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Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
6:55 pm - Random Stuff About Me


 Picspams will remain public, but everything else is Friends-Only after 3 days.

Everything you need to know )

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Saturday, January 1st, 2011
6:06 pm - 2009 Film Ratings

Updated with Food Inc., The Cove, Anti-Christ and Coraline. (11/30)
Updated with In the Loop. (12/5)
Updated with Invictus and Up in the Air. (12/11)
Updated with Avatar (12/19)
Updated with Sherlock Holmes, District 9 and It's Complicated (12/28).
Updated with Princess and the Frog (12/29).
Updated with The Lovely Bones (1/14).
Update with A Serious Man and The Blind Side (1/19).


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Monday, February 8th, 2010
1:07 am - Are the only good female roles in Hollywood historical/real characters?

Where are all the good female roles?
++ Looking at all the female roles in 2009, it seems to me a lot of the stronger characters happen to be based on real-life people. Meryl Streep in Julie and Julia. Carey Mulligan in An Education. Abbie Cornish in Bright Star. Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side. Emily Blunt in The Young Victoria. There was a great NY Times article on this a few months ago that dealt with this. If there are obviously enough great female characters based on real people, then why can't original female characters be like that too? And when they are good, why can't they succeed at the box office the way a bad portrayal like The Ugly Truth can? A look back on 2009's women and 2010's potential )

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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
12:09 am - Picspam: 5 Films that Pushed the Hays Code

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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
12:22 am - Picspam: Top 5 Prettiest Actresses of the 1930s
 

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Monday, February 1st, 2010
4:19 pm - Picspam: Pretty Musicals of the 50s and 60s

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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
11:58 am - Movie Quotes Meme

Fun meme I saw from [info]bendleshnitz1 . Thought I'd try it out.
1. Pick 20 of your favourite movies. (These aren't all necessarily favorites but just movies I like a lot and that, IMO, have interesting quotes)
2. Go to
IMDB and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. Also, for people guessing, try to give the quote some context (like who said it or what it's about) from the movie!



1. "Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?" The Third Man, [info]matsuo0
2. "A woman doesn't enjoy those things the way a man does. She just lets her husband come near her in order to have children."
3. "Isn't it wonderful? Nobody has to apologize, because we were both stinkers, weren't we?"
4. "I don't believe in surrenders. Nope, I've still got my saber, Reverend. Didn't beat it into no plowshare, neither."
5. "If you want to give me a present, give me a good life. That's something I could value."
6. "I saw my whole life as if I had already lived it." Titanic, [info]bendleshnitz1
7. "Because nobody's going to stop me from my plan. Nobody, nothing. Because I want to be proper!"
8. "I hadn't wanted to see, that she was in love, the way one loves the first time. Nothing would stop her."
9. "Who's Murphy? Who's Doyle! It's Murphy's law... "whatever can go wrong, will go wrong"?"
10. "He should have just accepted things as they are instead of trying to interfere with destiny. You see, you can't interfere with destiny. That's why it's destiny. And if you try to interfere, the same thing's going to happen anyway, and you'll just suffer."
11. "Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me."
12. "Well haven't ya heard? She's irresistible. She told me so herself." 
13. "Some days I think I'd give everything I believe in - everything I got, all my values, just to have my body back again, just to be whole again. But I'm not whole; I never will be, and that's - that's the way it is, isn't it?"
14. "But, how in hell on earth can you imagine you're gonna have a child with a man who cannot stand you." Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, [info]cherry_ola
15. "You'll never find anyone as good for you as I am, to believe in you as much as I do or love you as much!"
16. "There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him." The Sound of Music, [info]allie_meril
17. "You just want to persuade people that you love 'em so much that they ought to love you back. Only you want love on your own terms."
18. "Listen, if somebody gave me the choice right now, of to never see you again or to marry you, alright, I would marry you, alright. And maybe that's a lot of romantic bullshit, but people have gotten married for a lot less."
19. "If I'm sorry nothing came of it, I'm a liar. If I'm glad, I'm a heel. Where do we go from here?"
20. "It could be worse. A woman could cut off your penis while you're sleeping and toss it out the window of a moving car." Fight Club, [info]matsuo0

Need some hints? )

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Monday, January 25th, 2010
6:10 pm - Want to be confused? Here's the lowdown on Oscar's voting system

The New Oscar Voting System: How Avatar lost PGA?
So it seems most Oscar pundits were absolutely knocked over in shock when The Hurt Locker managed to upset heavy favorite Avatar at PGA. If there was one award this season that Avatar was supposed to win by a mile, it was the Producer's Guild. Many predictors were calling Avatar's win a month ago and it only seemed more inevitable when it took home the Golden Globe last weekend.

