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Inspired by gritsngravy, here are the are the 2012 movies I saw, in alphabetical order because I...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:39:39 -0500

Inspired by gritsngravy, here are the are the 2012 movies I saw, in alphabetical order because I cannot remember the chronological one:

In Theaters:

21 Jump Street (Who knew Channing Tatum could do comedy? Not me! Super fun flick!)
Argo (Really good, exactly what you expect if you know about the events it’s based on.)
The Avengers (So much fun, and hopefully a good launching pad for the guy who played Loki. Yeah, Tom Something.)
Beauty and the Beast 3D (Beauty and the Beast! In 3D!)
Brave (Cute, funny, great first half. Then it gets dumb and HOWDIDITBEATWRECKITRALPH?!)
A Cabin in the Woods (Easily my favorite horror flick, not that I see that many)
The Dark Knight Rises (Really great yet strangely forgettable.)
Django Unchained (So much better than I expected that I felt bad for expecting so much less)
Dredd 3D (The 3D really made it… almost enjoyable)
Friends with Kids (Adam Scott! Jon Hamm! Maya Rudolph! Megan Fox! So many people I love, and Megan Fox)
The Hunger Games (Stanley Tucci! Woody Harrelson! Elizabeth Banks!)
Les Miserables (Disappointing and boring)
Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis acted his ass off, plus JGL)
Looper (Why didn’t they change Bruce Willis’ face?)
Men in Black 3 (Better than I was expecting, especially in 3D)
Prometheus (Michael Fassbender acted his ass off)
Skyfall (Javier Bardem, you are such a kook)
Snow White and the Huntsman (As good as I expected, which is to say not very)
Total Recall (So bad. Not in a redeemably campy way. Just really unpleasant to sit through.)
Wreck-It-Ralph (So good! Fun and clever and surprising!)

At Home:

Battleship (I remember nothing about this movie)
Dark Shadows (woof)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (I miss Hugh Grant being in things)
Pitch Perfect (Many lolz. Plus Adam from Workaholics!)
Rock of Ages (Tom Cruise and Catherine Zeta-Jones were enjoyable. I recommend watching their scenes on YouTube)
Ted (Mila, what happened?)

Want to See:

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
The Amazing Spider-Man
Bachelorette
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Five-Year Engagement
Frankenweenie
Fun Size
Hotel Transylvania
Hysteria
Madagascar 3
Paranorman
Perks of Being a Wallflower
Premium Rush
Quartet
Silver Linings Playbook
This Is 40
This Means War
Wanderlust
Warm Bodies

HE LOOKS LIKE A FREAKY MAN-BABY.

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:37:26 -0400

HE LOOKS LIKE A FREAKY MAN-BABY.

Damn girl

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:09:42 -0500

Damn girl

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Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:07:37 -0500

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Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:13:32 -0500

kittylouwho: womenaresociety: Jon Hamm Talks About Rape and...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:14:55 -0500

kittylouwho:

womenaresociety:

Jon Hamm Talks About Rape and the Lack of Positive Male Role Models

Hamm was recently a speaker at the Rape Treatment Center benefit brunch in Beverly Hills where he spoke about his pre-Mad Men employment history — which we will refer to as phase one of your ever-deepening affection.

Apparently, the man behind Don Draper is a former high school teacher and also worked at a daycare center. Hamm said he’s always felt very connected to children, which he attributes to being the child of a single parent —and thus spending “the majority of my life in daycare, after school programs, summer school programs,” which brings us to phase two:

Hamm said, “Having gone through what I had gone through as a child…there were no real male role models in any of these places. There were never any dudes. It was a bummer as a young man to, not only not have a father figure in my life, but no real male figures as teachers or as educators or as afterschool program leaders or anything,” he said.

AND THEN —in what is both phase three and also such an important message that is rarely discussed by men, especially in entertainment— Hamm makes a point of talking about how important it is to reach out to young boys and men and educate them on the “lasting impact of rape”:

Hamm made the point to emphasize the importance of the Rape Treatment Center’s educational outreach, especially for boys and young men. “It is an important thing to instill in a younger generation about the impact of rape, the lasting impact of rape,” he said, adding, “Children from grade school to high school to college are incredibly susceptible and incredibly malleable, as we all know. To get them early, to teach them about the facts and figures and other realities of rape is key. It is an important issue to me as not only a man, but as an educator, as a human being and as a person on this planet.”

All lighthearted jokes about love-deepening aside, this is such an important message and I’m so thrilled he was able to send it.

Rape is not a female issue. Rape is everyone’s issue, which is why it’s often an incredibly powerful thing to have a man stand up and say that. Obviously, I’m not saying it’s any better or worse or that one’s ability to be taken seriously has to be tied to gender but in terms of reaching a larger audience of men, I do think that there’s something powerful about a man —especially a widely respected and beloved man such as Hamm— standing up and encouraging other men to educate themselves and their sons on what they can personally do to prevent rape, instead of continuing to simply tell women to protect themselves or “dress differently” (ugh).

I wish we were at the point where hearing this message coming from incredibly strong people of any gender was enough, but I really feel like we need to be hearing these messages from everyone so that people realize that rape isn’t simply a women’s issue or a heterosexual issue. It truly is everyone’s issue.

Hats off to you, Jon Hamm for shedding light on this fact.

*Thanks to Britany for sending this!

Whaaaaat talking to men about how they shouldn’t rape and it sucks?

I'll Let This GIF Do The Talking

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:42:28 -0500

Reblog if it's okay to befriend you, ask questions, ask for advice or just have a nice chat.

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:31:27 -0500

ilovecharts: Save Community!

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:14:33 -0500

ilovecharts:

Save Community!

To whom it may concern

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:00:26 -0500

To whom it may concern

danharmon: From the room in which Remedial Chaos Theory was...

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:57:24 -0400

danharmon:

From the room in which Remedial Chaos Theory was broken by Chris McKenna and writers. I’m sorry, that’s not accurate. The room in which Chris McKenna and writers were broken by Remedial Chaos Theory. Thank you so much for your patience and sacrifices, guys.

For Rosie

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 04:51:53 -0400

For Rosie

"I had a stick of Carefree gum, but it didn’t work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that..."

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 05:27:41 -0400

“I had a stick of Carefree gum, but it didn’t work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.”

- Mitch Hedberg

"Honesty. Pass it on."

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:00:22 -0400

“Honesty. Pass it on.”

- TheJonDick

You can’t go wrong with this.

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:29:00 -0400

You can’t go wrong with this.