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| jeremy |
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Anyone else gobsmacked that a 50 year old, mother of a three year looked so fantastic floating in her space undies?
Mabye not gobmacked, but I did notice. Also noticable was that she exhibited a good example of what I believe is called the thigh gap. It was as wide as Texas. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 6:21 pm |
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Jeremy, I see you have taken on the most penetrating, esoteric, and technically challenging of the several questions I asked about "Gravity."
Yes, I have heard of the thigh gap, yet another of those artificial (and largely unachievable by the non-bowlegged) standards of feminine beauty that are sending impressionable teen girls to the Vomitorium en masse. Unfortunate. I don't know if Ms. Bullock went to masochistic regimens to achieve hers, or if she just happens to be among the bowlegged and naturally skinny legged. This may call for further investigation. And maybe better sentence construction. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 8:16 pm |
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From Wiki:
"There is a common misconception that ancient Romans designated spaces called vomitoria for the purpose of actual vomiting, as part of a binge and purge cycle."
"A vomitorium is a passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre or a stadium, through which big crowds can exit rapidly at the end of a performance. They can also be pathways for actors to enter and leave stage. The Latin word vomitorium, plural vomitoria, derives from the verb vomeo, vomere, vomitum, "to spew forth."
Just saying. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:53 am |
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| Thanks. You no doubt sensed that I was being metaphorical. Of course, rapidly exiting a stadium could constitute part of a weight-loss program, if sufficiently repeated. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:04 pm |
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| The term was used in Elizabethan times, and is still used today in Ashland, OR. as the exits and entry ways for the players. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:02 am |
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Weeds wrote, Oct. 9...
Quote: Captain Phillips is a gripping thriller about the real-life events around the pirating of a cargo ship by Somalians in 2009. Paul Greengrass directs in a documentary style, but the performances by Tom Hanks in the title role and Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, and Faysal Ahmed as the pirates are finely tuned and memorable. Hanks and Abdi (or is it Barkhad? Don't know which comes first) are award-worthy in particular. Hanks, far from my favorite actor, gives what I consider his best performance in decades, with a final scene that is absolutely stunning.....
I felt like I'd been put through a wringer, at the end. This movie doesn't carry "the ring of truth," - more like a city full of bombolating bell towers of truth. This is one where the handheld camera style really works in putting you into the experience.
The little note in the end crawl about how some details were "fictionalized" has set me to wondering which ones. It felt so real.
I was trembling during that final scene, and had trouble speaking after. If the objective of acting is to induce the viewer to develop empathy with the character, then Hanks perf should be one for the textbooks.
One of the best films of 2013. |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:40 am |
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Here's an indication, for me, of the difference between the two "ordeal movies" of the past couple weeks - when I left "Gravity," I was wondering how it would have gone if they'd picked someone like Tilda Swinton* or Jody Foster. IOW, I was re-casting the film right away with, to me, more astronaut-ish women. OTOH, after Capt. Phil, I couldn't imagine anyone else in the titular role if you held a gun to my head. This is Hanks' finest moment. (come get me, apostrophe cops!)
*I'll bet Tilda doesn't have a thigh gap. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:52 am |
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OK, maybe with Charlie Wilson's War a close second. Another fine movie that Hanks carried on his strong shoulders.
Makes up for a lot of Larry Crownes. |
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| carrobin |
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Just got back from a follow-up appointment with my doctor, and she was telling me how much she loved "Captain Phillips"--what really impressed her was the Somalian actors.
But she was also very enthusiastic about something she saw at a film festival, called "Her." It stars Joachim Phoenix as a guy whose girlfriend dies and he falls in love with a computer that uses her voice. I hadn't even heard of that one, but the way she described it makes me interested. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:03 am |
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Her is almost on my radar.
A Spike Jonze film, with Soderbergh reportedly helping him edit it down/cutting an hour.
But it won't be released until December, in time for an awards push.
Here's an article on the film, which came recommended. But I only read the first few paragraphs about the inspiration for the film, as I don't like to know too much before seeing a film. Though I'm sure I'd forget it all by Dec anyway.
Edit: Skimming through, it's a good article about Jonze works on set and his ideas and such. Also they use East Shanghai as a stand-in for a future LA. Not uncommon, as all the odd gleaming new buildings lend themselves easily. Just read that they replaced Samantha Morton with Scarlett Johansson after filming was complete. Morton was in one of the first films to use East Shanghai (Pudong) as a future world, Code 46 (2003).
Right now they are building what will be I think the 2nd tallest building in the world. It already dwarfs the 101-story Giant Bottle Opener building nearby!
I think Spike Jonze is an interesting director.
Being John Malkovich is brilliant.
Adaptation is a semi-interesting semi-mess
And I don't remember much about Where The Wild Things Are. |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 5:44 pm |
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Look forward to Her, although booting Samantha in favor of Scarjo makes me uneasy.
Knox, you're right about Charlie Wilson - also Hanks at his best. And now more "ordeal movies" coming! 12 Yr. a Slave. Soon. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 5:21 pm |
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| Don't know if I'll see Captain Phillips. Those Somalian pirates scare me. When I taught the Somalian immigrants in Ohio there were 2 fifth grade girls in 2 different classes......twins and when we did a clay project those girls separately each made a gun. |
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The remake of Carrie has a very good performance by Chloe Grace Moritz, (who nevertheless seems a couple of years too young to be going to a prom) but suffers from poorly developed supporting performances, not counting Julianne Moore as Carrie's mother. I have to say it, despite my dislike of Brian de Palma as a director, he did it much better.
In Machete Kills, Robert Rodriguez is floundering about, trying too hard to be over the top. Danny Trejo is his usual stoic self, looking pretty bored. Michelle Rodriguez barely appears until more than halfway through the movie, and tries hard, but I was distracted by her voice, which was unusually hoarse. There is some amusing stuff with Amber Heard, who is Machete's handler while simultaneously competing in Miss Texas beauty pageant as Miss San Antonio. And incidentally, this is a part one of a two-parter with a trailer for the second part appearing before the first. |
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Befade wrote: Don't know if I'll see Captain Phillips. Those Somalian pirates scare me. When I taught the Somalian immigrants in Ohio there were 2 fifth grade girls in 2 different classes......twins and when we did a clay project those girls separately each made a gun. |
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| The most popular destinations for Somali immigrants are Columbus, Ohio and Minneapolis. The girls would have a harder time fitting in because they wear head scarves and long dresses. |
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