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Re The Blair Witch Project: I used to go to Sundance WAY back in the day when people were begging you to watch their films and it wasn't a celebrity-fest. The BWP was a midnight show and no one had ever heard of it. The next morning, that's all anyone talked about, everywhere you went. SO scary--was it real or WHAT?!
Personally I never saw it. I read a review wherein a woman said her daughter wasn't able to walk past a tree for six months after seeing the movie. I live in the woods--I can't afford to be nervous about trees.
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One, it sucks to have to beg your wife for sex, especially if you're trying hard and she says she's done with it for a while.
It seemed to me he made reasonable efforts and was rebuffed.
Of course a healthy 30-year old man wants sex. But look at the wife, at the books she reads and the movies she watches. Vampire stuff is all about seduction. She has decent communication skills--she says to him that 1) she's exhausted from dealing with the kids/household and 2) when they do have sex, he flips her around like a gymnast.
How many babysitter/dinners-for-two will $400 buy? How about a spa day? "Hey honey, how about I rub your back 'til you fall asleep (and don't poke you in the side while I'm doing it)?"
Sheesh, I could get Judy Greer going and I just met her 22 minutes ago.
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There were a couple of clever lines, but the main character is a self-absorbed jerk who tries to trick his wife into touching his penis, doesn't seem to know much about his kids and mainly hangs out in a bar, getting stoned with his friends and strategizing how to get laid. He spends tons of time and energy and money chasing a girl--ice cream cones, puppies, hospitals, her apartment/grandmother/ex-boyfriend. Hijinks ensue.
You know what would REALLY get you some action, dude? Sitting on the couch, folding that mountain of laundry and giving your wife a fucking break.
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Unrelated random thoughts:
1. Did Angie have to die just so she could leave a bloody handprint on a school locker which only the amnesiac girl from the lake would be able to open because she remembered the combination from 26 years ago, when she looked exactly the same?
I guess it's a good thing after all that no one had a crowbar.
2. I can't remember if Joe's friend, the kid with the skateboard, is dead. Is he over at Big Jim's, with Norrie's Other Mother?
Will Other Mother finally get to make a guest appearance when they start the purge of "nonessential personnel"?
3. It makes me happy when Lyle Lovett and Dwight Yoakum turn up on shows. I don't know their music, but they aren't exactly matinee idols and I just like it that they must wake up on random mornings and say "Get me a guest gig."
Who suggested Willie Nelson as a pot farmer? That would be Dome-alicious!
4. The Borneo tribe could streamline their system by requiring the old and infirm to climb up in that tree in the first place.
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I was surprised when my British friend "spit feathers" about this show. She thinks Poppy and Georgie are pretentious and horrible.
In agreement with above posts, I don't find them mean or condescending. "Droll" is the perfect word, Kroll.
And something I else I enjoy is that, IF the Americans are unaware of the whole setup, their response is commendable as well--good natured and respectful.
Most refreshing.
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Somebody get Jenna Von Oy a commercial now! She has personality to spare...
Agree! She was lovely. When she got worn out at the cocktail party and had to flop on the bed for a breather, I could relate. There might have been a little producer manipulation later--pool noodles?--but anyone who can keep a purple velvet couch in a house with four dogs is okay by me.
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It's five minutes in, and somewhere out there where old internet sites languish, the long comatose Ihatejillzarin.com has just coughed and fluttered its eyelids.
Yes, yes, I understand that the whole "dog before daughter, then Bobby" schtick is part of her outrageous television personality. But I can't even imagine having the sheer arrogance necessary to utter the sentiment that I was born to make a mess and other people were born to clean up my mess. Blessed/lucky/privileged? Absolutely. Preordained? Mmmm, no.
[sidenote: I went to a music festival once, with thousands of women, and one of the opening remarks was "Remember that if you drop a piece of trash on the ground, it means another woman will have to pick that trash up." That one sentence was a life-changer for me.]
Oh well, back to the show. My favorite moment was Jill picking up the photo of the von Oy family and recognizing Six from Blossom.
"I'd like to thank The Academy. . ."
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I count half a dozen supernatural life forms and at least that many subplots. PLUS a supersecret uberwealthy organization of German bad guys?
