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nogenderbee · 11 months

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(Belated) Happy Birthday to you! I wish you the best year ever :3

⊱ What nickname would you call your lover?: something simple, like a short version of their name or “love”

⊱ What are your hobbies? I like playing video games (horror, mystery and dating sims are my fav genres), watching anime and reading manga, drawing fanart and writing fanfiction (even if I am not very good at it), cooking & watching documentaries. Also, I recently began learning how to sew and I’m thinking of learning a foreign language.

⊱ What's your perfect date idea?: going to the cinema; or having a picnic; or shopping together; or visiting an amusement park or a zoo/aquarium; or just staying in, making/ordering all of our favorite food, watching all of our favorite shows and cuddling.

⊱ What's something you hate in others? (like a personality trait or behavior for example): I don't like overly judgemental people and those who refuse to communicate honestly and just want you to magically know what's on their mind or how they're feeling or what they want.

⊱ What are yours main 3-5 (or more if you want!) personality traits?: I am pretty laid back, I enjoy helping others, my friends say i have a warm and gentle personality (💖) but I can be stubborn and insensitive sometimes + not a personality trait, but I prefer girls.

⊱ What's activity/hobby do you like?: besides the hobbies already listed, I enjoy taking long slow walks with no destination point and listening to music.

⊱ What's activity/hobby you don't like?: anything that requires too much social interaction #introvertgang

Awh thank you so much! And of course I paired you with a girl just like you prefer it~

So your pair is...

🥁🥁🥁

Kohane Azusawa!

⊱ so as for short version of her name, it'd probably be "Koha" or so (just my feeling) but "love" also suits her. Expect her to blush at first tho.

⊱ whenever you play muster games ot even horror ones, she loves to watch you. And whenever you watch anime or read manga, she also would like to join you as she probably likes few herself!

⊱ she honestly loves all your ideas! Her favorites ate zoo's and picnic dates tho because she can take some really nice photos! Amusement park dates also are nice because there she can take photos of you on kany occasions, and in the end it's fun even tho it's a bit scary for her.

⊱ she definitely was charmed by your helping nature. As for your stubbornness, it's probably a good thing in your relationship since she can be pretty shy so it allows you to take the lead sometimes and maybe even help her out

⊱ as for long, slow walks, you can be sure she loves them as well! Mostly because she can take few nice photos of not only scenery but you both together, but of course that's not the only reason! She also likes to just walk hand to hand with you while admiring scenery while in comfortable silence or talking about random things that came to your heads

You and Kohane were taking a walk around the park and the city. You were walking for quite a long time now but none of you mind that. You had fun spending time with your girlfriend and she had gun photographing the scenery. She finally came up to you and showed you her photo of butterfly on leaf.

"What do you think Y/N?"

"I think it's good! Great jobs Koha!"

"T-Thank you! Sorry for going somewhere far but I just couldn't help but miss this chance. Can I... maybe take photo of us both now...?"

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zealoushound · 3 years

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My Hero

Summary: You and Kal have a movie night!

Pairing: Henry x reader, Kal & reader

Word Count: 1,300

Warnings: RPF All fluff! Scary movie, mentions of horror movie monsters.

A/N: @iaalien asked for more Kal content so of course I had to provide! Hope you enjoy it babe!

Disclaimer: This is purely fictional. I don’t own Henry Cavill or Kal, which is really sad if you think about it. Do not copy any part of my material to use as your own. Do not repost my work, or any portions of my work on any site and claim it as your own. Like all my other fics, this was written on my phone and not beta’d.

(pic from @kalcavill-fanblog)

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You only started watching this because your best friend, who had just finished it, told you it was such a good movie. You had wanted to wait, and watch it while Henry was home so you wouldn’t be as scared, but he was away for the weekend on business and wouldn’t be home until tomorrow night.

Against your better judgement, you decided not to wait on his return. Patience never had been your strong suit. You settled in on the couch beside Kal, who had stayed behind instead of going Henry.

Albeit, a considerably hairier replacement, Kal makes the perfect movie companion. He never complains about watching a chick flick, makes you watch any boring documentaries or hogs the popcorn like his human counterpart. Pulling your blanket up for extra security, you wrapped an arm around the gentle giant to your left and hit play.

Thirty minutes later you had gotten so interested in the movie that you were on the edge of the couch, unable to look away even as it got scarier, and scarier. With widened eyes, you leaned closer as if somehow leaning forward would help you see what was coming.

“Oh, Kal! This is too scary.” Putting your hand over your heart, “how did I let you talk me into this?” Looking away for a send to glance at your furry companion. Kal looked up at you, giving you a little head tilt.

Something crashed down then a loud scream ripped out of the television. “OH! No. I’m turning this off!” You said defiantly as someone was killed on screen.

As you were picking up the remote again someone else came into view on screen. “Oh, don’t go in there! Don’t do it!” You looked down at Kal, “She’s about to get it!” You stated matter of factly. Kal’s tongue lolled out of his happy mouth as you scratched his head, more for yourself than him. Touching him grounded you in the present. You weren’t as scared then. It also helped that touching, petting, playing with him made you feel closer to Henry.

As you looked back, the killer jumped out at the woman on screen. “Ahha! See! I told you! I gotta turn this off before I pee my pants.” You paused it. “Ok, a quick bathroom break and then we’ll restart... maybe.” You were a glutton for punishment, of course you’d come back! “I’ll be right back buddy.” You patted Kal on the side as you got up to run to the bathroom.

Opening the door you looked down, “Honey you didn't have to get up!” Of course Kal had followed you down the hall to the restroom. “Come on, baby boy, let's finish this.” You wiped your clean hands off on your pants. I’ll get you some snacks. How about that, huh? Yeah, is that my good boy? Yes sir, you are!” Kal pranced around loving all the praises from his mumma, as Henry had begun calling you.

You pulled a few Milk Bones out of the box in the kitchen, tossing one to him as he caught it midair. “Good boy!” You exclaimed excitedly. He crunched on it all the way back into the living room as you resettled onto the couch with your favorite pillow, just in case you needed to cover your eyes.

Kal hops up right next to you letting you drape an arm over him again while you rub the soft, fluffy fur on his chest. “Ok, now. Where were we?” You hit play, jumping right back into the story. Kal eyes the treats in your other hand. Seeing him in your peripheral vision, you put the bone shaped treat out in front of him for him to take from your hand while not looking away from the film.

