Die achtteilige, von Kevin Costner produzierte und präsentierte Dokumentation ist momentan das Beste, was es auf Film zum Thema Indianergeschichte gibt. Mit aufwendiger Computertechnologie werden längst versunkene Städte wieder zum Leben erweckt.
Der größte Teil des Films ist der Geschichte der Indianer seit ihrer ersten Begegnung mit den Weißen im Jahre 1492 und ihrem jahrhundertelangen Kampf gegen die überlegenen Eroberer gewidmet. Das Bild der Indianer ist bei den meisten von uns durch das Kino geprägt, wo Leinwandhelden ganze Armeen von feindlichen Rothäuten bekämpfen. Der wilde Indianer auf dem Kriegspfad, der über die weite Prärie reitet, ist nach wie vor das Symbol für alle amerikanischen Indianervölker.

Kevin Costner präsentiert in dieser achtteiligen Dokumentation die Geschichte aus der Sicht der Indianer und gewährt uns faszinierende Einblicke in Kultur, Leben und Geschichte der 500 Völker, die einst den amerikanischen Kontinent besiedelten.

The wild card this week is the weather, which is predicted to be quite blustery.  If so, I will have another challenge with which to contend, but I have never been afraid of golfing amid inclement weather.  In fact, I find I do better, relative to other golfers, in poor playing conditions.  I simply refuse to allow the elements wreak havoc with my game.  The weather is just another parameter which requires adjustments to the planned shot, the same way you would adjust your shots specific to the terrain of a hole or the speed of its green.

I'm so glad I'm playing Wednesday instead of Thursday.  It'll give me a chance to get back on the horse quicker, so to speak.

10. Tagline from the DVD box: His stripes made him an outcast. His heart made him a hero. They forgot "his movie works better than Ambien. 

The box however does offer this warning... Starring: Frankie Muniz, David Spade, Steve Harvey, Snoop Dogg, Mandy Moore, Jeff Foxworthy, and Whoopi Goldberg

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9. Let's be honest, this was about a guy in the mid west who hallucinated an entire baseball game and people thought it was romantic. If he had hallucinated anything else, he'd have been arrested.

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8. Again, the producers try to warn you with the cover art. _______________________________________________________________________________

7. Just look at this poster. Let this soak in. Did Bugs Bunny really need the money this badly? Here's your tagline, Half cartoon, half live action, all crap. These were Spacejammed into Wal Mart's $1.99 bin with more authority than 23 ever dunked a basketball. 

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6.  Inside a studio executive's head in 1982: Kenny Rogers, sports movie. Kenny Rogers, sports movie. Kenny Rogers, sports movie... How come this hasn't happened yet?

Ignored child labor laws and a creepy bearded dude that hangs around kids are not enough to save this movie. 

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5. Even Tide fans left this movie rooting for Auburn.

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4.  High School Musical (w/out the music) meets Cheetah Girls, meets crappy WB sitcom.

Actual tagline: Everybody has a secret... Duke wants Olivia who likes Sebastian who is really Viola whose brother is dating Monique so she hates Olivia who's with Duke to make Sebastian jealous who is really Viola who's crushing on Duke who thinks she's a guy... This movie just makes the Bean angry!

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2. The Bean is still unclear why Hollywood hates monkeys so much. Here's another example... Making one "act" with Matt LeBlanc. "You're there to support the chimp. Just remember that, Joey."

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1.  ANY movie that makes "Stop or My Mom Will Shoot" (with Estell Getty) not the worst Stallone movie deserves a place on this list.  Remember, Stallone made: Cobra, Judge Dread, Oscar, 

Best part of this movie?  Sammy Hagar's song on the soundtrack. No, make that the closing credits. Let the Bean walk you through this movie's premise.

Truck driver, Lincoln Hawk gets his kid from a military academy because his mother is dying. Not Stallone's, his kid's. Anyway... What turns into long story/longer... It's the feel good arm wrestling movie of the year. 

Digamos que quizás no haya tenido gran repercusion, y que muchísimas personas no la conozcan, pero realmente merece mucho la pena. Cuenta la historia de un psicópata que asesina simplemente por saciar su vicio, y a la misma vez se da cuenta de que su agresividad es algo hereditaria y que en su misma familia puede haber algún que otro asesino más. Crimen, drama y un oscuro thriller, junto con un cartel de lujo (Kevin Costner, Demi Moore) se entremezclan en la trama para pasar un rato agradable viéndola.

