Movie Meme, 31: When I Stand Up & Cheer

It’s a nice note to end the meme on. Confession: when I read the challenge the first image that popped into my head was this.

I know, I KNOW! More from Titanic and it’s not even a real moment – yes, but I’m right there cheering on. Well in my mind.

There really are so many moments when I’ve felt that vicarious thrill when cinematic characters finally get their acts together. As much as I love Anne Baxter in All About Eve I can’t resist cheering George Sanders on as his Addison DeWitt has way with her (hitting a woman is wrong, but not when she’s Eve Harrington).

Or how about Kate’s Christina Drayton telling off her racist worker? "Don’t speak just…go!"I find myself ecstatic when Ethan's degenerate of sorts manages to make his getaway at the end of Gattaca or I’ll pretend I’m part of the audience when Will & Viola complete their performance of Romeo & Juliet in Shakespeare in Love. The thing is nothing gets more cheers than brilliant ends and performances…so naturally an ending that IS a performance gets double the cheers. And when it’s Baaaaaaaaaaaaarba? Who can resist?

Yes, that gets a big whoopee from me….and so the MEME ends. Sigh. 

Congrats to Ryan and Jess who MEMED with me, Ruth for weighing in now and then and Ripley, Mike and Anna for doing it all at once. Thank you and goodnight.

Zsa Zsa Gabor not dead just hospitalized

One of the blown up news today, Zsa Zsa Gabor dead in fact she was only hospitalized due to flu and body pain as reported to 911.


Zsa Zsa Gabor was picked up by a private ambulance with no emergency lights flashing while on the way to the hospital, indicating that her case was not life threatening.

Here's a bit of information about Zsa Zsa Gabor from Wikipedia:

Zsa Zsa Gabor was born as Sári Gábor (Sári is the diminutive for the Hungarian first name Sarolta) in Budapest (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), the middle daughter of Vilmos Gábor (1884-1962), a soldier, and Jolie Gábor (1894-1997).[2] Her sisters, Magda and Eva, also became actresses and socialites. The family was of Jewish  descent; their mother, Jolie (Tillemann Jánosné), was a cousin of Annette Tilleman Lantos, the wife of California Congressman and Holocaust survivor Tom Lantos.[3][4] Gabor, however, is a Catholic.

Here's what I adore about Zsa Zsa Gabor:

Due to her high number of divorces, she once claimed that she was a good housekeeper because every time she divorced, she kept the house.

In 1974, she purchased a two-story Bel Air home from Elvis Presley. It was built by Howard Hughes and featured an eccentric-looking French roof.

Zsa Zsa was the only Gabor sister to bear a child, Constance Francesca Hilton, born March 10, 1947.According to Gabor's 1991 autobiography One Lifetime Is Not Enough, her pregnancy resulted from rape by then-husband Conrad Hilton.

Glee Meme, Day 8: Favourite Quinn / Puck Moment

The GLEE MEME continues...

I never expected them to become a real couple, even though in retrospect they’re kind of hot together. "Wheels" is arguably Salling’s best episode in the front 13 episodes (or maybe "Mash-Up") i.e. the episode where he actually gets a salient plotline. To pinpoint a moment in particular it would be cake fight in the Home-Ec Room. The Glee cast are so busy being old for their age that it’s nice seeing them be silly (remember “Jump”). It’s the first time I felt a legitimate connection between the two. And then there’s the moment where he gives her the stolen money. I’d been a moderate fan Quinn of fan before and Dianna works well here. For all his badassedness it’s nice seeing these moments where Puck is not mean and Quinn’s not fickle. 

Jimmy Fallon at Emmy's opening Born to Run rocks!

Glee might have won few awards during Emmy Awards but despite that I still love how they were spoofed by Jimmy Fallon during the opening of the awards night.

For me, Jimmy Fallon nailed the opening of the Emmy's Award 2010. Really like it!





