So. It's finally happened. The end we have all been waiting for is here. But who the hell knew it was going to end like this!?! Certainly not me. Certainly not my Nonnie friends. Let me just say that the situation as a whole sucks. A family is torn by the selfish acts of two people. The victims here are a wife and her two children. Not either of the two cheating parties or the non-boyfriend.
What is annoying is the amount of people who have jumped ship and those who, just two weeks ago, worshipped the ground Stewart walked on are now hating her, burning their memorabilia, denouncing her across the web, and more. Some sites have shut down, gone on hiatus are are simply ignoring it. Other sites who's name depicted a dedication to Pattinson and who used to gush about Stewart and him together are now editing her out of promotional pictures for BD2. They can't even stand to look at her. And the followers who bought into the entire thing just 2 weeks ago are thanking the site mods for it. Can we say "Whiplash"?
Let me elaborate on that. While I am sitting back and laughing at the fall out from all of this because, let's face it, most everyone is now seeing what we have been saying for years, there are those that still believe, still support and still adore her. They are preaching for all the newly turned "haters" (I really loath that word) are driving a divide in the fandom.
Pardon me? THIS is what is being blamed for driving a wedge in this fandom. I'm going to have to lay down a big ol' hand of BULLSHIT!!!
This fandom has been divided since 2009 when Scummit Ent. decided to that the franchise would sell better if people believed if the two main characters were in a real relationship. Contracts were drawn up, rules laid out, outings arranged. We have been preaching this and getting a boat load of hate from it for three years. THREE YEARS!! I have watched as friends have had their home addresses put on line on message boards. Pictures of their children put online for ridicule. Bosses notified by private emails to try and get people fired. Along with countless hounding, name calling, stalking, account hacking, insulting, and screen capping. And personal to me, having my screen name re-tweeted to others with harassing and insulting things being said.
Now, sticks and stones and all that crap. If someone wants to call me a bad mom, go right ahead. I know the truth. Want to call me fat? Go ahead. Yes, I'm over weight, but I can loose it. Want to call me ugly? Go right ahead. I really don't care what someone on the internet thinks of me and my looks. But this other stuff? That is crossing line. You don't post pictures of someones children on line. You don't post someones address online and you don't anonymously email someones boss to try and get them fired.
Especially not because they don't share the same likes as you or don't think a certain celebrity couple is dating. The levels of ridiculousness that I've seen has been astounding. I mean, real junior high garbage.
So this garbage of the fandom divide coming from the childish and selfish actions of two adults is just simply ridiculous. If you had asked me back in 2008 or 2009 if I'd ever be glad Twilight was ending, I'd have told you, "Absolutely not" I liked the books, thought the movies were decent, at least the best that they could be with the material they were being made from, listen, I like the books, but they aren't the best things ever written. However, now I cannot wait for this to be over. November cannot get here soon enough. I've never been more ready for a movie franchise to be over and done with.
One thing I am looking forward to though...Breaking Dawn II Promo. In light of recent events, it's going to be very interesting. Let the games begin. Is it October yet?
07 August, 2012
and there you have it folks.
Someone got caught with her hand in the cookie jar. Only it was someone elses cookie jar.
This is Kristen Stewart and her "Snow White and the Huntsman" director Rupert Sanders at an undisclosed location in LA. There are a lot more photos than this, but due to copy right, the site that published them was asked to take them down. These are what US Weekly has posted on their site.
Kristen and the Snow White cast, including director Rupert Sanders out to dinner in Germany on 15 May 2012. After the affair news, this pic is looked at in a new light. That is Charlize Theron sitting in between them. There is also video out there of Rupert adjusting himself at the table. Yes, you read that right, he's adjusting himself at the table. I'm not posting the video because it was more of him than I care to see. Google it if need be.
And if that picture is looked at differently, the these need to be as well.
She seems pretty close with her directors. This is more PDA from her and her directors, especially Sanders, than ever seen off the clock with Pattinson. Just saying.
This is Kristen Stewart and her "Snow White and the Huntsman" director Rupert Sanders at an undisclosed location in LA. There are a lot more photos than this, but due to copy right, the site that published them was asked to take them down. These are what US Weekly has posted on their site.
17 June, 2012
People, stop being so damn gulable.
