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Unfortunately there have been a number of concerns over hCalendar's use of the abbreviation design pattern. This uses the HTML abbreviation element to add machine data to pages. Our concerns were:
They also go on to say that they will be considering the use of RDFa instead of Microformats. I've toyed with the idea of adding Microformats to my sites. I have a few sites that use them, but I haven't seen much benefit.
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When blades scrape across a pristine sheet of ice in the women's Frozen Four this weekend, it will be the realization of many players' dreams. But for one former hockey All-American, it's a reminder of a world she's missing. A world she works every day to be a part of again.
Sept. 12, 2010 was a busy day for 25-year-old Kristen Cameron. As an assistant ice hockey coach for Mercyhurst College pursuing a master's in organizational leadership, she had a lot on her plate.
Still settling into her new apartment near the rink, Cameron went out to purchase groceries and two corner tables. She then spent the afternoon hanging things in her living room -- a Bob Marley poster here, a hockey stick there -- before deciding to use the last hour or so of daylight to go for a bike ride.
The new route she discovered was perfect for triathlon training. Fresh pavement. Flat as could be. Huge shoulder. With sweat dampening the hair under her helmet, she felt energized with every pump of the pedal.
"In my mind I remember being like, 'I probably should turn around now.' But I kept going. And then I don't remember anything until I woke up in the hospital."
Hockey in her blood
Cameron grew up on Prince Edward Island, a tiny Canadian province with the highest rinks-per-capita ratio in the country. Family gatherings were full of hockey talk and Cameron willfully soaked it up, skating on all-male teams until ninth grade. Like her uncle, who played four years in the NHL and currently works as an assistant coach for the Ottawa Senators, the game came naturally to her.
After a standout collegiate career at Bowdoin College, Cameron chose to stay close to the sport she loves through coaching. Like many recent college graduates looking to break into the profession, she worked as a grad assistant, first at Castleton State and then at Mercyhurst, a premier Division I program in Erie, Pa.
A self-proclaimed workout nut, Cameron would often wake at 5:30 a.m. to hit the gym or grind out a P90X session.
Now, the aides who attend to Cameron come at 9 a.m. to lift her out of bed and into her wheelchair.
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Cameron doesn't remember the end of her bike ride in September 2010 because she was struck by a drunken driver, her body flung nearly 50 feet from the point of collision. Witnesses said the man behind the wheel, then 49-year-old Allen Peters, pulled over further down the road to check his car for damage before driving home, leaving Cameron lying on the shoulder with a fractured spinal cord.
After the accident, Cameron spent two weeks in a hospital in Erie. With family, friends, neurosurgeons, EMTs and trauma doctors shuffling in and out of her room, it was a bit of a blur.
But one checkup stood out more than the others.
"Someone came in and poked my leg and asked me if I could feel it, and I said, 'No,'" Cameron said. "My sister immediately got up and left the room because she was upset. That's one of the things I remember the most. Her being so upset, me feeling bad that she was upset. I don't know, I guess I never really believed it."
Cameron's sister, Jennifer said: "I remember that happening and just feeling really sick and I was just shocked and couldn't believe my eyes and it still doesn't feel real but it was what happened."
Workouts continue
Cameron, 26, now lives in an assisted-living facility in Toronto, not far from the Lyndhurst Centre, a spinal-cord rehabilitation hospital where she does physiotherapy five days a week and works with an occupational therapist. She's paralyzed from the chest down and has no control of her fingers or triceps.
But in true workout warrior fashion, Cameron sports wrist gear that connects to pulleys at the gym so she can do reps for her shoulders, deltoid and bicep muscles.
"You're basically rebuilding your body again. You're learning how to exist in your new body," Cameron said. "I have a completely new body now. And I still don't know a lot of things about it."
A spinal cord injury's impact can differ from person to person. And the struggle, Cameron said, is more than meets the eye.
"I may be in a chair, fine. I may not be able to walk, fine," she said. "But Jesus, if I could stop having issues with my bladder, my bowel, the pain. People don't understand that it's about a lot more than just not being able to walk."
The mental toll weighed heavily on Cameron when she attended the 2011 Women's Frozen Four at Mercyhurst College. It was the first time she had returned to the area since the accident, and when she was wheeled into a private room overlooking the ice, the emotion was too much to handle.
"I was supposed to be there that year. ... Everything set in; I saw what I was missing out on."
Mercyhurst fell short of a Frozen Four appearance this past weekend, losing to defending national champion Wisconsin in the NCAA quarterfinals. But if anyone can put the idea of bouncing back from loss in perspective, it's Cameron.
Moving forward
In the spring of 2011, the driver who struck Cameron, Peters, was arraigned and pleaded guilty to aggravated assault by vehicle while driving under the influence. He was sentenced to three years in prison. But since Peters had no registration or automobile insurance at the time of the accident, the Cameron family received nothing in the way of financial support.
Cameron admits she was upset with the verdict, but she has a different perspective than most.
"I remember talking to my dad when I was still in Erie in intensive care and hearing everyone talk about wanting [Peters] to get sentenced," she said. "But in the back of my mind, I thought, 'He probably needs more help than I do. He needs more help than anyone.'"
