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Jake, to Ronal and Tonowari: You know, Spider is actually unusually tall for a human his age. He's certainly taller than I was.
Lo'ak: It's not harder to be taller than you were. You couldn't stand up.
Jake, deep sigh: Obviously I was talking about when I could stand, Lo'ak.
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also why is everyone in the skellington book called [place name] [latin word] [adjective]
Derek very evidently names characters like any good lazy D&D player, random name generators and dictionaries. He doesn't seem to see a problem with
Abyssinia
Adam Brate
Adedayo Akinde
Adrasdos
Adrian Sykes
Adrienna Shade
Ajuoga
Alan
Alan (Boyle Solutions)
Alan Brennan
Alena Metz
Alesha Walsh
Alexander Remit
Alexander Slake
Alice Edgley
Aloysius Vespers
Amalia
Amity
Amity's Wife
Anathem Mire
The Ancients
Anguish
Anna
Annie Brennan
Anton Shudder
Arabella Wicked
Argeddion
Argento
Argus
Armiger Fop
Arthur Dagan
Ashione
Ashley Hubbard
Aspen
Assegai
Category:Assistants
Audoen
Auger Darkly
Aurnia
Auron Tenebrae
Aurora Jane
Category:Australians
Avatar
Avaunt
Axelia Lukt
Axle
Azzedine Smoke
Badstreet
Bagatelle
Baritone
Baron Vengeous
Bartholomew
Basher
Batu
The Beast
Bennet Troth
Benzel Travestine
Bernadette Maguire
Bernard Sult
Bertrand Solus
Beryl Edgley
Billy-Ray Sanguine
Binder Firm
Bison Dragonclaw
Black Annis
Boiler
Brennock
Brides of Blood Tears
Bridget
Brobding
Brock
Bruno
Bubba Moon
Burgundy Dalrymple
The Butcher
Byron Grace
Cadaver Cain
Cadaverous Gant
Caelan
Caisson
Caius Caviler
Cameron Light
Cark
Carol Edgley
Carol Edgley (Reflection)
Cassandra Pharos
Caste
Cathy
Cathy (The Button)
Category:Cats
Cerise
Ceryen
Cerys
Charivari
Charlie Smith
Child of the Faceless
China Sorrows
China's Assistant
China's Grandmother
Chrissy Brennan
Christophe Nocturnal
Civet
Clagge
Clarabelle
Cleaver
Clement Gale
Clerihew Montgomery
Coda Quell
Colleen Stint
Collup
Colm Muldoon
Conor Delaney
Corrival Deuce
Cothernus Ode
Crab
Craddock Sirroco
Crasher
Crepuscular Vies
Creyfon Signate
Crystal Edgley
Cu na Gealaí Duibhe
Dacanay
Daffyd Maybury
Dai Maybury
Daisy
Damocles Creed
Danny
Darian Vector
Darquesse
Dasher
Daveth Maybury
Davina Marr
Davit Maybury
Davon Maybury
Deacon Maybury
Death Monkey
Dedrich Wahrheit
Delafonte Mien
Desmond Edgley
Destrier
Detective Harris
Devoted
Dexter Vex
Dicer
Dima
Dionysus Pertinax
Doctor Whorl
Donegan Bane
Doran Purcell
Dragunov
Dreylan Scarab
Dubhóg Ni Broin
Duenna
The Dullahan
Dusk
Eachan Meritorious
Eamon Campbell
Eamon Pearce
Ed Stynes
Eddie Sullivan
Edgley Tempest
Edwina
Eliza Scorn
Elsie O'Brien
Elwood Satchel
Emmeline Darkly
Emmett Peregrine
Category:End of the World characters
Category:Energy-Throwers
The Engineer
Ephraim Tungsten
Erskine Ravel
Esryn Vanguard
Etta Faulkner
Evoric Cudgel
Faceless Ones
Father Reynolds
Fergus Edgley
Ferrente Rhadaman
Filament Sclavi
Finbar Wrong
Fintan Muldoon
Flaring
Fletcher Renn
Flint
Forby
Frightening Jones
Gall
Gary Price
Gavin Praetor
Ged
Category:Generals
Geoffrey Scrutinous
Gepard
Gepard Voke
Geraint Mizzle
Gerontius
Ghastly Bespoke
Ghastly Bespoke's father
Ghastly Bespoke's mother
Gladys
Glass
Gleeman Shakespeare
Gordon Edgley
Grace Kelly
Gracious O'Callahan
Graft
Gratio Erato
Gregory Castallan
Gregory Day
Greta Dapple
Griff
Grim
The Grotesquery
Gruesome Krav
Habergeon
Hansard Kray
Hapathy
Harmony
Hayley Skirmish
Hidalgo Bolt
Hieronymus Deadfall
Hoc
Hokum Pete
Hollow Men
Hopeless
Horts
The Hound
Hrishi
Hutchinson
Ian Moore
Ieni
Illori Reticent
Imogen
Infected
Isara
Isidora Splendour
Ivy
Jack Irons
Jackie Earl
Jajo Prave
James Hubbard
Jaron Gallow
Jason Randal
Jasper
Jenan Ispolin
Jeremiah Wallow
Jerry Houlihan
Jerry Ordain
Jethro
The Jitter Girls
Johann Starke
Joost
Kaiven
Kallista Pendragon
Kalvin Accord
Karrik
Kase
Kathryn Ether
Keir Tanner
Keith
Kenny Dunne
Kenspeckle Grouse
Keratin
Kes
Kierre of the Unveiled
Kiln
Kimora
Kitana Kellaway
Korb
Kribu
Krull
Kumo
Laken Cross
Lamour
Lapse
Larks
Larrikin
Lenka Bazaar
Levitt
Liam Muldoon
Lightning Dave
Lillian Agog
Lily
Lord Vile
Lorenzo Mult
Lorien
Luciana
Luke Skywalker
Madame Mist
Madcap Fenton
Magenta
Mahala
Maksy
Mandat
Mantis
Martin Flanery
Master
Maverick Reels
Melancholia St Clair
Melissa Edgley
Mellifluous Golding
Memphis
Mercy Charient
Merriwyn Hyphenate-Bash
Metric
Mevolent
Midnight Blue
Militsa Gnosis
Minion One and Minion Two
Mirk
Misery
Miss Nuncio
Moloch
Moribund
Mortal
Morven
Morwenna Crow
Mr Chou
Mr. Bliss
Mr. Fedgewick
Mr. Jib
Mud
Mulct
Murder Rose
Muriel Hubbard
Myosotis Terra
Myra
Myron Stray
Nathanial Quiver
Nefarian Serpine
Nero
Nestor Tarry
Never
Nixion
Nj Maverick
Noche
Noonan
Nye
Oberon Guile
Oblivious
Obloquy
Octa Gregorian Boona
October Klein
Odetta
Ogre
Oisin
Omen Darkly
Operative
Oscar Nightfall
Owen
Palaver Graves
Parthenios Lilt
Pat Hanratty
Patrick Slattery
Patrick Xebec
Paul Lynch
Paulie
Peg Muldoon
Pennant
Persephone Grief
Pete Green
Petrichor
Phil Lynott
Philomena Random
Ping
Portia
To name a few
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Friday Releases for December 16
Friday is the busiest day of the week for new releases, so we've decided to collect them all in one place. Friday Releases for December 16 include Avatar: The Way of Water, Herbert, The Alchemist Sandwich, and more.
Avatar: The Way of Water
Avatar: The Way of Water, the new movie from James Cameron, is out today.
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, “Avatar: The Way of Water” begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.
Mindcage
Mindcage, the new movie from Mauro Borrelli, is out today.
In this spellbinding thriller, detectives Jake Doyle (Martin Lawrence) and Mary Kelly (Melissa Roxburgh) seek the help of an incarcerated serial killer named The Artist (John Malkovich) when a copycat killer strikes. While Mary searches for clues in The Artist’s brilliant but twisted psyche, she and Jake are lured into a diabolical game of cat and mouse, racing against time to stay one step ahead of The Artist and his copycat.
The Almond and the Seahorse
The Almond and the Seahorse, the new movie from Celyn Jones and Tom Stern, is out today.
