That's why it's considered to be more realistic than normal fantasy. The people are very crude.

Jesus Christ have you ever read a work of Shakespeare?

Nope.

I guess this is just due to personal experience. I'll show myself out

Translation: “It’s too bad Rosaline is not a walking orifice, amiright?”

Translation: “And then the flaming penis shot into the sky’s vagina. I totally saw the whole thing.”

Translation: “Girlfriend might as well have a reservoir tip.”

Shakespeare was once an aspiring glove-maker, he so he knew that the best lady's gloves were made of lambskin, as were the condoms of the time. I don't think he ever used the word "glove" that wasn't innuendo.


Night = vagina; day = penis.
Translation: “Sweet Jesus, I can’t wait to lose my virginity!”

Yeah, man. Nothing gets me harder than Shakespeare.

Why couldn't I have read that before I wrote my Shakespeare essay for English Studies?

I just watched The Royal Tenenbaums, at OANST's suggestion. I thought it was quite good. Reminded me a lot of Arrested Development at points, only not quite as hilarious. Still, I really liked it.

Seems like a movie I'd have to watch more than once to really get, though.

Compared to most modern fantasy Game of Thrones really does its own thing. There's plenty to complain about the show without taking issue with the way Robert Baratheon speaks, though. Cersei is supposed to be attractive enough to beguile the court but the woman they chose is kind of sallow and angry looking. A big fat pervert though GRRM is, the show throws in a LOT more random boobage and does this ridiculous thing where it will just cut to two whores practicing sex shrieking several times. It makes me want to smack the two weaselly producers.
The second season ended on an incomprehensible note that no one save those who'd read the books can understand. Joffrey is supposed to be a fat-lipped goldilocks of sorts, but instead he has this retarded buzzcut that makes the show feel like an ill-prepared play. They got some really, really skinny man to play Gregor Clegane in S2. He was no mountain, he was a man made hill placed over a garbage dump.
So far the only thing show has gotten right is Jon, Varys and Jorah Mormont. I'm on the 4th book now and each chapter just reveals another little potential fuckup for the show to make.

Yeah. I've gone on record many times as having issues with both the books, and the show. The language just isn't one of my issues.

Unless things changed dramatically in the latter half of the second season, I thought they cast Tyrion perfectly.

Tyrion is that show.

I saw This is England.

It's not me this time, Nate. You can't negrep me for that one.

I feel like I might have blundered into a trap.

I don't know what I just watched but it got me here.

Ukinojoe is probably my favorite Youtube cartoonist atm. OneyNG coming in a close second.

I saw This is England.

I've seen it twice.

I've watched this only to say that catchphrase and because I had nothing to do at the moment

They had some funny accent, with different pronouncing of the words containing "u"s. Do English people have that? They also acted pretty dumb... do English people act that way? I almost felt like watching a Polish movie for a sec ._.

As it was progressing, I started to enjoy it, though. Nice movie.

It's a side of England that rarely gets an international voice. Largely because they rarely get the sort of status that would lead to recognition outside the country, and the people that do have that sort of status are rarely interested in shining a light on that part of society.

Which is a shame. It's easy to dismiss them all, when they actually have plenty to contribute given the opportunity. I know at least one American who loves that sort of thing. She's the kind of person who can find the beauty hidden within a red-light district or crime-ridden grot spot, so it doesn't surprise me.

I just saw Lost in Translation. I liked it.

We'll make a Bill Murray fan out of you, yet.

I'm starting to like him. He's definitely a great actor, but I still don't quite understand all the mounds of hype around him.

In related news, I just watched Rushmore. I liked it quite a bit. Murray was great in it.

Thoroughly enjoyed today's Doctor Who, a nice unexpected end.
So Rory's died what, 3 times in one episode? Is that a new record? He's died about 7 times altogether, then?

