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After the awesome of 80s stuff in 'Vice City', I've been wanting various GTA games set in other eras: 70s with muscle cars and disco; 60s with hippies and drugs; 50s with early rock 'n roll and drag races; all the way back to the 40s. I've also wanted them to have GTA games all over the globe: one in Japan would be incredible fighting Yakuza; another in Russia; London with double-deckers and Mr. Bean cars and Italy with Italian Job-inspired missions and racing.

Though he's credited on IMDB for "A Kiss While Dying"...

So Dallas Buyers Club was pretty good. I'm always suspicious of acting performances involving massive weight gain/loss because sometimes it's kinda like "Oh yeah, she lost a lot of weight...I guess she worked pretty hard". This was not one of those cases as both McConaughey and Leto deliver terrific performances that would be just as good if they hadn't lost an obscene amount of weight. Jennifer Garner and Griffin Dunne were good, too. It's a good movie, albeit frustrating with the effort they have to get to just to get medication that works. And there is one scene with McConaughey and some butterflies (or moths) that is just stunning visual poetry. I enjoyed this a lot.

Let's also not forget that the Daily Beast piece was by Robert Weide, who has a picture of himself with Woody Allen as his Twitter profile, made a doc. about Allen etc. etc. so it's not like he's an impartial third party or anything. This piece also does an interesting job of attacking said article and author. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2014/02/woody_allen_s_biggest_defender_robert_weide_s_attack_on_mia_farrow_and_her.html To me, the whole thing is fascinating in the realm of the cult of celebrity. You give me just about any movie star, current or old, and level a child molestation charge against them and everyone would pile on about what a monster he is. But, for some reason, when it's Woody Allen, there seems to be a lot of blind denial (Stephen King basically called the Farrow's daughter a bitch for writing it) around it. Why is that?! I mean, if someone came forward tomorrow and said "Michael Bay molested me when I was 7!", there would not be near the level of defence of his character, except by those currently working with him, nor would be there a huge amount of "Let's wait and see..." and "I don't want to say she's lying but..." arguments, there would be a lot more "I always knew he was a pervert..." and "He should be locked up" comments.

A quick googling reveals that Kane does Yoda's voice on 'The Clone Wars'. Perhaps that's part of the "Yoda's dad" joke from 'Archer' last night, maybe he's replaced Coe?!

Was watching this episode at my Mom's when some people collecting for charity came to the door, shooed them away (Who gives at the door anymore anyway?!) and watched them walk down the walkway and look up into the window where I'd paused this episode and it was apparently the scene where they were tying up Pam and her boobs were sticking out through the ropes so it looked like I was into some weird cartoon bondage porn. "Is that a thing?"

New Sun Kil Moon is out and it's good. I think 'Ben's My Friend' is already one of my favourite Mark Kozelek songs ever, in which he complains about not being as famous as his friend Ben Gibbard (of Death Cab For Cutie and The Postal Service fame), worries about his mother, has a middle-aged moment and croons increasingly ridiculous phrases like "blue crabcakes" and "sports bar shit" and then there's some "ba-bas" and it's amazing and then sax comes in and it's the best thing I've heard in forever.

Best back-handed compliment/insult of the day: “I thought our best forward was Booth, which is good for him. That’s not good for our team, to have him as our best forward.” John Tortorella, in his first night back.

I completely disagree about the Go To Sleep, though. I've never liked the move, no matter who was doing it, because I always felt the guy selling it looked like a moron because half the time, he lands on his feet, then has to fall over backwards. Also, a big boo to including the RKO and not the Diamond Cutter which was much more versatile and exciting.

I don't want to say "Yes" but I'd give it a firm "Maybe?" Jason Momoa is much better here as charismaless giant bad guy than he was as charismaless giant good guy in 'Conan' and there's some good gunplay. The story is your basic buddy cop "You're an old man, you don't understand technology" "Yeah, well you're a young man but I'm tougher" flick. Plus Christian Slater and Adebisi from 'Oz' are in it.

I love the idea that somehow Stacy Keibler is valuable enough to be offered a "lucrative offer". I can just see the pitch: "Now, you're a terrible wrestler...and now that we're PG we can't really play up the sex appeal angle anymore, but you used to date George Clooney, so, here's a massive offer."

I'm setting February 22nd as the date, but I was still going to PM you, even if you didn't post in the thread!

From Mickey Rourke's entry: Right. Protein shakes. Didn't Rourke publicly admit to roiding up? He didn't admit to it, but he didn't deny it. When they asked if he used steroids, I believe he basically said "When I'm portraying a wrestler, I do some things that a wrestler might do" or something like that, so basically "Yeah, but I'll never admit it".

PIG FUCK! Assuming people have seen this, but it's still awesome, and NSFW, someone took the trailer for the movie 'Her' and replaced Scarlett Johanssen's voice with quotes from PSH movies. It's incredible, and does indeed use the quote you mentioned (Which is my favourite part). EDIT: Can't get the link to C+P because that never works on here for me, lately. Just google "Philip Seymour Hoffman Her trailer" and you should turn it up. I know for a fact it's on Film Drunk No love for "Charlie Wilson's War"? I have a weird love for that movie. You know, I haven't actually seen it. I'm moving it to the mid-burner, to watch after I finish with the 2013-watching.

