol Bordello.
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Mar 08, 2010 3:25:48 PM CST
wait where was ricardo montalban last night in the OBIT???
by six demon bag
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At least, not to the extent that some of us do. But c'mon, Best Picture of the year? That'd be like giving it to The Tingler back in the fifties. It's a novelty flick, nothing more. A well-fucking-executed novelty flick, but that's really it.
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Call me old fashion, but I don't like the feeling of swinging meet hitting my balls when I'm doing a woman from behind. It kind of kills the mood.
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I'd tap that ... and I like her music. But, like you, Flick, I turn her down on my iPod when in a crowded area.
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BANG!
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it would still be amazing and earning the kudos it is earning.
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"That'd be like giving it to The Tingler back in the fifties." That might have been the best argument against Avatar winning it ever. Take a fucking bow man.
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yeah yer right..he died in early 2009 so they prolly bumped somebody and put khan on there
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...as a morbid and sentimental bastard, I was expecting a sobfest this year...an orgy of weeping and clapping...wave after crashing wave of cathartic public sentiment...They fucking blew it man.Is there not ONE proper drunken Irishman in Hollywood?
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...for validating my arguement. And now you all know how terrified I was about Avatar winning an award that no longer carries any merit to me.
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But I do think it would have been a huge hit and a critical success, just on a smaller scale than . The 3D inflated the grosses, yes, but 3D was part of the draw, too. People didn't mind paying premium prices for a premium show.
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Call me old, grumpy, set in my ways...I don't care. I can't stand new stuff. Granted it's catchy, but I find no redeeming value from listening to it....especially this stuff from Kei$a (?) She doesn't sing. When she tries to sing, it sounds like she's snobbish-bored, and nothing like giving the girls a role model to look up to. Brush your teeth with a bottle of Jack. Anyway, that's my gripe. Plus I heard this rap/r&b song the other day, and caught this lyric: "Call me Mr. Flintstone, cuz I can make your bed rock."
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When they were talking about the Best Director nominees, and they'd show some clips, they'd talk to someone on the production who would talk to the camera about how great the director and the movie is... ... And with Up in the Air, they talk to Ivan Reitman, the director's FUCKING DAD?!?! Did anyone else think that was just a BIT disingenuous? So much for trying to make it look like you're doing this all on your own, Lil R.
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...who loved watching [deleted], I'll even agree a little.
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Mar 08, 2010 3:36:29 PM CST
Even Michael Jackson and Patrick Swayze got soft applause.
by anonymoose
Dr. No got no applause.
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...with the Hughes tribute.
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plus nothing like starting the In Memoriam on a wide shot, where you miss the first 3 people (I think). I picked out the Swayze though.
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Tickling a chick's calf muscle in the front row and inventing/improving technology to create a world and then immersing the audience in said world is light years away from that. I really think the apt comparison is to the very first STAR WARS. Yeah, I'm calling down the thunder on my head for saying it, but really, was A NEW HOPE a best picture movie? No, it was big, clunky and silly ... but it was also very, very fun, exhilarating even, and it ushered in a new template for filmmaking, like it or not.
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After all his dad is the only reason Jason Wrongman has a career. The oscar producers got that right just like they got it right not giving this overrated nepotistic hack an award.
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...I love it when someone really great dies, and they have clips from all the best roles...with that great final freeze frame and signature line as the clapping swells. I was expecting that this year, but for a full twenty minutes or so...so many good people died this year...
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That's not to say I didn't enjoy [DELETED]. I enjoyed it one exactly one level, the same as everyone else. The only level it had, actually.
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...her ability to sing and play piano like a motherfucker. When she's playing the keys, she has a sultry, bluesy voice that channels some of the greats. She can also do the pop scene well, along with her own crazy fashion and style, and she writes her own music and lyrics. She's multi-talented, I say. One day, she may get burned out and fall from grace, but for now she's making me like pop music again.
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And Spielberg? And Scorsese? And Tom Cruise? And Will Smith? And Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt and Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Harrison Ford and yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda... Aside from the nominees and presenters, the room seemed practically empty of Hollywood.
