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Alright,  this is gonna look like beating a dead horse but hey. . . it's my thread, I'll shoot and skin a freaking elephant if I want to. 


@ Kadman
It just occured to me that you said David Arquette was on Howard Stern last month. Okay, seriously what planet are you from or maybe the better question is what is the timeline of the planet you are from? Here on Earth, Arquette's Interview took place in January. . . 2007, Two Thousand and Freaking Seven!!!

Gah! I am so angry at myself that I didn't notice it earlier. I promise you, If I had I wouldn't have written my last post. . . instead, I'd have replied with this -  ROTFLMAOPIMP (just in case you don't know that too, it is means Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off Peeing In My Pants).


Man! I can't believe I spent 25 mins replying a post using a flawed timeline to back its main point. What a Colossal waste of time.

No matter, this is life. . . you live and learn.

One piece of advice before I end this ^{Yep, I'm generous like that} . . . Google is Your Friend. Just sayin'

Face off
Lethal Weapon 1 -4
The Matrix (Just the first one)
Sin City
The Usual Suspect
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Dogma
About A Boy
The Princess Bride
Robin Hood - Men in Tights.
Ocean’s Eleven
Wanted (I’ve only seen it 3 times. . . does is still count?)

StephenP:
all this yoruba is killing me. What does "ala curry" mean?

Ala Curry (or in french A la Curry) comes from the same word origin as Ala carte or A la carte which means From the menu. Ala Curry means From Curry. I hear once you've had it, you'll never be the same.

kadman:
You're being delusional. Aniston never said that, Cox never said so either. David Arquette (Cox’s Husband) even said on Howard Stern last month that Pitt messed up for cheating.The only people who denied cheating where Jolie & Pitt, And what do you want them to say? Admit it?
But if you have to make up stories to support your argument, No probs

FYI the critics you’re talking about panned her performance in A Might Heart,it was also a commercial flop.
Jezz, I’m out of here.

Lmao. . . please don't go, aaah too late. Not surprised that you’d take off like that, I would too if I just made proclamations about things I know nothing about, yeah and if I just showed the world I had no sense of humor. How could you have missed the humor in Arquette's tone when he said that?! He was on Howard Stern for goodness sakes; the segment before he came on was probably on Adult Film stars and the size of the Breasts and Vaginas. . . Lmao! It's Howard Stern!!!! Jeebus, who woulda thunk in this day and age context still has to be explained. *shaking my head*

Critic panned her Performance, huh? Do you mean the Critics from the Golden Globes who nominated her for best Actress? Or maybe those from The Independent Spirit Awards who spat in her face for such awful acting by . . . err. . . nominating her for Best actress. Oh I know, it must have been the Screen Actors Guilds Critic who so disgusted by her acting, banned her from making movies by nominating her for best Actress. This little bit from Wikipedia. . . I cry every time I read it because they panned her performance so badly.

Oh the horror!!

Critical reception
The film received generally favorable reviews from critics. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 77% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 175 reviews.[7] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 74 out of 100, based on 38 reviews.[8] The film received very positive reviews from Roger Ebert and Larry King in reaction to Angelina Jolie's leading role. The film was described by Newsweek as "a movie without melodrama or movie-star lighting…allowing Jolie to deliver the most delicate, powerful and human-scale performance of her career."[b] Jolie’s performance was widely touted by top critics as her finest artistic achievement to date.[[/b]9]The film has been reviewed by, among others, Variety,[10] Rolling Stone,[11] Salon.com,[12] Hollywood Reporter,[3] and Entertainment Weekly.[13] Marc Mohan of The Oregonian named it the 10th best film of 2007.[14]

Ughhh! Why darn you TOP CRITICS! Why did you have to be so mean!!


Commercial failure you say? Okay, I give you that. I mean a movie has to make more than its production cost to be called a financial success. So since A Mighty Heart was made on a $17 million budget and it’s only made close to $50 million to date, that would mean. . . oh, oh wait look at that! $17 million, $50 Million. . . surely that is not *gasps* profit is it? Noooo! Many a producers have hung themselves because their movies failed by making only three times the amount they put it.


Finally and seriously, I can’t believe you made me do this, as if I don’t come off like a freaking obsessed fan already, now I’m gotta add this. Jeez!

