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Oh cute, Bob thinks himself an actual critic.
Yet he totally misses out on his point - movie within movie continuity has been done to death and has been around for years and years and years and years. So, yeah, nice going there Bob. The big picture, you managed to miss it.
Bob, I'm going to ask this very nicely, I hope you're reading this, and I'm only going to ask because I care.
Whether you absolutely love The Avengers or somehow end up hating it, please keep yourself in the ballpark. Because if you go a bit overboard with hatred like you did for Transformers or Green Lantern, or you go overboard with love like Scott Pilgrim or...or...I don't really have another example, you're gonna have half the comments on your video being giant snarky "I told ya so's" from the masses.
That said, I enjoy this sort of thing, and even in the earliest stages of something small like having Toby McGuire show up in Daredevil, the superhero continuity crossovers have been nice to see, and I'm enjoying the idea of this movie a lot.
We've had a couple other good instances of movie continuity. Kevin Smith's View Askew-niverse handled things pretty well, and you could argue some (some, obviously not all) of the Pixar movies could take place in the same universe (Lotso in Up for instance, could Up and Toy Story co-exist?)
"Indeed, thou art part of a mighty team. A pity that team is called The Justice League and we shall never see that movie." ~ Thor talking to Green Lantern in I'm a Marvel, I'm a DC
...He gets to go to critic's screenings and gets paid to critique movies. What else would you call that if not an actual critic?
If the Moses movie tied into Indiana Jones by being the same Ark and having some of the same music then heck yea I'd want to buy a ticket right now. Although I'm kind of greedy and wouldn't mind Mel Brooks in the film somewhere.
The tie in thing is such a good idea it's kind of odd that movies and TV don't use it more often. When it was unclear if the Finder would work as a TV show they had the pilot as an episode of Bones. If people didn't like it then it's just one episode of Bones lost but if people liked it then fire up the new series.
The thing I worry about though is Hasbro because I don't want GI Joe and Transformers together if it's a Micheal Bay film. He might do okay with the Joes but given how poorly he did the Decepticons I don't want Micheal Bay within a thousand miles of Cobra.
Bob, I really hope the Avengers is good, because I get the feeling that you really, really, want it to be.
At 5.09 the women reloads her gun and the magazine just flyes into it, is she psychic ?
Great perspective, Bob. That's what I watch the Big Picture for.
I was going to watch the Avengers before you post your review video of it but noooo, two of my work colleages gotten ill so I'm covering their shift (curse their immune system) everday until the weekend.
OT- Thank god you were joking about the Mozes/ Indina Jones continuity otherwise I would of ranted how using that arc does not make it a continuity. Honestly the whole concept of it is abit of a double edged sword but for now I like it only for super heroes movies.
You know, I bet Tarantino will jump on this. His movies are already a shared Universe, technically, aren't they? Like, didn't Mr. White in Reservoir Dogs mention a thief he'd worked with in the past, who was Honey Bunny in Pulp Fiction? And isn't Tarantinoverse different to our universe because of how WWII ended in Inglorious Basterds?
If he expanded on all this, that'd be really cool.
Wait two weeks? Not only am I going to see it this Saturday I bought my tickets for it last week. I do find it odd that the UK gets the movie earlier but I'm not going to complain because it means I can see it with my fiancee on our engagement anniversary (the best part is I'm not dragging her to see it, it is legitimately what we both want to do that day).
01:42 - Huh, I've got that poster on my wall.
04:59 - It would be very awesome Bob.
Justin Bieber sells records and has his own concerts, yet I wouldn't call him a musician.
Hasn't Kevin Smith essentially done this already with the View Askewniverse?
My question is, "when The Avengers gets a sequel (and it will, don't kid yourself), what new superheroes will be in it?" I'd personally like to see how Marvel Studios (and yes, it's wierd saying that) does characters like, say, Ant-Man. Or maybe they'll bring in the Heroes For Hire? Or another possibility, maybe they'll start taking back their toys and do a proper Fantastic Four or Daredevil.
Bob, I'm surprised by you! This seemed like the best time to talk about Jay and Silent Bob who have been living in the Kevin Smith movie-verse since Clerks. I liked the idea of those two stoners going through each of the movies they've made cameos in where Dogma could have just been a fever dream they were having and where Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back could have been...well, another fever dream (at least until the end of Clerks 2).
Other than that earlier instance of inner-movie continuity, I really can't freaking wait for Avengers! I'm off work the night of the midnight showing and will be there in the worlds worst Thor cosplay.
No Bob, you're not the only one to like the ark tie-in idea. I'd be disappointed if Spielberg didn't do that. I am now actively and anxiously expecting this ark scene.
Wow, the Americans aren't getting it until May? I'm going to see it this Friday...
Oh, the ambivalence.
To my mind, part of the reason the superhero crossover thing works is the degree to which the different superhero movies are all playing by the same rules (and even that has its limitations- who would want to see Superman show up in Nolan's Batman movies right now?)
(Thank you for standing up and making yourselves visible. OPEN FIRE!... Ahem. Pardon my weird violent fantasy...)
Anyway, before I lost my mind, what I was saying is that we operate on a certain level of disbelief and a certain sense of scale and mood in different movies, even within the same genre. So Bruce Banner turns into a nigh-invincible berserker monster because of some combination of mutagens and gamma-rays and this inventor created an armored suit that lets him fly and fire blasts out of his hands and there's an ancient Norse god who's kinda-sorta an alien and there are a couple of ordinary humans who are so incredibly good at their chosen fields that they tag along with this group and totally aren't out of their depth- okay. Fine. But they're all pretty clearly part of the same bemusingly different version of our world where chance makes individuals into forces comparable to whole army divisions, only less vulnerable. The Hulk may be a bit "woe is me" in his version, Captain America a bit more "basic inherent goodness trumps all", but the differences aren't generally the kind of thing that warrants show-stopping double-takes.
