the broken tower is a 2011 american black-and-white student film directed , written , produced , edited by and starring james franco .

the film was made by franco as his masters thesis for his mfa in filmmaking from new york university .

the film is about american poet hart crane .

franco appears in the starring role as crane along with michael shannon as one of crane 's lovers .

the broken tower made its world premiere in april 2011 at boston college .

it was shown at the 2011 los angeles film festival ( laff ) in june and released on dvd in 2012 .

the film includes the recitation by franco of several of crane 's poems both as voice-over additions to the film , as well as actual readings of several poems rendered by franco as portraying crane himself .

the broken tower ( film )

the dark tower is also added in between the central tower and defence against the dark arts tower .
more photos of dave behind the scenes ( just hanging out ) of “the broken tower” with the producer , vince jolivette . movies > the broken tower > behind the scenes x 002 source
the broken tower feels unique as a young man ' s tribute to an adventuresome , doomed soul .
the clock tower , clock tower courtyard , wooden bridge and the sundial garden are added to the back of the school .
now with “the broken tower , ” what were you familiar with first : paul l . mariani’s crane biography which serves as the basis for the film , or crane’s poetry ?
move the sign ; take the bungee cord and broken fork ( v ) .
from writer / director james franco
the broken tower
based on the true life story of poet hart crane . the truth is indecent .
here is the trailer for james franco’s “the broken tower” in which dave stars as young heart crane . the film is now available for download and on demand , but doesn’t come to dvd until march 27th .
a featurette entitled exploring hart crane ( 48 : 20 ) features james franco interviewing three scholars / poets regarding the history of the broken tower ' s subject hart crane . he uses the skype technology to conduct these interviews ( which have been edited together ) . the piece also contains some film clips from the broken tower as edited with dialogue from the three contributing members and franco .
a huge fire has broken out at a tower block in latimer road in west london , with eyewitnesses reporting that they can see residents trapped at the top of the building .
attach the metal logo ; open the tower . take the bronze key ( g ) .
in the book , dumbledore tells harry and hermione that sirius is locked up in professor flitwick ' s office in the west tower , thirteenth window from the right of the tower , but in the film , dumbledore tells harry and hermione that sirius is locked up in the topmost cell of the dark tower .
if one server broken , don ' t worry , it will automatic switch to next server .
place the boy doll , girl doll , and broken heart ( 2 / 2 ) ( h ) .
use the night vision goggles ; take the broken fork and pipe ( 4 / 4 ) ( t ) .
remove the cover ; use the broken fork ( r ) . take the battery and small flashlight ( s ) .
roland and the man in black show down in the dark tower . all images : sony pictures
instead , the film begins at devar - toi , a very important location to the overall mythology of the dark tower series . in both the books as well as the movie , this is the place the armies of the crimson king bring children with strong mental abilities , which they use to try to break the beams that link to the dark tower . if the beams are broken the tower will fall , the gunslinger’s quest will have failed , and darkness will take over the world .
since not every item is alive , all that broken stuff was probably just normal furniture that was already in the castle .
the dark tower film ends with roland destroying devar - toi , which basically means “boom , problem solved . ” the dark tower is no longer under siege , and the danger is over . there almost aren’t words for how much that changes the course of the story’s events .
you’ve since directed “child of god , ” an adaptation of cormac mccarthy’s novel ; a film with no doubt a bigger budget and more riding on it to perform commercial wise . what did you take over from your experience making “the broken tower , ” to “child of god” ?
‘ten meter tower’ appeared at the 2017 sundance film festival . it is part of a series produced by independent filmmakers who have received support from the nonprofit sundance institute .
hart crane : we all know life is a dance of death , but we can still make something of it . the broken tower had a noble premise surrounding the short life of american poet hart crane , who is played by james franco . not only that , the film was written and directed by franco , and while that may sound worthy on paper , the broken tower fails to work on nearly any level . there are a handful of risqué scenes that furthermore adds to the longstanding rumor of james franco ' s sexual orientation , and he delivers a fifteen minute long poetry monologue . yawn . if that is not terrible enough , the film is shot as a
docudrama
and features some of the most scattershot editing ever to be featured on film ; all presented in black and white . the broken tower is the first 2012 - released film i have seen , and will most likely make it on my worst of the year list . read the whole review at urltoken
there are certainly other ways the film squandered its source material , but the point is very clear : it feels like the people behind the dark tower film did not have any interest in retelling king’s story . the film only uses small facets of the world to tell a different , much briefer story , when the real strength of the dark tower is that it’s an epic . whether you’re a fan of the books or not , this truncated version can’t help but disappoint .
the project he’ll be tackling ? the previously announced adaptation of paul l mariani ‘s “ the broken tower , ” a biography of american poet hart crane , who gained popularity with his brooklyn bridge - inspired “ the bridge . ” his last poem was the eponymous ‘broken tower , ’ inspired by crane’s only heterosexual affair ( with peggy crowley ) that has now been widely interpreted as his death ode . crane controversially ended his life by jumping off the steamship ss orizaba while yelling “goodbye , everyone ! ” at the age of 32 .
the dark tower shows some meager promise , but as the first in a proposed series it leaves much to be desired .
this is the first and only film not to feature the title in clouds .
jody martin said he got to the scene just as the first fire engine was arriving at grenfell tower , in latimer road .
[ the dark tower ] resembles nothing so much as a mashup of the lord of the rings and the matrix reimagined for the young adult crowd .
use the rose key and fleur - de - lys key ; take the note , photo , and broken heart ( 1 / 2 ) ( d ) .
it’s theorized that the broken furniture pieces in the west wing are actually unfortunate servants that beast unknowingly destroyed after being cursed . it turns out that’s probably not the case .
the film does not mention about ron receiving a new wand to replace his old broken one . however , ron actually does have a new wand , since there is no spello - tape on his wand and no malfunctions happen .
this is the second time actors timothy spall and richard griffiths appeared in a film together , their first film together having been vatel , released in 2000 .
play the hop ; receive the film roll ( 2 / 2 ) ( h ) .
james franco’s biopic of gay poet hart crane , playing at the los angeles film festival , may serve better as his thesis film than as a commercial release .
but despite earnest attempts , mr . franco can’t bring the fervency of crane’s poetry to life in the extensive recitations . he was far more convincing in the movie “howl” playing allen ginsberg , whose language wasn’t as high - flown . as a result “the broken tower” feels less a movie than an outline for one .
rules weren’t meant to be broken when it comes to tv episode lengths , but these 10 examples — introduced on the very good tv podcast — are clear exceptions .
this is the only film where dumbledore does not say harry potter ' s name .
place the projector part and film roll ( 2 / 2 ) ( i ) .
this is the first film to feature specialised closing credits . the ones in this film are made to look like the marauder ' s map with the cast names accompanied by the
footsteps
.
to those unfamiliar the zombie movie genre , it might seem hard to see how a film like night of the living dead could be regarded as a political film . however , the film is one of the most important cultural records of its era . romero himself has explicitly commented that the film is a document of contemporary social changes . we don’t have to take the director’s word for this , since the film’s political themes are hardly hidden from the audience .
there is a long literary and artistic tradition in which crane figures as a character or muse standing for a certain kind of uncompromising visionary artist ready to sacrifice everything for poetry ,
said langdon hammer , a hart crane scholar at yale who also provides commentary on the dvd of
the broken tower .
while i think the film will be popular among many church - goers as a new arrow in the quiver of apologetics , i doubt many serious biblical scholars will agree with its conclusions . indeed , those conclusions are widely connected to a historical theory which has been carefully negated in scholarship ( even among otherwise orthodox biblical scholars ) . because of this , i fear that the film’s popularity with churches will wind up leaving the church ridiculed for trying to fire another broken arrow at the “white tower establishment” .
marcio and andreia gomes , parents of logan gomes , arrive for a commemoration hearing at the opening of the inquiry into the grenfell tower disaster , in london .
which makes “the broken tower” by no means an easy sit . the abstract structure is challenging and fascinating in equal measure . i’m guessing you didn’t make this with the intention of getting it seen by a wide audience ; it’s a thesis project . were you wary of releasing this , in fear of polorazing your loyal fan base ?
the dark tower movie ends in a very perfunctory manner . again , jake and roland have destroyed dever - toi and possibly the man in black , pretty much saving the dark tower and the world . with jake’s parents dead , he decides to stay with roland in mid - world and become a gunslinger .
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because the first match is the one shown in the film , it is unknown if the games against ravenclaw and slytherin still take place ; as harry doesn ' t receive his new broomstick until the end of the film .
in the book , it takes a while for peter to confess to betraying lily and james potter , while in the film , he confesses almost immediately , as the film versions always cut to the chase .