So imagine everybody's surprise when the Producer's Guild went with the movie that made $12 million at the box office over the movie that's closing in on $2 billion. Apparently, what many people failed to notice or report beforehand is that PGA also adopted Oscar's new preferential voting system this year. They mimicked the Academy's change to 10 nominees and in turn, also changed their ballot system. Now prepare to be a little confused.... )

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Monday, January 18th, 2010
5:45 am - My Cathartic Golden Globe Picspam of Certain Moments
This ain't gonna be pretty
MTV Movie Golden Globes 2010: Money Never Sleeps
A Picspam
You all know how I feel about this )

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Sunday, January 17th, 2010
8:04 pm - Golden Globes Post

MASSIVE GOLDEN GLOBES POST
Commentary, Recap and What it means for the Oscars... OH AND VERY EXCESSIVE RANTING ABOUT A certain MOVIE/PERSON WINNING A CERTAIN AWARD(s) THAT IT/HE DOES NOT FUCKING DESERVE. THE OTHER NOMINEES WERE ROBBED AND THEY KNEW IT. HELL, EVERYONE IN THE AUDIENCE LOOKED PISSED AND PROBABLY WANTED TO BURN DOWN THE PLACE LIKE FUCKING SHOSANNA DREYFUS.
FUCK YOU BLUE PEOPLE. NOW I WISH THE HUMANS HAD BURNED YOUR GODDAMN MAGIC TREEHOUSE.

Good Luck, Ricky! )

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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
8:55 pm - Best Costume Design 2009 Picspam
 

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Monday, January 4th, 2010
9:43 pm - Picspam: Favorite Glee Musical Numbers

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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
2:33 am - Picspam: Romance in Period Films

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Friday, December 25th, 2009
2:39 am - Picspam: Movies I'm Anticipating!


Trailers of Movies I'm Anticipating
Merry Christmas! It's almost the end of 2009 in a few days, so before 2010 rolls around, here are some upcoming releases I'm awaiting!


Pixar, Potter, Sequels, Scorcese, Nolan, Leo x2... )

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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
11:35 pm - Picspam: My Favorite Girls of 2009!
My Favorite Girls of 2009  


 

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Monday, December 14th, 2009
10:28 pm - Picspam: Favorite Films of 2009

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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
8:10 pm - The Decade Picspam: Guilty Pleasures (Film)

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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
11:27 pm - Picspam: Best of the Decade

The Decade Picspam:
Best of the Franchise Films





Money, Money, Money )

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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
1:49 am - Favorite Films of the Decade Picpsam

Top 15 Films of the Decade (2000-2009)


The New Millenium )

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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
8:19 pm - Picspam: Cruel Intentions (1999) vs. Dangerous Liaisons (1988)


Cruel Intentions vs. Dangerous Liaisons




So for anyone who has seen both movies, you probably noticed that Cruel Intentions really is a very faithful adaptation. Practically every scene had a corresponding one in Dangerous Liaisons; most of the characters and even some of the names as well . They even share a cast member, Swoosie Kurtz who played Madame de Volanges in Dangerous Liaisons and Sebastian's therapist in Cruel Intentions.

There was a bit of a renaissance for teen movies in the late 90's, especially teen adaptations of classic literary plots. Taming of the Shrew became 10 Things I Hate About You. Emma became Clueless. She's All That was sort of based on Pygmalion. Anyways, this is just a comparison of the original Dangerous Liaisons (set in 18th century France) and its teen remake Cruel Intentions (set in the modern Upper East Side).



Here )

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