#pollie gump

[mazm-imagines]

To Kay and Pollie,

I'm really curious of what martial arts are you interested or know how to do. For me, I'm really interested and I do know some skills in spear fighting

"To be quite honest, I don't think my fighting style takes any particular inspiration from anything. I learned how to fight from my old orphanage. A small child doesn't have any technique... but considering it worked, I never changed a bit."

"I can tell. Considering how you stumble around like a real baby." Pollie was soon rewarded for her snide comment with a punch to the shoulder.

"Like you're any better! You have no form! No shape! Just throwin' punches like a drunkard!"

"And who wins most of our fights?" Kay clamped his mouth shut, unable to admit that it was in fact Pollie.

"I'm winning more these days anyways, so shut your trap. One of these days I'll outnumber you, just you watch."

"I'd like to see you try!"

"You-! This has gotten really off-topic, my apologies. A martial art I have been lookin' into is Judo. I feel as if it could make up for my small form and turn it into a strength."

"I don't think I've been lookin' into any... but I kinda wanna try 'em all now!"

[films-on-a-plane]

to be watched list (movies)

# (500) Days of Summer (2009) 3 Generations (2015) 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) 12 Years a Slave (2013) 13 Going on 30 (2004) 27 Dresses (2008) 48 Hrs. (1982) 50 First Dates (2004) 50/50 (2011)

A A Bad Moms Christmas (2017) A Cinderella Story (2004) A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) A Happening of Monumental Proportions (2017) About Time (2013) Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) Addams Family Values (1993) Adopting Audrey (2021) Aladdin (1992) Alice in Wonderland (1951) Almost Famous (2000) Along Came Polly (2004) Always Be My Maybe (2019) Amazing Grace (2018) American Psycho (2000) And Then We Danced (2019) Anger Management (2003) Another 48 Hrs. (1990) Another Cinderella Story (2008) Aquamarine (2006) Armageddon (1998) Artless (2019) Atonement (2007) Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

B Band Aid (2017) Bandits (2001) Barbie (2023) Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) Beauty and the Beast (1991) Beauty and the Beast (2017) Beetlejuice (1988) Before I Fall (2017) Before Sunset (2004) Being John Malkovich (1999) Being the Ricardos (2021) Beverly Hills Cop (1984) Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) Beverly Hills Cop III (1994) Big Daddy (1999) Big Fish (2003) Big Momma's House (2000) Big Momma's House 2 (2006) Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011) Blind Ambition (2021) Booksmart (2019) Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020) Bowfinger (1999) Brain on Fire (2016) Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) Bring It On (2000) Bros (2022) Bruce Almighty (2003) Buena Vista Social Club (1999) But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)

C Cadet Kelly (2002) Cake (2014) Can You Keep a Secret (2019) Capernaum (2018) Carol (2015) Casper (1995) Castle in the Sky (1986) Catch Me If You Can (2002) Center Stage (2000) Charlie and the Chocolate Factor (2005) Chocolat (2000) Chuck Berry (2018) Cinderella (1950) Cinderella (2015) Click (2006) Clueless (1995) CODA (2021) Coming to America (1988) Coming to America 2 (2021) Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) Cool Runnings (1993) Coraline (2009) Corpse Bride (2005) Coyote Ugly (2000) Crazy Rich Asians (2018) Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) Cunningham (2019)

D Dara & Ed's Road to Mandalay (2017) Dead Man Walking (1995) Dear Zoe (2022) Death Becomes Her (1992) D.E.B.S. (2004) Destination Wedding (2018) Die Hard (1988) Die Hard 2 (1990) Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) Disenchanted (2022) Do Revenge (2022) Dream Scenario (2023) Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) Dumb and Dumber (1994) Dumb and Dumber To (2014)

E Easy A (2010) Echo in the Canyon (2018) Edward Scissorhands (1990) Eight Grade (2018) Elf (2003) Ella Enchanted (2004) Emily the Criminal (2022) Enchanted (2007) Enough Said (2013) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Evergreen (2020) Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Everything Is Copy (2015) Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)

F Flee (2021) Flight Club (1999) Footloose (1984) Forrest Gump (1994) Frankweenie (2012) Friends with Benefits (2011) Four Good Days (2020) Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

G Generation Um… (2012) Get a Clue (2002) Ghost (1990) Ghostbusters (1984) Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) Girl, Interrupted (1999) Glass Onion (2022) Godzilla (2014) Gone Girl (2014) Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) Grease (1978) Grown Ups (2010) Grown Ups 2 (2013)

H Halloweentown (1998) Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009) Happiness for Beginners (2023) Harriet the Spy (1996) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) Haunted Mansion (2023) Heat (1995) Heathers (1988) Her (2013) Hocus Pocus (1993) Hocus Pocus 2 (2022) Home Alone (1990) Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) Hope Springs (2012) Horrible Bosses (2011) Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017) How to Train Your Dragon (2010) Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

I I Care a Lot (2020) I Know What You Need (2023) I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007) I Smile Back (2015) I Used to Be Famous (2022) Identity Theft (2013) If I Stay (2014) I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) I'm Totally Fine (2022) Inception (2010) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Inglourious Basterds (2009) Into the Wild (2007) It's Complicated (2009)

J James and the Giant Peach (1996) Jawbreaker (1999) Jennifer's Body (2009) Jojo Rabbit (2019) Joker (2019) Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) Juno (2007) Jurassic Park (1993) Jurassic Park III (2001) Jurassic World (2015) Jurassic World Dominion (2022) Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) Just Go with It (2011)

K Kiki's Delivery (1989) Kimi (2022) King Kong (2005) Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) Knives Out (2019)

L Lady and the Tramp (1955) Lady Bird (2017) Land (2021) Late Bloomers (2023) Legally Blonde (2001) Let Them All Talk (2020) Lethal Weapon (1987) Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) Léon: The Professional (1994) Liar Liar (1997) Life as We Know It (2010) Little Forest (2018) Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Little Women (1994) Little Women (2019) Live Free or Die Hard (2007) Lost in Translation (2003) Lou (2022) Love Actually (2003) Love, Rosie (2014) Luck (2022) Luzzu (2021)

M Maggie (2015) Maleficent (2014) Mamma Mia! (2008) Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) Man on the Moon (1999) Marry Me (2022) Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy (2013) Maybe I Do (2023) Me, Myself & Irene (2000) Mean Girls (2004) Meet the Parents (2000) Meet the Fockers (2004) Megamind (2010) Memento (2000) Mermaids (1990) Metro (1997) Mona Lisa Smile (2003) Monster House (2006) Midnight in Paris (2011) Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) Miss Congeniality (2000) Miss Sloane (2016) Mommy (2014) Monsters, Inc. (2001) Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022) Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) Mr. Wrong (1996) Murder Mystery (2019) Murder Mystery 2 (2023) My First Summer (2010) My Girl (1991) My Girl 2 (1994) My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

N Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) Now You See Me 2 (2016) New York Minute (2004) Nanny McPhee (2005) Next Exit (2022) Now You See Me (2013) Not Another Teen Movie (2001) Notting Hill (1999) No Country for Old Men (2007) No Strings Attached (2011) No Sudden Move (2021) Nomadland (2020) Norbit (2007) Not Okay (2022) Now You See Me (2013) Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)