I saw Dredd 3D. Loved it. Very well done action film; it knew what it was, where it was going, and who it was taking with it. The acting was solid, at worst competent but believable. Lena Headey (Cersei fucking Lannister) made an absolutely stunning villain and I take back any sour remarks about her performance in GoT based on what a top-notch job she did as Ultraviolent Drug Kingpin Ma Ma. As far as I'm concerned Karl Urban was the perfect casting for Dredd himself. You know who he is and how he do within the first 5 minutes of the film and at no point do they try to confuse the point that he is the law.
The setting, 'Megacity 1', an industrial urban sprawl extending from Boston to Washington DC, is a Practical Future. There aren't holograms and airships and plasma energy reactors or anything. I won't go so far as to say it feels real, but it's definitely believable and after vomiting my way through Resident Evil Retribution I can say that's much more then I'd ask for.
Let's talk about violence.
Dredd 3D does a lot of new things with its use of violent action film staples. Slow-motion shots actually have a purpose, showing the perspective of users of the drug Slomo while gunplay and fisticuffs explodes around them. The gore doesn't feel over-the-top or forced, though there is a whole lot of it, but when blood and guts is shown it's being used as non-repetitively and originally as possible. Throughout the film Dredd and his partner stick exclusively to their service weapons, no Plasma blasters or rocket fists or Bowel disruptors. The zaniest the weaponry gets is a bunch of chainguns used by the bad guys in completely understandable circumstances.
I think you should see it. Just to understand that Hollywood Action Garbage Shows aren't always theatre trash like CRANK or The ExpendableZZZZZzzzzzz...

On a fairly petty note, Karl Urban never removes his helmet in the film. Just something I liked. Dredd is literally The Law throughout the film.

I watched The Royal Tenenbaums. Again. After smoking a fat joint. It's even better the second time.

I enjoyed the new Doctor Who episode. It wasn't perfect by any means, but it was good to watch. The angels weren't as scary as in blink, but it was really well done on the whole. That ending was really intense, though. I can't decide whether it went on for too long or not. That slow-mo running scene to get the last page from the book felt a bit over done.

Lots of spoilers:
I liked the building scene. The building jump was well done and completely unexpected. It actually made sense and I didn't feel like they weaseled their way out of a real ending like they did in The Power of Three. I was wondering how they were going to address Rory's gravestone, but zapping him off like that was even more unexpected. I was then shocked by Amy's unexpected outburst and departure. The ending was fucking intense and generally unexpected. I'm not sure if that's good or not.

The last page idea was well done. I thought that was just more mindless foreshadowing, but tying it into the beginning like that was really clever. I loved the idea of the book in general, but I don't understand how River is going to write it and give it to Amy if they can't go back there.

I'd really started disliking Amy recently. As a character she'd become annoying most of the time and was fairly inconsistent between writers. The building jump really redeemed her for this season. I was hoping that they were going to leave her alone after she went back in time to be with Rory, but that ending with her as a young girl was actually nice.


So, yeah. Amy Pond is still fucking hot.

E: Stupid quote/spoiler tags, you'll have to highlight it.
She has a vortex manipulator.

I thought the ending was fucking epic.

I saw Francis Ford Coppola's 'Twixt'. I downloaded it along with Beyond the Black Rainbow, which I already bitched about.

This movie was at least watchable compared to Black Rainbow, but it was still pretty awful. Was the Godfather series F.F.C.'s only directorial success? Because he's been hailed as this great director, but I've never seen anything of his outside of Godfather that wasn't just mediocre.

Twixt felt like a made-for-TV Nickelodeon Halloween special. It was poorly edited, the characters had no clear motives, and the color grading looked like it was done by a freshman film student who just learned how to use Adobe After FX. I have no idea what the tone of the movie was either. It had moments of goober comedy, moments of horror, moments of cliched mystery. The best part of the entire movie was the first two minutes where there's some narration by Tom Waits. Everything is downhill from there.

Maybe Coppola's some kind of genius with subtext and this one just flew right over my head. Either way, the movie just felt like a total mess. It's only an hour and a half, but it felt like three hours, and I can't come up with a single reason to recommend it to anyone.