So this was on Tumblr today
It has 77 notes on it. That means 77 people have either reblogged this or liked it. I found it disturbing that not one of these 77 people bothered to Google to see if there was any truth to this. If they had, they would have found tons of sites claiming this story to be true. However, they would have also found the girl in the pictures very own Tumblr blog. And guess what? She cleared up the record and stated that this story is in fact FALSE! As a matter of fact, if they had Googled just "girl at justin beiber concert raped and mother died" her blog would have been the third link to come up.
http://bieberswagbaby.tumblr.com/
Google is free. Google will bring up just about anything you ask it. I don't understand why more people don't use it when something unbelievable comes across their dash. This is one of those stories. I mean, come on folks, this story just has not believable written all over it. I mean, she was raped AND her mother died?? I'm not saying bad stuff like this doesn't happen to people, but in this case, I'm side eyeing the hell out of it. And low and behold, one quick trip to Google and the whole story goes up in flames.
http://bieberswagbaby.tumblr.com/
Google is free. Google will bring up just about anything you ask it. I don't understand why more people don't use it when something unbelievable comes across their dash. This is one of those stories. I mean, come on folks, this story just has not believable written all over it. I mean, she was raped AND her mother died?? I'm not saying bad stuff like this doesn't happen to people, but in this case, I'm side eyeing the hell out of it. And low and behold, one quick trip to Google and the whole story goes up in flames.
11 June, 2012
So, I bit the bullet and watched "Snow White and the Huntsman". Don't panic...I did not pay for it. I just don't feel I can legitimately ridicule a movie if I haven't seen it, so I endured the 2 hours to watch.
While it wasn't as bad as I was expecting (gee, where have I heard that before), it wasn't all that great either. Oddly enough, all the bad did not come just from Kristen Stewart's acting. That's where a lot of it came from, but she alone was not the down fall of this film. It was bad all over; from the accents to the story line to the script, it was just bad. Kristen's accent continually slipped throughout the film and I'm still trying to figure out why they insisted on Chris Hemsworth having a Scottish accent. Charlize Theron, while the accent was good, her way of drawing out each and every word was highly annoying throughout the film.
There were some purely Bella, or are they Kristen, moments that seemed to be taken directly from Twilight. The sounds she made while grunting or as she was in pain, were ala the Ballet Studio in Twilight. At one point there was an overhead shot of her lying on the ground in a fetal position that was very reminiscent of New Moon.
One of the storyline down falls is that even though SW was imprisoned as a child, there are those who immediately know who she is upon looking at her as grown girl. It happened twice in the film, once when a female villager tells The Huntsman, "You don't know who she is do you?" and the other when all the dwarves doubt her identity all but one who just knows who she is. There is never any explanation or her having to prove who she is. They just know.
One of my biggest peeves was the messing with fairy tale cannon. Look, it's bad enough that Universal took Snow White back to the darkness of the original tale told by the Brothers Grimm, but even they did not go all warrior princess in their tale. That is all Hollywood. I can't look past that as it was supposed to make a compelling summer block buster. What I cannot over look is some of the other cannon points being messed with. Snow White is supposed to be awoken by True Loves First Kiss from the Prince. This is a fairy tale staple and it's not to be messed with. But on noooo....Universal had to give us a love triangle (again, where have I seen this before). Now granted, there is no Prince in this story as he is the Dukes son, but I digress. Not only does our dear sweat William, the Dukes son and Snow Whites Childhood friend, kiss Snow but he doesn't wake her with said kiss.
No, she is awoken by The Huntman's kiss. I know I'm being rather nit picky, but this is just not how the story goes and while I can over look other "creative license" I can't over look this.
The majority of the reviews seem to be spot on with my way of thinking on the main parts of this story. And I have to agree with them on the high points. The art direction and CGI were great. The forest scene was amazing, though the fairies left something to be desired. The sets were as they should have been, the castle in the opening scenes in particular was done very well. It have a very majestic feel to the opening of the film. And the Dark Forest did just what it should have, brought out that inner seven year old that had the soul scared out of you the first time you saw this film when Disney did it. Over all, this was a part of the film that was done very well.
Costume designer, Colleen Atwood, knocked it out of the park with the costumes for the Evil Queen. However, her fail was to give Snow White leather pants under the skirt of her dress as she escapes.
