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5 Movies That Were Filmed In Literally Unbelievable Ways
In 2009, filmmakers Louie Psihoyos and Jim Clark set out to expose the horrific tragedies of the annual dolphin harvest in the town of Taiji. But it was proving to be a difficult task, because it turns out that the Japanese government isn't super jazzed about releasing details on the dolphin harvest, possibly because there is no way to put a positive spin on the phrase "dolphin harvest."
Access to Taiji Cove is restricted during the hunting season. It's blocked by wire fences and regularly patrolled by guards. In order to put together his documentary The Cove, Psihoyos had to make like Nick Fury and assemble a team of conservationist Avengers. Among the recruits were Ric O'Barry (the guy who trained Flipper), "Clandestine Operations" specialist and real life treasure hunter Charles Hambleton, Mandy Rae Cruickshank and Kirk Krack (two of the top free divers in the world), and former Canadian Air Force avionics specialist Simon Hutchins. The only thing they were missing was a guy who mutates into a giant dolphin when he gets angry.
The filmmakers found themselves monitored by police, harassed by journalists, and bombarded with anonymous death threats, so the making of the documentary required some legitimate covert operations. With the help of Cruickshank and Krack, they infiltrated the cove with hidden cameras disguised as rocks, using camouflage so sophisticated that they later had trouble figuring out where the hell the cameras were. The technology they were using was so advanced that, after retrieving the footage, they needed to wait for Sony to develop the goddamn software required to watch it so that they could put the film together.
In the end, the operation paid off. The Cove won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2010, and even resulted in fewer dolphins being killed that year. Which is not as good as "zero," but better than "more."Escape From Tomorrow Was Secretly Filmed At Disney World
What's scarier than pissing off a horde of cold hearted dolphin murderers? An army of fucking Disney lawyers, that's what. We're pretty sure they've sued children merely for having unlicensed thoughts about their intellectual property.
Yet in 2012, completely without permission, filmmaker Randy Moore shot Escape From Tomorrow, a horror movie set and filmed in Walt Disney World. It's the story of a man who takes his family on vacation to a theme park and, over the course of a day, winds up going crazy after slowly discovering that the park is part of a psychological experiment run by an organization of people who may or may not be supernatural beings. Also, it might all be in his head. It's . really kind of hard to explain.
So Moore had a really solid idea for what he wanted his movie to be about, but there was one problem, which you've already guessed: Disney doesn't allow filming within its theme parks. And they weren't about to make an exception for some guy making a violent horror movie about how Disney World is actually run by evil ghosts. Also, the Disney princesses work as high class prostitutes and Mickey tries to crush a child to death. So yeah, not exactly the themes Disney wants to project as fun for the whole family.
But Moore wasn't about to let that get in the way of his vision. He simply filmed the entire movie in secret. That was obviously much tougher than pretending to be a group of tourists with a camcorder. The cast and crew had to smuggle a full catalog of professional film equipment on site and set it up under the noses of every security guard and chump in a Goofy suit, all of whom are trained to smack down anyone doing exactly that. What resulted was a success story of guerrilla filmmaking that even the filmmakers didn't realistically expect to be able to pull off.
They needed so many comically large mallets to knock him out so they could escape.
The risks didn't end when they left the park. The threat of having the project shut down by Disney was so great that Moore traveled to South Korea to do the post production and editing, although it is admittedly foolish to believe that there is anywhere on the planet where Disney cannot find you.
Despite the fact that everybody involved in the project thought they'd be lucky to even see the movie finished before drowning in cease and desist letters, they succeeded, due to the fact that Disney took the most unexpected response of all: bone chilling silence. The company won't even acknowledge the film's existence, let alone rally their lawyers. Unfortunately, the government disagreed, so in order to be allowed to make his movie (a fictional story that would incorporate real combat footage) Gance had to lie and pretend that he was totally on board with it.
"I've warred plenty of times . Over in Quebec. You wouldn't have heard of them."
After convincing the government that his film was going to be about what an awesome idea World War I was, Gance was allowed access to the front lines in order to capture plenty of footage of soldiers in real battle situations, getting blasted apart by real bullets. You may wonder how any version of this could come across as being pro war, but luckily for Gance, the French government did not.
Amazingly, he was able to avoid any real questioning of his true motives, even as he set up the final scene of the film, which involved a field full of dead soldiers rising up to take revenge against those fallacious governments of men who had sent them to their deaths. He presumably told everyone that the soldiers were coming back to life to kill more Germans.
