Thread: Rudy's TV Screen

You know what I hate? Waiting for actors to do more cool stuff, even if they never do. Like, I love Shane West and Aaron Stanford right now, yeah? But because of their latest work, Nikita, Salem, and Twelve Monkeys. Try and scour imdb for more goodies and...meh. Otter Eyes isn't nearly as compelling as a puppy, especially with dumb bit roles and nothing major. Shane West was a 90's heart throb, boy meets girl, chick flick fodder. Everything pre- Walk to Remember is him playing stereotypical jock, clueless douche bag, and good boy who truly deserves to romance the panties off the sweet gal next door. I'm finding out that I like the grittiness of their more mature roles and yet...it's all their latest stuff. They've got nothing listed above that. So, I have to wait for them to do magic in other stuff. But I'm hungry for it now! Keifer Sutherland did that to me but the opposite. The only roles I like of his are Flatliners and Lost Boys. Everything I saw after that just didn't capture the same character essence he had in those two, and they were fairly early work. Youtube Rewatching some of my fav episodes of My Drunk Kitchen by MyHarto lately. This lady is adorable and I am super crushing. But I don't know if I wanna make out with her...or draw her... Like, I love these early vidsthis one MDK Tacos and this one MDK Ice Cream because she's so expressive and animated, her face shifting rapidly to emote like a cartoon character. Makes my heart and my drawing hand warm. TV Rewatching Gotham from the beginning and it's prompted me to write a creepy sexy fic. Not necessarily a fanfiction but the character I made is heavily inspired by Robin Lord Taylor's Penguin. I've made him a magic drug dealer who's got this girl in his clutches and whenever she can't pay him the full price for the tonic, she has to give him blood. ...Which he takes from her by sucking her nipples. Kinda dark and twisted but I'm in a nipple sucking mood, creatively, lately. Film Just saw Red Sands and...what a let down! I was super excited after watching the trailer and especially after learning that Alex Turner directed. I loved Dead Birds so much, it's tied with Wes Craven's They for my favorite horror movie of all time. Red Sands was made 5 years after Dead Birds and it feels like it should have been the other way around. Seriously, amateur hour. And the worst part, it wasn't even bad horror movie so there wasn't the usual overacting or exaggerations or bad CGI that you could make fun of. The entire thing was a snore-fest. I get the impression that there was the attempt to build up tension and that was maybe why it felt like everything was being viewed through smoked glass. But because of the tepid pulse right from the beginning and throughout, whenever anything happened, like people unexpectedly died or monsters flashed on the screen, it was less jump scare and more oh. Hey. Lookit. Thing happened. I am absolutely baffled because there was the potential to be semi-decent if it just amped up the excitement a little bit. Instead, came off incredibly sleepy and ho-hum. We won't even talk about the special effects neither. Because Dead Birds scared the crap out of me with their monster creation AND, even when they used computer graphics, sent chills up my spine. Red Sands has 1990's Reboot beating it out for believable computer animation. I swear to God, I've never been more embarrassed for the people involved in making this than when I saw their wilty dog poop monster come shambling out of the darkness like Gumby hit rock bottom. Recently watched Ladyhawke. One of my absolute favorites. This was one of the first live action films I ever saw as a child and I think the storytelling elements within the film influenced a lot of my story and writing choices I make now. The soundtrack dates it, especially the long title sequence with 80's music playing amidst a shifting night and day time view of the sun and moon, with a hawk occasionally flapping in. I'm smitten by the love story of Navarre and Isabeau, the protags all coming across as likeable with well-developed scenes showing just enough interaction that you get a sense of depth and who they are. Not terribly bothered by Broderick's fading in and out of accent, his acting is stellar otherwise. So many great scenes, full of impact and emotion. Did a full review on my blog.