 than put the proper coda on an otherwise excellent film. It appears to have been nothing more than a marketing-driven decision, and while it happens all the time, that still doesn't make it any less creatively bankrupt.
If stretching for positives in the disastrous final minutes, Winstead's performance remains strong even during this nonsense and the revelation that Howard wasn't lying casts the character's previous actions in a slightly different light, causing you to likely appreciate Goodman's performance even more on repeated viewings. But I'd argue the same exact thing could have been accomplished in half a dozen different and better ways than what they eventually went with. Since it's unfair to rag on an ending this much without offering up a reasonable alternative, it would have been far more effective to have the final 15 minutes continue to build legitimate doubt as to what exactly happened, how many people survived, whether the air is breathable, or the planet even habitable.
The few minutes Michelle has to investigate before the movie turns into a special effects circus are really good and should have been stretched longer. Then, and only then, if they want to pull the trigger on the reveal (even one as silly as this), it would at least carry greater impact and they could quickly get to the end credits to preserve the integrity of what came before. Of course, had it just been a more believable threat that matched the tone of the rest of the film there would be no need for this discussion. But that wouldn't sell tickets. That's what's so frustrating about 10 Cloverfield Lane, which for most of its running time delightfully shares as little in common as possible with its predecessor. And why it's difficult assessing how much a botched ending should be counted against the overall viewing experience. One major flaw doesn't erase everything else, but it does somehow strangely make it all mean a little less than it should.The Fair Labor Association is one of two dozen organizations jointly calling on the government of Indonesia to ensure that current labor laws remain consistent with international standards as national legislators consider the Omnibus Law on Job Creation.
Signatories – which include brands, civil society organizations, and business organizations – expressed concern in the letter with the Labor Cluster of the proposed omnibus bill, which was submitted by the Widodo Government to the People’s Representative Council.
Digging For Dirt on Natalie Portman
I think this blurb is dumb.
Natalie Portman kept everyone waiting for 45 minutes at the launch of her new shoe line at the Te Casan Store in SoHo. When she finally emerged, she gave 15 minutes of interviews before going back into hiding.
Guests waited impatiently while sipping on Casa Lapostolle wines, which Portman chose because they are organic and biodynamic to go along with her vegan shoe line. The actress returned, reports a spy, "However, she showed up with only five minutes remaining before the party ended."
Who gives a flying fart if Natalie had people "waiting" for 45 minutes?! These people were gettin' they sippy sippy on in the meantime. I have yet to go to a single press event that actually begins on time. Whoever wrote this lil blurb should know that and get over it. I love me some Natalie Portman. :)
February 15th, 2008 1:13 PM
She's entitled to make 'em wait....2 HOURS if she wants to! Natalie is the best, and pretty much one of the few celebrities out there who has so much more going for her. Beauty, brains, credibility, dignity...I could go on forever...
What do Paris and Lindsay have? Sex tapes, diseases, DUIs....I guess I could go on forever with that, too. hmm..
February 15th, 2008 1:52 PM
So true!German tennis great Tommy Haas was announced winner of the Legends Cup 2018. Haas went head to head with Carlos Moyà in the finals of the prestigious international tennis tournament, held in Palma at the weekend.
The results of the Sunday matches are as follows:
T. Haas vs. C. Moyà 6-4, 6-2
J.C. Ferrero vs. X. Malisse 6-3, 6-4
Wimbledon Team & Palma Tennis
Doubles:
E. Guerrero & A. Corretja vs. M. Hingis & M. Bahrami 7-6
An ATP Champions Tour event, the Legends Cup featured the participation of nine historic players: Martina Hingis, Carlos Moyà, Mats Wilander, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Tommy Haas and Tim Henman.
Held at Palma Sport & Tennis Club over four days, it proved to be a spectacular competition with a fun, nostalgic atmosphere.
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What happened when two dynamic Swedish entrepreneurs took the job of restoring Palma Tennis Club to its former glory? Find out in our spotlight on the new sport centre. […] Palma Sport & Tennis ClubRight, and I’m familiar with scientific notation. But “kcal” is just not a term I’ve ever discussed or heard about, mainly because it’s not in an area I work with.
If pictures of diseased lungs on the pack doesn’t do it, nothing will.
Most quitters probably have similar experiences. I quit cold turkey after smoking 14 years, starting in HS. But it was several more years before I stopped dreaming that I had started up again, and stopped, and started, etc.
A new word a day for me. I’ve never heard of a kcal.
Well, you did ask IT for a portable computer.
Either way you’ll pay for it.
You’re almost right. It becomes your business when it affects your health or comfort.
And I just sit back and watch.EU has not yet confirmed when the Star Wars Battlefront 3 Xbox One would get released. After the success of the Star Wars Battlefront 2, the gamers are demanding to release the third version of the game. The officials have not yet confirmed if they will be releasing the 3rd version and hence the Star Wars Battlefront 3 is in the whiteboard phase and there is nothing so significant about the game revealed by the developers. The developer team is mainly working on the present game available for Xbox One and other console. However, the developers have confirmed that the team is working on designing the 3rd version and it is expected to be released by the fiscal year 2020. Although the scant details are available, but it is expected that Star Wars Battlefront 3 Xbox One would be the third person action adventure game.
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We had a second helping from Oliver Dickinson this morning, on Homer, archaeology and history.
Taking Homeric archaeology during mods at Oxford was what started him on Homer, apparently.
This April in Athens, OD heard from a lecturer about the discovery
of a Hittite epic from the 13th century BC about the siege and capture
of a town in Syria. In it the gods support both sides. An Underworld
goddess seduces the storm god to distract him from the fighting. The
epic was apparently published in 2000. The lecturer who mentioned it
said that the Myceneans could have heard it, and so influenced the
Greek epic tradition. Hde also suggested there there might have been
epics written in linear B, an idea which OD rejects.
OD told us that he knows more about the Trojan War than Michael
Wood, having studied it all his life. The 'Mycenean' interpretation of
Homer has had a long run. Till the 1960s scholars thought that Homer
was based on Mycenean history. Finlay disagreed. In the journal Greece
and Rome in?1986 OD wrote an article on Homer, whom he called 'the
poet of the dark age'. In their references to customs and artifacts the
epics reflect Homer's own time, the 8th cent BC, not the Mycenean age.
The theme of this lecture is that Homer is about the dark age, not a
heroic age. Epic is a fantasy, in which reality keeps breaking through.
Whether there was a real Trojan War is a different question. The
vividness of the world created by poets leads people to think it's a
real world. But The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter present
realistic worlds which are not real.
On the Trojan War, the question is not whether there were wars over
Troy, which there probably were, but whether there was a 10 year siege
and the events described in the Iliad. The site now known as Hissarlik
was believed by later Greeks and Romans to be Ilion. But all earlier
writings about the site of Troy are now made obsolete by the latest
discovery of an extensive lower town 10 hectares in extent or more.
Troy really was a big city, not just the citadel that Schliemann
excavated. Material from Cyprus found in Troy (and vice versa) shows
that it was a centre of trade, with strong ties to the Mycenean world.
Mycenean-type pottery found there, however, is locally made