This is an excerpt from an interview Aniston gave. Oh don’t worry, I’ll give you the link to so you can read and digest it.

As for what went wrong, Aniston rejects any simplistic explanation. "It's just complicated," she says. "Relationships are complicated, whether they're friendships or business relationships or parent relationships. I don't think anybody in a marriage gets to a point where they feel like 'We've got it!' You're two people continually evolving, and there will be times when those changes clash. There are all these levels of growth—and when you stop growing together, that's when the problems happen."

Friends say that it was always difficult for Aniston and Pitt to maintain the intimacy they craved while juggling their demanding work schedules, which often required long separations. Those tensions notwithstanding, Aniston believed her marriage was the real thing. "We both did," she says.

So what happened? "I think—it changed," she says haltingly. "We both changed."

She sighs again. "You do the best you can, and I think we did. We did the best we could."

Both of them? She looks me straight in the eye. "Both parties," she says.

But nagging questions remain about Pitt's conduct during the months leading up to their separation.

"She was committed to the marriage," says Bendewald. "He wanted to figure out who he was and what he wanted, but he seemed to want to do it without being married. She wanted him to figure out what he wanted and stay married. He didn't think he could do that, so at that point she was like, 'O.K., go figure it out.'"

Throughout that period, Pitt insisted that his relationship with Jolie was not the cause of his marital discontent, but his actions since the separation have suggested otherwise.

"I just don't know what happened," Aniston admits. "There's a lot I don't understand, a lot I don't know, and probably never will know, really. So I choose to take away with me as much integrity and dignity and respect for what that relationship was as I can. I feel as if I'm trying to scrounge around and pick up the pieces in the midst of this media circus."

Does she buy Brad's claim that he didn't cheat on her before they separated? "I choose to believe my husband," Aniston says. "At this point, I wouldn't be surprised by anything, but I would much rather choose to believe him."

Their friends are still trying to parse what happened with Jolie. "I don't think he started an affair physically, but I think he was attracted to her," says Courteney Cox, who vacationed with her husband, David Arquette, and the Pitts on Anguilla just before they announced their separation. "There was a connection, and he was honest about that with Jen. Most of the time, when people are attracted to other people, they don't tell. At least he was honest about it. It was an attraction that he fought for a period of time."

http://www.vanityfair.com/fame/features/2005/09/aniston200509


Oh do come back after you've seen WANTED. I'd love to know what you thought of the awesome movie and don't worry I'll be providing the tea and cookies. What can I say. . . I enjoy talking about splattered brains over a cup of hot Lipton.

Ta Ta

iice:
[color=#9900ff]you'd be surprised at how many are still mad at the whole Jen/Brad/Jolie thing.
Jolie is said to be in the hospital now read to give birth to the twins. [/color]

Tell me about it *Rolleyes*

I have this co-worker and I promise you, until I saw a picture of her husband (well ex-husband) I thought for sure she was married to Pitt with the way she'd rant and rave, cursing Jolie, Pitt and their Children (yeah, no mercy for the kiddies). At first, I thought it was funny but after awhile . . . err. . . let's just say no one would pay me to go with her to a dark alley. Seriously! Insane does not even describe it. I keep thinking . . . okay, celebrities get divorced everyday, so what is the big deal with this particular one? Still haven't gotten an answer.

Funny enough, it was because of my Loony Toon co-worker I became interested in Jolie & Pitt as a couple.

Anyway, I wish Jolie a quick and safe delivery.

kadman:
So one has to be middle divorcee or teenage girl to believe a man should not cheat on his wife ?? Hmm okay,i'll keep that in mind.
As for her performances she was great in Girl Interrupted. But less than average in all the others I have seen which are A Might Heart & Gia. You obviously are a big fan and would probably be biased.

I'm not even going to get into the debate on whether he cheated or he not. . . let's just say I believe HIM when he said he didn't cheat, I believe HER when she said they didn't cheat, I believe Cox (A close friend of Pitt and Aniston) when she said he didn't cheat but most of all. . . I believe ANISTON when she said he didn't cheat on her, sure he felt an attraction and he was honest with her about it. I believe ANISTON when she said their marriage was practically over and that the year before they announced their divorce, they had only spent 6 months together because they were on a trial separation. So I find it odd that someone who has no inside info on the happenings of the marriage, would choose to ignore what the people IN the marriage have said and decide to make himself Prosecutor, Judge and Jury.

