There Is Me Behind a Silver Screen

To reach the main tourist attraction of Los Angeles I merely need to hop on the 134 to the 5 freeway and drive for a bit. With Hollywood so close by you would think I would be enamored with it. 

Tallis Fact:

I am. 

Not the actual place of Hollywood but the filling of it. The people. The actors and actresses that dance behind those big silver screens. Those ones make my head spin. 

Golly, to be a different person every time you go to work must be strange, for that I do respect them. I could never do it, I would very quickly loose myself in the characters I was trying to portray... and I would just be bad at it. 

But why am I so obsessed with them? I spend hours(I am working on this) on IMDB, Internet Movie Database, just looking up what movies my favorite actors are in next. It is a little bit like a disease! 

Well, I think I have figured it out. Watching actors maneuver through stardom is like watching a tightrope walker balance on a rope thirty feet above the floor. Only if an actor falls there is no net to catch him, he falls to the floor of self destruction. Falling off that line of stability possibly has more bitter consequences for an actor then a non-actor because their shame is publicized by dozens of prying camera lenses. 

To get back to my question of why we love watching actors; we watch them because we love watching disasters. Will they fall or not? 

It is like when a train drives head first over a cliff. And it is their own fault. We love it!

I am no different. Wow, I just made myself feel ashamed.   

Hollywood is a circus, just a big glorified circus there for everyones entertainment anyway. No matter how good they are at acting, actors are working for every person in the world. We are the popcorn chewing crowd that determines which movie will be the next box office flop or hit. 

Well, I hope you enjoyed my Hollywood people rant. Now I have to go see who is on cast for The Hobbit. I'll be on IMDB.com if you need me ;)

All my starstruck enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger

P.S. Benedict Cumberbatch is the voice of Smoug the Dragon and Lee Pace is an elf! EEeeeee! So excited!

A Fantastic Burst of A Blog

It has been awhile since I have done a Happies post. In fact, it has been to long because life has been a good little whirl of lots of work and school and artwork. Happiness is actually very abundant with myself and I do not know why. Well, here is something adding to the little bubble bursts of goodness.

If you all remember this fantastic fellow,

then you will be THRILLED when you see this trailer.  When I saw it I was so happy! Wes Andersen is such a clever unique director, I love him so much!

Moonrise Kingdom: about two child sweethearts run away together and high jinx in-sue. Yay! High jinx, I love high jinx!  

Doesn't it look so cute and awesome! I is so excited! It is coming out in March or May, one of the 'M' months. I want to come out sooner.  

All my expectant enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger. 

I Fracking Love You!

Alas Alas here I am oh blog of mine, Do not fret! I will refresh your tired page to new and loverly heights. 


I have news of a new obsession of mine. "Another one!" You exclaim. "Yes!" I reply, "yet another to add to my long and, more then likely, unhealthy obsession list."
This ones name is 

!!!!!BATTLESTAR GALACTICA!!!!!!

Not the old one but the 2004-2009 series.

This is a TV show that, while it lasted, had people everywhere obsessed with it including my father. Well, sort of. He was obsessed with it but he didn't actually watch it, he just kept saying he had too and forbidding anyone around to talk about it in his presence. 

Well, he decided that it was time to watch it and I am so glad that he did because now I am in love with it! And not only with

the show but with this beautiful man as well. 

                   

You are rather fine, Captain Apollo, sir. 

*cough cough* Did I type that out loud? Ooops. 

Anyway, The show is awesome. It is action packed and cool and I can not get enough of the soundtrack, it is stunning. One thing I admire about the show is that by the first episode you care for or hate all of the characters. They (the show makers) have you feeling about each character exactly how they intended you to. You love the for mentioned man, hate the annoying stripper robot girl, sympathize with the captain and the president, cheer for the rowdy female fighter pilot, and are just kind of puzzled by the weird scientist. Yep, that's about it. 

Watch the fracking show! That is their swear word. Frack. 

Bye now!

All my Fracking enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger.

Smalls and WOO HOO!

All who are Lord of The Rings fans and geeks congregate now!!!

This my friends is the first look at Martin Freedmen as Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit!

AAAAHHH!!

I am so Excited!

Of scales, fur and evil hula hoops

Do you remember a time when you saw something scaring, disturbing, bad, horrible, and wretched?

Oh yeah! When you saw X-Men: Last Stand. And then again when X-Men Origins: Wolverine came out. These movies sank through the legions of bad films to settle at the bottom as some of worst in history(I must admit I would much rather watch these then say, Master Of Disguise though). All hope for future X-Men movies was left in the theater chairs that audiences had gladly vacated.

What, then, happened to the new X-Men movie?

Why am I asking this question? Because X-Men: First Class is great!

