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- 13th April
2011 - 13
- 24th March
2011 - 24
- 16th March
2011 - 16
Ferris Bueller’s Day off as pretentious indie flick of the 00s.
BEST THING EVER.
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- 3rd March
2011 - 03
Why Strong Female Characters Are Bad for Women
I think we need a refresher course.
“I think the major problem here is that women were clamoring for “strong female characters,” and male writers misunderstood. They thought the feminists meant [Strong Female] Characters. The feminists meant [Strong Characters], Female.
So the feminists shouldn’t have said “we want more strong female characters.” They should have said “we want more WEAK female characters.” Not “weak” meaning “Damsel in Distress.” “Weak” meaning “flawed.”
Good characters, male or female, have goals, and they have flaws. Any character without flaws will be a cardboard cutout. Perhaps a sexy cardboard cutout, but two-dimensional nonetheless. And no, “Always goes for douchebags instead of the Nice Guy” (the flaw of Megan Fox’s character in Transformers) is not a real flaw. Men think women have that flaw, but most women avoid “Nice Guys” because they just aren’t that nice. So that doesn’t count.”
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- 28th February
2011 - 28
My picks are in italics. Because you really care what I think, I’m sure. (And yes, I’m super biased. These are the best picture nominees I’ve seen: Black Swan, Inception, The King’s Speech, The Social Network, True Grit, and Toy Story 3) Best Motion Picture of the Year Black Swan The Fighter Inception The Kids are All Right The King’s Speech - WINNER The Social Network 127 Hours Toy Story 3 True Grit Winter’s Bone Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Annette Bening (The Kids are All Right) Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole) Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) Natalie Portman (Black Swan) - WINNER Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine) Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Javier Bardem (Biutiful) Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) - WINNER James Franco (127 Hours) Jeff Bridges (True Grit) (Would be happy with either win, even though I know Colin “Mr. Darcy” Firth was gonna win!) Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Christian Bale (The Fighter) - WINNER John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone) Jeremy Renner (The Town) Mark Ruffalo (The Kids are All Right) Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech) (No real opinion but I heard John Hawkes was great, and Jeremy Renner OWNED his role in The Town) Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Amy Adams (The Fighter) Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech) Melissa Leo (The Fighter) - WINNER Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom) Wasn’t Hailee Steinfeld the LEAD actress in True Grit?? Best Animated Feature Film of the Year How to Train Your Dragon The Illusionist Toy Story 3 - WINNER. DUH Adapted Screenplay 127 Hours (Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle) The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin) - WINNER Toy Story 3 (Michael Arndt, story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich) True Grit (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen) Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik and Anne Rossellini) Original Screenplay Another Year (Mike Leigh) The Fighter (Paul Attanasio, Lewis Colich, Eric Johnson, Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy) Inception (Christopher Nolan) The Kids are All Right (Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko) The King’s Speech (David Seidler) - WINNER
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- 25th January
2011 - 25
My FAVORITE time of the year!!
Can you name them alllll? I can, but I think I’ve seen only maybe half of these. Some movies are repeated multiple times, and someone in their ad department sure likes Singing in the Rain and To Catch a Theif.
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- 19th January
2011 - 19
another batman groupie
I’ll admit it, I’m a Batman groupie. This is a term that I made up 5 seconds ago when I was thinking of a title for this post, but I think it defines the situation pretty well. I won’t go into details, but let’s just say I watched Batman Begins QUITE a few times, and I have a link to Batman: The Animated Series bookmarked on my browser.
ANYWAY, I guess the big news today is that this gal
is going to play Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises.
Anne Hathaway is someone I feel completely neutral about. She gives off this air of being sweet but at the same time pretty intelligent, and is hot but with a friendly, open smile. So I guess there’s her appeal. But I feel like in every movie she’s been in, she’s just kind of… there. Having vaguely promising qualities doesn’t automatically endear you to people, so I don’t know that she has that many die hard fans; at least not as much as she should, considering her supposed caliber.
Secondly, this dude:
is playing the villain Bane.
First of all, Bane is technically Latino, but what else is new, HOLLYWOOD. I’m interested to see how they develop this character anyway. Could be pretty cooool. And, uh… I guess I don’t have much to say about Tom Hardy since I’ve only seen him in Inception, and he was pretty hot and charming in that… so.. uh… yeah.
Hating on the girl while giving the hot guy a free pass? How cliche of me. Sigh.
- 10th January
2011 - 10
True Grit (2010)
Spoiler alert: It was awesome.
I am kind of obsessed with this movie right now. It may be my favorite Coen brothers movie (although I’ve only seen maybe five of them total), which probably means I’m just not a true fan of theirs, since this one lacked their usual amount of subversion. It was, however, a mighty fine western.
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- 9th January
2011 - 09
if we never did anything, we’d never be anybody.