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Mar 08, 2010 3:45:14 PM CST
In other words, I'll grant that AVATAR is a glorified
by colonelfatheart
B picture, but it's not really fair to compare it to THE TINGLER. And remember: Would GONE WITH THE WIND had been GONE WITH THE WIND without color? Would THE WIZARD OF OZ? I'm sure color was derided as a "gimmick" in its earliest days, as was sound, as were, well, moving pictures. We see things in color (mostly), we hear things all around us (mostly) and we see things in 3D (mostly), so why shouldn't 3D filmmaking be taken just as seriously as we take sound or color?
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that others haven't been doing the last 10 years? Green Screen- been done! Fully digital characters- been done! Mo-Cap- been done! 3D- been done! All he did was improve on the technology that was already being used. He did not reinvent the wheel or the tingler!
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Mar 08, 2010 3:46:56 PM CST
Right on, Flick. This was the year of celebrity death,
by colonelfatheart
and all we get is that paltry montage?
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...her adult sexuality...we haven't seen that in a while.For the last ten years it's been mostly these pre-packaged disingenuous "virgins".
"what?! Hit Me Baby isn't about sex!! You have a dirty mind..."I'm not really complaining, but it's just another way Gaga is refreshing just now. -
It's all about the gimmick. If there wasn't a gimmick, there wouldn't be a movie worth watching.
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[DELETED] being um...deleted? Is it like saying Voldemort in front of wizards or Beetlejuice three times?
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and the High School Musical cast, because everyone knows tweens watch the Oscars.
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...before she hit it big, like Britney Spears and Black Eyed Peas.
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and 3D is a gimmick. That's why.
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It has to do with the overhyped bigger than Jesus marketing campaign of [deleted].
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Mar 08, 2010 3:52:45 PM CST
STLost, it's the reuslt of my not wanting to type its name.
by subtitles_off
Sixies bullied me into seeing it, by challenging my honor as a man, or something like that.After I saw it, it was agreed that I could bash it as much as I wanted. Why any other Peebers would follow me on, using [deleted] instead of AVATAR is, frankly, still a mystery to me.
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Anybody?
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Putting in Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart and Zac Ephron in place of more established and well known stars? Fuck that. What have they done to earn their spot at the Oscars? Starred in a blockbuster film that had nothing to do with their star power? Oh yeah, that's right.
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...it comes down on the fence, but it makes fascinating points about 3-D being not just the future of film, but the past of film too. That people were dreaming of and experimenting with 3-D stereoscopic images (some even moving...a little) from the dawn of photography, since before the motion picture in fact. Mid 1800's.
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Really?Gheesh. I'm right here! I didn't get credit for "Dawson's Creek." I'll be FACKED if I'm not going to get credit for [deleted]!
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...cryptic.
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I agree that the 3D made AVATAR worth watching, that goes without saying. But would GONE WITH THE WIND be worth watching without the lush color panoramas? Even if you watch it on a smaller TV, color makes a difference. WIZARD OF OZ is nothing without the shift to color. AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON has that incredible transformation scene. These things sold the movies. These things also made the movies. There was a big reason for AVATAR to be 3D, as it tied in with theme of immersion into a new self, a new POV. THE TINGLER? That was about getting teenagers to jump and clutch each other, and that's fine. My point being: Movies themselves are gimmicks, and if they employ gimmicks beyond their very fact, then they better make sure there's a reason for it. And to that, I say, "So what?"
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And tips his hat to EssDub. (I don't know why she gets special tipping-hat treatment.)
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Kinda dry read, but neat, too.
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It's not like I'm not giving you credit. I was just trying to explain the logic behind your reasoning. Of course, this is my interpretation.
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http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/03/08/100308crat_atlarge_lane
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How could I have been so wrong.We haven't seen anyone "own" their sexuality in awhile? I suppose Britney and Lindsey and the Kardashians and all the rest are holding their friends' sexuality while they're in the bathroom.
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He's got the Link Fever. Strap him to the couch.
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How many of you were teenagers - 16 and above - during John Hughes' heyday?
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and she's a lady. Whoa-Oh-oh-Oh, she's a lady.
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...I just read stuff...I don't write jack.
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It kinda reminds me of one of those fiberglass shells you can get to re-create a classic car. But without anything underneath it.
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Because the whole thing is just an excuse to make the movie.
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I missed something.
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I SO wanted to be Andy in pretty in pink!