Forty five minutes later, you’re so involved in the twisted story you don’t even realize that you’ve sunk down so much that you’re all but lying on Kal. He’s raised up, but still seated beside you, sensing the fear in you and keeping a vigilant eye on the monsters that intend to do you harm.

“Oooohhh nooooo,” you whisper, hiding your face in Kal’s fur as the music begins to swell. Henry cautiously walks into the living room, then stands perfectly still, watching you quietly. He’s careful not to make a sound; convinced that he would frighten you to death if he so much as breathed too loudly right now.

Just as you look up from your furry shield the beast leaps into view, growling, snarling, covered in carnage, looking like something straight out of your worst nightmare. You jump a foot off the couch, and let out a terrified scream. Kal springs into action.

He’s instantly up off the couch, and down to stand in front of the tv. Feet planted, ready to attack, fur bristled, growling at the beast that scared his mama so badly that she’s crying now.

He begins to bark until Henry’s soft soothing voice picks up from the kitchen behind him. “Easy boy, good boy. Relax buddy.” Kal backs down, walking over to see his dad. “That’s a good boy. Good work protecting mama like that.”

You’ve huddled into yourself, crying on the pillow waiting for the coast to be clear so you can dive on the remote, and turn the tv off. Then suddenly you hear Henry’s voice behind you. He’s home early. Oh, thank God!

Henry walks around the couch with your scary movie partner-in-crime following close behind him. He sits down behind you. Kal comes to check on you sitting beside the couch, watching you intently.

Henry picks up the remote, looking at you while he holds his hand up to point it to the tv as he turns it off. You’re still hiding behind the pillow you’d grabbed earlier, taking in the blissful silence that falls as soon as he shut off the tv. See? You knew you’d need that pillow.

“You ok?” Henry asks quietly, running his huge, warm hand up your thigh, his fingertips resting just underneath the hem of the shorts you’re wearing.

“Yeah,” you reply sheepishly. “I’m sorry.” You sit up, sniffling. Your face red, and streaked with tears. You only glance at him, ashamed of how he’d found you.

“Why are you sorry, my love?” He opens his arms for you. You pounce on him like if you didn’t he would disappear; float away like a beautiful, soothing, dream.

“I knew better than to watch that dumb movie while you were gone.” You mumble into his soft, grey MuscleTech shirt, breathing in his scent. His scent, his arms, his voice, they always calmed you. Instantly. He had some sort of power over you, not that you would ever complain about it.

“You would have still been just as scared if I had been here.” he said, rubbing your back just the way you liked. He could have sworn he heard you purr.

“Yeah... I’m just embarrassed now though,” you spoke so softly he almost hadn’t caught that last part.

“It’s ok to be scared, darling.” He assured you.

“I know it's just... when I screamed I know I scared poor Kal.” You looked over to him sitting in between Henry’s feet.

Henry laughed. “Honey! You did not scare Kal. He was protecting you! He stood between you, and that thing! He was ready to destroy it!”

“Oh buddy, you did?” He sat up taller, and looked to be puffing out his chest like a superhero. “Oh, Kal! You’re my hero! Thank you buddy! You’re amazing, you know that?” You petted him all over while praising him. He blinked his eyes slowly, panting softly as he let his tongue wag, along with his tail! “Kal you are the BEST!” He was in absolute Heaven!

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vacantwatchers · 7 years

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If you feel like it, please respond with five things that make you happy when you get this. Then, send to the last ten people in your notifications anonymously. You never know who might benefit from spreading positivity! 🌼

Five things? All righty-roo, I’m probably about to go waaaaaaaay more in depth than you intended me to go.

One -- Space. Literally everything to do about it; planets, stars, lifeforms undiscovered. All of it. And all forms of media for it, documentaries, movies, photographs. I saw Hidden Figures and cried 3 times and was just so enthralled in everything that it took to touch space. My dad got me into it when I was really little by watching Cosmos and Star Trek together and he used to point out a constellation in this massive science book he bought me and tell me to go find it in the sky.To this day, I find Orion and think of him. I just, I really love space; it always makes me happy when I look up at night and gaze at the stars.

(I sound like the guy from the beginning of Men In Black, “They're beautiful, aren't they? The stars. We never just look anymore.”)

Two -- Dinosaurs. I shouldn’t really need to expand but just, dinosaurs are so frigging cool and they make me so happy just looking at how amazing and majestic they were.

Three -- Art. Give me all forms of it. All the art. Comic Books*, Digital, Minimalist, Surrealist, Historic, Romantic, Horrific, Animated**. I love it. Especially when it’s landscapes (flora an fauna are the shit), science fiction, really brightly coloured or if it’s been something my best friend drew and then sent to me. This especially makes me happy because I know how much she’s struggled with getting back into art. She sent me a painting of a Stegosaurus with geometric crystal spinal plates floating in space. That’s just happiness right there.

*any kind of comics too. Give me any style and I’ll no doubt look at the art and ignore the story for a long time. The details in comic book art will never cease to amaze me.

**give me all the animated movies. My go to’s when I want to watch something that’s just aesthetically pleasing to the eye are Akira, Ghost In The Shell, Howl’s Moving Castle and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Thanks, dad, for introducing me to these movies at a young age.

Four -- Movies. You want a happy Taylah? Put on one of the following and you’ll have that instantly: Encino Man; The Birdcage; To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything; A Night At The Roxbury; A Goofy Movie; Star Trek IV: Voyage Home; Doom; Jurassic Park; Terminator 2: Judgement Day; Aliens; The Mighty Ducks; The Lost Boys, The Fifth Element, Die Hard With A Vengeance.

Five -- ? I wasn’t sure what to put here because the last part is equal and flows into each other. So I guess, music and reading. Any kind of music and pretty much any young adult book (why are they so frigging good?) and you’ll find me happy. Bonus: if I find a killer fan fiction then all bets are off.

Honourable mention: stationary and all it’s various forms.

I definitely went too in depth. I’m sorry. I just wasn’t sure what to put down. It took me a startlingly long time to come up with this list because while I outwardly feel these things it feels like I’m almost numb inside, I don’t recognise what I feel half the time. I should probably talk to someone about that.

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mcjoelcain · 4 years

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How to Be More Creative

Those of us who weren’t fortunate enough to be born the next Picasso may think there’s no way we can learn to be more creative. But is that really true? According to some of the most creative people in the business, it’s not.