That same mental toughness, paired with unwavering support from her family, helps Cameron get through exasperating rehab sessions. But taking things one day at a time has never been her thing. She likes looking toward the future. And though her initial plan hit a life-altering roadblock, she's determined to find a way to finish her masters and work in the sport she loves.
In fact, Cameron recently tried a manual wheelchair that stands her up. Her sister's Jennifer's first thought? You can coach from this. You can be behind the bench standing.
"Every time I go [to visit her] I love going to physio with her because the stuff she can do already is just crazy," Jennifer said. "And it's hard to watch for sure but it's also so inspiring to me. She can probably do anything someday."
With plans to get a wheelchair bike soon, she's also thought a lot about picking back up with her triathlon training.
"Just being able to get my body into as good of a place as it can be, that keeps me going," Cameron said. "But a big thing is that, through all of this stuff ... hearing how many people at home are thinking about me and have given money to my family. There are so many people that I don't even know that help out. Those people, from what I'm told, all think that I inspire them and to me, if I inspire them, that's what motivates me to keep working."


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Arizona Diamondbacks
Why part with Charles Nagy AND Ian Kennedy?
I'm not surprised by Tuesday's announcement that Charles Nagy has been fired as the Diamondbacks' pitching coach. Coaches come and coaches go, and the staffs of teams that finish .500 and blow nine game leads are rarely extended the luxury of returning in tact.
However, what I do find curious is why Ian Kennedy was traded if Nagy was to shoulder the blame for the team's pitching woes.
Two years ago, Kennedy was the staff ace and a 26-year-old Cy Young contender with so bright a future GM Kevin Towers wanted to contractually extend the righ-thander long after his first season of free agent eligibility. Two disappointing seasons later, he was being shipped to San Diego in the middle of a playoff push for a left-handed specialist, a Double-A closer and a bag of sand.
The organization clearly wasn't serious about its own postseason fortunes. Otherwise, a trade would have been completed that brought over more than a mediocre left-handed specialist to aid the cause, especially when the team already had one.
Tony Sipp (designated for assignment): 4.78 ERA in 56 appearances for the D-backs.
Joe Thatcher (acquired): 6.75 ERA in 22 appearances for the D-backs.
If it had been decided that of all the Diamondbacks' coaches, Nagy was the weak link, wouldn't it have been worth giving a new pitching coach the chance at resurrecting Kennedy's once-promising career before shipping him off for spare parts?
Kennedy did post his best two months of the 2013 season while in a San Diego Padre uniform.
Kennedy w/ ARI: 3-8, 5.23 ERA, a 1.42 WHIP
Kennedy w/ SD: 4-2, 4.24 ERA, a 1.34 WHIP
Yes, Petco Park in San Diego is pitcher-friendly. But there is a chance that another voice, another set of eyes might have had an influence.
Why not give one the chance in Arizona?
Perhaps Kennedy is unfixable. After all, he's allowed more hits than innings pitched the last two seasons, he finished 2013 with the tenth-most home runs allowed, and his ERA was fifth worst among qualifying starters this season.
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Makes me think there was more behind the trade...
- He wasn't liked?
- Kevin Towers didn't want to deal with his agent, Scott Boras, if Kennedy did turn it around?
- Kennedy wasn't perceived as being "gritty" enough for Gibby's taste?
All I know is that a once-promising pitching staff of the future has gone to shambles.
And I, for one, refuse to heap all the blame on Charles Nagy and Ian Kennedy.
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BFG'S Art Kids
Do we ever really outgrow the thrill of a wall of unlimited markers begging to be scribbled on a massive blank canvas? As designers we will never stop reaching for pen and paper. We will never stop doodling, sketching, releasing the insanity and brilliance that makes us unique. When an idea strikes, it is a craving that needs to be immediately satisfied. Paper. Markers. The hand flies. We are and always will be "the art kids".
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Over 3000 sharpies, all functioning, created a wall of possibilities. Nelson used the individual marker colors to emulate pixels or mosaic tiles – each contributing to the visual movement of the sculpture.
Stacks of carved paper climb the walls blending into a gorgeous gray scale. Plaster cast bases emulate the concrete streets of the city buzzing below. A roll of industrial butcher paper begs to be tagged with spur of the moment creative visions. It is art that functions, turning from installation to reception desk. An interactive piece that engages the staff and visitors to participate first hand in BFG's creative process.
Adding another layer of the personal, Nelson incorporated illustrations by BFG designer Ryan Kasal into the butcher paper roll and custom entry wallpaper.
"When you enter the space it's as if you've stepped within the mind of the BFG artist, the tools they fell in love with as kids and what continues to stimulate them today. It is essentially the experience of who they are." Nikole Nelson
Written by Jennifer Tripp for Nikole Nelson Studios.
Couture Carnival: Prada Aflame
Photograph by Jeff Harris. Set Design and Prop Styling by Nikole Nelson Studios.
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3 additional sets were created: the NB Minimus (too cool), a conceptual subway/road map and a four sided beam.
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If I could drive, I would want to drive this bad boy. Up for auction at eBay is the Aaron Grote's celebrated Atomic Punk bubbletop custom hot rod. This hot rod got a lot of attention at the 2008 Detroit Autorama Extreme.