The mutants that had grown dull and clique are re-vaped in this deliciously action packed prequel. Director Matthew Vaughn, I tip my hat to your success.

Set in 1962 the mutants are not yet discovered and lie mostly under the radar. Charles Xavior is a charming and X-Tremly(I am so sorry, I just could not help myself) smart collage doctorate who uses his unusual knowledge to charm women. James McAvoy does a tip-top job of playing the idealistic professor. Michael Fassbender plays the tortured holocaust survivor Erik Lensherr, the future Magneto.

The two mutants banned together along with other young mutants including Jennifer Lawrence as a flirty teenaged Mystique, Nicholas Hoult as the beastly genius Hank McCoy and Caleb Landry Jones as the high flying super sonic Banshee, among others. All to defeat the war mongering Dr. Sebastian Shaw who's power allows him spew fire and explosions fit to match his diabolical character.

To keep Dr. Shawsevil plot from becoming a reality the good band of mutants, joined by hot C.I.A. agent Moira MacTaggert, must ultimatly stop the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Sure, there were a few story flaws and cheesy lines but it just added to the fun factor of this movie. Things like how Xavier ended up in a wheel chair will be revealed in the thrilling ending. When the angst-y Magneto calls out "Who will come with me?" I jumped up in the middle of the theater and called "I will!"

This fresh fast-paced film will leave you cheering and saying "Who needs the other stories? I just want the prequel!"

I wish I was a Mutant.

-All the enthusiasm I have, Tallie Raye

"What do you love about music?"

Have you ever felt a moment in life when you look back at the second you lived in right before the present and realize that, in the transition from then to now, something has changed. Changed irreversibly so. Nothing is wrong or bad about it but there is nothing happy about it either. With the knowledge of that switch nothing comes but a melancholy nostalgia for an existence that must be left behind, just past the barrier of that second. There is no going back.

In the movie Almost Famous moments like this for William Miller, the protagonist, are uncountable.

Almost Famous could be called a coming of age story but it is much more then that. William Miller is a bright fifteen year old who feels out of place in the senior class of high school. With a passion for Rock & Roll journaling he, one way or another, ends up touring with a up and coming band writing for The Rolling Stone magazine. The movie is loosely based on the life of the director, Cameron Crowe, who interviewed all the golden rock stars of the 70's.

William Miller gets pulled along a journey behind the glamour and lights of musical stardom. The raw brutality of immoral people who mean well envelope him and grow him up.

His innocent face always stands out like a beacon of rational hope in crazy parties and riotous shows. His sweet face enchanted me. He was not a jock or even good looking per say but I fell in love with William Miller. Every time he glanced up through his floppy bowl cut bangs I could see strait through his liquid brown eyes to truthful emotion. I fell in love with him because he deserved it.

Others in the band come to grips with reality through William, including the beautiful Penny Lane whom William falls for. Penny is a groupie, or Band-aid, who is there because she loves the band. William saves her life when she over doses after being rejected by a band member she thought loved her.

It was not a coming of age story, I think it was a coming to reality story.

In which I tear apart a movies dreams

Well, I just waisted two hours of my life I could have been using to, I don't know, be happy or sing about how wonderful life is. Instead I had to sit and watch as one of my favorite books was turned into a weepy sad fest with no redeeming factors what so ever!

I am angry!

The book is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I just saw the new movie with Michael Fassbender and Mia Waskowska or whatever her name is. I know I can be pretty nasty when I am angry but I don't care. After you have slaughtered one of the most perfect heroins in literature history I have no sympathy for anyone.

I am getting ahead of myself.

Two hours ago the only movie version of Jane Eyre that I knew was the 2006 adaption with Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens. If you have not seen this version then I highly recommend that you do. It is a sweeping two part epic that stays as close to the book as you could possibly want.

Then there is this new version.

I really did go into the theater hoping for the best. I knew it would not be the best but myabe it could hold its own. I was wrong.

Mia plays Jane. She has the span of exactly four emotions: crying, victimized, serious and crying. Never was there a convincing smile on her face. I did not see her fall in love with her co-star or give anyone else a genuine feeling. She just made me want to yell "Impostor!"

Michael as Rochester was alright. He also needed to smile and joke more but his 'desperate to keep the woman he loves' act was very convincing. It would have been better if the woman he loved was not a leaky stone wall incapable of emotion. Michael and Mia together had no chemistry. Even when they kissed there was something lacking. I think the director should have stopped filming when he saw the lack of passion and forced them on a road trip or locked them in a closet or dropped them on a glacier. Or something, anything to get a real emotion between them!

The only actor who was any good was Jamie Bell. His character, St.John, was the only one who had constant convincing emotions.

Besides the acting it was just a bad movie. The lighting was either blue or gold but mostly blue. Gloominess saturated the scenes. If I had been down hearted before I saw it I would have felt like jumping into a lake afterwards. It was a depressing movie.