O Ocean's 8 (2018) Ocean's Eleven (2001) On the Basis of Sex (2018) One Day (2011) One Life (2011) One Life (2023) Oppenheimer (2023) Out of Office (2022)

P Paint (2023) Peter Pan (1953) Phoebe in Wonderland Pieces of a Woman (2020) Pippi Longstocking (1969) Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Plan B (2021) Ponyi (2008) Poor Things (2023) Pretty in Pink (1986) Pretty Woman (1990) P.S. I Love You (2007) Psycho (1960) Psycho (1998) Pulp Fiction (1994)

Q

R Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Raise Your Voice (2004) Rango (2011) Ratatouille (2007) RED (2010) RED 2 (2013) Red Eye (2005) Remember Me (2010) Ricki and the Flash (2015) Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) Robot & Frank (2012) Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) Room (2015)

S Scary Movie (2000) Schindler's List (1993) Shallow Hal (2001) She Said (2022) She's All That (1999) She's the Man (2006) She's the One (1996) Short Term 12 (2012) Shotgun Wedding (2022) Siberia (2018) Sixteen Candles (1984) Sleeping Beauty (1959) Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Sleepover (2004) Sleepy Hollow (1999) Slumberland (2022) Snatch (2000) So Undercover (2012) Something's Gotta Give (2003) Sound City (2013) South of the River (2020) Speak (2004) Speed (1994) Spider-Man (2002) Spirited (2022) Spirited Away (2001) Stand by Me (1986) Steel Magnolias (1989) Stepmom (1998) Suffragette (2015) Summerland (2020) Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

T Tangled (2010) Tenet (2020) The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) The Accountant (2016) The Addams Family (1991) he Amazing Spider-Man (2012) The Big Sick (2017) The Breakfast Club (1985) The Connected Universe (2016) The Craft (1996) The Craft: Legacy (2020) The Devil Wears Prada (2006) The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) The Do-Over (2016) The DUFF (2015) The Edge of Seventeen (2016) The Estate (2022) The Fallout (2021) The Family Stone (2005) The Favourite (2018) The First Wives Club (1996) The Florida Project (2017) The Fundamentals of Caring (2016) The Girl on the Train (2016) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather Part II (1974) The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) The Half of It (2020) The Hangover (2009) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) The Holiday (2006) The Incredibles (2004) The Last Song (2010) The Lion King (1994) The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) The Lost City (2022) The Lost Daughter (2021) The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) The Lovely Bones (2009) The Mask (1994) The Matrix (1999) The Matrix Reloaded (2003) The Matrix Revolutions (2003) The Matrix Resurrections (2021) The Maze Runner (2014) The Mexican (2001) The Mummy (1999) The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) The Notebook (2004) The Notebooks (2021) The Nutty Professor (1996) The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) The Pez Outlaw (2022) The Princess and the Frog (2009) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) The Princess Diaries (2001) The Proposal (2009) The Secret World of Arriety (2010) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) The Sound of Music (1965) The Spectacular Now (2013) The Switch (2010) The Virgin Suicides (1999) The Witches of Eastwick (1987) The Woman Who Ran (2020) The Worst Person in the World (2021) Thelma & Louise (1991) There's Something About Mary (1998) Thirteen (2003) Thumbsucker (2005) Ticket to Paradise (2022) To the Bone (2017) Toy Story (1995) Trading Places (1983) Transporter (2002) Transporter 2 (2005) Transporter 3 (2008) Twilight (2008) Tyger Tyger (2019)

U Up (2009) Uptown Girls (2003)

V

W Walk With Me (2021) WALL-E (2008) We're the Millers (2013) What a Girl Wants (2003) What Happens in Vegas (2008) White Chicks (2004) Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) Wild Child (2008)

X

Y Yes Man (2008) Your Sister's Sister (2011)Your Name. (2016) You're Ugly Too (2015) Yours, Mine & Ours (2005) You've Got Mail (1998)

Z Zodi & Tehu, frères du désert (2023)

[gwaaaaar]

Kates friends have sone fat fucking tiddies

[just-miru]

another kiss, maybe-

i love them so much- aaaahhh!! :DD

he's never gonna let this go, is she now?

hehe-

love them :D

[jacinthepickledoge]

Waaaaah, I'm already behind and it's only day 2.

I wish we had gotten more Pollie and Mollie in Hyde and Seek but it's OK cause I can draw it myself

This is a certified Pollie Gump appreciation post. I love her.

(I can't draw cats 😢)

[meerlichtz]

My parents should’ve known i was autistic when I read “you’re a bad person mr gump!” and there was this girl named yammy lammy fammy lammy grammy fuba fuba berlin stereo eo eo lepp cepp sepp nermonica le strapin de spipin de crespin de wespin de schwupp die wupp de brönöckel merry christmas linör— but her friends just called her polly— and i learnt her name by heart and starting introducing myself to strangers as yammy lammy fammy lammy grammy fuba fuba berlin stereo eo eo lepp cepp sepp nermonica le strapin de spipin de crespin de wespin de schwupp die wupp de brönöckel merry christmas linör

[grifalinas]

Little bit of housekeeping. Characters in Nightingale are divided into categories based on what part of the story they occupy. For those who already go here, some of these have been moved around a bit. Other characters might be introduced as the story calls for them.

The main group of characters is the ship’s crew, and these are both the most developed and the ones with the most impact on the narrative. There are ten of them, seven organic and four artificial, plus the dog, who is more a prop than a character. This group consists of Tip, Dottie (and Toto), (Miss) Polly, Pumpkin(head), the Sawhorse, Steel Jack, Tatty, Leandré, Yuna, TK-TK, and the GUMP. Initially, the main goal of the Nightingale is to find Dottie’s aunt and uncle’s farm in the east country to return her to her home.

The story starts off in the north country, and rather than go straight east, the crew decide to travel east via the Old Capitol, as this is the safest way to travel in the kingdom, and Tip has always wanted to see the Capitol. In the Capitol, we meet a few more characters: The Wizard, who rules the Capitol, and General Ginger; as well as Shaggy, Button-Bright, and Melody, and Mayzie and Tina.

After leaving the Capitol, the group start to head east, to find Dottie’s home, but they are attacked by the Simlockes, slaves of the witch of the east, who take their ship apart around them and kidnap Dottie. Though they all land safely, they are also separated into three different groups (sans Dottie), who must reunite and then go after Dottie.

The first book ends here, with the Nightingale and her grew in pieces, and Dottie in the clutches of the witch of the east

[tex-mex-lex]

This will be evidence that I, indeed, have no life.

SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 137 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 396 films on the list. Since everyone is on shelter in place, ya know you got the time to do this!