Puntuación:

Dirección: Bruce A. Evans.
País: USA.
Año: 2007.
Duración: 120 min.
Género: Thriller.
Interpretación: Kevin Costner (Mr. Brooks), Demi Moore (Tracy Atwood), William Hurt (Marshall), Dane Cook (Smith), Marg Helgenberger (Emma Brooks), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Hawkins), Danielle Panabaker (Jane Brooks), Aisha Hinds (Nancy Hart), Lindsay Crouse (Lister), Jason Lewis (Jesse Vialo), Matt Schulze (Thorton Meeks).
Guión: Bruce A. Evans y Raynold Gideon.
Producción: Kevin Costner, Jim Wilson y Raynold Gideon.
Música: Ramin Djawadi.
Fotografía: John Lindley.
Montaje: Miklos Wright.
Diseño de producción: Jeffrey Beecroft.
Vestuario: Judianna Makovsky.
Estreno en USA: 1 Junio 2007.
Estreno en España: 5 Diciembre 2007.

SINOPSIS

Mr. Brooks es un hombre torturado incapaz de controlar sus emociones. Tiene una mitad diabólica, un álter ego amante del asesinato y el caos. La detective Atwood es una experimentada investigadora cuya devoción por su trabajo capta la atención y la admiración del asesino que esconde Mr. Brooks.

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]]> http://godwallcaz.wordpress.com/?p=64 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:21:31 +0000 Caz http://godwallcaz.wordpress.com/?p=64 I can't get enough of Russell Crowe. He moves me in a deep, archetypal way. It's the same way that Kevin Costner moves me - only deeper. It's as if Crowe's resonant, chunky energy comes off the screen into my being. It sounds sexual, I know, but it's beyond that. My love for Russ is spiritual. I can only hope that, like Costner before him, Russell takes to directing himself - ideally in a movie he wrote himself, having also designed all of his own hair styles. Russell - I salute you. You make me happy. You make me stronger. You fly the flag for portly men with bad hair. You mumble incoherently but with great self-belief. Watching you makes me stronger.

kevin costner/demi moore/dane cook--dir. bruce a evans

Fight club reloaded. Ideea este aceeashi, modul de a o spune e altul. Poate putzin mai complex. Dar personalitatea dubla ramane. Alter-egoul insetat de crima, reuseshte sa preia controlul , sa conduca jocul, dupa doi ani de o relativa abstnentza.  Acest Tyler Durden reinventat, controleaza vietzile unui mare magnat, ficei sale si unui fel de fan/adept al acestuia . Numai ca, fata e prea teribilista, fanul insetat de crime e din pacate prea prost....singurul cu adevarat bolnav si totodata genial ramane Brooks. Exact asha este si filmul: genial si totodata bolnav !! Pare greu de crezut ca un film cu costner si demi moore poate ieshi din anonimat, dar in filmul de fatza, scenariul si povestea reushesc asta....cu varf si indesat !!!!!   VIEW TRAILER

vs No m’agrada.

M’agrada l’olor de la carretera acabada d’asfaltar

No m’agraden els peatges ni les barreres a la carretera ,

M’agraden els Saab,

No m’agraden els Chevrolet Daewo

( prefereixo el que també fabrica motors d’avions ,al que fabrica alhora ,aspiradors i DVD )

M’agrada el bourbon Jim Beam,

No m’agrada el suc de pastanaga,

M’agrada El Winston i el Camel,

No m’agrada els Ducados,

M’agrada l’Ariadna Gil,

No m’agrada la Penélope Cruz,

M’agrada la Bibiana Ballbé,

No m’agrada la Madona,

M’agrada el Mar,

No m’agrada pujar muntanyes

M’agrada en Lluís Llach,

No m’agrada el Julio Iglesias,

M’agraden les patates fregides, amb ceba i ous ferrats,

No m’agrada la col,

M’agrada el vi,

No m’agrada a l’Aznar, ni quan diu que li agrada el vi,

M’agraden els rellotjes digitals clàssics dels 70′ CASIO,

No m’agraden els Viceroy,

M’agrada en Banderas,

No m’agrada en Kevin Costner,

M’agrada el cafè, el te i la xocolata,

No m’agrada la infusió d’eucaliptus ni de farigola,

M’agrada l’Al Pacino

No m’agrada en Kevin Costner,

M’agrada en Javier Bardem

No m’agrada en Kevin Costner,

M’agrada en Robert de Niro,

No m’agrada en Kevin Costner

( Ah !! que em repeteixo ?….

és que no m’agrada gens!! )

M’agrada la Coca-Cola,

No m’agraden les coles caca.

M’agrada la cervesa,

No m’agrada el cava, ni la sidra, ni el champagne.