But even between two different action movies, you can have significantly different levels of realism and tone and setting. It would feel downright strange to have a character from "The A Team" show up in something like "Heat", or even have Roger Moore's James Bond show up in a Daniel Craig James Bond movie. Take the example Bob gives- depending on that cop movie, the presence of that cop character might well make the audience cock its head and say "I thought he lived in a city where shoot-outs in the middle of the street were a daily occurrence. Why are our likable young couple shopping at this farmer's market- shouldn't they be cowering in their homes in terror?"
Like many things, I don't mean to suggest that this whole crossover thing couldn't be handled well by skilled and gifted moviemakers, as appears to have been the case with the handling of Marvel's franchises.
But we're not always dealing with skilled and gifted moviemakers. A lot of the time- way too much of the time- we're dealing with the kind of people who thought greenlighting a movie based on Battleship was a good idea. Ham-handed use of this "cross-over" idea sounds like a marketer's dream and every cinephile's nightmare, something that could do harm to whole studios worth of movies rather than simply allowing a bad idea to flicker and die in a single bad movie.
It's like a staple gun. It's a tool. Properly used, it could make work faster and more efficient, but- AH! MY EYE!
Locking things up in even more complicated copyright issues, giving hollywood another reason to not make anything but sequels? No thanks.
And I'll have to wait for the dvd release since I don't want to see it in 3D... But I'm sure every scene will have been released as a separate promo clip by then, so I'll just have to piece them together.
man i hate you so much right now! i would sell my left ball to watch the avengers now :(
Actually Bob, that's a really really really scary thought.
MMmmyeah, sorry, I like seeing Bob this excited for something but I'm not feeling it. "The future"? Don't you think you're exaggerating a little? To me, continuity is either a cheap gimmick or an impenetrable barrier to entry, depending on how long it's been going. Especially with mashing universes, it just seems like the writers are toying with their own creations, not considering them seriously.
Also, I don't like how studios might handle this - dozens of movies could be shoehorned into the same continuity, purely for cross-promotion purposes, thereby limiting what the writer and director even further. Or, if it's an empty crossover, like the medieval-looking armour or chakram-thrower from Amalur in Mass Effect 3, it makes no sense, it's dubiously crammed into canon, it strains disbelief and wasn't needed.
It's also exhausting. Even with book series, for example, I don't think I'll have the time or willpower in my entire lifespan to enjoy more than... five of them. Potter's already taken a decade off of me, and I'm only starting with Vorkosigan, so regardless of their quality, I'm retching at the sight of any other long-running series.
I think it would also make me risk-averse - if I know something is supposed to run for years, why would I start watching immediately? I don't know if it's any good, I don't want to invest in something long-running if the attention I can give to such works is a limited resource, so I'd rather wait for it to reach a conclusion before diving in. I know a lot of people that avoid series until they have at least a season's worth of episodes - and while TV shows may profit from DVD sales and streaming, movies can't afford to have people miss the box office.
Considering 'The Avengers': I saw the German press release on April, 16th (Europe gets to see the movie a week before the US) and have to say that I, as someone whose knowledge of the Marvel Universe is limited to the five movies before the big team-up, was reeeeaaally surprised.
The movie knows its roots and doesn't even try to approach the characters with a realistic perspective as Nolan did with Batman. The movie is funny, the action is amazing (Transformers this is definately not) and, probably the most important thing, every character gets at least one moment to shine and noone is only 'physically present'. There are some minor downsides (which I won't get into because of spoilers), but they are inferior to the pros. The script even managed to give Bruce Banner a reason to be there.
And yes, it pays off to stay through the credits ;)
Sure looks like Movie Bob is more of a Justice League guy.
There are some movies where the criminal wins.
One better, cast Harrison Ford as Mosses
Those tiny bits on the floor, that's your brain I just exploded. =)
Just saw Avengers about an hour ago (opened in Australia earlier, lolwut). Have fun waiting USA et al, it's about time you did for once.
There's an after-credits sequence as usual, someone who knows their stuff can tell me who the guy is because I have no idea. Edit: nevermind I googled it.
I'd love to see some well done continuity crossovers. ABC is sorta doing that with throwing the odd Lost reference into shows like Once Upon a Time (McCutchin scotch, Apollo candy bars). I think it could get abused as bad as marvel and dc did in the nineties - Infinity Gauntlet was great IMO, Infinity Wsr and Crusade sucked donkey balls.
As for the nod to Raiders of the Lost Ark in the Ten Commandments movie, I would be sorely disappointed if Spielberg didn't plan on doing that.
Shared universes for superheroes makes me cringe. I don't know why, but it always has. I just hate it completely. So I won't be seeing this one.
There is a legitimate problem with too much continuity from an objective standpoint. It could very well work with The Avengers, because the characters need no real introduction, they're cultural icons that most people who grew up some time in the last 30 years should be somewhat familiar with. Most of the people who will go see The Avengers may have seen all the previous films, some of them might have only seen one or two, and some may have seen none of them, and yet most of the people that will go see it will be able to follow what is going on to some degree.
But continuity in general falls victim to something I would call the "Anime Problem" as it pertains to television. It's hard to air anime on television because most people will stumble upon somewhere mid-way through the series and will have no idea what is going on, and the confusion will lead to people tuning it out. Since most anime have some kind of central story, it makes it hard to get a dedicated fanbase on general television. Bad dubs don't help either.
When you think about the most popular TV series, most of them are very episodic in nature, you don't need to see all the preceding episodes to get what's going on in the current one, for the most part. There are notable exceptions like "Lost", but for every one of them you have a completely failed attempt at story-driven drama like NBC's "The Event". It's also why comedies and cop dramas do the best on network television, because the formula lends itself very well to disconnected episodes.