Aaron Grote says that he has built this thing from the rusty haunches of a '59 Plymouth. The motor is a 392 Hemi he front end is chrome drilled and dropped. The Ed Roth inspired hot rod has been seen in several magazines and is currently the Cover Car on the newest Rod and Custom Magazine.
At the moment the bid is just shy of $63k which is about £40k. Not bad considering the press attention it has received, the quality of the build and the fact it is completely unique. The auction ends on November 13th so the price will likely rise, and if you are a UK buyer you would have to ship it over here so yeah the price would likely start to rise a lot. Still if I was a footballer I would drive around in this, it is better than the generic BMWs, Landrovers, and Mercs you see all the footballers driving, maybe not as comfy though.
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That's pretty nifty. I believe you normally have to pay for full-size Seat Data pictures but that seems to work fine.
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Chuck loses the auction and fails to flash. He and Rye then get stuck in a cold chamber that is about to kill them, but since Chuck can't flash, Rye disarms the chamber and saves them.
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Smith nailed a 20-foot fadeaway jump shot over top of Bobcats' rookie Michael Kidd-Gilchrist to lift the Knicks to a 100-98 victory in dramatic fashion at Time Warner Cable Arena.
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July 3, 2013
A young financial genius is intent on taking his limo across Manhattan to get a haircut from his father's old barber, despite the fact that the streets are gridlocked due to a Presidential visit, "occupy Wall Street"-type protestors are rioting, and there is a credible death threat against him. It's a talky, symbolic and obliquely philosophical movie, for sure, and it will turn most viewers off; but, in its confused way it does reflect our current psychology of income gap anger and financial apocalypse anxiety.
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Adapted from a work by Don DeLillo, this is a story set in near-distant future New York about Eric Packer- a 28 year-old billionaire currency speculator/asset manager who callously watches his world crumble before him during a 24 hour odyssey as he slowly cruises across town in his limo on his way to get a haircut. His limo is tricked out and state-of-the-art. It's basically his own little microcosm he seals himself in to avoid the dregs of society outside. The story is rather surreal in tone, and feels otherworldly. Oddly though, it feels timely too, as some of the stuff Eric encounters parallel real world events. It seems odd that it would take him all day to get to his preferred barber, but the traffic jams he's caught in are the result of a presidential visit, the funeral procession of his favorite musician ( a Sufi rap artist), and anti-capitalist demonstrations by an Occupy-style group. Along the way, besides encountering said traffic slowing obstacles, Eric also conducts business in his limo, including trysts with a few women, a meeting with his new, albeit frigid and bored wife, meetings with co-workers and, a prostate exam with odd results. He also sees his business dealings falter, and learns someone is apparently out to assassinate him. This is all very troubling stuff, but he seems to be rather uncaring, if not welcoming of this ruin. The film concludes with a lengthy confrontation with the apparent assassin, highlighted by a very lengthy philosophical discussion. This seems like pretty perfect material for writer/director David Cronenberg. It's odd, thought provoking, and a real head trip at times. Unfortunately, it's also largely dull, if not really boring, ends anti-anticlimactically, and feels really under cooked, which makes sense given that Cronenberg wrote the script in like 6 days. It at least is shot well, looks great, and tries to do something meaningful, even if it falls short. I applaud Robert Pattinson for trying something different and ambitious, but I don't think this'll quite help him shed the long shadow cast by Twilight. He's backed by some interesting supporting players like Jay Baruchel, Mathieu Amalric, Samantha Morton, Juliette Binoche, and Paul Giamatti, but none of them really do anything spectacular or groundbreaking. I wanted to like this. It seemed like it would be really intense and gripping, and, while it does have its moments, it goes on for way too long, and proves to be largely 'meh' more than anything else. |
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Elise Shifrin: Where is your office? What do you do exactly? You know things, I think this is what you do. I think you acquire information and turn it into something awful. I would have to say that enjoying this movie depends completely on your ability to understand Robert Pattinson's character. If you can't, it's going to be hard to like this film. Cosmopolis is a movie of immense potential and incredible setup. What it lacks in though are the things that make movies easy to watch and get into. I was fully engaged the whole film because the thin plot had a lot of great ideas and philosophical meanings behind them, but it was missing everything from dialogue that sounded real to actors that seemed real. The only saving grace as far as acting goes was Paul Giamatti's scene at the end of the movie. Everyone else was dull and boring, as was the dialogue that was coming from their mouths.� Cosmopolis follows a rich, young man who we assume works on Wall Street. The economy is beginning to collapse and all around the city are protestors who want blood. They want Eric Packers blood too. He is constantly being updated by his bodyguard of the impending situation. Eric doesn't seem at all fazed by it though, as he drifts around the city in his limousine, talking with other people, and just trying to make it to get his haircut. Like I said, the plot is thin. There's not much in the way of action either, as it is mostly weird, dull dialogue.� Cronenberg is still one of those directors that I fail to understand. As with Lynch, I love his ideas and I like his complete dedication to his projects, but he fails to present it in an interesting way at times. This wad the case here with Cosmopolis. It's not completely his fault though, as Pattinson made his character almost impossible to listen to, with a soft, boring voice and so little emotion, I wondered if he was alive at times when he wasn't talking.� This isn't something I liked, but I do have a certain respect for it. It has a feel all its own, as every Cronenberg film does. The cinematography is extremely well done and the movie is obviously made with the intent to make the audience think. It did manage to do that, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized; I didn't like what I was watching. |
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March 22, 2013
David Cronenberg is a director that's full of surprises. The biggest surprise about Cosmopolis, his new film based on the Don DeLillo novella, is how shockingly terrible it is. This may be Cronenberg's worst film. It's certainly one of the worst films of 2012.
Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson) is a mega-millionaire currency trader. He's got so much money he wants to outrightly buy a church just because. We travel with Eric over the course of one day as he travels through New York City in his stretch limo. Along the way, he hosts a colorful array of characters and fears that his high-stakes wagers will be adding up. He becomes more and more self-destructive and looks for new and exciting ways to waste money, talent, and time. I hesitate to even use the term film with Cosmopolis because it's truly more of an endurance test in didactic, pretentious art house masturbation. The script is really a collection of self-indulgent scenes with very little to connect anything together. Each new scene feels like the movie is starting over. Worse, the dialogue is painfully elliptical, stilted, and monotone, reeking of pseudo intellectual intent, lingering in ambiguity like it's poetic. It's not, it's irritating and obtuse and character talk in circles without ever really saying anything. It's the kind of dialogue that reminds me of a pompous student play, something where the particulars involved think they're making Artistically Daring Statements about Things That Matter. It's such a mannered way of speaking, so labored in its affectations and superficially drawn to the mistaken belief that obtuse and redundant equals philosophical and thought provoking. The only thoughts I was thinking were of the murderous variety. I felt so pained that I had to check the time and only eleven minutes had passed. It felt like I had spent three times that amount. I stuck it out for you, dear reader, but otherwise I would have bailed. Here are a handful of dialogue samples to give you an idea: "Why do they call them airports?" "I have an asymmetrical prostate. What does that mean?" "Try putting a stick of gum in your mouth and not chew it." "Where do limos go to spend the night?" I feel like I'm even doing a disservice to calling the people onscreen as characters. They?re really more just talking heads, mouthpieces for cluttered ideology. The plot introduces new characters but they only last for a scene and then it's time for someone knew. This would be acceptable if it ever appeared that these interactions had any effect, positive or negative, on our protagonist. As it stands, it's just a gloomy guy running into one meaningless encounter after another. Oh, and if that was the point of the whole exercise, then shoot me now. I literally cheered when the movie was over. Well, right after incredulously barking, "That's it?" Plot is another term, much like characters, that has next to no meaning for Cosmopolis. The plot is a wealthy guy who wants to get a haircut. Yes, that is the inciting incident. He stays in his limo as it slowly drifts down the bumper-to-bumper New York City traffic. He has encounters with people, sure, but mostly it's the story of one man in his pursuit of a haircut. And you know what dear reader, spoilers be damned, but he gets that haircut too. The final half hour of the movie, almost a third of the whole running time, is spent with Paul Giamatti, an intense and angry man who wants to kill Eric. At least Giamatti's performance kept me awake. The plot, much like the characters, is really a vehicle for the script's ideas, so it becomes exasperating when the movie tries to pretend, at points, like now all of a sudden we should care about Eric and his journey. The ideas, as presented, are either on-the-nose or impenetrable. For every confusing conversation about death, you'll get a capitalism = rats metaphor. Pattinson (Breaking Dawn Part 2) seems like an apt choice as well as a craven marketing ploy for Cronenberg to get his weird arty movie greater exposure and financing. Pattinson gives a rather cold and detached performance, which I'm sure is also the point but it's not exactly an outlet to showcase any potential range. I'm sure Pattinson leaped at the chance to work with Cronenberg, but he should have checked out his emotionally vacant character first. Oh I get it that Eric is a guy who seemingly has it all but now feels empty, and I get how it's meant to be an analogue for the Wall Street set that?s hijacked our capitalism markets (rats!). I get it. It's just lousy, and Pattinson could have been replaced with just about any young Hollywood hunk. The only enjoyable aspect of this whole movie, and this is simply a theoretical extension, is that plenty of diehard Twilight fans are going to watch this movie and be very very confused. Cronenberg keeps us locked in that limo, at least for the first half of the film. We get to watch Eric host an array of guests. He gets serviced by a middle-aged woman (Juliette Binoche). He gets a prostate exam while conducting a meeting. He gets up-to-the-minute reports on the millions of dollars he?s hemorrhaging, and he doesn't care. Money has lost all known value when everything is given to you. Look, I can make vague, self-important statements too. I'll credit Cronenberg with finding creative ways to play around within the confined space of the limo, making the film less hermetic than it by all means should be. However, bad green screen effect work really proves distracting, so that you're given another reason to check out when characters drone on as they do. Strictly put, this was not a story that needed to be turned into a movie. I'm sure DeLillo's novella has its own weight and power, but the