(Was really Sherlock series two, but that was a continuation of Sherlock series one.)
Anyone care to step up to the plate?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
I'll let you know when 2012 has ended, but since a quarter of the year is left, I'm going to defer for now.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
Those are the sorts of things that people without small children have the luxury of enjoying...
Movie:
The Iron Lady
It was the only adult movie I saw this year, thought it was pretty good...(I plan to watch Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy and compare it to the book and the Masterpiece Theater Alec Guinness version...Though I have to say, as good as Gary Oldman is, I have a hard time imagining him being better than Alec Guinness...)
The next film on my schedule to see in a theater is Tim Burton's latest Halloween opus, Frankenweenie... we're checking that one out next week...
Book:
You mean aside from the Ted Geisel and Beatrix Potter books?
Not many...
Made time to read PJ O'Rourke's Holidays In Heck....
Movie: The Lorax (honourable mentions for Man on a Ledge & Safe House). But of course “The Hobbit” is going to blow away everything else
Book: “Murder at Morija” (non-fiction). OK so it was published in 2003 but it’s new to me. The death of a missionary in Lesotho from poison mushrooms (all 6 at dinner got ill) in the first part of the 20th century has remained a mystery. Tim Couzens book examines the evidence and comes to a conclusion – but not before a wonderfully leisurely excursus into the interactions of Protestant French missionaries with King Moshoeshoe (Mo-shway-shway), his land, his amazing mountain (Thaba Bosiu) and his people from 1820 onwards. That Mosh was some kind of man.
Music: Old Ideas. Leonard Cohen. There was no other music.
TV Show: well this is South Africa so 2012 brought us the first series of "A Game of Thrones". It also brought a spate of disgusting American sit-coms of peculiarly virulent crudity (Modern Family, Happily Divorced and the ilk). Thankfully 'The Amazing Race' remains a good show.
Meade
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Movie: none. Not a big movie guy, haven't seen anything new.
Book: So far, I have to give Catching Fire (second Hunger Games book...first was very good but not as good, the third, Mockingjay, was lousy) the nod...though being a bit more than 50 pages into Eric Flint, Paula Goodlet, and Gorg Huff's 1636: The Kremlin Games, it is showing a great deal of promise so far. Caveat: I am expecting new books from Clive Cussler, Harry Turtledove, and Jim Butcher before the end of the year.
Music: nothing of note.
TV show: don't watch broadcast TV, though I am about halfway through season 6 of Star Trek: Voyager on DVD.
The next film on my schedule to see in a theater is Tim Burton's latest Halloween opus, Frankenweenie... we're checking that one out next week...
Jim, just to be geeky for a second... Frankenweenie is not Tim Burton's latest, but his first... he did a short version live action, as a student project
(no joke). Hollywierd can't get enough of him for the Spooky Season, I guess...
The Original;
Published on Mar 3, 2012 by kassard1
I saw this as a child as a pre-show to a movie in the cinema
(yes back in the days when smoking was still allowed, ice-cream treats were sold from people walking around with trays of goodies and movies had cartoon and short movies before the main presentation - shut up no I'm not that old thanks)
I don't remember what the main movie was mind but I remember watching this and falling in love with the breed of dog that Sparky was (Bull Terrier?). I laughed and cried and for many years after wondered why I never saw or could find that movie again UNTIL the AWESOME Nightmare Before Christmas was released on to DVD and there in the extras was this film.
Watching it again was amazing and awful. Amazing as I loved this film so much but awful as it was obviously not given the chance to do everything it wanted ... til now, 2012, Tim Burton is releasing Frankenweenie as an animated film and I am beyond excited!!!
October 5th can not come quick enough!!! The trailer can be seen in one of the other uploads I've added and I'm so psyched for it.
I love that they have used the dog from the cartoon Family Dog (also Tim Burton's creation) and the boy (Victor) looks familiar to another character he has used but I can't quite figure where. (Maybe he just looks like a younger version of Victor from Corpse Bride *shrug* I haven't quite decided.)
Please do give this a view as it is such a great little film and deserves to be seen before the animated version comes out.
loCAtek wrote:So, I have it: the Hunger Games is all about children killing each other!?
(ed. to add "The movie version is) sort of "Predators" with better actual production values and children instead of adults. Both highly derivative
Meade
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For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Book: I don't think I've read anything newly published this year so I'll give it to rediscovering Robert Rankin's Brentford Trilogy after a few years of neglect.
Music: Nothing has really grabbed me this year. The Script have probably come closest.
TV show: Toss up between Modern Family and Life's Too Short.
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
Eagerly anticipated by aficionados, who knew the original Studio creditors of 'Avatar: The Last Airbender'
...would not fail! Unlike M. Night Shyamalan<comma> who should be chemically castrated and cyber-crucified for the crime of cinematically assassinating a vibrant, living piece of Animation Art, and turning it into a Live-Action, Lemon-sucking, Leviathan; which should be exorcised; sealed into a Canopic jar and forgotten for eternity...
We can only hope, but I digress.
The title of this new series, is a nod to the overseas sales versions of the first 'Avatar...'
Which outside of the US, was primarily known as 'The Legend of Aang'.
With the advent of Cameron's (silly) movie, 'avatar' was pretty much dropped from the opening credits to avoid confusion and copyright issues ... while the fan base had no problem understanding the difference betwixt the two: One was CGI SciFi crap; while the other was conventionally, animated artwork of a complex, fully-fleshed, alternative world.
Korra, of legend, was the next in line to hold the honorific, after the eventual death of Avatar Aang. ...but that's how it goes. In the world of Element Bending, there is reincarnation as well. It's the power and soul, that passes to a new person; from spirit to body, so that in each cycle there is a new Avatar to unite the physical and spirit worlds
...plus Kung Fu!
All of this was explained in the first series, and in the second we get to see the outcome, progression and development; of a next generation Avatar.
How her predecessor grew up; lived; died and what he left behind for Korra to deal with, is also finally explained;
Way Cool!
...this was just season ONE;
let the Airbending, Avatar, Animation continue in 2013.
