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clevemire. It was pretty hilarious. And surprisingly violent! I did think they slightly frumped up hottie Amber Heard (whom you may recognize from the CW's short lived Hidden Palms or that silly "Karate Kid meets Fast and the Furious" for the oughts movie, "Never Back Down" with Volchok and that LAWKI guy. Not to be confused with Olympian Amanda Beard) a little in her first scene, but the rest of the movie she was back to her normal level of hotness. And what's with commercials showing scenes that weren't actually in the movie?
Owel, as I was getting my ticket, I was perturbed when I heard some people saying some movie was already sold out. I was worried, because Pineapple Express was the only new movie coming out that day. But it wasn't the sold out movie. Were they referring to Dark Knight? Seriously, I liked the movie, but how is it still selling out?!
Some Avatar talk: Of the elements, it feels like water is the element the makers seem to favor. I dunno, it seems to me the stuff Katara pulls is way more impressive than a lot of stuff anyone else does. I mean, Toph bending metal is impressive in that world, but for the most part Earth bending is kinda blah, just hitting people with rocks and rocky structures. Same with fire, though fire at least looks more impressive because a lot of times they're combining it with fancy martial arts attacks. With the earth folks its like hit or stomp the ground and make a stone pillar come out at some other point or levitate a boulder or some other big object made of rock and send it flying towards an opponent.
But yeah, as I've said before, I think they've made water a little too powerful with the insta ice thing and making it able to slice through steel and rock like a hot knife through butter! Of course, I'm going by what we see Katara do, and your average water bender might not be able to be so lethal. I do find it interesting that the only "evil" technique we see is a water one. I mean, they initially portray fire as the "bad" element, but as Aang says when he and Zuko meet those dragons, its just energy. The bloodbending thing seems to be considered distinctly evil.
But speaking of fire and water, I'm definitely in favor of Katara and Zuko. (Its kinda sad knowing nothing comes of them) You know how big a fan I am of those opposites attract kinda couplings, and you don't get more opposite than that. He's fire, she's water. He's a surly bad-boy, she's cute and sweet and motherly (unless you piss her off). He's a prince, she's just a tribal girl.
She kinda hates him when he joins up with Team Avatar. Okay, no kinda, she pretty much hates his guts and has no qualms showing it. But it seems to me a lot of it is not only because he's fire nation and they murdered her mom, but because his betrayal the previous season stung so much. They were bonding over losing moms, and its the typical good girl trying to save the bad boy thing. Katara thought she was getting Zuko to reveal this good side of him that no one else knew about, and that if she healed his scar she could heal him of the evil within. But she didn't get the chance. And then she must've felt so foolish when he ends up siding with his sister over them. If they had more time in the series, and the characters were a little older, it would've been amusing to see a triangle between those two and Aang. I mean, Zuko's gonna become the Fire Lord, Aang's the Avatar, throw a girl in between them and you might just have a kinda repeat of what happened between Sozin and Roku.
Speaking of Avatar, and Katara and Zuko, I knew she was voiced by Egg, but I didn't realize he was Rufio. Who was of course the guy who played the main character in that "The Debut" movie my family wanted to watch because it was all about Filipino culture in an American society or something. Oh, and I had mentioned Azula sounding a little like a more sinister Paris from Gilmore Girls, but I forgot I recently learned that Ty Lee was voiced by the Tana chick who was Paris and Rory's roommate their freshman year at Yale. Its kinda a thin connection!
Anyways, saw this list of The 50 sexiest videos of all time. It has Fiona Apple's Criminal (which I think is my pic for the sexiest video ever, but they only have it at #23) on there, so the list makes some sense. But some of the choices are kinda baffling. "No Sleep 'til Brooklyn"? "Take on Me"? "Dancing in the Dark"?! They have Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" as #1. I have a confession to make. While people claim its sexy, I never really thought so. I mean people claim those chicks are so hot, but that overly made up look doesn't do it for me. Shania Twain's homage (or was it a parody?) to it, her vid for "Man, I Feel Like a Woman" was way sexier. Because of her, not because she switched the chyx out for guys.
I'm also confused that they chose Aerosmith's "Cryin" over "Crazy". Crazy not only had Alicia Silverstone, but Liv Tyler, back when they both were pretty hot. And it has schoolgirl outfits and faux lesbianism! They argue that they felt Crazy was a rip off, as if they were trying to limit it to only one Aerosmith song on the list, but they already had "Sweet Emotion" on the list as well. And they had two Chris Isaak songs and two Shakira songs on the list and if the argument was that Crazy and Cryin' were too similar what about those two peformers? Both Chris Isaak videos are just some supermodel (Helena Christiansen in "Wicked Game" and Laetitia Casta in "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing") rolling around being sexy, and the Shakira videos are all about her gyrating! Not that they don't deserve to be on the list, but if you have repeats like that, surely they could've knocked off one of their nonsensical choices for Crazy.
clevemire. It was pretty hilarious. And surprisingly violent! I did think they slightly frumped up hottie Amber Heard (whom you may recognize from the CW's short lived Hidden Palms or that silly "Karate Kid meets Fast and the Furious" for the oughts movie, "Never Back Down" with Volchok and that LAWKI guy. Not to be confused with Olympian Amanda Beard) a little in her first scene, but the rest of the movie she was back to her normal level of hotness. And what's with commercials showing scenes that weren't actually in the movie?Owel, as I was getting my ticket, I was perturbed when I heard some people saying some movie was already sold out. I was worried, because Pineapple Express was the only new movie coming out that day. But it wasn't the sold out movie. Were they referring to Dark Knight? Seriously, I liked the movie, but how is it still selling out?!