Jeebus, so much for not getting into the debate. Oh well, what can you do, eh?

Oh yeah I'm a fan but I'd like to think I recognize GOOD work when I see it and apart from that, I'd also like to think ALL the Movie critics who praised her in the aforementioned movies know a thing or two about. . . you know movies and what good acting is but hey, that's just me.

texazzpete:
*sigh*
If not that i'm just coming back from a ban 'for calling someone daft', i'd have used harsher words to reply you.

However, in the spirit of mildness, i enjoin you to please read the original post clearly. He needs someone in Lagos and Ogun. Kano didn't come up for discussion at all.

Good luck in your search sha.

LMAO! Your restraint should be rewarded.


@ Topic

*Sigh*

What I'd give to be in Sango Ota right now. It's just not fair I tells ya. Oh well not much I can do but wish whoever gets the job the very best. It sounds like it would be an amazing opportunity. . . enjoy it.

TOH:
Pitt belongs with Jolie anyway

Thank you ooh.

I just saw on Yahoo that she's having (or has had) their twins but who knows with all these news/rumor mongers. Nobody does fact checking anymore.

kadman:
Wow, I never liked Jolie because of the Aniston/Pitt drama but I can't wait to see Wanted,i prefer her in shoot em ups, That's her forte. Silverbird said they would be showing it later this week,so I'm impatiently waiting.

Okay. . . no offense or anything but the only people who I know are interested in this drama are middle aged divorced women who think the world has done them wrong.

or

Teenage girls who grew up watching Friends and believe now Aniston is their BFF Rachael Green

. . . so which are you?

By the way, she was Excellent in Gia, Girl Interrupted, George Wallace, A Mighty Heart. . . All non action roles.

TOH:
Lol as am I

Wanna see TDK but not HellBoy

There's his movie called "Poughkeepsie Tapes" im interested in

Really? I'll have to look into that. Is this a new movie?

How does one deal with it? Simple. . .

Snip, Snip, Cut, Cut. Voila!

Game, Set, Match.


or you could just not sleep with her. Duh!

I am arrogant like most Nigerian

Hubba! Hubba! Be still my beating heart!
You had me at Arrogant!! Where do I sign up?

justkunmi:
Now I must see this movie!!!!!!!!!!!. .
You guys are tearing me heart out. . .

And we will keep at it until you see it!!!!

TOH:
Didnt think I would enjoy it Sisi as I'm not big on action movies

But I was throughly entertained and would recommend it to anyone. Some critics (fan boys of the comic) complained it was a complete 180 of the comic which is GOOD since the main dude in the damn movie was actually a supervillian who killed and raped people randomly. and the moral was "humans can be evil" Abegi. Why would I want to watch that?

Good movie. B+

Hey can someone tell me Fox's story again, how did she get in the Frat again, I'm trying to remember but I can't.

Lmao. . . fan boys are never happy with anything. When Variety first said they were making a Wanted movie, everyone was a bit skeptical, they didn't think people want to see that kinda of movie. When they said they were moving away from the comic. . . everyone was all up in arms. It was like, Okay whay do you want?? I'm glad it worked out though.

Did I say I was bit slow? Okay, that was an understatement. So I'm reading my post again and I see Naughty Boys. . . I start thinking to myself, have you finally lost it? What is Naughty Boys in this talk? I scroll back up because I am certain you (iice) wrote the Hac'kers and that's when I say your script thing. Jeez! Seriously though. . . is that a new lingo? Hac'kers = Naughty Boy? Since When? Ahh, never mind.

iice:
[color=#9900ff]rofl sisikill You know that scene in the beginning, the elevator thing and the hallway - yeah there are some stuffs like that in those movies i mentioned. Am thinking he'll take over the wachowski brothers and probably john woo.
There is poetry in the way he shoots he scenes.[i] *sigh[/i]* - i think he'll revive the action genre (it's been getting boring) I love the curving bullets!!!
Hah i feel you, i watched it (SATC) though because a) i had to escape someone and b) i loved the series, so i wanted to see what they did with the movie.