london fire brigade confirmed that more than 200 fire fighters are tackling the blaze at grenfell tower on the lancaster west estate , with 40 fire engines sent to the location .
the release actually has a few interesting inclusions for fans of the film to dig into . perhaps the biggest spotlight is the
instead , scottie tells her he wants to take a drive in the country and begins driving toward san juan bautista . judy becomes increasingly hysterical as she realizes that scottie suspects her secret . in a rage , scottie drags judy up the steps of the tower , confronting her with her deception . she admits her guilt but claims to still love scottie and begs for his forgiveness . they reach the top and embrace , but are interrupted by the shadowy figure of a nun . judy is so startled by the ghostly figure that she screams and falls from the tower to her death . scottie is left alone in the tower , cured of his acrophobia but broken in every other respect .
in the film , harry ' s two visits to hogsmeade are combined into a single trip .
neither hermione or ron attempt to help hagrid prepare for buckbeak ' s trial in the film .
due to quidditch being mostly written out , cho chang does not appear until the next film .
according to its publicity materials , filmmakers james cameron and alfonso cuaron have described broken horses as
an artistic triumph
and
overwhelming
respectively . it only serves to demonstrate that of the many prodigious talents these esteemed directors possess , film criticism isn ' t among them .
shooting on “the broken tower” will take place throughout new york and begin in mid - november . the restless , talented franco is also working with younger brother dave on an adaptation of charles bukowski ‘s “ ham on rye ” and has adaptations of stephen elliott ‘s “ the adderall diaries ” and d . j . walkdie ‘s “ the holy land ” in the works .
the dark tower avoids the lowest rungs of that ladder . taken on its terms it ' s hardly a disaster , delivering moments of fun on a basic level .
due to quidditch mostly being written out in the film , the part of gryffindor winning the quidditch cup was omitted .
robert delaunay was a cubist who steered away from the still life and the figure , embracing the architectural image of the eiffel tower and the plane as the images of modernity . in his paintings , delaunay was interested in capturing the whole dynamics of the new cult of the machine . in his eiffel tower paintings , delaunay portrayed the tower as it loomed over the city during construction , arising out of it like the new phoenix . in homage to bleriot , the artist celebrates the new dynamism of the new industrial age by painting vibrating discs of color that simulate plane propellers in motion .
arcel’s imdb page attributes the following quote to him : “i have this idea that i wanna make a movie within every genre before i die . ” by directing the dark tower , which blends sci - fi , fantasy , horror , westerns , and more , he could have crossed several genres off the list with one film . instead he made something generic—and in doing so , damaged the dark tower worse than walter did .
in six hundred theaters tonight , viewers will come away from the film with no idea that they have just picked up a broken arrow . they won’t know that the revised egyptian chronology is not a new theory and has been shown to create as many problems for biblical chronology as it solves .
revealed he had sent the broom . in the film , harry receives the firebolt at the end of the film , and although there was no note , hermione shows harry that one of buckbeak ' s feathers came with it .
in “the broken tower” ( his thesis project for nyu’s tisch school of the arts , where he went on to get an m . f . a . in filmmaking ) , franco plays crane , a gay poet known for his difficult , highly stylized work , who took his own life at the age of 32 . shot in black - and - white , franco’s film , like crane’s poetry , is challenging , unconventional and clearly a work of passion .
dumbledore does not say harry potter ' s name at all in the film . this is the only film in which this happens , although harry potter and the deathly hallows : part 1 would not count , due to dumbledore having died near the end of the previous film and flashbacks and voices of dumbledore saying hints and the like .
place the photos . place micheals’ painting ; take the film roll ( 1 / 2 ) ( p ) .
the broken tower was filmed entirely in a traditional
standard
art - house style : low on production - excellence , and high on experimentation . regardless of the outcome , franco has delivered a curious passion project worth experiencing at least once - if only to see for yourself what happens when an inspired performance becomes undersold by weak filmmaking . james franco might be an awesome workaholic and all around cool guy ( which i ' m positive he is ) , but he could use some fine tuning as a director and screenwriter - and hopefully soon . considering how many films he has now completed broken tower comes across as a decidedly uneven outing that never manages to grasp hart crane as if in full bloom .
“listen , people , my band and i are all crying backstage . we’re too broken up to go on . but i just want to tell you , thank you and good night . ”
[ idris ] elba alone can ' t make the dark tower worth watching . but he can make the case , yet again , that he deserves better material than this .
in the first film , the entrance to gryffindor tower is on one end of a hallway . whereas in the film adaptation of harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban and the video game adaptations of harry potter and the order of the phoenix and harry potter and the half - blood prince , it is located on the seventh floor of the grand staircase tower . as the shape of the common room doesn ' t change , one explanation of this change of location may be that these particular stairs were not there in the first movie , and were built to replace the corridor during the summer of 1992 , before harry ' s third year started .
hart crane sure liked to walk around . if there’s an image you’re going to take away from the broken tower , james franco’s take on the modernist poet , it’s crane ( franco ) stalking about new york , or paris , or cuba , or mexico , searching for…something . artistic inspiration ? psychic respite ? a lay from one of the sailors with whom he found fleeting erotic connection ? the camera bobs behind him patiently , recording every step while refusing to speculate on the would - be destination of crane’s multiple , solitary sojourns . franco deserves credit for attempting to understand crane’s interior life by focusing on such interstitial moments . too often , though , the broken tower simply leaves us locked out of crane’s subjective landscape , mistaking furrowed - brow earnestness for insight .
the broken tower is the latest project from james franco ( your highness ) . the film is based upon the autobiography of the poet hart crane as written by paul mariani . crane was considered to be one of america ' s most influential poets following his suicide . the story that is told is one that has revolved around crane ' s struggles to survive as a poet determined to write prose , while also emphasizing his homosexuality and self - destructive behavior . james franco wrote the screenplay , directs , and stars .
with “broken tower , ” crane knew his poetry was difficult . he wrote in a very dense way on purpose , i think because he wanted people to read in a different way . he didn’t want a surface - level reading . i wanted the movie to be loyal to that side of crane , to let the structure and the tone of the movie reflect crane’s work and his personality .
for john irwin , an english professor at johns hopkins , the timing of the movie couldn ' t be better . irwin is the author of
hart crane ' s poetry ,
which became the first major study on crane ' s work in a quarter - century when it was released in december . according to johns hopkins press , the imminent release of
the broken tower
has lifted sales of the book .
new images issued by the grenfell tower inquiry of the kitchen in flat 16 where the fire started on june 14 last year . seventy - one people were killed after the fire tore through the housing block in kensington .
yet franco kept thinking about making a crane movie . he ' d encountered crane ' s name soon after dropping out of ucla , while reading one of bloom ' s books . he bought
the complete poems of hart crane ,
but couldn ' t make sense of it . then he followed the advice of bloom ' s introduction to the edition and read
the broken tower
to understand the context of the poems .
james franco ' s film is tonally flat and a little too impressed with its own elliptical construction .
i recalled this incident to cohen—it’s captured on a documentary film that floats around the internet—and he remembered it well .
in the book , parvati patil ' s boggart is a mummy ; in the film , it is a giant snake .
we don’t have an answer , but we do know the result was a movie that was a major disappointment . here’s a list of ways the dark tower wastes the best aspects of its source material .
there are other worlds than these . stephen king ' s the dark tower , the ambitious and expansive story from one of the world ' s most celebrated authors , makes its launch to the big screen . the last gunslinger , roland deschain ( idris elba ) , has been locked in an eternal battle with walter o ' dim , also known as the man in black ( matthew mcconaughey ) , determined to prevent him from toppling the dark tower , which holds the universe together . with the fate of the worlds at stake , good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only roland can defend the tower from the man in black .
in the books , hermione was walking behind harry and ron on their way to charms , but when they get to the class she is gone , and they don ' t know where is until later that day when they find her sleeping on the arithmancy book in the gryffindor tower . none of this happens in the film .
in the books , devar - toi’s destruction is practically part of the climax—something that happens in the middle of the seventh and final book , after roland has been on his grueling journey for , well , the first six books . it’s the end of an incredibly long and arduous ordeal , and part of the climax of the entire series . if there is another dark tower movie , roland can literally stroll to the tower at his leisure .
night of the living dead was george romero’s first feature film and its title has become almost inseparable from its director’s name . this in itself is problematic in that it allows the film’s author to overshadow and even determine the film’s interpretation . night of the living dead certainly encourages auteurist interpretation : romero both wrote and directed the film and is therefore , like the cinema “greats” alfred hitchcock , howard hawks , or john ford , an auteur par excellence . but since the film so clearly and insistently engages with its contemporary social and political milieu , we must also try to understand it in its historical context .
