“We are not a game, Nicholas.” I am sad we had to have a white male protag to follow around in order to tell a black guy’s story. The Ugandan doctor who saves his ass would have made a much better protagonist. Forest Whitaker is amazing in this movie. It’s worth every blessed penny to […]
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I think this movie was supposed to be funny. I found it absolutely terrifying. I felt uncomfortably nauseous the whole way through. I don’t know that I’ve seen a movie that so… effectively portrays women as a slave class. No, I’m serious. This one hit me personally hard. As somebody from a small town who
Oh Star Trek, I will forgive you these things, because you move so damn fast and your characters are so damn good. This is a Star Trek remix, and it’s wonderful. That said, here’s what actively annnoyed me (noet these aren’t plot points. I could give a crap about handwavey Star Trek plots. This is
Hollywood at work: Kevin and I started with a concept: What if we did the entire thing in one shot? We follow a girl from her bathroom mirror, to a car ride, to a convenience store, to a seedy party where she finally shoots and murders someone. All in one shot. Problem then, became exposition.
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That was… that was… that was a special, special film. Oh, and they’re doing a remake. DEAR GOD WHY??? There are few films that are totally iconic of their times. This is one of them. You can’t remake this movie. Outside of the context of the late 60s, early 70s, it makes no sense. I
WIN! I’m always delighted when I find women who thought fan-“boy” movies like The 300 and Fight Club were full of awesome. Because they were.
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The news is already absurd and fabricated. I don’t need people to deliberately absurdify and fabricate it.
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My God, James McAvoy is hot. The pictures just don’t capture it. He’s pretty and all, but he goes from nice-looking to hot really quickly on camera. The first few scenes I’m like, “Huh, yeah, generic lead.” Then he starts warming up and I fall for him hard. He gets hotter every damn time I
I’m watching Obama’s Denver speech about the stimulus bill. I’ve read the pros and cons. I’ve listened to the GOP arguments (largely summed up by, “Soooooooooociiiaaaaaaaaliiiiiiiiiissssssssm!”). I understand everybody’s fears. Yet we happily invested trillions of dollars into foreign wars over the last eight years while our own country failed. Wars that killed tens of
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