Now am waiting for Hancock, Hellboy and TDK. I can tell you'll be in love with this movie for a long time Lemme know though what you think about the Nightwatch/Daywatch movies.[/color]

Exactly!!! Every frame was delicately handled. . . he did say he spent more time in the editting than they did in the shooting.

Wachoski Brothers? Huh? John Woo? Who? Do those ones still exist? I'm sorry but they are all for me now.

I'm waiting for Hellboy and TDK (They said Heath Ledger was a mean The Joker. . . can't wait to see that and let's not forget the morbid curiosity factor.) Hancock, I've not made up my mind on.

You are my new hero!!!
. . . After Timur of course. I have a good mind of youtubing his movies just to see the scene you described, I can't wait to get the movies. Every critic is going on about how curved bullets will be the in thing now for action movies. It's all in the wrist. . . they say. LOL. I'm so happy for him, you'd think he was my daddy. $51.1 Million in the opening weekend for his 1st American Movie. That is a MAJOR fete and to think it went toe to toe with Wall-E, a family movie. OUTSTANDING!!!


I liked Hac'kers, it took me awhile to connect this Jolie to Hac'kers . . yeah, sometimes I'm a bit slow. The dragon on her back. . . seriously, when I get the liver that's what I want.

Honestly, It's so hard trying to find another girl who likes action movies. My God, during the whole SATC hoopla, I almost slit my throat. Every girl I know went MAD and i just couldn't get it, I supposed I gave them the same look they are giving me right now. LOL.

onyinye2:
@sisikill

how can we help them when they don't want to acknowledge it?? and plus to help them they gotta except the fact that they are among a new generation of women. that they can't see us as their inferior but their equal and right hand.

You know what, forget the stubborn ones jare, we have the money. . . we'll get ourselves Trophy Husbands. By the time the stubborn he-goats have trekked in their patch-patch slippers. . . they will be begging to be married.

TOH:
I'm a miser so I think at the dealership, I'll just give him a pacifier so he can shut the hell up

Aaah, you are hard, even though I see where you are coming from. I mean the moment he gets his own beemer now, he's start dengying all over the place but there are ways to curb that. . . just tell him any slight misbehavior, you will cut his allowance. Let's see him try to keep up the lifestyle of a beemer owner on $700 a month.

Ladies! Ladies! Ladies! Please, don't argue with the men. We now know what their problem is. . .  not that we didn't but it's been officially confirmed.

The next step is helping them work through their insecurities. Instead of getting on their cases, let's reassure them that when we go on a spending spree with our money, we will include them. Tell them the next time you go to the BMW Dealership, you'll get them their very own Beemer too, in fact you will do His & Hers Beemer.  

ROTFLMAO. . .  the entire article read like a long joke and this was the punchline

Over successful’
Bankole Adelani, a staff of one of the GSM providers told Sunday Sun that the real reason is that a bunch of the old spinsters are damn too successful. “Imagine the girl you love owning her own house, a big jeep plus other cars, has a steady job and flies in and out of the country. Man, the whole thing is intimidating. How can you measure up with such a high flier?” he asked and sighed deeply with resignation.

He's right you know. . . I mean ladies, now is the time to be honest with ourselves. You guys might hate me but I will say my own oh.

Haba, Why would we want to. . .

1) Do an amazing job and get promoted when we can sit on your behind all day doing a shitty job while stuffing our faces with Boli and Epa. How can our future husbands treat us like useless appendages if we make our own money, eh? Come on now, it's just all sorts of wrong.

2) Live in the privacy of a nice bungalow or flat when we can have live in a face me, I face you block of flats, which comes with the added pleasure of listening to Iya Basira screaming at Basira for burning the 10 day old soup. . . the smell you try desperately not to choke on.

3) And seriously, where is the fun in opening your garage, getting into your well serviced car and driving off, when you can throw your purse around your neck, fold your wrapper between your thighs and jump into a moving molue, as you fervently pray the perverted conductor does not handle your breasts and that today will be the day you get out of the bus without reeking of sweat, BO and stale beer.

Aaaah! Now that is the life! Hmmm break me a piece of that ASAP!!!

Thanks OP for posting this article, it confirms exactly what some of us have always thought. . . Men are insecure.

