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The woman at the end that Leonard was talking to - could anyone tell if that was Ben's "girlfriend". I can't decide if he was trying to counsel her through a difficult time or he was on a date himself. For Leonard, hopefully the former.
I thought that was the church organist that liked Leonard and was complimenting him for his response to the fire, where he responded that all he did was fall over while making a phone call. I thought it was clear that we're supposed to see Leonard as gay and closeted, so the juxtaposition between what happened with the main mystery and Leonard's inability to be open was sort of bittersweet. I wonder how they are going to develop that as the series goes on.
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Patti Labelle is on the season finale. I've also heard Macy Gray will be on, which makes sense, since she has been in some of Lee Daniels' movies.
I am wondering, since the show has done so well, who will be clamoring to be on next season.
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Also, her hosting stint on SNL made me notice that too- she was really, really bad. Not that everyone can host live sketch comedy, I realize that, but being unable to do anything except stare straight at the teleprompter and flounder was surprising to me at the time.
Considering how notoriously bad Robert De Niro has been on SNL, I think that hosting that show indicates nothing about one's acting ability.
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Sometimes, disliking an actor is simply visceral but too many people out there want to turn it into something more. If guys don't like someone, do people go into this hardcore digging to figure out WHY? If women don't like another woman it gets ridiculous and it's usually dismissed with 'You're just jealous because she's so hot.' Maybe it is that sometimes but who cares? I can't stand Julia Roberts but no one has ever suggested that it's because I'm jealous of her. I think Michelle Pfeiffer is one of the most gorgeous women ever and I freaking LOVE her. I'm not an Angeline Jolie fan and would not, in fact, switch sides for her but it's not because I'm jealous of her, either. Sometimes, I just don't like a person and it has nothing to do with high school or popular girls or being jealous so oftentimes I think when the media or men that people know start in with the "WHY don't you like her? You don't like her because she's fuckin' hot and you're just jealous, right?" it makes one dig their feet in about not liking said actor.Because what's wrong with not liking an actor? Who cares? Why do most women who express an opinion about someone get it turned around on them and get response of "WHY don't you like this actor? We're going to dissect this feeling and make it about your insecurities and let you know that you are WRONG to feel this way!"
Do guys get this response? I'm honestly curious.
I'm a guy FWIW...and I don't think women hate Anne Hathaway because they are "jealous" or because she is "hot"-that's subjective anyway. But the women I know that hate Hathaway or Roberts seem so vehement about it and committed to their dislike that it is just strange. Like sure you can dislike an actor, but it seems so strangely personal, like they know her and she did something to them. And honestly, maybe outside of sports, I can't recall men expressing disdain for a public figure (who really has no effect on their lives-they are actors not politicians) to that extent. And women seem to aim the worst of it towards other women-maybe it's because of the whole women's fashion magazine cover industry or something-these actresses really are always in the spotlight.
I see that with Kristen Wiig disdain-it gets to the point that whenever I read a post somewhere going off and trashing Kristen Wiig (I think she's talented, YMMV), I pretty much know it's a woman.
I just think there are certain famous women that just set women off and it is what it is.
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I think there are some movies that really are enhanced by audience participation. When I lived in NYC, people raved about seeing Kill Bill Vol. 1 at the Magic Johnson in Harlem. When I went to see The Incredibles there, the audience (mostly adults) was so talkative and fidgety that I swore to myself to only go there as a last resort. And the theater was nearly empty when I saw it-it was amazing. Also in New York, I saw a audience participation screening of Showgirls hosted by a drag queen and some of the audience's heckling of the movie made a funny movie even funnier.
While I love the variety of theaters in New York, I really love the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin-the atmosphere there is so great that it *really* spoils you for any other theater. It really is quieter and movie oriented-there are no commercials, just trailers and some funny curated slideshows-I remember seeing Freddy vs. Jason (don't judge me) and they played the trailers for the original Friday the 13th movies.
As for memorable moviegoing experiences, I remember seeing Aliens when I was 8 years old (I had really permissive parents) and I was so scared I was buried in my mom's lap the whole time and vividly remember only *hearing* the audience's screaming for nearly two hours because I just could not watch. Now it's one of my favorite movies. I also remember the audience applauding after the train crash sequence in The Fugitive. The line for E.T. snaking out of the theater and out of the mall every time I saw it (four times). And all of the teenage girls crying and comforting each other in large groups outside the theater after Titanic ended.
Whenever I see movies now, I think of my older brother telling me about seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark when it came out-he said he remembered the lights going down and having absolutely no idea of what he was going to see or what was going to happen and how that enhanced the excitement. I wonder if studios were more willing and able to keep secrets, whether it would make the movies more exciting and satisfying to watch.