I recently interviewed Brian Koppelman, a renowned filmmaker, producer, and writer. He has worked on some of my favorite movies, like Rounders, Ocean’s Thirteen, and The Illusionist. He also created the popular T.V. show Billions, which has won many prestigious awards. Brian’s creativity has resulted in massive career success, and he’s spent years perfecting his creative process. We sat down together and he gave me his best advice on how anyone can be more creative.

Quick Tips on How to Be More Creative:

Tip #1: Don’t be afraid to fail

Tip #2: Don’t try to get it right on the first try

Tip #3: Accept that creating can be uncomfortable

Tip #4: Limit your time

Tip #5: Reduce your anxiety

Tip #6: Use rejection as a tool

You can watch my full interview with Brian below.

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Tip #1: Don’t be afraid to fail

Brian says, “Whatever your favorite movie is, at some point during the writing of it the screenwriter felt completely lost”. When you’re working on a big creative project, you run the risk that it will be a complete failure. People often forget this, because they only see the finished successful product. But we know that for every movie that gets made, there are thousands of movies that don’t. If you’re afraid to fail, you’ll never be able to get to that amazing finished product. Even if it takes a few tries to get it right, it’s worth it to create something brilliant in the end.

Tip #2: Don’t try to get it right on the first try

There are two steps to creating something new: the first step is making the first draft, or coming up with something from scratch. The second step is editing that draft into a beautiful finished product. If you want to be more creative, you need to be careful not to combine these two steps (most people do). When you’re creating something from scratch, you need to silence your inner critic and just create with as much freedom and passion as possible. THEN once you have a first draft, you can go back over it with a critical eye and make it better.

If you try to edit it while you create, you’re limiting your creativity in a big way. You have to be able to try something new, and edit it out later if it doesn’t work. If you edit it out before you try it, you’ll never know if that would have ended up being the perfect addition.

Bonus: Want to turn your dream of working from home into a reality? Download my Ultimate Guide to Working from Home to learn how to make working from home work for YOU.

Tip #3: Accept that the process of creating can be uncomfortable

We all have times where we’re working on something and we think it’s terrible. Brian explains that when he was working on his ESPN documentary on Jimmy Conners, he would come home feeling like he made it worse rather than better. But you have to get up the next day and attack it again. Once you realize that this discomfort is part of the process of making something great, you can learn to work through this tough part of the process and become even more creative.

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Tip #4: Limit the amount of time you have

You don’t need a lot of time to make something great. It’s actually a huge advantage If you only have an hour a day to work on your creativity, because it forces you to focus and work with intensity. If you give yourself too much time, it’s too tempting for your mind to wander. By limiting your time, you’ll produce more creative work at a faster pace. Brian also advises to “Leave yourself ‘a wet edge’, or a little roadmap for tomorrow, at the end of your creative practice”. This way your subconscious will keep working on it, and when you come back the next day, you’ll be able to hit the ground running.

Tip #5: Eliminate sources of anxiety

When Brian and his partner David Levien were writing their first screenplay, they were both working full time. Brian advises aspiring creators not to quit their jobs, because it creates too much pressure. If there is a lot of pressure on you to create something magnificent, it can actually thwart your creative abilities. Instead, focus on eliminating anxiety wherever you can so you can truly focus on your creativity.

Tip #6: Use rejection as a tool

A lot of times when we hear “No”, it’s crushing, and it feels like a huge judgement on our work and our character. But Brian points out that you never know what’s going on behind closed doors, “Maybe that morning the head of the agency said ‘hey guys, don’t tell anybody but we can’t afford to take on any new clients. So for the next month you need to pass on everything’”. Your work could get passed up because of something internal you don’t know about, but if you take it personally and give up, you might miss your chance.

Bonus: Ready to start a business that boosts your income and flexibility, but not sure where to start? Download my Free List of 30 Proven Business Ideas to get started today (without even leaving your couch).

Rejection can actually be a useful tool to help you look objectively at your work.

Take your Creativity to the next level

Overall, creativity is a skill that you can improve over time. If you follow the tips Brian laid out above, you’ll be well on your way to being more creative.

Once you’ve honed your creative process, you may want to take it to the next level. Many great creators have started businesses from their work, and you could too.

If you want even more inspiration on how improving your creativity could transform your life, take my earnings potential quiz below.

How to Be More Creative is a post from: I Will Teach You To Be Rich.

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samuelfields · 4 years

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How to Be More Creative

Quick Tips on How to Be More Creative:

Tip #1: Don’t be afraid to fail

Tip #2: Don’t try to get it right on the first try

Tip #3: Accept that creating can be uncomfortable

Tip #4: Limit your time

Tip #5: Reduce your anxiety

Tip #6: Use rejection as a tool

You can watch my full interview with Brian below.

youtube

Tip #1: Don’t be afraid to fail

Tip #2: Don’t try to get it right on the first try

Bonus: Want to turn your dream of working from home into a reality? Download my Ultimate Guide to Working from Home to learn how to make working from home work for YOU.

Tip #3: Accept that the process of creating can be uncomfortable

It’s never too late to start building healthy habits. Download my Ultimate Guide to Habits to get started TODAY.

Tip #4: Limit the amount of time you have

Tip #5: Eliminate sources of anxiety

Tip #6: Use rejection as a tool

Rejection can actually be a useful tool to help you look objectively at your work.

Take your Creativity to the next level

Overall, creativity is a skill that you can improve over time. If you follow the tips Brian laid out above, you’ll be well on your way to being more creative.

Once you’ve honed your creative process, you may want to take it to the next level. Many great creators have started businesses from their work, and you could too.

If you want even more inspiration on how improving your creativity could transform your life, take my earnings potential quiz below.

How to Be More Creative is a post from: I Will Teach You To Be Rich.

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kennethherrerablog · 4 years

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How to Be More Creative

Quick Tips on How to Be More Creative:

Tip #1: Don’t be afraid to fail

Tip #2: Don’t try to get it right on the first try

Tip #3: Accept that creating can be uncomfortable

Tip #4: Limit your time

Tip #5: Reduce your anxiety

Tip #6: Use rejection as a tool

You can watch my full interview with Brian below.

youtube

Tip #1: Don’t be afraid to fail

Tip #2: Don’t try to get it right on the first try

Bonus: Want to turn your dream of working from home into a reality? Download my Ultimate Guide to Working from Home to learn how to make working from home work for YOU.

Tip #3: Accept that the process of creating can be uncomfortable

It’s never too late to start building healthy habits. Download my Ultimate Guide to Habits to get started TODAY.

