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Vexed.

I don't know if I'm more embarrassed I ever masturbated to Mena Suvari or that I thought 'American Beauty' was a very good movie.

Dredd

I hate positive reviews but let me just say this movie is to action as Scott Pilgrim Vs The World was to comic book movies. It's the severely under panned under appreciated gem of its respective genre that didn't get the audience it deserves because its audience is too busy making a big deal out of the Nolan Batmans to notice far better movies around them.

The fact this movie will just be a kicked around DVD that people will have to make their friends watch only legitimizes it to me. Those make up most of my favorite movies. This one is no exception. Whoever made this movie. Good work sorry no one noticed.

Best Director. Spielberg, Tarantino, PTA, Wes Anderson, Kathryn Bigelow, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Snubs for days.

Kathryn Bigelow

Paul Thomas Anderson

Wes Anderson.

Quintin Tarantino.

Ben Affleck

I get depressed thinking that the Oscar won't be won by one of these people, they're actually with the inclusion Michael Haneke that rounds out my top 5-6 of picks for who I thought deserved it. The more I read about film direction the more I'm convinced I know more than I actually do and the more I start to believe my phony bologna opinion. David O'Russel makes fantastic movies and Ang Lee really made an entertaining movie, but neither were considered by anyone to be top 5 movies of the year. Its just kind of disarming to see Beasts of the Southern Wild on this list, I guess its their "see we're still cool" nomination by picking a first time movie maker for his extremely overwrought attempt. I mean the movie really was just a phenomenal acting job of a five year old who didn't know what was around her was a complete mess. The film is like drunk college girl sloppy. It just seems the Hole of movies, it feels like its connected to something great, but it just feels like too many contrived hands have touched it and when you finally get your hands on it it just smells like a handful of really well travelled and handled coins.

The inclusion of Spielberg just seems like a nod to his name. I guess Lincoln is set to sweep but it really shouldn't. The worst part about Lincoln was the point of view and pacing. The two things I can really determine what a director does. And that movie was unbalanced and milquetoast period piece that everyone saw in the mid 90s.

This is my first Oscars where the story isn't who wins it was who isn't nominated. Ben Affleck wins the Golden Globe but isn't nominated for an Oscar? I don't understand that. I understand which carries more weight but is anyone else surprised at how that comes off? Kathryn Bigelow gets some heat for her movie that depicts actual events not having a spin on it to condemn torture more. Like she should've changed the story to help the Hollywood agenda. And I'm not some anti-Hollywood down with liberals guy but to act like a movie that didn't carry the social message you subscribe to is somehow evil now and the returning Best Director from 2 years ago who is back with a bigger better movie is a fucking crime against art.

Whatever. Bigelow Anderson Affleck PTA Tarantino Haneke in that order. So good luck Mike. Anyone but Spielberg would make me happy,

I feel like Ice Cube has disgraced us.

Cable tv shows with the Dragging Tattoo

I guess everyone is mad at Homeland for its nonsensical direction and as much as I agree with them I just can't fully commit to the idea that suspension of logic for the sake of filling a plot hole means nothing.

Homeland took some chances this year and to not give the audience what they want without it being self serving of their own indulgences to make the show something it isn't is refreshing. That being said they really took their time with some stuff and rushed others. The drama with the daughter hit and run was more upsetting and inappropriately balanced you'd think it was the sodomy rape scene in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The episode where Ginger Al Qaeda murders the Vice President was more rushed than whatever cohesion element and scenes that were missing from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to make it the movie people rank it an 8 on imdb.

I don't even like anyone on The Walking Dead as much as I like my secondary pick on who i want to win an episode of Chopped. There was less transition between these two paragraphs than The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.... That should be the last of those references. Well not so quick. I hate when an actor or actress goes through a physical transformation and is automatically considered giving a great acting performance. Rooney Mara got nipple rings and a frumpy hair cut and suddenly now she is Deniro in Raging Bull? I won't secede this point. She doesn't emote through out the entire movie. She basically did what Christian Bale did in The Machinist and hope the absence of their reserved self torture shows through the fact they don't look like their Wikipedia photo. I almost feel like Charlize Theron and Robert Deniro unknowingly opened a pandora a box for marginal work to be unendingly praised.

So does anyone find the rotating door of characters in the Walking Dead to start to feel more like an assembly line of zombie testing dummies and less like a cast of characters. Black guy 1 lasted a while. 2.45 seasons before he is eaten. But then there is black guy 2. He overlaps black guy 1 by about 2 episodes. But he eats a shotgun blast to the tits so he is gone. And just when you think the show has gone all New Hampshire they introduce another black guy.

I'm starting to feel like the show just gives you people to kill them. And if that is the case and all we really attach to is the father and son who effectively won't die then what are we watching? It's a recipe for feeding zombies. I guess I'll partake. I guess.

Story time.

I went to a pet shop/zoo in Providence one time. Guy had alligators monitor lizards snapping turtles. I asked the gentleman what's the thing you want to be bit by the least. He pulls out a coffee tin and gets a feeder mouse. Drops the mouse in and tilts the can towards me.

I was expecting a dinosaur or a thousand scorpions made out of barb wire. I look in and see a centipede bite the tiny mouse and hang on. I was like. 'Cute bug'. The mouse proceeds to melt from the inside out like it stared into the Arc of the Covenant and it was the most terrifying thing I've ever seen.

I've since thought about that bug biting my hand or my ankle and just feeling my tissue dissolve. Tendons, arteries even bone just become a green mush and how devastating that would be. Achilles' tendon just corroding down to paste.

What an awful little pile of shit that centipede was.