More please  

*gasping for breath*

You. . . you've seen his work? Seriously, where have I all this time and how did I miss the awesomeness that is Bekmambetov?? Gawd and I thought I've lived. I've added him to my netflix line up.

Jolie KILLED it! Everytime her fingers left the trigger, I got just a little dizzy and the red sport car. . . that should have gotten a its own billing.

Angelina Jolie - Fox
Morgan Freeman - Sloan
And Appearing as itself - Red Sports Car 

I thought Jolie was okay as Lara Croft but I started paying real attention after Mr. & Mrs. Smith but this. . . she knocked it out of the ball park. She's officially my #1 Actress, she's got range. . . it's not even funny. Changeling should be interesting, especially with Clint Million Dollar Baby Eastwood at the helms.

All in all, This year will be a buffet of good movies.

Glory be to ye movie gods.

tapping fingers on table, impatiently

Oh come on! Surely, there's are more people who enjoy watching bullets rip through flesh in slow mo!

debosky:
you aren't slowit IS pointless, relating a snippet of a story about being asked out by a naija guy, then getting back to her surreptitious motive - bashing naija men. some dude asked you out, no details on the guy, but we get the life story about some person out there who has no bearing on the man in question. Rubbish.

Oh, okay then.

Thanks.

Hafta remember to always go with my first intincts.

Okay, maybe I'm a li'l slow on the uptake but I don't get the topic.

Yeah, Yeah. . . browse internet for free. Got it.

Have you seen WANTED?

Mesmerize:
Haven't watched it yet, but will later on

Oh my God! Hurry, Hurry please. . . Hurry!!!!

And seriously, I have no stake in the movie.

pein:
WANTED best movie ever!!!!!!!!!
seriously this movie has it all,had a nerdgasm a billion times while seeing this,it's that good

LMAO. . . Nerdgasm? I like it!!! Don't know if that's was what I was feeling but I left the theater with a heady feeling. . . almost euphoric.

Another Critic called it - Revenge of the Nerds!!! LMAO


IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN WANTED. . . GO STRAIGHT TO THE THEATER.
Do not pass go
Do not collect $200

Oh just when I think I'm out. . . WANTED pulls me back in. Okay, last post until someone else posts. . . I promise!


Question - Do you think Angelina Jolie is the last Female Action hero?


The critics seem to think so. . . and I agree with them. If you don't, which other actress do you think could have also played Fox?

By the way, kicking butt in 6-inch Louboutin heels? Can they come any more badass than that? I think not.

In these days of Sex and The City. . . It's nice to see heels being used in ways, other than just standing in front of the mirror preening (not that there's anything wrong with it. )

A quote. . . paragraph. . . whatever you want to call it from Sloan the head of the fraternity, delivered with such aplomb by the incomparable Morgan Freeman


[I]It a choice, Wesley, that each of us must face: to remain ordinary, pathetic, beat-down, coasting through a miserable existence, like sheep herded by fate, or you can take control of your own destiny and join us, releasing the caged wolf you have inside. Our purpose is to maintain stability in an unstable world - kill one, save a thousand. Within the fabric of this world, every life hangs by a thread. We are that thread - a fraternity of assassins, weapons of fate. This is the decision that lies before you know: the sheep, or the wolf. The choice is yours.[/I]

CHOOSE YOUR DESTINY!!!


And no. . . I don't have a stake in the movie, well except you want to count the dream I had last night, in which I was Timur Bekmambetov's #1 Student.

[I]*Dreamy Sigh*[/I]

It had tears
It had sweat.
It had spilled guts
It had shattered skulls (Reversed bullet?!! Oh ye movie gods! I died and went to heaven)
It had runway trains
It had out of control cars.
It had rooftop shootouts
It had bullets in slow mo
It had curved bullets
It had Chicago (Sorry gotta recognize)

And it was BLOODY wonderful!!!

One critic called it a MAGNIFICENT MAYHAM (Ya darn skippy it was)

Another called it SADISTIC AND VULGAR (Be still my beating heart)

If you've seen the Movie WANTED, let's talk.


PS
My new movie god is Timur Bekmambetov.
I worship at thy humble feet Timur!!


PSS
Oh yeah. . . WANTED is being touted as the movie to put Blu Ray on the map. It will do to Blu-Ray what The Matrix did for DVDs. . . they say.

Thoughts?