It's Propaganda time!

Everyone does it at sometime or another! Check out posters put out by the Chinese from the 50's to the 90's in this online gallery. Some pretty interesting stuff! Socially as well as artistically.





True story, during my film history class in CEGEP, we were watching Triumph of the Will (most elaborate piece of nazi propaganda EVER!) as well as some Canadian war time films (also arguably propaganda) ones of my friends leaned over to me and whispered 'Whats propaganda?" Needless to say we weren't really friends after that


Courtosey of Maopost.com

Career Planning

This has actually been more helpful then any of my academic advisers. Apparently I`m meant to be a bounty hunter



Totally stolen from Nerdbastards.com

And the nominees are in!

They really hit the nail on the head with this year worst picture nominees!

Vampires Suck
Eclipse
Sex & the City 2
The Last Airbender
The Bounty Hunter


While I have no seen Vampires Suck or Bounty Hunter, I am assured they both suck(although I feel like in the case of Vampires Suck, it was more like done on purpose) I can definitely vouch for the crappiness of the other films.

Sex in the City 2 was the most Americentric crap I have seen in ages. It's trite, it's insensitive, it's offensive and IT'S NOT FUNNY. I'm not even a fan of the franchise and I really enjoyed the first movie. The second seems to be like the worst episode they ever made with the bigger budget and less graphic sex scenes.

The Last Airbender is so bad there are only 3 things that happen. Some one has a big explanatory speech, some one says "We have to go ___" and that is followed by a big fight scene. They then do the same thing over and over again until the film ends.
The problem with this film is they thought they were so cool, no one would notice how bad the story was. Well guess what, when you treat audiences like they are stupid they figure it out and get pissed! Also the cast should have been a mix of many races (as they are in the comics) instead of the white guys = good guys, non white guys = bad guys, like in this film. Critics accusing this film of "whitewashing" are not wrong. I wonder what Shyamalan was thinking, letting this casting go through. And for someone who usually has a nack for complex scripts this one seems to have been written by a monkey who signed Shyamalans name.

As for Eclipse lets just say the only way I was able to sit through this movie was by playing a drinking game against Taylor Lautners abs (ie everything he was shirtless I would drink). Needless to say I lost horribly and was so drunk I had to be helped out of the theater. My condolences got to the people who are working on the film who actually have talent (ie Melissa Rosenberg, screenwriter), I hope the paycheck was worth it.
I also love that they have a category solely for sequels, prequels and remakes as well as a new category for worse use of 3D.

Any other films you think should have been nominated? Think any of this actors will pull Sandra's or Halle's and actually show up to accept their awards?


FULL LIST OF NOMINEES

Worst Picture

The Bounty Hunter (Columbia Pictures/Relativity Media)
The Last Airbender (Paramount/Nickelodeon Movies)
Sex and the City 2 (Warner Bros/New Line/HBO Pictures)
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)
Vampires Suck (20th Century-Fox/Regency Enterprises)

Worst Actor

Jack Black in Gulliver's Travels
Gerald Butler in The Bounty Hunter
Ashton Kutcher in Killers and Valentine's Day
Taylor Lautner in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and Valentine's Day
Robert Pattinson in Remember Me and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Worst Actress

Jennifer Aniston in The Bounty Hunter and The Switch
Miley Cyrus in The Last Song
The Four "Gal Pals" (Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis & Cynthia Nixon) in Sex and the City 2
Megan Fox in Jonah Hex
Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Worst Supporting Actor

Billy Ray Cyrus in The Spy Next Door
George Lopez in Marmaduke, The Spy Next Door and Valentine's Day
Dev Patel in The Last Airbender
Jackson Rathbone in The Last Airbender and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Rob Schneider in Grown Ups

Worst Supporting Actress

Jessica Alba in The Killer Inside Me, Little Fockers, Machete and Valentine's Day
Cher in Burlesque
Liza Minnelli in Sex and the City 2
Nicola Peltz in The Last Airbender
Barbra Streisand in Little Fockers

Worst Screen Couple / Screen Ensemble

Jennifer Aniston and Gerald Butler in The Bounty Hunter
Josh Brolin's Face and Megan Fox's Accent in Jonah Hex
The Entire Cast of The Last Airbender
The Entire Cast of Sex and the City 2
The Entire Cast of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel

Clash of the Titans
The Last Airbender
Sex and the City 2
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Vampires Suck

Worst Director

Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer for Vampires Suck
Michael Patrick King for Sex and the City 2
M. Night Shyamalan for The Last Airbender
David Slade for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Sylvester Stallone for The Expendables

Worst Screenplay

The Last Airbender (written by M. Night Shyamalan, based on the TV series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko)
Little Fockers (written by John Hamburg and Larry Stuckey, based on characters created by Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke)
Sex and the City 2 (written by Michael Patrick King, based on the TV series created by Darren Star)
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer)
Vampires Suck (written by Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer)

Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3-D

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Clash of the Titans
The Last Airbender
The Nutcracker in 3D
Saw 3D
Full list of nominees http://razzies.com/history/2010-worst-picture.asp

This just reeks of mass coverup!

"The birds died from blunt force trauma. After their deaths, they were gathered up and sent to the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Employees there found bruises on their bodies and not much else. The lab was not impressed with the timing of the event, since its researchers analyze as many as 500 mass die-offs per year. The fact that the birds showed bruises, that they were the only species that was part of the die-off, and the timing determined the death.

Scott Wright, the chief of disease investigations explains, that firecrackers would have set the birds out at night, flying blind."

"It's believed that the noise startled them-they are poor night fliers-and they were in close proximity to neighborhoods, and they flew into homes and cars. They died of impact force to their bodies."

article stolen from i09

I'm totally call their bullshit on this one
You just watch, this is totally the apocalypse, with this and all the dead fish, all we need next is a river of blood and a plague of locust. It'll be all out chaos by the end of July.

All I can think of is WWMD (What would Mulder do) and all I can come up with is... ask Scully

How have I not heard of this!

A. I love Ed Helms
2. What a great concept
D. This has got to be good if even Anne Heche looks funny

And on the first day...

Residents of Beebe woke up New Years day to find hundreds of dead blackbirds littering the streets of their town. Last year there were floods and this year dead black birds. Authorizes think it's high altitude weather conditions (have I been watching too much X-Files or does that just reek of cover up?) io9 thinks it's Romulan War birds. Personally I'm going to stick with the classics; all out apocalypse.


via CNN and The Occultist

Mistletoe and Mind Control

The lovely folks over @ io9 posted this juicy tibit!

All this makes me think of is fringe and that David Cronenberg episode of Alias where he doses everybody and eats fakeon.





I can't decide what the best part is, the retro credits, the retro ads, or the subject matter itself.

This is required holiday viewing my friends! Hit the comments below.

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TV Goodness

Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind

Best episode of Castle since "Undercover Lover" X-Files themes, and references and a giant Firefly reference! Sigh, I love Nathan Fillion

All of this really makes me wanna go out and buy the complete series of the X-Files and watch it all again.

And now for something completely different...

EPIC!

Just in time for fall

Overdue Photopost

Took these puppys in August and just plum forgot to post them. I was location scouting for Project Cross Match and I had to stop for gas. I've always loved the water tower, and the "Bar Ormstown/Bar Harem/Club O-Town" is the local dive/strip club, that everyone is scared to go into for far of the HIV and saggy strippers. It's basically used to launder money... or so everyone assumes. As far as I know it doesn't do any actual business. The barn is my uncles, and is very old and sorta falling apart.
As much as I some times try to stay away I do find inspiration in my home town. Now all I need to do is buy myself and actual camera s that I wont have to steal my moms all the time.

New favorite GIF!

This just made my life

No words

Yes Please!

Morena Baccarin to star as Wasp in Avengers movie?

While not my favorite Whedonite, I will take anything at this point!

Steampunk

A week ago I didn't know this was a thing. Now I'm obsessed!





Now I learn the SyFy (seriously, why did they do this? They didn't need a name change) has picked up the web series "Riese". I'm into it! It's like a whose who (B version) of the channels stars.
Now all I need to do is somehow get the SyFy channel!

Inspiration (as usual) provided by i09

*Sigh*

I totally used to ship these too on Firefly. Yes I know the age difference is creepy but for some reason I think they would have fit. Now I can't even watch Chuck cause he just looks old and it makes me miss Jayne too much.

