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V for Vendetta (Widescreen Edition)
By Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Rupert Graves, Roger Allam, Ben Miles, Sin�ad Cusack, Natasha Wightman, John Standing, Eddie Marsan, Clive Ashborn, Emma Field-Rayner, Ian Burfield, Mark Phoenix, Alister Mazzotti, Billie Cook, Guy Henry
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Summer Movies 2006
Movies
Jared Flip
An American Haunting D D+
Mission Impossible III B B
Poseidon
D+ C+
The Da Vinci Code
B-
B-
X-Men III
B- B-
The Break-Up
B-
C+
The Omen
B-
C
The Lake House
B-
B-
Click
C- C+
Superman Returns
B+
B
A Scanner Darkly
C+
C+
Pirates of the Caribbean II C B-
Clerks 2
B-
B-
Lady in the Water
B+
B
Miami Vice
C- C-
Average Grade:
C+
C+
Worst Movie: An American Haunting
It starts off in present day and then shifts to the 1800's. The way it
happened made me think that this was going to be just to build the plot
for the original character, but I was wrong. They don't show up again
till the end. The new characters are visited by a ghost and or daemon
that plagues one of the families daughters. Towards the end she has a
botched exorcism. It was dull and cliche, I've seen it all before. The
characters were so shallow that did really care if they died or not. So
here's the big finish! At the climax (or lack there of) there are some
flash back scenes from earlier in the film (The Sixth Sense) that shows
that there is no ghost at all. The father is mearly molesting his
daughter. But for that to be believable you have to just ignore the
last hour and a half of ghost and goblins. That's not a twist, that's
just stupidity.
Best Film: Lady in the Water
Before I
went and saw this I happened to check out what the critics said. Rotten
Tomatoes had a 22% for it, which is really bad. After I saw it I just
realized that the critics were just out to get M. Night because he
took a shot at them in the movie. Critics are those who can't do
themselves and are also those who are very petty. Lady in the Water is
a well crafted tale about destiny. It is wonderfully shot taking camera
technique to new heights. My favorite shot is an underwater angle at
the climax of the movie. The actors are fantastic and really bring the
colorful characters to life. I know this won't be up for an Oscar,
because we all know the Academy is petty too.
All in
all the summer was a big let down. Last year some terrific movies like
Crash, Hustle & Flow, Howl's Moving Castle, Layer Cake, and
Cinderella Man. Besides Lady in the Water there was no serious great
movie. Superman was very good and MI3 was surprisingly a lot of fun,
but The Da Vinci Code let me down too much, Poseidon was just dumb, and
the whole point of X-Men 3 was just to kill off all the characters so
there could not be another sequel. It's only saving grace was the
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| I'm blatantly copying Chillin's post. Don't point it out!
Events
* 1260 - Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
* 1640 - King Charles I of England disbands the Short Parliament.
* 1646 - King Charles I of England and Scotland surrenders to the Scottish Presbyterian Army at Newark.
* 1762 - Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
* 1789 - In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time in 150 years.
* 1835 - In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
* 1862 - Cinco de Mayo in Mexico: Troops led by
Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla.
* 1865 - In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of
Cincinnati), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
* 1891 - The Music Hall in New York (now known as
Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
* 1904 - Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics
at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans
threw the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
* 1925 - Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, biology
teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of
Evolution.
* 1936 - Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
* 1955 - West Germany gains full sovereignty.
* 1961 - Mercury program: Mercury 3 – Alan Shepard
becomes the first American to travel into space, making a sub-orbital
flight of 15 minutes.
* 1987 - Iran-Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings.
* 1992 - Wolfenstein 3D is released, the first-ever first-person shooter computer game.
* 2005 - The United Kingdom general election takes
place, in which Tony Blair's Labour Party are re-elected for a third,
consecutive term.
Births
* 867 - Uda, Emperor of Japan (d. 931)
* 1210 - King Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279)
* 1747 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)
* 1818 - Karl Marx, German political philosopher (d. 1883)
* 1869 - Hans Pfitzner, Russian-born composer (d. 1949)
* 1883 - Archibald Wavell, British general (d. 1950)
* 1887 - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1972)
* 1890 - Christopher Morley, American writer (d. 1957)
* 1908 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989)
* 1926 - Ann B. Davis, American actress
* 1936 - Patrick Gowers, British composer
* 1954 - Dave Spector, American television personality and commentator
* 1955 - Wil Harris, American drummer
* 1957 - Richard E. Grant, British actor
* 1966 - Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer (Megadeth)
* 1972 - Devin Townsend, Canadian musician (Strapping Young Lad)
* 1981 - Craig David,British R&B singer
* 1984 - Wade MacNeil, Canadian Guitarist (Alexisonfire)
* 1989 - Chris Brown - American singer
Deaths
* 200 - Sun Ce, a warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175)
* 311 - Galerius, Roman Emperor
* 1028 - King Alfonso V of Castile, León, and Galicia
* 1192 - Duke Ottokar IV of Styria (b. 1163)
* 1194 - King Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138)
* 1219 - King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150)
* 1309 - King Charles II of Naples
* 1525 - Frederick III of Saxony (b. 1463)
* 1586 - Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)
* 1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b. 1533)
* 1671 - Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician (b. 1602)
* 1672 - Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
* 1705 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
* 1760 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (hanged) (b. 1720)
* 1807 - P.D.Q. Bach (b. 1742)
* 1821 - Napoleon I of France (b. 1769)
* 1827 - Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
* 1900 - Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
* 1921 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
* 1988 - Michael Shaara, American author (b. 1928)
* 1992 - Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer (b.1927)
* 1995 - Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b. 1911)
* 2003 - Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912)
Holidays and observances
* Ascension Day in Western Christianity (2005)
* Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
o Saint Angelus (d. 1222)
o Pius V (1505-1572)
o Jutta of Kulmsee or Saint Judith of Prussia (d. 1260)
o Aventinus (d. 1189)
o Saint Gerontius (d. 472)
o Nicetius
o Hilary of Arles (d. 449)
* Denmark: Liberation Day (1945)
* The Netherlands: May 5, Liberation day (1945)
* Ethiopia: Liberation Day (1941)
* Northern Territory, Australia: May Day
* Mexico and the Southwestern United States: Cinco de Mayo (1862)
It's right around the corner. Get me something!!
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| Chillin tagged me so I have to give 5 weird “facts/habits” about myself. Here we go.
1. I can't say "your welcome". I just say "sure", which I guess is the same thing, but it would be nice if I could say it.
2. I lock the door to the bathroom no matter where I'm at. The g/f
confronted me the other day when she thought I was locking the door so
she wouldn't attack me while I was peeing. Just force of habit.
3. I would say I spend 3-4 hours a day listening to music.
4. In the 9th grade I was in a homemade monster movie. My friend Craig
and I were the comic relief. I was dressed as Superman and he was a
ninja, in every sceen you could see us in the background having a
battle for the fate of the universe. In one sceen we were thumb
wrestling.
5. I usually go 2 or 3 months without taking my contacts out. Thats probibly going to hurt me in the long run.
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Running back Walter “Snazzy Wiggles” Malone and the Globetrotters
football team humiliate their traditional weekly opponents, the New
York Jets, for the 449th straight time.
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| My Top Ten Movies of 2005
1. Munich (Steven Spielberg)
2. Crash (Paul Haggis)
3. The Chronicles of Narnia (Andrew Adamson)
4. Cinderella Man (Ron Howard)
5. Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)
6. Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney)
7. Hustle & Flow (Craig Brewer)
8. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)
9. Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn)
10. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
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