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My prayers have been answered-I knew Patti would be on the show!
https://twitter.com/msdebbieallen/status/562381775431692288
We need to have a topic about dream guest stars-I am already calling for Idris Elba and Mo'Nique (come on, she won an Oscar working for Lee Daniels-it's the least she can do).
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Is there already a forum for this movie? I checked and couldn't find anything. If there is, my apologies for starting a duplicate and please merge or delete this one.
I saw this one last night and it was...interesting, as I assumed it would be. First off, it just looks great. The first shot is a dissolve from Joanna Newsom's face to Katherine Waterston's and it's so dreamlike that I just want to see it again. Just that shot alone.
The whole movie definitely felt "Pynchon-esque" which is an achievement in itself. Just with the strange character names, the overarching paranoia, the weird coincidences, etc. I have only read Crying of Lot 49 and that was years ago, but I still remember how "woozy" it felt and this movie felt the same way. It felt addled.
As good as the movie looked, I thought the sound was murky, although I don't know if that was intentional or a problem in my theater. There were a couple of times when I simply could not make out what some characters were saying.
After watching it, I realized that I have seen all of Paul Thomas Anderson's movies (save Hard Eight) in the theater. I think this one feels like a fusion of Boogie Nights and maybe The Master. A sprawling cast with nothing but great actors in every single role (even with porn stars mixed in with the regular actors), his typical Southern California setting, but really discursive and tangential like his recent stuff. I haven't been the hugest fan of his most recent stuff because it has been (IMO) sort of hermetically sealed and humorless, and this is getting back to the stuff I liked about him in the beginning but not throwing away where he has been going recently.
All the acting is good, especially Waterston and Jena Malone. Which is another thing-there are women in this one with prominent parts, which is another thing that has been missing from his work for a while. And Waterston's nude scene had been discussed, but after seeing it, I don't see what the big deal was. I've seen more gratuitous nudity.
Not his greatest, but I think I liked it the most of his most recent work. But it's very strange.
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I think it's that if the men go first and it's some 4+ hour five set match, then the women would not get started until midnight. I have seen night sessions where the men went first, but that's rare. And since the semifinals for the women are the day after the quarterfinals, it would be unfair to make them play their quarterfinal that late.
I still don't think it was considered that much of an upset for Federer to lose in the 3rd round - now. Stellar record notwithstanding, he's older, with maybe a couple more years to play. So no, it wasn't that surprising to me.
I think it was surprising that he lost to Seppi of all people. I heard that Navratilova said it was a catch-22, you get older, you realize you are running out of time (my prediction-he retires next year at the absolute latest), you realize you are running out of chances, and it makes you play tighter and you lose more and more.
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I know that the Oscars are subjective and it's all politics and yada yada yada, but seriously, after seeing Selma last night, I really believe they made a *huge* error by not nominating David Oyelowo at minimum.
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The sad thing is, I pegged the killer the minute we were introduced to the character. I was hoping it would be somebody else, but when doesn't a Britmystery default to blaming the mousy lady whose reason for the crime is some version of unrequited love or misplaced maternalism? That the detectives can look on with condescension and pity? Guh.
I was totally wrong-footed, but after reading your post, maybe it's because I haven't watched a lot of "Britmysteries". I thought that it actually was the business partner and that the letter was the victim explaining why he was leaving the business. I also thought that it would be a good twist to have the partner's wife say that he did it, then the vicar does all the investigating and it turns out she was right-a linear story instead of a twist. The secretary never dawned on me as a suspect. So initially I though "Hah! I have you all figured out!" Wrong.
I liked it-I plan to watch it again next week.
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This only came to me while watching tonight's episode, but it should have popped up in my head earlier: Why would you go to Puerto Rico of all places to promote a song? If you are in Atlanta, wouldn't it make more sense to go to New York or Los Angeles or London? The whole premise of the trip is just...off. They should have just made it a regular beach vacation and not had this lame performance as justification.
And the only words I noticed being repeated over and over in Demetria's song were "Grown Woman". Sigh...I know that's a regular phrase, but come on now. Do your own damn material. That made me think of McDowell's and the Golden Arcs in Coming to America.
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Why couldn't they be released throughout the year, so at least it looks like the Oscars for the Year____, not just Oscars for the months of October - December.
Maybe seeing that Boyhood came out in the summer and Grand Budapest Hotel in early spring will open people's minds. Although it helps that they are both very good, non Oscar-bait movies.
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I heard they started filming Selma in June, so they were under the gun from the beginning. They should have started and finished earlier or just held it back for next year.