in the film , hermione is with harry when he saves himself , and sirius from the dementors , instead of with buckbeak .
whenever a spell is cast in the film , a faint whistling can be heard . this is the only film in which spells make this noise and are mostly used to signal when simple waves of the wand are actually some kind of spell .
in its complete , cobbled - together cut , the dark tower runs 95 minutes . with apologies to my colleague k . austin collins’s shorter - movie movement , that’s not enough time for a film that was intended to turn a sprawling series of books , totaling roughly 4 , 000 pages , into a tentpole franchise for sony . rather than follow the path traced by the first book , which would have yielded a self - contained story that promised much more to come , the movie is both a sequel to the series and a sweeping distillation of some of its events . adapting dark tower at all is a tall order . adapting dark tower in an hour and a half is impossible .
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in the book , sirius ( in animagus form ) had grabbed ron by the arm and that ron ' s leg was broken when he tried to use one of the whomping willow ' s roots to hold them in place to avoid being dragged off only for the pressure to break his leg . this was changed to ron being grabbed by the leg in the film likely for being too graphic .
most wands have taken different shapes . this is marked as the first film to start making the wands for each character uniquely decorated .
as a critic , i know i’m supposed to do my homework . so let me confess right up front that i did not prepare myself to review “the dark tower , ” the droolingly anticipated film version of stephen king’s multiverse novel series , by consuming all eight books in the series . i had a go at “the gunslinger” [ … ]
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still , franco ' s version of
the broken tower
isn ' t necessarily a perfect introduction to crane . it ' s filmed in black and white , its plot can be hard to follow and its pacing is much slower than most hollywood movies . there are many seemingly aimless silent scenes that follow the back of franco ' s head while he stalks around various streetscapes . some film critics have called these qualities flaws . irwin , though , said he sees them as a reflection of franco ' s desire to be faithful to crane .
the redneck hostility of this language here is reflected in later films about racial hatred in america , such as alan parker’s 1988 film mississippi burning . finally , the way in which the zombies are hung from trees in the final scenes of the film inevitably invokes the racist lynchings of america’s past .
from focus features , the premiere global brand in original and daring cinema , comes focus world . charged with finding the most exciting voices in international and independent film , focus world is proud to bring you the broken tower , from writer / director james franco . hart crane was one of the most important voices in american poetry - but lived a life with as much turmoil as passion . from his early life to his journeys from new york , cuba , and paris , crane ' s story and that of the loves that defined him is told with imaginative empathy , and with a no holds barred performance - in a film as introspective , rebellious , heartbreaking , and honest as crane himself .
while waiting in a holding area for james franco to discuss “ the broken tower ” ( currently available on dvd / vod and opening at new york’s ifc center on friday ) , i can make out everything franco’s saying to another journalist in the next room , despite a closed door and office chatter around me . franco’s not in a shouting match ; he’s just passionately discussing the subject of his first feature to get a theatrical release , the poet hart crane .
the whomping willow is in a different location than it was in chamber of secrets ; in the earlier film , the willow was very close to the school and inside the training grounds . in this film , the willow is a considerable distance from the school , on the side of a slope and amidst rocky terrain .
former chancellor and now editor of the evening standard george osborne tweeted : “just seen this awful tower block fire near my home in w london . my prayers with those affected & heroes tackling it . ”
there are no scenes in diagon alley , in the film , resulting in harry reuniting with ron and hermione in the leaky cauldron lounge .
when harry rides on buckbeak in the film , they fly all the way to the hogwarts lake ; in the book , they fly only once around the paddock in the forbidden forest .
there actually is a point to discussing franco ' s workaholic lifestyle while writing about his latest effort , the broken tower . the film feels amateurish despite the fact that franco has so many directing credits under his belt by now . i was disappointed by his style . the camera - work was shoddy ( unsurprising given what must have been low quality handheld cameras ) . i would have hoped for more from a professional actor worthy of miles of admiration . this film is messy : the camera - shots are often chaotic in style with poor visual techniques and the editing is also weak . when one scene feels ready to end it often extends much further than expected and many scenes feel unfinished and end in a somewhat abrupt fashion .
in the book , hermione is with harry and sirius when they are attacked by the dementors . in the film , she attempts to run after him , but is stopped by snape , forcing her to stay behind with ron , who is not unconcious but has a broken leg and would likely be unable to keep up with harry if he , himself , tried to go after him .
also in the book , harry falls off his broom and cedric catches the snitch . in the film , the hufflepuff seeker is struck by lightning and harry falls off his broom , leaving the snitch apparently uncaught . also in the film , angelina johnson crashes after her broom catches fire which never occurred in the book .
the hogwarts choir doesn ' t exist in the book and the director only added it for the film , however , it was later mentioned in the sixth film as well ( in the scene in which professor flitwick uses
emergency choir practice
as an excuse to escape a conversation with professor slughorn ) .
in the book , harry sat at the table with aunt marge and the dursleys , but in the film , he is just busy at the kitchen counter serving the dursleys and aunt marge .
in the film , after buckbeak’s apparent execution , hermione starts crying and hugs ron while harry comforts her . this never happens in the book .
godard , playing lang’s assistant director in the film , has the last word , heard over the final tracking movement across the sea , a final command to the film crew , “silence , ” as the camera starts rolling — a command that’s then translated into italian . godard’s view of serenity and continuity is necessarily splintered , because the modern world is a tower of babel where languages and discourses compete for mastery over a purity that eludes our grasp . not even silence is unmediated . there’s a french silence , an italian silence , a german silence , and an american silence ; maybe even a greek silence , which the film prefers to remain silent about .
in the film , in hagrid ' s hut a jar of yellow powder breaks which appears to have been thrown by a kind of rock fossil and then another one hits harry on the back of the head . this causes harry to turn and show hagrid that dumbledore , fudge and macnair are coming . in the novel , hagrid just sees the party coming through his window and tells the trio to leave and there is no vase broken .
in the film , this conversation is taken to a private room , with only harry , rosmerta , mcgonagall , and fudge present .
in light of the above comments by fiske and clarke , the violence in romero’s film can be viewed as metaphorical — it stands for the interracial violence of 1960s america and for the horrors of the vietnam war that were so shockingly revealed on american television screens in the late 1960s . in a certain sense , then , the violence of the film may be seen as “realistic’ ; that is , it reflects and comments upon the violence of the period in which the film was made . violence is a theme romero has worked with in all of his zombie films in order to highlight current social injustices . indeed there is in the film a sense of documentary - like verisimilitude , especially in the grainy photographic images of the zombie cull at the end of the film , which recall contemporary photographs of the carnage in vietnam .
in the book the rain during the hufflepuff quidditch match makes it difficult for harry to see until hermione casts impervius on his glasses , in the film , the quidditch players wear goggles .
because that’s where this tower crumbles . “the dark tower” is hollow . it is soulless . it is a film that never quite figured out what it wanted to be , and so elected to be nothing much at all . worst of all , it’s clearly been chopped up by those reported reshoots and test screening edits . there’s a scene with a demon in a house that just ends and much of the final act material features a jake who looks a lot closer to puberty than when the movie began . weird humorous bits feel like they have been spliced in , trying to find as big an audience as possible . and while some may criticize stephen king’s more populist works , that’s a charge that could never be lobbied at the dark tower . these books had vision . they created worlds . they used iconic imagery to explore timeless themes . “the dark tower” plays it so safe and takes so few risks that its greatest sin is in being the one thing those formative books never were for so many people : forgettable .
in the first film , tom , the bartender and landlord of the leaky cauldron was portrayed by derek deadman ; but in this film , deadman has been replaced by a different actor , jim tavaré . there is also a sharp difference between these two portrayals : in the first film , tom appeared quite normal with balding brown hair but in this film , he looks like a hunchback , and is bald . the same is true for the console versions of both the lego games . from the in - universe part of it , one can say that tom simply got older and his mind was weakened by the ageing . it ' s also possible that the original tom was simply a bartender who worked at the leaky cauldron , whereas the one in this film is the one from the books .
the part of bem was created solely for the film , he explains to seamus finnigan what the grim is and also expresses his concern over the dementors effectiveness at catching sirius .