MY Total: 117 (but I have something to say about this)

Rocky Horror Picture Show: ✅

Grease: ✅

Pirates of the Caribbean: ✅

Boondock Saints: ✅

Fight Club:✅

Starsky and Hutch: ✅

Neverending Story: ✅

Blazing Saddles:

Airplane: ✅

The Princess Bride: ✅

Anchorman: ✅

Napoleon Dynamite: ✅

Labyrinth:

Saw:

Saw II:

Saw III:

Saw IV:

Saw V:

Saw VI:

Saw VII:

White Noise:

White Oleander:

Anger Management:

50 First Dates: ✅

The Princess Diaries: ✅

The Princess Diaries 2:✅

Scream: ✅

Scream 2:

Scream 3:

Scream 4:

Scream 5:

Scary Movie: ✅

Scary Movie 2:

Scary Movie 3:

Scary Movie 4:

Scary movie 5:✅

American Pie: ✅

American Pie 2: ✅

American Wedding:

American Pie Reunion:

American Pie Band Camp:

Harry Potter 1: ✅

Harry Potter 2: ✅

Harry Potter 3: ✅

Harry Potter 4: ✅

Harry Potter 5: ✅

Harry Potter 6: ✅

Harry Potter 7pt 1: ✅

Harry Potter 7pt 2: ✅

Resident Evil 1:

Resident Evil 2:

Resident Evil 3:

Resident Evil 4:

Resident Evil 5:

Resident Evil 6:

The Wedding Singer: ✅

Little Black Book:

The Village: ✅

Lilo & Stitch:✅

Finding Neverland: ✅

Signs: ✅

The Grinch:✅

Texas Chainsaw Massacre:

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning:

White Chicks: ✅

Butterfly Effect:

13 Going on 30: ✅

iRobot:

Robots: ✅

Dodgeball:A True Underdog Story: ✅

Universal Soldier:

Lemony Snicket A Series Of Unfortunate Events: ✅

Along Came Polly: ✅

Deep Impact:

Kingpin:

Never Been Kissed: ✅

Meet The Parents:✅

Meet the Fockers:

Little Fockers:

Eight Crazy Nights:

Joe Dirt:

KING KONG:

A Cinderella Story: ✅

The Terminal:

The Lizzie McGuire Movie: ✅

Passport to Paris:

Dumb & Dumber: ✅

Dumber & Dumber:

Dumb & Dumberer:

Final Destination:

Final Destination 2:

Final Destination 3:

Final Destination 4:

Final destination 5:

The Final Destination:

Halloween:

Halloween 2:

Halloween 3: Season of the Witch:

Halloween 4: the Return of Michael Myers

Halloween 5: The Revenge:

Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers

Halloween H2O:

Halloween Resurrection:

Rob zombies Halloween:

The Ring:

The Ring 2:

The Ring 3:

Surviving Christmas:

Total so far: 44

Flubber: ✅

Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle:

Practical Magic:

Chicago:

Ghost Ship:

From Hell:

Hellboy:

Secret Window:

I Am Sam:

The Whole Nine Yards:

The Whole Ten Yards:

The Day After Tomorrow:

Child's Play:

Child's play 2:

Child's play 3:

Seed of Chucky:

Bride of Chucky:

Curse of Chucky:

Ten Things I Hate About You: ✅

Just Married:

Gothika:

Nightmare on Elm Street:

Nightmare on Elm Street 2:

Nightmare on Elm Street 3:

Nightmare on Elm Street 4:

Nightmare on Elm Street 5:

New Nightmare:

Freddy vs Jason:

Sixteen Candles: ✅

Remember the Titans:

Total so far: 47

Coach Carter:

The Grudge:

The Mask:✅

Son Of The Mask: ✅

Bad Boys:

Bad Boys 2:

Joy Ride:

Lucky Number Seven:

Ocean's Eleven: ✅

Ocean's Twelve : ✅

Bourne Identity:

Bourne Supremacy:

Bourne Ultimatum:

Jason Bourne:

Lone Star:

Bedazzled:

Predator I:

Predator II:

The Fog:

Ice Age:✅

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown: ✅

Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs: ✅

Ice Age Continental Drift:

Ice Age Collision Course:

Curious George:

Total so far: 54

Independence Day:

Cujo:

A Bronx Tale:

Darkness Falls:

ET: ✅

Children of the corn: ✅

My Boss’s Daughter:

Maid in Manhattan:

War of the Worlds:

Rush Hour:

Rush Hour 2:

Best Bet:

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days: ✅

She's All That: ✅

Calendar Girls:

Sideways:

Mars Attacks:

Event Horizon:

Ever After: ✅

Total so far: 59

Wizard of Oz:✅

Forrest Gump:✅

Big Trouble in Little China:

The Terminator:

The Terminator 2:

The Terminator 3:

X-Men:

X-Men 2:

X-Men 3:

Spider-Man: ✅

Spider-Man 2: ✅

Sky High: ✅

Jeepers Creepers:

Jeepers Creepers 2:

Catch Me If You Can: ✅

The Little Mermaid: ✅

Freaky Friday: ✅

Reign of Fire:

The Skulls:

Cruel Intentions:

Cruel Intentions 2:

Total so far: 67

The Hot Chick: ✅

Shrek: ✅

Shrek 2: ✅

Swimfan:

Miracle on 34th Street: ✅

Old School:

The Notebook: ✅

K-Pax:

Krippendorf's Tribe:

A Walk to Remember:

Ice Castles:

Boogeyman:

The 40-year-old Virgin: ✅

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring:

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers:

Lord of the Rings: Return Of the King:

Raiders of the Lost Ark: ✅

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom:

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:

Basketball Diaries:

Total so far: 74

[surveystodestressme]

31.

178.

SUPPOSEDLY if you’ve seen over 85 movies, you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 movies on this list. Copy this list mail, go to your own facebook account, paste this as a note. Then, put x’s next to the movies you’ve seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click post at the bottom. Have fun! EDIT: I’ve seen a lot of movies but I’ll just x the ones I actually remember.

( ) Rocky Horror Picture Show (x) Grease () Pirates of the Caribbean ( ) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest ( ) Boondock Saints (x) Fight Club () Starsky and Hutch ( ) Neverending Story ( ) Blazing Saddles (x ) Airplane

Total: 3

(x) The Princess Bride (x) AnchorMan (x) Napoleon Dynamite ( ) Labyrinth (x) Saw (x) Saw II ( ) White Noise ( )White Oleander (x) Anger Management (x) 50 First Dates (x) The Princess Diaries (x) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Total so far: 12

(x) Scream (x) Scream 2 (x) Scream 3 (x) Scary Movie (x) Scary Movie 2 (x) Scary Movie 3 (x) Scary Movie 4 (x) American Pie (x) American Pie 2 (x) American Wedding (x) American Pie Band Camp

Total so far: 23

(x) Harry Potter 1 (x) Harry Potter 2 (x) Harry Potter 3 (x) Harry Potter 4 ( ) Resident Evil 1 ( ) Resident Evil 2 () The Wedding Singer ( ) Little Black Book (x) The Village (x) Lilo & Stitch

Total so far: 29

(x) Finding Nemo ( ) Finding Neverland (x) Signs (x) The Grinch (x) Texas Chainsaw Massacre (x) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (x) White Chicks (x) Butterfly Effect (x) 13 Going on 30 ( ) I, Robot ( ) Robots

Total so far: 37

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story ( ) Universal Soldier (x) Lemony Snickt: A Series Of Unfortunate Events () Along Came Polly ( ) Deep Impact ( ) KingPin () Never Been Kissed () Meet The Parents (x) Meet the Fockers ( ) Eight Crazy Nights ( ) Joe Dirt ( ) KING KONG

Total so far: 40

(x) A Cinderella Story () The Terminal (x) The Lizzie McGuire Movie () Passport to Paris (x ) Dumb & Dumber (x) Dumber & Dumberer (x) Final Destination (x) Final Destination 2 (x) Final Destination 3 (x) Halloween (x) The Ring (x) The Ring 2 ( ) Surviving X-MAS (x) Flubber