However, we're not talking about television, but movies. Sequels to popular movies usually do garner some amount of success, but don't tend to last into the third and fourth movies because they don't tend to be that great and it just becomes harder to market it over time. But what Bob seems to be talking about here is not so much direct sequels, but mashups of characters from different movies. This has a pitfall as well, take the "The Departed + The Town" example, people who have not seen both movies will not know the main characters, and so Hollywood will feel forced to re-introduce them and re-establish their characters, and at that point why even bother?
Forcing people to watch all your other movies before watching the one being advertised might be an attractive business model, but I don't ultimately feel it will be successful unless the characters themselves are well-known and don't require a lot of background to the character, scenario, or story. Doing it on a small scale (like the Al-Quaeda idea) might work as a creative thing, but won't really draw any more people to the theaters than if they just did things the way they always did them. Bringing two or more separate plot lines together is a hard thing to do for accomplished writers and often goes wrong (as comic books have taught us), and I think Hollywood might take it out for a spin, but it will go wrong and we will go back to the cookie-cutter stuff before too long.
I'd love that future. It felt so cool when Baccano characters appeared on Durarara. Baccano is passed during the beggining of XX century and some characters become immortal, then in Durarara (today days), a different anime with different story but done by the same author, 2 of the baccano characters appear in it for a brief minute.
Wasn't something like that tried with US Marshals? You know, using Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) from The Fugitive in a movie that could have just created a new bounty hunter?
I see potential, but see more potential for abuse: trying to draw in comic geeks to a retro themed romance film by naming the characters Ben and May Parker. Besides, the home of continuity (comics) can't get it straight a lot of the time, let alone giving the task to new people perhaps bitter the only way to get their movie seen is to tie it to something more popular.
Well that's your own thing then, and I'm not gonna argue with you. But regardless of what you think, he does fall under the definition of a musician.
1. a person who makes music a profession, especially as a performer of music.
You forgot that guy from Forgetting Sarah Marshall got his own film in Get Him to the Greek. You know, that Russel Brand guy...
Well, with Evan Almighty, I saw that as the studio wanted to do a sequel, but either they couldn't get Jim Carrey or they realised that it wouldn't make sense to use the exact same characters. However, Steve Carrel's career was on the rise and he had a bit part in Bruce Almighty, so...
Since Bob said we'll have to wait two weeks for the Avengers movie, I figure this episode was made some time back and he's already seen it, so I'm looking forward for his opinion on it on this week's Escape To The Movies.
In any case, I got my ticket right here, and I won't miss this movie for the world.
Just be thankful it isn't Game Dogs or Doraleous anymore...
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August 29, 2003
After 24 weeks, body measurements showed no significant change in circumferences or skinfold thickness, except for a "modest" decrease in waist-to-hip ratio, Dr. Grace McComsey and colleagues at Case Western Reserve University reported. Their article, "Effect of Antioxidants on Glucose Metabolism and Plasma Lipids in HIV-Infected Subjects with Lipoatrophy," was published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (2003; 33;(5):605-607). Triglycerides and total and HDL ("good") cholesterol levels did not change markedly, according to the report, and there was a trend toward lower LDL ("bad") levels.
"Even with the small study sample size, we were able to show some improvement of LDL cholesterol and waist-to-hip ratio, both being very promising findings," said McComsey.
However, patients' metabolisms showed worsening insulin resistance, and fasting glucose levels increased significantly during the study. McComsey described this as "very concerning," and it "reminds us that we should always investigate vitamins/herbals supplements prior to their use in HIV-infected subjects. We should never assume that high doses of vitamins are safe. They are not safe until clinical studies prove them to be safe."
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Far too much going on here - Aine
I'm going to start this review by saying (for what seems like the millionth time!) that I really had no idea what to expect from this movie. I'd heard that it got good reviews and I'd also heard that it was a graphic novel. The only other graphic novel based movie I'd seen was Sin City and while that was gorgeous to look at, it left me cold. Movie starts with the murder of an ex hero called The Comedian. It's violent, powerful and it does indeed set the tone for the rest of the movie. The detail and slow motion are very very impressive here, who's the killer? Why does the Comedian almost accept his fate? All the questions set things up nicely. Cut to an excessively long title sequence of credits which I think are meant to explain some kind of back story but only succeeded in confusing me big time. It's 1985 and Nixon is still in power, the cold war is about to get extremely hot with the threat of nuclear war with neither power backing down. Lawlessness rules, something special is needed. Once we get back to the "main thread" of the film, things to me didn't seem much clearer. It seems there are two groups of heros, one basing themselves on the originals. What is clear though is that someone is trying to pick off the heroes. Narrated by a frustrated Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) momentum gathers but it's still confusing. All the cuts back to the halycon days of the first round of heros and the current situation and crop of heros who are based on the first and the most recent batch of heros and antiheros coming out of retirement to try and solve the mystery. I will say that the cast is impressive and the twist in the tail which I'm not going to go into (although maybe slightly predictable) is good. Patrick Wilson is unrecognisable from some of his earier roles. He's a nice foil to Rorschach. There's the almost required bizzare love triangle with Nite Owl, Doctor Manhattan (what has to be the most odd genesis story for a hero in all of comic-fom) and the Silk Spectre. Malin Akerman looks fantastic as the Silk Spectre II. Morgan is not really seen aside from the initial opening sequence and flashbacks, which is a pity because I've found as an actor he brings huge energy to all his parts. Standing back from the actual plot and cast for a second, the direction and attention to detail is impressive but the movie does begin to lag about three quarters of the way through. Running at over 2.5 hours you do begin to feel it. I think things could be clarified a little more during the movie, eventually things do fall into place but I found that I stopped caring. A note on the rating too - I noticed that this was 16s on an appeal from being 18s. I'm surprised frankly that it got away with 16s when I've seen much less graphic movies being labelled as 18s. Not for everyone.
