Last night I watched Eastern Promises,starring Viggo Mortenson, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel and Sinead Cusak(but she was wasted in this part). It’s a movie about Russian Mafia and even more interestingly,their tattoos. David Cronenburg,the director, has been capable of great things in the past,i.e. the balletic choreography of the diner scene in A History of Violence where Viggo’s character defends himself from gangsters invading his small town. He is using Viggo again and again as a gangster who isn’t what he seems. Wait,that’s not quite right but if I explain it better I will give too much away.
In Eastern Promises(is that a clunky title or what) Viggo also has to fight off some thugs but this time he does it completely naked. For all of you who get steamed up thinking about Mr.Mortenson’s very well preserved almost 50 year old body,these scenes aren’t about beefcake so settle down. Men watching this scene will probably clench up as Viggo flies about nude with his dangly bits exposed in close proximity to knives.
Tag: films
My Head is exploding!
I wanted more work.
I got more work.
Then I got too much work with offers of more work on top of that!
It’s all repeat clients, too. Not one ad I answered paid off.To know me is to love me, I guess.
My boyfriend’s youngest brother came to stay with us right as this wave of work hit me. Since then I have barely left the desk in the living room and he probably thinks I am a huge freak. Of course I am a huge freak, so that’s ok.
I had to run out of the house today before I shot someone. I had done the dishes 4 times since I woke up. They just kept coming. I’d hoped a whiff of a clue would dawn on my roommates but it did not, not once.
It’s like they all decided that if it has tits it can do the dishes.
And then it can put the lotion back in the basket.
Even my roommate who isn’t on my team (euphemism) said “oh yeah, I know” as he put his peanut buttered knife into the sink just as I was putting the last dish on the drainboard and bitching to him as I slaved. I’m all alone with a crew of dish users. And I’ve had ridiculous fits of hatred over it.
So I ran to the haven of Macy’s where all the fall clothes live and taunt me with their higher price tags… summer clothes are cheaper, aren’t they, especially when your uniform of choice is a tshirt and jeans and flip flips. I sound snazzy, don’t I?
All of a sudden Calvin Klein has decided to produce a line of clothes I could actually imagine wearing. Almost. I tried on the raincoat/trenchcoat with flared skirt thing and felt too much of a Vivienne Westwood vibe. It’s amazing: since I pledged to try clothes on before I buy them I hardly ever buy clothes any more.
To further put off the rechaining of myself to the computer I watched a movie I’d rented last week and finally cleared time on the tv to watch it. This was only done with much passive aggressive huffing. I’m not proud but I have my ways. The film is Broken English and it was pretty good. Parker Posey stars and it’s directed by Zoe Cassavettes (sp) so her mom (Gena Rowlands) was in it,too. The lead character drinks her way from beginning to end. I was impressed.
Watch Movies,TV Online Free
I’m subscribed to the makeuseof.com newsletter which keeps me up to date on the most useful and free web applications,tools,and tricks you can find online. I subscribed for the free web applications but of course what’s really got me excited(I’m greedy and cheap) were the links makeuseof.com gave me to watch movies and tv shows.
I realize that it isn’t exactly legal…And that some folks would consider this stealing. But the truth is that out of the 7 links provided to view TV and movies off of some Web sites, only one had actual watchable-quality content.
Case in point Gray’s Anatomy on TV Links. See the impressive amount of shows? All 3 seasons(seemingly). Well, 99% of the shows I tried to watch either didn’t load at all or were way too pixelated to watch or just stopped playing after 10 minutes or so.Free sure doesn’t mean quality. I get it. But one site delivered. Videohybrid has TV shows but not that many episodes to watch.In fact only had 1 episode of GA. But the one they had was excellent quality.
I started to watch the film Captivity but found it dull and then saw 28 Weeks Later available on the list! watch it here.It gets a bit fuzzy during some parts but it is still highly watchable.
But be warned: the films they have listed that are still in theaters are the kind that have been camcorded inside the theater. Those may suck. But at least you won’t buy the bootleg DVD for 5 dollars,take it home all jazzed to watch this great new movie only to find that you can’t see the screen because it’s all black or the recorder has gotten a side seat so you see the movie at a skewed angle. And then to make it even better someone gets up right in front of the camera and blocks the screen! Save your 5 bucks.
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The 40 dollar nap (We went to see the Transformers)
1st: it was my boyfriend’s idea. I have hated the Transformers for a very long time ever since they were a product and a cartoon.Even as a pre-teen I disliked the idea that my Saturday morning entertainment was co opted by the hard-sell advertising campaign techniques of Mattell Hasbro.
But A. grew up in Israel and probably missed the ad bombardment.
So we both fell asleep.The film is overlong and is mostly just special effects.But the boy gets the car which gets him the hot girl.Stupid movie.