Total so far: 51

(x) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle () Practical Magic ()Chicago ( x )Ghost Ship ( ) From Hell (x) Hellboy ( ) Secret Window ( ) I Am Sam (x) The Whole Nine Yards ( ) The Whole Ten Yards

Total so far: 55

(x) The Day After Tomorrow (x) Child’s Play (x) Seed of Chucky (x) Bride of Chucky (x) Ten Things I Hate About You () Just Married ( ) Gothika (x) Nightmare on Elm Street (x) Sixteen Candles (x) Remember the Titans () Coach Carter (x) The Grudge (x) The Grudge 2 (x) The Mask ( ) Son Of The Mask

Total so far: 66

() Bad Boys () Bad Boys 2 ( ) Joy Ride ( ) Lucky Number Sleven () Ocean’s Eleven () Ocean’s Twelve () Bourne Identity ( ) Bourne Supremecy ( ) Lone Star () Bedazzled ( ) Predator I ( ) Predator II (x) The Fog (x) Ice Age (x) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown ( ) Curious George

Total so far: 69

(x) Independence Day (x) Cujo ( ) A Bronx Tale ( ) Darkness Falls (x) Christine (x) ET (x) Children of the Corn () My Bosses Daughter () Maid in Manhattan ( ) War of the Worlds () Rush Hour () Rush Hour 2

Total so far: 74

( ) Best Bet (x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (x) She’s All That ( ) Calendar Girls ( ) Sideways ( )Mars Attacks ( ) Event Horizon () Ever After () Wizard of Oz (x) Forrest Gump ( )Big Trouble in Little China ( ) The Terminator ( ) The Terminator 2 (x) The Terminator 3 Total so far: 78

() X-Men () X2 () X-3 (x) Spider-Man (x) Spider-Man 2 (x) Sky High (x) Jeepers Creepers’ (x) Jeepers Creepers 2 ( ) Catch Me If You Can (x) The Little Mermaid (x) Freaky Friday ( ) Reign of Fire ( ) The Skulls () Cruel Intentions ( ) Cruel Intentions 2 () The Hot Chick (x) Shrek (x) Shrek 2

Total so far: 87

( ) Swimfan (x) Miracle on 34th street ( ) Old School (x) The Notebook ( ) K-Pax ( ) Krippendorf’s Tribe () A Walk to Remember ( ) Ice Castles (x) Boogeyman (x) The 40-year-old-virgin

Total so far: 91

(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring (x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers (x) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King ( ) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark ( ) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ( ) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Total so far: 94

() Baseketball (x) Hostel ( ) Waiting for Guffman (x) House of 1000 Corpses ( ) Devils Rejects (x) Elf ( ) Highlander ( ) Mothman Prophecies (x) American History X ( ) Three

Total so Far: 98

( ) The Jacket ( ) Kung Fu Hustle ( ) Shaolin Soccer ( ) Night Watch (x) Monsters Inc. (x) Titanic ( ) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (x) Shaun Of the Dead ( ) Willard

Total so far: 101 (x) High Tension ( ) Club Dread (x) Hulk (x) Dawn Of the Dead () Hook (x) Chronicle Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (x) 28 days later ( ) Orgazmo ( ) Phantasm ( ) Waterworld

Total so far: 106 () Kill Bill vol 1 () Kill Bill vol 2 ( ) Mortal Kombat (x) Wolf Creek ( ) Kingdom of Heaven (x) the Hills Have Eyes (x) I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman (x) The Last House on the Left ( ) Re-Animator ( ) Army of Darkness

Total so far: 110

(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace (x) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones (x) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith (x) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope (x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back (x) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi ( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage ( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor

Total so far: 116

(x) The Matrix ( ) The Matrix Reloaded ( ) The Matrix Revolutions ( ) Animatrix (x) Evil Dead ( ) Evil Dead 2 ( ) Team America: World Police ( ) Red Dragon (x) Silence of the Lambs (x) Hannibal

Total: 120

[surveysonfleek]

178.

SUPPOSEDLY if you’ve seen over 85 movies, you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 movies on this list. Copy this list mail, go to your own facebook account, paste this as a note. Then, put x’s next to the movies you’ve seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click post at the bottom. Have fun! EDIT: I’ve seen a lot of movies but I’ll just x the ones I actually remember.

( ) Rocky Horror Picture Show (x) Grease (x) Pirates of the Caribbean ( ) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest ( ) Boondock Saints ( ) Fight Club (x) Starsky and Hutch ( ) Neverending Story ( ) Blazing Saddles ( ) Airplane

Total: 3

(x) The Princess Bride (x) AnchorMan (x) Napoleon Dynamite ( ) Labyrinth ( ) Saw ( ) Saw II ( ) White Noise ( )White Oleander (x) Anger Management (x) 50 First Dates (x) The Princess Diaries (x) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Total so far: 10

(x) Scream ( ) Scream 2 ( ) Scream 3 (x) Scary Movie (x) Scary Movie 2 (x) Scary Movie 3 (x) Scary Movie 4 (x) American Pie (x) American Pie 2 (x) American Wedding (x) American Pie Band Camp

Total so far: 19

(x) Harry Potter 1 (x) Harry Potter 2 (x) Harry Potter 3 (x) Harry Potter 4 ( ) Resident Evil 1 ( ) Resident Evil 2 (x) The Wedding Singer ( ) Little Black Book (x) The Village (x) Lilo & Stitch

Total so far: 26

(x) Finding Nemo ( ) Finding Neverland (x) Signs (x) The Grinch (x) Texas Chainsaw Massacre ( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (x) White Chicks (x) Butterfly Effect (x) 13 Going on 30 ( ) I, Robot ( ) Robots

Total so far: 33

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story ( ) Universal Soldier ( ) Lemony Snickt: A Series Of Unfortunate Events (x) Along Came Polly ( ) Deep Impact ( ) KingPin (x) Never Been Kissed (x) Meet The Parents (x) Meet the Fockers ( ) Eight Crazy Nights ( ) Joe Dirt ( ) KING KONG

Total so far: 38

(x) A Cinderella Story (x) The Terminal (x) The Lizzie McGuire Movie (x) Passport to Paris ( ) Dumb & Dumber ( ) Dumber & Dumberer (x) Final Destination ( ) Final Destination 2 ( ) Final Destination 3 ( ) Halloween (x) The Ring ( ) The Ring 2 ( ) Surviving X-MAS (x) Flubber

Total so far: 45

( ) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (x) Practical Magic (x)Chicago (  )Ghost Ship ( ) From Hell ( ) Hellboy ( ) Secret Window ( ) I Am Sam ( ) The Whole Nine Yards ( ) The Whole Ten Yards

Total so far: 47

( ) The Day After Tomorrow ( ) Child’s Play ( ) Seed of Chucky (x) Bride of Chucky (x) Ten Things I Hate About You (x) Just Married ( ) Gothika ( ) Nightmare on Elm Street ( ) Sixteen Candles (x) Remember the Titans (x) Coach Carter (x) The Grudge (x) The Grudge 2 (x) The Mask ( ) Son Of The Mask