Review published on the 16 March 2009 11:42
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disgraceful film making - Bjorn
I'm sorry if your a fan of the comic, and you can argue to me that its only for fans of the comic, but that does not pardon the disgraceful direction from our old friend Zack, it was quite amatuerish... MORE
16 March 2009 01:00
Not dumb enough for some - Godbluff
Having hated the utter nonsense that was 300 (macho posturing historical revisionist cliched style over content CRAP) - I was pleasantly surprised to find Watchmen both challenging and entertaining... MORE
15 March 2009 21:27
Jaysus... - Jim - Wicklow
...what a load of crap. Boring, overlong, nonsensical, full of its own self importance, few redeeming features. Mike Sheridan, I can normally trust you but 5* for this? Are you mental? MORE
15 March 2009 18:46
Love it - Hate it. - FoxDunner
You'll either like it or really hate it. It will be a long night if you dont like it. MORE
15 March 2009 12:53
interesting - stiophan
i thought that this film was definetley a masterpiece when it came to waht was shown on the silver screen. there was a lot of atheistic philosophy there and interesting metaphors, manhatan... MORE
14 March 2009 20:04
WOW - Thomas
Please ignore Alex who posted below and gave it one star. Alex is in the very few minority. IMHO, it's got a 8.1 rating in IMDB.com. THE WATCHMEN is about a group of fading superheroes called into... MORE
13 March 2009 23:57
What a waste of time/money - Alex
When going to see this very long(2.5 hours) extravaganza of the comic relief from hell do take some valium with you. Boring and uninspiring, to be avoided. MORE
13 March 2009 10:29
Great stuff - mrflicks
Wonderful movie. A pleasant change from your normal run of the mil predictable superhero film. Atmosphere to the acting, story to characters and attention to detail were all first class. It's a long... MORE
13 March 2009 08:47
A true master class in how to make a superhero movie. - laverymikie
Watchmen has had a long a torrid history in trying to get in on the big screen. 22 years later Zack Synder has been successful in making this into a movie, and should be given a large amount of... MORE
12 March 2009 18:33
omg rubbish no other word for it, MORE
12 March 2009 16:41
Rubbish! - Rob
Really dissapointed with this movie, too long, very boring and jesus get that blue dude mr manhattan a pair of trousers!!... MORE
11 March 2009 16:29
Leon meets Batman Begins meets 2010 meets Pulp Fiction - deprofundus
This has to be one of the most beautiful spectacles of cinema I have ever seen in my life. Each character is developed, their raison detre is shown from their traumatic childhoods and their struggles... MORE
11 March 2009 11:37
Exploitation - vinnieq
This film seems to have exploited everything from the comic to feed to a stereotype film goer's appetite. The visuals seem to be replicated perfectly; The violence is cranked up full notch when it... MORE
11 March 2009 10:26
Amazing - foz_e_bear
Amazingly filmed, amazingly loyal to the novel, amazing fight scenes, amazing how a movie can split the audience like this one! I think this is either a genre you get and love or you're lost on what... MORE
11 March 2009 08:53
RUBBISH! - jim
This is the crappiest most boring, confusing, annoyingly long and boring movie i've ever seen!!!! it didn't even make sense!!! gory as it gets but not 300 gory... this was disgusting gory. Bad sex... MORE
10 March 2009 23:44
What it said on the tin - Siobhan L
A team of superheros have faded away but regroup as one of their number is killed. They realise that something is wrong and eventually work towards identifying who the bad guy is. The movie is... MORE
10 March 2009 21:24
awful..... - Libby27
Absolutley awful!! wat a waste of 8 euro!!i do like comic book movies but this was a total waste of 2 & half hours..and wat the hell was the love scence all about with Hallelujah playing in the... MORE
10 March 2009 20:57
Watchmen (should be watch out man ) - scooby33
I went to this without any pre conceptions but it bombed big time. Looked a bit good in the ad's but that's all, the storey is trying to be dep and meaningful, it's not. One or two of the fight clips... MORE
10 March 2009 19:39
Wow...what a turkey - Watchmen Watchout!!
The script for this movie must have been added as an afterthought as it was a complete shambles. There was a lot of time spent on developing the characters back stories and the expectation was that... MORE
10 March 2009 19:35
Pointless, nasty, badly-written and way, way too long... - Ernie
This is the worst film I've seen in a long time. The dialogue is leaden rubbish ("No spelled Y-E-S" "No, no spelled N-O".) Screenwriting 101 or what?I couldn't believe how nastily... MORE
10 March 2009 16:54
C'mon... - RichieCunningham
I think this is a film that will really divide audiences; but for my money, it was smart, had depth and didn't pander to the idiots like some other crap I've set through (27 Dresses, Bride Wars).... MORE
10 March 2009 15:17
Stunning - PaulMurphy
Awesome. All kinds of awesome. Loved it. You people don't know a great film MORE
10 March 2009 13:21
Who needs a headache when this movie is 2.5 hours of sheer mental torture - Saphor
Attention Film Critics (not those who write in) - for the second time, will you come down from planet mars and wake up to the difference between a good movie and utter dribble. Im highly educated as... MORE
10 March 2009 13:11
Love it or Hate It - Keith C
I don't think there's any middle ground here, this is a movie that people will either love or hate. If you expect your superhero movies to be something like the Fantastic 4 then this is NOT FOR YOU.... MORE
10 March 2009 12:42
Frickin amazing! - Shel
I'm surprised by what other people seem to think of this movie because it absolutely blew me away! The effects were amazing, the characters complex and interesting and the whole plot was clever,... MORE
10 March 2009 00:38
I have no words - Jen
I was looking forward to this movie for MONTHS...I dragged several unsuspecting girl friends along with me. I am NEVER going to live it down. This movie was just so BAD, terrible, dreadful I think... MORE
09 March 2009 17:04
Stay @ home - Dylan
AVOID at all costs. Most of the cinema left before the end I stayed til the bitter end waiting for something to happen, it didn't. Lacked a sensible story line, a decent cast an the action it begged... MORE