big-screen adaptation of Cosmopolis is all flaccid pontification, empty verbal masturbation, and crushing dead weight. It was a Herculean effort for me to watch this meandering movie to the end and I know I can't be alone in this regard. If only the characters were really characters, or the plot had any minute sense of momentum, or that the dialogue was less purposely obtuse, or if the movie felt like it was at least going somewhere or had some small recognizable shred of purpose. I won't go as far to say you should be worried if any of your friends gush to you about how great this movie is, but you should probably keep an eye on them or see if they bumped their head. This movie is more like an insufferable lecture by the most boring people who confuse cerebral with impenetrable. If you're not going to supply me any significant means of entry to engage with your art, then I'll just go play with somebody else. Cosmopolis feels like the worst and most pretentious student film you'll ever see. The rub is that a great director like Cronenberg made it. Nate's Grade: D |
Everett J |
Super Reviewer
February 26, 2013
I'm a fan of what my wife calls "weird movies". Ones that are very different, and offer something original compared to a lot of the regular Hollywood fare. But every now and then I watch something that just makes me scratch my head and say "damn that sucked". "Cosmopolis" is one of those films. Directed by David Croenberg("History of Violence", which is awesome) and starring Robert Pattinson, comes a movie that makes absolutely no sense. All I can say is it's about a rich asshole(Pattinson) in a limo on the way to get a haircut, and his day goes from bad to worse. He's completely un-relateable, and he speaks in these stupid monologues that are all over the place. At one point in the movie he is rambling about violence, and shoots himself in the hand. Made no sense, was out of nowhere, and didn't really have any impact on the movie whatsoever. Pattinson, to me, is a terrible actor. He's been in a couple decent movies("Remember Me" and "Water for Elephants" were both just ok), but he was bad in those also. He is wooden, has no charisma, and is overall boring. When the movie started I thought maybe, just maybe this would be the movie where I go "Ok, I get it. I see why people like him." But when it was over, I said "nope, he still sucks". Paul Giamatti shows up towards the end in another stupid role, where he just talks to Pattinson about a whole lot of nothing. I usually love Giamatti, but here, he is just as bad and looks like he doesn't wanna be in this movie whatsoever. This is easily one of the worst movies of 2012, and something I wish I could just forget. Don't waste your time on this. But if you do, and you like it, please let me know what you liked about it. Other than one song that is played between scenes, I can't think of anything I liked in this at all.
Pierluigi P |
Super Reviewer
October 22, 2012
A misfire. emotionally and intellectually impregnable.
Super Reviewer
October 19, 2012
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. Not a great movie!vUltimately, I understand that Cronenberg tries to make a lot of statements here but unfortunately, the message doesn't get across. It's the kind of movie that drags on and on, but doesn't accomplish a single thing. Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart. |
c0up |
Super Reviewer
October 6, 2012
'Cosmopolis'. A day of gradually building self-destruction from the inside-out led commandingly by Robert Pattinson. A cold, off-beat film that takes on the GFC via a very different perspective.
Bill D 2007 |
Super Reviewer
August 19, 2012
I dozed off about 15 times during "Cosmopolis," which wins my vote for worst art-house film of 2012 so far. I'm sure there are interesting ideas somewhere in this film by director David Cronenberg (based on a novel by Don De Lillo). But the film is directed so poorly that it's almost impossible to listen to the dialogue.
Every scene is directed the same way. Two actors sit across from each other and have a conversation. The camera almost never moves; the actors almost never move. It is inert and monotonous. This kind of material would normally be right up my alley. I loved Cronenberg's 'Naked Lunch' and 'Crash,' which were also based on avant-garde novels. I find De Lillo a very interesting writer and was very excited when I heard Cronenberg was going to take him on. If this film can't even reach its target audience (me), then I'm sure it will disappear very quickly. I don't know what's going on with Cronenberg today. His last film, "A Dangerous Method," was pretty dull. And he follows that up with this crushingly lifeless piece of work, which it seems he directed in his sleep. Yikes. |
TomBowler |
Super Reviewer
August 14, 2012
What the hell just happened? Full review later.
Tracy K |
Super Reviewer
July 21, 2012
Disorienting and mesmerizing; by no means an easy or user-friendly film, but this veneer suits it. Icy cold and nearly unlikeable, inspiring admiration rather than affection. A hypnotic downward spiral. And Robert Pattinson is pretty impressive.
Carlos M |
Super Reviewer
May 26, 2012
A provocative journey into the lustful fever of post-modern cyber-capitalism, with a magnetic performance by Pattinson, whose character remains intriguing from one casual talk to another while keeping our interest in his bizarre universe - even if sometimes the talking is just clich�.
