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    Repeating my request from a previous thread.

     

    1. Limit the height of the graphics to 300 pixels (personally I try not to let my images exceed 250 pixels in height) and the width to 750 pixels.

     

    2. Place multiple images side by side rather than one after another.

     

    3. Use thumbnails if your image hosting site offers that function.

     

    4. Try not to quote images and videos.

    I am on the right side of history on this.

     

    And thank you to the people who heeded my request.


  2. Winona kills it, and to answer Auden's observation from above, I have to agree with Taylor Anne. Given the circumstances, I think Winona acts exactly as any parent (regardless of gender) would in that situation. Hell, if I lose sight of my son for a second in a department store, my heart skips a beat (He's hiding behind the clothes. He's always hiding behind the clothes...)

    I reject your personal insight as a parent. I don't have any children, but I'll have you know, I have watched all the seasons of Criminal Minds many times. I have also watched the trailer of Taken. I know everything about how a mother and a father will react when their child is abducted. The mother will cry rivers and scream. The father will sit silently, his hands clutching his head, then he'll stand up suddenly and explode,"I'm going to kill the son of a bitch who took my son/daughter!" Of course I know not ALL fathers are like that. Some fathers will calmly use their very particular set of skills, skills they have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make them a nightmare for people like kidnappers. They will look for the kidnappers, they will find them and they will kill them.

     

    I am prepared to argue with you AT LENGTH about this.

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    There's no one, correct, way for a parent to react to a missing child of course. But Genevieve Valentine's article, Stranger Things’ treatment of Barb reveals the show's greatest flaw: its limited view of women made me rethink Joyce's portrayal, which led me to think of the ways nostalgia affect a person's viewing of a show.

     

    ETA: I'm sorry about what happened to you in your childhood Cam. I just want to give lil' Cameron a big hug.

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  3. Hahaha. Here's an interesting article, Enjoyment of trash films linked to high intelligence. (h/t How Did This Get Blogged.)

    "To such viewers, trash films appear as an interesting and welcome deviation from the mainstream fare", says Sarkhosh. "We are dealing here with an audience with above-average education, which one could describe as 'cultural omnivores'. Such viewers are interested in a broad spectrum of art and media across the traditional boundaries of high and popular culture." He went on to explain that their engagement in film culture is demonstrated by their discussion of these films in blogs and forums [emphasis added].
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    But seriously, I wasn't trying to say Millennials don't know anything. I was interested in a relatively unbiased look at Strangers Things. Nostalgia made me predisposed to like the show. I'm curious to know what's left when you take that away. (Surely not the ugly 80's fashion!) For example, if you've lived through the reign of Winona Ryder as the princess of cool, you'd appreciate that in Strangers Things the princess was allowed to grow old. But without that background, does Joyce come across as yet another hysterical movie mom?

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  5. Hey movie lovers! I would like to give one of the best movies that I've seen a signal boost. The Franco-Polish movie, The Innocents is making the arthouse cinema rounds in the States now (a list of movie theaters that are showing the movie is here).

     

    Here is the synopsis of the movie, which is based on true events, from its imdb page, "In 1945 Poland, a young French Red Cross doctor who is sent to assist the survivors of the German camps discovers several nuns in advanced states of pregnancy during a visit to a nearby convent."

     

    In an earlier thread I spoke of being drawn to stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. In The Innocents we have ordinary women helping and saving each other in the aftermath of unspeakable evil. These women are incredibly strong, incredibly brave.

     

    I have a short attention span. But the movie was so intense that not once during the the movie's 1 hour and 55 minutes run time did I wonder how much longer it will be before the movie ends. And when the movie ended, someone actually clapped. Nobody has ever clapped in Regal Arbor 8 @ Great Hills.

     

    Keep the name of Lou de Laâge in mind. The luminous actor who plays the French doctor is Juliette Binoche's acting heir apparent.

     

    I hope you'll go see it. (Writing about the movie makes me want to see it again. Even though I'm moving in a few days and I have tons of homework.) I want movies that are directed by women, written by women, that star mostly women, to succeed.

     

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  6. cody's hair is out of control on the live who charted. clem dawg sporting a grey jacket. so much crossover lately. thanks Auden! you can actually watch them drinking water. thrilling. I even do that sometimes. we are all one

    We really are all one. The live Who Charted episode was us looking at the same moon.