After Gance set up a scene in which the soldiers use their bodies to form the title of the movie, "J'Accuse" (which translates to "I accuse" and had been used as an anti government statement), the French government finally became suspicious that the film might not be the patriotic call to arms he'd suggested it was. By that time, however, the war was almost over, and public opinion had started to turn toward Gance's side of the issue. (Which was the least they could do, given that a large number of the soldiers who appeared in the film had since been killed in battle.) J'Accuse went on to become a European film classic, and right now there's probably some random dude watching it and complaining about how fake the battle scenes look.
In 2012, filmmakers Lucien Castaing Taylor and Verene Paravel set out to make a documentary aboard a New England commercial fishing ship. It seems neither of them had ever sat down to watch an episode of Deadliest Catch or the middle section of Forrest Gump, because soon after they boarded the ship, the bulk of their equipment was swept overboard.
We know it sounds like a terrible found footage horror premise,replica mens rolex oyster perpetual datejust watch, but bear with us.
Threatened with the prospect of having nothing to do for the rest of their time at sea, the filmmakers made use of what little they had left mostly GoPro camcorders to try to salvage their project. Instead of the more traditional documentary they had planned to put together, they wound up strapping the GoPros to everything, including the fishermen, their fishing equipment, and actual fish, recording the entire process of stripping the sea clean in nauseating, first person perspective.
The unfortunate tradeoff in this solution was that the filmmakers couldn't even see what the cameras were recording. Once they arrived on land,rolex datejust oyster replica, they could have easily found themselves sitting on hours of blurry close up footage of fish guts, and nobody but industrial metal bands would want to watch that. But both Paravel and Castaing Taylor stuck it out, coming closer to death during the production than anyone making a documentary about fishing should ever hope or intend to. They battled violent seasickness,rolex oyster perpetual datejust replica, had several close calls with the swinging equipment and loose machinery, and Paravel had to be hospitalized after suffering a back injury.
In the end, what was intended to be a niche documentary about life on a fishing vessel became Leviathan, a critically acclaimed art film the likes of which nobody had seen before. Not in spite of the fact that they were forced to abandon traditional filmmaking techniques in favor of slapped together GoPro footage,oyster perpetual datejust replica, but because of that. It is easily the second most incredible GoPro film ever produced, coming in right behind the seminal classic "Shia LaBeouf Staring At Me In Burbank."Shoah Contains Hours Of Nazi Interviews (Filmed Without Their Permission)
One of the most critically acclaimed films of 1985 was Shoah, a documentary that clocks in at nine and a half hours, or roughly three Transformers movies. Composed almost entirely of interviews that filmmaker Claude Lanzmann conducted with both victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust, Shoah is easily the most efficient way to destroy any faith you may have left for the human race.
Of course, the greatest problem with the idea of assembling a team of history's most despicable people in order to talk about how evil they are for longer than a Lord Of The Rings marathon was that most of the Nazis the filmmakers contacted weren't exactly on board with the idea. Lanzmann got around this by smuggling cameras into the interviews and filming his subjects in secret.
In 2009, filmmakers Louie Psihoyos and Jim Clark set out to expose the horrific tragedies of the annual dolphin harvest in the town of Taiji. But it was proving to be a difficult task, because it turns out that the Japanese government isn't super jazzed about releasing details on the dolphin harvest, possibly because there is no way to put a positive spin on the phrase "dolphin harvest."
Access to Taiji Cove is restricted during the hunting season. It's blocked by wire fences and regularly patrolled by guards. In order to put together his documentary The Cove, Psihoyos had to make like Nick Fury and assemble a team of conservationist Avengers. Among the recruits were Ric O'Barry (the guy who trained Flipper), "Clandestine Operations" specialist and real life treasure hunter Charles Hambleton, Mandy Rae Cruickshank and Kirk Krack (two of the top free divers in the world), and former Canadian Air Force avionics specialist Simon Hutchins. The only thing they were missing was a guy who mutates into a giant dolphin when he gets angry.
The filmmakers found themselves monitored by police, harassed by journalists, and bombarded with anonymous death threats, so the making of the documentary required some legitimate covert operations. With the help of Cruickshank and Krack, they infiltrated the cove with hidden cameras disguised as rocks, using camouflage so sophisticated that they later had trouble figuring out where the hell the cameras were. The technology they were using was so advanced that, after retrieving the footage, they needed to wait for Sony to develop the goddamn software required to watch it so that they could put the film together.
