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Quite possibly the gayest Star Trek shot ever:
Towleroad shares some first look of the new Trek movie. What’s strange to me is how one of the shot looks like it came from Alias, and Sylar looking like Sylar instead of Spock. One other picture showed the bridge looking like it was overrun by the crew from The O.C.
Will we be seeing a resurgance of Kirk/Spock slashfic after this movie comes out?
Not hatin. Just sayin.
there’s a debate going on right now. i watched 5 minutes of it and realized I’ve heard it all before. so, pass.
Instead, I’m going to gush about SVU. Had to sit on this overnight because I didn’t want to sound like I’m a fangirl. I really am not. In fact, I’m probably one of the show’s harshest critic in its current form. We shan’t get into the whys (ALEXCABOT!).
So Tuesday night’s episode was written like it was supposed to play out during sweeps month. Sweeps months are Nov and Feb.
Anyway, I just want to say that Amanda Green deserves an Emmy for writing an episode of SVU that had no sex crime but was still 40-something minutes of solid, riveting drama. Ms Green, you are certainly ballsy to imagine a whole fourth of an episode consisting of one (plus one) scene; from one commercial break to the next it was just Elliot Stabler and his mom. Even if I can’t stand to watch the entire episode again, I’d watch that 10 minutes over and over.
Ellen Burstyn is of such remarkable talent she makes any actor sharing a scene with her automatically competent. That is to say, she brung her A-game and everyone else gets to bask in the reflected glory. Don’t care who does what from here on out - Burstyn should get Emmy for guest star. Best pathos invoking line of the show: “I am what I am, I accept myself. And I live life on my own terms. I won’t go parading in front of some court and announce to the world that I’m crazy!” Mama Stabler, you see, is an untreated bipolar.
Oh - and on a slight tangent - the best smirk-inducing line is when Mrs. Stabler, finally meeting Olivia Benson in person, says, “I can see why you scare the pants off Kathy.” Yea. Amanda Green, you rock. Yea. Anyway.
Chris Meloni. I love you so much but you’ve never really had a story in the last 9.5 years that was deserving of the statue. Please submit this episode with markers and arrows pointing to the scene of you and Ellen Burstyn. You should at least to be a finalist next time round.
Two things before I quit squee’ing… one, you’ll notice that there’s not one mention of Mariska. That’s how good this episode was. And two, death to Kim Greyleck. That is all.
Stephanie Sun’s Wo Bu Nan Guo which is translated utilitarianly as “I Am Not Sad”.
I’d suggest listening to the song without watching the video. Watching and listening really takes away from the power of what she says… is what I think anyways.
Hello. It’s been awhile. The changing of the seasons proves melancholic for me. I’ll come back soon with things worth ranting about.
Now I want to share: Hamlet (Facebook Newsfeed Edition) from McSweeney’s. Only funny if you use Facebook.
Out of all of Shakespeare’s works, Hamlet is one that’s easiest to satire for its ridiculously high level of emo-ness.
Tina Fey was on SNL last nite again as Sarah Palin doing the Couric/CBS interview. Funny but not as subversive as the first time.
Paul Newman will be missed.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is, as you know, my sunday sobfest. It’s doing a dang good job of doing that this week.
Stephanie March has a theatre gig doing Boys’ Life which stars Jason Briggs. This doesn’t mean she can’t come back for a few episodes, right? RIGHT????!! We need Alex Cabot now more than ever!
I discovered I had ESPN Classic and the original American Gladiators is way more awesome.
And finally, I miss Battlestar Galactica so. damn. much.
The most egregious sin this nation has committed and continues to commit is to reject a candidate who comes off as seemingly elitist (whatever elitist means at any level) and electing someone because he’s “one of us”. Why in the fucking hell do I want a President who is like me? I want an individual who knows what they’re doing and that’s not me.
Aaron Sorkin expresses it much better:
Because the idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. If you excelled academically and are able to casually use 690 SAT words then you might as well have the press shoot video of you giving the finger to the Statue of Liberty while the Dixie Chicks sing the University of the Taliban fight song. The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it.
Mr. Sorkin got to flex his creativity muscles imagining an Obama Bartlet meeting on Maureen Dowd’s column in the NYT on Saturday. (Yes, I’m still doing catch up on world news)
I’m also off to learn the University of Taliban fight song…
Dear Mariska, your beauty is astounding. That color on you looks absolutely FIERCE. You stand out amongst the crowd of black, brown, beige and the random purple, green and the whatever-reds. I’m just not sure if that is so much a dress as it is a top sheet off your bed. Not that you look any less sexy. And btw, your husband is a total Hottie McHot.
Sorry that you didn’t win it this year but it wasn’t a very good year for the show. The best years were when your character was a little more bitch and a little less easy with the waterworks. Oh, and there was that blonde chick who along with you and Chris made up the holy trinity of lust. I really miss those years.