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Born to Run lyics,lyrics,lyrcis



In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machines
Sprung from cages out on highway 9,
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected,and steppin' out over the line
h-Oh, Baby this town rips the bones from your back
It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap
We gotta get out while we're young
`Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run

yes, girl we were

Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend
I want to guard your dreams and visions
Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims
and strap your hands 'cross my engines
Together we could break this trap
We'll run till we drop, baby we'll never go back
h-Oh, Will you walk with me out on the wire
`Cause baby I'm just a scared and lonely rider
But I gotta know how it feels
I want to know if love is wild
Babe I want to know if love is real

Oh, can you show me

Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard
Girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors
And the boys try to look so hard
The amusement park rises bold and stark
Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist
I wanna die with you Wendy on the street tonight
In an everlasting kiss

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybody's out on the run tonight
but there's no place left to hide
Together Wendy we can live with the sadness
I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
h-Oh, Someday girl I don't know when
we're gonna get to that place
Where we really wanna go
and we'll walk in the sun
But till then tramps like us
baby we were born to run

Oh honey, tramps like us
baby we were born to run

Come on with me, tramps like us
baby we were born to run

Ru-uh-uh-un
Mm-mm-mm-mm
Uh-uh-uh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Ru-uh-uh-uh-un
Mm-mm-mm-mm
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Ru-uh-uh-un

A Town Called Panic: Review

Ever so often, the movies come up with a film so unusual, so bizarrely hilarious and confidently itself, that you are willing to forgive it's flaws. And after a drought season of horrible horrible movies, A Town Called Panic was a breath of fresh air.

How the filmmakers were able to make this movie only with a collection of plastic toys so enjoyable to watch and painstakingly funny is beyond me. Panic was made on a zero budget mind you, and it looks fantastic.

Panic is a Belgian film that takes place in a small village and centers around three housemates, Horse, Indian and Cowboy. It's Horse's birthday and Indian and cowboy come up with a brilliant plan to give him a homemade barbecue but the plan backfires when they mistakenly order 50 million bricks which destroys their home. This sets off a chain of really weird events ranging from masochistic scientists to dishonest merpeople to a snowball launching penguin and a surprisingly durable tractor.

And while I really do love Panic for it's wackiness, there is no denying that this film is dumb as hell. If a 10 year old girl with attention deficiency had a camera and some plastic toys and she started making stop-motion with them, that's pretty much how this film would have turned out. A Town Called Panic simply revels in it's simplicity and makes no apologies for it's whimsically absurd method of storytelling.

The film is only 1 hour 15 minutes long, but hell do they do lotso crazy shit with it. And thank God it's only that short, because the film keeps you spinning in a sense of mismatched manic from start to finish that fatigue does start to set in pass the hour mark. But there was not a moment in the film where I thought, "Now that's just dumb."

And though some have complained that the stop-motion animation of Panic is incredibly lazy, I for one disagree. Sure, it is much more boldly artificial and crude compared to stop-motion gems like Fantastic Mr. Fox and Wallace & Gromit, I think the filmmakers did it intentionally to make the movements of the characters closely resemble the movements of toys in a child's hand during playtime. A Town Called Panic could easily have been one of our childhood bizzarro fantasy stories we played around with our toys.

And I gotta give props to the voice actors of the film. Stéphane Aubier and Bruce Ellison in particular who voiced Cowboy and Indian. Now the film is in French and I have no idea what the fuck they're saying. However, Aubier and Ellison's comic timing and impeccable silly voices really didn't need a translation to have me bawling over in laughter.

A Town Called Panic is yet another rare gem, a film that will never get the recognition it deserves. But for the few people who do get the honor of watching the film, will be sitting slack-jawed at how wacky this little film is.