Total so far: 55

(x) Bad Boys (x) Bad Boys 2 ( ) Joy Ride ( ) Lucky Number Sleven (x) Ocean’s Eleven (x) Ocean’s Twelve (x) Bourne Identity ( ) Bourne Supremecy ( ) Lone Star (x) Bedazzled ( ) Predator I ( ) Predator II ( ) The Fog (x) Ice Age ( ) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown ( ) Curious George

Total so far: 62

( ) Independence Day ( ) Cujo ( ) A Bronx Tale ( ) Darkness Falls ( ) Christine (x) ET ( ) Children of the Corn (x) My Bosses Daughter (x) Maid in Manhattan ( ) War of the Worlds (x) Rush Hour (x) Rush Hour 2

Total so far: 67

( ) Best Bet (x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (x) She’s All That ( ) Calendar Girls ( ) Sideways ( )Mars Attacks ( ) Event Horizon (x) Ever After (x) Wizard of Oz (x) Forrest Gump ( )Big Trouble in Little China ( ) The Terminator ( ) The Terminator 2 ( ) The Terminator 3 Total so far: 72

(x) X-Men (x) X2 (x) X-3 (x) Spider-Man ( ) Spider-Man 2 (x) Sky High ( ) Jeepers Creepers’ ( ) Jeepers Creepers 2 ( ) Catch Me If You Can (x) The Little Mermaid (x) Freaky Friday ( ) Reign of Fire ( ) The Skulls (x) Cruel Intentions ( ) Cruel Intentions 2 (x) The Hot Chick (x) Shrek (x) Shrek 2

Total so far: 83

( ) Swimfan ( ) Miracle on 34th street ( ) Old School (x) The Notebook ( ) K-Pax ( ) Krippendorf’s Tribe (x) A Walk to Remember ( ) Ice Castles ( ) Boogeyman (x) The 40-year-old-virgin

Total so far: 86

( ) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring ( ) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers ( ) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King ( ) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark ( ) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ( ) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Total so far: 86

(x) Baseketball ( ) Hostel ( ) Waiting for Guffman ( ) House of 1000 Corpses ( ) Devils Rejects (x) Elf ( ) Highlander ( ) Mothman Prophecies ( ) American History X ( ) Three

Total so Far: 88

( ) The Jacket ( ) Kung Fu Hustle ( ) Shaolin Soccer ( ) Night Watch (x) Monsters Inc. (x) Titanic ( ) Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( ) Shaun Of the Dead ( ) Willard

Total so far: 90 ( ) High Tension ( ) Club Dread ( ) Hulk ( ) Dawn Of the Dead (x) Hook (x) Chronicle Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe ( ) 28 days later ( ) Orgazmo ( ) Phantasm ( ) Waterworld

Total so far: 92 (x) Kill Bill vol 1 (x) Kill Bill vol 2 ( ) Mortal Kombat ( ) Wolf Creek ( ) Kingdom of Heaven ( ) the Hills Have Eyes ( ) I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman ( ) The Last House on the Left ( ) Re-Animator ( ) Army of Darkness

Total so far: 94

(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace ( ) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones ( ) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith ( ) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope ( ) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back ( ) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi ( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage ( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor

Total so far: 95

( ) The Matrix ( ) The Matrix Reloaded ( ) The Matrix Revolutions ( ) Animatrix ( ) Evil Dead ( ) Evil Dead 2 ( ) Team America: World Police ( ) Red Dragon ( ) Silence of the Lambs ( ) Hannibal

Total: 95

[mazm-imagines]

MazM week day 1 prompt for Trapped! I always felt so bad for Pollie... my meow meow... 594 words under the cut!

Where... Where am I?

The maid had found herself curled up on the frigid floor. She seemed to be in one piece, completely untouched. That was a relief to say the least. It was never a good sign to wake up in an unknown location.

Pollie peeled herself off the ground before examining her surroundings. From the looks of it, she was in a warehouse.

Well… she could just- get out! Without a moment of hesitation, she rushed towards the door. Shaking the door handle met her with a lock. If just opening the door wouldn’t work, Pollie resolved to throw her body at it instead. 

Thunk, Thunk, Thunk

Her side repeatedly met the wood before she realized it wouldn’t move a centimeter. With her now sore body, Pollie collapsed in front of the door. Exhausted pants were the only thing audible in the quiet room.

Across was a small barred window, perhaps she could cry for help and catch someone’s attention.

Pollie stood back up once she caught her breath. With a quick scurry, she found herself under the bars. There were a few boxes under the window she could have stood on to reach it, and hopefully they wouldn’t shatter under her.

One foot was placed on a box, slow pushes ensured their strength. Another was placed right beside. She held onto the bars for extra security before hollering through them. 

“Someone?! Is anyone there?! Some- some arse! Kidnapped me! Please! Help me!”

She shouted desperately in that manner for a few minutes before she gave up. Clearly no one passed around here in the first place. It looked to be private property.

She gave a mournful groan before walking back to the door. This was it. She was finally going to die. 

How did she even get here? Sure she had scammed a few too many people out of their money… But was this really necessary?

…

Of course it was. Of course stupid Pollie Gump deserved to die in such a pathetic manner. No matter how hard she tried, she could never run away from herself. Neither in drinks or gambling. It was all so very useless in the end…

Mother… Father… I’ll be there soon.

This was what she wanted wasn’t it? To be with the people that loved her? 

Kay loved her… she didn’t have his love anymore.

This was all her own fault, her pain, her misery. And yet, she still wanted to live selfishly. Like a cockroach that would never die.

No. No. I need to make it up to him… how… how how how.

Pollie mindlessly stood back up again, rearing her shoulder to ram into the door once more.

I need to go back.

Thump, Thump, Thump

All the force in her body slammed into the reinforced wood, yet not even a crack could be formed.

Kay… Alan… Gramps…

No matter if they loved her or not, she loved them. She would get back no matter what. She still hadn’t paid back old man Poole or done enough to regain Kay’s trust. The great Pollie Gump was never one to give up! Was what she told herself, didn’t matter if she believed it or not.

Eventually her useless process of ramming herself into the door would halt by the ache from inside. Any more and perhaps she would have broken a bone, but she resolved to herself either way to try again tomorrow. For now she could try screaming from the top of her lungs.

Those bastards… when I get my hands on them-!

[asy-taehyun]

Day 4 - 30 Day Character Development

Day 3: Choose a different time period and describe what your character would have been like in that time period: (skip)

Day 4: What are some of your character’s hobbies?

Drawing, making music, reading

What do they do with their time?

Read, boxing

Favorite color?

Purple, neutral

Favorite music artists?

Nirvana

Movies or TV shows?

French films (ie: Léon, Amélie)

Books or authors?

Realistic fiction (not non-fiction, he likes fiction stories with elements of history but not historical fiction... basically a well researched fiction story)

Actors?

None

Political stance? Are they active in politics or do they not care?

Doesn’t care

What are some of their pet peeves?

Ignorant and annoying people drive him crazy

What sort of gifts do they like?

Practical gifts

What is their favorite time of day?

Night

Favorite weather?

Rainy/cloudy

Season?

Winter

Where do they like to spend their time?

Coffee shops alone

Favorite food?

Stir fried spicy pork

Favorite drink?

Green tea latte

Hot drinks, soft drinks, or alcohol?

Hot drinks

Favorite animal? Do they have any pets? Do they want any?