the film ' s cocteau - esque concept is harnessed to some x - files - style paranoia , but it is the dazzling martial arts work that gives the film its special lift . the directors , the wachowski brothers , were already having ideas above their station when they came up with the matrix ( their only previous film , after all , was the sweaty , claustrophobic thriller bound ) . it was the martial arts choreographer yuen woo - ping who helped them reach the next level .
harsh . but it gets more confusing when you see the beast destroy a portrait in the beginning of the movie . this picture looks like the prince as he appears at the end of the film .
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this film should have caused interest in the property to skyrocket . instead , it left this reviewer . . . disinterested in learning more .
. . . an entertaining film that manages to adapt well something that simply seemed unadaptable to the cinema . [ full review in spanish ]
and no wonder : crane ' s life , as it ' s depicted in paul mariani ' s 1999 biography
the broken tower ,
upon which franco ' s movie is based , isn ' t exactly as hollywood - friendly as
the avengers .
harold bloom , perhaps the most famous literary critic alive , has called crane one of the three or four best poets of the 20th century . but crane ' s work is less well - known than that of his contemporaries like william carlos williams and robert frost .
some comments i’ve heard or read online…”it’s a mix between art film and student film . ” to me , that’s just a really easy way to try and describe what it is . i’m an older student for film school . i didn’t need to go to film school to get movies made . i went because it put me in touch with younger filmmakers . it gave me permission to just experiment and try things . you don’t need to be guided by the commercial theatrical marketplace that i’ve been working in as an actor .
however , eyewitnesses have reported that people are still trapped at the top of the building which is believed to have broken out on the second floor and engulfed up to 24 floors above it . small lights that look like torches have been seen by those on the ground , with individuals claiming the building is “close to burning through” .
the film makers included a highland cow during the christmas scenes , likely as a reference to the remote areas of scotland where the castle is supposed to be situated . it may also be as a reference to dufftown , which is mentioned by hermione at one point in the film , for which highlands are known to exist .
i mean for a lot of those films , i worked for a day really as favors . like for “cherry , ” i worked a day because stephen elliott directed it and i optioned two of his books . michael shannon did “the iceman , ” and he was in “the broken tower” and had done one of my student short films , so he basically said to me , “it’s time to do one of my things ! ” so there’s a few things like that , that are kind of misleading .
i shall discuss night of the living dead in relation to the formal categories of genre , structure , and theme , with particular reference to the film’s engagement with the politics of race , gender , and violence . while these time - honoured categories are hardly exhaustive of the film’s meaning , i hope that exploring them will take us some way towards understanding the film’s central concerns and its wider cinematic importance and influence . some of my wider claims about romero’s ideological vision are unoriginal — the exposition of romero as a social critic , for example , has been magnificently achieved by robin wood ( 2003 ) , amongst others . moreover , close readings of the film already exist , most notably the analysis of the film’s “textual and structural” aspects first published in the early 1970s by r . h . w . dillard ( 1987 ) nonetheless , my discussion ( i might almost say disinterment and dissection ) of the film offers some original contributions to the film’s generic , stylistic , and structural analysis and explores some of the reasons for its continuing popularity at a time of renewed cultural and cinematic fascination with zombies .
in the book , aunt marge stays for a couple of nights before she gets blown up . the film makes it seem she blows up the same day she visits .
prisoner of azkaban has the dubious distinction of being , as of 2018 , the lowest - grossing film in the series . it was far from a failure by any means : it generated worldwide box office of us $ 797 million and is currently ranked the 41st highest grossing film of all time . [ 5 ]
by the end , the dark tower can’t seem to decide whether it’s positioning itself for a sequel or content to conclude here . if the movie’s ticket sales match its review scores , a sequel may not be an option . hope for the dark tower faithful ( whose broken hearts will mend ) lies in hollywood’s endless , rolandesque capacity to remake the same stories . this version reportedly cost only $ 66 million , which means that even in the worst case , it won’t bomb badly enough to preclude the possibility of another adaptation attempt . and even if another dark tower movie never gets made , the tv series—which will be written and run by former walking dead showrunner glen mazzara , and in which elba is also supposed to appear—could be better than its big - screen cousin . early indications are that the show , unlike the movie , will wisely pick up at the start of the saga , and a 10 - to 13 - episode order will allow mazzara more time to linger on the rooms of ruin , stairways standing in darkness , and spinning spiders that make mid - world what it is .
in the books , this is very explicitly laid out ; in the movie , it isn’t , but that’s a whole other issue . the issue here is this location is so close , figuratively and literally , to the dark tower itself that putting it in the film at all removes hundreds of pages of potential storylines . the books probably cover years of travel , and now it’s a journey of a couple of weeks at most .
unfortunately , those alternative positions are never fully articulated in the film , nor , for that matter , are any specific problems with the revised chronology . by short handing particular perspectives , the film becomes biased towards rohl’s revised chronological solution , when other solutions could have been discussed . when i asked mahoney media why that was the case , steve law , the film’s co - writer , indicated that test audiences wound up becoming fatigued by “to much information . ” ultimately he indicated that “to us , the emphasis given in the film to the general idea of chronological revision not only was more cinematically engaging , but also has the most explanatory potency . ”
also in the book , marge only floats up to the ceiling , while in the film she uncontrollably floats out of the house , later to be found circling a chimney in sheffield .
hermione is also watching this with ron in the film . in the book harry and ron had not reconciled their problems with hermione yet so she was elsewhere .
james franco ' s arty piece about maverick poet hart crane may serve better as his thesis film than as a commercial release . twitter
james franco ' s
sal ,
a film about the last day in the life of 1950s teen heartthrob sal mineo , was made in 2011 , and it is only now getting a token release . this is franco ' s fifth feature as a director , and in the two years since he shot it in nine days he has made four other features , two documentaries , and two shorts while continuing to act in movies and write short stories and put together art shows . in the fourth feature he directed ,
the broken tower ,
franco cast himself as the great american poet hart crane and made a dreamy black - and - white hash of crane ' s life , filled with student film visuals and dorm - room philosophizing . it was a disgraceful movie , disconnected from any but the most superficial understanding of crane ' s work and life , and franco has only somewhat better luck with
sal ,
a film about a likable but minor actor and icon .
by opening night , that string of postponements and portents had left series loyalists screaming , “face me , ” too ; however ugly the finished film , at least the wait would be over . unfortunately , their fears weren’t unfounded . while it’s not quite as terrible as the prerelease timeline indicated it could be , the dark tower adaptation doesn’t stand on its own or face its source material in a satisfying way .
the dark tower movie , like the dark tower books , is packed with connections to king’s other works : the script goes so far as to rename the series’ psychic ability , “ the touch , ” to “the shine , ” even though there’s already a reference to the shining in an earlier scene . over the course of thousands of book pages , a sprinkling of self - references help impart an impression of interlocking worlds , all joined to the tower and serving the beam . in a 95 - minute movie , it plays as frantic fan service , a distracting scavenger hunt for king creations ; ooh , i spy a low man in a yellow coat . to make those moments more pointless , the viewers who are likeliest to catch all of those easter eggs are also the ones who’ll be most upset by the corners—hell , whole books—cut along the way .
when the gryffindors and slytherins go to their first care of magical creatures lesson in the book they visit the hogwarts hippogriff herd , but in the film buckbeak appears to be the sole hippogriff at hogwarts .
when james franco first came up with the idea to make a movie about the life of american poet hart crane , he had no idea he would wind up writing , directing , producing and starring in it , as he eventually did in
the broken tower ,
which is getting a theatrical release friday . he thought he ' d just want to act . he was fascinated by crane ' s legendarily difficult , brilliant poetry , as well as his personal demons , which led him to alcohol and eventually suicide at age 32 .
in “the broken tower , ” a fragmentary screen biography of crane , written and directed by james franco , who plays the poet , mr . franco speaks those words accompanied by images of the brooklyn bridge . that is the central symbol in crane’s epic poem “the bridge . ” there follows an ungainly simulated sex scene between crane and emile ( michael shannon ) , in which amid much grunting the camera studies the pimples on mr . shannon’s back . the prosaic encounter is so completely antithetical to the rhapsodic mysticism of crane’s love poetry that you wish another director , say kenneth anger , had taken on crane as a subject .
this isn’t all to say future dark tower movies are unsalvageable . . . not that it matters , considering this film’s dire opening weekend box office . but either way , the movie failed to bring stephen king’s masterful storytelling to the screen , which is what fans have loved about this series since the gunslinger was first published in 1982 . and it was a change that benefitted no one and nothing .