With the fact that this movie has not even broken even yet at the box office, I can't see Universals desire to fast track the second installment. I know some die hards will scream, "But it is successful" and "It opened at number one" While it has made money, though I'm guessing not near what Universal was counting on, it has not broken even. Don't believe me? This article pretty much sums it up. http://io9.com/5747305/how-much-money-does-a-movie-need-to-make-to-be-profitablehttp://io9.com/5747305/how-much-money-does-a-movie-need-to-make-to-be-profitable It's a great article on what a movie needs to do to be a hit. Don't blame me, I just know how to find things on Google.
While it wasn't as bad as I was expecting (gee, where have I heard that before), it wasn't all that great either. Oddly enough, all the bad did not come just from Kristen Stewart's acting. That's where a lot of it came from, but she alone was not the down fall of this film. It was bad all over; from the accents to the story line to the script, it was just bad. Kristen's accent continually slipped throughout the film and I'm still trying to figure out why they insisted on Chris Hemsworth having a Scottish accent. Charlize Theron, while the accent was good, her way of drawing out each and every word was highly annoying throughout the film.
There were some purely Bella, or are they Kristen, moments that seemed to be taken directly from Twilight. The sounds she made while grunting or as she was in pain, were ala the Ballet Studio in Twilight. At one point there was an overhead shot of her lying on the ground in a fetal position that was very reminiscent of New Moon.
One of the storyline down falls is that even though SW was imprisoned as a child, there are those who immediately know who she is upon looking at her as grown girl. It happened twice in the film, once when a female villager tells The Huntsman, "You don't know who she is do you?" and the other when all the dwarves doubt her identity all but one who just knows who she is. There is never any explanation or her having to prove who she is. They just know.
One of my biggest peeves was the messing with fairy tale cannon. Look, it's bad enough that Universal took Snow White back to the darkness of the original tale told by the Brothers Grimm, but even they did not go all warrior princess in their tale. That is all Hollywood. I can't look past that as it was supposed to make a compelling summer block buster. What I cannot over look is some of the other cannon points being messed with. Snow White is supposed to be awoken by True Loves First Kiss from the Prince. This is a fairy tale staple and it's not to be messed with. But on noooo....Universal had to give us a love triangle (again, where have I seen this before). Now granted, there is no Prince in this story as he is the Dukes son, but I digress. Not only does our dear sweat William, the Dukes son and Snow Whites Childhood friend, kiss Snow but he doesn't wake her with said kiss.
No, she is awoken by The Huntman's kiss. I know I'm being rather nit picky, but this is just not how the story goes and while I can over look other "creative license" I can't over look this.
The majority of the reviews seem to be spot on with my way of thinking on the main parts of this story. And I have to agree with them on the high points. The art direction and CGI were great. The forest scene was amazing, though the fairies left something to be desired. The sets were as they should have been, the castle in the opening scenes in particular was done very well. It have a very majestic feel to the opening of the film. And the Dark Forest did just what it should have, brought out that inner seven year old that had the soul scared out of you the first time you saw this film when Disney did it. Over all, this was a part of the film that was done very well.
Costume designer, Colleen Atwood, knocked it out of the park with the costumes for the Evil Queen. However, her fail was to give Snow White leather pants under the skirt of her dress as she escapes.
With the fact that this movie has not even broken even yet at the box office, I can't see Universals desire to fast track the second installment. I know some die hards will scream, "But it is successful" and "It opened at number one" While it has made money, though I'm guessing not near what Universal was counting on, it has not broken even. Don't believe me? This article pretty much sums it up. http://io9.com/5747305/how-much-money-does-a-movie-need-to-make-to-be-profitablehttp://io9.com/5747305/how-much-money-does-a-movie-need-to-make-to-be-profitable It's a great article on what a movie needs to do to be a hit. Don't blame me, I just know how to find things on Google.
31 May, 2012
Post update...
An update to a post I made back in February if anyone is actually reading this thing...
http://itissoridiculous.blogspot.com/2012/02/best-they-can-do-at-this-point.html
http://itissoridiculous.blogspot.com/2012/02/best-they-can-do-at-this-point.html
Changing of the Guard?
Why am I not surprised to see a positive review from The Hollywood Reporter for Snow White and the Huntsman? Why it's not so much a review, it is one hell of a story re-cap, which we already knew at this point, it never says much about how the actors actually did in the roles they have.