RATING: 8/10

Movie Meme, Day 30: Saddest Death Scene

Apparently I have too much of an affinity to films where the protagonists end up dead, so I’ve inevitably covered a number of them in the meme already. I didn’t cover Zeffrelli’s 1968 interoperation of Romeo & Juliet and though it’s as clichéd as it can be but it’s still sad because Shakespeare’s is as timeless as can be and Olivia Hussey and Leonardo Whiting give two of the best debut performances I’ve ever seen. And if the original Romeo & Juliet makes it, of course the musical version makes it too. I already mentioned how sad an ending it is, even though more than a few say they don’t care for Richard Beymer  in West Side Story (the moment is all Natalie’s though).

        

When American Beauty ends I’m not particularly sad that Lester has died because as excellent as Kevin Spacey is I have little affection for the character. But it’s implications of the death; it’s really pointless in so many ways and only underscores the banality of the characters’ lives.

And just because 1996-199 is one of my favourite Best Picture streaks I have to mention Jack Dawson and Katherine Clifton. I think I’ve dedicated enough space on this blog to Titanic and The English Patient – so I won’t tire you with more. But yes, I do consider the respective deaths of the protagonists to be sad.

It’s a bit of a loaded question, truly (considering all the films anyone has seen) but which character death stands out to you?

                

(Disclaimer: No films from the aughts make the list because that’s a separate post. Part One: HERE)

       

And yes, this is all for the MOVIE MEME

Glee Meme, Day 7: Favourite Tina/Artie

“I still have the full use of my penis.” That's what Artie, the wheelchair dude, tells Tina when they get to talking about his cripple status. It's a totally out of the way moment, and I love Jenna Ushkowitz facial reaction. Though they're  both even better in the "Dream On" episode later in the season, I love to see them getting to know each other in "Wheels".

“Wheels” has a ton of character development (Sue, Puck, Artie, Tina) and Tina and Artie’s potential romance is given centre stage, somewhat. Jenna is a bit underrated (and so pretty to look at) and she and Kevin work. I wasn’t completely sold on her fake stuttering but it worked in its way.
     
All this as the GLEE MEME continues.

THE 62nd PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS

So the Emmy's just happened this morning. An you have no idea how fucking pissed I am that Lost, one of the greatest television series in the last decade; that was nominated for a record 19 awards, didn't even win a single one today. Fuck you TV voting people.

 

Kinda bummed that Glee missed out on the Outstanding Comedy award. But justice for Jane Lynch who finally received her long overdue Emmy. So anyways, here's the full list of winners.

Outstanding Drama
•Mad Men
•Breaking Bad
•Dexter
•The Good Wife
•Lost
•True Blood

Outstanding Comedy
•Modern Family
•30 Rock
•Curb Your Enthusiasm
•Glee
•Nurse Jackie
•The Office

Outstanding Actor in a Drama
•Bryan Cranston ("Breaking Bad")
•Hugh Laurie ("House M.D.")
•Jon Hamm ("Mad Men")
•Kyle Chandler ("Friday Night Lights")
•Matthew Fox ("Lost")
•Michael C. Hall ("Dexter")

Outstanding Actress in a Drama
•Kyra Sedgwick ("The Closer")
•Connie Britton ("Friday Night Lights")
•Glenn Close ("Damages")
•January Jones ("Mad Men")
•Julianna Margulies ("The Good Wife")
•Mariska Hargitay ("Law & Order: Special Victims Unit")

Outstanding Actor in a Comedy
•Jim Parsons ("The Big Bang Theory")
•Alec Baldwin ("30 Rock")
•Larry David ("Curb Your Enthusiasm")
•Matthew Morrison ("Glee")
•Steve Carell ("The Office")
•Tony Shalhoub ("Monk")

Outstanding Actress in a Comedy
•Edie Falco ("Nurse Jackie")
•Amy Poehler ("Parks and Recreation")
•Julia Louis-Dreyfus ("The New Adventures of Old Christine")
•Lea Michele ("Glee")
•Tina Fey ("30 Rock")
•Toni Collette ("The United States of Tara")

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama
•Aaron Paul ("Breaking Bad")
•Andre Braugher ("Men of a Certain Age")
•John Slattery ("Mad Men")
•Martin Short ("Damages")
•Michael Emerson ("Lost")
•Terry O'Quinn ("Lost")