just go with it is a 2011 american romantic comedy film directed by dennis dugan , written by allan loeb and timothy dowling and starring adam sandler ( who also co-produced ) , jennifer aniston , nicole kidman , nick swardson and brooklyn decker .

the film is based on the 1969 film cactus flower which was adapted from an earlier broadway stage play written by abe burrows , which in turn was based upon the french play fleur de cactus .

production of the film began on march 2 , 2010 .

the film was released on february 11 , 2011 by columbia pictures in north america .

the film grossed over $ 214 million , making it a box office success - however , the film received negative reviews from critics and won two golden raspberry awards for worst actor and worst director .

just go with it

amidst the wreckage of just go with it , aniston and sandler have a real chemistry . they should go elsewhere with it .
photo : brooklyn decker and adam sandler in
just go with it .
credit : sony .
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a : i , too , will use the word “poop” in an effort to accurately describe just go with it .
this cast list of who was in just go with it includes both lead and minor roles . ( 20 items )
just go with it cast list , listed alphabetically with photos when available . this list of just go with it actors includes any just go with it actresses and all other actors from the film . you can view additional information about each just go with it actor on this list , such as when and where they were born . to find out more about a particular actor or actress , click on their name and you ' ll be taken to page with even more details about their acting career . the cast members of just go with it have been in many other movies , so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with .
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a : and in just go with it , sandler is clearly trying to say that women—be they 42 or 23—are easily manipulated by schlubby guys with money .
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a : the lyrics to this song from the wedding singer went through my head more than a few times during just go with it .
jennifer aniston , in her familiar pretty , practical and likable role , shines in ' just go with it . ' adam sandler also stars .
after winning last weekend’s box office derby , this adam sandler - jennifer aniston rom - com just go with it is showing legs . but why ?
and while it may sit atop the box office ,
just go with it
attracted fewer people opening weekend than recent sandler flicks like
grown ups
and
you don ' t mess with the zohan .
the silly story and crummy writing leave just go with it feeling a bit unfinished and never quite hitting the right level , like a haphazard hodgepodge of poor ideas .
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urltoken - follow us ! just go with it hits theaters on february 11th , 2011 . cast : adam sandler , jennifer aniston , nicole kidman , bailee madison , brooklyn decker , dave matthews , heidi montag a man enlists the help of a woman and her kids to land the woman of his dreams . just go with it trailer courtesy columbia pictures .
a : o . k . , i don’t know how to tie this line in to just go with it , but , even though it’s not even sandler’s line , it’s best 13 - word sequence ever spoken in an adam sandler movie .
a : madonna’s “material girl” never plays during just go with it , but we do hear that odd mashup of snow patrol’s “chasing cars” and the police’s “every breath you take . ”
adam sandler ' s latest comedy
just go with it
passed the $ 100 - million mark at the domestic box office this weekend , making it the 12th film featuring the comedian to pass that financial milestone .
just go with it
involves adam sandler recruiting jennifer aniston to pose as his soon - to - be - divorced wife and her kids to pretend to be his fake family .
just go with it , isn ' t really a bad movie , but sometimes could be unfunny and terrible silly , just like the character eddie and present some romantic cliches . interesting , but not a good remake of ' cactus flower ' .
a : contrary to some of his past films , in just go with it , sandler doesn’t play an idiot , at least in his professional life . sandler plays danny maccabee , a plastic surgeon .
to this unhappy fellowship may now be added just go with it , a remake of the 1969 gene saks film cactus flower . the movie differs most appreciably from its recent forebears in two ways . first , it had the decency to forego the title of the original film in favor of something more aggressively generic . and second , just go with it —the title itself seems a plea for audiences ' forbearance—is so unremittingly awful that it makes nearly impossible any meaningful comparison to the original .
aniston appears just as disgusted with these characters as we are . she ' s never been so relatable .
if you ' re a sandler film buff , the comedy is classic sandler and will probably satisfy . still , the best thing about the movie remains aniston — she is reason enough to just go with it .
it ' s available now , along with watchos , tvos and homepod versions .
the best thing about the new adam sandler comedy
just go with it
( i ' m assuming
just bear with me
was already taken ) is rachel . and by that i mean jennifer aniston , playing a slight variation of the pretty , pragmatic waitress with great hair and even better comic timing whom america ( or large parts of it ) fell in love with over the 10 - year run of
friends .
you will agree with part of the author ' s points and disagree with others .
the satellite tv giant said it will launch its early release offering of films in partnership with four big studios with sony’s just go with it this thursday . the film became available for pre - order as of this morning . the service is only available to directv hd dvr customers . the company has about 6 million such customers , according to a spokeswoman .
q : “just do it or i’ll light my hair on fire and start punching myself in the face . ”
sony believes
just go with it
is in fact a romantic comedy , but the studio wants to attract as wide an audience as possible — including , perhaps , men who could buy tickets without their girlfriends or wives .
police said that the teens told dunn , who walked with a cane , not to go into the murky waters .
you will agree with the author and back your agreement up with logic or personal experience .
a : this had to be the exact quote that both nicole kidman and dave matthews said to sandler when they agreed to accept roles in just go with it . to be fair , both appear to be having a good time .
it ' s a bawdy comedy for randy guys starring a nearly naked swimsuit model . or it ' s a smart romance for women about finding the perfect man . if you believe sony ' s advertising campaign for
just go with it ,
this weekend ' s adam sandler movie might be both of those things .
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justin bieber ' s most die - hard beliebers came out in droves to put the singing sensation ' s 3 - d documentary into the # 2 slot with a $ 30 . 3 million opening . as of press time , the figure was just a well - coiffed hair away from the estimated $ 31 million earned by
just go with it .
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“he started to struggle and scream for help and they just laughed , ” martinez said . “they didn’t call the police . they just laughed the whole time . he was just screaming … for someone to help him . ”
the ffa won ' t change and this is why they have to go . it ' s as simple as that .
it ' s all ridiculous , of course , but it ' s meant to be .
‘it’s not a perfect , sterile environment where you push a button and it happens . ’
anchored by a nicely understated performance by seann william scott ,
just before i go
effectively juggles a wealth of genuine , at times profound , emotion with quite a bit of nutty - raunchy humor .
courteney cox ' s directorial debut
just before i go
is a
garden state
retread in which filthy jokes gradually cede ground to sentimental slush .
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it ' s your typical romance film . just go with it isn ' t memorable or humourous in any way . adam sandler and jennifer aniston are certainly not a cute screen couple or are that enthusiastic in any way . they showed me very unconvincing performances attatched to a very thin plot . instantly forgettable .
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even the most ardent happy gilmore fan knows going in that the new adam sandler - jennifer aniston chuckle fest , just go with it , will have a razor - thin plot and most likely be terrible . hey , guess what—they’re right ! and we also know that , regardless , this movie is going to make a lot of money . such is the way of our world . so , having said that—and since there are not 25 questions worth of plot to go around—let’s instead answer every question that you could possibly have about just go with it using an adam sandler quote from a previous movie as a prompt .
the $ 80 - million
just go with it
was among several high - profile movies promoted before , during and after sunday ' s super bowl , though the commercial for the sandler film generated a huge bounce in audience interest , according to audience tracking surveys .
because katherine is a divorced mother , the studio hopes that female moviegoers will see
just go with it
as female wish fulfillment — that you can have a second chance at love . whether the particularly blunt two - prong strategy will work remains to be seen .
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he added , “i just kind of wish people looked into facts before they go ahead and do something like that , because it could be easily debunked based on a quick phone call or two , or a couple emails . ”