This was pretty much it,
[quote]Despite the narrow ranges their roles require, both command one's attention throughout. Required in their own ways to be gaze-worthy, Hemsworth and Claflin bear up in far more constricted parts.[/quote]
Not exactly glowing. Most of the "review" is spent fawning over the production, the art direction and the costume design in the film. All of these subjects are receiving high marks no matter who is reviewing this film. Is that really enough for it to stand on it's own two feet past opening weekend? I think not.
Now this bit had me baffled:
[quote]with Stewart nearly always maintaining her ethereal air clenched by angst and determination and Theron expressing a will and mercilessness to rival any despot. Despite the narrow ranges their roles require, both command one's attention throughout.[/quote]
I'm sorry, but did I read the word "ethereal" used to describe Kristen Stewart? THIS Kristen Stewart
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This was pretty much it,
[quote]Despite the narrow ranges their roles require, both command one's attention throughout. Required in their own ways to be gaze-worthy, Hemsworth and Claflin bear up in far more constricted parts.[/quote]
Not exactly glowing. Most of the "review" is spent fawning over the production, the art direction and the costume design in the film. All of these subjects are receiving high marks no matter who is reviewing this film. Is that really enough for it to stand on it's own two feet past opening weekend? I think not.
Now this bit had me baffled:
[quote]with Stewart nearly always maintaining her ethereal air clenched by angst and determination and Theron expressing a will and mercilessness to rival any despot. Despite the narrow ranges their roles require, both command one's attention throughout.[/quote]
I'm sorry, but did I read the word "ethereal" used to describe Kristen Stewart? THIS Kristen Stewart
Yeah, the word "ethereal" doesn't exactly come to mind. I know, I know, the poor girl was being hounded by the paps from the safety of her balcony and car, so she was given no other choice but to show her intellegence. I could go on and on, but I'll save it for another blog post.
You can read the total fluff piece right here
What I have noticed is that MTV does not seem to be as "in love" with the Twilight saga as it once was. When did the falling out occur? What I did notice is that THR seemed to pick up where MTV left off.
Things started to get rocky around the time that MTV put out a fan voted poll to see what the most anticipated movie of 2012 was going to be and Breaking Dawn, part two got booted out in the first round. The winner of that poll, in case you didn't know, went to Cosmopolis, starting Stewart's Twilight co-star, Robert Pattinson.
Then came the announcement from MTV that this years Movie Awards show would be changing things up with the way they did things. Gone are the days of the "Twilight Awards" as MTV is trying to bring about a classier program. Now, this is MTV we're talking about, so I'm not sure how it's going to be classier, but I'll give them an A for effort.
These changes brought on a world of hate from the Twihards on Twitter, many of them using hash tags like #FuckYouMTV or #IHateMTV. Nice, eh?
And pretty much all of them swearing off even watching the program this year.
THR had always done the typical coverage on Stewart when promoting Twilight, but it was around December 2011 when they seemed to jump on the gossip chain and put out articles on love nests or homes rented by her and Pattinson. All of which were never backed with facts. Most of which were debunked in a matter of moments using Google.
Lately though, it seems the pimping of Stewart is at an all time high. Could it be that the long rumored checks that MTV was picking up are now being re-routed to THR? Twilight is over, the teen crowd is growing up and moving on, now it's time to take careers more seriously. What better time to move from the teen filled MTV to the more "serious" Hollywood Reporter.
Recently there were a few twitters about bloggers being on the payroll (again, another post) and studios lying, nothing would shock me any less in this business than a publicist trying to cover up a clients bad behavior with a positive spin in what is sometimes, maybe considered a reputable publication.
02 May, 2012
Its that time of year again. The MTV MA are among us and you know what that means. Calloused fingers from fan girls everywhere. Yup, the voting has begun! Officially today you can vote for the MTV Movie Awards in categories like Best Picture, Best Kiss, Best on screen cast, best dirt bag, best on screen transformation. Yeah, I'm still questioning that one myself.