Too much, show; you exhaust me.
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I like the Dateline narration. I'd watch "Snapped" if the narrator didn't sound like Stephen Hawking's voice simulator. I get distracted while I mentally beg her to JUST END ONE SENTENCE ON A DIFFERENT NOTE.
Last night's Linda LeBrane story was tragic. The repercussions from the attack just never seemed to end. Testifying at the trials year after year, permanent paralyzing fear. Her house got foreclosed! They didn't say what kind of toll it took on her family, but I'm sure it was enormous. It's understandable that she simply cannot contemplate the possibility that an innocent woman was imprisoned for years--it's just one horrific thing too many to bear.
I wonder if anyone in the Idaho justice system feels a sense of shame when this episode is played.
Ginny Hatch, the criminal justice grad student, was amazing. How many years did she devote to this case? It's seems likely that somewhere along the line she would have graduated, accepted a job in another state, moved on with her life. She's a hero. That woman has some serious goes-around-comes-around karma headed her way.
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Lifetime Channel is messing up my world by running three hours of Grey's every afternoon. I keep thinking I'll quit after Meredith drowns, after George dies, before Sloan's idiot daughter shows up. And let me just add right here:
Wow, that Season 6 two-parter finale was terrific television. Riveting.
I'm surprised, more than anything, by how unlikeable many of the characters were. Meredith was a child-woman whose default mode was throwing tantrums. Yang's empathy never extended a molecule outside self-interest. Alex was a jerk, Izzie was a bauble.
And yet. . .every story arc, even the ones that annoy, feels like bumping into an old friend I haven't seen for a long time. Right now I'm watching Teddy Altman fall in love with her insurance patient/husband. Why, hello there! I remember you.
So my new cut-off point is the plane crash. Better I should get a head start on medical school myself rather than watching Arizona bitch about her leg for three years.
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Halle was kind of a dud on Letterman last night, too. The biggest takeaway from the interview is that the baby mystery drags out to Episode 12.
Could somebody just send me a text?
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There was plenty backstage drama during production.
Ang Lee was the original director of the pilot, but quit over creative differences.
Wow, good scoop! Ang Lee directing a television episode would have generated a Must See TV groundswell.
Too bad that didn't work out.
Ths show isn't perfect, but I've never seen anything like it and that's incredibly refreshing. I'm tired of everything law enforcement, reduced population microcosm and scripted reality.
No offense to your husband, Mrs. Barba.
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Oh, I forgot:
When Molly vows to Bassam that the family will always be there for him ". . .as long as it's safe" I had a happy snarky snort.
Let's see. Multiple public executions and assassination attempts, hostage kidnapping, martial law, wedding gunplay, mutilation potpourri. Yeah, they should be fine.
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Jamal's rape of that woman was so vicious ("Watch this, kids!") I assumed it was retaliation for some political intrigue, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!
All of Abbudin would be better off if Jamal's pudendal artery stayed severed.
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Oh, please take pity on those of us with 50-year old eyes and low-def television and keep the English. The CC subtitles have a nice white type against a black bar background, but the show-generated subtitles are yellow and sometimes match the couch in the background.
I'm just now watching the episode, but it's past time for Molly to reveal an agenda. It would be difficult to swallow a 20-year sleeper cell storyline, but I don't think it's too off the chain to show her beginning to appreciate that daily massage next to the palace pool. The level of luxury at her disposal would defy imagination and so far, I've only seen her use it to get out of cruising Kayak for plane reso's. There would be someone lurking with a honey-rosewater morsel anytime she wanted to stretch out her arm and someone else on standby to define her eyebrows with a long piece of floss. She's an honored guest-slash-member of the ruling family. I can easily see her taking a long look at Alice Krige and thinking, "Well, this lifestyle is rather appealing. I never liked giving out my cellphone number to my patients anyway."
Jaw gritter detail: the son thinks he's cute that he can't master "as salaam alaikum" followed by "wa alaikum al-salaam"???? This would only come up a few dozen times per day. Oy.
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Oh, how can you not be loving this show? I'm only halfway through and the howlers are already rich and plentiful.