3 .
just go with it [ is ] a comedy so noxious it seems the product of deliberate malignity . surely the sour , vapid , miserable world of this movie can ' t reflect any real human being ' s notion of what love or humor or good storytelling is - - not even a hollywood screenwriter ' s . the only acceptable explanation for the existence of just go with it is that everyone involved in the creation of this movie - - the director dennis dugan , the co - writers allan loeb and timothy dowling , the entire misused and humiliated cast - - hates romantic comedy and wants it to die .
- - dana stevens , slate
if he could go back , he said , “i might have still tweeted it but very differently . i think it goes without saying i would have tried to make a more objective statement . ”
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lewis wolpert defined depression as ' malignant sadness ' . george santayana called it ' rage spread thin ' . i call it ' watching an adam sandler romcom where he discovers he ' s been in love with his feisty pal jennifer aniston all along ' . just go with it is so dispiritingly awful that responsible cinema staff should make audiences remove their ties and shoelaces on their way into the auditorium .
- - peter bradshaw , the guardian
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in leave it to me ! , goodhue ' s goal is to get out of russia and go back to his hometown of topeka , kansas .
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the movie is saved from utter disaster , though , by jennifer aniston . she’s got expert comic timing when all those around her have none ; she’s got lightness and finesse when everyone else is being indulgently silly . she plays like a grown - up ; she looks fab . and she gets a real commitment out of sandler — her performance makes him grow up , too . amidst the wreckage of just go with it , aniston and sandler have a real chemistry . they should go elsewhere with it . d
for a bit , it was like taking a time machine back to last summer , with everyone out in the street , exploring and finding pokémon . in some ways , that ' s why pokémon go fest the actual event was doomed to fail : it tried to rope in an experience that ' s meant to live outside . on a practical level , it failed because you just couldn ' t cram that many people playing the game in one spot and expect the technical side of things to hold . on a conceptual level , it failed because it just wasn ' t what this game is meant to be .
after midnight , mr . tucker deleted his original tweet , then posted an image of it stamped with the word “false” for posterity . it did not receive much attention .
so now that we have two films to take a look at , you’d be surprised to hear which one is getting the more positive buzz . over at rotten tomatoes , just go with it is running at 18 % rotten , while never say never is soaring with a 65 % fresh rating . yes folks , it would appear as if many cranky film critics are now full - fledged beliebers ! naturally , we don’t count critical response when it comes to these polls , because it’s all about asking you moviegoers for your opinion .
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it is not official yet , but rumors are running wild about the release of two new
pokemon go
events happening in the coming days . these new events would come with new exciting items to prevent bugs .
i suspect we are seeing something like this effect playing out with trump news . it’s not that coverage of the new administration is unimportant . it clearly is . but social signals — likes , retweets and more — are amplifying it .
excellent lesson . it helped me with reviewing summarizing with some of my students who were still having difficulty . i especially liked the chart . however , please change adjective to adverbs .
it doesn ' t seem that the raids achieved that kind of density around the world , but the birds were popping up a day early just the same . no , it wasn ' t the plan . but it seems to have produced a sort of giddy excitement .
adam sandler ' s
just go with it
opened strongly but will still have some distance to go in order to recoup its estimated $ 80 million production budget . set in hawaii , the romantic comedy - of - misunderstandings co - stars jennifer aniston and longtime sandler pal nick swardson (
grandma ' s boy
) but suffers from a 19 percent score on rotten tomatoes , which averages reviews from critics .
the beginning of fushigi yuugi has the girls go back and forth between
this world is awesome , i wanna see more of it !
to
no way , i want to go home now
. this becomes the conflict between miaka and yui .
at times , it ' s hilarious , but the tone changes so much that it becomes hard to keep up .
sure , the whole thing was fan service . the event itself had turned out to be a complete bust , so the developer decided to just go ahead and throw as much as they could at the
“it’s not just scanning environment , ” chimed in julie gottman . “it’s scanning the partner for what the partner is doing right or scanning him for what he’s doing wrong and criticizing versus respecting him and expressing appreciation . ”
exxon mobil expects plug - in vehicles to amount to just a sliver of vehicle sales by 2040 .
monning populous to make them happy . and guess what ? that turned out to work just fine .
and what to make of adam sandler at this point ? less then two years ago , in judd apatow ' s underrated funny people , sandler gave an indelible portrait of self - loathing as a talented comedian seduced by easy money into making childish films for which he felt only contempt . since then , he has appeared in grown ups and now just go with it . in funny people , it took a brush with terminal illness for him to rediscover his craft and his self - respect . one can ' t help but wonder what it might take in real life . at the moment , i can think of no actor— not even you , mr . cage—who makes his living by presuming the lowest common denominator to be quite so low . just go with it may be no cactus flower , but its star comes off as a prick .
reached first place on the international chart with $ 10 . 84 million on 2 , 791 screens in 40 markets for a total of $ 76 . 26 million after 8 weeks of release . it opened in first place in australia with $ 2 . 44 million on 311 screens , but it struggled in italy with just $ 732 , 000 on 248 . so far the film has $ 9 . 09 million in russia after just two weeks , including $ 2 . 87 million on 544 screens this past weekend .
there ' s one final point : the saudis may have some motivation for letting go of the production deal . it may have to do with a very important elephant in the room : aramco . the saudis certainly are willing to sacrifice market share by cutting production , providing it will prop up oil prices and lead to a higher valuation for aramco , which is scheduled to go public next year .
4 . just go with it ( sony ) week 2 [ 3 , 548 theaters ] friday $ 5 . 2m , saturday $ 7 . 7m , estimated sunday $ 5 . 4m three - day weekend $ 18 . 2m ( - 40 % ) , four - day holiday $ 21 . 7m , cume $ 64 . 2m
it may be blowing your mind right now to see two films up there listed as box office winners in the title , but there’s a reason for that . see , there was a photo finish at the box office this weekend between the adam sandler / jennifer aniston comedy just go with it ( $ 31 million ) , and the 3d justin bieber biopic / concert film never say never ( $ 30 million ) . some have suggested that never say never will ultimately win the weekend once the final numbers come in , though at this moment in time just go with it is in the lead . thus , you can see why we’re listing both films this week . ( and in case you’re wondering , gnomeo & juliet finished third with $ 25 million , while the eagle and the roommate rounded out the top five with about $ 8 million each . )
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number 3 on the list is my favorite response .
the only acceptable explanation for the existence of just go with it is that everyone involved in the creation of this movie . . . hates romantic comedy and wants it to die . ” i seriously think that ' s a fair statement and explanation . i ' m sure aniston too wanted a easy paycheck and is also a sick of romcoms .
was a high - profile miss , earning just $ 24 , 000 in the u . s . it fared better overseas , taking in $ 4 . 6 million .
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a lot of brainpower and money are going to be put behind evs in the next 20 years . once the transition gets going , i think it’s going to go quick .
i don ' t know why i should go to school . this is the right place . it ' s helping me in my english composition 2 class . thank you .
in a sar paper , the conclusion should usually be your response to the article . that means that you will tell the reader what you think about it , including whether you liked it , what you learned from it , how it reminded you of something in your own experience , or how it changed your thinking .
it is a complex romantic comedy movie . lots of funny scenes with some serious dramatic play . i like the movie very much .
“i just want to go back home to my family , ” 16 - year - old linda wenzel said . “i want to get away from the war , away from all the weapons , away from the noise . ”
done nicely in kickassia . after the nostalgia critic banishes the cinema snob , he finds his room has turned into his old review room with his catch phrase echoing when he touches the table . he ' s far too gone with the need to be in power by this point , but just for a moment you can tell he desperately wants to go home .
the governing body completed its latest public relations disaster with the abysmal handling of the row with the stakeholders over the size of its congress .