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama
•Archie Panjabi ("The Good Wife")
•Christine Baranski ("The Good Wife")
•Christina Hendricks ("Mad Men")
•Elisabeth Moss ("Mad Men")
•Rose Byrne ("Damages")
•Sharon Gless ("Burn Notice")

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy
•Eric Stonestreet ("Modern Family")
•Chris Colfer ("Glee")
•Jesse Tyler Ferguson ("Modern Family")
•Jon Cryer ("Two and a Half Men")
•Neil Patrick Harris ("How I Met Your Mother")
•Ty Burrell ("Modern Family")

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy
•Jane Lynch ("Glee")
•Holland Taylor ("Two and a Half Men")
•Jane Krakowski ("30 Rock")
•Julie Bowen ("Modern Family")
•Kristen Wiig ("Saturday Night Live")
•Sofia Vergara ("Modern Family")

Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series
•The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
•The Colbert Report
•Real Time With Bill Maher
•Saturday Night Live
•The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien

Outstanding Reality Show Competition
•Top Chef
•Project Runway
•The Amazing Race
•Dancing with the Stars
•American Idol

Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program
•Jeff Probst ("Survivor")
•Phil Keoghan ("The Amazing Race")
•Ryan Seacrest ("American Idol")
•Tom Bergeron ("Dancing with the Stars")
•Heidi Klum ("Project Runway")

Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
•Steve Shill ("Dexter) - "The Getaway"
•Michelle MacLaren ("Breaking Bad") - "One Minute"
•Jack Bender ("Lost") - "The End"
•Leslie Linka Glatter ("Mad Men" -" Guy Walks Into An Advertising Agency"
•Agnieszka Holland ("Treme") - "Do You Know What It means" (Pilot)

Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
•Matthew Weiner and Erin Levy ("Mad Men") - "Shut the Door"
•Rolin Jones ("Friday Night Lights") - "The Son"
•Michelle King and Robert King ("The Good Wife") (Pilot)
•Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse ("Lost") - "The End"
•Robin Veith and Matthew Weiner ("Mad Men") - "Guy Walks Into Advertising Agency"

Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
•Ryan Murphy ("Glee") - "Director's Cut (Pilot)"
•Paris Barclay ("Glee") - "Wheels"
•Jason Winer ("Modern Family") (Pilot)
•Allen Coulter ("Nurse Jackie") (Pilot)
•Don Scardino ("30 Rock") - "I Do Do"

Outstanding Writing for a Comedy
•Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd ("Modern Family") (Pilot)
•Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan ("Glee") - "Director's Cut (Pilot)"
•Greg Daniels and Mindy Kaling ("The Office") - "Nicaragua"
•Matt Hubbard ("30 Rock") - "Anna Howard Shaw Day"
•Tina Fey and Kay Cannon ("30 Rock") - "Lee Marvin Vs. Derek Jeter"

Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special
•The 63rd Annual Tony Awards
•The 82nd Annual Academy Awards
•Bill Maher... But I'm Not Wrong
•The Kennedy Center Honors
•Wanda Sykes: I'ma Be Me

Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special
•Bucky Gunts ("Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony""
•Ron de Moraes ("In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music From the Civil Rights Movement")
•Louis J. Horvitz ("The Kennedy Center Honors")
•Glenn Weiss ("The 63rd Annual Tony Awards")
•Joel Gallen ("The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert""

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
•Julia Ormond ("Temple Grandin")
•Kathy Bates ("Alice")
•Catherine O'Hara ("Temple Grandin")
•Brenda Vaccaro ("You Don't Know Jack")
•Susan Sarandon ("You Don't Know Jack")

Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
•David Strathairn ("Temple Grandin")
•Michael Gambon ("Emma")
•Patrick Stewart ("Hamlet")
•Jonathan Pryce ("Return To Cranford")
•John Goodman ("You Don't Know Jack")

Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special
•Adam Mazer ("You Don't Know Jack")
•Michelle Ashford and Robert Schenkkan ("The Pacific") - "Part Eight"
•Bruce C. McKenna and Robert Schenkkan ("The Pacific") - "Part Ten"
•Peter Morgan ("The Special Relationship")
•Christopher Monger and William Merritt Johnson ("Temple Grandin")

Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
•Claire Danes ("Temple Grandin")
•Maggie Smith ("Capturing Mary")
•Joan Allen ("Georgia O'Keeffe")
•Dame Judi Dench ("Return To Cranford")
•Hope Davis ("The Special Relationship")

Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special
•Mick Jackson ("Temple Grandin")
•Bob Balaban ("Georgia O'Keeffe")
•David Nutter and Jeremy Podeswa ("The Pacific") - "Part Eight"
•Tim Van Patten ("The Pacific") - "Part Nine"
•Barry Levinson ("You Don't Know Jack")

Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
•Al Pacino ("You Don't Know Jack")
•Jeff Bridges ("A Dog Year")
•Ian McKellen ("The Prisoner")
•Michael Sheen ("The Special Relationship")
•Dennis Quaid ("The Special Relationship")

Outstanding Miniseries
•The Pacific
•Return to Cranford (Masterpiece)

Made for Television Movie
•Temple Grandin
•Endgame
•Georgia O'Keeffe
•Moonshot
•The Special Relationship
•You Don't Know Jack

Outstanding Reality Program
•Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
•Antiques Roadshow
•Dirty Jobs
•Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
•MythBusters
•Undercover Boss

Outstanding Nonfiction Series
•The National Parks: America's Best Idea
•American Experience
•American Masters
•Deadliest Catch
•LIFE
•Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)

Outstanding Animated Program
•Disney Prep & Landing
•Alien Earths
•The Ricky Gervais Show
•The Simpsons
•South Park

Outstanding Children's Program
•Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie
•Hannah Montana
•iCarly
•Jonas
•Wizards of Waverly Place

Emmy Award 2010 Nominees and Winners

Looking for Emmy Awards 2010 Winners? Check out the list below. Winners are those in Bold.

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series

Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family

Chris Colfer, Glee

Jon Cryer, Two And A Half Men

Ty Burrell, Modern Family

Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family

Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series

Jane Lynch, Glee

Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock

Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live

Sofia Vergara, Modern Family

Julie Bowen, Modern Family

Holland Taylor, Two And A Half Men

Outstanding Actor In A Comedy Series
Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Tony Shaloub, Monk
Steve Carell, The Office,
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory

Outstanding Actress In A Comedy Series
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, The New Adventures Of Old Christine
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Toni Collette, The United States of Tara
Lea Michele, Glee

Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
American Idol
Dancing With The Stars
The Amazing Race
Project Runway
Top Chef

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series

John Slattery, Mad Men

Martin Short, Damages

Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad

Tery O'Quinn, Lost

Andre Braugher, Men Of A Certain Age

Michael Emerson, Lost

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series

Christina Hendricks, Mad Men

Rose Byrne, Damages

Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife

Sharon Gless, Burn Notice

Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men

Christine Baranski, The Good Wife

Outstanding Actor In A Drama Series
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Matthew Fox, Lost

Outstanding Actress In A Drama Series
January Jones, Mad Men
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU
Glenn Close, Damages
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights

Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert

Saturday Night Live

Real Time with Bill Maher

Outstanding Actress In A Miniseries Or Movie
Dame Judi Dench, Return To Cranford
Hope Davis, The Special Relationship
Claire Danes, Temple Grandin
Joan Allen, Georga O'Keeffe
Maggie Smith, Capturing Mary

Outstanding Actor In A Miniseries Or Movie

Sir Ian McKellen, The Prisoner
Dennis Quaid, The Special Relationship
Jeff Bridges, A Dog Year
Al Pacino, You Don't Know Jack
Michael Sheen, The Special Relationship

Outstanding Made For Television Movie
Endgame
Moonshot
Temple Grandin
Georga O'Keeffe
The Special Relationship
You Don't Know Jack

Outstanding Drama Series
True Blood
Dexter
Mad Men
The Good Wife
Lost
Breaking Bad

Outstanding Comedy Series
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Modern Family
The Office
30 Rock
Glee

Step Up 3-D: Review

Step Up 3-D! Or as someone with a brain might call it.. Step Up 2: The Streets. But this time... IN 3-D!

