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Winona Ghost Ryder
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Dracko
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 2:49 pm |
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best twitter
in my mind he is "the" george lazenby |
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Dracko
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 2:52 pm |
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Speaking of Fincher and adapting bad novels into hopefully superlative cinema, how's the Norwegian Wood film?
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 2:59 pm |
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I didn't really like it.
Then again, I liked the novel :B |
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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Ghost Dinosaur
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 5:48 pm |
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| Katie Holmes out of the cage. |
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internisus
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 5:49 am |
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Rango is so good! I would have missed this if not for you guys; thanks!
Sad counterpoint: I don't think I'll be seeing Tree of Life in the theater. The one I would go to didn't pick it up when it came out of limited release on the 7th, and I'm not paying for a trip to/day in the city right now. Blows. |
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Tulpa
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:19 am |
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I was made upset by the Jack and Jill trailer. I called TMKF after and he told me that Mister Popper's Penguins was a real movie that came out and I felt distraught. I felt like all the safe illusions in my life were shattered. #firstworldproblems
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allensmithee
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:34 am |
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yeah man... they made a ruination of the book with the penguins and mr popper in it.
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Tulpa
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:55 am |
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wait is that a thing
I don't know about that
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allensmithee
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:32 am |
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no man, Mr. Popper's Penguins is like this old book about an old gentleman guy who gets penguins and then shit happens
and all the fancy aristocrats he hangs around with are like "penguins! poppycock!"
and then the penguins are orderly and they're like "penguins aren't so bad after all!"
but I don't believe the movie will be any good whatsoever.
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:54 am |
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I read the book in grade school and found it rather charming.
The only thing the film seems to have in common is penguins and a guy named Popper. |
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allensmithee
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:27 am |
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yeah, apparently.
and yes, i like you read it in grade school. it isn't something i'd go and read now, like winnie the pooh.
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:38 am |
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| I'd totally recommend someone now (i.e. adults) to read the Milne Winnie the Pooh's or Mr. Popper's Penguins >:( |
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allensmithee
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:44 am |
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Milne Winnie the Pooh is great. I dunno if I could really go back to Mr. Popper's Penguins. maybe i'll try though!
did you know: i used to sleep with a winnie the pooh book much like a teddy bear!
oh, i see what you thought i meant: I was saying i would go back and read the true pooh stuff, but not mr. popper's penguins.
i might read mr. pp though if i find it on a shelf.
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cassievania
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:21 pm |
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I think you are the only two people I know besides the family that's read the book.
I thought everybody read it in school when they were little. ;_;
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cassievania
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:21 pm |
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| the homeschooler wrote: |
I think you are the only two people I know besides the family that's read the book.
I thought everybody read it in school when they were little. ;_; |
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:32 pm |
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i have never met someone who was homeschooled D:
what's it like? |
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allensmithee
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I was homeschooled for a year, in grade 6, and I was basically a HUGE bitch and didn't do a lot of work which I didn't feel like and gave my mom a really hard time and division was a bitch (but only because I was being a bitch to division)
although I did read Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, which I have fond memories of and which gave me a keen appreciation of sea travel and a verrry serious opinion on the sextant as an ingenious tool and not something to laugh at.
BUT! My brothers and my older sister were homeschooled and all had a great time with it -- it doesn't do much for the social life, but if you've got a nice sense of learning that has a level above your sense of manipulating mum and/or dad, it works pretty well.
I think that it is a problem for kids with afflictions like ADHD if your parents aren't really into the groove of handling it (at that point my mom was pretty damn sure, but I was not yet diagnosed) although with some better experience on keeping your kid focused it could prove much superior than public or private schooling on account of not having as much means for distraction -- different environments mean a lot, in my experience.
But that's just my meager experiences with it!
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cassievania
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| Cocaine Socialist wrote: |
i have never met someone who was homeschooled D:
what's it like? |
It's hard to sum up.
I suppose I'd say in my experience it's a way more relaxed environment in which you are only taught what your parents approve of. Since you often don't share the same class with other people (even if you find someone in your grade they also have to be taking the same program) it's harder to have a social life. Combine these two and your horizons won't expand much as opposed to public school.
personal experiences:
The homeschooling program I had was very Catholic. Even history books had a Catholic bias to them.
I never had to stick to the lesson plan. That meant I could be done with a week's worth of lessons in a day if I wanted to, or hold back on other subjects so that I can finish some much earlier in the year then I'm supposed to. I've never actually finished a grade before summer break came around, though.
All the friends I made were basically people I met through the church community my family was a part of (the same one that has honestly scared me away from my religion years later).
I never had any schoolwork to do after school (save for extra-curricular activities). I had problems when I finally went to a private school in my later years of high school because I never had to do homework before. :/
One of my more terrifying moments was when I was young and I had to reach a chapter of a health book while my mom stepped out for a smoke. The last two pages of the chapter where about the dangers of smoking and that even smoking one cigarette is terrible for your health.