It was a patchwork of all the big important moments. Then they took the biggest most dramatic epic proposal scene and turned it into a mild halfhearted confession of love that you already saw coming.

I am trembling. I have never been this worked up about a movie before. The book was perfect, the 2006 version was perfect. This was such a drastic decrease of quality that I think I am in shock.

i am going to go watch the 2006 version to cleanse my mind and sooth my now haunted soul. Haunted by a movie that makes you wonder if being in love makes you depressed. Because I feel depressed after watching that.

*swoon!!!*

Is it just me or are there (teen-talk warning), like, a bazillion superhero movies due to come out in the next year? You have noticed it too? Dang, I thought I was developing super perceptive movie sight, or something. Oh, well. I guess none of my dreams are coming true today.

Oh wait, I was wrong.

Andrew Garfield is the new Spiderman!! Sweet, WOOHOO! I say that not just because he is super cute (matter of opinion) but because he is also a really good actor. Did you see him in The Social Network? I should stop asking so many questions. He was awesome!

The high-climbing sticky-fingered (eww. he doesn't sound to attractive when described like that) hero was pretty much discarded as a punk idiot by the last film. So I hope Andrew will pull him from the abyss of weirdom and place Spiderman again as the object of our cries for help.

Wait, a tall blond buff norse god is going to fall from Valhalla onto earth and save people. Dude! screw Arachnid Boy, I want Thor!!!

Ok, ok. I know the movie Thor is probably going to tank and be a flop, but look at him!! He has a magic hammer! Can you beat that? Do you have a magic hammer? Well, throw in that he is Norwegian and has a magic hammer! Can't beat that now can you! Ha! didn't think so.

I'll admit that my norweigian roots are making me partial to this guy, but even with knowledge of this I will not forsake him!
This one I am not so thrilled about. I don't know, the idea of a man running around in red, white, and blue spandex never struck me as, shall I say, smart? sure (that word really needs to be spelled with an 'h'. always throws me off) he is buff and has a bullet proof shield but really?

I understand it though. It was during the war and a patriotic Super hero was incredibly cool and practical. This version has him in flag colored cargo pants with gun straps and an army helmit. This is a much better idea, because if you got Chris Evans into spandex half the girls in this country would pass out (not including me, my eyes are still on that tall blonde god guy.)

Everything but the blood hounds snapping at her rear end

Sitting here lounging in a leather chair that has been dubbed "The Man Chair" by my family, well deserved on account of its puffy largeness. As I reclined I struggled to get through my homework while a movie was unfolding on the screen of the TV. "Ah, foolish teenager," you think, "Watching movies while she should be studying!"

Yes, I'll admit it was fool hardy of me to believe that I could quickly get my homework done in this way. But what a movie!

All About Eve is not just any old movie. It is one of those rare films that makes you feel accomplished after the last scene flickers to a finish. It is a work of art!

Made in 1950 it is black and white, the best films are all in black and white. The script is genus; witty dialogue bounces from one character to another. Over lapping and coming together to make a choppy symphony of perfect word-play. The characters are real and rounded, with pasts beyond what is caught between the beginning and the end of the film. The scenes are directed (oh dear, I am running out of adjectives)impeccably and the acting...Well, let me tell you about the acting.

Betty Davis got an Oscar nomination for this here film and she is by far the crown jewel in the solid gold of this movie. Playing an aging insecure actress she dazzles the viewer with explosions of temper to be countered the next moment by genuine tenderness and regret. Betty Davis is closely followed by Anne Baxter who plays Eve Harrington. The movie revolves around Eve but I won't tell you why, you will have to watch the film to find out. Believe me, you want to. The other roles are excellently played by superb actors and actresses, including Marilyn Monroe in her debut role.

The story builds with tension from the very beginning, keeps you intrigued tell the last bow. And when I say the last bow i mean that it ends with someone bowing into a mirror. It sounds odd, but that last moment makes you cry out with "Oh My Gosh!". Yes, someone bowing into a mirror makes you yell that.

Watch the movie. And make sure to fasten your seat belts, it'll be a bumpy ride.

Coming to a theater near you!

Alright, I feel an urge to address a growing problem in our generation. It is a very distressing problem and highly disgraceful to admit to having such a problem. I should get to the point; the problem I am speaking of is the alarming decrease of good films being in theaters over the last few years. Sure there have always been box office flops and always will be; how could you tell a film is good if there were not bad ones, right? I thought so, but lately it seems that people are losing that ability. To many people come out of a film in which the dialogue, story and character development tanked saying, "What a great film!" What? That makes no sense to me!

My sister and I do have a bit more of an acute sense of this because our father is a script writer and has taught us well in this area.