An archaeologist and an architect fight to re-imagine a future after a traumatic brain injury leaves them adrift from the people they love.
As Good As Dead
As Good As Dead, the new movie from R. Ellis Frazier, is out today.
An ex cop in self-imposed witness protection in Mexico becomes a target when a fight video of his apprentice goes viral.
Private Lesson
Private Lesson, the new movie from Kivanç Baruönü, is out today.
Posing as a private tutor, Azra secretly coaches students on achieving their goals in life and love — but not without a few bumps in the road.
The Recruit
The Recruit, the new TV series from Alexi Hawley, is out today.
A fledgling lawyer at the CIA becomes enmeshed in dangerous international power politics when a former asset threatens to expose the nature of her long-term relationship with the agency unless they exonerate her of a serious crime.
Herbert
Herbert, the new album from Ab-Soul, is out today.
The Alchemist Sandwich
The Alchemist Sandwich, the new album from The Alchemist, is out today.
Paper Route Frank
Paper Route Frank, the new album from Young Dolph, is out today.
wood tip
wood tip, the new EP from Zack Fox, is out today.
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OK, June 29
Cover: Heather Locklear Just Married
Page 1: Big Pic -- Grey’s Anatomy alum Melissa George loaded up her bike before making her way around the city of Paris
Page 2: Contents
Page 4: Katy Perry ready for baby -- mom-to-be Katy is counting down the days until she meets her little girl
Page 6: Jimmy Kimmel’s life as a dad
Page 7: As filming for Avatar 2 resumes in New Zealand star Kate Winslet is considering living there full-time, Jessica Alba was already stressed out trying to manage her billion-dollar business The Honest Company while parenting her three kids but now that her acting career has been revived she’s finally hit her breaking point, it’s been almost two years since Justin and Hailey Bieber tied the knot and Justin’s mom Pattie Mallette couldn’t be more grateful that Hailey came into her son’s life
Page 8: In a recent interview Prince Harry’s ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas spilled the tea on how their romance affected her life and it’s got the royal family sweating bullets that she’ll spill even more, Brad Pitt takes his sober life seriously and he’s found a real kindred spirit in Lena Dunham who’s on roughly the same timetable of recovery as he is and the pair have become so close that Brad intends to reunite with Lena on screen sometime in the near future, though Lea Michele’s first pregnancy should be one of the most exciting experiences of her life she’s more stressed than ever as her colleagues continue to air her dirty laundry -- she’s so upset and has been crying a lot and she thought some of her respected pals like Jonathan Groff or Ryan Murphy would have come to her defense by now but that hasn’t been the case
Page 10: Red Hot on the Red Carpet -- bright yellow -- Catt Sadler, KiKi Layne, Sandra Bullock
Page 11: Zoey Deutch, Mindy Kaling
Page 12: Who Wore It Better? Demi Moore ✅ vs. Holland Roden, Joan Smalls vs. Candice Swanepoel ✅
Page 13: Nicky Hilton Rothschild vs. Scarlett Johansson ✅
Page 14: News in Photos -- Hannah Ann Sluss (full page)
Page 16: Dorit Kemsley took out the trash, Wells Adams goes for a jog, Melissa and Joe Gorga working out at home
Page 17: John Legend resting his eyes while daughter Luna watched Harry Potter, Dakota Fanning gets out of her car, Isla Fisher on a bike ride
Page 18: Winnie Harlow in Big Bear Lake, Elsa Hosk on the beach, Heather Graham and pal Odessa Rae at the beach
Page 20: Adam Sandler relaxed at the beach with family and friends, Kim Zolciak-Biermann and husband Kroy Biermann
Page 21: Ariel Winter in her pajamas running errands, Brigitte Nielsen and daughter Frida at the park in L.A.
Page 22: David Beckham with his kids Harper and Cruz and Brooklyn and Romeo, Kevin Hart with son Kenzo, Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez threw a costume party for twins Mateo and Eva with siblings Alana and Cristiano Jr.
Page 23: Scout Willis back in L.A. with her rescue dog Grandma, Lucy Hale cuddles her dog Elvis, Colin Farrell on a walk with his dog and his sister Claudine
Page 24: Inside My Home -- Patrick Schwarzenegger is selling his home in West Hollywood for $3.35 million
Page 26: Ellen Pompeo and Chris Ivery calling it quits because they grew apart and have been living separate lives for a while
Page 27: Denise Richards and Aaron Phypers’ relationship is beginning to crack as her RHOBH costar Brandi Glanville continues to claim she and Denise hooked up, Single Parents costars and real-life couple Leighton Meester and Adam Brody have found a silver lining since their comedy got the ax: they’d both been working so much they didn’t have a lot of downtime but now they’re finally able to enjoy family life, though Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick haven’t officially rekindled their romance the parents of three are discussing the possibility of having another child together
Page 28: Kendall Jenner and Devin Booker are more than just a summer fling: she’s crazy about him and sees a real future with him, Kelly Clarkson filed for divorce from Brandon Blackstock, Love Bites -- Jordana Brewster and husband Andrew Form split, Bachelor in Paradise’s Derek Peth and model Saffron Vadher dating, Ryan Murphy and husband David Miller are expecting their third child
Page 30: Cover Story -- Heather Locklear’s incredible journey -- a year after hitting rock bottom she has made a total turnaround: beating her demons and finding true love
Page 34: Suri Cruise speaks out -- Suri may be ready to lift the lid on her mysterious world and how she really feels about her famous dad Tom Cruise
Page 36: Carrie Underwood’s big plans -- she’s telling friends she’s ready to try for baby no. 3
Page 38: Reality TV’s strangest shows -- I Wanna Marry “Harry,” Farmer Wants a Wife
Page 39: Splash, Who’s Your Daddy, Scream Queens, Joe Millionaire
Page 40: Interview -- Elle Fanning keeping it real -- the actress dishes on growing up in the spotlight, working with her famous sister and starring in her new series The Great
Page 42: They’ve Still Got It -- the hottest singers from the turn of the millennium spill their secrets for staying in age-defying shape -- Jennifer Lopez, Brandy
Page 43: Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, Mandy Moore
Page 46: Style Week -- Alexa Chung has just been named the first-ever global ambassador for the U.K. beauty brand Code8
Page 48: Share the love during PRIDE month with brands that support the LGBTQ+ community -- the cast of Pose celebrates last year’s Pride Parade in NYC
Page 49: Mini Magic -- these tiny purse-perfect beauty saviors keep you glam on the go -- Reese Witherspoon
Page 50: Stylish Summer Essentials -- Kourtney Kardashian and Kendall Jenner
Page 52: Road Trip Traveling -- Nina Dobrev
Page 54: Entertainment
Page 55: Q&A Tamra Judge
Page 58: The Class of 2020 -- Ludacris and daughter Karma Bridges, Pierce Brosnan and son Dylan Brosnan, Jerry O’Connell’s daughters Charlie and Dolly O’Connell, Laura Dern’s son Ellery Harper, Julianne Moore’s son Caleb Freundlich, Maci Bookout’s son Bentley Edwards
Page 60: Hollywood Heat Meter -- after racially insensitive remarks resurfaced Max Boyens and Brett Caprioni and Kristen Doute and Stassi Schroeder were fired from Vanderpump Rules, Lady Gaga’s Chromatica became her sixth consecutive No. 1 album, Ben Affleck’s secret Instagram account has been discovered, Ryan Seacrest may move back to L.A., Secret Bundles of Joy -- these parents managed to keep the births of their kids hush-hush -- Drake and Sophie Brussaux, Iggy Azalea, Rashida Jones and Ezra Koenig, Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden, Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova
Page 61: Sound Bites -- Kelly Ripa on working with Josh Duhamel on All My Children, Keanu Reeves on why he signed on for The Matrix 4, Beyonce giving a speech to the class of 2020, Kristen Bell on homeschooling her younger daughter Delta
Page 62: Horoscope -- Cancer Mindy Kaling
Page 64: By the Numbers -- Sophia Bush
#tabloid#tabloid toc#grain of salt#heather locklear#elle fanning#melissa george#katy perry#jimmy kimmel#kate winslet#jessica alba#justin bieber#hailey bieber#justin and hailey#prince harry#cressida bonas#brad pitt#lena dunham#lea michele#who wore it better?#patrick schwarzenegger#ellen pompeo#denise richards#leighton meester#adam brody#scott disick#kourtney kardashian#Kendall Jenner#devin booker#kelly clarkson#suri cruise
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History Articles Masterpost
I was going the files on my external hard drive today and found a bunch of journal articles and dissertations I downloaded and decided to upload them for people who are interested. They're mostly about the Middle Ages, women's history, troubadours, the Soviet Union, and/or historical figures I find interesting because ... that's just how I roll.