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Some people would charge royalties. I just give this shit away.
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...early stereoscopic nekkid ladies. Tame and painterly, but technically NSFW...http://tinyurl.com/ykh6th9The knew what to do with 3-D from day one. They knew it was a game changer.
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You're thirty seven. Making you 13-14 on the release of BREAKFAST CLUB?
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an age-ist back then.
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then I was 11 years old.
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They're piled high in landfills all over the place.
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was English.
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Mar 08, 2010 4:21:54 PM CST
...I'm a little worried that I led 'moose to believe that...
by flickapoo
...the article was "mine" as in I wrote it.He's going to be so disappointed in me.
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on a mere geek site. Fuck Anthony Lane.
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Maybe a year or two shy.I loved THE BREAKFAST CLUB and FERRIS, but I don't remember, even then, them being particularly relevant to my teen-age experience. I didn't realize I was already in my mid-twenties at the time.
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Efftards is English. diarrhea plays it pretty close to his vest as to where he's from.I swear, some times it's like he thinks I'm gonna show up on his doorstep looking for a bed.
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...1- Teens tend to be most influenced and impressed by things that are a little beyond them. They're always reaching for the next step.2- It was a different time...a time of a year or two for a VHS release. Like most kids my age, I didn't get to the theater except for event movies. We caught up with things like BREAKFAST CLUB, PRETTY IN PINK, and FERRIS BUELLER a few years later on VHS, or even on TV...hard to remember, but a movie's first run on network television was a big deal back then.
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Well, maybe I didn't, not in so many words. But it's what I meant. You and STLost are the perfect age.
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Mar 08, 2010 4:32:48 PM CST
...oh. I was confused. I still am a lilttle, but that's OK.
by flickapoo
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since all our old brothers and sisters looked at those movies as gospel. Truthfully, those movies always bothered me since they had that air of "our problems are so much more important than yours"-ism. It's responsible for emo.
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And a reason it stuck. And that reason has zilch to do with their similarity to Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr.
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"Brat Pack" wasn't originally directed at Molly, Sheedy, McCarthy and company. It was Downy, Demi and Lowe, which was a bit later.
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I may not have understood everything that was going on, the subtext and whatnot, but I dug it anyway.
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The movies were honest in that they correctly acknowledged teenage solipsism in broad, theatrical strokes. I couldn't really relate, though, even with Hughes' freaks and geeks. THE BREAKFAST CLUB is more of a play than a movie.
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The movies were honest in that they correctly acknowledged teenage solipsism in broad, theatrical strokes. I couldn't really relate, though, even with Hughes' freaks and geeks. THE BREAKFAST CLUB is more of a play than a movie, too.
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Edit key, anyone? Anyone?
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Except for the mopey Cameron B.S. in the pool at the end.
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there's a cavernous difference between the solipsism of teens during Reagan's term and that of my generation - kids getting stoned to Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. We already saw our little brothers and sisters as freaks we couldn't begin to understand.
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ostracized was having a polo pony on your sweater. Less than ten years later, that was the only way to fit in.
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or today's in a heartbeat, Subs. Please, let me hear Dark Side of the Moon for the first time in 1975. Please, let me hear No Quarter as a new song. Please, let me witness Born to Run in its initial explosion of glory.
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No more than I can experience "Sgt. Pepper" or "Rubber Soul" in thier original context.
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From C minus to a D in a couple of hours.
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Remember, in 1975 The Bee Gees out-sold Pink Floyd.
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...not so much because it's really just a bunch of individuals, that's obvious...but because a generation is the way it is (positive or negative) for reasons beyond it's control. The economy, pop-culture, parent's psychodrama, war, peace, all huge forces that shape the "character of a generation".Might as well admire or scorn someone for the color of their eyes.And of course one generation's pop culture is mostly being made by the previous generation...even more so twenty years ago.
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...stupid English.
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Mar 08, 2010 5:01:05 PM CST
...but that was a little harsh. You guys weren't "scorning".
by flickapoo
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80s "teen angst" can still kiss my ass.
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Being a teen in the '90s sucked ass if you weren't into Pearl Jam and shit.
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Until you're an adult looking back and romanticizing a bunch of bullsh!
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Samuel L. Jackson rolled his eyes during Mo'nique's acceptance speech. Is that true?
