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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY&fmt=18] This imaginative video was created by Oren Lavie. I've said it before that I'm a sucker for this stuff. I concur with Ashley's sentiment:
I really adore the magic captured in stop motion videos.
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Newsweek's Sarah Ball briefly talks to Andrew Stanton, the director of Wall-E about the conflation between animated and non-animated films as well as why Eve has a freakin' gun. He also mentions a sequel. I really hope they don't go there.
Eve has gotten some blog buzz as the one of the best-written female characters of the year. Since she goes around blowing things up, what feminizes her?I'm probably going to offend you, but I was just trying to sort of emotionally and temperamentally capture what I've always seen a male-female relationship to be. At least out of my experience -- and I'm a nerd. I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it. There's a mercurial nature, but more of a mysterious nature to women that I think is what makes them so attractive. And I think that that's what I love: Guys never seem to know when they've come too close and crossed the line, and then the temper comes.
AKA, then Eve guns something down.
Exactly. That's really what the gun was all about, was Wall-E having no clue where the boundaries were with a woman. Because men don't either. Men just stumble into it and find out through experience. And they either survive it, or they don't. And that's really all it was, was a metaphor for that. The fact that she was high-technology and she had a subcutaneous technology that you couldn't really see, I felt, one, made her just technologically more beautiful and stuff, because wanted her to be pretty in a way that another robot would possibly see another machine being pretty, not pretty in the way that humans see somebody. But [her façade] also just kept her a mystery. There's something about her -- the fact that she floats. That fact that he touches the ground and he's all dirty, and she can stay clean. Some of these are kind of conventional thinking for the gender, but they just worked -- they worked on a primal level.
Read rest of interview here.
The similarities between Forrest Gump and Benjamin Button. [funnyordie 1d76506803]
Marketing of the Watchmen, a movie I'm eagerly anticipating in 2009, is ramping up. I like this Flickr photostream ostensibly belonging to The New Frontiersman, a prominent right-wing newspaper in the graphic novel and film.
Dr Manhattan photographs Neil Armstrong on the occasion of the Apollo moon landings, July 20th 1969
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Danny Boyle's dazzling Slumdog Millionaire, a film I can't recommend highly enough, is finally being released in India on January 23. The question is how much of the film and story will remain intact after it goes through the country's censors, and whether it will achieve the same popularity as it has in the States.
At the censors' insistance, the "Indianised" version of Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee's gay love masterpiece of 2005, a film that explored the complex romantic and sexual relationships of two men in the American midwest through the 1960s, 70s and 80s, became the tale of two guys who go on a camping trip. That was it.
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I’m sure that I will always beA lonely number like root three
The three is all that’s good and right, Why must my three keep out of sight Beneath the vicious square root sign, I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick, with just some quick arithmetic
I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321 Such is my reality, a sad irrationality
When hark! What is this I see, Another square root of a three
As quietly co-waltzing by, Together now we multiply To form a number we prefer, Rejoicing as an integer
We break free from our mortal bonds With the wave of magic wands
Our square root signs become unglued Your love for me has been renewed
- Kumar from Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
This Watchmen trailer that aired in Japan seems to have a few more new scenes. This fanboy cannot wait to see this movie! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WNETpX2Jd0&fmt=18]
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This gif image (after the jump) from Slumdog Millionaire is hypnotizing to me for some reason.
A portrait of Marlon Brando from sketched using words from the Godfather script for purchase.
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HD teaser trailer for the upcoming Street Fighter movie that's sure to be awesomely terrible starring future wifey Kristin Kreuk playing the eponymous role of the hero. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9CaMGqTu18]
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Evelien Lohbeck's animated "Noteboek" is a witty short (with a few "how the heck did she do that?" moments) that won best film at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2008. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP-reW1eLYE&fmt=18]
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Leaked footage from the upcoming adaption of Maurice Sendak's classic book Where the Wild Things Are. Spike Jonze is the director. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z46Yym346QA&fmt=18]
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DJ Mayhem & MC Mouthmaster Murf raps and recaps Robocop in 10 minutes. They previously covered Predator.
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I like that this compilation includes Swingers and Independence Day. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6wRkzCW5qI&fmt=18]
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My all time favorite movie in the holiday month of December is the Christmas Story, that classic tale of Ralphie's Christmas wish for a Red-Ryder B-B gun rifle, despite his mother's admonition that it'll shoot his eye out.
So what's Peter Billingsley aka Ralphie up to now?
Did he succumb to the Child Actor Syndrome of overdosing and joining a reality TV cast? No, he's now a successful executive producer with an Emmy award nomination under his belt. He recently worked on Iron Man.
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You're welcome. I just saved you 11 bucks.