He has two cats, Polly & Barley, and a puppy, Gump.

What relaxes them?

Music

Do they have any bad habits?

He has a lot of bad habits. Taehyun smokes, frequently takes prescription drugs and snorts cocaine. He has trouble controlling his anger.

[just-miru]

aaaahhh!! :DD thank you

now i really wanna try bread made by her-

"couldn't agree more, Mr. Hyde, sir!" says me, who never got drunk on wine (or anything else)

i feel called out-

ma love, u moving too fast-

:D

[chickeninthewoods]

2004 films

| The Bachelor | Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004 (late-nite) | Pulled from the pile of purchased DVDs at the folks'... to great disappointment. This is a bad, bad film, and Chris O'Donnell truly sucks. Phoned-it-in sucks. This explains why he hasn't worked much in the last 5 years - which was a bit of a mystery up until now. Avoid this like the plague.

| Spanglish | Dec. 27, 2004 (afternoon) |

| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004 (late-nite) | Dark and long. The kids are growing up, and the films are, as well. I think my mom is borrowing this from my sister. She has all three, unfortunately mostly in fullscreen.

| Snow Falling on Cedars | Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004 (late-nite) | Fantastic and incredibly sad. This was pulled from the stack of purchased DVDs at my parents' house over xmas vacation (who knows why they buy what they buy).

| Rivers and Tides | Saturday, Dec. 25, 2004 (afternoon, w/ the 'rents) | A gorgeous, nearly-meditative study of the work of Andrew Goldsworthy, who creates sculptural installations in and from nature.

| Seabiscuit | Saturday, Dec. 25, 2004 (w/ the 'rents) | Oddly-paced, but exciting. A book moved to the screen doesn't always work well, though, for the reasons well-illustrated here. The historical snippets might have worked well as chapter introductions, but they make for a confusing set of transitions on screen.

| De-Lovely | Friday, Dec. 24, 2004 (evening) | A mess of a film, though pretty and entertaining. But maybe that was intentional. Porter's life was a mess, albeit an entertaining one.

| Before Sunset | Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004 (late-nite) | I had planned to watch this on the plane to Indy, but after watching the original last night, I couldn't help popping this one in today before my trip. I'm frustrated as hell by it, and the sudden ending, but I guess that's the reality part.

| Before Sunrise | Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004 (late-nite) | Luminous, like Julie Delpy's skin.

| 24: Season 3 | Week of Dec. 17, 2004 | My current policy is to review television series all at once, rather than a disc at a time, but I wanted to begin by noting that this season does not start out well. The tech is particularly bad, and I don't really care about what happens next.

| The Door in the Floor | Saturday, Dec. 18, 2004 | A little less dark than I thought it might be, and more tangible. I haven't read any Roth, ever, and now I'm prompted to start. I'll have to rent it again to watch the commentary and featurettes -- I'm fascinated by writer/screenwriter collaborations, and the adaptation process (so long as the writers can also talk).

| The King of Comedy | Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2004 | I think it's not possible to watch a film on the recommendation of someone who says its their favorite. I just don't have much to say about it.

| Jersey Girl | Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2004 (afternoon) | Ooh, this was cute! 13 Going on 30 cute, 3 Men and a Baby cute. The kid was great, and the Sweeney Todd bit was cute even in its un-cute-ness. A definite recommendation for parents and families who want to see a decent movie.

| A Home at the End of the World | Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004 | I'll admit, I rented this for the much-anticipated kiss between Colin Farrell and Dallas Roberts. It wouldn't have been worth waiting for, if that's all there was to this film. But all the things I disliked about marginally similar films, I liked about this. Where Forrest Gump was nearly campy, this was understated and honest. Where the Myth of Fingerprints was sarcastic, this was lacking all irony. At the same time, where Big Eden was celebratory and fantastical, this was pretty raw. So I don't know exactly how I feel, but I'm glad I saw it.

| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004 (afternoon) | Reviews were generally positive, but I had received a recommendation against watching it just a few days prior. I enjoyed it, and would certainly keep it out of the "never again" bin, though it probably won't end up on a best list. As other reviewers noted, its the emotional core that saves this film from a bad sort of quirky, and I did appreciate that. But I felt it didn't go far enough exploring the morality of doing such a bizarre and radical thing. I would have preferred a "what if" movie with a love/life story running through it, to a love/life story with lots of other stuff piled around it. Jim Carrey didn't annoy me, though, and that's a rarity. Kate Winslet is yummy.

| Capturing the Friedmans | Nov. 27, 2004 (afternoon) | Truly one of the most amazing films, ever. While working on a short film about children's pary clowns in NYC, the filmmaker happened upon an extraordinary story of a family caught in an avalanche of molestation charges and media frenzy in the mid-1980s. The film includes footage shot by family members during the time of the arrests and court proceedings, as well as present-day interviews with police and other persons involved. If netflixing, be sure to get Disc 2 as well, as there are hours of additional footage and follow-up interviews with the filmmakers.

| Maze | Nov. 1, 2004 (afternoon) | This scared me off initially, fearing it was a Rob Morrow vanity piece, but then I forged ahead on faith in Laura Linney. And I wasn't disappointed -- the film is quite lovely, surprisingly nuanced, and I forgive Rob Morrow his salary whining in the 90s (Janine Turner, however, is getting her just desserts in dry-eye commercials)

| Ghost World | October 25, 2004 | I held off on seeing this when it was playing at York Sq., but it was fun on dvd. Scarlett and Thora bring so much to the table.

| The Apprentice, Season 1 (all discs) | Oct. 20, 2004 | Addicted to S2, thought S1 might be good. Soapy fun.

| Seeing Other People | Oct. 20, 2004 | Julianne Nicholson is always great, but the movie wasn't my favorite. Vulgar and ultimately a little boring.

| Dopamine | Sunday, Oct. 10, 2004 | I like Sabrina Lloyd, and the story here was interesting, but I didn't ever really latch on to anything in this picture. There was so much unexpected darkness, maybe that pushed me away. | Normal | Friday, Oct. 1, 2004 | I was so skeptical... but this was handled with about as much grace and dignity as I could ever have imagined.

| Uptown Girls | Sunday, Sept. 19, 2004 | Decent fluffy entertainment.

| Dinner for Five: Season 1, Disc 1 | Sunday, Sept. 12, 2004 | Never as interesting as it promised.

| High Art | Saturday, Sept. 11, 2004 | Not as hot on the most recent viewing, but I'm sensing the ambition element more clearly each time I see it.

| Alias, Season 2 (all discs) | Week of Sept. 6, 2004 |

| Tuck Everlasting | Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004 |

Alexis is a wonder, and I'm so glad she has a spot on the WB for a while.

| Charlotte Sometimes | Sometime in September, 2004? |

| 13 Going on 30 | Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2004 | I watched this on the plane, BDL>>DTW, and finished in the wrap place in terminal B. Cute, cute, cute entertaining fluff.

| Mona Lisa Smile | Monday, Aug. 9, 2004 | I don't know why I haven't returned this yet; it was good, though not in the Wonder Boys-kind of way I had hoped. Not much new to say, though it was interesting to watch how the juxtaposition of super-smart-capable and wanna-be-housewifey played out

| Watching You | Friday, July 30, 2004 | This was a set of short films, all lesbian-themed in some way. I got it because I was looking for a short called "travelling companion," which had been on another set of shorts on VHS a few years ago. The quality of gay-themed cinema has come so far in the last few years, though. My favorite ("10 rules") was actually in the "extras" section, though I wasn't sure exactly why there was that division. The title short, "Watching You," was set in Israel (??), though that never was mentioned explicitly.