My Top 6 Favourite PSH performances 'The Master': PSH as L. Ron Hubbard basically. He works so hard to present himself as an intellectual and a messiah, that when he snaps and screams at people it's alternately funny and sad. 'Jack Goes Boating': PSH directed himself in this, about a lonely guy who falls in love and has to figure things out for a shot at happiness. 'Doubt': He seems like such a good guy, playing a priest, that the accusations against him just cut you to the core. 'Happiness': As the lonely obscene phone caller who gets rejected by the object of his affection. '25th Hour': As the sad teacher whose friends is going to jail, he's the emotional core of the film. His flirting with his student is funny and devasatating all at once. 'Love Liza': He plays a man whose wife committed suicide, who has taken to huffing gas to cope and can't bring himself to read the suicide note. He's just staggering: alternately pitiful and sad then ebullient and enthusiastic. It's hard not to view this as a deeply personal role, now, considering his late life struggles. And, man, that leaves out a lot of great roles/characters: Capote, The Big Lebowski, Magnolia, The Savages, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, The Talented Mr. Ripley...I could keep going still, too.

That was probably going to be a Top 10 selection from me, but I think 'Pacific Rim' just bumped it out.

Hey, that's no excuse! You've got 20 more days to watch...and you really only need to put together a Top 10 anyways (Or less if you're so inclined). I have no problems with someone seeing 25 films and submitting a ballot, so i fully expect one. Even if you did, you know...*sniff*, crap all over my 'Die Hard 5' Also, just watched Only God Forgives and that is SO going on my list for being an insane, dark-as-all-get-out violent, red-hued nightmare put down on film. Amazing cinematography, amazing music, and so much over-the-top violence that it's impossible to not have an opinion on it (Even if it's outright HATE, which I've seen a lot of, too).

Hey, how did they get that footage of me attempting a somersault?! And how did I turn into a woman?!

That's what LeBrun is claiming, basically, that Mike Gillis knows his team isn't good enough to make a Cup run this year, so he's not going to bring in any rentals, will consider deals involving prospects for current players and that everyone, save Danny and Henry are available. BTW, loved the Jets beating the 'Nucks if for no other reason than in the TSN pre-game they had the absolutely awful Jason Botchford as well as Jet scribe Gary Lawless and Lawless said the Canucks weren't a Cup contender as this recent stretch has shown and Botchford got all worked up and you'd have thought Lawless insulted his mom saying "The Canucks are missing their best player (Which is true) and that their heart and soul is suspended". Yes, he really called John Torotella the "heart and soul" of the Canucks. He then went on a particularly petulant tirade about how the Jets are pretenders. Whereas Lawless' description sounded like analysis, Botchford just sounded like a baby. I like to imagine him sitting there tonight while the other writers were needling him going "Shut up you guys!"

Not to mention Thomas Haden Church and Billy Bob Thornton!

Haha. Me too! For years I would just garble out a vague attempt at his name (Matthew McConahey, Matthew MacConanney, Matthew McConahaahaeaeyahaayeyye) because he just wasn't important enough to even worry about. It seems like the tipping point might have been 'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past' (26% on RT) where McConaughey went "All right, time to start trying" because everything since then has been entertaining or interesting or good. -Bernie (Totally understated little performance) -The Lincoln Lawyer (Haven't seen it but I've heard decent things) -Killer Joe (The real big McC break-out, totally riveting as a psychotic cop moonlighting as a psychotic hitman) -Eastbound & Down (Funny) -The Paperboy (Again I haven't seen it, but I've heard things) -Mud (Amazing performance) -Magic Mike (Got some really good reviews, even some Oscar buzz in a really fun performance) -Dallas Buyers Club (Oscar nom. haven't seen it yet) -The Wolf of Wall Street (Haven't seen it, heard good things) and now 'True Detective' What a fascinating turnaround!

Yet still somehow better than Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Ah, okay, I gave up somewhere in the first season when it seemed like nothing was happening and based by comment on the first half of that season and whenever I happened to tune in at various points in other seasons.

Might want to 'Spoiler' tag that.

Yeah, but you have to watch 5-6 episodes for something to happen, at least 'Gangster Squad' gives you what you want cool dudes, hot girl, lots of guns and big ass shoot-outs in fedoras and suits all in a convenient 113 minute package. You could watch 200 minutes of 'Boardwalk Empire' and not see a single shoot-out. I don't think anyone is going to 'Gangster Squad' for historical accuracy, taut dialogue, intricate plots or even grade 'A' acting...it's just for seeing Ryan Gosling be suave, Josh Brolin be tough, Emma Stone be pretty and Sean Penn be a bad guy. Yeah, the acting was solid but it's a very forgettable movie. I watched it two months ago, and I forgot like 80% of it already. I just know that Sean Penn chewed up a lot of scenery as Mickey Doyle. Also, Robert Patrick was good. Sean Penn gives one of the silliest, most over-the-top deliveries of a completely unnecessary line of dialogue that I almost believe it's an inside joke from production. When the Gangster Squad (BTW, that's a terrible title for a movie or hit squad), infiltrate his mansion and he comes back early and it's supposed to be all tense, Penn walks in and his maid hands him some ice cream and he goes "HAWT fudge sundaaaaaaaaye" and it's so silly and stupid and completely stuck with my brother and I for weeks after seeing it, to the point he would answer phonecalls from me by saying "HAWT fudge sundaaaaaye". Also, no one mentioned the single silliest scene in the film: a squad of guys totally off-the-books being tasked with taking down a notorious gangster and his band of murderers, who decide to celebrate breaking up one of Cohen's deals by holding a daytime barbeque in broad daylight which they all attend with their families AND the chief of police! And I hope everyone in here talking about favourite films of the year are fully intending to vote in the DVDVR 'Best Films of 2013' poll. Don't worry if you haven't seen enough, or seen everything, just vote!