MEDIEVAL HISTORY — GENERAL
The Armagnac Faction: New Patterns of Political Violence in Late Medieval France – Timur R. Pollack-Lagushenko
Exemplar King and Doting Parent: Examining the Role of Fatherhood in the Life of Edward III, c. 1320-1377 – Nicole Harding
Harold of England: The Romantic Revision of the Last Anglo-Saxon King – María José Gómez
Jews and Cathari in Medieval France – John M. O’Brien
King Henry III and Saint Edward the Confessor: The Origins of the Cult – D.A. Carpenter
Memory and Collective Identity in Occitanie: The Cathars in History and Popular Culture – Emily McCaffrey
Murder, Mayhem, and a Very Small Penis: Motives for Revenge in the 1375 Murder of William Cantilupe – Frederik Pedersen
The “Sale” of Carcassonne to the Counts of Barcelona (1067-1070) and the Rise of the Trencavels – Fredric L. Cheyette
Stephen of Blois, Count of Mortain and Boulogne – Edmund King
MEDIEVAL HISTORY — WOMEN
The Anglo-Norman Card of Adela of Blois – Kimberly A. LoPrete
The Campaigns of Matilda of Tuscany – Valerie Eads
“Désirant tout, envahissant tout, ne connaissant le prix de rien”: Materiality in the Queenship of Isabeau of Bavaria – Yen M. Duong
Gender and the Language of Politics in Thirteenth‐Century Queens’ Letters – Anaïs Waag
Heavy Is the Head That Wears the Crown: Contemporary Reputations and Historical Representations of Queens Regent – Jessica Donovan
Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen of France (1385-1422): The Creation of an Historical Villainess – Rachel Gibbons
Negotiating Princely Power in Late Medieval France: Jeanne de Penthièvre, Duchess of Brittany (c.1325-1384) – Erika Maëlan Graham-Goering
The Piety, Power, and Patronage of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem’s Queen Melisende – Helen A. Gaudette
The Politics of Queen Philippa’s Mottoes: Five English Words – Melissa Furrow
The Reputation of the Queen and Public Opinion: The Case of Isabeau of Bavaria – Tracy Adams and Glenn Rechtschaffen
Studies in the History of Queen Melisende of Jerusalem – Hans Eberhard Mayer
Valentina Visconti, Charles VI, and the Politics of Witchcraft – Tracy Adams
The War of the Two Jeannes: Rulership in the Fourteenth Century – Katrin Sjursen
MEDIEVAL CULTURE
The Autumn of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga (review) – Max Staples
The Avatars of Orable-Guibourc from French chanson de geste to Italian romanzo cavalleresco. A Persistent Multiple Alterity – Philip E. Bennett, Krupina Zarker Morgan
Critical Analysis of the Roles of Women in the Lais of Marie de France – Jeri S. Guthrie
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (review) – Bernard S. Bachrach
Managing Medieval Misogyny – M. Wendy Hennequin
The Minor Trobairitz: An Edition with Translation and Commentary – Deborah Perkal-Balinsky
Poetry of Exclusion: A Feminist Reading of Some Troubadour Lyrics – Simon Gaunt
Private Desire and Public Identity in Trobairitz Poetry – Laurel Amtower
Writing Beneath the Shadow of Heresy: The Historia Albigensis of Brother Pierre des Vaux-de-Cernay – Christopher M. Kurpiewski
BYZANTINE HISTORY AND RUSSIAN HISTORY — MEDIEVAL AND TSARIST
Attacking the Empire’s Achilles Heels: Railroads and Terrorism in Tsarist Russia – Frithjof Benjamin Schenk
Kinship and the Distribution of Power in Komnenian Byzantium – Peter Frankopan
Lamentation, History, and Female Authorship in Anna Komnene’s Alexiad – Leonora Neville
Muscovy and the Mongols : What's What and What's Maybe – David M. Goldfrank
The Revolutionary, His Wife, the Party, and the Sympathizer: The Role of Family Members and Party Supporters in the Release of Revolutionary Prisoners – Katy Turton
RUSSIAN HISTORY — SOVIET
Agency and Terror: Evdokimov and Mass Killing in Stalin’s Great Terror – S. Wheatcroft
Between Right and Left: G. Ia. Sokolnikov and the Development of the Soviet State, 1921-1929 – Samuel A. Oppenheim
Bukharin and the Social Study of Science – Constantine D. Skordoulis
Did Stalin Kill Kirov and Does It Matter? – Matt Lenoe
First Russian Biographies of Trotsky: A Review Article – Ian D. Thatcher
“A Grand Bloodbath”: The Western Reaction to Joseph Stalin’s 1930s Show Trials as Foreign Policy – Jeffrey L. Achterhof
The Legacy of Lunacharsky and Artistic Freedom in the USSR – Howard R. Holter
Lunacharsky, the “Poet-Commissar” – A. L. Tait
Lunacharsky and the Rescue of Soviet Theatre – John J. Von Szeliski
Maria Spiridonova’s “Last Testament” – Alexander Rabinowitch
Marketing for Socialism: Soviet Cosmetics in the 1930s – Olga Kravets and Özlem Sandikçi
On the “Letter of an Old Bolshevik” as an Historical Document – Robert C. Tucker
Patronage and Betrayal in the Post-Stalin Succession: The Case of Kruglov and Serov – Timothy K. Blauvelt
“Socialism of Science” versus “Socialism of Feelings”: Bogdanov and Lunacharsky – Georgii D. Gloveli, John Biggart
Stalin and the Politics of Kinship: Practices of Collective Punishment, 1920s-1940s – Golfo Alexopoulos
Stalin’s Falsification of History: The Case of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty – Sydney D. Bailey
The Terrorist and the Master Spy: The Political Partnership of Boris Savinkov and Sidney Reilly, 1918-25 – Richard B. Spence
Trotsky’s Interpretation of Stalin – Robert H. McNeal
Tukhachevsky in Leningrad: Military Politics and Exile, 1928-31 – David R. Stone
Zinoviev: Populist Leninist – Lars T. Lih
Zinoviev’s Revolutionary Tactics in 1917 – Myron W. Hedlin
HISTORY — MISC.
Dark Religion? Aztec Perspectives on Human Sacrifice – Ray Kerkhove
The Empress Elisabeth of Austria and Her “Untidy” Collection – Beth Muellner
Isotta Nogarola: The Beginning of Gender Equality in Europe – Luka Borsic and Ivana Skuhala Karasman
Love (and Marriage) Between Women – Alan Cameron
Pari Khan Khanum: A Masterful Safavid Princess – Shohreh Gholsorkhi
#history#medieval history#medieval#journal articles#european history#russian history#french history#resources
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The Movie Post
Greetings and salutations, true believers. I haven’t posted anything in a while other than shameless book promotion stuff for #FourthAndWrong, and for that I apologize. I always say I’d let you know if anything good happened immediately, but nothing good has happened. The new book is out. A few people who have read it told me they liked it. It’s not selling well. Lack of sales means a lack of reviews, which only helps it not sell faster. It’s all a vicious cycle. At a certain point, you have to remember that you’re only writing books because some tiny voice in your head won’t let you stop, and you just throw your hands up and let everything else fall as it may. For the first time, I’ve actually bothered to try real advertising. I’m giving advertising on the Kindle lock screens a go. I’ll let you know if actually works.