M’agraden el conill amb samfaina,

No m’agrada conill amb ketchup,

M’agrada la Teoria de l’Alliberament,

No m’agrada l’Opus Dei.,

M’agrada la socialdemocràcia,

No m’agrada la dreta ni el lliberalisme,

M’agrada el Dr.House,

No m’agradal’ Emilio Aragón,

M’agrada l’Iñaki Gabilondo

No m’agrada en Jimenez Los Santos,

M’agrada l’estil prêt-á- porter,

No m’agrada anar a l’última moda,

M’agrada l’olor de les nits d’aire net - que anuncia un canvi de temps-,

No m’agrada l’olor de sardines a la planxa del veí,

M’agrada ser aquí,

amb vostès,

amb vosaltres,

amb tu….

Moltes Gràcies per aguantar-me.

With the 2008 presidential nomination race approaching the final stretch, I think it’s important for the American people to start thinking about what would happen if any of the four major presidential hopefuls actually made it to the nation’s highest office.

Barack Obama

It will take two weeks for Barack Obama to realize there is more to an American presidency than just being a charismatic speaker. When faced with issues of immigration and Iraqi occupation, President Obama will be shocked to discover that vague generalities and promises of bringing “change” are not actually ways to formulate American policy. When Iran’s nuclear weapons program starts to get frisky and the economy begins to spiral out of control faster than Brittany Spears’s sanity, Obama will fall back on his political experience for inspiration, only to realize that he has none, and like an excited child flaunting the fresh Ben and Jerry’s ice cream cup his mother just bought him, only to get his face smashed in and delicious treat stolen by the neighborhood bully, Obama will feel the full weight of a failed presidency crashing upon him like a sledgehammer of political reality. As our country crumbles on the back of liberal inexperience, Americans will truly get a dose of “change,” also known as “impeachment.”

John McCain

John McCain will turn the White House into the world’s most powerful convalescent home. After whacky old-man executive orders start filtering out of Washington that confuse waterboarding with skateboarding, Congress will realize the American people have once again made a major presidential election mistake. Luckily, McCain will be too old to remember his P.O.W flashbacks, so his advisor's can quietly guide him into the Lincoln bedroom and deliver a Heath Ledger approved prescription cocktail while the country continues to run under the clandestine authority of Republican appointed cabinet members and senior officials. Come to think of it, a McCain presidency wouldn’t be much of a change from how the country is run now, except the State of the Union will be given by a delusional grandfather instead of an inept moron.

Hillary Clinton

After becoming the first female president in American history, Hillary Clinton will fix our nations healthcare system, end the war in Iraq, rejuvenate the lagging economy, and whip America into shape like a once athletic (now alcoholic) gym teacher going through a mid-life crisis. However, as we ascend to prominence and regain our spotless international diplomatic reputation, the truth behind Hillary’s success will be leaked to the public after Bill’s pillow talk with a group of promiscuous female interns spreads to the White House press, who will discover that Hillary created an unstoppable fleet of gender unspecific unisex bots that she has secretly used to manipulate foreign affairs. The American public will consider impeachment, but with the Jihadists defeated and China firmly set at number two on the world’s economic leader board, our nation will do what it does best, look the other way and enjoy Democratic prosperity at any cost. Hillary’s blissful regime will go on pleasantly through her reelection, until she reveals at the end of a second term that she is also a member of the unisex robot race, a fact that Bill knew for years, which explains his sexual deviance. Once Hillary’s true robot form is exposed, she will refuse to relinquish the American throne and after several unsuccessful coup attempts by aging Republican’s and Michigan militias, America will have to resign itself to the fact that instead of the country’s first woman president, Hillary was actually the first robot president, brutally enslaving us all until the great Hillary uprising of 2089.

Mike Huckabee thinks the earth is only 9,000 years old…

When Huckabee takes office our country will falter under a system of inseparable religion and politics, and with mandatory public school prayer and creationism classes shoved down the educational system’s collective throat, the American youth will become even dumber than they are now, sparking our society’s path of devolution into a mindless subhuman ape-race. It’s interesting to note that the only nominee hopeful who doesn’t believe in evolution will initiate its perverted amplification. As America slides back down the evolutionary ladder with Huckabee at the helm, the constitution and Bill of Rights will seamlessly merge into the Ten Commandments and our country will make the world of Idiocracy look like a Harvard physics lecture.

Each candidate spells certain doom for our nation’s future, so what is an informed, democracy-loving voter to do?

Kevin Costner

The real candidate of the people, the real patriot, the real crusader of freedom, has long been on our minds and in our hearts, but only now is he ready to take on the country’s highest office. Vote Kevin Costner on the independent ticket for 2008. Confused about Costner’s ability to lead our country? (I assure you he has about as much experience as Obama) Check out my Vivek Narain Official Costner for President Site and discover the true power of our country’s best kept political secret.

