Mindymoo

I believe I read that they shot The Most Dangerous Game on the sets of King Kong. Nonetheless, I was kind of bummed that they changed the story and added a scantily-clad chick into it, even if it was Faye Wray. The story was compelling enough on its own.

Voiceover, I'm with you about the first act of The Crying Game. Every time I watch it, I still hope against hope that it turns into a buddy film of Fergus and Jody escaping the IRA, even though I know what's to come. Despite Forrest Whitaker's awful British accent, I love that movie so much. I watched it with my wife recently, with her knowing nothing about the film, and she called out the twist of Dil as soon as she saw her cutting Fergus' hair. "Those are man hands! She's trans, isn't she?" Yes dear, she is.

The bottle scene in Pan's Labyrinth gets me. Captain Vidal smashes a young anti-fascist rebel's face in with a bottle. In front of his father, no less. I love that movie, it is one of my all time favorites, but I have to look away during that scene.

Which is why my tactic for those security questions is to pick some random word and use that for the answer to every question. "What's your favorite color?" Zimbabwe. "Who was your favorite high school teacher?" Zimbabwe. That way, when you have an account for a long time, you don't have to remember what your favorite pet was named 13 years prior when you have to change a password. It's a lot easier that way.

So it was my birthday a couple weeks ago, and my wife got me the greatest card ever. I thought you all would enjoy it.

The only time I've found him funny was on "The Ben Stiller Show" and as the evil rest home owner in "Happy Gilmore". Because, dammit, I fucking love that movie. "Billy Madison" too. Early Adam Sandler was hilarious and surreal, and there was a very short window of about three years where I looked forward to Adam Sandler movies.

I have never liked Julia Roberts, don't understand how she was ever considered "America's Sweetheart", think she is an awful actress, and find her personality grating and obnoxious. And since I don't like to tear down other women, I won't even get started on her face. I am also on the Angelina Jolie hate train. Somewhat because of Jennifer Aniston, but mostly because I think she is an awful actress and because she comes off as a completely disingenuous asshat. But hey, what can I say, she's Jon Voight's daughter. I can't take Diane Lane in anything. She comes off as monotone in everything I've seen her in. I don't know anything of her off-screen personality, but I can't take her as an actress. Kirsten Dunst. I have only ever liked her in "Drop Dead Gorgeous." She grates in everything else.

A million times yes. It is a crime that Michael K. Williams, Idris Elba, Dominic West, or my personal favorite, Andre Royo, never were even nominated, let alone won. Season four should have swept the awards, and it wasn't nominated for a single goddamn thing! At least superior programs like "Dexter" got nominated season after season, right? (I'm actually flabbergasted that no one was nominated for that dreck for the final season.)

I'm glad that purported Emmy-bait "The Normal Heart" lost in nearly every category. I found it to be a pretty masturbatory look at the one and only man who was fighting AIDS ever. I felt Ryan Murphy totally failed with it, that the performances were melodramatic, and the writing was subpar. "And the Band Played On" and "Angels in America" were a million times better. Bummed about Alison Tolman and Billy Bob Thornton losing. Those were bullshit. Hooray for "Breaking Bad" and their near sweep. And as happy as I am for Cary Joji Fukunaga's win, I sort of was rooting for Tim Van Patten for "Boardwalk Empire." Richard's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" ending was one of the most heartbreaking and moving things I saw on television all year, and I thought that finale was fantastic.

I am still going to watch with anticipation. I am sad that there will be no Arnold Rothstein, as he is one of my favorite people from that chapter of history and characters on the show. He is long dead by the time the new season picks up so that's a huge bummer there. And no Richard is depressing, though his "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"-esque ending was quite beautiful in season four. I do hope we see some of Tommy and Julia. And I will always be a Chalky fan, so I want to see where he ends up, even though after what happened to Maybelle, it can't possibly be anything good.

I am pretty bummed with the resolution with the On Demand on Direct Tv as well. I almost am preferring watching it on my laptop at this point.

Bubbles is my favorite character on this show, and maybe any show ever. He is so hilarious, smart and sad that you can't help but love the guy. I've seen the series dozens of times, but when I go to individual episodes, it's always the Bubbles-centric ones. Particularly the episodes with Conky, Steve French, the Green Bastard, and where Ricky kidnaps Alex Lifeson when he fails to acquire Rush tickets for Bubs. I do appreciate that Ricky and Julian do seem to care for Bubbles a lot, and try to keep him out of their illegal schemes as much as possible so he doesn't end up in jail like them.

At least you're not crying, SistaLadybug! Nothing worse than a shitfaced person crying because there is gum stuck under the table. Laughing is way cuter.

I'm lucky I got to know her is all. I need to get those VHS tapes and transcribe them to DVD. I'm not having kids, but it would be a nice thing for my nieces and nephews who never got to know her to have.

Bastet, I thought Boys Don't Cry was a phenomenal film, but one that I will never be able to watch again. It was so disturbing to me on a base level, and as a survivor of rape myself, I can't bring myself to watch the movie knowing the scene will happen. Also, interesting side note, with Schindler's List, while Spielberg was making it, he had interviewers go across the country to interview concentration camp survivors about the horrors they went through. My Babcia and Dziadzia were in the Polish Resistance and survived Birkeneau and Auschwitz- they even met in Auschwitz. Babcia got caught when she was carrying a package on a train. They told her that if the person carrying the package didn't come forward, everyone onboard would be killed, so of course she stood up. They took her back to her home, murdered her parents and siblings in front of her, and shipped her off to the camps. Dziadzia was dead when the movie was made, but Babcia was still around, and she was one of the dozens of subjects that was interviewed. We still have the tapes on VHS, they spoke with her for around five or six hours.

