Not exactly today but this week; Harry Potter, the deadly hallows part 1. I actually liked it. The person I was with thought it was boring because nothing happened. As for Emma Watson; I never liked the pixy-cut, I also don't like it on her.
Second movie I saw was 'New York'ta bes minare', which probably will offend every american who ever sees it, and by totally overshooting in its message how we all should just get along.
Congratulations America
Anyone see Date Night or The Expendibles?
They are available at a discount for streaming rentals. I'm feeling a bit under the weather, so it looks like this is going to be a movie night...
Expendables was woeful, but strangely compelling - its like you had to keep watching to see just how bad it could get...
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I love Emma's new short boyish haircut.It shows a woman's maturity and self-confidence to choose a style like that. Plus, it brings out the eyes.
We saw Megamind. It was cute, we laughed. A lot of the innuendo jokes were above the little kids' heads (and there seemed to be a lot of little kids in the theatre). Not as good as the Incredibles, but same type of movie.
Just watched The Kids Are Alright. Very good.
DAte night was funny-ish, bit of a remake of out of towners though.Originally Posted by Dreadnaught
Congratulations America
Jack Nicholson movies on cable. Anger Management, Something's Gotta Give, now it's A Few Good Men.
Even when Jack's a secondary character, he can own a whole movie.
You can't handle the truth!
Know I've posted this before but repeating it is kinda fun. I saw Jack at Disney Land in the early 90's. We were both taking our kids through the part with Roger Rabbit, when it was a new-ish attraction on the outer edges of the park. There was a walking character dressed as Beetle Juice. There was a funky kind of Mickey-Minney Mouse house that the kids loved, because it was scaled down and cartoonish but interactive. Little kids just loved that. We were standing in the middle thorough-fare around a fountain, and saw Jack Nicholson in his sunglasses. He had his little boy with him, and I was slow to pick him out as a "star", until the perimeter security guards came into action.
A few people tried to approach for an autograph. Some security guys kept them at bay, but Jack still signed a couple of autographs. I'd never have noticed him if it weren't for his security detail. It was really hot that day, and that area didn't have too many people. (Later I wondered if that was because Jack was coming and the park made sure people were diverted.)
I watched as Jack tried to visit the park with his little boy, like I was doing with mine. Ice cream was involved, but not sure if it was his kid or mine. Memory gets fuzzy that way. We could have tried (and gotten) his autograph, but it was better to just treat him like any other parent with a whiny kid and "ignore" him. Still, I watched. I think they were trying to take a break from the hot sun, by the fountain, just as we were. And we were all there together. For a brief moment, the superstar and his son were just like the me and my son.
After a while, whispers grew louder and the cat was out of the bag. Jack Nicholson was there! I recall people around us speculating about who was the nanny, and only then did I look at the other people around him besides the security guards trying to look inconspicuous. I think the entourage was much larger than anyone knew. Afterward it made me sad a bit, for the superstar and his son. They had to try so hard to be normal, with so many watching eyes.
I thought, if our sons had been together in the Minnie Mouse House or the Roger Rabbit thingie, they'd be regular kids having fun, but maybe my son would remember? Years later, I tell that story to my son and he doesn't really care about running into a superstar or his kid. He just has nice vague memories of being in Disney Land with his mom, and having a blast seeing Beetle Juice. haha, he doesn't care, and neither does Jack's son.
I want to see this. Looks good. I'm a bit of a closet Julianne Moore fan too. She's a decent actress.Just watched The Kids Are Alright. Very good.
She's also super hot
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
I'd love to see Julianne in a pixie hair cut. Oooh, that would be really sweet. Her eyes and cheekbones and mouth would be magnified.
side note about female beauty....more of a question, really.
What role does hair play in the admiration of women?
I went to the Barnes Foundation yesterday, quite the collection of Renoirs and Cezannes. Other masters like Serat, Monet and Manet, plus Van Gogh and Soutine. The whole display was laid out on walls, to teach context for art students. How brush strokes and color were the template. Female hair wasn't the focus, not the presence or absence; not pubic hair, underarm hair, or even head hair.
So what's our current culture obsession with female hair?
There were so many female nudes. Nudes bathing, reclining, legs and arms sprawled and open wide. I can't remember exactly what the docent said about each pice of art, but none of it was about female hair. Unless it was to note how the dark hair on a head balanced dark shoes, or something like that.
It may have been a Picasso, a nude woman with dark pubic hair and underarm hair, reclining on a bed, arms above her head in a position of rest (or resignation) on white sheets, wearing white stockings, to show the contrast in colors and brush strokes. He painted the same thing three times and couldn't get it quite right, so he ended up cropping the rectangular canvas into an oval.
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Sorry, it was a Van Gogh.
http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalo...-on-a-Bed.html
Huh, I've never seen that one.
It's at the Barnes Foundation. If you want to see the collection as he bought and hung it, better do it before they move the whole exhibit. They're moving the whole collection to a new building in Philly soon.
Very interesting approach to the artwork, not like any museum I've ever seen. Wall by wall, arranged Masters highlighted techniques / colors. It's like the artists were talking to each other.