Tip #4: Limit the amount of time you have

Tip #5: Eliminate sources of anxiety

Tip #6: Use rejection as a tool

Rejection can actually be a useful tool to help you look objectively at your work.

Take your Creativity to the next level

Overall, creativity is a skill that you can improve over time. If you follow the tips Brian laid out above, you’ll be well on your way to being more creative.

Once you’ve honed your creative process, you may want to take it to the next level. Many great creators have started businesses from their work, and you could too.

If you want even more inspiration on how improving your creativity could transform your life, take my earnings potential quiz below.

How to Be More Creative is a post from: I Will Teach You To Be Rich.

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andrewdburton · 4 years

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How to Be More Creative

Quick Tips on How to Be More Creative:

Tip #1: Don’t be afraid to fail

Tip #2: Don’t try to get it right on the first try

Tip #3: Accept that creating can be uncomfortable

Tip #4: Limit your time

Tip #5: Reduce your anxiety

Tip #6: Use rejection as a tool

You can watch my full interview with Brian below.

youtube

Tip #1: Don’t be afraid to fail

Tip #2: Don’t try to get it right on the first try

Bonus: Want to turn your dream of working from home into a reality? Download my Ultimate Guide to Working from Home to learn how to make working from home work for YOU.

Tip #3: Accept that the process of creating can be uncomfortable

It’s never too late to start building healthy habits. Download my Ultimate Guide to Habits to get started TODAY.

Tip #4: Limit the amount of time you have

Tip #5: Eliminate sources of anxiety

Tip #6: Use rejection as a tool

Rejection can actually be a useful tool to help you look objectively at your work.

Take your Creativity to the next level

Overall, creativity is a skill that you can improve over time. If you follow the tips Brian laid out above, you’ll be well on your way to being more creative.

Once you’ve honed your creative process, you may want to take it to the next level. Many great creators have started businesses from their work, and you could too.

If you want even more inspiration on how improving your creativity could transform your life, take my earnings potential quiz below.

How to Be More Creative is a post from: I Will Teach You To Be Rich.

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paulckrueger · 4 years

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How to Be More Creative

Quick Tips on How to Be More Creative:

Tip #1: Don’t be afraid to fail

Tip #2: Don’t try to get it right on the first try

Tip #3: Accept that creating can be uncomfortable

Tip #4: Limit your time

Tip #5: Reduce your anxiety

Tip #6: Use rejection as a tool

You can watch my full interview with Brian below.

youtube

Tip #1: Don’t be afraid to fail

Tip #2: Don’t try to get it right on the first try

Bonus: Want to turn your dream of working from home into a reality? Download my Ultimate Guide to Working from Home to learn how to make working from home work for YOU.

Tip #3: Accept that the process of creating can be uncomfortable

It’s never too late to start building healthy habits. Download my Ultimate Guide to Habits to get started TODAY.

Tip #4: Limit the amount of time you have

Tip #5: Eliminate sources of anxiety

Tip #6: Use rejection as a tool

Rejection can actually be a useful tool to help you look objectively at your work.

Take your Creativity to the next level

Overall, creativity is a skill that you can improve over time. If you follow the tips Brian laid out above, you’ll be well on your way to being more creative.

Once you’ve honed your creative process, you may want to take it to the next level. Many great creators have started businesses from their work, and you could too.

If you want even more inspiration on how improving your creativity could transform your life, take my earnings potential quiz below.

How to Be More Creative is a post from: I Will Teach You To Be Rich.

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jacktylerwrites · 4 years

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Movie Watching - Saturday, 12/14/19

End of Watch

(2012)

Director/Writer: David Ayer

So - Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena are pretty damn good actors. Immediate takeaway is that wouldn’t it have been awesome to see a whole buddy cop movie franchise, like Lethal Weapon, between these two? Of course, that seems antithetical to the whole vibe or aesthetic of this movie, and given the ending, somewhat crass.

In short, I really liked this movie. What I found interesting is that it could reinforce your beliefs on cops, negative or positive. In humanizing cops, the movie veers maybe too much into romanticizing them. The whole normal men being heroes schtick. (This makes me sound cynical, and perhaps I am, yet I’d be lying if I didn’t walk away from this movie feeling at least a little bit of that whole "rah-rah these are normal people stepping up to the plate and doing a job that I wouldn't, or couldn't, do myself.")(Although, I'm not quite ready to go to Wall-Mart and buy a thin blue line flag.) But Gyllenhall and Pena are great, as in convincing, as just normal bros doing the extradorniary if for no other reason than someone needs to do it, so it might as well be them. I'm not even sure it occurs to them that others may simply not be cut out for the gig. In fact, when other cops suggest as much about a rookie who resigned from the force after getting almost beat to death, the pair seem to only hesitantly agree. And Pena, when asked why he became a cop, says it was just because his wife said it was the best career route for someone like him, the best way to make a decent living for him and his family. And when the two of them are awarded a medal for their heroism, the movie does a good job downplaying it not because the characters are these great, heroic guys who are humble like heroes are supposed to be, but because it makes them uncomfortable. This movie doesn't take the easy route of casting judgement on these characters. It doesn't say they're good cops because they were somehow born or brought up with extraordinary traits. Instead it says these guys are good cops, and in turn good people, because being a cop is their job, and they have the drive to not only do their job, but do it well.

Let me talk now about how the movie is shot. Ayer takes the unusual method of employing mockumentry. That is, well, that's a choice for sure. I think this movie could have been just fine if it just played it as a sort of ultra realistic, handheld style. In fact, maybe it would have been better, because unfortunately after a powerful ending, the main thing the movie left me with was, "So who the hell made this documentary?" I read a review once about Philip Roth's Zuckerman books, and how he used it to take the idea of narrator to its natural conclusion, or to explore the very idea of first, second, third, past, present, etc narration. (Was it Myers? Google "commonplace blog". Great stuff.) Like basically what it says is that if a book has a narrator besides third person, past, omniscient, you have to explain that narrator. Who is telling the story? From when are they telling the story? Why are they telling the story? In this movie it's explained that Gyllenhaal's character is filming a sort of documentary for a film studies elective (he's going to school for a degree in criminology I think it was? and has to take an art elective). That explains most of the movie, if you want to assume that sometime after the events of the movie someone, maybe one of the characters, pieced together a documentary. But that doesn't explain other scenes where Gyllenhaal doesn't appear, like with the Mexican gang or even the cartels south of the border. I mean, if you really think about it, the movie does give explanation, but it's a bit out there (like, would whoever pieced together this documentary really have access to DEA footage, which is how we see the cartels in Mexico?). It's all completely unnecessary for the movie. It seems like Ayer was trying to poise it on an aesthetic pedestal, but he doesn't follow through or do anything with it. It's just... there.