"Son, you've got to let Angie go." [it's been 15 minutes.]
"I'm afraid Joe is keeping his emotions bottled up inside." [iT'S BEEN 15 MINUTES.]
"They found a woman's shoeprint. Probably hers."
Because she's Bigfoot? Clementine? Carrie Bradshaw?
Now Barbie's going to dump pesticide on the monarchs. What next, a panda shows up and Chester Mills decides to nuke it?
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When someone knocked at the door, I suddenly noticed Wendy was tiptoeing down the shadowy hall, past way more light fixtures than any normal home. And the front door was still pitch black.
Wait. . .what? Let's go to the replay.
Counting lamps, wall sconces, candles and that massive chandelier, there were over 30 light sources between the couch where they were sitting and the front door. Wendy should have been rocking Ray-Bans.
In Frederick's bedroom, there are nine lamps. ( I hope he brought a sleep mask through the portal.)
And it's not just Witch Manor! Dash had three lamps plus a roaring fire in the walk-in hearth, but his face was still "bathed by the eerie glow" from his laptop.
What's with all these crazy light bulbs? Is East End cursed with ineffective wattage?
P.S. No problem seeing that tentacle slip beneath her hem out there in Birnam Wood at midnight.
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Best line of the episode, uttered in response to missing girl question:
"She couldn't have gone far."
Durrrrrrrrrrrrr. . .
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Have these women never been invited to a dinner party before???
You don't announce that you refuse to eat the main course. You don't discuss that the appetizer ingredients will make you vomit. You don't go wandering into the kitchen to see if someone will get you a bowl of soup. Or vodka. You don't get up and go trooping out for a smoke while the hosts sit there and hold the next course. Ack!
And who announces, while the dishes are being cleared, "I could really go for a big juicy hamburger right about now"?
No wonder Lady Sandwich had to retire early. She probably had an attack of the vapors.
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I love a good horror flick and most of AHS had me happily peeking at the screen between my fingers. (Try it, it really works!) But the torture in S.3 pushed the line for me and then Salem zoomed right on past. Did not enjoy.
So now I'm worried. The whole point of freakshows in the first place was to elicit a gross-out reaction. And of course Ryan is going to use a hydraulic lift to set the bar for Season Four. And if we're talking about the '50's, there weren't any statutory protections, much less any townie interference based on moral outrage or the as-yet-uncoined term "political correctness." Basically, there must've been a lot people living in hell on the carnival circuit, even without jolting it up a few notches for optimal viewer squick.
You have to WANT to peek for the system to work.
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I flat out loved it.
I don't have too much trouble with Barry and Molly. The show did a good job showing Barry as the kind of pediatrician who would interrupt his pre-vacation jog to allay the fears of a nervous mother who "thinks it might be strep." ( Molly's reaction: "That's why I don't give out my cell phone number." Heh.) Barry's not a mystery to her--he's a warm, loving husband, father and physician, who sometimes lets people take advantage of his good nature. Plus, Barry's brother's family has been to visit and everyone went to Disneyland and had a grand ol' time, tra la, tra la. What, me worry?
So they never found the time to visit the family palace. There were all those years of med school, residency, etc. and a couple of babies to raise. I think the giant empty plane--and all it implied--came out of nowhere for her, and his reaction was her first disconnect. You could tell smacking that mouthy kid was WAY out of character for Dr. Barry.
I had more trouble with the daughter getting off the plane in a sleeveless top. I've been all over the Middle East and occasionally it feels like the lack of a wine list at dinner is the biggest difference from a Western country. But of course that is never, ever true. For women, Modesty is Rule Number One. Skip the shorts and get those shoulders covered up. . .and then it goes from there. Nobody took a peek at Lonely Planet before they left? There's a special section of interest for the mouthy kid.
Otherwise, the pilot set up a dozen different dark twisty paths to follow. And Barry/Baseem: Yum! I can't wait.
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S03.E11: Jenna Von Oy / Jill Zarin
in Celebrity Wife Swap [V]
For some reason, it tickles me to picture JZ snuggled up on the couch with the dog and a bowl of popcorn, watching Blossom.
But okay, it could happen!