In the meantime, I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts while puttering around the house, going for walks, and ignoring the gym. (I gotta stop ignoring the gym…) If you haven’t watched “Ted Lasso” on AppleTV yet, I HIGHLY recommend it. It’s one of the best shows I’ve watched in a long time. Great writing. Great characters. Great story. Very uplifting and wonderful. One of the show’s writers, creators, and stars, the wonderful Brett Goldstein (who plays the gruff Roy Kent on the show), has a podcast called “Films to Buried With.”
I started listening to his podcast because I enjoy him on the show so much, and I’ve found out that I enjoy his podcast as much as the show. He’s a genuinely sweet man, and he gets comedian and actor friends to guest on his podcast. The show’s conceit is that Brett invites guests on, tells them they have died, and then gets them to relive their life through the films that meant something to them. It’s a fun little chat show, and a solid way to waste an hour while you’re getting through doing the dishes or mowing the lawn.
It’s precisely the sort of podcast I would love to be on. I’ve always said you can judge your level of success by what people invite you to do. I always said I’d know if I “made it” if I could ever get invited to be on one of the podcasts I enjoy, rather than trying to wrangle my way into someone else’s podcast or blog. So far— this has not happened. That should tell you what level of success I’m stuck at. I don’t get invited to the movies by my imaginary friends.
But Brett encourages people to share their ideas and opinions on social media, anyhow. It’s a fun way to play along at home, tell other people about the podcast, and start conversations around your favorite movies. Stories bind us together. They give us common ground and build bridges toward strengthening relationships. If you meet someone new, you can tell if you’ll get along with them by what films they enjoy. So in that spirit, I’d like to answer the questions Brett asks his guests by discussing a few of my favorite films. If you’d like to play along in the comments, please do. I always love reading about what other people think about movies, books, or music.
I won’t bother going through the death/afterlife conceit he uses, but I recommend listening to a few of his podcasts if you enjoy this sort of thing. It’s a fun little premise he uses to generate the episodes.
--What’s the first film you remember seeing?
I remember bits and pieces of several films from my childhood. I remember the Muppet Movie in the theater. I remember seeing The Black Hole. I remember a lot of little chunks of a lot of Disney animated films. But the movie that sticks out in my head is “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” It was 1981. I was six. I remember going to see it on a Sunday matinee with my family. I remember it was packed. People were literally sitting on the floor in the aisles. We got three seats someplace, but I remember my dad having to sit in the row in front of us. I don’t remember a ton about the movie the first time I saw it other than being scared of the pit of snakes and the melting Nazi faces. However, I remember the iconic moment when Harrison Ford pulled the gun on the swordsman and shot him. I remember the audience reaction and thinking, “That’s a hero.” I’ve long been a Harrison Ford fan. Between Han Solo and Indiana Jones, he played two of the most iconic heroes of my childhood. When I wrote the TeslaCon novels, I made no secret that my protagonist, Nicodemus Clarke, was just a shallow rip-off of Indiana Jones. It’s funny, but to this day, in my head, if you ask me what a hero looks like, it’s always going to be Harrison Ford.
--What’s the scariest film you’ve ever seen?
The scariest film I’ve ever seen is Kevin Smith’s “Red State.” It’s a movie about a religious cult that’s very reminiscent of the Westboro Baptist Church, David Koresh/Waco compound, or any of the other extremely far-right Christian separatist movements. It’s scary because there are many, many of these gun-hoarding compounds, and the movie, while extreme, is not too far off from possibility. Michael Parks plays the leader of the family at the heart of the film, and his performance was award worthy. He was truly terrifying.
As an aside, prior to Red State, I always told people the movie that scared me the most was the original “The Amityville Horror.” Basically, I saw the scene where the poltergeist made the drop-sash window fall on the kid’s fingers and nearly sever them, and that was it. I had the same drop-sash windows in my bedroom, and I was scared of them from then on. I’d like to say that I outgrew my fear of drop-sash windows, but I’m 46 and they still skeeze me out when I see them. A movie I saw 40 years ago warped me forever.
--What’s the movie that made you cry the most?
I used to not be someone who cried at movies. However, years of thyroid issues and depression have messed with my response to emotional moments, so I do get teary nowadays at movies. Emotionally speaking, it’s not sad movies that get to me. It’s movies where someone overcomes something difficult. Especially sports movies. The ones that get me the most teary-eyed now are movies like the first “Rocky,” “Hoosiers,” “Miracle,” and “Rudy.” I also get teary-eyed at points of bravery to the point of stupidity. The best example of that is the climax and denouement of “How to Train Your Dragon.” Strangely enough, when a movie does something that is supposed to be a tear-jerker moment to the point that it panders to the audience, I don’t cry— I actually get angry. Anything Nicolas Sparks has ever had his name attached to, for instance. It’s maudlin, and it doesn’t deserve our respect.
--What the film that made you laugh the most?
This is not going to be a popular answer. If I was a little more erudite, I’d say something like “Airplane” or “Blazing Saddles” or “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” However, I didn’t see any of those in the theater originally. I was home, watching them on video. While they were funny and some of my favorite movies, I did not really do a ton of laughing while I saw them. I went to see “BASEketball” with my sister, and the theater was packed. Something about seeing a movie in a crowded theater heightens the emotional impact of jokes, and for whatever reason, that movie put me on the floor a couple of times. It’s a silly movie full of cheap laughs, but I remember hurting as I was leaving the theater. My sides and cheeks were sore. Second on that list was the movie “Bridesmaids.” I don’t think I’ve laughed harder at any movie than the scene where they all get diarrhea in the bridal shop. Especially Melissa McCarthy: “LOOK AWAY!”
--What is the sexist film you’ve seen?
For me, I will never forget seeing “Bachelor Party” on HBO at a friend’s house. Monique Gabrielle’s scene is probably the first time I saw full-frontal female nudity in a film. It burned itself into my brain. I probably have a thing for redheads to this day because of that scene. The rest of the movie is very wild and funny. It was one of the launching blocks for Tom Hanks’s ridiculously amazing career. But that one moment stands out as one of the sexiest things I’ve ever seen.
--What film did you used to love, but now it’s not that great?
Pretty much anything with “Rocky” in the title and a number following it. I still enjoy them, but Rocky III and IV, especially— not that good. I used to love them. I used to watch them whenever they hit TV, but now I only need to watch the first “Rocky,” and maybe the final fight in “Rocky II.” Anything else, I can leave out. They just feel a little overclocked at this point in my life.
--What’s a film that people and critics panned, but you enjoyed?
“Goon.” It’s a hockey film written by Jay Baruchel and starring Seann William Scott. It didn’t get wide release—almost straight-to-video. It didn’t get great reviews. I think Metacritic has it around 60%. But something about that movie hit me, and I love it. I suggest it to people all the time. It’s got great performances. It’s a solid flick. It’s not going to overwhelm you. It’s now one of my comfort films. When I’m bored and need something on in the background, I will often choose “Goon” or its sequel, “Goon: Last of the Enforcers.” The sequel was not as good as the original, but it’s still worth a watch. Kurt Russell’s son Wyatt is the villain in the sequel. He’s extremely good.
--What’s a film that people love, but you hate?
Hands down: “Avatar” or “Titanic.” Something about a lot of James Cameron films just don’t work with me. I think it’s because they’re too grandiose. They try too hard. Also, the scripts are just there to get him to the big, visual set-pieces. They’re thin on both character and plot. I can’t stand either of them.
--What’s a film that means a lot to you, but it’s not because of the quality of the movie (i.e. you saw it with someone and it’s special, or it has importance to people around you, etc…)?
Easily, “The Man From Snowy River.” This is a family favorite. I grew up watching this flick, and I made my daughter watch it when she was younger. I will never get tired of it. I probably watch it maybe three or four times a year. There’s just something about the cinematography of the climax when Jim goes down the mountainside on Denny’s back. It’s always breath-taking. Also, if you watch “The Man From Snowy River,” you see what my dad always wanted his life to be. Most boys’ fathers want their sons to be doctor or lawyers. My dad wanted me to be a cowboy.
--What film do you relate to the most?