But, definitely worth seeing, at minimum for the performances. And at this point, are we ready to start talking about Gyllenhaal in the same breath as Joaquin Phoenix, when we discuss the great actors of this generation?

Out of Time

(2003)

Written by David Collard

Directed by Carl Franklin

This movie came out, in theaters and DVD, while I was in high school, working at Hollywood Video. I remember stocking it on the New Releases wall. But I still had to bring up the movie a couple times on my phone to double check that this was not from the 90s. (Maybe I was thinking I was confusing it with Man on Fire. I know that was early 2000s, and both have over saturated yellow-orange covers with Denzel in sunglasses, so...) But, yeah, this movie is so, like, mid-late-90s mystery/action/thriller - it even has Dean Cain! I don't know what there is to say about this movie. I mean, it's fine. Denzel is good, although he seems bored sometimes (but his character is bored or over it, too, so the man makes it work). It's pretty predictable, but I guess it's fine for a Sunday afternoon? It's not bad. I don't know. About the only thing I remember is that almost the whole movie takes place in one day. Like once the mystery kicks in (and I think you can say it kicks in too late. Like it's walking me through all this set-up, and the set-up is just not that interesting to spend all that much time on) the whole movie takes place in a day, and there's no real suspense, either, besides a sort of cheap minute by minute suspense, like, will she get connected to the mail room? Damn, they're on lunch. (That sounds random and stupid, but that's literally what happens.) But once Denzel solves the mystery, or the killer comes forward, actually, and once his ex-wife uncovers what happened, bam, it's over. Like, I wanted that period where the police actually do think Denzel killed this couple, but that doesn't happen. We don't get anyone's reaction to the news that this sleepy little community's sheriff brutally murdered two people.

Anyways, see it if you don't have to search it out and have nothing to do, or if you're a Denzel fan (although even then it'd be at the bottom of your list).

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WRITING, STUPID

When we interviewed programmers, the group of people who are smart, but I don't know what it means to be an expert on startups, but most neighborhoods successfully resisted them. Why should good ideas be funny? Ironically, Microsoft unintentionally helped create Ajax. Raising money is the second half. It's probably less, in fact: you should know what the status quo, but money as well. 1 in 10 startups succeeds. He got a 4x liquidation preference. And that is how things have to be. I can filter out that stuff with about one line of Lisp. These two senses are already quite far apart. Just start listing ideas at random like this, but they are at least guesses by pros about where those market caps will end up succeeding. We didn't just give in and take whoever the VCs wanted.

So you can test equality by comparing a pointer. They're not playing games with you. People I notice most of the time. This is a little depressing. 9999, but it's straightforward to avoid errors. Now that we know what we're looking for, that leads to other questions. Why does he think this? I had never liked the term computer science. Merely looking for the next several centuries the main work of European scholars, in almost every field, but the way one likes popping zits. For most successful startups, including ours, were initially run out of ideas. And yet the result is that scientists tend to make them happy. But this just wouldn't work.

01 min. People are all over this idea lately, and I got in reply what was then the richest and most sophisticated city in the world of content-based filters are the way they taught you to in school. Another problem, and possibly an even worse one, was that we never had anything real to work on now. If an investor knows you have other investors lined up, he'll be a lot of catalog companies, because it's followed immediately by less hackable tests. That plus the inexperience card should work in most situations, while a smart person knows what to do. You're trying to solve problems. 11 in the morning, go to angels. Others, like mowing the lawn, or filing tax returns, only get worse, but so they win deals when competing against other VCs.

In this case it seems more to the point where they're used. A round VCs put two partners on your board, there are other ways to get money, and making money on the stadium, at least subconsciously, based on some fairly informal math, that there probably wouldn't be able to deal with tedious problems or get involved in messy ways with the real world. So there are a few people plot their own itinerary through no-land, while everyone else books a package tour. At sales I was not very good. That will increasingly be able to increase your ambition. Better to get a tiny bit less occasional to compensate for another. They can tell at a young age that a contest where everyone wins is a fraud. Sometimes they even agree with one another to invest in this startup. Since software patents are no different from other places. 9998 otherwise.

One I've already mentioned: that startups are popping up like crazy, the number of such domains is so large. It's Hard to Get Users A lot of the company are the real powers, and the resumes of the founders. We found the startups that are most measurable. If you're already profitable, on however small a scale you'll just guarantee failure. Then when you reach some artificial deadline like a Demo Day, you'll be done a lot of bad design is industrious, but misguided. With server-based applications, meaning programs that sit on the other writing of Paradise Lost that none who read it ever wished it longer. You're committing not just to play back experiences but also to make them cheaply; many more get built; and as a result of the stampede, and lots of very successful startups were founded by just one person? So it turns out to be a clean, beautiful, powerful language that I would never use this. 27meg. Even if the CEO is a programmer and another founder is a salesperson? He'd seem to the average person, brand dominates all other factors in the judgement of art is good: they mean it would engage any human. And yet it seems to bother a lot of startups—probaby most startups funded by Y Combinator.

The strategy works just as well to carry plugs. You needed to take care of, you're forced to face the fact that the best ones were languages designed for their own designers to use. Reward is always proportionate to risk, and very early stage startups is that they can see different problems. In programming, as in more recent times indecent, improper, and unamerican have been. When I was about 10 I saw a documentary on pollution that put me into a panic. Startups do to the world of startup funding used to look like a fool. I know this business well enough to know what people want and what you deliver is multiplied. As I mentioned in Will Filters Kill Spam? On the hacker radar screen, Perl is as big as Ebay. And then of course there was no such thing. The best way to get rich. Fundraising is a chore for most founders, because it wasn't going to be more complicated.

It's especially good if you're different in a startup founder. Jessica does too, mostly, because she's so good that her stories don't seem made up. The fact that hackers, despite their reputation for social obliviousness, sometimes put a good deal to start a startup, however, but the tendency toward fragmentation should be more aristocratic. At first I tried rules. When you're a kid and as an adult. When you see something like the marketplace effect, but in practice it dominates the kind of town where people walk around smiling. Anything you might discover has already been set. The first approach is a mistake, because you can represent them as lists: the integer n could be set by the user. A is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. Bill Gates?

