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    New redband trailer for "This is the End" with Emma Watson bits!

    in Emma Images and Media

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    Emma running off set endears her and makes her more human. If she'd just shrugged it off as "the consumate pro" we'd all fear that she'd become part of the Hollywood machine.

     

    Not to excuse their behavior but Emma did walk into a frat party. That's no fault of her's. But on such a movie, it's to be expected. I'm sure the atomosphere on set was very much a frat part with all those dudes knowing each other and having acted together. I mean, the main cast is bad enough but then you've got guys like Aziz Ansari, Mindy Kahling might as well be an honorary dude, et. al.

     

    But to say that Emma needs to stick with, basically, high brow actors is stupid. It would be too restricting for her, or any actor. There's a reason dramatic actors often try their hand at comedy. They want to be challenged. That's why Leslie Neilson enjoyed doing the Airplane movies and the Naked Gun movies. That's why Deniro does things like Meet the Parents. And why John Cusack did Hot Tub Time Machine. I've long heard actors say that comedy is the most difficult. It takes timing and comedic sensibilities. And on a movie set you don't have the feedback of an audience telling you that what you're doing is funny.

     

    Doing a nude scene or Shakespeare or Oscar bait doesn't mean you're a good actor. Good acting means you're a good actor. Seriosly, it's just pretending to be another person.

    Old Celebrity Crushes

    in Movies and Television

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    Marilyn

     

    Eventhough I was borned way after her death. I used to watch Some Like It Hot, Seven Year Itch etc. ad naseum.

     

    It seemed to me she always lived her life like a candle in the wind. Never knowing who to cling to when the rain set in. I would've like to have known her but she was already dead. Her candle burned out long before her legend ever did. That's just what I thought. Meh, I dunno. It sounds kinda poetic. Maybe I should write a song about her.

     

    I also had a crush on Princess Di. As a boy, I never udnerstood why she would marry that dork when she could've had me. ;)

     

    And I'm sure there's some other ones I can't think of now.

    NFL Thread

    in Sports Forum

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    You're lucky Rules. 8-8 is a down season for you guys. I'm a Dallas fan and I have 8-8 (or worse) to look forward to until JJ decides to sell (won't happen) or dies. Not to be morose or anything. The problem is, JJ thinks he knows more than any coach and that's why he's surrounded by yes-men and why no good coaches will come to Dallas. Now there's rumors that they're gonn draft Landry Jones who has been called Romo 2.0 since his sophomore year in college. They kid has a million dollar arm but has a nickel head. Dallas is destined for 8-8 for the foreseeable future. **sigh**

    Films you dislike/hate

    in Movies and Television

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    Drive. hated it, because the first 5 minutes were good, then the rest of the movie was trash. typical crap that academy award stuffed-shirt judges love. yuck. i want my rental fee back.

    I'm curious as to why you think Drive was trash after the first 5 minutes. Was it because you were expecting an action movie? I liked the film but I think many were mislead by the marketing of the film. Perhaps some went into it expecting a Fast and Furious type movie and it wasn't that at all.

    Emma Watson Perks of Being a Wallflower

    in Emma's Movie Roles

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    I'd seen an ad on TV for it and it said something to the effect of it being this generations Breakfast Club. After seeing Perks, I think it measures up. Emma's American accent needs some work but you get used to it as the movie goes along. She still tends to enunciate words a little too perfect for it to sound American.

     

    Does anyone else find it interesting that Perks deals with sexual molestation of minors by adults and there are two characters who go to Penn State? Seems a bit prescient knowing what we know now, doesn't it?

     

    As far as letting a 13 year old see it, I agree with SoF. If my daughter were 13, I wouldn't let her watch it. Characters talking about having sex using sandwich bags as condoms, drug use etc. You don't want your kids to grow up too fast. We're given this precious little time to be young and not have to worry about things that are part of everyday adult life. What's the problem with letting kids be kids a little longer? If you pour too much onto kids too early, you're giving them too much knowledge with little or no frame of reference and no experience to draw upon to deal with that knowledge and those problems. There's plenty of time to be a grown up. But once a child loses their innocence, it's gone forever. You can never get it back. No one understands what "youth is wasted on the young" means until it's too late for that phrase to do you any good.

    England and Australia

    in Current Events and Topical discussion

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    Well, more often than not the host country would tend to win twice as many medals as they would normally.

     

    By outdo, did you mean that the UK wanted to outdo the Australians as far as how the games were held? (i.e. venue, ceremonies, hardware [the medals in these games are the largest in history btw], etc)

    That's what the article said. It said that there was a long standing rivalry between Great Britain and Australia. I'd never heard that and just wondered if there was any truth to it.

    England and Australia

    in Current Events and Topical discussion

    Posted

    I was reading an article about the Olympics being in London and the author of the article said that the English wanted to outdo the Australians from when they held the games in Sydney. It said that there was a rivalry between England or the UK and Australia.

     

    I've never heard this before. For those of you from the UK, can you answer this for me? Is this true?

    Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

    in Literature

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    What d'ya mean not real? We all learn about this in school over here. It's pretty common knowledge in the US that our 16th president hunted and killed vampires. There's plenty of evidence that it is all real and true. Just look at the book.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    the above was tongue in cheek

    Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

    in Literature

    Posted

    I've got it on reserve at the library. Just waiting for it to come in. I feel like I need to read the book before seeing the movie. I spoke with someone who's read it and they said it's kinda cool how they use historical photographs in the book and use it to explain the behind the scenes vampire history. It's told from a serious point of view. Which I guess is about the only way that something like that would work.

     

    Anyone read this?

    The Yule Ball

    in Harry Potter

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    It doesn't matter who you ask, they'll be going with someone else. Didn't GoF teach us anything? You never get to go with who you really want to be with. That's why there's so much crying. It was actually a misprint in the book - it's really the You'll Bawl.

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