09 March 2009 16:51
Dragged a little - Craig
'Watchmen' is set in an alternate 1985 America where superheroes are part of the fabric of American society and Richard Nixon still presides over the country. The Doomsday clock moves closer to... MORE
09 March 2009 15:27
what the F*&^* - Suasn - Cork
ah guys seriously!!! what the hell was that about !! i mean its like time i will never get back!!! ok so i know ive been told down through the years not to judge a book by its cover BOY was that... MORE
09 March 2009 15:01
Unbelievable that this even made the cinema - john
To sum it up, people where leaving the cinema after an hour and a half... The story didnt make sense and tried its hardest to be cool by adding a hip soundtrack that didnt work!? Overall, acting -... MORE
09 March 2009 13:01
watchmen - kev
oh my God what a load of rubbish, painful, painful to say the least. thank God I bought a large popcorn, if I hadnt been seated on the inside of a row of seats, would have left after 5 minutes. no... MORE
09 March 2009 10:50
Don't Watch It ! - Keith
Possibly the worst movie I have ever had the displeasure of watching. Unfortunatelty, I didn't (couldn't) watch the film to the end as me and around 40% of the poeple in the cinema left before what I... MORE
08 March 2009 20:28
Not as good as Batman - The Watchmen
I was very excited about this movie. I was not one of the nerds (C'mon, if you are over 12 and you read comics or "graphic novels", you are a nerd) who read the comics but I had read a lot... MORE
08 March 2009 19:20
Bangor Guy - spaceman
This movie is the most boring, confusing, hopelessly long and boring show that I have ever seen. If you want to waste the good part of 3 hours with a sore bum bone on a cinema seat, its one for you,... MORE
08 March 2009 17:09
FREAKING AWESUM MAN - Creg
i found this film to be absolutely freking amazing. sci fi rocks and so does this film man freaking awesum must see MORE
08 March 2009 16:12
Where the comic is a glossy face on pain and terror, the movie is just a pretty picture - mart1n
Watchmen, meant as the ultimate anti-establishment rebellion comic, has been infused with a big studio budget and delivered to the big screen. Unfortunately, the resulting film completely misses the... MORE
08 March 2009 14:51
too long and boring - rory
if your going to see this movie you have to love marvel , i thought it became long and boring , and as for Dr Manhattan wear pants the whole cinema where in tears near the end MORE
08 March 2009 14:20
On par with Iron Man - Cyberx_94
Starring Jackie Haley , Patrick Wilson and directed by Zack Snyder, this film adaptation of Alan Moore and David Gibbon's graphic novel is set during the mid 1980s America, superheroes are banned ,... MORE
08 March 2009 05:45
Good Movie But Over Rated - kieran82
when I saw the trailer, I thought that this was going to be great and magazines were saying this was going to be the best film of the year. I thought that its was ok. it had to much talking in it and... MORE
07 March 2009 23:53
Watch The Watchmen - musicfan
As a longtime fan of the Watchmen graphic novel I attended this much anticipated movie with some trepidation. The book covers so much ground and with so much psychological depth I worried that the... MORE
07 March 2009 17:38
Very,very good! - Prizemaker
I went to see Watchmen last night. Having been a big fan of the novel, I take my hat off to Zach Snyder because he has treated the source material with much respect. There is a huge amount going on... MORE
07 March 2009 15:49
Watchmen = RUBBISH!!! - Someone Who Wants Their Money Back!
This film was total & utter nonsense! I wish I could get those 2hrs 45mins of my life back! I was really excited about this movie coming out & I was let down so much. The worst part being the... MORE
07 March 2009 13:04
Watchmen - Bandit
When I saw the trailer for this movie a few months ago I was really excited about it. I was somewhat familiar with the comic books & when I saw who was directing it I thought it was going to be... MORE
07 March 2009 11:20
Have I seen the wrong movie - tonyb
Have I missed something just been to see Watchmen wow its so bad it propbably will be thought of as good! MORE
06 March 2009 18:55
GODD MOVIE EVEN IF YOU DONT KNOW THE COMIC - Dublin girl
Movie was good, entertaining.Quite brutal scences, would rate it 18A though. Its quite long and can be confusing if you dont know the story at all. I did not liked 300 that much and think Snyder did... MORE
04 March 2009 21:56
Watchman Trailer And Pre-Launch Hype - Danny A
I approached viewing this trailer with some trepidation. I certainly hoped this film is better than 300, director Zack Snyder's 'acclaimed' previous effort... that was a pile of utter nonsense. The... MORE
16 February 2009 21:17
Polarity - Patrick Miller
I know this is a wee bit pre-emptive but what the hell, can't hurt. While I have no doubt on the quality of the movie, I mean seriously the only way you screw that up is if... well actually there was... MORE
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Wallisch, slopestyle find fast track to Olympics
For years, Tom Wallisch's focus in skiing was more about fun than fame or fortune.
An otherworldly video and a surprise decision from Olympic leaders changed his perspective.
Wallisch, the 2012 Winter X Games champion in slopestyle skiing, hopes to be among the new faces to watch on the U.S. team when the Sochi Games start a year from Thursday, bringing with them the debut of skiing events on the slopestyle course and in the superpipe.
"The whole thing's a little surreal," the 25-year-old Wallisch said of his sport's fast-tracked inclusion onto the world's biggest sports stage. "I definitely had not expected it. But it's good news."
Well known inside his sport's circles, Wallisch does some sponsorship work with North Face and has other endorsement deals. But he has considerable ground to cover to get into the same stratosphere with, say, Shaun White, Bode Miller or Lindsey Vonn, who hopes she'll be recovered from her season-ending knee and leg injuries in time to be at full strength for 2014.
Still, the potential is there for the Pittsburgh native, even if he didn't fully recognize it at first.
Wallisch put on his first pair of skis on at age 3, learned to ski at a small resort in Maryland called Wisp and, like so many daredevil athletes in the making, spent some outdoor time doing jumps off the roof of his parents' house.