| The Cucumber Incident | Monday, July 27, 2004 | This was an indie (so indie it's not even in IMDB yet) documentary, viewed on the Sundance Channel's DOCday. It tells the story of a group of three women in a family who basically raped and beat the husband of one of the women, who had been molesting his daughters. It's complicated and awful -- the wife who let her husband back in the house after he'd been to prison for molesting her older daughter, the child protection system which didn't intervene after subsequent charges (and let him back in the house after his imprisonment), the complicated revenge / scare tactics they exacted, and the overwhelming weight of the justice system that fell on them as a result. Everything about this is awful, and though I never felt like we really got to the heart of the women's fury as they prepared to terrorize this guy, that may be as much a result of midwestern stoicism as it is a comment on the film's ability to draw out their story.

| A Mighty Wind | Saturday, July 24, 2004 | I've watched this more than once now - I don't know why, but it's silly and entertaining and even ok musically.

| Travelling Companion | Tuesday, July 20, 2004 | I watched this on an interminable train ride from New Haven to Boston, when the train literally broke down in the middle of rural Rhode Island. Nice.

| Casa de los Babys | Monday, July 12, 2004 | I may need to give this another look before I comment too much. I rented this while my sister was visiting, and I'm not sure we finished it.

| Along Came Polly | Sunday, July 11, 2004 | B+

| Girl With a Pearl Earring | Sunday, July 4, 2004 | Watched this at T's up in New Hampshire -- it was a lovely portrait, and a really creative and daring way to make a film about a painting.

| Dead Like Me (entire first season) | July, 2004 | So bummed I don't get Showtime anymore... rent the dvds if you get the chance, it's almost as good as Six Feet Under (the first year of SFU)SHO

| Things You Can Tell Just by Looking At Her | Wednesday, June 30, 2004 | I watched this in the car, driving from my parents' house in Michigan down to visit my sister in Indianapolis. It's not a bad car-movie (if such a category exists), except that I did get a tad claustrophobic at one intense point. I really thought I had seen this before, but I had only vague moments of deja vu as I watched it. The women were just amazing -- Glenn Close, Callista Flockhart, Amy Brenneman, Cameron Diaz (and more) -- but I was particularly amazed by Callista Flockhart. I don't think it's reasonable to question her talent after watching her work in this film -- something so far from Ally McBeal, so different and difficult. The movie is a set of one-acts, each focusing on a different character. The supporting characters in each act are extremely sparse, though there's a bit of connection woven throughout the film, between the characters. It's important to understand that they're living in the same time, the same world. Glenn Close is an Ob/Gyn with real emotional maturity and intimacy issues; Cameron Diaz is a relatively well-adjusted blind girl whose sister (Amy Brenneman) is taking a backseat; Holly Hunter is a successful, albeit lonely bank officer who reels at the pointed analysis of a homeless woman who buns her cigarettes; and Callista Flockhart is a woman tending to her dying lover (Valeria Golino). There's also a piece with Kathy Baker who infantilizes her new short-statured neighbor, but I found it really odd and jarring compared with the rest.

| Raising Victor Vargas | Tuesday, June 29, 2004 | Watched on the plane from Detroit to Hartford -- though I think I'll want to see it again when I can hear and concentrate better. This would make a great double-feature with "Real Women Have Curves", for the sheer heart of both

| The Banger Sisters | Sunday, June 27, 2004 | Watched mostly on the plane between Hartford and Detroit, and finished up at my parents' house in Michigan -- this was a fun little showcase for a variety of veteran and newcomer talent. Goldie Hawn's butt really is amazing, Susan Sarandon proves she can give up scenery-chewing for Lent, and Eva and Erika somehow manage to look like sisters (though moreso if their parents were Susan and Goldie...)

| Nobody's Baby | Monday, June 14, 2004 | Caught this one on Showtime, found by the Tivo's Radha Mitchell wishlist. I'm not sure what Radha's doing playing these desert waitresses (e.g., When Strangers Appear), but this one wasn't bad. A little anachronistic, maybe, but not awful.SHO

| All the Real Girls | Saturday, June 12, 2004 | Though I really like some of the actors, I just didn't find this movie that compelling. It was slow, and maybe would have been better if I had seen it on the right kind of day (e.g., long, slow, cold and weathery).

| Trembling Before G-d | Saturday, June 12, 2004 |

| Purity | Saturday, June 12, 2004 | I watched this nearly in a double-feature with Trembling Before G-d, and it was so stunning. Clearly bitter and biased, but stunning.

| Saved | Friday, June 11, 2004 | Saw this Heathers-in-a-Christian-High-School in the theatre, opening weekend. Not terribly crowded, which was surprising. The movie was just delightful; funny and interesting and terribly attentive to the details, which was important. It's fun to see someone like Mandy Moore play a character this deliciously saccharine, too. Go see.Orange

| Marathon | Thursday, June 10, 2004 | Caught on the Sundance channel -- and couldn't tear myself away. It's a faux-documentary of a girl who does an annual 24-hour crossword puzzle marathon in NYC -- mostly on noisy subways and buses. The dialogue is minimal, the plot is pretty much nonexistent, and yet its riveting to watch, for some reason. It's one of the few times watching a film where I felt like I was in that zone of a conversation where I was truly getting to know someone.

| Out of Season | Sunday, June 6, 2004 | A surprisingly ok new grrl movie, which is unusual. And since I wasn't expecting anything at all, I was a very thrilled little camper. This definitely goes on the recommendations list, maybe even above 'Go Fish' (though after 'Get Real').| Soldier's Girl | Friday, June 4, 2004 | A really wrenching look at the story of a particular casualty of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (pre-"Don't Pursue," I think). I don't know how close to the truth this story was, but I'm not sure it matters. It was beautiful.

| The Company | Wednesday, June 3, 2004 | I've been dying to see this ever since it came out, but I was a bit disappointed. While the dancing was just out of this world, I had trouble adjusting to all the jumps between performance and slice-of-life/rehearsals and story. I think that was intentional, but it just didn't work for me. I love the Joffrey, though, and it was worth the time spent just to watch them dance. Neve included. While I'm usually the first to scrunch up my nose at something that appears to be a vanity piece, this is most certainly not one of those times. No one hires Altman to do a vanity piece, for starters. For an Altman-esque look inside the ballet, this is what you want. But I still prefer Center Stage for the energy of the dance world (as soapy as it can be).

| xx/xy | Tuesday, June 1, 2004 | I wasn't sure what to make of this -- it sounded too much like that other film with Kathleen Robertson in a menage a trois -- but with Mark Ruffalo, I wanted to give it a shot. It was interesting for the blurriness and for the look at a particular kind of person's behavior in a relationship, but I didn't love it.

[grifalinas]

I think that’s a nice sized group of misfits and woebegones to make a motley crew on a cobbled together ship for a trip to the capitol to protect a girl in a box

For the sake of neatness, the full roster:

Tip, technically the captain but more suited to the role of mechanic honestly

Dottie, a small girl in a box who is being escorted back to the capitol after Tip saved her

Toto, Dottie’s guard dog, a small black lapdog

Tatty Bog, a highwayman turned mercenary. Married to Angus.