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...bitter with just a touch of suicide.
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I HOPE Sam L. rolled his eyes, tho. That'd be awesome.
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Manson, NIN (boy, was Trent a whiner!), Metallica ... but also Floyd, Sabbath, Zep, &c.
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...fucking nightmare.
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The 60s. Like it or not, pop culture in the 60s and into the 70s was about looking ahead, looking forward. Tell me, "Yesterday," "Behind Blue Eyes," and other music of that era doesn't contain very adult sentiment for a bunch of kids in their twenties!1987-on has been mostly about the crotch or imitating things from the past.
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Hey, what isn't?
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After Mo'Nique left the stage, they cut to different pple in the audience clapping and cheering. After one guy, they cut to Sam Jackson, and he turned to someone behind him and made this weird kissy-face, something like he just stuck a sour ball in his mouth, and his eyes went real wide. It was a bizarre expression but didn't look like an eye roll at all.
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to me, at the time.
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Mar 08, 2010 5:15:28 PM CST
...I think the album I played most times in my mid teens...
by flickapoo
...was OPERATION MINDCRIME by Queensriche (before they want all radio friendly).I'm not saying it's great music, but it spoke to me when I was 16.
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live at a show. Oh man.
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...we have to talk about this.
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See y'all around.
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6:51:18
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Lurking in the shadows, nursing a wicked hangover...think I may leave work soon.
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Fuck it, I'll get by somehow.
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...the new show, "Who Do You Think You Are?" on Hulu. The first episode features Sarah Jessica Parker. It's fascinating.
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Matthew Broderick should be an interesting episode.
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...the celebrity angle looked possibly off-putting, so I hadn't investigated yet.
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THE MARRIAGE REF- it was painful television, a reminder of how unfunny Jerry Seinfeld can be without the aid of Jerry Stiller, Wayne Knight and other great character actors.
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...impressive, very impressive.
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...the gold rush of 1849 and the Salem Witch Trials. I don't want to spoil more than that, though.
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It's really about people, because celebrities are people, and their amazing ancestry. It's really good.
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It WAS painful. Tina Fey had a couple of zingers that were funny, but overall it hurt my brain.
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real skippable to me.
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thinking, "We're having issues communicating. Let's film ourselces and ask Kelly Ripa for her input."
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http://tinyurl.com/sjpwdutur
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Mar 08, 2010 6:17:03 PM CST
I know I'm a day late to the party but HMC was fucking gold
by yackbacker
Taye Diggs! Lenny! My God, very handsome.
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...for use at The Shelter, but FlickaPoo was already taken (?!), but if you google flickapoo, I'm virtually the only arrangement of those particular letters in all of internetdom...a unique scatalogical snowflake.Annoying.
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you’re having financial problems…You might even fake sending your child up in a runaway blimp…Faking a marriage counseling gig sounds better…Hello, Everybody…
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Lenny Kravitz.
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I laughed at that so hard!
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Maybe you're not handsome, Matthew McConaughey!"
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http://tinyurl.com/yhy8jj2
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The subtle stuff like that makes this good comedy.
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That whole bit worked because it wasn't trying too hard- and it kept going on and on! Ten times funnier than anything Herc's beloved SNL has put on the air in years. And I'm not even a huge Kimmel fan!
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One very devoted fan. Suspects start with Peebers. I'm looking at the Colonel myself.
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Sure is.
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Kimmel spooning with Affleck while Jennifer Garner just seethes.Tremendous.
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Either that or he really wants to bone Kimmel- I saw chemistry!
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...this IS funny.
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"From the withinsiiiiiide!"
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...I'll be the judge of that, baby...
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"Just hold on a minute. I'm evaluating handsome."
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It started as a revenge fuck after Sarah Silverman did Damon.
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...that's a handsome record.
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Potently handsome. Reeking of handsomeness.
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...in fact I ² it.
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Mar 08, 2010 9:12:26 PM CST
Hey now. I could never steal "Flickapoo." It's too, too
by colonelfatheart
original.
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Just sayin'
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$1.00 to $500.00, depending. http://tinyurl.com/ybbk3h4
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Worse Than The Offense, Dept.The Oscars didn't obit Farrah because they just couldn't "fit everyone in."http://tinyurl.com/yg4q7pk
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a monkey stole your handle. Who else?!