Kevin M |
Super Reviewer
July 4, 2012
"A man rises on a word and falls on a syllable." Cosmopolis addresses some interesting ideas such as the reasoning behind money and capitalism, and my personal favorite: the notion of destruction being a form of creativity. The performances here are strange: a lot of the lines seem like they were read off of paper and some of the actors sound monotone. I got used to this after a while, since the world in which we see in Cosmopolis is different and strange to begin with. Even some of the plot comes out of nowhere and goes completely unexplained. Although the ending was confusing, it was ambiguous and left me thinking, so it gets a whole lot of credit for doing something different. This is unconventional filmmaking in a bit sloppy, albeit good form. |
Glenn G |
Super Reviewer
September 15, 2012
As a huge fan of David Cronenberg's work over the years, it pains me to say that this is easily his worst film. A career low. Obviously a cinematic master who very rarely repeats himself, he has made an indelible impression on my psyche. From SCANNERS, to THE BROOD, to THE DEAD ZONE (along with DOLORES CLAIBORNE, this film is one of the most underappreciated adaptations of a Stephen King novel ever), to THE FLY, DEAD RINGERS, CRASH, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, and EASTERN PROMISES, Cronenberg is a smart, versatile filmmaker who knows how to bring forth memorable images and moments. So it is with a heavy heart that I report that COSMOPOLIS is a torturous experience. Intentionally arch and mannered, we basically follow a 1 Percenter (a fascinating performance from Robert Pattinson nonetheless) as he rides in his limo through an increasingly hellish Manhattan. Facing everything from sex to riots to assassins, it's HEART OF DARKNESS WITH A MINIBAR AND A TON OF REARSCREEN PROJECTION. The artifice is a device which grows numbingly repetitive as things go along. Imagine SIN CITY without action or drive. We lurch from one overly-intellectualized conversation to the next about the failing economy, Wall Street trading, foreign, currency exchange, and sex. It's nihilistic and not a little boring. Every now and then, a scene takes fire, such as the one with Juliette Binoche rolling around on the limo floor post-sex as she discusses, of all things, Rothko paintings. It's all so random and diffuse...and just BORING. Did I mention it was boring? There are a few moments of random violence, because, well, it wouldn't be Cronenberg without a little right? I think this would make a provocative play at some Equity Waiver 99-seater in Silver Lake, but beyond that, who would want to watch this? Oh, and just to evoke the repetitive nature of the film, I'll say it one last time. This movie is BORING. |
Harlequin68 |
Super Reviewer
September 9, 2012
"Cosmopolis" is the portrait of Eric Packer(Robert Pattinson), a 28 year-old business wunderkind who has all the money in the world but cannot control the world around him, except for the interior of his tricked out stretch limousine. The hint of a plot involves more of an emotional, than a physical journey, as he wants to go crosstown to get a haircut. As Torval(Kevin Durand), his head of security, points out, this might be impossible since the President is in town. Which president, asks Eric? As much as some people might have a problem with some of the purple prose, I love the bit where Torval mentions bits of the city disappearing, almost imagining it happening literally. Along the way, Eric stops to eat with his virginal wife Elise(Sarah Gadon) who knows what sex smells like and he first sees in a cab.
A character so lacking individuality like Eric Packer is perhaps the perfect role for a limited actor like Robert Pattinson. Surprisingly, as the movie cruises along with its own idiosyncratic rhythm and pacing, that does not become a liability, as he holds his own even with Samantha Morton coming on board for a while. Sadly, I don't think the movie really knows how to end, before Paul Giamatti shows up and takes control, just pushing Pattinson to the side of his own movie which might be intentional. Or not. |
themoviewaffler.com |
Super Reviewer
June 16, 2012
Five minutes into Cronenberg's latest I began to have horrific flashbacks to my schooldays. This might be adapted from a Don DeLillo novel but it's protagonist's journey across a re-imagined city is straight out of that staple of the literary chancer's bookshelf, James Joyce's Ulysses, itself a retelling of Homer's Odyssey. The Coen Brother's did this ten years ago with "O Brother Where Art Thou?" which at least had a few good songs to keep you awake. "Cosmopolis" offers no such compensation.
The script, adapted by Cronenberg himself, should have been immolated on completion. With constant dialogue it feels more like an adaptation of a stage play than a novel. It's hard to convey just how painful it is to listen to the series of quasi-leftist monologues delivered by a fantastic cast who are made to look like fools. Quality actors like Binoche, Morton and Giamatti pop in and out like guests on some hellish chat show hosted by a mid-coitus coupling of Noam Chomsky and Naomi Klein. Everyone speaks in a purposely stilted manner with more pregnant pauses than a relay race for expectant mothers. Not being a teenage girl, I've never seen Pattinson on screen before and I'm not going to judge him on this performance. His New York accent is perfect but like the rest of the cast he's hampered by Cronenberg's direction. I realise of course this is all meant to illustrate how inhuman and disconnected from reality these characters are but it doesn't make it remotely watchable. The only scene which didn't make me want to tear my ears off involved the barber, the one character who doesn't speak like a character from a fringe theater production. Cronenberg's career seems to have deteriorated into pretension. While his early works cleverly used the horror genre to communicate a subtext, now he feels he no longer needs to disguise his message. For this reason his films, like his audience, are suffering. |
John B |
Super Reviewer
April 15, 2013
Cronenberg is back making weird movies again. In this case, there are signs of life but too much left unexplained and unexplored.
Cameron W. Johnson |
Super Reviewer
November 9, 2012
Starting to really take becoming a serious actor seriously, Robert Pattinson joins acclaimed filmmaking veteran David Cronenberg in this meditative exploration of the depths of class and the struggles within the modern business industry and financial conditions... or at least I think what these people are going on and on about, so I reckon that means that this film's ultimately being so underwhelming is even more disappointing than I thought. Granted, this film isn't as bad as quite a couple of people say, but man, Rob Pattinson just cannot catch a break, and considering that his girlfriend is having an affair with another English dude, he probably really needed this. Pattinson certain didn't need this film for financial reasons, because, say what you will about "Twilight", it's given Pattinson enough money to afford to travel to the finest barber in all of France. I can think of quite a few people who would say that such a trip would actually provide an excuse for Pattinson's limo for taking so long to get to a barbershop, but come on, people, we're talking about Manhattan traffic and a trip across town, so the Eric Packer's character actually getting to the barber at all would be most farfetched, especially considering that Pattinson doesn't appear to actually want a haircut in real life. It's hard for me to feel sorry for the Eric Packer character, even with his going on and on about how he's losing power, because he's actually on his way to have a haircut, the source of Robert Pattinson's power, or at least that's my attempt at giving Pattinson a reason for his hair being such a mess. I joke, but Pattinson's got a pretty slick do in this film, so I don't really know why exactly he's going to get a haircut in the first place, but then again, I don't really understand half of the weird, critic-targeted junk in this film. That being said, while this film is nothing short of messier than Pattinson's hair usually is, the final product is actually better than I feared, and yet, make no mistake, this film is messy something fierce, or at least when something actually happens.