20. Any Given Sunday (1999): Oliver Stone’s attempt to turn football into warfare might have delivered some of the most realistic action any football movie has captured, but what the hell’s going on with the uniforms? And Cameron Diaz? And her little dog too?

19. Point Break (1991): Keanu Reeves' attempt to portray ex-collegiate football star Johnny Utah earns him his first spot on the countdown – we promise it won’t be his last. Besides the ridiculous name, Reeves throws like a girl and is less engaging than his surfboard.

18. M*A*S*H (1970): As much as we love the movie, the cast, the crew and the idea that “suicide is painless, it brings on many changes,” we can’t forgive Robert Altman and Co. for the nickname “Spearchucker” Jones, Elliott Gould’s attempt to play quarterback and what must go down as the standard for a ridiculously filmed football game.

17. The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000): OK, we went with the alien invasion on Independence Day, we laughed about the secret alien world of Men in Black, we suspended our disbelief in Wild Wild West if only to see Salma Hayek’s tits pushed together so tightly. But c’mon! Finding the secret of life through the secret of an authentic golf stroke? This time Will Smith took it too far.

16. Mystery, Alaska (1999): Thanks to Slap Shot there is no reason on God’s green earth to make a hockey movie. Especially one featuring Russell Crowe as a sympathetic character who doesn’t know how to romance his beautiful wife. This might have been top ten material if it wasn’t for Mike Myers’ constant search for a “rub and a tug.”

15. Bad News Bears (2005): Billy Bob’s no Walter Matthau, and there’s just no replacement for Tatum O’Neal. If ever there was a movie not to remake, the 1976 original Bears is it.

14. The Longest Yard (2005): Speaking of remakes … just because Burt co-starred doesn’t make it right. Besides Adam Sandler's inability to play the game of football, he shows off his sports knowledge by calling Appalachian State a “slack Division II team.” Even if nobody saw their upset over Michigan coming, most sports fan knew they were the crème of the crop in the then 1-AA Division.

13. Jerry Maguire (1996): Tom showed Cuba the money. Hollywood showed Cameron Crowe the money. The Academy showed Cuba an award. And sports fans everywhere were duped into spending their hard-earned money on a full-on chick flick.

12. Chariots of Fire (1981): Running? Really? Besides the fact that they put the most boring sport ever on film, the filmmakers' attempt to engineer excitement left us all with the most annoying song ever created.

11. Ali (2001): Never has such a great idea for a movie been so horribly killed in the casting process. If it wasn’t a slap in the face enough to have the Fresh Prince of Bel Air play the Greatest of All Time, the Academy actually nominated him for an Oscar – presumably more to honor the G.O.A.T. himself, than Big Willie Style. Perhaps knowing he was unworthy, Smith decided not to show up to the Award show.

10. Hardball (2001): Our boy Keanu over, and, under acts his way into the coach of an inner-city little league baseball team. Ignoring every flaw this film has related to sports, we’re still left wondering how Reeves could ever get in or out of Cabrini Green alive?

9. The Replacements (2000): Gene Hackman must have thought that his Oscar winning career could never be complete without teaming up with Keanu and the 7-up-guy. Their ensemble created one of the worst portraits of football on film and cancelled the majority of sports cred he earned for his role in Hoosiers.

8. For the Love of the Game (1999): Kevin Costner can’t throw, can’t act, and any intended drama produced by the prospect of a perfect game is neutralized by Kelly Preston’s continuing annoying presence.

7. White Men Can’t Jump (1992): It’s hard to tell which is worse: the plot, the basketball ability of Woody and Wesley, Rosie Perez or the early ‘90s fashion that’s on display at the playground. We’d just as soon call them all equally pathetic.

6. The Program (1993): The quarterback’s a motorcycle riding drunk, the halfback can’t hold on to the ball, the D-lineman’s on steroids and James Caan turns in the biggest stereotype of the film as the hardboiled coach fighting for his job.

5. Basketball Diaries (1995): Leo stars as perhaps the worst ball handling point guard in the history of the sport. Not only are we supposed to believe he’s good at basketball, we have to endure his voice over narration and overacting fall into drug addiction.

4. Necessary Roughness (1991): We don’t know why Scott Bakula’s agent didn’t tell him to leap out of the role as the quarterback of the Texas State Fightin’ Armadillos. But Rob Schneider’s announcing actually makes you wish for Chris Berman’s snappy wit.

3. Wildcats (1986): Wesley and Woody’s first tag-team attempt at sports is doomed from the start thanks to Private Benjamin’s play calling. It’s too bad too—cause Bird is the truth at quarterback.