“Clerks.” I saw “Clerks” when I was a senior in high school. Rented it from a local video store. I saw two dudes who were outliers in their social group working crappy jobs and dealing with the mundane nothingness of life. It hit me right in the gut. I resolved to do something better than that. So far, I’ve failed to do so, but I keep trying.
--Empirically speaking, what is the best film? (Not necessarily favorite film— but what film do you think is the best film ever made?)
I have to say it was “Lawrence of Arabia.” The casting was amazing. The cinematography was incredible, unrivaled, really. The story was excellent. And the ordeal of the entire filming process was without peer. What they went through to make that movie, hands down, makes it the best film ever made. The scope of the film alone is mind-boggling. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a close second, but that’s technically three films, so I went with Lawrence of Arabia.
--What film have you seen the most?
I have watched “The Muppet Movie” a ton. I still love the movie “Roxanne.” I have also seen “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” and “The Quiet Man” more than any single person probably should. If I had to think about it and pick one film I’ve seen more than other…it’s probably “Meatballs.” Growing up, my sister and I watched that flick a thousand times. I can probably recite it from memory. It’s also one of the films that cemented an undying loyalty to Bill Murray.
--And finally: You die and go to heaven. And in heaven, they ask you to pick one film that summarizes your life, one film that makes people understand you, or a film you want people to watch to help them know you better. What is that film?
Nothing has had more influence on my life than the movie “Ghostbusters.” It defined me in several ways: my love for comedy, my love for the paranormal, and my love for snark and snappy comebacks. I loved Ghostbusters so much that I watched it on a weekly basis. I ran the audio cables from our VCR to a tape deck and recorded an audio copy of the film to play on my Walkman while I road the bus to school every day. I still have the film memorized word-for-word. I will often let my eyes go a little weird and turn to my daughter and say, “Then, during the Third Reconciliation of the Last of the Meketrex Supplicants, they chose a new form for him, that of a giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a Sloar that day, I can tell you!” To know me is to understand Ghostbusters on a molecular level. I owe that movie a lot.
Anyhow, this was a fun way to waste my night. I encourage you to play along. Answer some or all of the questions Brett asks his guests. I highly recommend listening to a few episodes of “Films to Be Buried With” on your favorite podcatcher app. And if anyone out there knows Brett Goldstein, please let him know I’m available to guest on his podcast.
Until next time—Thanks for reading.
--Sean
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The COVID pandemic has thrown a lot of plans into question, and it has impacted millions of jobs around the world. The movie industry is no different. Everything was shut down back in March, and while some productions continue to be delayed, many more have resumed under strict COVID protocols.
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The movie industry is certainly a resilient beast, and while its entire future may have been thrown into question by the COVID pandemic and resulting lockdowns, it has found a way to survive and thrive. Many major Hollywood films have been filmed - or are currently filming - through the pandemic, including these.
10 Mission: Impossible 7
Perhaps the biggest and most expensive movie currently filming through the pandemic is Mission: Impossible 7. Serving as the follow-up to the widely acclaimed Fallout, Mission: Impossible 7 will reunite much of the major cast, including Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, and Rebecca Ferguson.
Filming began in September but halted in October after twelve different people contracted COVID. The filming process made headlines in late December 2020, as the media got hold of some leaked audio that saw an irritated Cruise yelling at some crew members for disobeying COVID safety protocols.
9 Uncharted
Based on the popular video game series of the same name, Uncharted will star Tom Holland as Nathan Drake and Mark Wahlberg as Sully. Filming on the movie began on March 16, but shut down just a few days later owing to the worldwide COVID lockdowns.
Filming officially resumed in Germany throughout the summer before moving to Italy in the fall. Filming officially wrapped at the end of October, with Antonio Banderas being the only major cast member to test positive throughout the filming process.
8 Avatar 2
It seems as if Avatar 2 has been in the works for years. James Cameron has been talking about a sequel for the last ten years, but nothing much ever came to fruition. That is, until the late 2010s, when talk of filming finally got underway.
Principal photography on performance capture began in September 2017, with live action filming following a few years later. Filming began in New Zealand in May of 2020 following a two week hotel quarantine undergone by the cast and crew. Cameron concluded the New Zealand filming the following September.
7 Jurassic World: Dominion
Serving as the sixth installment in the incredibly popular Jurassic Park franchise, Dominion will serve as a direct sequel to 2018's Fallen Kingdom. Many Jurassic Park veterans will be returning for the film, including Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, and Laura Dern.
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Filming was put on indefinite hiatus in March of 2020, but it officially resumed on July 6 with the cast and crew living in a rented-out hotel. Following further delays for positive COVID tests, filming on the movie officially wrapped on November 7, 2020.
6 Elvis
The world is finally getting a movie about Elvis Presley. Co-written and directed by stylish director Baz Luhrmann, Elvis is scheduled for release on November 5, 2021 and will star Austin Butler as the iconic rock and roll legend. Tom Hanks will also appear as Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Hanks tested positive for COVID on March 12, 2020, making him one of the first major movie stars to test positive for the virus. He luckily recovered, and filming on the movie resumed in September.
5 The Batman
Serving as yet another reboot of the Batman franchise, Matt Reeves' The Batman will cover Bruce Wayne's second year of professional crime fighting. Playing Batman is Robert Pattinson, who will star alongside Paul Dano as The Riddler, Jeffrey Wright as James Gordon, and Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman.
Filming on the movie resumed in September but quickly halted again after Pattinson tested positive for COVID. Like Hanks, Pattinson luckily recovered and filming was allowed to resume. It is expected to continue until February 2021.
4 The Little Mermaid
Disney looks to continue its tradition of live-action remakes with The Little Mermaid. Serving as a remake of the iconic 1989 original, this will feature Javier Bardem as King Triton, Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, and Halle Bailey as Ariel.
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It will also feature new songs by Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda (who also did the music for Moana). Some actors started recording their lines by the end of July, and in November 2020, Disney's CEO Bob Chapek announced that every movie that had been delayed due to COVID had resumed filming.
3 The Harder They Fall
The Harder They Fall is shaping up to be a good, old fashioned traditional Western - only with a hint of truth behind it. Distributed exclusively by Netflix, The Harder They Fall will star Jonathan Majors as Nat Love, a real-life African-American cowboy who seeks revenge for his parents' murder. Idris Elba will also star as a character named Rufus Buck.
The COVID lockdowns hit right before The Harder They Fall could begin filming, and they eventually started up in September. Filming was briefly paused in mid-October after one of the actors had tested positive.
2 We Need To Do Something
We Need to Do Something is an upcoming psychological horror, and it will serve as the first movie from production company Spin a Black Yarn. The movie will star Sierra McCormick as Melissa, a woman who is trapped inside of a bathroom with her family during a fierce and destructive tornado.
The movie will also star Vinessa Shaw and Pat Healy. The movie was completely filmed throughout the fall of 2020, spanning four weeks throughout September and October.
1 Don't Worry Darling
While mostly known for her acting, Olivia Wilde directed the widely acclaimed Booksmart in 2019. Her anticipated follow-up is Don't Worry Darling, which is set to star Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, and Wilde herself.
The plot of the movie remains relatively unknown, aside from the fact that it will follow a 1950s housewife who discovers some type of secret. Pre-production occurred throughout much of the fall, and filming finally commenced on October 20. However, it was temporarily halted just a few days later after a crew member contracted COVID.
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After a lengthy convention break, we're back with episode 71, including interviews with Justin Kuiper, writer of Necrobarista, Mia Schwartz, artist and co-creator of We Know the Devil and Heaven Will be Mine, and Cameron Stewart and Brenden Fletcher of Batgirl and Motor Crush.
Mistakes: We forgot to mention this in the episode due to that whole recording for the second time SNAFU, but we're going to take another week off because we'll be at GeekGirlCon. Our mini con recap episode will hopefully tide you over until we return on October ninth with part one of our Avatar: The Last Airbender miniseries!