Pics from last night

So excuse the mobile phone quality of these photos! I had to work with what I had! SICK game last night, But I suppose any game is amazing when you up against the glass. Montreal vs. Flordia, in a winner takes all clash of the titans! Actually it was pre season but WHO CARES! There's something about banging on the glass and yelling that makes for such a much more tactile and invigorating hockey experience! That and I had a bottle of wine in me and any one who knows me know how belligerent and loud I get when drunk at sporting events.






A shout out to my wonderful date SLE who not only got us the most amazing seats in the house (girlfriend has a sweet job with sweet perks) but also to the two older guys sitting beside us, and the cute 10 year old behind us, who ate all of my candy and kept me updated on who all of the rookies were and how they were doing!


We worked it girl style, Habs jersey's (mine borrowed from my BF) tight pants and high heeled boots, as well as dinner and a BYOW before had! The only other was to roll is a 5 à 7 before, but alas we didn't have enough time.

Nothing says Montreal like Hockey! Can't wait for the regular season to start what with the play off last year and getting to watch the game up close this year, I feel like I'm really starting to be a big fan!

"It's not a dick, it's a duck!"

Ladies and Gentlemen, my vote for the best worst movie ever

The Long Kiss Goodnight




Starring Gena Davis and Samuel Jackson, LKG tell the story of Samantha Cain (Davis) a housewife with amnesia who tries to find out who she used to be.
*Spoiler Alert*
Long story short she turns out to be a government trained assassin who has now become the target of her former employers and must use all of her training as well as the help of Mitch Henessy (Jackson) to survive... you know, that old yarn.

Now just to put it outthere, this movie is pretty bad... who bad you ask? So bad that at one point Davis steal a pair of figure skates, skates down a river to catch up with a car full of bad guys, does a double axle and shoots them all... no seriously.

That being said this movie features such gems as

"Die screaming motherfucker"

"The last time I got blown, candy bars cost a nickel"

"I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill."

"Mitch: Oh, shit! Ah, that hurt like shit!
Samantha: I know. That's why I distracted you first. Same principle as deflowering virgins.
Mitch: Huh? What? Virgin - ? What?
Samantha: Read it in this Harold Robbins book. Guy bites her on the ear. Distracts from the pain. Ever try that?
Mitch: No, no, I sock 'em in the jaw and yell, "Pop goes the weasel.""

"Alley Agent: Good evening, pretty lady. How 'bout some company?
Charlie: No thanks. I'm saving myself 'til I get raped."

And of course




All in all a must see for any bad movie night.

Before and After

So I like to get crafty,
Here some before and after goodness I've been participating in.
I bought this set of chairs for 5$, they were shit brown, and ones had a faded yellow cushion and the other had a dirty white one.



So LF and I spray painted the bases white.

I then went to Faricville and picked up 2m's of this real cute fabric for like 5, and 2m of Therm-O-Webs Iron on Vinyl with cost me about 10$ (actually it ended up being 20 cause I have to go back for seconds as I messed it up the first shot. I cut out the right sized pieces, ironed on the vinyl, stapled the fabric over top the cushions and VOILA! SUCCESS!





I'm hopefully going to be able to keep these babies outside for at least another month, then I want to move them into my dining room or kitchen seeing as my current chairs are garbage (my next project, better chairs!).

We Are Coming... Back

TV retrospective: Torchwoods series 3, 5 part miniseries


Still one of the greatest miniseries of all time. I'm still astounded by the sheer amazingness and magnitude of Torchwood's "Children of Earth" Miniseries.

After the end of the second series I swore I would never watch it again, when I say major character death, I mean MAJOR!. It's like Davis wanted to end the show. Then children of earth came alone, and it almost felt like the end, like it would wrap things up nicely. And what do we get, a 5 part mini series that rivals Battlestars action and gravitas, and suddenly I'm more into Torchwood then I have ever been and am on the edge of my seat. And then 5 seconds later I'm hating Davis again and marvelling at the balls this guys has to be killing off his characters in the manner that he does.



For a series/ miniseries that at first started out as a budget saving effort and looked like the end, Davis really made the most out of the shortend season and made into the biggest most intense movie I have ever seen.

The problem with COE is that it leaves Torchwood in a sort of limbo story wise, and with the American version coming up (or not) I am anxious to see how it turns out.




I Totally Shipped these two