Now there is that occasional movie that fails in every aspected concerning a good film yet is terrifically fun! Take the 2009 Wolverine movie; bad story and dialogue yet the CGI infested action is great fun to watch. Or Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure; what the heck is the point of that movie? I have not the faintest clue but it fills the need for cheesy stupid humor and bad affects. I mean, what can beat a time machine phone booth filled with historical figures shooting along a time line that resembles a giant brain nerve? I bet I lost you in the last description. Your cocking your head at the computer saying "What is this girl talking about? History? Brain nerves, What?!" Just see the movie.

What I am trying to say is that there are exceptions to the bad movie making business. This movie is excluded from that exception.

The only explanation for the making of Gnomeo and Juliet I can come up with is a vague picture of a board movie maker with a volume of Shakespeare in his front lawn. I mean, it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke the punch line of which is this movie. I do not care if you think it 'looks cute'. I refuse to see this desecration of the greatest work of one of the worlds greatest writers! I can not make my point clearer.

This movie I do not understand. It has potential to be fun because it is a Pixar film and Pixar always manages to make a film fun. Now I thought that Cars 1 was not Pixars crowning moment. Yes, the landscapes were pretty but the script and animation can not rival their other movies. The hair and door work in Monsters Ink or the emotion in Wall-Es mechanical eyes and who can forget the facial expressions of fish in Finding Nemo. Fish barely have faces anyway so to make them relatable is a stunning feat. But anyway, Cars 2 is coming, I think Pixar could have done better. They could have made an Incredibles 2. That has an abundance of amazing story line by just saying the name! If they are trying to appeal to the little male audience, boys love super heros. I simple think they could have thought about something else but I will most likely see it when it comes out.
For a film that has come and gone: Yogi Bear. Really? I just want to ask what they were thinking. I see it now, film maker with a volume of childhood cartoons in his hand when a bear come out of the woods behind his house with and malls him! I wish if it had kept this movie out of film making history. It is complete with gross posters and a character that can speak bear. Is that even a language? 'grunt, grunt, *lumbers in a circle*' hey I can speak bear too! Also it dose not make sense that it came out in december. It takes place in the summer. That is just stupid.
Sorry if my opinion hurt anyones feelings. Think what you like about these films but i think they are not a blessing to the film industry. Except maybe Cars 2.

We need more films like Inception, Scott Pilgrim and The Fighter. Gosh that movie was amazing!

The past has produced amazing movies! The Philadelphia Story, Tootsie, All About Eve, The Dead Poets Society. Look at Alfred Hitchcock's films! Come on present! We can do better then this!

I'll give you the moon, Mary

Do you know what movie I love?

Can't guess? Then I'll tell you.

It's a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed.

We watched it on Christmas night, right after watching Nathaniel Lampoons Christmas Vacation, which, no matter what anyone says, is one of the most stupid and pointless movies ever made in the history of ever! I would rather stoop to watching The Master of Disguise, also a twelve degree crapper, then have to sit through Christmas vacation. Thats saying something. Everyone is entitled to there own opinion and thats mine.

So, to put in It's a Wonderful Life was an extreme relief to my holiday infatuated mind.

It's a wonderful movie! The acting is superb and the script is genius. The message that is it's title is never cheesy or over acted, it unfolds in such a perfectly touching way. This is also due to the fabulous script.

Watch it before the holidays disappear! A perfect film! Lets face it, all the best films are in black and white!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

"The name is Sherlock Holmes"

221B Baker St. is where the famous detective takes up residence in the 1900s. He solves murders done with revolvers and plays violin while smoking a pipe. Not anymore!

Now he has come back with as much genius as before but instead of the 1900's it's set in 21st century London! It is amazingly perfect! The revolvers have been replaced with 9mm handguns and while he still serenades on the violin while pondering poisonings there is no pipe but nicotine patches. Sherlock is as ever blunt and jerk-faced and can calculate where exactly you have been, what you have eaten and if you have killed someone or not by simply glancing at you. He is the epitome of an ass but you adore him! No matter what comes out of his mouth whether analysis or insult you love it!

Dr. Watson is a war-veteran with a psycho-simatic limp and trust issues but when paired with Sherlock, who cures his limp by running across roof tops in pursuit of a taxi, they make the perfect team. Watching them conquer crime scenes is thrilling, especially in this new setting.

But there is a dark element to this BBC tv series. There are murders after all, but besides that it is slightly disturbing to see Sherlock letting a serial killer take him for a taxi ride to see how the man killed his victims. Sherlock is an addict to the thrill of risking his life to prove he is cleaver.

This exciting dark new series is awesome with a twist of comedy!It seems so natural, no body questions that Sherlock is no in the 21st century. It just seems right. I fully look forward to Sundays with giddy happiness all because of this show!