Interview Timestamps
Justin Kuiper, writer of Necrobarista: 00:27:46
Mia Schwartz, artist and co-creator of We Know the Devil and Heaven Will be Mine: 00:38:55 Cameron Stewart and Brenden Fletcher of Batgirl and Motor Crush: 00:51:13
What Missy's Been Up To:
Watching:
Ocean's 11
Playing:
Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Reading:
Dates! An Anthology of Queer Historical Fiction Stories: Volume 2 edited by Zora Gilbert and Cat Parra
Sail, written by Mark Stack, art by Jean Pe, lettering by Danny Djeljosevic
My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
17776 by John Bois
What Merri's Been Up To:
Watching:
The 100
Playing:
Dream Daddy: A Daddy Dating Sim
Some Links You Might Find Interesting:
Hella Big Shoes To Fill: Deck Nine Games’ Zak Garriss on Life is Strange: Before the Storm by Melissa Brinks
Life is Strange: Before The Storm Hits Close To Home by Melissa Brinks
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#pax west#rccc#necrobarista#we know the devil#heaven will be mine#batgirl#motor crush#the 100#dream daddy
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Alright Im resorting to a poll; one which i know will get three responses at the most but meh here we are.
What should I do about my avatar for this blog?
Option 1: Keep it as is
Option 2: Keep the mascot as Dianna Agron but use a different picture of her for a change
Option 3: Use Eliza Taylor
Option 4: Use Marie Avgeropoulos
Option 5: Use Brittany Snow
Option 6: Use Dove Cameron
Option 7: Use Selena Gomez
Option 8: Use Katie Stevens
Option 9: Use Hilary Duff
Option 10: Use Melissa Benoist
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Estreias da semana: ‘Poderia me Perdoar?’, ‘Alita – Anjo de Combate’ e ‘Minha Fama de Mau’
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Estreias da semana: ‘Poderia me Perdoar?’, ‘Alita – Anjo de Combate’ e ‘Minha Fama de Mau’
Hoje (14) é dia de estreia nos cinemas! Confira os destaques da semana nas telonas:
1 – PODERIA ME PERDOAR?
Por causa de problemas financeiros, a jornalista Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) decide forjar e vender cartas de personalidades já falecidas como de Louise Brooks, Dorothy Parker e Ernest Hemingway. Quando as primeiras suspeitas começam, ela modifica o esquema e passa a roubar os textos originais de arquivos e bibliotecas.
Sucesso nos anos 70 e 80 como escritora de biografias, o filme é baseado na história real de Lee Israel (1939-2014), autora de biografias sobre a atriz Tallulah Bankhead, a jornalista e apresentadora de TV Dorothy Kilgallen e a rainha do mundo da cosmética Estée Lauder.
Diferente das personagens cômicas ou bad ass que Melissa McCarthy já interpretou e onde seu talento brilha, como a famosa comédia Missão Madrinha de Casamento, em Poderia me Perdoar? a diretora Marielle Heller (O Diário de uma Adolescente) aborda o drama de uma jornalista que começa a falsificar cartas de escritores famosos e as forças em sua vida que a levaram a tais práticas.
Esse é o primeiro papel dramático de Melissa McCarthy que foi indicada tanto ao Oscar quanto ao Framboesa de Ouro neste ano. Ela concorre ao prêmio de Melhor Atriz por Poderia Me Perdoar?, em que interpreta a biógrafa Lee Israel, e Pior Atriz por duas comédias: Crimes em Happytime e Alma da Festa.
2 – ALITA – ANJO DE COMBATE
Uma ciborgue é descoberta por um cientista, mas ela não tem memórias sobre sua criação. No entanto, possui grande conhecimento de artes marciais e vai buscar informações sobre seu passado.
Baseado no mangá Battle Angel Alita, de Yukito Kishiro, o filme é produzido por James Cameron e Jon Landau, e dirigido por Robert Rodriguez (de filmes como Sin City, Machete e Um Drink no Inferno) a partir de roteiro desenvolvido por Cameron, Rodriguez e Laeta Kalogridis (Ilha do Medo).
No início dos anos 2000, James Cameron era o cineasta mais importante do mundo sendo um dos maiores vencedores do Oscar, com 11 estatuetas por Titanic. O cineasta canadense é responsável por outros blockbusters milionários como Avatar (2009) e O Exterminador do Futuro (1984).
Com o seu sucesso, Cameron obteve carta branca dos estúdios para fazer o que quisesse. Sua escolha foi adaptar para as telonas o mangá de Yukito Kishiro, uma história cyberpunk futurística repleta de efeitos especiais. A atriz Rosa Salazar está no papel-título e os atores Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali (indicado este ano ao Oscar de Melhor Ator Coadjuvante por Green Book), Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley e Keean Johnson compõe o elenco.
3 – MINHA FAMA DE MAU
Na Tijuca dos anos 60, o jovem Erasmo Carlos alimenta uma paixão: o rock and roll. Fã de Elvis, Bill Haley e Chuck Berry, ele aprende a tocar violão enquanto vive de sonhos, bicos e pequenas delinquências. Sua fama de roqueiro atrai Roberto Carlos (Gabriel Leone) e logo se tornam parceiros e amigos. Um megassucesso chega com a Jovem Guarda, programa de televisão onde Roberto, Erasmo e Wanderléa (Malu Rodrigues) são a atração principal. A cinebiografia do famoso ‘Tremendão’ é dirigida por Lui Farias (Lili, a Estrela do Crime), filho do também cineasta Roberto Farias (1932-2018).
#adaptação mangá#Alita - Anjo de Combate#Battle Angel Alita#cinebiografia Erasmo Carlos#Erasmo Carlos#estreias da semana#falsificação cartas de personalidades falecidas#James Cameron#Jovem Guarda#Lee Israel#Marielle Heller#Melissa McCarthy#Minha Fama de Mau#Oscar 2019#Robert Rodriguez#Roberto Carlos#Rosa Salazar#Tremendão#Wanderléa#Yukito Kishiro
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Modern Spider Sully where Lo'ak attempts to convince Jake and Neytiri that everything he doesn't want to do is what they adopted Spider for.
Jake: Lo'ak, can you do the dishes?
Lo'ak: Why, isn't that what we adopted Spider for???
Spider: No, that's what having a third son was for.
Neytiri: Lo'ak, can you get the door, Ronal and Ao'nung are here.
Lo'ak: You know, when we adopted Spider I thought to myself, 'That kid will be great for opening doors.'
Spider: When you were born I thought to myself, 'Wow, I could drown him right now.'
Lo'ak: It's too late for that.
Spider: Is it?