     

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    A few tidbits from the live ep:

     

    - Sean's suprise birthday party was held at Hayes' house.

     

    - Sean's Massage Therapist's Creed is "Calm, cool, collected, execute."

     

    - Sean said he had tried to give Hayes a massage.

     

    - Sean is writing for a Fox sitcom, "Making History", that is produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller!

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  7. If the Wonder Woman film tanks just as bad I'll give each of you three guesses as to where WB will point fingers.

    Number one in the firing line--Patty Jenkins. Here is what I think is happening. The Warner Bros. execs are embarking upon a risky project--a very expensive movie that features a female superhero. What if things go wrong? The execs like their jobs, they don't want to be fired, they don't want to get blamed. They need...deniability. So they hired Patty Jenkins. Her only feature-length movie was 13 years ago. After that, it was a handful of TV episodes and TV movies. She had to take the job. She knows that in Hollywood you are only as good as your last movie, so she will try very hard to make Wonder Woman a success. However, the execs are still running the show. They pretty much control every aspect of Wonder Woman. From casting, to plot, to costumes, to locations, to music. If the movie does poorly and Jenkins reveals that the movie was directed by studio notes, well, so what. She is just an inexperienced director without a strong body of work and powerful showbiz connections to back her up. Furthermore, she's a woman. No one would listen to her.

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    Kevin Spacey's oldest son decides to commit suicide by jumping off their workplace building, and Spacey's cat form jumps off with him, and they freefall to their deaths!

     

    I laughed when I read the spoiler. The morbidness is just so ridiculous. More details of the twist are available in this review, 'Nine Lives' is Way More Twisted Than 'Suicide Squad', which has the tagline, "Barry Sonnenfeld's cat fable is one of the darkest, most nihilistic 'children's' 'films' I've ever seen."

     

    Looking at the credits, it seems all the animal actors are credited.

     

    Remember that 30 Rock episdoe, I Heart Conneticut, where a rom-com titled Take My Hand ended up as torture porn after going through various studios and re-writes? Maybe Nine Lives started off as the sequel to American Beauty.

     

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  9. I'm the guy who proposed.

    I think of Breaking Bad every time I see that sentence structure.

     

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    Congratulations on your engagement! And I wasn't bothered by your proposal at all.

     

    Idea for a film: Along the lines of "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," an Avengers/Justice League hero movie with classic radio serial and comic strip characters. Who would you include?

    Mary Worth!

     

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    Is this indigenous kid's name ZACK!?

    The poor little guy's name is Zak. I guess people thought the omission of the letter c made the name looked more foreign. Although to me Zak looks like a old-timey sci-fi name. Zak has a trading card!

     

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  10. The podcast is The Black Tapes. It's not the best horror/supernatural related one around (some of the research needs work and some of the conversations sound fake) but I still got sucked into the story and sometimes I scare easily. Depending on the subject matter of course lol.

    Thanks for answering my question, Taylor Anne! My horror well has run dry for now (I'm waiting for The Conjuring 2 and Lights Out to come out on DVD so that I can watch them at home in broad daylight.).

     

    I agree with you about the clothes. I'm definitely against saying what a woman should or should not wear and that she's the sum of her outfit. And I hope both Harley and Margot will get movies worthy of them.

     

    This is such a silly thing to share but incidentally, a couple of nights ago I dreamt that there was a war between gods and goddesses because the gods had been oppressing the goddesses. After a bloody war with many casualties on both sides, the goddesses won. The goddesses held a victory parade and a few of them marched topless, including a goddess who looked exactly like Mariska Hargitay.

     

    ETA: Another embarrassing thing. What do you guys think is going on if the number of your profile views outpace your likes by A LOT?

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  11. And let's not forget the part where James Remar straight up tries to elbow the kid in the face.

    That scene stunned me. It's very rare, thank god, that you see violence against children, attempted or otherwise, played out onscreen.

     

    I was obsessed with the fact that he wore a turban when no one else in the movie wore a turban.

    Ram Dass in A Little Princess and Punjab in Annie were Indian servants who wore turbans. Maybe the producers of The Phantom thought that a turban-wearing servant was like a status-symbol.

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