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Brak
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...I don't think he would have any truck with Poo...flicked or otherwise.These guys, on the other hand...
http://www.free-jokes-online.com/thumb/funny-animals-monkey-soldier.jpg
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...from your land I believe.BIG FUN.
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Looks pretty damn sweet. That's how you update something from the 80's.
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And how about Olivia Wilde just slinking her way through that thing? So much hotter than ScarJo's showing in the IM2 trailer. And Bruce fucking Boxleitner?!?! I'm sold.
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Skin-tight suit with lights on it? Yeah, that's hot. Much better than ScarJo in IM2, I'm in total agreement.
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Vote?
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I know next-to-nothing about TRON.
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It never interested me. But I'll give it a look now. 3-star cinema, here I come!
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I love the lighting and the camera moves in this thing. Its smooth.
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And last spring it came on HDNet Movies (when Time Warner still carried it) and I put it on while I did some work. Wasn't able to completely focus on it and pay attention due to my editing, but I saw more than I ever did as a kid. It somehow passed me by during my childhood. Didn't come on tv a lot around here, I guess.
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It didn't in my neck of the woods.
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after it bombed theatrically. I just remember that distinctly. One of those first "game changers" that turned not to be, so much.
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Joseph Kosinski- who Wikipedia tells me was originally selected to direct the LOGAN'S RUN reboot. This guy must have a sick demo reel.
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About how cool it looked, etc. Getting sucked into a computer game, how cool that would be. I'd see pictures of it in books on future computer technologies I read in kindergarden. That book was awesome. Had stories/articles on Laser Tag, CGI cartoons, Star Wars (had C-3PO in it) and other things. I remember picking that up everyday just to drink in the images.
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their time. Or, just too different for their time. Like WTWTA. Maybe the original TRON is like that. It'd be interesting to go back and read some reviews from the time it was first released.
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Night, Handsome gents!
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That could be good or bad.
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And I'm off to Never NeverLand!
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You have it at your fingertips like that?
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Pretty funny stuff.
Shit, everyone's piking. I think I'll take the opportunity to let loose on my quich read through of the last day's events.
Yack, Tron is actually a really good analogy for [deleted]. Really clunky cheesey story based on a hella-cool premise with stilted film-making and acting (aside form the man!), but again the technical stuff was so amazing that a sort of revisionist history/view of it's efficacy has happened over the years. -
I had a cool Star Wars story for you, I know you like the behind the scenes stuff there. Tomorrow maybe. To do with Triple I.
Oh and double damn you for stealing my piccie over in the shelter. I finally made my profile over there to see you'd not just used the big V (ha, makes you sound like you've got girly pink bits), but the white version. Hey, now I'm gonna call you (a) Big V instead of big D (althoughD could stand for dick - no, vagina it is).
Well, I may not be able to use that pic, so I one-upped ya, ya bastard! No, that's not Vader, but it is me, and more than that it's the original helmet, and more than that, I'm in the archive building at the ranch. Suck it!!
This post brought to you today by -TOO MANY VADERS! -
I missed tron talk...it ain't the greatest film but it holds a special place in my heart..flaws and all.
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I don't know if I should say this, but ... uhhhh ... I've never seen TRON. (He winces and raises his hands, as if to brace for some admonishing smacks in the face.)
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Mar 09, 2010 7:53:51 AM CST
Anybody see Massa's review of the new Pattison mope fest?
by colonelfatheart
He really only wrote the review to discuss the ending, which, from how he describes it, is truly, astonishingly cheap and manipulative.
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while he sits there at Oscar?http://tinyurl.com/ygmzaww
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Todd McCarthy was fired at "Variety." Does that trade magazine plan, then, to just re-print press releases that are faxed to them by corporate office administrators?The future of cinema: No one's opinion allowed. All Box Office, All The Time.
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Something along the lines of "Holy shit. Variety just canned Todd McCarthy."
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It IS hard to keep up with every one-off post that comes along.
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the LEGACY trailer. Interesting. I like the music. Daft Punk, right?
