Catchup linkspam
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cleolinda@LiveJournal: Currently experiencing a DDoS attack for the past two days -- status.livejournal.org
@gildedbat: @LiveJournal pity they're going to have to set that "days without a DDoS attack" sign back to 0. They got all the way over 100.
@LJmysticowl: Russian news confirms, also says that paid accounts will be credited the time they lost due to downtime.
@chez_amanda: There's also this Time article about the attacks that I just read.
ETA: @LiveJournal: Please to say we are up and running again! Thank you, U.S. and Moscow teams, who have worked tirelessly to get things restored! Happy LJing!
So... that's what's up with that, then. I want to stay on LiveJournal, but in order to do that, I'm gonna have to have a LiveJournal to stay on. (This entry is posted on both LJ and DW. As long as I can crosspost, I will.)
As a reminder in case you didn't see it: the Made of Fail podcast with Kevin, sometimes Dayna, Mark, Rinna and me, "Mischief Managed"! If the LJ link doesn't work, this is the direct download (or you can subscribe in iTunes; it's free). You may also want to listen to the first Deathly Hallows review show ("In Conclusion, Alan Rickman" [download] ), which had just Kevin, Mark and me. Or even the Half-Blood Prince show further back that I was on! We have many wizard-based options for your aural entertainment.
Movie links! They are exceptionally organized tonight, in no small part because I have three days' worth, and this isn't even all of them.
Trailers and clips
Teaser For The Avengers Teaser Trailer Released Online.
Watch Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard & Rihanna in the exclusive trailer premiere for 'BATTLESHIP'; The trailer for the Battleship movie is like Transformers (but with battleships); The 7 greatest faces Taylor Kitsch makes in the wild trailer for 'Battleship.'
@bestforfilm: The Battleship trailer couldn't make any less sense.
An International Trailer for Fright Night.
Ryan Gosling Stars in the Trailer for 'The Ides of March' Directed by George Clooney, with poster. (It's about American politics, not Roman: "an adaptation of the Beau Willimon play 'Farragut North,' that takes place during the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, when an up-and-coming campaign press secretary (Gosling) finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's (Clooney) shot at the presidency.")
Orlando Bloom, Colin Firth and hilarious accents - welcome to 'Main Street.'
See a new generation of toe-tapping penguins in the trailer premiere for 'HAPPY FEET TWO.' Also, I love sarcasm in my headlines: Poster for 'Happy Feet Two'... Yay.
Cameron Crowe's Pearl Jam Documentary Scores First Official Trailer.
Watch the first trailer for Sundance lightning rod 'The Woman.'
The Trailer for Dirty Girl Revealed.
A trailer that pitches the "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" film as a screwball teen comedy. Also: Harry Potter: "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" Reaches $900M in Global Box Office; Wired's 13 Behind-the-Scenes Facts About the Harry Potter Films.
@marcusgilmer: god bless conan for bringing up the Harry Potter slash fan fic to Tom Felton.
We literally cannot believe the cast of New Year's Eve (aka Valentine's Day 2). Trailer, y'all; 'New Year's Eve' trailer: Five fearless predictions; If you're a movie star not in the trailer for New Year's Eve, you're probably in What to Expect When You're Expecting.
Images
New Photos From The Hunger Games; @EW: Our Cover: First look at Gale (Liam Hemsworth) & Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) of 'The Hunger Games'; Is Lionsgate over-playing their hand with 'The Hunger Games' promotion?
First Look at James Howson as Heathcliff in Andrea Arnold's 'Wuthering Heights.' Here's the interesting thing about casting a black actor as Heathcliff in a period movie: I think you can defend it textually. I went back and looked at the part where the ragged, orphaned Heathcliff is first brought home ("I had a peep at a dirty, ragged, black-haired child"; "that gipsy brat") and found a later description of adult Heathcliff as "He is a dark-skinned gipsy in aspect." "Gipsy" or "gypsy" refers most often to the Romani or Roma people, who seem to have originated in India, based on genetics and linguistics. However, "gypsy" derives from "Egyptian" and thus is something of a misnomer--my point here being, the 1800s English conception of what a "gipsy" should look like was probably fairly broad and inexact. It could mean a lot of things. You've got room, in my opinion, to cast within a plausible range of "dark" tones.
First Look At Michael Fassbender And Carey Mulligan In 'Shame,' Plus Many More New Movie Images.
@cleolinda: To repeat what I said yesterday: There are no movies Michael Fassbender is not in. There are only movies you have not found him in yet.
@caroflanagan: Yes, Fassbender is our most successful export @ the moment. He sends home money every month so we can pay off the Irish IMF debt.