What do you want me to tell you about this movie? It is what it is. It's a no brainer dance movie. And I give the people who made this points for recognizing that and do not try to make Step Up 3-D be anything more or less than just a spectacular dance flick.

The plot of this movie is pretty much every run of the mill, "We need to dance/kung fu fight/sing to save some institution/orphanage/home/village from the bad guys who dance/kung fu fight/sing better than us" movie. Only this time, the director thought, "Hey! What if we took X-Men and made all the mutants dancers?"

It's about Moose who was in Step Up 3-D's precedent, moving to New York with his best friend, Tyler Gage's sister (who kinda has a thing for him) to study but ends up being adopted by a local New York filmmaker.dancer who brings him to live in this loft where he fosters a tight-knit group of dancers. But the group faces a financial crisis and are in danger of losing their loft to their arch-nemesis dance group. So they must do battle at some prestigious dance competition so they can win the money and save their loft.

Step Up 3-D is what you would call X-Men with dancers, only Adam G. Sevani is Kitty Pride, the mutant academy is some loft in New York and Prof Xavier is one of the Jonas Brothers. Everything that is non-dancing in this movie is whimsically laughable. The screenwriters clearly don't understand the basic concept of continuation in a film, resulting in Step Up 3-d to have some very very careless goofs.

For example, this dancing group is facing money issues right? "Oh, we're so poor, we're surviving on our passion alone, Oh, we're gonna lose the rent and we'll be homeless." The movie beats you over the head at how poor all these dancers are. But then in some scenes you see them dancers wearing expensive limited edition Nike shoes, they even have a fucking wall of boom box equipment ranging from Sony to Bose. And for poor kids, they dress really really really well. Like Gossip Girl well. Maybe if you get your pretty heads out your ass and sell all that useless shit, you could actually afford to meet your rent.

The writing and acting is dreadfully generic as it comes. But when the movie is showing it's dance scenes in full 3D effect, all that crap is easily forgivable. They really bring out their best in those dance sequences, all of them are memorable, innovative, contagious, dangerously electrifying and the best part is they get better and better with every dance scene.

The final dance number in this has to be seen in 3D. They come out with LED lights and start popping and locking and flipping with those lights blasting in your face. Absolutely amazing. But in comparison to the final dance scene in the second Step Up, it relied to heavily on a technicality level whereas the second Step Up was raw body movement.

And Adam G Sevani is great. He has a likable charm to him, he is a good actor and his dancing is really really sick. I like it that they made him the main character of the film instead of once again going for the generic white pretty boy and girl as the two leads, whom practically will be forgotten about long after the movie has ended. I just hope that Sevani doesn't paint himself into a corner where every movie he does do from now on is either a dance or a frat boy flick because he can do so much better than this. Indie comedy perhaps.

Step Up 3-D is enjoyable for the most part. And all the horrible acting, insurmountable gear-grinding narrative and bad writing can't derail this film from ringing it's sole message through, that the human body remains one of if not the most engaging big screen special effects there is.

RATING: 5.5/10

Glee Meme, Day 6: Favourite Rachel/Finn Moment

More as the Glee Meme continues.
               