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From now on, I'm pronouncing that kid's name the way Jimmy Kimmel does in the Handsome Man's Club sketch."Um, I dunno, I don't really see handsome yet. Cute." - Kimmel"What's wrong with cute?" - Krasinski"There's a quota. [whispering to Krasinski] And you filled it."
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I ignored The Pedalback for awhile yesterday.Just read that 'Wrym review. You can spank me now, if you want, but, though I know I should care, I just can't muster any.
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Mar 09, 2010 8:32:11 AM CST
That trailer is paced artfully, for a 3D effects movie.
by subtitles_off
How long before they replace it with the quick-cut "boom-crash-schreeching-metal-drama" version?
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I just have something against cheap endings period, regardless of the event in question, not against movies using 9/11.
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you and I might be the only ones who know who Todd McCarthy is. There was a time he was a household name in households where movies were important. Not so much for a long time.All this "economic down-sizing" of reading depresses the hell out of me.
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I'll be back.
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a cheap tween soapser starring today's biggest trendy nothing of a celebrity deserves nothing more than a really cheap ending, donut?
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ill wiki it
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March 8th, 2010...Vades wants more montages from The Oscars. His favorite thing about this year's telecast was the montage of horror films. ...Yack doesn't like costume-designer Sandy Powell. Yack, when I see you later, remind me to ask you why and who. ...Electric whips. When the sting of snapping leather just isn't quite enough to make you say "Ow." ...Mac had to deal with the anarchy caused by Oscar's abrupt ending at his TV station. ...Early morning reaction to Academy Awards can be summed up thusly: "meh." Personally, I like waking to the sound of weepy blue pussies all over the internet. SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE meets THE HURT LOCKER at the after-party and says, "Sure, you're filled with uncontainable joy now, but I'm warning you, you're about to spend the next ten years as a bunch of cry-babies' favorite whipping boy." "I'm not really worried. I'm secure in myself," responds. HURT. "By the way, who's that shaggy, morose, suicidal-looking merfer over in the corner sucking on the bottle of Jack?" "Oh, that's CRASH. Stay away from him. Mean, mean drunk. Can't say I really blame him, though." ...Col. insists there's a comparison to be made between THE HURT LOCKER and POINT BREAK, which he says redeems his regard for the latter. ...Jason Mraz is a "Muppet wrangler," says Flick. (http://tinyurl.com/yzoefoz) ..."Some Guy & Some Other Guy @ The Movies"™: Burton's gorgeous, entertaining, regrettable exercise in pretty average is doomed by a really bad Johnny Depp performance. Some Guy gives it ★★☆☆☆ ½. Some Other Guy is half-a-star more generous. ...Flick recommends BEOWULF AND GRENDEL, a Scandinavian version of the classic adventure tale, filmed in natural light with little effectery. CGI versus "Practical" ...Stabby is baffled by AVATAR's Cinematography Oscar. So is Roger Ebert, Stabbers, so you're not alone. ...Col wrestles with the concept of "digital augmentation" as a sort of "make-up." ...STLost rates The Oscars with his trademarked 3. ...More morning-after Oscar coverage. ...Flick links to The Oscars' "Kanye moment." (http://tinyurl.com/yc7sl7n) ...Stabby says Tim Burton has become "the Ron Howard of gothic fantasy." ...The ALICE butterfly, right at the very end, is an undeniably beautiful 3D effect. ...Seeing Kathryn Bigelow on The Oscars makes me wanna get off the "Kathryn Bigelow is hot" train. "Hehehehehehe. He said he wants to get off. Hehehehehehe." ...Dans l'obscurité, tous les chats sont gris. ...Yacker's girl says, ""The whole fucking world is 3-D! What's the big deal?" If Yacker's girl wasn't already claimed and liked older, uglier, less marketable fellas, I'd like to take her to see a movie and buy her a nice dinner. ...La chiquenaude ...The actress who plays "Alcie" in ALICE is darn good. ...Guidettes butts are exploding at an alarming rate. (http://tinyurl.com/ylmq3ce) ...Farrah Fawcett, unmemorializable, according to The Oscars ...Yack wonders if Bigelow's win isn't somehow attributable to Cameron backlash. ...Teddy thinks awarding AVATAR with the Best Picture Oscar would've been analogous to awarding THE TINGLER. 6:51:18, Teddy. 'Lop wants to high-five you. Sixies and Col., though, don't. ...I wanna high-five STLost. ...Stabby schools STLost on [deleted]. He's sorta correct, but the thing actually originated when I said, after seeing it, I was tired of talking about it, and I would stop. Of course, I didn't stop. But I did stop typing the letters A, V, A, T, A, and R, so [deleted] became my replacement, and the guys joined in to be polite to the old man. ...Flick's been carrying this article around with him for weeks and whipping it out any time anybody says "3D." (http://tinyurl.com/yz7mbao) ...Generational age-check. ...Col. notes that "Variety" has fired its esteemed film critic, Todd McCarthy. ...'moose recommends "Who Do You Think You Are?," an interesting new celebreality / documentary-style TV show about genealogy discovery. (http://tinyurl.com/sjpwdutur) ...I've been hard-core pimping "Handsome Mens' Club" all day as the funniest thing I've seen in months. Yack agrees, and we make Flick watch it. (http://tinyurl.com/yhy8jj2) ...Has a monkey stolen Flick's handle for a gmail account? ...TRON:LEGACY trailer impresses all who are present, but none of us saw the original or really paid attention to it when it was on TV. ... -
McCarthy was the film critic for "Variety," and, as such, his was always the first word on any given movie.
