Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!

River ,'War Stories'


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Jesse - Mar 17, 2011 5:53:06 am PDT #13602 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Huh! I just read that.


tommyrot - Mar 17, 2011 6:28:16 am PDT #13603 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

10 potentially great sci-fi movies coming in 2011

I'm excited about Cowboys & Aliens, because that's what this country needs right now. The other ones I'll probably wait for the reviews....


DavidS - Mar 17, 2011 6:49:41 am PDT #13604 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm excited about Cowboys & Aliens

The trailer looked cool. Or that may just be Daniel Craig looking cool, but he does that.

Are they back on track with the next Bond film yet?


Kathy A - Mar 17, 2011 6:57:55 am PDT #13605 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

They showed the trailer for Cowboys & Aliens before Harry Potter last November, and that was the trailer that got the most buzz from the audience.


Strega - Mar 17, 2011 7:20:01 am PDT #13606 of 30000

Are they back on track with the next Bond film yet?

Reportedly, yes -- but it'd be coming out late next year so it's early days.


DavidS - Mar 17, 2011 8:30:13 am PDT #13607 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Cracked takes on one of my recent cinematic beefs: digital color correction.

In a different article we find a cogent rant against "Everything Is Blue and Orange":

Speaking of blue, this might be the bluest movie ever made. I guess now is as good a time as any to address the tendency of filmmakers to color all their movies using just two crayons: blue and orange. If you’ve ever taken any sort of graphic design course, you’re probably familiar with color wheels, tools that allow a designer to sit in their chair for hours on end, staring at a rainbow. Some color theorist noticed, eventually, that certain colors are particularly striking when paired with certain other colors, and specifically, you can match up the color on one side of the color wheel with a color on the opposite side, and the resulting contrast is striking indeed. And, not coincidentally, in exact opposite spaces on the color wheel is where you’ll find orange and blue. When computer assisted color correction meant that any jackass with a mouse could make his movie any color he wanted, instead of having to do it via lighting or expensive, complicated pre-computer era methods. This ushered in the era of extremely boring looking movies, where every single film we endure is either green/yellow, blue/orange, or that washed out sort of brownish-white. If you are charitable, this color correction is done, however lazily, to invoke a certain mood. If you are less charitable, those movie making assholes are doing it because every other movie making asshole is doing it.

Blue-orange has emerged as one of the most dramatic color contrasts, and as a result, you will find it absolutely fucking everywhere, both in the movies and on the posters. And once you notice it for the first time, you will never be able to stop noticing it. Eventually, you will go mad, and your relatives will have you committed to a Victorian-style madhouse, where you will crouch in the corner of your padded room, coloring every surface in the room blue and orange. The abuse of the blue-orange color palette is so rampant that, ultimately, I have to give up raging against it, because even filmmakers I like tend to fall back on exploiting it. I guess we’ll all just have to reconcile ourselves to the fact that our movies will only be blue/orange, yellow/green, or gray/brown from here on out, and using a full spectrum of color was nothing more than an ill-conceived dalliance among naive filmmakers who thought color films should be color.


sumi - Mar 17, 2011 10:20:36 am PDT #13608 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

Jennifer Lawrence has been cast as Katniss in The Hunger Games.


Rayne - Mar 17, 2011 10:45:15 am PDT #13609 of 30000
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire

Hmmm. I've been meaning to watch Winter's Bone. Guess I'll move it to the top of my Netflix queue.


Polter-Cow - Mar 17, 2011 10:56:55 am PDT #13610 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

It's good, Rayne. Ozark noir! And she's basically in every scene of the movie. I can't think of one she's not in.


sj - Mar 17, 2011 11:34:57 am PDT #13611 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Jennifer Lawrence has been cast as Katniss in The Hunger Games.

I never saw Winters Bone either, but I heard she was excellent in it. Still, I wish they had picked an actress who is still a teenager. I think one of the most horrific things in the book is how young all the players in the Hunger Games are.