The goal in a startup. He's now considered the best of them all was Jack Lambert. It was my fault I hadn't learned anything. I'm going to list all the components of people's reluctance to start startups, and I didn't know Lisp; there isn't room here to explain everything you'd need to know about it already, if you didn't grow it? 3 to 5 times the valuation we did. I don't think you need to learn to watch from a distance. And not just in obvious ways, like making the programming parts of an organization not to. Not Leonardo. Dressing oddly gets you laughed at. Designing systems of great mathematical elegance sounds a lot more disagreeing going on, of course, is that if you want to beat those eminent enough to delegate, one way or the other.

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BBC Has Concluded A List Of Best 25 Films In The 21st Century That You Should Not Miss

If I ask you to name some of the best movies in the 21st century, what will you say?

The Lord of The Rings? A Beautiful Mind? Little Miss Sunshine? Finding Nemo? Her? Inception? The Martian? Inside Out? Moonlight? Or La La Land?

There’re many amazing films released over the past 17 years. Some are very popular among the public, some got nominated or even received widely-recognized awards. They’re all amazing in their unique way but some of them really stood out from the crowd.

BBC Culture recently reached out to 170 famous film critics around the world and asked them each to pick the best 10 films released from the beginning of 2000 to present days. And based on the critics’ votes, BBC came up with the list of the 21st Century’s 100 Greatest Films.[1]

Here’s the famous film critics’ shortlisted best 25 films with the review for BBC, and you can save a bit of time and know which one to go first. Here we go:

25. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)

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Christopher Nolan’s Memento, an airtight puzzle of a movie about a man who can’t form new memories searching for his wife’s killer, set a standard for narrative sophistication that few mainstream films have tried to duplicate…The film forces us to consider the unreliability of human memory and our tendency toward self-deception, even as it thrills us with a captivating crime-noir story…Unforgettable. – Eric D Snider, Freelance, US

24. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)

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Paul Thomas Anderson’s ambitious, powerful and ultimately elegiac masterpiece centres on the question of whether man is, in fact, an animal. Tormented alcoholic Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) returns from World War Two and struggles, unsuccessfully, to conform to post-war America’s social evolution…but the real point of the film is an exploration of thought and consciousness, and whether submission to belief systems can genuinely tame atavism. – Ali Arikan, Dipnot TV, Turkey

23. Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)

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All of Michael Haneke’s films are bound to haunt you. With Caché he cuts to the chase and makes the idea of haunting the theme of the story itself. Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche star as a bourgeois Parisian couple that start to receive disturbing video tapes showing their home…The act of not looking away is the moral imperative at the heart of Caché, which makes it a supreme political and cinematic movie at the same time. – Hannah Pilarczyk, Der Spiegel, Germany

22. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)

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The 21st Century’s reigning empress of cinematic ennui, Coppola has always used celebrity as a shortcut to the loneliness that exists between private lives and public images… Lost in Translation as her most perfect film, the one that best articulates how it can be to find yourself in a world that seldom lets you forget where you are. – David Ehrlich, Indiewire, US

21. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)

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The Grand Budapest Hotel is the 21st Century’s farewell salute to the century before. It vaults backwards in time from today to 1985 to 1968 to 1932, where Ralph Fiennes’ concierge Monsieur Gustave welcomes us to proper civilisation with a nod. We know Gustave’s immaculate world is ticking towards destruction, first by war, then by decades of neglect. Inevitably, the lazy and impersonal present will win, mass-producing not just our hotels, but our cinemas and the blockbusters on their screens… This oddball tragicomedy enlists us in the fight for beauty. Sir, yes, sir. – Amy Nicholson, MTV, US

20. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)

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Synecdoche, New York was initially conceived when Charlie Kaufman was approached about doing a horror film. Instead of masked killers and extraterrestrial monsters, though, Kaufman set out to make a movie about the stuff that really keeps us up at night. Synecdoche, New York is every deep-seated fear you’ve ever had, writ large: you’ve disappointed your spouse and failed your children, you’ve let your loved ones die lonely, excruciating deaths… Kaufman’s masterpiece is a reminder that even at our lowest and darkest, we are not alone. – Angie Han, Slashfilm, US

19. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)

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A cohesive vision with a structured journey built around themes of survival and endurance, the fourth entry in the dystopian franchise showcased what is otherwise the narrative and thematic drought within the Hollywood blockbuster machine… Without resorting to cheap cynicism and faux-grittiness, Miller zeroes in on the sensuality of the environments, the carefully crafted machines and scorched landscapes. – Justine A Smith, Freelance, Canada

18. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)

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“By setting the story in a north German village in the months prior to World War One, Haneke not only challenged the myth of childhood innocence but also delivered a fictional prequel to the upcoming events in Germany… it speaks to this century’s audiences: an unsettling view of the danger of righteousness, an ominous threat that always seems to recur. – Fernanda Solórzano, Letras Libres Magazine, Mexico

17. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)

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It’s Del Toro going back to his roots, to his alchemy of pop and auteur cinema, to give us a look into the horrors of war – in this case the Spanish Civil War… Pan’s Labyrinth gives us tragedy through the filter of fantasy, going deep into a well of suffering and magic. Its power lies in its purity: nothing we can imagine is as terrible as what we can do to each other. – Ana Maria Bahiana, Freelance, Brazil

16. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)

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Holy Motors is not a movie. It is an act of grief designed as an expression of love, and while enfant terrible Leos Carax has been an essential director for any film fan since his debut… Surreal, silly, sexy and sad, Holy Motors is a guided tour through everything about cinema that matters to Carax. He was drowning as a man in his own life – Holy Motors was his first feature in 13 years after struggling to get financing – and he turned his art into a life raft. Movies matter. Here’s why. – Drew McWeeny, Hitfix, US

15. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)

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One scene, one cut, zero music… Imbuing a backstreet abortion with the brutal tension of a crime thriller – and abortion was a crime in 1980s Romania… Yet despite much harrowing imagery, depicted in unblinking detail within a fraught 24-hour timeframe, the film’s underlying humanism is glimpsed through the unbeatable spirit of protagonist Otila, a college student who takes unthinkable risks and goes through grueling lengths to help her friend Gabita fix her unwanted pregnancy. – Maggie Lee, Variety, Hong Kong

14. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)