Related: Carey Mulligan Says 'No Singing' In 'The Great Gatsby.'
@Twilight is very excited about THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 1 Comic-Con Poster! Oh... Jasper. Also, a sentence that actually happened: "BILL! WHY U NO CAST JAMES FRANCO?"
TIFF 2011 First Look: Pics and Posters from Francis Ford Coppola's 'Twixt.'
TIFF 2011 First Look: 'The Deep Blue Sea' Starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston.
Concept Art for Robert Rodriguez's [incredibly naked] Fire and Ice.
The Nicolas Cage Renaissance
Nic Cage and John Cusack Prepare to Take On Alaskan Serial Killers in 'The Frozen Ground.'
@cleolinda: Involuntary D: face. RT @Movieline: First poster for @TRESPASS_movie with Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage sneaks online.
@bestforfilm: Ghost Rider 2 pics are here. There's nothing any of us can do about it now.
Casting
Lee Pace Joins 'Lincoln.'
Rosario Dawson And Vincent Cassel To Join James McAvoy In Danny Boyle's 'Trance.'
Jacki Weaver Joins Searchlight Thriller 'Stoker': "Weaver joins Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode in the Chan-wook Park-directed thriller about a teen who is mourning the death of her father and has to deal with an eccentric uncle who shows up unexpectedly."
Simon Pegg to Star in A Fantastic Fear of Everything.
Production announcements
Robert Zemeckis Eyeing 'Here There Be Monsters.'
Chilean Mining Disaster: The Movie is underway.
Universal Plans The Nutcracker.
Mimi Leder Tackles WWI Drama 'All Quiet On The Western Front.'
Ron Howard Not Returning To Direct Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol.
'Divergent' author Veronica Roth reveals her hopes for casting Tris in the film adaptation.
Release dates
Paramount Moves Tom Cruise's 'Mission: Impossible' To December 21 And Sets 'One Shot' For Early 2013.
J.J. Abrams to Direct 'Star Trek 2'; Sequel Delayed Till Late 2012 or Summer 2013.
Reviews
@ebertchicago: "My review of "Cowboys & Aliens." ♫ Where the deer and the Bug-Eyed Monsters play ♫"; @SuperHeroHype Cowboys & Aliens Review; REVIEW: Great title, cool idea, but 'Cowboys & Aliens' crash-lands; Daniel Craig and the Lost Indiana Jones Joke in Cowboys & Aliens; Watch: Harrison Ford Reunites with Chewbacca on Jimmy Kimmel.
@christylemire: Believe the hype, bruv. "Attack the Block" is a blast; Review: 'Attack the Block' offers lo-fi thrills, but doesn't cut deeply; No Excuses, Here's Your 'Attack the Block' Slang Cheat Sheet; 'Attack the Block' director Joe Cornish talks about his new British sci-fi movie; Dialogue: Joe Cornish and John Boyega talk 'Attack the Block,' The Most Kick-Ass Movie of the Year; Why Attack the Block Really is The Wire With Aliens.
Review: Dominic Cooper makes wicked good Uday Hussein in 'The Devil's Double.' Related: Dominic Cooper Could Play John Travolta's Son In John Gotti Biopic.
Trailer/Poster/Controversy: Kevin Smith's 'Red State' Continues to Piss People Off; Kevin Smith explains Oscar campaign plans for Red State, defends $20 ticket price for qualifying run (to be fair, with Q&A afterward); Movie Review: RED STATE Is An Excruciating Failure. That said, even the review says that Michael Parks is amazing, so... maybe that's what the Oscar business is about.
The Smurfs Review 1.0 stars out of 5; 'Smurfs' movie will turn most viewers blue with rage; Should you see 'The Smurfs'? Our flow-chart movie review has the answer.
Review: Crazy, Stupid, Love isn't crazy enough, but at least there's Gosling.
Almodovar's The Skin I Live in is breathtaking.
@FakeAPStylebook: Mix up your movie review headlines a bit: "BAM! POW! CRASH! Malick's TREE OF LIFE A Thoughtful Experience"
The Uwe Boll Slot
We celebrate/commiserate the baffling entity that is Uwe Boll - is he the worst director of all time?
@cleolinda: #whereisyourgodnow RT @cinemablend: Full Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked Trailer Sets Sail.
@gildedbat: @LiveJournal pity they're going to have to set that "days without a DDoS attack" sign back to 0. They got all the way over 100.
@LJmysticowl: Russian news confirms, also says that paid accounts will be credited the time they lost due to downtime.
@chez_amanda: There's also this Time article about the attacks that I just read.