Not until 2006, when a company in search of the next, great up-and-coming freestyle skier asked candidates to make videos showing what they could do, did Wallisch truly realize his potential. In one video, Wallisch works his way down the mountain, effortlessly gliding over rails, twisting and flipping off the ramps on the slopestyle course.
"I did the video and people out there were watching it and labeling it things like, `If Jesus Skied,' and other stuff like that," Wallisch said. "I thought `Whoa. These people think I deserve to be a pro skier. I guess I could try that. I might have to try a little harder at this."'
Thus, a career on both the filming and competition sides of freestyle skiing was born.
Wallisch moved to Utah, where he had more time to work on his craft. The effort culminated in a gold medal in Aspen at last year's Winter X Games, which came only a few months after slopestyle got a somewhat unexpected invite to join the Olympics.
"We were thinking it could be another four, eight years before we ever got this chance, and we were fine with that," Wallisch said. "There were no slopestyle athletes pushing to get into the Olympics. It's something we've done for a long time and we love it."
In their latest push to bring a younger audience to their games, Olympic organizers added the ski events and also brought snowboard slopestyle in for the 2014 Games. The addition of snowboard slopestyle gives White, the two-time defending champion on the halfpipe, a chance to win another medal and entertain fans for more than just one evening during the Olympic fortnight.
"It's humbling. It's cool," White said. "If I can bring attention to the sport and help it along, that's exciting for me. Going back and doing a third time around in the halfpipe would've been fun and exciting but not nearly as exciting as it's going to be to compete in both."
With a year to go, White does not yet look like a shoo-in for the slopestyle gold. He finished fifth at the X Games, while 19-year-old Canadian Mark McMorris took his second straight gold.
A tireless worker who increased the difficulty of his halfpipe routine by adding his double-flipping, 1260-degree-turning trick before the last Olympics, White conceded after his most recent loss, "I've got some work to do in the slopestyle department."
And Vonn?
The defending Olympic champion in the downhill is looking at about an eight-month recovery once she's through with surgery on torn ligaments in her right knee. That would give her plenty of time to be ready for Russia. But her wipeout in Austria earlier this week certainly changed the dynamics of the 365-day lead-up to the Sochi Games.
"That was difficult for all of us because she's such a great champion," said her teammate and rival, Julia Mancuso, who added two silver medals at the last Olympics to go with the gold she won in 2006. "We're the same age. We've been skiing together our whole career. This is the first time she's had a real serious injury. If you're going to do it, this is the best time because she's got plenty of time to get ready for the Olympics."
At almost every venue in Sochi, the resort in the Caucasus Mountains the Russians are spending upwards of $51 billion to develop for the Games, the U.S. team will have medal contenders.
Expected to be among them: White and Kelly Clark in snowboarding; Meryl Davis and Charlie White in ice dancing; the men's and women's hockey teams; Vonn, Mancuso, Ted Ligety and Miller in Alpine; defending bobsled champion Steven Holcomb; Shani Davis and Heather Richardson in speedskating.
The addition of several events in the action-sports category will almost certainly benefit the United States, which has won 14 of the 24 medals awarded on the halfpipe since snowboarding was introduced in 1998.
Wallisch, who is recovering from a knee injury that hampered him at this year's Winter X Games, figures he'll be healthy enough to compete for one of freestyle skiing's new Olympic gold medals – one of the ultimate prizes in sports, but one that never entered his mind until the last few years.
"Growing up, I always dreamed of going to the X Games, or going out and skiing and filming for these movies," he said. "After last year and doing so well at Aspen, I reached a point where the thing that comes to mind is the Olympics. I'm a little older. I won't get too many shots at it. I'm definitely looking forward to this upcoming year."


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Few bands are more worthy of a prime spot in the pantheon of rock and roll pioneers than Fanny is. As the first all-female rock group signed to a major label, Fanny blazed a hard-won trail at the dawn of the '70s, through which the likes of The Runaways, The Go-Go's and The Bangles could follow. As is often the case with those who break barriers, Fanny garnered less commercial success than they deserved, but they were hailed by their peers. No less an authority than David Bowie once said, "They were one of the finest bands of their era. They were extraordinary … just colossal and wonderful. It just wasn't their time."
Now living in Massachusetts, Fanny guitarist June Millington remains as active on the music front as ever. Just last month, she and fellow Fanny alumni Alice de Buhr and Jean Millington (June's bass-playing sister, once married to Bowie guitarist Earl Slick) gathered at June's barn studio to re-record two Fanny classics for a much-anticipated documentary titled, Feminist: Stories from the Women's Liberation 1963-1970. June also runs the Institute for Musical Arts, an organization she co-founded in 1986 to support women and girls in music and music-related business.
Millington was – and remains -- a guitar player of extraordinary scope and dimension. Artists as diverse as Bonnie Raitt and The David Letterman Show's Felicia Collins have cited her as an inspiration, and John Lennon was a staunch admirer. Play Like a Girl, an album she recorded two years ago with her sister Jean, shows she still has plenty of riffs in her quiver. From her studio, Millington spoke with us about Fanny's legacy, her favorite guitars and what it was like to hang out with members of The Beatles.
How did you learn to play guitar?
I heard a girl playing at school, about a month or two before I turned 13. I was completely smitten. I remember thinking, "Why didn't anybody tell me about this instrument?" I knew it was a gift, a revelation from the universe. I knew I had to play guitar. It was my salvation.
How soon after that did you get a guitar?
Before my family left the Philippines to come to the states, my Mom made a trip to the southern Philippines and brought me back a small, hand-made, mother-of-pearl inlaid guitar for my 13th birthday. I was thrilled.
Was that when you began to get serious about music?
I wouldn't say that. My sister Jean and I played ukuleles incessantly before then, learning the pop hits of the day. We were doing songs by Neal Sedaka, Paul Anka, and Harry Belafonte – plus folk songs, things like "Tom Dooley." Those things went right into the acoustic guitar playing. What did kick in for us, when we left the Philippines and arrived in Sacramento, was Hootenanny – the '60s TV show. It was exploding. We started learning folk songs that were popular in the U.S. – especially Peter, Paul & Mary.