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Few films have dared to capture the full spectrum of human evil so candidly, so perceptively, as Oppenheimer does in his unclassifiable non-fiction epic in which the Texas-born Danish film-maker convinces members of the death squads to reenact their murders in the style of their favourite Hollywood films… it’s about national amnesia, about the power of self-deceit and the questionable morality of truth-seeking… it’s one of the most celebrated documentary in 21st Century. – Joseph Fahim, Freelance, Egypt

13. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)

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Here’s a bold statement about a bold movie: Children of Men, like no other film this century, and perhaps no other movie ever, solves the meaning of life… it’s rich and vital in its emotional and philosophical depth: its sadness, its anger, its reverence and worry for humanity… Children of Men has endured to become a cult favourite that should be required viewing for anyone grappling with feelings of dread about modern civilisation. – Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair, US

12. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)

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Zodiac, his meticulous, gorgeous and haunting true crime movie, is a deep dive into obsession, following a newspaper cartoonist who becomes consumed by the 1970s Zodiac murders… Gloriously detail-driven, Zodiac drags viewers into a compulsive world where the smallest hint can be the biggest clue, and it presents the obsessive’s worst nightmare: that, in the end, answers are utterly unattainable. – Devin Faraci, BirthMoviesDeath, US

11. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)

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Set in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s, the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis is an achingly melodic tribute to an unloved underdog. Davis (Oscar Isaac) is striking out on his own after his musical partner goes solo. Along his dour journey, he’ll find others vying for similar success and others just trying to survive… Inside Llewyn Davis is a solemn song for anybody trying to become somebody. – Monica Castillo, The New York Times’ Watching, US

10. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)

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Bardem’s film characterisation is so powerful, so splendidly overwhelming in his random application of violence, that he manages to extinguish whatever preceded it in the mind of the audience. Set in West Texas in 1980, the film’s sense of time and place are unparalleled… There’s a hypnotic quality to the movie’s pace, watching characters you can’t help but like… make a series of catastrophic decisions that bring each into Chigurh’s universe, a world soaked in blood with a predetermined outcome. – Ben Mankiewicz, Turner Classic Movies, US

9. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)

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If there is a film that makes you take a deep look at yourself in the mirror again and again, this is it. Asghar Farhadi’s searing relationship drama does not make a judgement about its characters. Rather, it pitches the situations so realistically that the viewer ends up sympathising with both protagonists even though they are pitted against each other… all made to look as if one is watching one’s neighbours, or maybe someone in one’s own home – create an unparalleled cinematic morality play. – Utpal Borpujari, Freelance, India

8. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Edward Yang, 2000)

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Audiences in 2000 were astonished by how fluently Edward Yang’s Yi Yi portrays contemporary life through the intermingling stories of members of a Taipei family separated by the dilemmas specific to their stations in life. That’s quite ironic, because in today’s world of personal alienation through the allure of social media, the film now feels like a period piece, yet somehow, it resonates with an even greater urgency… Its quiet reflections on life, love, family and death are all gracefully affecting, no matter the gap in generation and culture. – Oggs Cruz, Rappler, Philippines

7. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)

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Like a great poem, The Tree of Life opens itself to a thousand interpretations, as director Terrence Malick takes a spiritual and lyrical journey through time, from a dusty 1950s childhood in Texas back to the beginnings of the cosmos itself… The joys and aching losses of parenting become transcendent, even Biblical, in Malick’s hands. – Kate Muir, The Times, UK

6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)

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The story of a breakup gone wrong… But this wasn’t your average whimsical tale of romantic yearning… the movie belongs just as much to Kate Winslet, whose character’s decision to erase her own memories of the ex-couple’s time together sets the drama in motion. Eerie and surreal, charming and tragic, the movie wrestles with the fundamental instability of all human relationships, achieving a wise and powerful vision that is — ironically for a tale about fading memories — unforgettable. – Eric Kohn, Indiewire, US

5. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)

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For more than a decade, Richard Linklater spent a few weeks each year chronicling the life of Mason (Ellar Coltrane)… and watching the cast, which also includes Ethan Hawke and a remarkable Patricia Arquette, age before our eyes, adds an extra layer of poignancy to every single scene. In an era when every aspect of society was accelerating, Linklater slowed down to tell the one of the definitive stories of our time. – Matt Singer, ScreenCrush, US

4. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)

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Miyazaki’s story of a young girl trapped in the spirit world, trying to rescue her parents, feels like a throwback to an earlier age of hand-drawn animation… it has an ambitious sweep to its elaborate visuals of Japanese spirit-monsters and a sense of soaring adventure. It’s a traditional fairy tale turned into an exciting narrative of transformation and discovery. – Tasha Robinson, The Verge, US

3. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)

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From its near-wordless opening scene, Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood feels like something forged, not filmed. Daniel Day-Lewis, as turn-of-the-century prospector Daniel Plainview, grunts, spits and scrapes his way into a hole under baked Western earth; he strikes silver, drags his half-broken body to certify his claim…The rest of the movie – a sprawling, half-mad testament to greed, industry, moral hypocrisy and ballyhoo at their most elementally American – could be watched with no sound at all and still be perfectly understood. – Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post, US

2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)

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Wong Kar-wai is one of world cinema’s most notorious perfectionists, but he earned every moment of editing-room indecision with In the Mood for Love… We never see the faces of the spouses whose affair pulls two lonely neighbours into their delirious romantic spiral… all the better to heighten the erotic charge of every swaying hip and every voluptuous swirl of the camera. And we never hear the lost, whispered words at the climax… never before has a film spoken so fluently in the universal language of loss and desire. – Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, US

1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)

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WH Auden called Los Angeles “the great wrong place”. James Ellroy called it “the great right place”. The idea that two, or more, seemingly conflicting ideas can simultaneously be true is so often forgotten in the zero-sum culture of today, but it’s at the heart of David Lynch’s empathetic masterpiece… Mulholland Drive is a reverie of sex, suicide and “silencio”…. Lynch’s film is so gorgeous and so painful, so mysterious and, in many ways, so recognisable – drive on the actual road, Mulholland, at night, and then walk from Western to Vermont, and you’ll see – that, whatever theory you ascribe to it, the picture does indeed reflect a reality that moves beyond southern California and parks itself in our brains, tapping into our dreams, deepest fears, inscrutable natures, erotic desires, and pool boys. – Kim Morgan, Sunset Gun, US

Are some of your favorite films on the list too? And have you got some new films to watch up next?

This is just the top 25 from the list of the greatest films, check out the complete list on BBC Culture here .