Some Avatar talk: Of the elements, it feels like water is the element the makers seem to favor. I dunno, it seems to me the stuff Katara pulls is way more impressive than a lot of stuff anyone else does. I mean, Toph bending metal is impressive in that world, but for the most part Earth bending is kinda blah, just hitting people with rocks and rocky structures. Same with fire, though fire at least looks more impressive because a lot of times they're combining it with fancy martial arts attacks. With the earth folks its like hit or stomp the ground and make a stone pillar come out at some other point or levitate a boulder or some other big object made of rock and send it flying towards an opponent.
But yeah, as I've said before, I think they've made water a little too powerful with the insta ice thing and making it able to slice through steel and rock like a hot knife through butter! Of course, I'm going by what we see Katara do, and your average water bender might not be able to be so lethal. I do find it interesting that the only "evil" technique we see is a water one. I mean, they initially portray fire as the "bad" element, but as Aang says when he and Zuko meet those dragons, its just energy. The bloodbending thing seems to be considered distinctly evil.
But speaking of fire and water, I'm definitely in favor of Katara and Zuko. (Its kinda sad knowing nothing comes of them) You know how big a fan I am of those opposites attract kinda couplings, and you don't get more opposite than that. He's fire, she's water. He's a surly bad-boy, she's cute and sweet and motherly (unless you piss her off). He's a prince, she's just a tribal girl.
She kinda hates him when he joins up with Team Avatar. Okay, no kinda, she pretty much hates his guts and has no qualms showing it. But it seems to me a lot of it is not only because he's fire nation and they murdered her mom, but because his betrayal the previous season stung so much. They were bonding over losing moms, and its the typical good girl trying to save the bad boy thing. Katara thought she was getting Zuko to reveal this good side of him that no one else knew about, and that if she healed his scar she could heal him of the evil within. But she didn't get the chance. And then she must've felt so foolish when he ends up siding with his sister over them. If they had more time in the series, and the characters were a little older, it would've been amusing to see a triangle between those two and Aang. I mean, Zuko's gonna become the Fire Lord, Aang's the Avatar, throw a girl in between them and you might just have a kinda repeat of what happened between Sozin and Roku.
Speaking of Avatar, and Katara and Zuko, I knew she was voiced by Egg, but I didn't realize he was Rufio. Who was of course the guy who played the main character in that "The Debut" movie my family wanted to watch because it was all about Filipino culture in an American society or something. Oh, and I had mentioned Azula sounding a little like a more sinister Paris from Gilmore Girls, but I forgot I recently learned that Ty Lee was voiced by the Tana chick who was Paris and Rory's roommate their freshman year at Yale. Its kinda a thin connection!
Anyways, saw this list of The 50 sexiest videos of all time. It has Fiona Apple's Criminal (which I think is my pic for the sexiest video ever, but they only have it at #23) on there, so the list makes some sense. But some of the choices are kinda baffling. "No Sleep 'til Brooklyn"? "Take on Me"? "Dancing in the Dark"?! They have Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" as #1. I have a confession to make. While people claim its sexy, I never really thought so. I mean people claim those chicks are so hot, but that overly made up look doesn't do it for me. Shania Twain's homage (or was it a parody?) to it, her vid for "Man, I Feel Like a Woman" was way sexier. Because of her, not because she switched the chyx out for guys.
I'm also confused that they chose Aerosmith's "Cryin" over "Crazy". Crazy not only had Alicia Silverstone, but Liv Tyler, back when they both were pretty hot. And it has schoolgirl outfits and faux lesbianism! They argue that they felt Crazy was a rip off, as if they were trying to limit it to only one Aerosmith song on the list, but they already had "Sweet Emotion" on the list as well. And they had two Chris Isaak songs and two Shakira songs on the list and if the argument was that Crazy and Cryin' were too similar what about those two peformers? Both Chris Isaak videos are just some supermodel (Helena Christiansen in "Wicked Game" and Laetitia Casta in "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing") rolling around being sexy, and the Shakira videos are all about her gyrating! Not that they don't deserve to be on the list, but if you have repeats like that, surely they could've knocked off one of their nonsensical choices for Crazy.
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Haha... I used to think the guy at the end of Crazy was Christian Bale!
Christian Bale lookalike > Stephen Dorff?
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Cryin' also had Sawyer from Lost as the guy who tried to rob Alicia Silverstone.
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I miss Aerosmith videos... They were rather amusing. Those, Janie's Got A Gun, etc.