Barnes would have a wall of Renoirs and Cezannes, plus some other artists, and pin up medieval metal works, hinges and things, to mimic the shape of the paintings. Underneath were carefully placed tables or chests with candles, ceramics or urns, or chairs with shaped backs, to complete the visual flow. He even referenced music, Bach's (Beethoven's?) 9th symphony for example, to make the art more than a one dimensional experience.
He had over 180 Renoirs, all in one place. But he collected and showed them with other art from other artists and other centuries. Art with a purpose, which is a novel idea.
How did naked women get into the movie thread perhaps they need to move out?
Anyway a good place to go would be Yuma, in fact 3:10 to Yuma was a good movie.
Fixed by a Developmental Geneticist. Just, y'know, Hollywood.
Fixed.
death by athousand cutsKevin Costner
It's happened before! Besides, it's just not that great a story. I'm a David Brin fan, but The Postman is one of his worst.
This weekend I saw (on my father-in-law's monster screen):
1) Karate Kid (2010): 3/5 stars. Pretty much an aughts version of the original (1984), with almost no departure from the original plot, which, after all, is a charming Disney-esque plot. Are we getting tired of Hollywood plagiarizing itself yet? The bending over backwards to showcase Jayden Smith definitely harmed the story, and got very annoying. Actually bordered on insulting, since clearly mom and dad are trying to manipulate the world to make their son a star. Kid was awesome in The Pursuit of Happyness, but mediocre in a film he has to carry, particularly since at times he is blatantly immitating his dad, to the point where you can imagine him studying takes of his dad's signature style, and picture the director saying "CUT! Try that again, sounding more like your dad." The best part of the movie is, no surprise at all, Jackie Chan. Chan was genuine, the mom was awful, but the movie still managed to be fairly fan, and I was dragged into the climactic end in spite of my annoyance.
2) Couples Retreat (2009): 3/5 stars. Vince Vaughn vehicles tend to be predictable. The jokes are fairly predictable and his delivery is fairly predictable; only the setting is new. Nonetheless, they are almost always entertaining, as is Vaughn. This is no different. As long as you avoid unreasonable expectations, you'll enjoy this movie a lot. The themes are sexually mature, so no kids.
3) it pains me to say this.... Beethoven's Second (1993): 2/5 stars. My father-in-law has gigantic dogs (Akidas), so he wanted to see this movie. And he always gets what he wants. Sigh. I've never seen the original, but this one is basically a bad Disney movie, though I don't recall whether Disney had anything to do with it. Kids of a certain age will enjoy it, while adults not prone to enjoying the insipid will mainly like Charles Grodin's earnest vacuousness. Too bad we couldn't have just watched the ultimate buddy movie again, Midnight Run (1988), which was Grodin's best film by several miles. You may not find it a coincidence that Grodin was in Ishtar (1987). Why two stars, you ask? Hey, it is not a bad version of its genre.
No no no.... Couple's Retreat was fucking horrible.You are too generous.
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Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
It was rather slow and boring for me, and Vince Vaughn has always come off as an asshole rather than a comedian; "The louder I yell, the funnier I am!" Had the same problem with The Break Up.
Agreed on the Vince Vaughan thing, I just don't find him funny.
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Meh, like I said it is a "punch the ticket" comedy. Sort of like many of Adam Sandler's, many of Ben Stiller's, many of Will Ferrell's, many of any other guy's. Liking the particular guy is immaterial; the movie gives you a package of that type of comedy in a slightly new setting. Period. These are average comedies, hence three stars. Fucking Elf has 6.8 stars at IMDB, so don't tell me this movie sucks. Type of comedy is taste. Who cares if you like Vince Vaugn? I have the fucking juvenile humor of the Farelly borthers. Was the movie moderately well put together?
Hold on, did you just slam Elf? Dude, really?? ELF??? Honestly? ELF?!?!?!?
We're no longer on speaking terms. Unless you reply to this post, in which case I will reply to you.
Watched the third half of Couple's Retreat again last night just as a sanity check and yeah, it fucking sucks. Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller movies generally suck as well. Have you seen Funny People? That's a great movie. And funny too. Greenberg was pretty good too. Best Ben Stiller has probably ever done.
EDIT: I liked Elf.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
The chick in Elf made Elf ok, Will Ferrell just gave us a reason to have the chick in Elf.
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Zooey Deschnel. Have you seen 500 Days of Summer? She was also in Yes Man (dumb) and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (OK). She was also in All the Real Girls, a film I found particularly disturbing.The chick in Elf made Elf ok, Will Ferrell just gave us a reason to have the chick in Elf.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Yep and she can sing a little too. She's just dangerously cute...
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So very pretty. Despite having a stoopid name.
Up to me again to brighten this dull thread with hawtNess I suppose.
Petite, quirky and cute as. Just what I find irresistible.
A little? She's got an album or two out I believe. Indy alternative pop type stuff, iirc. She also did a few episodes of Weeds as the brother-in-law's quirky ex-girlfriend from Alaska. Pops up all over the place, actually. She played the sister in Almost Famous, which, if I remember the interview correctly, was her first big role. Note, Almost Famous is a great film (one of my favorites
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Oh dear.
Yeah Almost Famous was a very good film - one of those rare cinematic experiences for me where the characters really did feel familiar - like you knew them or knew of them.
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