I've heard this film described as having little, if any narrative structure, and considering that David Cronenberg can dull out something fierce at times, I expected the worst, but really, one of the biggest reliefs I had with this film is the film's turning out to not be a meditative lyrical piece, like something along the lines of the exceedingly mediocre "Hunger", or the just plain terrible "Gomorrah", and yet, with that being said, while this film actually isn't the incarnation of tedium that I heard it was, this is still David Cronenberg we're talking about, so of coruse the film gets to be too meditative and slow for its own good, limping along ever so blandly. As I'll touch more upon later, the film has a certain amount of intrigue to it that keeps it going, and sometimes even makes it moderately entertaining, yet the film has plenty of slowness to spare, so you know that it's saying quite a bit to say that slowness is the least of this film's problem, with Cronenberg's script being the film's messiest misstep. Characterization is problematic, as there's not as much flesh-out as there should be to the characters, who are made even more problematic by questionable behavior, as well as the dialogue, for although the immense amount of snap to the dialogue actually helps in making this film as decent as it is, there come many points in which the dialogue gets too snappy for its own good, descending into difficult to buy levels of exhaustingly rather pompous over-sophistication, if not all-out strange poeticism. The level of total buyability within the dialogue is rather uneven, yet not as uneven as the film's thematic depths, which are hurt from the get-go by convolusion, and find themselves further damaged by the occasions in which realist sophistication within the theme deliveries is abandoned by the sake of imagery and story elements that are almost surrealistically over-the-top. Whether it be the weird rat rallies that reference the "a rat became the unit of currency" excerpt from Zbigniew Herbert's "Report from the Besieged City", or some dude who goes around throwing cream pies in the faces of figures of high stature and whose segment finds itself ever so bizarrely drenched in a serious tone, there are quite a few thematic aspects that are too overbearing to be subtle, which isn't to say that the limited subtlety ends with the imagery, for although this film certainly isn't broadly literal, it's an abstract piece with only so much subtlety, presenting philosophical depths that go tainted by so much overambition that the points in which the film leaves you to actually think go obscured. Still, no matter how much this film goes plagued by its overambition and occasions in which it ventures well over the top, David Cronenberg still taints the film with an air of arrogance that may not be so potent that frustrates you to no end and destroys this film, like it has with the overly meditative lyrical pieces that I feared this film was going to be, yet stands pronounced enough for the film to reek of self-pride that only brings more to attention the areas in which Cronenberg lets down his ambition, exacerbating the blandness that isn't as severe with this film as quite a few people say, but ultimately leaves this film to fall quite a ways behind when it comes to fulfilling potential. Of course, I'd be lying if I said that I didn't ultimately enjoy this film, for although I recognize that this film is not much more than mere critic bait that would have been much better if it didn't expect itself to be much better than it actually is, there are indeed aspects that back up this film's ambitions, particularly the stylistic ones. A tightly scoped dialogue that often takes place in areas no larger than the back of a limo that may admittedly be awesomely expansive, yet remains the back of a limo nevertheless, this film leaves little room for Peter Suschitzky's full artistic tastes, yet that doesn't stop Suschitzky from delivering on cinematography that plays with as much scope as it can ever so cleverly, neatly, if not rather surrealistically delivering on slick shots that don't simply catch your eye, but immerse you in this environment, and on the occasions in which the photography actually finds an environment suited for the playing up of color and lighting, the film gets to looking pretty darn good. Stylistically, the film isn't too unique, yet remains pretty commendable, and when it comes to substance, the film slips up time and again, with bland unsubtlety and a bit of arrogance, yet not so much so that the bite of the story is rendered totally toothless, for although this story is so messily structured, partially because there's little structure to it to begin with, it's actually reasonably original, not so much so that it's all that much like nothing that you've ever seen, yet ultimately enough so to create a degree of immediate intrigue, made all the stronger by what David Cronenberg does, in fact, do right, at least as writer. Now, when I say that this film is dialogue-driven, I'm not kidding, so of course Don DeLillo had to have packed the original source material - which, in and of itself, was weakly recieved for a Don DeLillo novel - with much of the dialogue - both commendable and problematic - heard here, but rather they be by DeLillo or Cronenberg, the dialogue pieces that drive this film are actually kind of neat, or at least more often than not, because, make no bones about it, the dialogue gets to be too snappy for its own good. Still, the fact of the matter is that this dialogue is snappy, boasting about as much hardly relatable pompousness as enjoyable sophistication, but quite a bit enjoyable sophistication, nevertheless, that livens up the film's meditative intrigue and supplements the thematic depth that is so often so messily handled directorially that it falls flat, but not so much so that there aren't occasions in which the film does, in fact, present an aspect through all of the messy unsubtlety and convolution that leaves you with something to think about. The film is reliant on all kinds of ramblings, exposition and other various talkery, and all too often, that doesn't work, yet more often than expected, the dialogue is colorful enough