In the end, the operation paid off. The Cove won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2010, and even resulted in fewer dolphins being killed that year. Which is not as good as "zero," but better than "more."Escape From Tomorrow Was Secretly Filmed At Disney World
What's scarier than pissing off a horde of cold hearted dolphin murderers? An army of fucking Disney lawyers, that's what. We're pretty sure they've sued children merely for having unlicensed thoughts about their intellectual property.
Yet in 2012, completely without permission, filmmaker Randy Moore shot Escape From Tomorrow, a horror movie set and filmed in Walt Disney World. It's the story of a man who takes his family on vacation to a theme park and, over the course of a day, winds up going crazy after slowly discovering that the park is part of a psychological experiment run by an organization of people who may or may not be supernatural beings. Also, it might all be in his head. It's . really kind of hard to explain.
So Moore had a really solid idea for what he wanted his movie to be about, but there was one problem, which you've already guessed: Disney doesn't allow filming within its theme parks. And they weren't about to make an exception for some guy making a violent horror movie about how Disney World is actually run by evil ghosts. Also, the Disney princesses work as high class prostitutes and Mickey tries to crush a child to death. So yeah, not exactly the themes Disney wants to project as fun for the whole family.
But Moore wasn't about to let that get in the way of his vision. He simply filmed the entire movie in secret. That was obviously much tougher than pretending to be a group of tourists with a camcorder. The cast and crew had to smuggle a full catalog of professional film equipment on site and set it up under the noses of every security guard and chump in a Goofy suit, all of whom are trained to smack down anyone doing exactly that. What resulted was a success story of guerrilla filmmaking that even the filmmakers didn't realistically expect to be able to pull off.
They needed so many comically large mallets to knock him out so they could escape.
The risks didn't end when they left the park. The threat of having the project shut down by Disney was so great that Moore traveled to South Korea to do the post production and editing, although it is admittedly foolish to believe that there is anywhere on the planet where Disney cannot find you.
Despite the fact that everybody involved in the project thought they'd be lucky to even see the movie finished before drowning in cease and desist letters, they succeeded, due to the fact that Disney took the most unexpected response of all: bone chilling silence. The company won't even acknowledge the film's existence, let alone rally their lawyers. Unfortunately, the government disagreed, so in order to be allowed to make his movie (a fictional story that would incorporate real combat footage) Gance had to lie and pretend that he was totally on board with it.
"I've warred plenty of times . Over in Quebec. You wouldn't have heard of them."
After convincing the government that his film was going to be about what an awesome idea World War I was, Gance was allowed access to the front lines in order to capture plenty of footage of soldiers in real battle situations, getting blasted apart by real bullets. You may wonder how any version of this could come across as being pro war, but luckily for Gance, the French government did not.
Amazingly, he was able to avoid any real questioning of his true motives, even as he set up the final scene of the film, which involved a field full of dead soldiers rising up to take revenge against those fallacious governments of men who had sent them to their deaths. He presumably told everyone that the soldiers were coming back to life to kill more Germans.
After Gance set up a scene in which the soldiers use their bodies to form the title of the movie, "J'Accuse" (which translates to "I accuse" and had been used as an anti government statement), the French government finally became suspicious that the film might not be the patriotic call to arms he'd suggested it was. By that time, however, the war was almost over, and public opinion had started to turn toward Gance's side of the issue. (Which was the least they could do, given that a large number of the soldiers who appeared in the film had since been killed in battle.) J'Accuse went on to become a European film classic, and right now there's probably some random dude watching it and complaining about how fake the battle scenes look.
In 2012, filmmakers Lucien Castaing Taylor and Verene Paravel set out to make a documentary aboard a New England commercial fishing ship. It seems neither of them had ever sat down to watch an episode of Deadliest Catch or the middle section of Forrest Gump, because soon after they boarded the ship, the bulk of their equipment was swept overboard.
We know it sounds like a terrible found footage horror premise,replica mens rolex oyster perpetual datejust watch, but bear with us.
Threatened with the prospect of having nothing to do for the rest of their time at sea, the filmmakers made use of what little they had left mostly GoPro camcorders to try to salvage their project. Instead of the more traditional documentary they had planned to put together, they wound up strapping the GoPros to everything, including the fishermen, their fishing equipment, and actual fish, recording the entire process of stripping the sea clean in nauseating, first person perspective.