2. Field of Dreams (1989): Ray Liotta’s depiction of Shoeless Joe Jackson is so historically off base, somehow, he actually bats right-handed and throws lefty—even though Jackson did the opposite on both accounts.

1. Johnny Be Good (1988): How does Anthony Michael Hall go from the biggest geek in school (1985's Weird Science and The Breakfast Club) to the number one recruit in the country in just three years? How does Jim McMahon endorse the ‘Roid Raging UCC? Where’s Uma Thurman’s Samari sword? How does Robert Downey Jr. stay sober long enough to appear on camera? Just another example of the Hollywood honchos leaving us asking far too many questions.

The actor/director and his band performing at the CEA Wireless Communications Division reception is just one example of the curious intersection of tech and celebrity that will take place at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Shows (CES) January 7-10.

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), which puts on the show, announced on Friday a preliminary list of celebrity performances and appearances taking place throughout the week of CES.

Indy car driver Danica Patrick will be at the GoDaddy.com booth at the Las Vegas Convention Center, while Mad Mike from the MTV car show Pimp My Ride will be at the Mitek's booth.

John Lennon widow and artist Yoko Ono, Black Eyed Peas band member Will.i.am, and Pat Monahan from the band Train will be at the John Lennon Education Tour Bus event. Davis Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox will make an appearance at the Sharp booth, while filmmaker/actor Michael Douglas is scheduled to be at the Venetian hotel for the XStream HD press conference.

Singer Mary J. Blige will headline the Monster Cable concert at the Paris Hotel along with musician Sheila E. Prince is also "expected to be in attendance," according to a CEA statement.

CES is famous for its announced and unannounced appearances of big and small screen names. In 2006, actor Tom Cruise saved then-Yahoo CEO Terry Semel from an embarrassing demo glitch that prevented him from showing off the company's Go TV. Ellen DeGeneres spiced up Semel's keynote with jokes about her own tech foibles. That same year, actor Tom Hanks and filmmakers Ron Howard and Brian Glazer popped up at Sony's panel discussion on its HD filmmaking equipment.ce

• Mister Brooks

• The Aviator

• A Clockwork Orange

“When one continually digests everything dished out by religious leaders, government, and big business, they may find they’re unable to make a decision without getting someone else’s input first.” Jerome

In the flawed baseball movie, For the Love of the Game, pitcher Billy Church (played by Kevin Costner) would step on the mound and be surrounded by so many sounds, sights, and pressures. He would look at his catcher, trying to focus and then say to himself, "Clear the Mechanism." And in amazing movie magic, all sound would go away and his focus would return. Now in the silence he was ready to pitch.

Sometimes I think that we live with too much noise. And that noise doesn't serve any good purpose. As christians, we try to make sure our noise is good noise, but it's still noise. In ministry, we try to say it's godly noise, but it's still noise.

Why is it so hard for us to 'clear the mechanism' and be quite before the Lord?  Why do we make life all about the noise? The noise only leads to stress, busyness, anxiety and more noise. We make it about the noise, where all God is calling us to do is 'be still and know that I am God.'

Let us be a people who pursue silence.

After reading this quote from Jerome, really got me thinking. Why aren't we driven by seeking the Lord and reading the Bible anymore? We get wrapped up in the noise. It's deafening. It makes it seem like we're consumed by the thoughts of other

Coens -  Ethan went on to Princeton University  (Joel went to NYU)

Scorsese - NYU

Ang Lee - NYU

Eastwood - No Degree (an Honorary), no film school

Jackson  - No degree, no film school

Polanski - Polish film school in Łódź, Poland, from which he graduated in 1959

Howard- No degree, no film school

Soderbergh  - No film schoool, no degree

Mendes - secondary education was at Magdalen College School, Oxford, and he later attended Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge, gaining a first class degree in English.

Spielberg - California State University, Long Beach.

Cameron - There he studied physics and English at California State University, Fullerton, but his passion for filmmaking would draw him to the film archive of UCLA at every opportunity. After dropping out of university,

Minghella - He is a graduate of the University of Hull, where he completed undergraduate and graduate courses, but eventually abandoned his doctoral thesis. (No film school)

Gibson - No college

Zemeckis  - USC

Spielberg - See above

Eastwood - See above

Demme - a graduate of the University of Florida. (no film school)

Costner - He went on to earn a B.A. in business from California State University, Fullerton in 1978.

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The final score?

Uneducated Hacks - 5

OTHER COLLEGE (Not Film School) - 5

NYU - 3

CSF - 1 

USC - 1

POLAND FILM SCHOOL - 1

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You can make your own opinion.