“Steel Jack” Angus, a guardsman turned mercenary. Married to Tatty.

Baron Léandre Baldwin, a nobleman from the old regime living as a con artist under the new one.

Jack Pumpkinhead, an automaton made by Tip

The Sawhorse, an automaton made by Tip

Corys, a disgraced professor taken on to be caretaker to Dottie

GUMP, the ai that helps to run the ship

Billina, a talking chicken

Tik-Tok, the ai from Dottie’s box inserted into a body made by Tip

Yuna, a chef cursed with the morals to only prepare certain foods

Shaggy Man, a stowaway looking after two children

Polly Chrome, a stowaway in a Home Alone situation

Button Bright, a stowaway who can remember none of his past

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WAT IS HET BELANG VAN MODE VOOR FILM?

Een beeld zegt meer dan duizend woorden. Waar moet ik beginnen om mijn fascinatie over mode in film tot uitdrukking te brengen? Al die beelden die tot ons collectieve geheugen zijn gaan behoren. Audrey Hepburn in haar Givenchy creaties in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) de opwaaiende plissé jurk van Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch (1955), Ursula Andress die in haar bikini als een zandloper de zee uitkomt lopen, in Dr. No (1962). Brigitte Bardot in haar jurkjes met het naar haar vernoemde BB-ruitje, Holly Hunter die in haar zwarte hoepelrok over het strand loopt in The Piano (1993). De onnavolgbare Colin Firth als Mr. Darcy die uit het water komt lopen in de t.v serie Pride and Prejudice (1995). Het witte pak van John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever (1977). Of een duo als Ginger Rogers en Fred Astaire in hun onvergetelijke danstenues. Het fantastische viertal drag queens en transgenders die in een bus door de woestijn trekken in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994). En tenslotte kan het ook heel “eenvoudig”: Renée Zellwegger die in de laatste scène van Brigit Jones’s Diary (2001) in een ordi slipje met tijgerprint een een oud vest door de sneeuw achter Colin Firth aanrent. En en en en en. Je zou er lyrisch van worden. Natuurlijk nodigen sommige films meer tot uitpakken en eye-candy dan anderen. In kostuumfilms, vooral die met een fiks budget, lijkt the sky the limit. Denk aan de roaring twenties en The Great Gatsby (1974, 2013) – en een t.v. serie als Downton Abbey - Dangerous Liaisons (1988) of de t.v. serie The Tudors (2007-2010) We doen wel wat water bij de historisch correcte aankleding. Zo doet Hendrik VIII in de laatstgenoemde serie weinig anders dan met vrouwen het bed induiken, maar de befaamde codpiece heeft de kostuumontwerpster toch maar niet uitgevoerd. We zouden waarschijnlijk steeds niet weten welke kant we op moesten kijken. Behalve dat mode in films vaak een lust voor je oog zijn, is het heel simpel ook een hulpmiddel voor de datering van de film. Je herkent bijvoorbeeld het Victoriaanse tijdperk, of de sixties flower power. Mode en kostuums “helpen” je ook de tijdsgeest van de film te beleven. Denk aan Forrest Gump (1994) die van het ene (mode)tijdperk in het andere rent. Speciale vermelding verdient Russian Ark (2002) van cineast Alexander Sokurow (2002) waarin je in één ononderbroken opname van 95 minuten door 33 zalen van de Hermitage in St. Petersburg reist en drie eeuwen Russische geschiedenis ervaart, inclusief de de bijbehorende kleding van die eeuwen. Catherina de Grote, Tsaar Nicolaas II, je ziet ze allemaal langskomen in hun eigen kenmerkende kledij. Je weet het natuurlijk intellectueel wel, maar toch, wanneer je in een film enkel vrouwen in een rok tot op de grond ziet rond lopen, geeft dat al de boodschap af dat in deze film bijvoorbeeld anders met seksualiteit wordt omgegaan dan wanneer je twee lange dunne benen onder een minirok door Londen ziet rennen. We denken nu eenmaal in stereotypieën. Een net te strak gesneden leren broek en een snor en welkom bij de YMCA. Een film als Legally Blonde (2001) met Reese Witherspoon als de Barbiepop die een succesvolle student wordt, speelt met dat gegeven. Vaak duurt een speelfilm zo’n anderhalf uur, en de mode definieert razendsnel types, gewoontes, moraal, statusverschillen, levensstijl en wat al dies meer zij. Mode is daarom een enorme rijke drager van de meest uiteenlopende informatie. Een modebeeld zegt meer dan duizend woorden. Uiteraard hangt het ook van je persoonlijke point of view af hoe je naar mode in een film kijkt. Wellicht zou de ideale film er zo een zijn waar alle disciplines zich voegen tot één naadloos geheel. Maar persoonlijk vind ik er niets mis mee als je ervan geniet te focussen op één of enkele aspecten van een film. Of dat nu het verhaal, de acteerprestaties, het camerawerk of de “aankleding” is/zijn. Het gevaar van mode in film is wel dat de kleding overpowering kan worden. Net zoals een jurk die de vrouw draagt, terwijl de vrouw de jurk moet dragen. Een serie die volgens mij de plank mis slaat is Sex in the City. De belevenissen van die vrouwen vind ik niet veel om het lijf hebben, maar soms heb ik er alleen naar gekeken voor de mode en styling. Uiteindelijk gaat dat irriteren. Bij de jaarlijkse Academy Awards behoren de Oscars voor kleding en make-up helaas toch tot de wat “mindere” categorie. In samenvattingen worden de winnaars er vaak uitgesneden of snel en terloops genoemd. Vakgenoten zien natuurlijk wel hoe immens belangrijk deze bijdragen zijn, maar het spektakel draait om de sterren en de beste films. Eigenlijk vreemd, als je ziet hoe uren daarvoor het op de rode Oscarloper het één en al mode en commercie is. Welke ster draagt welk ontwerp van welke designer? Hoeveel Gucci’s, hoeveel Chanels, hoeveel zus en hoeveel zo? De beste keuzes, de missers. De ene fiks verdienende actrice na de andere verschijnt in gratis kleding en maakt daarvoor braaf reclame. Een aparte vermelding dienen hier nog films die zich afspelen in de modewereld en vaak focussen op excessen. Zoals Blowup (1966), Who are you Polly Maggoo (1966), Prêt-à-Porter, (1994), The Devil Wears Prada, (2006). De BBC produceerde de t.v. serie Absolutely Fabulous, en ik wacht in spanning de kraakfilm Ocean’s 8 waarbij een groep actrices het Metropolitan Gala gaat oplichten. In de tv serie How I Met Your Mother bestaat de belangrijkste tijdsbesteding van de bijna altijd in een onberispelijk pak geklede acteur Patrick Neil Harris uit het achterna jagen van rondborstige vrouwen. Maar zijn allergrootste liefde zijn toch zijn pakken. In een aflevering barst hij zelfs uit in een musicalachtige scène met een ode aan zijn “Suits”. Voor wie het niet heeft gezien, geef ik hier de tip om “Nothing Suits Me Like A Suit” te googelen. Enjoy!