My favorite place to do assignments was on the couch. This never bode well when I decided to lie down on it during my first early morning classes.
I would read Archie comics inbetween classes.
I once convinced my parents that I could write a good book report on a X-Men comic.
One of my fondest memories is of reading my book assignments in grade school in a cozy little cardboard fort.
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cassievania
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 3:14 pm |
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Also it was clearly extremely limited in some areas when compared to public school.
The only choices I had when it came to learning a second language was Spanish or Latin.
I wish I picked Spanish. I don't even remember much Latin anymore.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 5:43 pm |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:06 pm |
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The Tree of Life is not as much of a palate cleanser after Transformers 3 as you'd expect.
Reminds me of the Qatsi trilogy in some instances, mind. |
the end reminded me of the end of evangelion (the series not the movie) :otaku: |
Hahah, man. I was afraid I was the only one who saw this.
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Dracko
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:38 pm |
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Christ, A Separation hits like a shovel.
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This Machine Kills Fascis
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:13 pm |
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| Sollah wrote: |
I think you are the only two people I know besides the family that's read the book.
I thought everybody read it in school when they were little. ;_; |
I used to hear my mom reading it to my brother at bed time from my cage behind the radiator.
As I recall, the book starred Jim Carrey as well.
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This Machine Kills Fascis
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| I was made upset by the Jack and Jill trailer. I called TMKF after and he told me that Mister Popper's Penguins was a real movie that came out and I felt distraught. I felt like all the safe illusions in my life were shattered. #firstworldproblems |
Yeah, I saw a parody of the Jack and Jill trailer in that South Park episode that someone posted, but I didn't realize that it was a real movie until I saw this thread.
When I told Tulpa, he said, "Wait, does that mean that Mr. Popper's Penguins is real too?"
Only a week before, he told me that he had thought the Zookeeper trailer was a fake fan trailer when he first saw it.
Basically, Hollywood has thrust poor Tulpa into an ontological crisis.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:45 pm |
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i also read mr popper's penguins it was good but not as good as a cricket in times square
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:28 am |
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| I also like that it took them three films for them to finally develop tactics for humans to take down mechanical giants. |
They actually did this in the first film: they pretty quickly work out what munitions grievously wound Transformer exoskeletons, arm up and fight effectively. I really liked this part: it inverted the usual invincible invaders trope and gave a pretty good reason for them to lurk in disguise. During the final battle Megatron takes more damage from human forces than Optimus Prime (who is depicted as much weaker and less warlike).
In Revenge Of The Fallen and Dark Of The Moon this is forgotten and everyone runs around with assault rifles while Prime runs around murdering everyone, tearing off heads/faces and carrying out extrajudicial executions on wounded combatants.
Basically they replaced two cool, genre defying nuances with stupid bullshit |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:31 am |
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| Nah I bet it was cause robots destroying each other is a lot cooler to watch. |
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This Machine Kills Fascis
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| shame the Will Smith/Steve Spielberg Oldboy unraveled |
I've already decided that Zinda is Oh Dae-Su's alternate memory of the events of Oldboy, created by the hypnotist at the end of the original film. What will the American version be?
I wonder how the American movie will handle the ending. I actually found the Woo-jin stand-in's evil scheme in Zinda a lot more disturbing than Woo-jin's more complex, psychological scheme. I guess I find child rape more disturbing than consensual incest. Call me crazy.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:39 am |
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| Nah I bet it was cause robots destroying each other is a lot cooler to watch. |
Once again agreeing with g_d
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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Dracko
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:04 pm |
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FROM THE PRODUCERS OF DAWN OF THE DEAD
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allensmithee
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:45 pm |
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I just saw Kung-Fu Panda, and while not entirely unenjoyable it was so Dreamworks and not great that it didn't achieve any sense of greatness.
Man, the entire environment and visuals in that movie were shit, aside from a few transitions which didn't really serve a purpose more than "Look ma, it is Chinese-like!"
The environment was especially bad. It was so empty and vapid. And often it would just be a little platform with mist around it, like the whole movie took place on top of a series of lilypads.
The action was alright, I suppose, and I liked that the "cool" characters succeeded in actually being secondary characters to our anti-hero, but that also had the effect of them being poorly developed and enjoyed.
That was not a very good movie.
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:39 am |
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| It'll be amazing, good or bad. |
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CubaLibre
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Ronnoc
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:15 am |
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Yeah, I was seriously looking forward to that after reading a bunch of stuff that said they weren't relying on CGI. They seriously did the 'dude getting pulled across the ground and screaming' shot?
Gonna have to see it because body horror, but yikes.
Saw Akira for the first time today. Akira might be the best looking movie. |
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Dracko
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:31 pm |
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Word to the wise: Last Year in Marienbad is getting a reissue across UK cinemas, as is Film Socialisme.
Sadly, the former doesn't seem to be showing here in Cambridge. :(
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