This year the rules have changed. MTV wants to be taken more seriously in the awards arena. They plan on doing this by changing up the line of nominated categories. For instant gone are the Best Villain, Best Scared-as-Shit Performance, Best Jaw Dropping Moment, Biggest Badass Star, and Best Line from a Movie categories. They have also included a panel of industry insiders made up of actors, producers, agents, etc. to determine who wins nominations in this years categories. There will also be a new Break Through Performance category that will be voted on my directors.
The changes came about to make the MTV Movie Awards seem more serious as well as to "lend some credibility to an event that has been criticized as merely a venue for Hollywood to promote its summer blockbusters." Now back to the fan girls. Yesterday the nominees were announced and it seems that with a change in the rules comes a change in the fandoms. In years past the MA's were dominated by all things Twilight with Harry Potter running a close second. Winning though was still a Twilight arena.
Not this year. The winds of change are coming through the MTV offices and TwiHards are not happy about it. There's a new kid on the block and his name is The Hunger Games. You could hear the hate being spewed on Twitter around the globe. The Hunger Games is nominated for a whopping eight categories while Twilight's Breaking Dawn Part One is only nominated for two, Best Kiss and Best Movie of the Year. And boy howdie are fans upset. #MTVWEHATEYOU was trending last night on Twitter in a matter of minutes after the nominations were reviled. Tweets like:
This morning as voting is not open those registered members at MTV.com, seems to be a little more tame. Fans are voting their "fingers to the bone" as one girl tweeted. Yes, you keep voting until your fingers bleed. You show MTV just whos boss by making sure that Pattinson and Stewart can win Best Kiss. Again. And not actually kiss on stage. Again. You show 'em. Because THIS is how it's done. Go you.
Just a reminder of what winning the Golden Popcorn for The Best Kiss is supposed to look like. Fans are NEVER going to see Pattinson and Stewart do anything close to this
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This year the rules have changed. MTV wants to be taken more seriously in the awards arena. They plan on doing this by changing up the line of nominated categories. For instant gone are the Best Villain, Best Scared-as-Shit Performance, Best Jaw Dropping Moment, Biggest Badass Star, and Best Line from a Movie categories. They have also included a panel of industry insiders made up of actors, producers, agents, etc. to determine who wins nominations in this years categories. There will also be a new Break Through Performance category that will be voted on my directors.
The changes came about to make the MTV Movie Awards seem more serious as well as to "lend some credibility to an event that has been criticized as merely a venue for Hollywood to promote its summer blockbusters." Now back to the fan girls. Yesterday the nominees were announced and it seems that with a change in the rules comes a change in the fandoms. In years past the MA's were dominated by all things Twilight with Harry Potter running a close second. Winning though was still a Twilight arena.
Not this year. The winds of change are coming through the MTV offices and TwiHards are not happy about it. There's a new kid on the block and his name is The Hunger Games. You could hear the hate being spewed on Twitter around the globe. The Hunger Games is nominated for a whopping eight categories while Twilight's Breaking Dawn Part One is only nominated for two, Best Kiss and Best Movie of the Year. And boy howdie are fans upset. #MTVWEHATEYOU was trending last night on Twitter in a matter of minutes after the nominations were reviled. Tweets like:
THG might have made a lot of $ but no one cares about its cast. Def a mistake to completely disregard your most passionate fanbase -- @mtv
The best Robsten bubbles are at the @MTV movie awards and we wait ALL year for it and they've taken that from us. #MTVWEHATEYOU
#MTVWEHATEYOU seriously crying.
Don't think that WHATS DONE IS DONE! We can make a change if we stay united! #MTVWEHATEYOUAnd that is just a sampling of what was being said. Over at Imdb there were threats of a boycott and all levels of butt hurt because Robert Pattinson and Kristen Steward were not nominated for Best Performances. I'm guessing those actors, producers, agents and other panel members just don't know what they are talking about when the don't nominate Pattinson and Stewart for best performances. Damn them for being all professional and serious.
This morning as voting is not open those registered members at MTV.com, seems to be a little more tame. Fans are voting their "fingers to the bone" as one girl tweeted. Yes, you keep voting until your fingers bleed. You show MTV just whos boss by making sure that Pattinson and Stewart can win Best Kiss. Again. And not actually kiss on stage. Again. You show 'em. Because THIS is how it's done. Go you.
Just a reminder of what winning the Golden Popcorn for The Best Kiss is supposed to look like. Fans are NEVER going to see Pattinson and Stewart do anything close to this
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