How did you transition to electric guitar?
That probably happened in 1964. A girl from another school heard about us – she played drums – and she asked if we would like to start a band. We were like, "Yeah, okay!" My dad took me to a pawn shop and got me a Sears Roebuck guitar with a little matching amp. That was my first rig -- a complete and total thrill. Jean and I flipped a coin to see who would play bass in the band. (laughs) I won, so I got to stay on guitar. We learned to play by listening to the radio and by hanging out with boys who were in bands. We were 15 or 16 at the time.
How quickly did you try your hand at songwriting?
I started writing within a few months of our move to the U.S. My first song was "Angel in White," and the second was "Miss Wallflower '62." We played that at the variety show at our junior high school, and it was a big hit with the students. The kids had sort of ignored us before then. We were from a different country, we were half-brown and half-white … you know. But all of a sudden they began stopping Jean and me in the hallway and talking with us, and smiling at us. That's when we realized we were onto something. It was a revelation.
Was there a specific turning point where you felt, "Okay, we're on our way now."
No. It was a matter of working really, really hard. It involved practicing, rehearsing, doing gigs and going to other people's gigs. Even after we signed with [producer] Richard Perry, our lead guitar player quit. That led to a year of my learning to play lead guitar and trying out various girls to see who would become our fourth member. Even after we signed with Richard, it wasn't like, "Okay, now we're going to make it." Every day was a slog. We even ended up recording our first album twice.
We were looking for that fourth member. Also, Richard was using us to break in various studios -- studios that were being built, and studios he hadn't yet tried out. He would take us in to record in the middle of the night. We learned to record – Jean, Alice and myself – with various girls who came in, as we waited to determine who that fourth member would be. When we found Nickey Barclay, we re-recorded everything and recorded her songs as well.
Did Perry ever tell you what he saw in the band that was special?
It was obvious. We were cute and we could play. We were pretty and we were confident. I mean, he just flipped out. He didn't have to do anything to improve us except teach us how to record. We knew how to perform and we knew how to dress. We could already get up onstage and kick ass.
Where did that confidence come from?
We were a self-created band. That's a really important point to emphasize. Our self-confidence had developed from the time we started buying our own gear and everything, and formed our first band. That was 1964. We got to L.A. in 1968 and were recording by 1969. That's five years of apprenticeship, of doing our own thing.
Why didn't the band achieve greater commercial success, especially when there was such critical acclaim?
The audience had no frame of reference for seeing four girls doing what we were doing. There was no precedent. Getting used to seeing girls play, and overcoming their own prejudice, took a while. We had to break through that resistance. Love and hate are two sides of the same coin. Once the audience realized they didn't hate us, they fell in love with us. We were experiencing that as it was happening, in real-time. We were the first to get in front of the public -- through television shows and hundreds of gigs and recording with Richard and going to Apple Studios. The Beatles and The Who and many other bands loved us, but it was all new. We did gigs with Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, Humble Pie, The Staple Singers, Dr. John, Rush … you name it.
Who were some musicians who helped you along the way?
Lowell George, without question. I didn't grow up in this country and I didn't understand the blues. Lowell sat me down and played me Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters. And then we met Bonnie Raitt. She came to one of our gigs in Texas right after our first album was produced. She wasn't playing electric yet. It was Lowell and me who sort of inspired her to move to electric slide. And then there's another person, a player named Joel Tepp, who really spent time with me, showing me stuff. Joel was one of those aficionados who learned every Elmore James lick and studied Robert Johnson. Those guys scared the hell out of me. It's such a whole other musical world. Few people can play like Robert Johnson. Elmore James you can get to if you work hard -- "Dust My Broom" and all that – but Robert Johnson is another matter. But those were my three basic influences for slide – Joel Tepp, Bonnie Raitt and Lowell George.
How did you come to own your '56 Les Paul?
I bought it from Kent Henry, the guitarist in Blues Image, and later the replacement guitarist in Steppenwolf. That was the guitar he used for the overdubs on "Ride Captain Ride." He called me on the road needing money, and asked if he could sell me his guitar. I bought it as a favor, and probably just let it sit for six months to a year. But once I started to get to know that guitar, it started to own me. I became gripped with its soul and spirit. It took precedent over everything else. It really is kind of the Rolls Royce or the Ferrari of guitars. It's got this deep-throated growl, but it also has a sort of grace to it, where it just plays so easily. I find myself doing things on that guitar that don't happen on any other guitar. I just used it for overdubs on this recent session we did.
And your Les Paul Junior Special – the TV yellow guitar?
I don't remember where I got either of the Juniors, to be honest. I had a Junior that I used for playing slide in Fanny, that was stolen. Our roadies were a bit remiss, and it was taken from the back of a truck at a college gig in Boston. I was so upset, but I did find another one that was almost exactly the same. I used the TV Special for the basics of these two re-recordings we just did. It sounds amazing. Each of those guitars goes to a certain place in the spheres.
What about your J-50 acoustic?
That was when I started playing with [feminist singer-songwriter] Cris Williamson. I went into a more feminist, spiritual sort of thing, with women's music. I also began working as a record producer, something that was very important to me. But something most people don't know is that I've had that J-50 since high school, since 1965 or '66. I wrote a lot of Fanny songs on that guitar. It became the love of my life.
Is it true Jeff "Skunk" Baxter was your guitar repairman?
That's right. Jeff installed the master fader on my Les Paul. That master fader is a big deal, an important part of my bag of tricks. It gives me another color. It's installed in such a way that I can access it with my little finger no matter what else I'm doing. I can fade stuff in and out while I'm playing, without a pedal.
You became friends with The Beatles. How did that happen?
