January 2012
4 posts
“If it’s a popcorn movie, it needs a lot of corn.”
– George Lucas, getting in touch with his inner George Lucas.
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The scene in Alien3 where Ripley tells the xenomorph, “You’ve been in my life so long, I can’t remember anything else,” is infinity times more romantic than Jerry Maguire’s “You had me at hello.”
C: Bieber looks like Shane from Weeds.
R: He also looks like Shane from The L Word.
C: I think the gay autistic guy at work has been hitting on me.
R: So it's raining rain men?
C: Why don't you go tell the internet that.
December 2011
3 posts
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November 2011
5 posts
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J: I don't know what to get an eleven-year-old for his birthday. Do boys still play with toys at that age?
R: They play video games. They like iPads, laptops—things that are flat. They like flat stuff.
J: His mom just emailed me back that he likes money.
R: There you go. Money's flat.
October 2011
9 posts
September 2011
11 posts
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C: You need to get a pug.
R: I don't know if I'm responsible enough to take care of a dog that has a foreskin for a face.
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Taylor Lautner in ‘Abduction’ - Review - NYTimes →
To give Mr. Lautner his due, he is a martial-arts dervish with perfectly sculptured abs. His acting, however, is another matter. I can’t recall another teenage star so opaque. If his physiognomy—recessed eyes that don’t seem to focus, a wide snub nose and Elvis-y lips—conjure Neanderthal manhood after a cosmetic makeover, his boyish monotone with its utter lack of inflection suggests that he is...
“I have a real love-hate thing going on with Disney. It’s a slippery...”
– Ryan Gosling
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A month later I’m still terrified by the scene in Rise of the Planet of the Apes where an orangutan unhooks Freida Pinto’s bra after correctly executing the yawn-and-stretch move.
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August 2011
16 posts
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Dream analysis
C: Is that Freudian or Jungian?
R: I don't know. Wellbutrin.
IMDb Trivia: The Help (2011) →
Jessica Chastain, a vegan, ate soy ice cream melted in the microwave to gain weight for the role of Celia Foote.
This was in addition to her usual diet of butterfly sighs and BBMs from her publicist.
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“Pity is another way we keep suffering at arm’s length. We may let in a little of...”
– Ram Dass & Paul Gorman in How Can I Help?
I've wanted to get this off my chest for a long...
The proliferation of men’s shoes without laces is probably the single greatest threat to modern civilization.
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“To lose one parent … may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
My father’s heart stopped beating two weeks after my twenty-first birthday in 1998. He left our family exceedingly, it could be argued obscenely, well-provided for. We’d been deprived of something fundamental, but our privileges remained...
Besides the ampersand →
This is DreamWorks’ third comic-book adaptation, after Road to Perdition and Over the Hedge.
This is the most interesting thing about Cowboys & Aliens.
The filmmakers cite Alien and Predator as an influence on the look of the aliens in the film.
This was the least interesting thing about Cowboys & Aliens.
July 2011
16 posts
R: I get Tool and Nine Inch Nails mixed up sometimes.
C: Really?
R: Well, they're both things you find in a hardware store.
C: It must be weird being you.
