It might have been salvageable and decently fun, had the entire movie been about Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone’s characters. Maybe not. Maybe I could just watch Ryan Gosling do anything
The directing alternated between boring and weird. The writing was way too trite to take itself this seriously (or was it even more trite that it did take itself this seriously?)
Also, congrats on the barely having one likeable (Emma Stone) female character, who only has 3 scenes in the movie while the rest of them were portrayed as some combination of crazy, cheating, weak or stupid.
I love the show Revenge. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a dishy night-time (melo)drama that is actually incredibly well produced, directed, acted and written. I think the difference between Revenge and other soap-dramas that have come and go over the years is that this one knows itself and delivers the right balance of cleverness, camp and enjoyable characters. And Nolan.
I could watch clips of Gabriel Mann’s Nolanisms and the accompanying 800 different smirks and eyerolls all damn day. Luckily, I’ve just discovered some other like-minded evil genius made an entire tumblr devoted to his expressions. It’s so wonderful.
I digress. What I’m here to talk about today is this beach house…
This is a cast with no shortage of attractive people. And I wasn’t able to grab any great sweeping screenshots of the rooms, but this set actually upstages some of the pretty characters. I see a small detail in the background on the lovely mix of comfy, rustic and vintage furniture, the built-in bookshelves, fireplace or porch swing and it tugs at me.
I just WANT it.
I am happy to say that I do have one small piece of something that lives in the Revenge beach house already. They use my favorite mug in the show!
Oh hi, middle of January. It was time to do this 3 weeks ago. Alas, I had some priority issues over the past month – this blog being one of the things that had to go hang out on the back burner for a while.
So here’s my list of highlights from 2011:
Books
Music Some of these are albums and tunes I revisited this year, some are ones I discovered this year. Most were not new releases from 2011. Click albums to launch on spotify, the individual songs I listened to are all playable in that handy widget guy.
Albums
Songs
(in totally random order)
Movies
I didn’t see as many movies as I would have liked to this year. And I didn’t keep track of the older ones I watched (there were a lot of dvds from the library, netflix and hulu streaming this year). Here is a handful of movies from this year that I really enjoyed. I will do better keeping track in 2012.
This has been a long time coming. Doctor Who, the BBC sci-fi series that has run for decades starting in 1963, with a few breaks here and there, will finally hit the big screen after several years of rumors about a new film being in development. The BBC has enlisted Harry Potter director David Yates to bring the series to the big screen.
It goes on to say that this will be a “clean break” from the current series, so we won’t be seeing the fezes and bowties of my current beloved Eleven. And I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t want to see Rory and Amy Pond on the big screen. Mixed feelings a bit, I guess?
Waste of talent. Waste of time. Terrible movie.