We had the same publicist -- Derek Taylor – and we used to go over to his house a lot when we were in London. Ringo and George used to go over there a lot as well. The Beatles had broken up by then, and actually the two of them were pretty down about it. They would hang out in Derek's garden, and so would we. We met Paul in the studio at Air Studios around the same time, while Richard Perry was producing the Carly Simon album that had "You're So Vain" on it. Later I went out on the bus with Paul and Linda while they were riding about England on that [first solo] tour. And I met John when Earl Slick was working with him on the Double Fantasy album. John wanted to meet me and Slick knew I was in New York, so he called me up and told me to come to a particular restaurant. When John saw me walk in, he stood up and mimed playing the guitar, with a huge grin on his face. That told me everything. I was completely comfortable with him after that. I ended up hanging out with them in the studio.
What aspect of Fanny's legacy is your biggest source of pride?
I think it's the complexity of what we achieved, the whole package. We were in the trenches and we really knew we were forging the way for girls. We knew it and we talked about it, and we persevered and accomplished that. We wrote some fantastic songs and we recorded them with a diligence and concentration that's worthy of respect even now. People are revisiting that and it seems just as good today, maybe in some cases even better than how we remembered it. The light being shined on it is making it glint even more.
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Even for vision, we can't jump to conclusions when considering the appeal of plastic. Like humans, marine turtles rely primarily on their vision to search for food. However, they are also thought to possess the capacity to see UV light, making their vision quite different from our own.
Qamar Schuyler at The University of Queensland, Australia, has got into turtles' heads by modelling their visual capabilities and then measuring the visual characteristics of plastics as turtles see them. She has also examined the stomach contents of deceased turtles to get a sense of their preferred plastics. Her conclusion is that while young turtles are relatively indiscriminate, older turtles preferentially target soft, translucent plastic. Schuyler thinks her results confirm a long-held idea that turtles mistake plastic bags for delicious jellyfish.
Colour is also thought to factor into plastic consumption, although preference varies between species. Young turtles prefer white plastic, while Schuyler and her colleagues found that seabirds called shearwaters opt for red plastic.
Besides sight and smell, there are other senses animals use to find food. Many marine animals hunt by echolocation, notably toothed whales and dolphins. Echolocation is known to be incredibly sensitive, and yet dozens of sperm whales and other toothed whales have been found dead with stomachs full of plastic bags, car parts and other human detritus. Savoca says it's likely their echolocation misidentifies these objects as food.
"There's this misconception that these animals are dumb and just eat plastic because it is around them, but that is not true," says Savoca. The tragedy is that all these animals are highly accomplished hunters and foragers, possessing senses honed by millennia of evolution to target what is often a very narrow range of prey items. "Plastics have really only been around for a tiny fraction of that time," says Schuyler. In that time, they have somehow found themselves into the category marked 'food'.
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NEW LONDON, January 24, 1777.
The following is an extract of a letter from a gentleman of honour and distinction, a prisoner in New York, dated Dec. 26, 1776. "The distress of the prisoners cannot be communicated by words, 20 or 30 died every day; they lie in heaps unburied. What numbers of my countrymen have died by cold and hunger! perished for want of the common necessaries of life! I have seen it. This, sir, is the boasted British clemency. I myself had well nigh perished under it... Rather than experience again their barbarity and insults, may I fall by the sword of the Hessians."
Virginia Gazette (Purdie) February 28, 1777
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News arrived in a round-about way from a prisoner of war in New York. The author wrote it in December, then it appeared in the New London Connecticut Gazette in January. Purdie found the item of sufficient interest to republish it in the February 28 Virginia Gazette.
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Mail-order beauty and grooming services have cropped up, not just to deliver the slather-and-lather necessities to your door, but also to provide a curated collection of surprises.
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ESHRAGHIAN, Ahad and LOEYS, Bart. Loeys-Dietz syndrome: a possible solution for Akhenaten's and his family's mystery syndrome. SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. [online]. 2012, vol.102, n.8, pp.661-664. ISSN 2078-5135.
The presence of a familial disease among royal members of 18th dynasty of the new kingdom who ruled in Egypt from the mid-16th to the early 11th centuries BC has been established, largely prompted by the bizarre body shape of Akhenaten (the iconoclastic pharaoh of this dynasty) and his family, as demonstrated in statues and artwork. It had been thought previously that this was an expression of a revolutionised artistic style that followed radical reforms by Akhenaten of Egyptian society, but recent studies on mummies confirmed the presence of a constellation of corresponding pathologies. Several illnesses have been suggested to solve this enigma; we propose Loeys-Dietz syndrome as a probable diagnosis for this genetic affliction within the royal family.


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The centerpiece of this highly-anticipated mixed-used development is the Bronx Music Hall, a 14,000-square-foot cultural and educational center with a performance space that seats 300. Bronx Commons will also have 305 affordable apartments; a green roof and a landscaped public plaza with an amphitheater; and 22,000 square feet of retail. The project is being co-developed by WHEDco and BFC Partners; WXY Architecture + Urban Design is designing the music hall and Danois Architects, PC is designing the rest of the project. Construction is expected to wrap in 2019.
This Dattner Architects-designed building will bring 126 affordable apartments to Melrose, of which 37 apartments will be set aside for formerly homeless families. The project is being developed by L+M development in partnership with B+B Urban and Services for the Underserved. The building will also have a dedicated space for supportive services for mental health and substance abuse issues, a community room, and laundry facilities. Construction is expected to conclude later this year.
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Back in April, before ATT's acquisition of Time Warner (which owns HBO) was approved, HBO president of programming Casey Bloys gave the impression that the network wasn't necessarily trying to compete with Netflix. Following the streamer's massive deals for Shonda Rhimes and Ryan Murphy , Bloys said those kinds of moves "don't make sense for us because we're not in the volume business." While he admitted that Netflix's rise has forced entertainment outlets to "adjust to the marketplace," there was no indication that HBO was going to radically change its modus operandi.
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