except on money, amirite?!

rajew

Also, Bill Murray had the best role of ANY actor in 2009. Him, playing himself, in Zombieland was brilliant.

The articles probably right in the sense that a lot of "throwaway" genre stuff can indirectly show you the underlying assumptions of the audience/society through which it forms but idk if you'd actually want to bother sit down and watching it because it still looks awful.

I saw Sherlock Holmes with my family recently, it was all right. It was kind of cringeworthy at first that it showed his deductions etc as being like that battle system in fallout 3 where you stop time and line up ya shots (?? i didnt play it) but seemed to drop that fairly quickly. There was a lot of fun stuff in the movie but some of the dialogue and character interactions were kinda excruciating and I couldn't help feeling that the baddie would have made a more interesting Holmes than the generic loveable eccentric type.

OK already!

I just watched Twilight last night. The main character, Bella is so boring but maybe they did that on purpose so that the boring ass girls who are watching it can believe that Ed Cullen is going to come and throw a food hissy over them because they're so damn beautiful/boring and plain. My fave part of the film was where they played baseball cause I can imagine there would be a lot of cool things to do if you were indeed a vampire. The whole love story aspect of the film was really lame but maybe that's what women want! I have no idea anymore!

He drives a Volvo! Should I get a volvo? Will this make me more popular with the ladies?

ahaha vamp baseball. i watched that on youtube and it was the funniest thing.

also Niitaka between this and the avatar topic you seem to know a lot of interesting blog things! gbive me all you blogs. but really i always like reading that stuff but don't know where to find them so where do you get them / could you rec some to me?

yeah vamp baseball is the funniest thing ever

edit: also it's really sad that twilight is "what women want" because apparently women want a guy who will sneak into their house to watch them sleep and remove the engine of their car to keep them from visiting their friends

Vellfire I think that's a matter of debate, book sales surely don't lie. Then again, I've seen the film 'what women want' starring Mel Gibson and there were no vamps featured. I thought this was to retain its PG-13 certificate but my research shows that 'twilight' was also rated PG-13!!!

Either way I'll be going with my gut... be seeing you tonight... but you won't see me... Unless the glittering of my torso wakes you anyway.... =P! Like in Twilight hehe..

they sell life-sized decals of edward for your wall that say "BE SAFE" because little girls want to pretend like edward is just standing there watching them when they sleep i think this is actually MORE creepy than the twilight dildo that you refrigerate so it feels DEAD

whoa

are you thinking of "oldboy" ed?

I'm gonna strangle you!

Don't you like to see ellen page wearing a little thing then afura?

I just watched The Death of Mr. Lazarescu. It was good. It was pretty sad, and good to get a glimpse of where alcoholism leads. Also, working night shift on an ambulance seems like it would be one of the most depressing jobs in the world. Pointless pain and death, every night!

It was of those films where the story is just presented as is, no music, no voice overs, no abstract elements at all. The thing runs in what feels like real time when you are watching. The whole movie takes place over about a 7 hour span and the movie is 153 minutes long so you miss about 4 1/2 hours, most of which the film lets you see enough of to know that nothing happens during that time (i.e. an ambulance ride you don't need to see can be skipped for the sake of brevity). I've never really thought about the popularity of this kind of bare film-making, but it seems pretty obvious now. The whole you-are-there thing is about tricking people into thinking they've experienced something first hand. Maybe 'trick' is the wrong word. It is so easy to forget you are watching something constructed, though, when this kind of technique is used well. It definitely fit this story, about an old man's last moments. All you see is what happens to him that night, the action never leaves him. And nobody really gives a crap about him. The film doesn't give you any special reason to, either. It's must just be good film making that kept it interesting all the way through, because even though the old guy does nothing but lie, moan, piss and puke all through the film, I still ended up warming to him and I think that was the main point of the film. Not to let yourself see people as abject or alien and ugly. The thought crossed my mind a few times of how I would react to seeing a man like him getting dragged around, drunk and dying.

There was other stuff about bureaucracy, and hospitals being crowded and all that, too, but I wasn't so interested in that.

they sell life-sized decals of edward for your wall that say "BE SAFE" because little girls want to pretend like edward is just standing there watching them when they sleep i think this is actually MORE creepy than the twilight dildo that you refrigerate so it feels DEAD

Oh God............

EDIT: oh and that http://mylifeistwilight.com/

EDIT EDIT: OMG there's some pretty fucked up stuff on there: "Today, I came home to my son doing 150 push-ups on our kitchen floor. He's 11. We watched New Moon yesterday. MLIT" I don't like where this one is going.

And that one's just offensive: The other day in English we had to write an mid semester essay and relate the given quote said by Martin Luther King Jr. to something. I related it back to Twilight. MLIT.

That one is pretty bad too: Today, I made a powerpoint for one of the Canterbury Tales for my LA4 class. I used only pictures of the Twilight cast and managed to make them work perfectly with the tale. MLIT

And that one is the worst since SHE IS A FUCKING TEACHER: In the ninth grade biology class I teach, there is a boy named Ed and a girl named Bella. I have paired them up for every lab assignment we have had so far in this year in hopes that they will get together. I even asked my supervisors permission to hold a blood testing day. MLIT

Seriously, read the school section. An whole generation of girls are going to the shitter because of a book. Thanks Stephanie Mayers.