And the people that vote should stop being so lazy and actually go see the movie instead of demanding that screeners be sent to them. Getting a DVD in the mail in time should not be a factor in determining whether a movie is award-worthy or not. Among other lame criteria that are apparently important to these people.
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Imo, it's definitely the technical "accomplishment" of the film that's giving it the edge. With critics especially. It's interesting to watch as everyone ages, but there is undoubtedly some bad acting (from the kids) and flat out bad dialogue in many scenes that bugged me. What's funny is that many reviews have admitted to that but the overall accomplishment of the movie is enough to just forgive everything else about it. For me it wasn't.
Completely (and respectfully) disagree. I think what is pretty remarkable about it is that the gimmick draws you in, and then I think it's quickly forgotten. I stopped thinking about it right away. It's just a very good movie and captures a regular life so well, that I had to wrap my mind around the fact that it was not improvised, that it was a script.
I agree that this is a comparatively weak year for movies, but I think Boyhood would be getting traction even if it had more competition.
You can totally dismiss my comments because I'm from Texas and recognized a lot of the locations, so it had something extra for me. I do like that Linklater and Wes Anderson are both from Houston.
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I only just noticed it but Demetria has the most sour apple bitch face I have seen in a very very long time.
And as much as she gets on my nerves, I have to throw love Kenya's way simply for that laugh that came out of her right after the Roger Bobb revelations. She got me to double over and laugh too.
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Jimmy's trailer is like the TARDIS-it seemed puny on the outside and so spacious once you were inside.
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I’d love to see a science fiction movie where the majority of the cast is ambiguously brown because that’s where we’re headed, yo.
The Matrix series? At least the sequels. I mean, they had Cornel West in a role as an elder statesman.
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I love the ending to War of The Roses with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
At the end, they are both hanging from a chandelier in the massive double height foyer of their Washington mansion. Turner's character has rigged the chandelier to collapse, ostensibly on Douglas to kill him but instead they both fall and smash into the floor. As they both lay there dying, Douglas reaches out to Turner one last time-after all their feuding, he wants to reach out and express that, through it all, he still loved her. She reaches for his hand-and throws it off her shoulder. Then they die.
The whole movie is nasty and I just admire a movie that does not pull its punches. It did not wimp out and get sentimental-in fact it basically mocked the audience members that wanted that by teasing it.
About Schmidt-
Jack Nicholson returns home to Nebraska after being trashed by his daughter and failing to prevent her marriage to a not-so-great guy. While he is driving home, there is a voiceover where he talks about how he is fairly certain that statistically he doesn't have much life left (he is a retired actuary) and he has nothing to show for his time on Earth. He goes home and finds a letter from a nun taking care of Ndugu, the child he sponsors via a religious charity and write strange angry venting letters to (the kid can't speak or read English and is 8 or so) The nun, in voiceover, tells Schmidt that Ndugu was sick but is now better and appreciates the letters. Also enclosed is a drawing Ndugu made of him holding Schmidt's hand and smiling. The movie ends with Schmidt just reading the letter and crying.
It's just a really really moving ending.
Breaking The Waves-
the bells ringing in the sky, showing that God had been listening to Bess the whole time and loved her.
I'm not religious and that scene destroyed me.
Zero Dark Thirty-Jessica Chastain crying alone on the plane and the low key music after everything that has just happened. It was powerful because it was so non-triumphant and left you actually wondering whether it was all really worth it.
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Pro: Jessica Lange wailing over Kathy Bates's body so theatrically was LOL-worthy. I think JL was great in this episode overall.
Lee Tergesen: Hot on Oz, and remains so. I'm overlooking the evil aspect of course.
Finn Wittrock butt
Con: Emma Roberts is just...not at the level of the others. Painfully so.
I'm going to get in trouble, but...Angela Bassett. She overdoes it (though in my opinion she always does and is overrated).
I was confused, when Emma Roberts's character (I can't even remember her name) came in while they were tarring and feathering Lee Tergesen, I was wondering, isn't she too late? I thought tarring and feathering someone by itself would be enough to kill them.
I like that it looks like things are picking up (i.e. people are being killed left and right). Keep it up!
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When Claudia introduced herself and said she was a "model", my internal response was like "Like...a face model? Really?! Hmm. OK, if you insist."
The red flag went up for me when Kandi and Todd were having that discussion about kids. I am not married and I don't have children, but even I know that you discuss your desire to have kids or not before you get married. I have seen marriages fall apart because one half made the assumption about children and never asked their spouse. Not good.
And I thought the family discussion got ugly when Riley said that when she was 18 she would be in college-apparently where Kayla is not. Awkward.
