I've been a production assistant, a stand in, a door holder for B celebrities, I sold Bill Gates a bag of organic popcorn, and once I held an umbrella for a supermodel.
There’ve been a lot of minimalist thrillers lately that get rave reviews like Blue Ruin and Green Room (coincidental naming scheme?), that just leave me feeling cold. I can’t fully get into them. And I think it’s similar to horror movies and how once you see the monster, things just become less interesting. But in these movies it’s sort of by design, rather than just an unfortunate shortcoming of the genre. Part of that raw no wasted scenes minimalism is that there’s no character development or plot aside from the inherent situation the movie is showing. So once the initial tension and build up to violence explodes into mayhem thirty minutes in, there’s nothing after that. The momentum has sort of been spent, and now there’s just a wind-down of leftover violence until all the good guys or all the bad guys are dead. There isn’t a second build up to anything.
I can’t help but wonder what Green Room might have looked like if they stayed trapped in the green room trying to talk their way out for almost the whole movie, and then maybe all of the blood and guts comes in a flurry at the very end.
Better Lobster ending: he sneaks her back into the hotel and transforms her and himself into a type of animal where blindness isn’t a problem. like bats or moles or something. and they live happily ever after.
“I have a theory on Aegon. There’s a boy claimed to be him, but there have been visions of the mummer’s dragon and many believe Young Griff to be a fake. Which you think, but if Aegon did survive, then who is he? We know this: his head was dashed against the wall, which may have caused severe brain injury. Imagine: Rhaella, Aegon and Elia are hiding a room and Gregor Clegane is ramming at the door. ‘Hold the door!’ Elia yells, ‘Hold the door!’ But then Gregor comes in and kills the women and throws Aegon against the door. Which causes him to be able to say only one thing for the rest of his life, which is the last thing he heard from his mother’s lips: hold the door. Except he misheard. What he thought she was saying is 'Hodor!’ And for the rest of his life he was able to say only that due to the brain injury. Which makes us arrive at a most spectacular conclusion: Hodor is Aegon Targaryen. He was hidden away and given a new identity for safety. Old Nan took him in her care. […]”
Aside from some huge swings and misses, this is impressive.
This spectacularly tentacular painting perfectly illustrates the fact that Moms = Super Awesome.
Entitled Contessa with Squid (oil on panel, 2011), this is the work of Omar Rayyan, a gifted artist and illustrator based on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
All of us here at the Geyser of Awesome would like to wish all of you awesome moms out there a very Happy Mother’s Day. Thank you for all that you’ve done and all that you do.
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