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Want to add a single digit and BAMF! to Arthouseback? Thing is, you'll have to think of something more upper-crusty than "bitches" when you tell them to leave.
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http://tinyurl.com/yjhv2ch
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and im out of here..
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I got about 40 minutes in and I wanted to pull my eyeballs out. The movie is fucking ridiculous.
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44181
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They're often more entertaining than the original subject matter. This thread=case in point.
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We're talking about you.
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It showed before Alice. It looked to me like the 3D was an afterthought and wasn't that well integrated. THAT SAID, the trailer itself did kick ass. Took me back to my childhood.
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44181, buddy.
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Has infected us all!
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It really is pretty fucking goofy. The great thing was that they got brilliant guys like the legendary Syd Mead to design it, and therefore even though they could only make basic shapes, Mead and co made sure that those shapes and proportions were put together as well as possible. The whole (delayed) success of that movie is due to iconic concept design. I reckon...
I guess he couldn't help them out with the rest of the film, where basically they photocopied all the live-action and coloured it in, frame by labour-intensive frame. Airbrush city! -
And the TRON LEGACY trailer looks cool too! I remember as a kid my brother and I and some friends would all get frisbees and play "Tron" in the front yard. You threw the frisbee, trying to hit a part of someone's body, and they could block with their frisbee, and people would be eliminated until two were left, and they would duel it out. So much fun.
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Bamfing.
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Because I forgot to mention Meet Joe Black.
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I think I first saw it on VHS when I was three, maybe younger, and lots of times since. I didn't even understand that it was supposed to be a video game. It was contrastingly colorful, and that's what held my interest.
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When Ethan “Handsome” Hawke and Antoine Fuqua last worked together it was called Training Day. Brooklyn’s Finest alternate title could be called Veterans Day. Fuqua switches coasts and Hawke switches gears to put together a multi-arc story that follows the choices of three cops in varied stages of their careers.
The opening sequence focuses on the idea of “righter and wronger”. There is no black and white in this movie. It stays in a gray area dealing with needs, wants, the means and the ends.Cheadle, Hawke, and Gere all put in fair performances with Hawke chewing the scenery a little more than everyone else. The stand out cast member for me was Brian F. O’Byrne who puts more than everyone else into his performance with a fraction of the screen time. I loved him in The International and I am waiting for him to get a real chance to shine. On the other end of things is Richard Gere, not that he was terrible but he just didn’t do anything for me here. He never does. Someone please tell me the stand out Richard Gere performance because I have never seen it. The “return” of Wesley Snipes is also nothing to get excited about. It was good to see him in the movie but I was left wanting a juicier part.
For me it boiled down to the writing. Brooklyn provides a great backdrop and Fuqua moves through every dive, alley and ghetto taking you on a tour of a place you never want to go. The difference is Michael C. Martins script doesn’t have the pop and style that David Ayer gave to Training Day.
This film gets the STLost stamp of approval. 3/5
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Meet Joe Black is a good one...even if the rest of the movie made me want to run into the street.
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