The Porsha/Cynthia fight (where Cynthia was trying to hard to reboot her image and Porsha continued to be so smugly stupid that I want her incarcerated) reminded me of all the other fights on this show-I wish we could get random TH from the other people in the restaurants-I want to hear what they thought of these women yelling at the top of their lungs. I love the reaction shots of the other patrons every time this happens.
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The way she reached up to him so trusting, just like the beautiful little princess she was, so filled with love and light. She was precious and beautiful...to kill her would be the same as killing a delicate butterfly, totally defenseless and helpless.
This description of her seems a little...infantilizing and dehumanizing IMHO. She's an adult human being-just a remarkably small one.
This is sort of the fault of the show anyway-it would have been more interesting and upended the viewer's reactions to her ("Oh, look at her-she's so cute!") if they had had her be chain smoking and foul mouthed when she was off stage or something. But instead they sort of went the easy route with her.
I wasn't that torn up about her death-it made sense-she was the most defenseless so of course they would go after her.
On another note, have any of you been to the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia (clearly the inspiration for the museum of oddities in the show)? It's pretty queasily fascinating and I have never seen so many metalheads and goths in daylight in my life.
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I figure that I have invested two to three years of time and energy into loathing Kenya, and I am not going to throw that all away just because of the truth. Sorry Kenya. I considered it for a second but I think she's annoying enough without the Apollo business.
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Did they say whether or not anyone else was going to go to Brand's planet? Or are Cooper and Brand going to hatch all those eggs and start a colony there?
Brand was hatching the eggs (Plan B) because she didn't know that humanity had survived and that Plan A had succeeded. Cooper left at the end to go get her.
Secondly, I didn't quite get the stellar geography going on. The wormhole only led to one place, right? So there were 12 habitable planets all within reach of the wormhole? I get that 3 were right next to the wormhole (relatively) - I assume part of the same star system. The other 9 though -- seperate star systems?
I thought it was that 12 or so astronauts went through the wormhole previously and were told to only send back a signal of Thumbs Up (Habitable) or Thumbs Down (not fit for Habitation) when they landed (or as it seemed, crashed) on their designated planet. The three that were visited were the only ones that sent signals back at all, so they were the obvious candidates to check out and maybe pick up the astronaut who sent the signal. It made no sense to me that it seemed like they were deciding on which place to visit once they went through the wormhole-that seems like something you would try to figure out before you even left Earth.
I got lost on who exactly made the wormhole. I get that everything else in the movie (the "alien" in the wormhole, ghost, etc.) was Cooper, but he got all metaphysical when in the black hole and I wasn't sure if he was implying he and TARS created the wormhole, or future humans did (which would be a paradox?) or there was still another force at play.
I thought this was confusing too. I think they were implying that it was future humans that had figured out how to transcend/manipulate space and time and live in five dimensions. But I thought the same thing you did-it made it seem like we were fated to survive if they engineered events. How would they even exist if we hadn't survived the crisis on Earth and escaped? And how would we have survived and escaped if not for them? Makes my head hurt.
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I don't know if this necessitates a spoiler since the movie is out, so...
just saw Interstellar and I have no idea what happened to the people on Earth. I assume Cooper relayed the missing gravity data from the black hole back to Murphy via the watch, but what did she do with it? Did they complete Plan A? Where did they go? I swear I was paying attention but I must have missed something big at the end. Can anyone help me?
I think you got everything.
Yes, they completed Plan A with the information that Cooper relayed to Murph via the watch. Michael Caine's character couldn't figure out the equation because he needed information from the singularity of a black hole-Cooper provided it, Murph solved the gravity equations-problem solved. Everyone was able to get off of Earth onto various space stations like the one shown at the end.
NASA had been working on the stations the whole time-I think that's what was glossed over when they first visit NASA.
I really liked the movie, but when Cooper went into the black hole...and survived, I was like "OK, no. I am not an astrophysicist, but I know enough about science to know you could not survive going into a black hole." I just had to go with it.
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Season 1 Discussion
in Grantchester
· Edited by yourstruly
Leonard has already been referred to as a "pansy" by one character (I think it may have been Geordie actually), and when Mrs. Maguire said to Leonard that no female guests were allowed in the house after hours, Sidney smirked. And there was a quick scene where Leonard seemed interested in Ben and he went out of his way to give him the book at the end of the episode. I would be surprised if he isn't gay. And this:
I think a closeted gay priest in England in the 50s and 60s would be inherently interesting and not predictable at all.
My somewhat unpopular opinion: I really don't like Mrs. Maguire and am wondering if I am supposed to. I hope they develop her character more because she is so one-dimensionally sour to me right now.
ETA: Jinx, judytheobscure!!!. We all have our opinions I guess!