For a considerable amount of time I didn’t like Rachel with Finn…rather I didn’t like Finn, period. I’ve warmed up to him as a character, considerably, I know Finn is hated. I don’t have any significant feeling towards him either way; he’s boorish at times and hilariously enjoyable at others. It wasn’t until the back 9 that I started feeling any legitimacy in the would-be relationship of the two, though. “Hell-O” was the turning point, in fact “Hell-O” was the turning point for Finn. I’m not invested in Glee for the romance, but I don’t know if was hearing him sing “Hello, I Love You” or maybe Santana was right: by dating a “hot pretty girl” like her he’d move from dumpy to cool. Either way, even though the two spend the episode arguing their moments are great. Rachel’s tearful words to him are a strongpoint for Lea and Finn’s realisation of why he should be with Rachel works because despite his faults Corey Monteith is able to make that spaced out mind of Finn’s seem logical – in Glee world, at least. Corey Monteith sleepwalked through the first thirteen – or maybe that was Finn – but he stepped up in the final nine, beginning with “Hell-O”. I guess Mr. Schuester was right; he needed a new “Hell-O”. I still don’t really care for them as a couple, but then I’m not interested in Glee for that stuff, really.

(I went way off tangent here with Finn, but I might as well write about him now. I probably won’t be again.)

Taylor Swift's Mine music video released

The long awaited music video of Taylor Swift's Mine has been released finally!

Taylor Swift's Mine was released earlier this month and it's the first single from her upcoming album, Speak Now, which drops Oct. 25.

The singer told CMT the track is close to her heart.

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Check Taylor Swift Mine lyrics here.


In case you just want to hear the song, you might want to listen Tyler Ward's cover embedded below.

Movie Meme, Day 29: A Movie Scene More than Ten Times

This was ridiculously easy. Even though I remember seeing The Wizard of Oz very young, I remember seeing The Sound of Music more than twice a year for a very long time. My older sister still refuses to watch it, my mother still loves it and I still know way too much of the dialogue but there it is. “The hills are alive….” How could I resist?

Going The Distance: Review

Okay, the people who are calling this movie the next (500) Days of Summer really needs to go and shove their heads up their asses. It's like comparing masturbating and orgasm-ing.

But let me be clear that this movie is somewhat tolerable for a chick flick despite still having some major major flaws which I will get to in a bit. Aren't you just sick of seeing Justin Long and Drew Berrymore do these sappy romantic comedies? No one writes good rom coms anymore. They are compiled, cut and pasted together from bits and pieces of other romantic comedies and then are tailor made to fit their two A-list stars.

Going The Distance is basically about Erin and Garret, two lovers in New York who after a 6 week romantic whirl together has to try maintaining their relationship over long distance when Erin leaves to finish her studies in San Francisco.

Though the film does has some light moments of heart that I really liked, I couldn't help but leave the theatre feeling somewhat underwhelmed by it. First of, this movie is really long. Raking up to about 2 hours 15 minutes. And there's only so much the long distance storyline that you can talk about in that amount of time. Imagine that one single plot point which could work fine within an hour and a half being stretched to fit two hours. That's when the problem starts.

Going The Distance fails to live up to it's tagline of being a realistic adult romantic comedy. Yes, it is more realistic than most rom coms out there, but there are still things that happen in this film that is totally impossible in my opinion. Or maybe it's just me. No wonder she broke up with me. Heh. Anyway...

The comedy in this really fluctuates here and there. There are moments where Going The Distance is really funny and there are moments where it falls flat. Particularly when it comes to the two leads who are really great at having no chemistry with each other. Didn't Long and Berrymore date in real life or something? Those two just didn't seem to care much for each other.

But what was great in here were the supporting cast. Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Christina Applegate and Ron Livingston really made up some ground the leads lost for me. They were sort of the in-laws for Erin and Garret, each having their dysfunctional, unorthodox personality ranging from flat out toilet humor to OCD mannerisms. It's only when those guys were on screen  felt Going The Distance was the raunchy adult comedy it said it was.

But don't get me wrong, this movie as an overall romantic comedy is pretty okay. Perhaps a change in the lead roles would have made the film more affable for me. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deshcanel. Yeah, they're what this movie needs.

RATING: 5/10