you will disagree with the author because of your experience or knowledge ( although you may have sympathy with the author ' s position ) .
mon go fest , on a practical level , was a spectacular failure : people in the park weren ' t able to play the game , throwing a massive wrench into the works for a global event that was meant to serve as a grand celebration of the game ' s first year . so , niantic decide to go ahead and make a new plan . at one point , it seemed they were going to give out lugia without a raid and release it for battling over the next 48 hours , which seemed lame . that plan seemed to go by the wayside as well . ditching a carefully choreographed reveal , the developer decided to just go ahead and release two legendary birds : lugia and articuno , to be specific . and it ' s great .
remained in first place on the international scene with $ 16 . 32 million on 7 , 746 screens in 55 markets for a total of $ 79 . 63 million after three weeks of release . it didn ' t have many new openings . it did add $ 1 . 12 million on 331 screens during its second weekend in australia for a total of $ 4 . 39 million so far . it has already made more internationally than it has domestically , and with openings in spain , germany , and italy , it should have no trouble getting to $ 200 million worldwide . i think the studio should be happy with that , but i ' m not sure they will be happy enough to go with a sequel .
the low critic scores for this film are not deserved , in my opinion .
just before i go
is a completely serviceable rom - com , competently acted and pleasantly entertaining . i see neither ineptitude in the director , nor inordinate raunchiness in the telling ( despite a chronically masturbating character ! ) . the film is not clever or innovative , but it also is not bad . i disagree with those who propose
just before i go
has the potential to become a cult classic because there isn ' t anything truly unique , edgy or shocking about it . it ' s just a nice film with some off - color humor that tries but comes up short in addressing some serious issues . if i had paid $ 12 for a ticket to see this film at the theater on date night , i would feel i had gotten my money ' s worth and exactly what i expected .
the chevy bolt technically debuted at the very end of last year , but i’m counting it anyway . it boasts a range of 238 miles and a base price of $ 36 , 620 , which makes it squarely competitive with the model 3 . it got five stars from car & driver and won motor trend’s 2017 car of the year — by all accounts it’s a fantastic car — but it’s received oddly little hype relative to tesla , and sales have been disappointing .
in just go with it , a plastic surgeon , romancing a much younger schoolteacher , enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex - wife , in order to cover up a careless lie . when more lies backfire , the assistant ' s kids become involved , and everyone heads off for a weekend in hawaii that will change all their lives .
as a part of a downer or bittersweet ending , the character may find that he / she can ' t go home again . or maybe they go home , only to find that it really doesn ' t feel like home anymore . in a happier variant of that ending , the character can go home but chooses to stay , or discovers a new home that is as good as , or better than the original .
sandler ' s happy madison continues to have a film deal with sony , although it ' s unclear when the pact expires . it ' s also unclear whether his relationship with film executives is damaged after leaked emails surfacing in the sony hack revealed that some executives weren ' t unhappy with sandler ' s spending on budgets . on the tv side , happy madison ' s deal with sony was renewed for three years in january .
“oh , he just died , ” one teen was heard saying , prompting the group to break out in laughter .
trump and the midterms : it ' s a tough time to start a trade war , but there may be a logic behind it .
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the people in this movie are dumber than a box of tinkertoys . one fears they ' re so unfortunate it ' s not politically correct to laugh at them . that ' s not a problem because just go with it is so rarely funny . here is a story that began as a french farce . then it was adapted into a broadway play named cactus flower . then the play was made into a movie . now it has been made into another movie . this process has diluted it like a homeopathic medicine , so that not an atom of the original formula can be found .
- - roger ebert , chicago sun - times
liverpool is a thriving city with a glorious seafaring history , rejuvenated waterfront and a bustling city centre . it also has an unrivalled . . .
also jo in planet of the daleks . she even turns down a chance to stay with a man in love with her because she wanted earth .
movie studios sometimes use slightly divergent marketing tactics to attract different demographics to their films , but sony ' s double - barreled sales effort for
just go with it ,
a movie about a plastic surgeon who pretends to be miserably married to attract single women , provides a good study in how pitches for the same film can be dramatically distinct depending on who ' s being courted .
worse than what we know is what we don’t . the arc , which boasts annual revenues of more than $ 2 . 6 billion , is notoriously opaque when it comes to what it does with the money it raises for disasters . it has never produced a meaningful breakdown of its spending after the haiti earthquake . if you look at urltoken right now , you’ll see a prominent link inviting you to “make a difference” by donating to its harvey effort . but nowhere does it say what it will do with the money . a tiny video shows empty cots in a shelter .
it is just one of many remarkable developments around evs recently . the past year has seen trumpet blast after trumpet blast heralding the arrival of an ev revolution — sooner than most analysts expected .
with 1 . 02 million units / $ 15 . 91 million during its opening week on the home market . it is already in 30th place for
. figures will therefore fluctuate each week , and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates .
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adam sandler , that patron saint of scathing critical responses , returns to the multiplex this weekend with bad review magnet jennifer aniston in just go with it , a romantic comedy about a plastic surgeon who lies about being married to sleep with younger women . as if the trailers or that premise didn ' t warn you enough to stay away - - shockingly , the film is based on the 1969 film cactus flower , co - starring walter matthau and goldie hawn , which itself was based on a french play - - the nation ' s best and brightest critical minds have come up with a variety of flowery ways to tell you to how much it sucks eggs . click ahead for the nine best takedowns .
in just go with it , a plastic surgeon , romancing a much younger schoolteacher , enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex - wife , in order to cover up a careless lie . when more lies backfire , the assistant ' s kids become involved , and everyone heads off for a weekend in hawaii that will change all their lives . - - ( c ) sony
fun fact : sandler is only 12 years younger today than nicholson was in 1995 when this line was spoken in billy madison . regardless , this is basically what just go with it comes down to : once in hawaii , does danny choose meg ryan ( brooklyn decker ) or jack nicholson ( jennifer aniston ) ? and , yes , sandler is getting a little too old for these types of roles .
just go with it , based on the 1969 film cactus flower , is the sixth movie that director dennis dugan and adam sandler have collaborated on , the most recent being last year’s grown ups , and that familiarity comes across in this odd comedy . dugan knows when to let sandler do his thing - - surreal gags , absurd relationships , and wacky situations - - and when . . . read more
it is precisely the superficial nature of clothing , the fact that garments are immediately accessible to all , that makes them the go - to stand - in for more nuanced , complicated emotions and issues .
a real - life wholesome teen did battle against a fictitious over - the - hill womanizer at the box office over the weekend as
never say never
and
just go with it
fought a close contest for bucks . the economy was the real winner , as ticket sales surged overall by more than 30 percent , according to estimates . disney ' s cg - animated
gnomeo & juliet
rounded out the top three with more than $ 25 million in revenue .
john gottman elaborated on those spears : “disasters will say things differently in a fight . disasters will say ‘you’re late . what’s wrong with you ? you’re just like your mom . ’ masters will say ‘i feel bad for picking on you about your lateness , and i know it’s not your fault , but it’s really annoying that you’re late again . ’”
it ' s not all bad news . exxon ' s dividend — now with a 3 . 7 % yield — still appears safe for the moment .
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nothing says i ' m in touch with the people like . . . urltoken
mps told mr joho to work with them if he is to remain relevant .
a surprisingly amusing romcom that ' s enjoyable with a good cast . even sandler doesn ' t annoy me , even in anistons age she still has it .
“words can be like x - rays if you use them properly - - they’ll go through anything . you read and you’re pierced . ”
a : i’d certainly consider it if sandler would agree to make better movies .
q : “no , i will not make out with you . did ya hear that ? this girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class . ”
students released on sh30 , 000 cash bail each after being charged with torching dorms .