Reference

[1] ^ BBC Culture: The 21st Century’s 100 Greatest Films

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The Movies I Loved This Oscar Season

Thursday nights are the best time to go to a movie. I went to so many Thursday night movies this season I lost count. It was great. I heard a couple taking turns making fun of Natalie Portman's accent in 'Jackie.' I heard some teens say 'The Witch' "f**king sucked." I lost one of my gloves under a seat at FilmStreams during a showing of '20th Century Women' and I'm pretty sure it's still down there somewhere. I cried several times (not because of the glove). Later in the season, Thursday Night Movies became a good two-hour escape from the late-capitalist nightmare that was our election.

There were many movies I'd have liked to have seen but didn't — 'Fences', 'I Am Not Your Negro' and 'Toni Erdmann' chief among them — but alas I am a poor journalist on a tight budget who has a busy schedule and many hot dates to go on. (JOKES) Here are the ones I did see and liked the best:

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25. The Neon Demon

Nicolas Winding Refn has always been a brand — how long has he been putting his initials in the opening credits of his movies? — a brand that traffics entirely in synth pop, a-little-too-on-the-nose metaphors and empty provocation, but a brand nonetheless. He’s out of ideas and selling knock offs now, but I’m still buying.

24. 10 Cloverfield Lane

23. Midnight Special

Sticking the landing on sci-fi movies is hard. These two would have been a lot higher on this list if they had. Still, I was fully in for about 90 minutes.

22. The Witch

A horror movie that has exactly zero scary moments and does its damage as a slow-burn parable about radicalism. Some teens leaving the same screening as me said it best: “What the f**k was that? It wasn’t even scary.”

21. Everybody Wants Some!!

Some of this was problematic but dudes lip syncing ‘Rapper’s Delight’ while tooling around + baseball trash talk = a great sports movie.

20. Star Wars: Rogue One

Luke Skywalker sucks. This is maybe not The Best Star Wars but it is the purest distillation of what I like about the franchise and the last hour kicks so much ass.

19. La La Land

A totally fine and gorgeous movie that I loved in the theater and took almost nothing away from when I thought about it a week later! Seriously, how is this the Oscar frontr– **is attacked by a mob**

18. Krisha

This is definitely a monster movie. Though I can’t tell who the monster is. Is it Krisha or the people who put the expectations on her? Almost everyone in this movie was at fault in some way and none of the transgressions would be that serious or uncommon in an ordinary family gathering — and that’s what makes it scary.

17. Oasis: Supersonic

“Writing songs is difficult; talking shit is easy.” I hope the Gallagher brothers live forever.

16. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

This and the Oasis documentary would make a good double feature. The only thing that you need to know about how absurd things get: A song about how the Mona Lisa is “the original basic bitch” is maybe like the third-funniest one.

15. Sing Street

Everybody’s done something stupid because they have a crush. It happens to me like once a week. I thought this did a much better job of expressing what ‘La La Land’ was trying to without having Ryan Gosling explain jazz to women.

14. Christine

This has almost nothing going for it outside of Rebecca Hall and was still the most gutting thing I saw this year. I think I was grimacing or biting my hand to keep from screaming the whole time.

13. Love and Friendship

As a big fan and practitioner of pettiness, cattiness, jealousy, shallowness, greed, ego, being judgemental, side-eye, selfishness, gossip, manipulation, deceptiveness and lying, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.

12. Hell or High Water

Miss me with the Trump subtext and casual racism, but I am very here for Chris Pine and Jeff Bridges codedly threatening each other through Texan drawls in rocking chairs.

11. The Invitation

Never go to parties, they will literally kill u.

10. The Nice Guys

Gosling is the best physical comedy actor of our generation. His best acting move is “jumping back in surprise” and I absolutely mean that as a compliment.

9. Manchester By The Sea

I don’t think this movie had anything to say — surprising because it was directed by a guy primarily known as a writer? — but its high notes are better than just about anything else in this cycle.

8. The Lobster

“We all dance by ourselves. That’s why we only listen to electronic music.”

7. Jackie

Natalie Portman is so good and committed to this that it sometimes feels exploitative to even be watching at all. Heartbreaking to see a person lose everything — time, legacy, work, status, love, truth — in an instant.

6. American Honey

Who even needs focus or form when you have this much feeling?

5. O.J.: Made in America

I watched all eight hours in one sitting on a June day when my A/C was broken, and I would have gone another eight. Ezra Edelman does a good job of bringing you out of the spectacle by reminding you that TWO PEOPLE DIED.

4. A Bigger Splash

This pretended to be a lot of different things — a meditation on fame, a Fellini pastiche, an all-time Cool Sunglasses Movie, a Ralph Fiennes dancing showcase — but none of those ever overshadowed the dread that permeated or the feeling that every bitten tongue or sigh was moving things closer to a cataclysm. It ultimately was ‘Strangers on a Train’ about the people who know us the best.

3. Moonlight

There isn’t a thing about this movie that wasn’t beautiful.

2. Arrival

Ooo0oooOO0oo (that’s Heptapod for “I adore ‘Arrival’”).

Denis Villenueve does this thing I love where he undermines the ostensible premises of his movies. He’s been unsympathetic in the past: The played-up parts of Prisoners were about the selfish obsessions of individual men instead of the hunt for lost children; Sicario was never really as focused on the innocents affected by the drug trade as it was on an allegory about the nature of truth. But with Arrival he inverts it, rendering a large-scale sci-fi mind-ruiner into a beautiful meditation on parenthood and experience. I loved it.

Also if Bradford Young doesn’t win the cinematography Oscar somebody’s gonna have to hold me back.

1. 20th Century Women

I love my mom, Talking Heads and David Bowie. The shot where Annette Benning drives the car up the hill with her son alongside on his skateboard made me feel about eight different emotions at once and made me want to scream.

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Honorable Mention: Hail Caesar!, High Rise, Patterson, Our Kind of Traitor, Creative Control, Ghostbusters, The Shallows, Dr. Strange

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Come back next year when this list is just ‘Blade Runner 2049′ listed 25 times. Thanks!!!

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How to Be More Creative

Quick Tips on How to Be More Creative:

Tip #1: Don’t be afraid to fail

Tip #2: Don’t try to get it right on the first try

Tip #3: Accept that creating can be uncomfortable

Tip #4: Limit your time

Tip #5: Reduce your anxiety

Tip #6: Use rejection as a tool

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