Movie talk

Oh my fucking God Argo won best film! I'm so happy, I really thought it was the best one, but was so sure they'd pick Lincoln because 'Murica that I had no hope. Good job!

Argo is so much more a 'Murica film than Lincoln.

To wit:

• In Argo, The Good Guys go over to Commie Heathen Bastardlandia and totally fake out the Commie Heathen Bastards.
• In Lincoln, The Good Guy goes to watch a play and gets shot by surprise.

QED.

Hahaha if you put it that way... Still, I loved both movies, Daniel Day-Lewis is the better actor by far, but overall I liked Argo more.

I'm glad Mychael Danna won for Life of Pi, he makes amazing soundtracks. Although to be fair The Hobbit had a much better one, but I don't know if it was nominated.

I watched the first 45 minutes of Lincoln, but I thought it was boring. I'm not sure I'll bother watching the rest of it.

I listened to the radio this morning, and they talked about how Life of Pi won several oscars, and the correspondent that was present at the Oscars was all like: "Life of Pee, Life of Pi, not sure how to pronounce it..." Of course it's not Life of PEE, you dumb twat.

It's got a shocking twist ending.

I'm thirty minutes into Silver Linings Playbook and I can see why Jennifer Lawrence might've deserved her award. That is exactly the way a person with borderline acts.

Okay, I don't know if it's just because I had a dream where Daniel Day Lewis as Lincoln was my boyfriend or what but I swear that Lincoln changed me as a person! I love that film. I have been way more tolerant and thoughtful since my night with Lincoln. I loved it, I thought it was beautiful and that DDL was amazing and Tommy Lee Jones was awesome. I was also majorly depressed that Lincoln was shot (obviously I knew that happened but I mean after the film it hit me worse) even though he would be dead anyway and briefly went into a horrible depression where I couldn't see the point in living in a world where this stuff happens. I loved it. I haven't seen Argo but I can't imagine feeling that strongly about it.

They're doing an Oscars contest at work and i nailed it on 9 out of the 10 categories they had posted. The only thing i got wrong was best director.

Who did you think would get Best Director?

I think I'm going to go see Arbitrage when it comes out on cinema over here. The trailer made me nostalgic for 80s thrillers.

Well i wasn't sure because Argo was the only movie i saw this year and it wasn't even up for best director. I Googled it and went with Spielberg. My instinct said Ang Lee because he usually wins but i listened to Google instead.

I haven't seen Silver Linings Playbook yet but I read the book last weekend and it seems fairly different from the film. Jennifer Lawrence's character doesn't have a distorder persay - she's just extremely depressed and acts out inappropriately because of a tragedy she experienced. Also, the things Robert Di Nero says in the film trailer are not anything like father in the book. He's the least involved character, a grumpy, angry man who says very little. It was a great book, though.

Last night I watched The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Argo. Both were fantastic. The whole time I was watching Perks I was thinking about how good it was, then the end came and that made it great. I don't think the movie got a lot of attention, but it got good reviews and was really great. I mostly watched it because I wanted to see Emma Watson in a roll other than Hermione Granger. Her accent was a little funny at times, but she was really good.

Argo was good. Really good. But it shouldn't have even been in the top two. If it wasn't Beasts of the Southern Wild, it should have been Lincoln. Hollywood politics, man.

I haven't seen Lincoln, but I though Argo was better than Beasts of the Southern Wild.

I loved Argo but i don't think it was best movie of the year even though i haven't seen the other nominees. Actually, i liked Looper a lot better and it wasn't nominated for anything.

I LOVED Perks of Being a Wallflower. Read the book first and it's very faithful. I also saw Shutter Island this morning. Really powerful movie.

I thought Shutter Island was so dumb!

Oh wow I just remembered a thing. This film Dream House was on telly so we watched it thinking it was a haunted house film but it was sort of like Shutter Island.
I'm going to ruin the film here but that's okay because never watch it, it's shit, really shit.
They show the guy his old hospital wristband to prove he's not who he thinks he is and he created a new identity and they say, "Look here," the wristband says "W1ll" and they say, "That's where you got the name Will from. And here," it says "8-10-10" and they're like, "Atenten, Will Atenten" and then we both laughed until we almost died. What a twist!

I don't remember them every talking about Jennifer Lawrence's character having a disorder in the movie. They only ever talk about the medications she was on, and I would say that her performance matches your description.

And yeah, the father sounds way different. In the movie, they gave him his own sort of minor dysfunction, too.

Watched Rubber yesterday. It was one of my favorite things I've seen in a long time. Not sure what to really say, it was quite different.

Jennifer Lawrence's character is textbook borderline (avoiding abandonment - her husband's death, alternating between idealisation and devaluation of other people, unstable self image - the 'I may be a whore but at least I like that part of myself', lots of casual sex, affective instability - this you may have noticed, she does it in the first 5 minutes, poor anger management). They don't even have to say it. But I think I read it in a review, too.

Borderline what? Is there a second word to that kind of diagnosis?

I just don't think I've ever heard anyone as having something just called "borderline".

I think I read somewhere that the directer didn't expect to cast her and only let her audition to be nice. She was like a lot younger than the character was supposed to be so they had to change it for her.

Yeah, in the book she was older than the main character, and he was 35.

Borderline personality disorder. It used to be regarded as the borderline between neurosis and psychosis, but now they wanna call it emotional dysregulation disorder and move it to Axis I, which means a clinical disorder and not a personality one. We'll see when DSM-V comes out this year.

Ah....okay, thanks for explaining.

I heard they took Assburger's out of the DSM V and now it's just listed as part of autism.

Says the guy from Cornhole, TX.

There's a new DSM coming out this year? I'm excited.

Yes, apparently it's just got the APA approval or is about to one of these days.

I don't claim residence there unless i have to.

It will be interesting - Which Special Interest will be angered that their Thing is not considered a disease anymore? Which Special Interest will be angered that their Thing now is?

Yay politics!

I can't wait to read it. I have the DSM-IV but have only read the chapters I was most interested in.

I saw Sleepers today, damn powerful movie, and California Dreamin' (Endless), the first movie that won an important international prize and that paved the way for the award-winning Romanian New Wave films. It won the Un Certain Regard the same year 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days won the Palme d'Or. I'd like to see that one again some time, but I can't forget watching it at the cinema, in a half-empty hall, and seeing the aborted baby on a huge screen.

No one reads all of it.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/how-well-do-you-know-back-to-the-fu...

Flight was really good. My friend's sister said on Facebook that she cried "about 12 times" though, which i don't understand. It wasn't that emotional, just a little bit. What a puss.

Yeah Flight was great! I can't think of any bit that was actually weepy though.

I got 9 out of 16.

Better than I expected.

Netflix is taking votes for their awards for their streaming shows/movies.

theflixies.com

I only scored a 50%

I didn't even get that!

This is coming out in March, from the Korean director of OldBoy.

Yay.

I got 6 out of 16 for that quiz. Terrible!

14 out of 16. I'm so ashamed. I got one word wrong on the question about what the name of the group that wants to save the clock tower is and I was torn between the 25th and 26th on which day of the month Marty comes from.

4/16.

newgirl wrote:

This is coming out in March, from the Korean director of OldBoy.

Yay.

Did someone here post the trailer for that or did I just dream it happened?

Watched Attack the Block. Very entertaining.

Nicole Kidman has destroyed her face, and I'm mad at her because of it.

She hasn't had surgery has she?

Stoker is out here tomorrow. We're having steak and Stoker night. It's going to be amazing.

I think she just botox'ed the hell out of it.