Here's my unpopular opinion. While I love Monty Python and all that they do, Monty Python and the Holy Grail isn't the be all and end all of their movies. If you ask me, Monty Python's Life of Brian is miles ahead of Holy Grail. It says something to me when someone as awesome as George Harrison loves your work so much that he will fund your unfundable movie and only ask for a little cameo in return.

Danny Franks, I think the whole of Requiem for a Dream was awful. Unrealistic, bullshit, nonsensical, like a modern day "Reefer Madness." I thought the ending was the best part, because the credits were finally rolling!

Has anyone seen Ray McKinnon's short film "The Accountant"? It apparently won an Oscar in 2002 and stars him and Walton Goggins, and it is quite brilliant and beautiful. The man is a genius behind and in front of the camera. Oh, and I just took the quiz, and apparently I would only last one day in a small town like Paulie. Guess I'm a city gal at heart. (Though I would live just about anywhere in Ontario, small town or not.)

With so many years of cinema, we have been exposed to so many bad parents. Here are my select few. Tommy Walker's mum and step-dad in Tommy. First the step dad shoots the father after he comes home from WWII after being presumed dead. Tommy becomes deaf, dumb and blind because he witnesses this and because mum and step-dad berate him about it, saying "you didn't see it/ you didn't hear it/ you won't say nothing to no one never in your life/You never heard it/How absurd it will seem without any proof." They leave him with his cousin Kevin, who tortures him. They leave him with his Wicked Uncle Ernie, who rapes him. His step-dad takes an underaged Tommy to a prostitute (played by the lovely Tina Turner). Tommy only seems calm in the mirror, so his mother smashes it. Tommy become a pinball sensation, so his family capitalizes off of it, makes tons of money off of him, but don't give a damn about him at all. Just shit people all around. Noah Cross in Chinatown. He raped his daughter, and is likely to start the cycle over again with his daughter/granddaughter that Evelyn had hidden away from him before she was shot. He also murdered his daughter's husband. Ofelia's mother and stepfather in Pan's Labyrinth. Her mother marries a man she hardly knows and is pregnant with his baby, moving them to ground zero of the Spanish Civil War. Whether or not you believe the magic is real, everything the mother did up to her death was cruel. Yes her pregnancy was going downhill fast, but she hooked her star to a sadistic, evil, unfeeling man. When she died, the stepfather became even more cruel and evil to Ofelia, even imprisoning her. When he kills her at the end, I cry every time because I *want* the magic to be real, and for her to return to her real father, the king. Helene McCready in Gone Baby Gone. Her daughter goes missing, and her sister seems to care the most. When the whole plot comes to light that her brother-in-law kidnapped the girl and gave her to Morgan Freeman's character to raise after he retired, I was so PISSED OFF that Patrick had to do the legally right thing and give her back to Helene, when she would have a better and happy life. As soon as Helene gets her back, what does she do? Does she vow to make a better life for her and her daughter? No, she goes on a date, even though she doesn't really have a babysitter, and just leaves him with Patrick. What a twunt.

I am a purebred second generation Polish immigrant, and it is basically a crime against humanity for me to hate the foods I hate, but here goes. Cabbage, especially kapusta, is disgusting. I hate kielbasa. Beets are an abomination. And don't even get me started on śledzie. Frankly, the only Polish food I do like are pierogi, and that's when I make them myself (which is a four day long affair), and I use potatoes/cheese/bacon, or drained cottage cheese/chives/black pepper. I always get roped into making kapusta and mushroom pierogi too, since I am the resident pierogi chef, and I hate my family for it.

Since I mentioned it in another thread, There Will Be Blood. Eli comes to Daniel years later asking for money. Eli, who was always a holier than thou preacher man, is now destitute and is willing to allow Daniel to drill on the Bandy land. So Daniel makes Eli admit that he is a false prophet and that god is a superstition. I love the ending to Tommy because it is so much different than the stage show. Tommy Walker's mom and step-dad are two of the WORST parents in film history. I relish the ending of Inglorious Basterds because as a second generation Polish immigrant whose grandparents met in concentration camps, I choose to pretend that that is how WWII ended. Hanz Landa's branding was the icing on the cake. And finally, I love love LOVE the ending of The Crying Game.

I can say that unless I am brown out drunk (that is the stage before black out drunk) I am still pretty coherent and do not slur my words. Not everyone sounds like Jim Lahey from Trailer Park Boys when they're shitfaced.

Halcyon Days, I do live one street over from my Busia, and she is as spry as ever, so I think I may make my way over to her house this week and start dredging some of this stuff up. She loves talking about that stuff, and how her mom turned out to be one butch feminist that men were afraid of even when she was in her 70s. Maybe I will even get her cherry bounce recipe.

I need a good recipe for hummus. I want it to be a spicy hummus, with spicy red pepper. I prefer my hummus to be creamy rather than chunky, and every recipe I've tried has turned out to be just awful. Any help would be appreciated. (I have a disease called gastroparesis that allows me to only eat small quantities of lean protein at a time, around 400 calories of solid food a day, and hummus is one of the only things that I can hold down, but damn is it getting expensive!) So a good spicy red pepper hummus recipe would be tops, and maybe, if you are being extra nice, a good falafel recipe too.

Perhaps it's because of the death of my beloved Robin Williams, but me and the missus watched "The Fisher King" on Netflix last night, and that had us BAWLING at the end. Robin Williams totally should have won the Oscar for that role. He was amazing. Jeff Bridges was phenomenal too.