Neytiri: *sighing and opening the door*
#cackling at myself#miles spider socorro#spider socorro#lo’ak sully#jake sully#neytiri sully#jeytiri#ronal#ao’nung#avatar#avatar the way of water#james cameron avatar#melissa og#melissa on avatar (cameron)
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Golden Flower Awards - 10 Year Anniversary Special Edition Part I
从我19岁开启这个博客开始，一转眼它已伴随我超过十个年头了。当初写这个博客只是纯粹为了打发无聊时间而记录下我业余时间看过的电影和电视剧的感想，现如今更新这个博客已经成为了一个习惯。虽然对个别电影和电视剧作品的评论因为时间原因无法通过文字表达出来，但是每年以评奖形式做的总结还是坚持写了下来。转眼间十年过去，为了纪念Golden Flower Awards第一个十年，现特别推出十周年特别版奖项评选。奖项类别不变，入围者从过去十届每一类奖项的胜出者中选出四位，再进行终极评选，加冕“��尊”获奖者。首先还是以电影类为先：
Best Leading Actor - Drama
Firth, Colin - The King's Speech / A Single Man 🌟
梁朝伟 － 色戒
Phoenix, Joaquin - Her / The Immigrant
Washington, Denzel - Flight
获奖理由：凭借The King's Speech和A Single Man分别在两届年终评选中胜出的Firth是一位演技的多面手，不论是在剧情片、喜剧片，又或是动作片、音乐片，无论参演影片整体质量如何，Firth总是能够准确把握人物，完成角色的塑造。这位典型的英国绅士平时低调，但粉丝众多，在演艺圈人缘颇佳，可以说是演员中的模范生代表。
Best Leading Actress - Drama
Blanchett, Cate - Blue Jasmine 🌟
Dench, Judi - Notes On A Scandal
巩俐 － 归来
Moore, Julianne - Still Alice
获奖理由：同样是以演技多面著称的Blanchett在Woody Allen的Blue Jasmine中充分施展了她精湛的演技天赋和多年锤炼的表演功底，其在片中的表演收放自如、行云流水。Blanchett将Blue Jasmine变成了她的个人秀场，是如今少有的几位能够凭借演技和气场撑起一部影片的女演员。
Best Leading Actor - Musical / Comedy
DiCaprio, Leonardo - The Wolf of Wall Street 🌟
Galifianakis, Zach - Due Date
Jackman, Hugh - Les Miserables
Waltz, Christoph - Carnage
获奖理由：虽然DiCaprio凭借去年的The Revenant终于问鼎了其向往多年的Academy Award, 但是个人认为他的演技巅峰还是在其和恩师Martin Scorsese最近一次合作的The Wolf of Wall Street，他在整部影片中的表演精彩纷呈，闪光点不断，让观众过目难忘。
Best Leading Actress - Musical / Comedy
Bening, Annette - The Kids Are All Right
Davis, Viola - The Help
McCarthy, Melissa - The Heat / Identity Thief
Streep, Meryl - It's Complicated / Julie & Julia / The Devil Wears Prada 🌟
获奖理由：所有奖项入围者中唯一一位凭借三部影片两次问鼎的Streep，其演技无容置疑，已经上升到殿堂级别，故此不再赘述。
Best Supporting Actor
Cruise, Tom - Collateral
河正宇 － 追击者
Hoffman, Philip Seymour - Charlie Wilson's War / The Savages 🌟
郭晓冬 － 推拿
获奖理由：英才早逝，在表演方面有着过人天赋的Hoffman在其参演的每一部影片中都能够完全融入到角色当中，让观众忘却其本人的存在。可能是将精力大多放在对饰演人物的揣摩当中，让其在现实生活中迷失自我，很遗憾今后无法再欣赏到其更多的作品。
Best Supporting Actress
Cotillard, Marion - Nine / Public Enemies
Hathaway, Anne - Les Miserables 🌟
Harden, Marcia Gay - Mystic River / Whip It
Johansson, Scarlett - Her / Don Jon
获奖理由：虽然是入围者中唯一一位只凭借一部作品入围的演员，但是Hathaway在Les Miserables中只凭借其在预告片中短短的一分钟献唱就足以让观众臣服，该片也让其成功蜕变，跻身为当今Hollywood中为数不多的中生代演技派花旦。
Best Music
Chicago 🌟
Dreamgirls
Fifty Shades of Grey
Hairspray
获奖理由：成为当代歌舞片成功复出鼻祖的Chicago将其在百老汇舞台上的经典音乐完美的用电影的形式展现了出来，是至今许多同类型电影无法跨越的高度。
Best Screenplay
A Separation
告白
Nymphomaniac Vol. II
色戒 🌟
获奖理由：将张爱玲原版的一个短篇故事成功改编成了一个完整展现民国时期上海风貌的，深入探讨人性、情感问题的影史佳作，出色的编剧功不可没。
Best Director
Cameron, James - Avatar
李安 － Life of Pi / 色戒 🌟
Linklater, Richard - Boyhood
Scorsese, Martin - The Wolf of Wall Street
获奖理由：近年来已入神境的李安是唯一一位其每部新片面世，我看完后绝对不会失望的导演。李安的入神之处在于其不断的突破自己，尝试新的艺术表现方式，而几乎很少失手。前几天刚看完其新片的预告，仍然让我备感期待，其大师的称号名不虚传。
Best Picture - Drama
A Separation
Boyhood 🌟
告白
Goodbye Lenin
获奖理由：经过十二年精心打造的影片，比纪录片更胜一筹的探讨了美国社会、家庭的变迁以及少年成长的全人类主题。影片的出众之处不只在于其新颖的立意，更在于主创人员十二年如一日的坚持和付出。
Best Picture - Musical / Comedy
Chicago
Devil Wears Prada, The 🌟
Kids Are All Right, The
Wolf of Wall Street, The
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'Saturday Night Live' Season 43 Premiere | Critic's Notebook
http://styleveryday.com/2017/10/02/saturday-night-live-season-43-premiere-critics-notebook/
'Saturday Night Live' Season 43 Premiere | Critic's Notebook
Ryan Gosling only occasionally got funny material and Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump impression may have run out of juice.
We’re only a couple weeks past NBC’s Saturday Night Live piling up an absurd haul of Emmys for the show’s appropriately hyped, over-praised 42nd season, so that means it’s probably time to hop off the SNL bandwagon with a resounding thud and announce, “Man, remember when this show used to be funny? Four months ago?”
The kindest thing I can say about Saturday night’s 43rd season premiere is that host Ryan Gosling seemed consistently amused. He broke in at least four of his live sketch appearances, a tone that was set early when the night’s first post-monologue sketch was the recurring thing with Kate McKinnon as a raunchy alien abductee. It’s one of several recurring McKinnon characters who exist almost entirely to make the host lose it.
Gosling was practically convulsing after McKinnon pantomimed tossing his salad (or pantomiming the aliens tossing her salad on him, if you want to be technical), and it seemed as if McKinnon had achieved her goal in admirable fashion, but that achievement was lessened when we discovered that basically what Gosling was there for was to read cue cards and giggle. Nice work if you can get it!
The first thing that struck me about the SNL premiere is that Alec Baldwin should have been set free at the end of last season. Not fired, mind you. Set free with high honors. He did a send-off song. He stole an Emmy from several of TV’s finest comedic supporting actors. He made his point.
The show probably needed to start from scratch this season and either find a new impression, bring Darrell Hammond back into the fold or perhaps ignore Donald Trump entirely, since he hasn’t even tweeted about the show for a while. At the start of last season the game was, “Let’s antagonize Trump and get him to tweet irrationally about us because that’s fun,” but after the election and nine months of his presidency, we’ve learned that nearly everything antagonizes Trump and he’s willing to tweet about each and every insult and slight, no matter how petty and no matter how much you’d think being the Leader of the Free World would impose some measure of decorum, professionalism, maturity, restraint or dignity.
But just because it takes absolutely nothing to trigger @RealDonaldTrump doesn’t mean that it’s mandatory to do a Trump sketch even if you don’t have anything funny to bring to the table, and the opening sketch was as perspective-free as anything SNL has done on Trump since back in the glory days when Lorne Michaels got killer ratings for letting Trump host and then just one year later collected piles of Emmys for “taking Trump on.” After you’ve had it both ways, where else is there to go?
Basically the joke of the cold open was that Jeff Sessions is small and Baldwin likes doing the Trump “puckered anus mouth.” The show got a wee bit of bad buzz last year for its initial take on Sarah Huckabee Sanders, so in this season’s opener, Aidy Bryant did next to nothing as Huckabee Sanders. At least Mike Huckabee can’t tweet that SNL was being sexist to his daughter. And in that rare and fortuitous moment in which SNL actually had a Latina actress to play the mayor of San Juan, they didn’t give Melissa Villasenor anything to play.
It’d be better to celebrate Baldwin-as-Trump as a one-year phenomenon and figure something else out for tackling the currently administration. Maybe there’s a different high-profile actor with Saturday evenings free and an appetite for an easy Emmy?
And if SNL couldn’t figure out what it wanted to do with Trump in the season premiere, it was even more stymied by Gosling, who has a skill set diverse enough that the show could have given him a variety of things to do. I seem to remember the actor’s first hosting stint fondly. I don’t know which Gosling bit felt most endless: The “I saved jazz” opening monologue, his “Weekend Update” character with Alex Moffat or the sketch with Bryant as a chicken. And I’m sure there will be plenty of viewers who thought the filmed bit featuring Gosling as a man with an unhealthy obsession with filmmaker James Cameron using Papyrus font for Avatar was the most interminable of all, but I laughed at that one, darnit.
I also laughed at/with Michael Che’s increasing anger about Trump’s reaction to Puerto Rican hurricane relief and NFL players kneeling. Probably unleashing Che entirely is the best chance “Weekend Update” has of regaining relevancy. Colin Jost can just be there to awkwardly interview whichever character McKinnon is playing each week.