ETA: @LiveJournal: Please to say we are up and running again! Thank you, U.S. and Moscow teams, who have worked tirelessly to get things restored! Happy LJing!
So... that's what's up with that, then. I want to stay on LiveJournal, but in order to do that, I'm gonna have to have a LiveJournal to stay on. (This entry is posted on both LJ and DW. As long as I can crosspost, I will.)
As a reminder in case you didn't see it: the Made of Fail podcast with Kevin, sometimes Dayna, Mark, Rinna and me, "Mischief Managed"! If the LJ link doesn't work, this is the direct download (or you can subscribe in iTunes; it's free). You may also want to listen to the first Deathly Hallows review show ("In Conclusion, Alan Rickman" [download] ), which had just Kevin, Mark and me. Or even the Half-Blood Prince show further back that I was on! We have many wizard-based options for your aural entertainment.
Movie links! They are exceptionally organized tonight, in no small part because I have three days' worth, and this isn't even all of them.
Trailers and clips
Teaser For The Avengers Teaser Trailer Released Online.
Watch Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard & Rihanna in the exclusive trailer premiere for 'BATTLESHIP'; The trailer for the Battleship movie is like Transformers (but with battleships); The 7 greatest faces Taylor Kitsch makes in the wild trailer for 'Battleship.'
@bestforfilm: The Battleship trailer couldn't make any less sense.
An International Trailer for Fright Night.
Ryan Gosling Stars in the Trailer for 'The Ides of March' Directed by George Clooney, with poster. (It's about American politics, not Roman: "an adaptation of the Beau Willimon play 'Farragut North,' that takes place during the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, when an up-and-coming campaign press secretary (Gosling) finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's (Clooney) shot at the presidency.")
Orlando Bloom, Colin Firth and hilarious accents - welcome to 'Main Street.'
See a new generation of toe-tapping penguins in the trailer premiere for 'HAPPY FEET TWO.' Also, I love sarcasm in my headlines: Poster for 'Happy Feet Two'... Yay.
Cameron Crowe's Pearl Jam Documentary Scores First Official Trailer.
Watch the first trailer for Sundance lightning rod 'The Woman.'
The Trailer for Dirty Girl Revealed.
A trailer that pitches the "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" film as a screwball teen comedy. Also: Harry Potter: "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" Reaches $900M in Global Box Office; Wired's 13 Behind-the-Scenes Facts About the Harry Potter Films.
@marcusgilmer: god bless conan for bringing up the Harry Potter slash fan fic to Tom Felton.
We literally cannot believe the cast of New Year's Eve (aka Valentine's Day 2). Trailer, y'all; 'New Year's Eve' trailer: Five fearless predictions; If you're a movie star not in the trailer for New Year's Eve, you're probably in What to Expect When You're Expecting.
Images
New Photos From The Hunger Games; @EW: Our Cover: First look at Gale (Liam Hemsworth) & Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) of 'The Hunger Games'; Is Lionsgate over-playing their hand with 'The Hunger Games' promotion?
First Look at James Howson as Heathcliff in Andrea Arnold's 'Wuthering Heights.' Here's the interesting thing about casting a black actor as Heathcliff in a period movie: I think you can defend it textually. I went back and looked at the part where the ragged, orphaned Heathcliff is first brought home ("I had a peep at a dirty, ragged, black-haired child"; "that gipsy brat") and found a later description of adult Heathcliff as "He is a dark-skinned gipsy in aspect." "Gipsy" or "gypsy" refers most often to the Romani or Roma people, who seem to have originated in India, based on genetics and linguistics. However, "gypsy" derives from "Egyptian" and thus is something of a misnomer--my point here being, the 1800s English conception of what a "gipsy" should look like was probably fairly broad and inexact. It could mean a lot of things. You've got room, in my opinion, to cast within a plausible range of "dark" tones.
First Look At Michael Fassbender And Carey Mulligan In 'Shame,' Plus Many More New Movie Images.
@cleolinda: To repeat what I said yesterday: There are no movies Michael Fassbender is not in. There are only movies you have not found him in yet.
@caroflanagan: Yes, Fassbender is our most successful export @ the moment. He sends home money every month so we can pay off the Irish IMF debt.
Related: Carey Mulligan Says 'No Singing' In 'The Great Gatsby.'
@Twilight is very excited about THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 1 Comic-Con Poster! Oh... Jasper. Also, a sentence that actually happened: "BILL! WHY U NO CAST JAMES FRANCO?"
TIFF 2011 First Look: Pics and Posters from Francis Ford Coppola's 'Twixt.'
TIFF 2011 First Look: 'The Deep Blue Sea' Starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston.
