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Is this her?<br><img src="http://i.imgur.com/fpBFQ4il.jpg" alt="fpBFQ4il.jpg"><br><br>
Watched The Wrestler the other night. Fantastic movie. That Sean Penn won an Oscar instead of Mickey Rourke is disgraceful.</p></blockquote>
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Yep , still looks hot these days too . Not quite famous enough to have decent career but famous enough for people to sit through her movies because she will get naked. Alyssa Milano was in a similar situation a few years back too. -
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<p>Nominations are different from getting people to actually vote for the film. If you haven't seen the film, you won't vote for it.</p>
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<p>Yep, theres a whole campaign thing where they send out screeners WAY in advance, then contact the voters to check they've watched it, have screenings for members with the cast & directors in attendance, put massive ads in all the LA papers etc basically do everything they can to ensure as many voters as possible see the film. Its the sort of thing Harvey Weinstein is legendaryily good at. The Selma guys couldn't be even arsed sending out screeners on time.</p>
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<p>Yep , still looks hot these days too . Not quite famous enough to have decent career but famous enough for people to sit through her movies because she will get naked. <em><strong>Alyssa Milano</strong></em> was in a similar situation a few years back too.</p>
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<p>Embrace of the Vampire.</p>
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<p>I cannot recommend that highly enough. Well, bits of it.</p> -
The sex scenes in bound are rubbish.
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Tim" data-cid="472473" data-time="1424342097">
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<p>SHOCKING</p>
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<p>Well, that's the end of my faith in that fine production house, The Asylum.</p>
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<p>I love them so much. If I could choose one company to work at, feck Apple or Google or Tesla or Space X. Asylum all the way.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201308/sharknado-atlantic-rim-pacific-rim-asylum-movie-spoof'>http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201308/sharknado-atlantic-rim-pacific-rim-asylum-movie-spoof</a></p>
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<p>"Of the twenty-six films The Asylum will release in 2013, only five will mimic Hollywood tentpoles. The remainder is a grab bag of B-movie genres: schlock horror, raunchy teen sex comedies, raunchy stoner sex comedies, Lifetime movies of the week, and puppy-themed Christmas films. And then there are the shark movies: <i>2-Headed Shark Attack, Sharknado,</i> the entire <i>Mega Shark</i> franchise. In 2007 the team opened Faith Films, which produces apocalypse movies that closely resemble their other apocalypse movies, but with more God. "<em><strong>The only thing we haven't done is straight drama," says Rimawi. "In other words, good films,"</strong></em> adds Paul Bales, 48, the third Asylum partner, who joined seven years ago to manage operations and keep the books in check."</p> -
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The sex scenes in bound are rubbish.</p></blockquote><br>
I always wonder how, er, hard some of those sex scenes in movies would be to act out...I mean line me up with a naked sex scene with say Kate Beckinsale and/or Sophia...theyd probably be over quickly at any rate! -
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<p>I always wonder how, er, hard some of those sex scenes in movies would be to act out...I mean line me up with a naked sex scene with say Kate Beckinsale and/or Sophia...theyd probably be over quickly at any rate!</p>
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<p>I saw an interview with Samuel L Jackson last night and he was explaining its awkward apologising in advance for getting "excited" in a sex scene and even more awkward apologising to the lady involved for not getting "excited".</p> -
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<p>How do people like Roger corman and Asylum make any money? Their films are always bad and I cant recall ever seeing one being shown at an actual movie theatre, where does the money come from?</p>
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<p>I think it's a couple of things, Corman mostly produces stuff for cable now, and the stuff he produces rates pretty well. But the key is that they both produce stuff so cheap therefore DVD rentals/digital downloads/tv showings etc ensure they make healthy profits.</p> -
I recall Cormann once saying that he makes a profit about 80% of the time. But, that was before illegal downloading took off and I don't know how that affects films like his.<br><br>What's hilarious about his films is that they were once shown at drive ins. Can you imagine how it must have been like driving past while the Hot Box was showing?
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<p>This article on <em>The Burbs</em> is a good read.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://thequietus.com/articles/16396-the-burbs-overview'>http://thequietus.com/articles/16396-the-burbs-overview</a><br><br></p><p></p><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">One of the most mind-warpingly compelling near-misses of this neververse was a version of Steven Spielberg's [i]Close Encounters Of The Third Kind[/i] written by everyone's favourite Bresson-loving Calvinist Paul Schrader. In Schrader's predictably more severe interpretation, the protagonist was to be a Saul/St Paul surrogate who works for the government debunking UFO sightings before an encounter with a bright light in the sky converts him into a believer, a zealot. This defiantly theological blockbuster – and likely audience repellent – eventually foundered over a basic disagreement between Spielberg and Schrader over the director's fetish for American suburbia. As Spielberg worked to relocate the soul of the movie from the arthouse to the multiplex, the two men clashed. Schrader said, "I refuse to send off to another world, as the first example of Earth's intelligence, a man who wants to go and set up a McDonald's franchise." Spielberg replied, "That's exactly the guy I want to send."</blockquote> -
<p>The Good Lie - based on the true story of the Lost Boys of Sudan, who in war torn Sudan and focusses on a small group who end up in Kansas. Often amusing and heartwarming, but ultimately a sad story of the by-product of war </p>
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Everly - Salma Hayek kicking ass and shooting shit up Tarantino style, I liked it.
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<p>in a continuing trend of watching everything 7 years after everyone else, i watched "No Country for Old Men" last night.</p>
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<p>What the actual fuck? it was ticking along nicely. And then everything happened off screen. And then it stopped? For the first 2/3 of the movie i thought i was awesome. And then it finished and i was scratching my head wondering what the fuck i had just watched. Did they just not have any idea how to end it, so thought "fuck it, we'll do nothing and call it art"</p> -
It was about the sheriff and the world changing around him and him realising that he was too old to deal with it anymore wasn't it? All the other stuff was a side story about how drugs had transformed his sleepy border town and the money had corrupted people .
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<p>yea, i got that theme. But if he's the protagonist, then jesus they spend a lot of the movie hiding him. I could have sworn Josh Brolin was the protagonist, because i'm pretty sure Bardem is the antagonist. But from what you're saying, time is the antagonist. </p>
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<p>That's fucking stupid. </p>