The Half Blood Prince release date will be delayed until July 2009, an additional 8 months wait for fans from the originally scheduled date of November 21, 2008.
The BBC report claims it might be because of The Dark Knight’s success this summer and has this quote: “Warner Bros doesn’t need anything else this year,” agrees Helen O’Hara of Empire magazine. “Next year is going to be much tougher though.”
Huh.
I can only recall one other instance in which I loved the sequel better than the first movie - Toy Story 2 rocked harder than Toy Story. And The Dark Knight is so awesome it makes Batman Begins a pedestrian effort. You know how sometimes a movie is just perfect up and down, in front and behind the camera? Yea, anyways, eventhough it has some crazy stupid hype surrounding it, this movie is definitely worth a repeat trip to the theaters.
And everyone is raving about Heath Ledger — that’s cool and all cause he really was kinda kick ass. But I have to tell you, the best thing that happened for Dark Knight was Katie Holmes pulling out of this sequel and Maggie Gyllenhaal being cast as the replacement Rachel Dawes. Cause Holmes, quite frankly, doesn’t possess the acting chops required to pull of some of the scenes. In short, Gyllenhaal PWNED them. Like, pwned hard. And she looked really hot doing it.
Christian Bale is still hot, albeit looking a tad bit underfed. He looked really hot as John Connor in the Terminator trailer, too. Christian Bale is all round hotness.
And that was your spoiler-free ‘review’ of The Dark Knight. Go see it. Go see it multiple times just to make the point about how much XF sucked.
Cragen to Cassidy: “Uh, there’s two R’s in hemorrhoids”. From the episode Bad Blood. No, not the Bad Blood. This is SVU’s.
You have no idea how long I’ve been searching for this quip, mostly because I don’t remember the precise quote which makes googling it rather difficult. I know, I fail.
I don’t think there’re any actual spoilers in this entry but reading it might bias you one way or another if you’re planning to watch The X-Files movie. So this is fair warning if you want to go on reading.
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The Short Review: I feel like I got buggered and not in the enjoyable way.
The Long(er) Review: Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter needs to die for writing trash. My emotional response is being really pissed off - and I didn’t even go in with expectations. This was me outside the theater: “MmmNNNgggHHHUGGHHhhhHHARrrghh!!”
Yeah, David and Gillian were on screen but I’m not sure that was an X-Files movie. The two leads were clearly struggling to figure out these characters that were no longer familiar and the secondary actors… well, the least said the better. The plot made little sense and lacked coherence. It was slow progressing and was missing a real climax. Am I saying that I could have written a better story for the big screen? You BET YOUR ASS!
The major problem was Scully and Mulder no longer being FBI agents. You CAN’T do an X-Files movie when they aren’t actively investigating a case. It comes off as hokey and nobody buys it. The big draw of a good XF story is Mulder doggedly pursuing a case and Scully skeptically debunks phenomena scientifically. What is up with all this emo crap? This loss of faith, “don’t give up!!” bullshit for two hours piggy backing on a recycled psychic connection plot — oh, and for the gross-out factor they throw in some Frankenstein horrors (oohh, like I’m real terrified).
This movie sucked so bad that it wouldn’t make any money out on a street corner as a two bit ho.
Don’t watch it. Go see The Dark Knight.
July 24th - One more day until premiere of TXF: I WANT TO BELIEVE! This is the last feature on the Mulderisms and Scullyisms Special Collection. Thank you for playing.
Episode: The X-Files: Fight The Future (movie)
Mulder: Maybe we should call in a bomb threat to Houston. I think it’s free beer night at the Astrodome.
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Mulder: I think they went left.
Scully: I don’t know why, I think they went right.
Mulder: Five years together, Scully. How many times have I been wrong? Never! … Not driving, anyway.
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Scully: I need this building evacuated and cleared out in ten minutes! I need you to get on the phone and tell the fire department to block off the city center in a one mile radius around the building.
Clueless Security Guard: Wh–?
Scully: Don’t THINK! Just pick up the phone and make it happen!!
July 23rd
Episode: E.B.E.
Scully: Those lights the driver saw may have been swamp gas.
Mulder: Swamp gas???
Scully: It’s a natural phenomenon in which phosphene and methane rising from decaying organic matter ignite, creating globes of blue flame.
Mulder: Happens to me when I eat Dodger Dogs.
July 22nd
Episode: DETOUR
Scully: You ever thought seriously about dying?
Mulder: Yeah, once, when I was at the Ice Capades.
July 21st - Another Monday Two-fer!
Episode: TOOMS
Mulder: If there’s an ice tea in that bag, could be love.
Scully: Must be fate, Mulder. Root beer.
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Episode: IRRESISTIBLE
Mulder: Well, some people collect salt and pepper shakers. Fetishists collect dead things - fingernails and hair. No one quite knows why. Though I’ve never really understood salt and pepper shakers myself.
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