Concept Art for Robert Rodriguez's [incredibly naked] Fire and Ice.
The Nicolas Cage Renaissance
Nic Cage and John Cusack Prepare to Take On Alaskan Serial Killers in 'The Frozen Ground.'
@cleolinda: Involuntary D: face. RT @Movieline: First poster for @TRESPASS_movie with Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage sneaks online.
@bestforfilm: Ghost Rider 2 pics are here. There's nothing any of us can do about it now.
Casting
Lee Pace Joins 'Lincoln.'
Rosario Dawson And Vincent Cassel To Join James McAvoy In Danny Boyle's 'Trance.'
Jacki Weaver Joins Searchlight Thriller 'Stoker': "Weaver joins Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode in the Chan-wook Park-directed thriller about a teen who is mourning the death of her father and has to deal with an eccentric uncle who shows up unexpectedly."
Simon Pegg to Star in A Fantastic Fear of Everything.
Production announcements
Robert Zemeckis Eyeing 'Here There Be Monsters.'
Chilean Mining Disaster: The Movie is underway.
Universal Plans The Nutcracker.
Mimi Leder Tackles WWI Drama 'All Quiet On The Western Front.'
Ron Howard Not Returning To Direct Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol.
'Divergent' author Veronica Roth reveals her hopes for casting Tris in the film adaptation.
Release dates
Paramount Moves Tom Cruise's 'Mission: Impossible' To December 21 And Sets 'One Shot' For Early 2013.
J.J. Abrams to Direct 'Star Trek 2'; Sequel Delayed Till Late 2012 or Summer 2013.
Reviews
@ebertchicago: "My review of "Cowboys & Aliens." ♫ Where the deer and the Bug-Eyed Monsters play ♫"; @SuperHeroHype Cowboys & Aliens Review; REVIEW: Great title, cool idea, but 'Cowboys & Aliens' crash-lands; Daniel Craig and the Lost Indiana Jones Joke in Cowboys & Aliens; Watch: Harrison Ford Reunites with Chewbacca on Jimmy Kimmel.
@christylemire: Believe the hype, bruv. "Attack the Block" is a blast; Review: 'Attack the Block' offers lo-fi thrills, but doesn't cut deeply; No Excuses, Here's Your 'Attack the Block' Slang Cheat Sheet; 'Attack the Block' director Joe Cornish talks about his new British sci-fi movie; Dialogue: Joe Cornish and John Boyega talk 'Attack the Block,' The Most Kick-Ass Movie of the Year; Why Attack the Block Really is The Wire With Aliens.
Review: Dominic Cooper makes wicked good Uday Hussein in 'The Devil's Double.' Related: Dominic Cooper Could Play John Travolta's Son In John Gotti Biopic.
Trailer/Poster/Controversy: Kevin Smith's 'Red State' Continues to Piss People Off; Kevin Smith explains Oscar campaign plans for Red State, defends $20 ticket price for qualifying run (to be fair, with Q&A afterward); Movie Review: RED STATE Is An Excruciating Failure. That said, even the review says that Michael Parks is amazing, so... maybe that's what the Oscar business is about.
The Smurfs Review 1.0 stars out of 5; 'Smurfs' movie will turn most viewers blue with rage; Should you see 'The Smurfs'? Our flow-chart movie review has the answer.
Review: Crazy, Stupid, Love isn't crazy enough, but at least there's Gosling.
Almodovar's The Skin I Live in is breathtaking.
@FakeAPStylebook: Mix up your movie review headlines a bit: "BAM! POW! CRASH! Malick's TREE OF LIFE A Thoughtful Experience"
The Uwe Boll Slot
We celebrate/commiserate the baffling entity that is Uwe Boll - is he the worst director of all time?
@cleolinda: #whereisyourgodnow RT @cinemablend: Full Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked Trailer Sets Sail.
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Date: 2011-07-29 03:14 am (UTC)My friends are a little more concerned that everyone who sees the movie will think we're another dying Southern backwater, but I have priorities, dammit.
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Date: 2011-07-29 04:19 am (UTC)TRAGEDY QUINTET
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Date: 2011-07-29 01:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-29 04:17 pm (UTC)Essentially, it’s a remake (already) of Battle: LA, but from the Navy ships’ point of view. *rolls eyes* At least, that’s what I get from it.
I haven't read the Hunger Games books (yet, they're next on my list), but I'm getting the feeling they're going to hype this up so much, that when it does finally hit theaters, fans will end up disappointed. I'm starting to feel like they're trying too hard to make it the next Twilight or Harry Potter series and that it may very well backfire on them.