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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Savonarola

#15390
January 10, 2014, 01:36:19 PM
Suds (1920)

In 1918 Mary Pickford made a film called "Stella Maris" in which she plays two roles, a lovely invalid and a homely maid.  In this film the homely maid make up is reused, and Mary plays an ugly cockney washerwoman.  The plot wanders about quite, it mostly serves as a backdrop for Mary to clown around.  She does so quite a bit, going so far as to put a horse in curlers and ride the horse around her apartment.

The setting is remarkable; the studio did an incredible job of recreating London's East End in a Hollywood lot.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

viper37

#15391
January 10, 2014, 02:36:15 PM
Helfer, Texas Ranger

We follow Tricia Helfer, as a Texas Ranger, during 8 weeks for wich she will aprehend 8 different Killer Woman (the exact title of the show).  She's smart, she's beautiful, she's tough and she knows how to handle a gun.  The perfect American women (except she's really a Canadian).

So, what's wrong in the show?  In the first ep, she's seen handling her personal life: brother, sister in law that wants her more feminine, little niece who asks questions she shouldn't ask, job related stress, illegally crossing the border to Mexico in order to free hostages and solve a case.

This is what's wrong, unfortunately, it's all Déjà vu in a bunch of similar themed tv shows.  Sure, she's a good actress, she's proven it since Battlestar Galactica (it's ok Neil, she's not the one doing Starbuck ;) ).  The problem is not with her or the cast, just the stories and the way they're presented.  I don't think I'll watch the 2nd episode.

Btw, I've thrown the ball on Almost Human.
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Viking

#15392
January 10, 2014, 05:26:12 PM Last Edit: January 10, 2014, 05:29:44 PM by Viking
Ide, Can we get a review of

Stalingrad (2013)

Is it Za Rodina!! or Mikhail Bayski?
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Neil

#15393
January 10, 2014, 05:49:26 PM
Starbuck was a man!

I don't hold anything against the Cylons though, except for maybe Boomer.  They thought that they could give away the parts of two black men and give them to a white guy and an Asian woman?  Super-racist.
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garbon

#15394
January 10, 2014, 05:55:43 PM
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Ed Anger

#15395
January 10, 2014, 05:59:36 PM
OH SWEET JESUS, I LOOKED UP HER NEKKID PICS. MY EYES
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Josephus

#15396
January 10, 2014, 06:19:04 PM
On the one hand you got to give credit to a woman who's not afraid to show it as it is, and doesn't starve herself to present herself in the image of Languish's perfect woman.

On the other hand, she may be an inspiration to other fat, not-so-attractive young women to do the same thing. :(
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Ed Anger

#15397
January 10, 2014, 06:24:36 PM Last Edit: January 10, 2014, 06:35:52 PM by Ed Anger

Languishites return from Google Image Search of Lena Dunham.
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FunkMonk

#15399
January 10, 2014, 06:39:14 PM
A friend of mine loves that Girls show and lent me the first season. I barely made it through the first episode.

Actually I stilled haven't returned it to her and it's been lying on my shelf for two months.  :lol:
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Ed Anger

#15400
January 10, 2014, 06:43:38 PM
Quote from: FunkMonk on January 10, 2014, 06:39:14 PM
A friend of mine loves that Girls show and lent me the first season. I barely made it through the first episode.

Actually I stilled haven't returned it to her and it's been lying on my shelf for two months.  :lol:

Hit her.


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Josephus

#15401
January 10, 2014, 06:50:16 PM
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

FunkMonk

#15402
January 10, 2014, 07:27:33 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on January 10, 2014, 06:43:38 PM
Quote from: FunkMonk on January 10, 2014, 06:39:14 PM
A friend of mine loves that Girls show and lent me the first season. I barely made it through the first episode.

Actually I stilled haven't returned it to her and it's been lying on my shelf for two months.  :lol:

Hit her.




I'll let her know your thoughts on the subject.  :lol:
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Queequeg

#15403
January 10, 2014, 07:34:18 PM
Whatever.  Allison Williams is gorgeous. 
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Admiral Yi

#15404
January 10, 2014, 07:34:46 PM
Some of the girls in the show are cute.  The Jew and the WASP are both pretty cute.
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