when you pay your money for an adam sandler comedy from the star’s own happy madison production company , you know what you’re buying : genial sloppiness , loosely paced scenes , adult men in shorts and tee - shirts behaving boyishly , jokes about girls’ boobs , jokes about guys’ boners , horseplay , funny voices , sunny weather , and golf . and still , with the bar set as low as a limbo contest on the beach , just go with it is a bummer — slack rather than loose , tired rather than fun .
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just go with it is a sandler - dugan movie all the way , which means it includes a hula - dancing throwdown between jennifer aniston and nicole kidman in a honolulu lounge ( officiated by sportscaster dan patrick ) , dave matthews picking up a coconut with his ass cheeks , and a small boy taking a crap on an adult man , who then screams about it in a fake german accent . i will not claim that none of those things made me laugh . but i cried too , partly at the realization that sandler ' s particular brand of evil genius lies in taking a painfully stupid joke and pushing it so far that it sometimes transforms into its opposite , like some quantum - physics particle or that hall & oates song you hated the first 800 times and now totally love .
- - andrew o ' hehir , salon
but mr . trump is likely to be president for at least the next four years . and it’s probably not a good idea for just about all of our news to be focused on a single subject for that long .
they’ve basically told me to stay put and wait for a phone call . i daren’t leave the house just in case she somehow gets home .
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oh susannah
by stephen foster is about a cowboy who came from alabama
with a banjo on his knee
and is glad to be home again with his sweetheart .
q : “where i come from , it’s called ‘doing the hibbidy - dibbidy . ’”
cox must have seen something in this screenplay that encouraged her to film it , but whatever that critical element was , it ' s not apparent in the finished product .
‘sometimes it takes a bit to get into the right position , ’ he said .
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i don ' t know what the process was to make this movie or how much time was actually spent coming up with it , but just go with it feels like sandler and [ director dennis ] dugan doing something which they know will be an easy paycheck . the little girl actress they cast to play aniston ' s daughter in the film is ' bailee madison ' , does anyone really believe they hired her because she might be good for their movie and not because her name sounds like the title of sandler ' s first film ? there ' s no way they took any of this seriously .
- - josh tyler , cinemablend
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we are continuing to work with the national counter - terrorism policing network and uk intelligence services as part of the response to dealing with the tragic events that took place 24 hours ago .
we need a win . it has been more than three months since we ' ve seen a victory in the year - over - year comparison , and with last year ' s
there are two ways to think about kindness . you can think about it as a fixed trait : either you have it or you don’t . or you could think of kindness as a muscle . in some people , that muscle is naturally stronger than in others , but it can grow stronger in everyone with exercise . masters tend to think about kindness as a muscle . they know that they have to exercise it to keep it in shape . they know , in other words , that a good relationship requires sustained hard work .
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a lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend , but everything doesn ' t go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father .
q : “i’m a big fan of money . i like it , i use it , i have a little . i keep it in a jar on top of my refrigerator . i’d like to put more in that jar . that’s where you come in . ”
the u . s . and china each slapped tariffs on $ 34 billion in goods , but economists say it is just an early volley and doesn ' t have the economic impact a trade war involving the global auto sector would have .
the racist candidates are expected to lose , but they could drag their party down with them .
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morningstar highlighted the production problem in a note to clients this morning :
with rising resource nationalism , exxon has found it increasingly difficult to increase production and book reserves . as a result , it ' s more reliant on higher - cost projects than in the past .
in july , france announced it would end sales of gas and diesel cars by 2040 .
in july , britain announced it would end sales of gas and diesel cars by 2040 .
even those most invested in the court’s grandeur are finding it hard to defend its reality .
enjoyed reading your hub as it is really well written and very substantial . i need to digest this information and start applying this in my work . i often just write spontaneously , no outline , and i organize this after . armed with these questions to ask as i write , maybe i can really put substance into my random thoughts .
mon go fest became something closer to what people had been hoping to get out of the day - long event . within a moment of niantic ' s announcement , gyms within a two - mile radius lit up with special raids and people one again spilled out of their hotels to go out hunting . i first noticed it once i heard cheering outside my window : the articuno outside was jamming up traffic on the relatively narrow street , people screaming
articuno !
when that
gotcha
finally appeared on screen . it was a tough fight , but there were a lot of us .
“i did think in the back of my mind there could be other explanations , but it just didn’t seem plausible , ” he said in an interview , noting that he had posted as a “private citizen who had a tiny twitter following . ”
it says a lot that 4k streaming appeared years before 4k blu - ray ( starting with netflix in april 2014 ) . it ' s far easier to prepare 4k video files for streaming and to coordinate with companies for new hardware than it is to come up with an entirely new blu - ray specification , get all of the format ' s partners and studios on board , and convince people to buy new ( and potentially more expensive ) discs . at this point , we ' ve only heard from a handful of studios about their 4k blu - ray plans .
directed by dennis dugan , ' just go with it ' was first released in 2011 . an american film with the assortment of romance and comedy . danny flew from his wedding night after knowing that his fiance is cheating on him . just after that , he meets a woman in a bar . he even slept with her that night . 20 years later he is now a plastic surgeon . he is avoiding romance as much as possible . katherine ( jennifer aniston ) is his best friend now . the past came back again . danny sees a woman palmer ( brooklyn decker ) in a party . he isn ' t holding out his wedding ring and sleeps with her like the past event . later palmer leaves him after recognizing the truth . to stop her from getting away , danny tells her that he is becoming divorced . palmer wants to see his wife . danny makes katherine as her false wife named devlin . danny , palmer and katherine go to hawaii on a tour . the trouble begins as the real devlin arrives with her husband . at the finale , danny and katherine both are feeling a romantic link between them . they all return to la and one night danny tells katherine that he loves her .
the only other new film widely released over the weekend was the roman army movie
the eagle ,
starring channing tatum (
g . i . joe
) , which opened at a distant # 4 with just $ 8 . 6 million .
thank you so much for making it easy . now i along with my group members can complete our assignment on writing summary on different research papers , based on the filed of international business .
, they sure as hell would rather play with it on earth than on c ' hou . and they sure as hell don ' t want to be forced into the role of adventurers .
during the vietnam war , forrest befriends bubba , a man who loves to go shrimp fishing and plans on buying a boat to do so once the conflict ends .
it isn’t just journalists who get the shaft . arc’s leaders have misled congress . in a scathing 2015 report , the federal government accountability office noted that “no regular , independent evaluations are conducted of the impact or effectiveness of the red cross’s disaster services . ”
in hawaii when the real devlin appears with her husband and danny and katherine shocked to realize that .
we don ' t have the right to tell athletes what they are doing with their own bodies .
people evacuate their home after the area was inundated with flooding from hurricane harvey on sunday in houston .
the big problem with 4k streaming ? you need a solid internet connection ( between 11mbps and 15mbps ) to enjoy it today . if you ' re already having issues loading hd streams , you ' re definitely not prepared for significantly more massive files coming down your pipes . and if you ' re one of the unlucky few with bandwidth caps , streaming 4k files will be impossible . finally , no matter how good a 4k stream looks , it ' ll never hold up to the enormously high bitrates of a 4k blu - ray . but just like with today ' s hd streams , that ' s something most people won ' t even notice .
mon go fest went off as advertized . people still stood out for three hours in the beating sun to gain access to an event that revolved around a broken app . but the mad fun of that moment certainly served to remind everyone here of just what ' s special about a game unlike anything else on the market ( except
posted an impressive $ 30 . 26m opening weekend , enough to put it within striking distance of