The Master (...and Miscellany)
* First up, a short film starring Robert Downey Jr from 2004 (sponsored by Volvo, so...really an extended Volvo ad, but kind of cool)
* A Clark Gregg interview (talking Avengers and other things)
* A reminder about the Kickstarter for Ingenious (the Jeremy Renner and Dallas Roberts film). Two weeks to go on the kickstarter, with about $6,000 left to raise. (what can I say? I'm invested in Renner's career at the moment *g*)
* A list of top twenty t.v. shows favored by various U.S. political 'camps' (According to this Experien Simmons study, I...either have no political leanings, or I don't watch t.v.?)
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* For past (or present?) Draco/Hermione shippers - Emma Watson: 'Tom Felton Broke My heart' *sheds a tear* :)
* Nostalgia, sort of. This is a bizarre little, low-key relative of the Hampster Dance from back in the day. Aah, hampsterdance and its ilk!
And finally, some thoughts about The Master (an ultra-thinly disguised film about Scientology starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix)
So...the performances were absolutely brilliant, especially Joaquin Phoenix (...because the universe has decided you can never see enough Joaquin Phoenix in one day, I turned on the t.v. to a random channel when I got home and Walk the Line was just starting). So yes, fantastic performances, great scenes, wonderful art direction and cinematography and all that (this is definitely an Oscar-bait movie).
It was also at least a half hour too long. I mean, as I say, the individual scenes were almost universally good - if occasionally a bit slow - but Lord-a-mighty, they really didn't need to all be there.
Worth seeing, but don't be expecting tight editing.
Meanwhile, the only one of the seven trailers I'd already seen was the one for Les Miserables (seeing the Avengers 400 times this summer sort of limited the assortment of movie trailers I got to see; me and the Frankenweenie trailer are old friends by this point.) As for the rest: Zero Dark Thirty and Killing Them Softly were just okay, and I probably won't go see them; The Sessions, I might see, Silver Linings Playbook I'll definitely see, Cloud Atlas I'd never even heard of, but it looks great.
As for Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts' new movie The Impossible...oh, I don't know. I'm sure the performances will be good and the story will be moving and all, but...it's a story - yes, a true story - about a family's survival during the 2004 tsunami in Thailand, and as soon as the trailer began, G and I turned to each other and we both said "thank God they found a white family visiting Thailand to make this into a moving story." *sigh*
And that's that. Back to Joaquin...
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* A Clark Gregg interview (talking Avengers and other things)
* A reminder about the Kickstarter for Ingenious (the Jeremy Renner and Dallas Roberts film). Two weeks to go on the kickstarter, with about $6,000 left to raise. (what can I say? I'm invested in Renner's career at the moment *g*)
* A list of top twenty t.v. shows favored by various U.S. political 'camps' (According to this Experien Simmons study, I...either have no political leanings, or I don't watch t.v.?)
>
* For past (or present?) Draco/Hermione shippers - Emma Watson: 'Tom Felton Broke My heart' *sheds a tear* :)
* Nostalgia, sort of. This is a bizarre little, low-key relative of the Hampster Dance from back in the day. Aah, hampsterdance and its ilk!
And finally, some thoughts about The Master (an ultra-thinly disguised film about Scientology starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix)
So...the performances were absolutely brilliant, especially Joaquin Phoenix (...because the universe has decided you can never see enough Joaquin Phoenix in one day, I turned on the t.v. to a random channel when I got home and Walk the Line was just starting). So yes, fantastic performances, great scenes, wonderful art direction and cinematography and all that (this is definitely an Oscar-bait movie).
It was also at least a half hour too long. I mean, as I say, the individual scenes were almost universally good - if occasionally a bit slow - but Lord-a-mighty, they really didn't need to all be there.
Worth seeing, but don't be expecting tight editing.
Meanwhile, the only one of the seven trailers I'd already seen was the one for Les Miserables (seeing the Avengers 400 times this summer sort of limited the assortment of movie trailers I got to see; me and the Frankenweenie trailer are old friends by this point.) As for the rest: Zero Dark Thirty and Killing Them Softly were just okay, and I probably won't go see them; The Sessions, I might see, Silver Linings Playbook I'll definitely see, Cloud Atlas I'd never even heard of, but it looks great.
As for Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts' new movie The Impossible...oh, I don't know. I'm sure the performances will be good and the story will be moving and all, but...it's a story - yes, a true story - about a family's survival during the 2004 tsunami in Thailand, and as soon as the trailer began, G and I turned to each other and we both said "thank God they found a white family visiting Thailand to make this into a moving story." *sigh*
And that's that. Back to Joaquin...
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