The premiere also did not make much use of this season’s new castmembers. Heidi Gardner and Chris Redd both featured prominently in the Levi Wokes parody commercial and as straight-men to Cecily Strong in a sketch about two people who were very offended to be fooled into thinking Pizza Hut’s new pasta came from an imaginary high-end Italian restaurant. Or at least they were visible. Probably Moffat and Mikey Day set an unreasonably high standard for new cast involvement through last season, and Gardner and Redd had a more typical debut. Was Luke Null in the episode at all? Would I recognize him if he had been? Also appearing somewhere between “Never” and “Barely” were Leslie Jones, Pete Davidson, Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney.
I’m sure I’ll be checking in on Saturday Night Live repeatedly through the season. One bad episode, even a premiere and even coming after a season as revered as last season, probably doesn’t mean much, but this wasn’t a promising return.
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omgg please tell me that you’ve seen the extended atwow extended cuts?? they’re phenomenal and canon and i can’t be told otherwise.
The Parents from hell one had me on the edge of my seat I was so scared even though I know the outcome, well now we know that Neytiri was definitely going to kill, not even to bargain for Kiri but for revenge and that’s just ughhh i can’t wait to incorporate this in my fanfic
I gotta say, I do fundamentally disagree, at least about the parents one. It's not so much of a deleted scene as a full rewrite of the scene. If Neytiri's goal was to kill Spider and take revenge over saving Kiri, why did they do with the version where she lets him go immediately? I don't know, man, to me it seems like they filmed that and then decided it didn't work with the character or for what they had planned. It definitely makes sense to me that they chose not to go with that version. Even the name, "The Parents From Hell," it makes it seem like it's a dark alternate universe.
But yes, scenes that were missing and not included I am all for thinking of as canon! But this is a full rewrite. It's not canon, because it's not what happened in the final version. I think the reason they chose to change it is more telling than the fact that it was filmed in the first place.
But of course, I am mad it exists. I wish they never released it. I don't like what they seem to think of Neytiri's character. I don't like the framing of her as less sympathetic than Quartich (even though a lot of idiots still took it that way which is still on the writing team as well), but I'm glad they understood they had to change the scene. I'm trying to withhold judgement until I see the full arc they intend for her, but as of now I'm not very pleased. She should be the heart of this series if it is to stay it's course as a true love letter to indigenous communities and what has happened to them. I hope they don't forget that.
#not to come at you my love#just my thoughts thrown out there#neytiri sully#miles spider socorro#spider socorro#kiri sully#miles quaritch#avatar#avatar the way of water#james cameron avatar#melissa's asks#melissa on avatar (cameron)
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Today I was thinking about Spider getting taken in by the Sully's, getting adopted, feeling like he got everything he ever wanted and was as happy as he could be but still feeling like. It's not enough. Like he was missing time, like he's always making up for missed time with them. He can't ever have those years without them back, and no amount of time forward will make up for the past. No one else gets it, why sometimes he'd just rather stay home and weave baskets with Neytiri and Tuk, or just follow Jake around when he goes to boring meetings, instead or going out and having fun with his friends. Emotionally he's years behind.
The person who is the closest to getting it is Tuk. Sometimes Tuk just wants to sit in someone's lap while she plays, because she's little and sometimes she needs to be cuddled by her mom. Some days Spider literally can't let one of them out of his sight or something catastrophic will happen. Emotionally he needs a cuddle.
#my adopted cousin is stressed to go to college because she feels intrinsically like she hasn't gotten the time she deserves with my aunt#she was adopted when she was four#adoption is trauma!#it got me thinking#the loss of time and the emotionally stunted growth is really something to ponder and make ourselves sad with#he literally KNOWS that his family won't leave him but sometimes if he can't see them they're gone forever#tuks like yeah obviously you jsut need a cuddle day!#miles spider socorro#spider socorro#spider sully#tuktirey sully#neytiri sully#jake sully#avatar#avatar the way of water#james cameron avatar#melissa og#melissa on avatar (cameron)
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Come with me on this journey okay:
-Stay-at-home-wheelchair-Dad Jake Sully babysits literally all children. His own, whatever fosters Norm has at the time, Tonowari’s, and Tsu’sey and Sylwanin’s. He is the babysitting and parenting God.
-When they’re really rowdy he puts them all on leashes and has them pull him around the street yelling “MUSH, MUSH!”
-Eytukan is retired, so he helps Mo’at run her free clinic. Jake spends like all his free time there, “helping out” with his hoard of children. It’s really just a nice open area for the kids to play in, big fields and equipment in clear view while Jake helps with physical therapy.
-The clinic is where he and Neytiri met, he didn’t have the money for treatment on vet benefits after he was paralyzed in the marines so he ended up at the free clinic. Neytiri volunteers for her mother on the weekends, and she bullied him into enjoying life again.
-Sylwanin and Jake are pretend frenemies, she pretends to hate him because he stole her little sister AND managed to get married and have kids before her and Tsu’tey who have been dating for like, their entire lives. Jake says it’s because they have yet to be blown up, and he can help her with that.
-Every time Jake wheels his way in with all the kids Sylwanin goes “Oh, it’s you,” and Jake says “Yeah yeah, just your brother in law, not like I should get any respect around here,” and then he hands her her exact Starbucks order and offers to have Lo’ak throw up on her most hated patient.
-(when he was little Lo’ak could throw up on command)
-Sylwanin loves all her nieces and nephews equally but she especially enjoys Spider, because before he was adopted he was in the clinic fairly often for suspicious injuries. She hasn’t shaken the urge to watch him like a hawk yet.
-Eytukan and Jake are Boys in a way that disgusts all the women in their family. They go golfing together, and Eytukan accuses Jake of cheating via proximity to the ground.
-Lo’ak was DETERMINED to golf with them for years and when they actually let him come he cried he got so bored.
-Neteyam would never admit this under pain of death, but he enjoys golfing.
-Spider, Neteyam, Ao’nung, and Lo’ak are all deeply obsessed with American Ninja Warrior, so Tonowari, Jake, and Tsu’tey built a course for them. They then started to get a little into it and it got serious. To this day out of everyone they know Jake is the only one to have completed the salmon ladder, and then he hauled himself off the mat and back into his chair and Tonowari and Tsu’tey had to reconsider their sexualities.
-When Kiri, Lo’ak, Neteyam, Spider, and Ao’nung were all babies Jake went to the store with them all strapped to him or in a basket on his wheelchair and someone called the cops cause they thought he stole all those varying ethnicity babies.
-Jake calls it The Great Baby Heist of 2077 and Tsu’tey always responds to this story by asking what idiot would want that many babies?
-Sometimes Sylwanin gets too friendly with Jake and quickly pretends to get mad at him.
-Tonowari and Tsu’tey became friends by both being confused as hell by their friend Jake. When they met him he was all depressed and rotting away alone in the free clinic. Now he’s so high energy he raced Lo’ak once and threw himself out of his chair to get extra momentum to beat Lo’ak over the arbitrary finish line. He had a pool installed for Kiri to just float in and stare at the sky. He bakes cookies with Tsireya balanced on his chair between his legs so he can help her crack the eggs. He beat Tsu’tey in a wrestling match in the gym the other day. His enthusiasm for life scares them, they spend a lot of time side eyeing each other behind him.
-Sylwanin (secretly) likes Jake because he’s a good father and husband to her kids, and he’s funny and a good person, but she likes him even more for the energy he brings out in her husband. Tsu’tey is NOT GOOD at making friends, he’s awkward and he’s a weirdo. But now he plays tennis twice a week with Jake, Norm, and Tonowari and spends like every evening she has to work at the Sully house for dinner.
#i'm really into stay at home wheelchair dad jake sully#started thinking about still alive tsu'tey sylwanin and eytukan#jake sully#norm spellman#tonowari#tsu'tey#sylwanin#eytukan#mo'at#neytiri sully#lo'ak sully#neteyam sully#miles spider socorro#spider socorro#ao'nung#tsireya#avatar#avatar the way of water#james cameron avatar#melissa og#melissa on avatar (cameron)#jeytiri#we are mindmelding get in#modern au (wheelchair! jake edition)
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