to keep things livened up, if not, on a few occasions, - dare I say it? - kind of entertaining, thus the film is kept from plummeting into total mediocrity, let alone disaster, and the performers behind the dialogue help, or at least some of them, for although you can expect material to generally be so lacking that more than a few performances come out as kind of medicore, as well as for Juliette Binoche to seem as though she couldn't hold on to an American accent if it was trying to pull her from the edge of a cliff, and for Sarah Gadon to actually prove pretty shoddy, with a profound lack of presence and expressiveness, and shakiness in her line delivery, I found quite a few key players to be kind of charismatic, and when Paul Giamatti finally arrives in the final act, he steals the show as one of the best supporting performances thus far this year, delivering on a striking, if not engrossing range and intensity in his emotion, expressions and overall presence that effortlessly defines the Benno Levin character as a mysterious and tortured soul. If nothing else, Giamatti's performance makes the final act - or at least everything in the final act up until the eye-roll-worthy non-ending - the relatively considerable high point that it is, but Giamatti shows up fashionably late, thus nearly the entirety of the film truly rests upon the shoulders of Robert Pattinson, someone who I've actually considered for quite some time to be an actually pretty promising talent, so much so that one of the reasons why I was initially looking foward to this film was because I was eager to see what Pattinson would do with a critic-targeting dramatic character piece, so you can imagine my disappointment in finding that Pattinson really is given ever so little to do. That being said, regardless of what many people say, Pattinson is rather, to me at least, charismatic, confidently embodying the stature of a man as sophisticated and powerful as the Eric Packer character, and when it comes time for material - no matter how limited - to arrive, Pattinson subtly layers Packer enough to grace our lead with some kind of mystery that supplements what intrigue there is in the film, and further shows the potential within Pattinson, who remains in desperate need of more material and, certainly, a more respectable film, but still flaunt enough of his potential to keep the film going, though not enough for the film to be redeemed of its missteps, for although there is actually a fair bit to compliment about this film, the final product slips up in way too many areas, failing to be the rewarding effort that some critics claim it to be, though not to where it's the disaster that many others claim it to be, having enough going for it to keep the patient going, even if it fails to be all that rewarding. When the ride finally, finally ends, the film is left flat, with many an overly meditative slow spell to make all the worse a problematic screenplay with flawed characterization and occasions of near-laughable strangeness that supplement the thematic depth's being uneven, yet still at least consistent in convolution and limited subtlety, though not at the expense of a moderate degree of self-congradulatory arrogance that intensifies the blandness that renders the final product all too improvable, though hardly a disaster, for although this film is not what it fancies itself, let alone what it should be, it boasts nifty stylistic touches, as well as a story with a reasonable degree of originality that creates mild immediate intrigue, expanded by what occasions of effectiveness there are within the sometimes problematic but generally colorful dialogue, as well as by a few charismatic performances, particularly that of the underwritten yet still promising Robert Pattinson, thus leaving "Cosmopolis" to cruise along as a, for the patient, reasonably interesting dramatic piece, even if it does fall short of potential quite tremendously. 2.5/5 - Fair |
Naughtia |
Super Reviewer
May 4, 2013
I really tried to like this movie but it was not that interesting to watch. I can see that Robert Pattinson has the potential to be a good actor but his part in Cosmopolis did not do him well. He really needs to get better parts in movies in order to shine through as a good Hollywood actor and not only be seen as the guy from Twilight. A lot of my friends said that they did not want to watch Cosmopolis because he was a part of the movie but I gave it a chance and was somewhat disappointed. I was incredibly bored and the highlights did not excite me at all. I think that if the movie would have been edited in a different, more action filled way it might have been a better success, instead there were just a lot of monotonic conversations which made me not want to listen to the subjects they were talking about. Cosmopolis could have been a lot more in my opinion.
Daniel D |
Super Reviewer
September 28, 2012
The only other Cronenberg film I've seen is Videodrome, I gave that film a 2/5, but this makes it look like a masterpiece. Honestly this was utter crap all the way to its shallow core. It's nice to see Pattinson out of a romantic movie, but he picked up Kristen Stewarts technique of not acting, or showing emotion. The goal of surrealism was failed, and the indescribable pointlessness of scenes is beyond my belief. I'll be honest and admit I couldn't finish this, but I'm not willing to torture myself. The cheapness of how it was set up, and the fact that when there's a punch thrown it looks like how it'd be seen in a highschool play, made this the worst film of 2012. In one word it's unbearable.


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Use a pewter charm set of the 12 days of Christmas to create an elegant bracelet for the holidays. Red and green beads add a splash of festive color to this charm bracelet project. This cute Christmas Days Bracelet also makes a wonderful gift for friends and family, and it's the perfect stocking stuffer for any mom or sister who loves decorating for Christmas!
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Add dark topaz, green and red beads plus some seed beads from the cocktail mix, to head pins and make simple loops.
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