The unfortunate tradeoff in this solution was that the filmmakers couldn't even see what the cameras were recording. Once they arrived on land,rolex datejust oyster replica, they could have easily found themselves sitting on hours of blurry close up footage of fish guts, and nobody but industrial metal bands would want to watch that. But both Paravel and Castaing Taylor stuck it out, coming closer to death during the production than anyone making a documentary about fishing should ever hope or intend to. They battled violent seasickness,rolex oyster perpetual datejust replica, had several close calls with the swinging equipment and loose machinery, and Paravel had to be hospitalized after suffering a back injury.
In the end, what was intended to be a niche documentary about life on a fishing vessel became Leviathan, a critically acclaimed art film the likes of which nobody had seen before. Not in spite of the fact that they were forced to abandon traditional filmmaking techniques in favor of slapped together GoPro footage,oyster perpetual datejust replica, but because of that. It is easily the second most incredible GoPro film ever produced, coming in right behind the seminal classic "Shia LaBeouf Staring At Me In Burbank."Shoah Contains Hours Of Nazi Interviews (Filmed Without Their Permission)
One of the most critically acclaimed films of 1985 was Shoah, a documentary that clocks in at nine and a half hours, or roughly three Transformers movies. Composed almost entirely of interviews that filmmaker Claude Lanzmann conducted with both victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust, Shoah is easily the most efficient way to destroy any faith you may have left for the human race.
Of course, the greatest problem with the idea of assembling a team of history's most despicable people in order to talk about how evil they are for longer than a Lord Of The Rings marathon was that most of the Nazis the filmmakers contacted weren't exactly on board with the idea. Lanzmann got around this by smuggling cameras into the interviews and filming his subjects in secret.
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By Michele Sileo, Chief Growth Officer, Eleven
Throughout my son high school cross country running career, I was often moved to tears while watching his team race. The intensity the kids put into training, the respect the boys had for one another (both on the field and off) and their commitment to their coach were inspirational in ways I never thought possible. All their work, all these relationships came down to a 17 minute race, with each runner pulling their own weight and supporting each other until the end.
As the team prepared to head to the state championships, I had the opportunity to speak to their coach, a seasoned athlete herself who had run professionally in her youth. In pointing out my admiration for these kids and all they had accomplished, she said something that really resonated with me all about the van. she meant was, it was the time spent in the van on long rides to and from races that bonded these kids in ways that set them up for success. Sure, the training and hard work they put in mattered that was enabled by the inside jokes, long talks, secrets, and shared pizzas that happened in that van. Their success was made possible through the shared experiences and connections that happened in that informal space. It also what made it all worthwhile.
The way we work professionally is changing. Today offices are often fractured between telecommuters, those who are constantly in meetings, freelancers, and those working flexible schedules, making it hard to know who coming and going at any given time. While a lot of this is good for efficiency and work life balance, it removes a lot of opportunity for teamwork and informal relationship building that happens around the work. The answer isn a slide back into a traditional, 9 to 5 butts in seats model, and it sure isn more meetings, but rather a mindful effort to make time and space for interactions that offer opportunities to truly bond and make work fun.
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As we grow more connected via technology, we allowed ourselves to grow less physically connected. Bringing the right people together at the right moments to discuss a pertinent topic or decompress and connect a bit can happen anywhere, but it needs to be an ongoing goal. Humans naturally crave connection. It part of what makes working together worthwhile. By making it a priority to create your own for your team, you encourage better collaboration, thinking, and ultimately winning.
By Michele Sileo, Chief Growth Officer, Eleven
Throughout my son high school cross country running career, I was often moved to tears while watching his team race. The intensity the kids put into training, the respect the boys had for one another (both on the field and off) and their commitment to their coach were inspirational in ways I never thought possible. All their work, all these relationships came down to a 17 minute race, with each runner pulling their own weight and supporting each other until the end.
As the team prepared to head to the state championships, I had the opportunity to speak to their coach, a seasoned athlete herself who had run professionally in her youth. In pointing out my admiration for these kids and all they had accomplished, she said something that really resonated with me all about the van. she meant was, it was the time spent in the van on long rides to and from races that bonded these kids in ways that set them up for success. Sure, the training and hard work they put in mattered that was enabled by the inside jokes, long talks, secrets, and shared pizzas that happened in that van. Their success was made possible through the shared experiences and connections that happened in that informal space. It also what made it all worthwhile.
The way we work professionally is changing. Today offices are often fractured between telecommuters, those who are constantly in meetings, freelancers, and those working flexible schedules, making it hard to know who coming and going at any given time. While a lot of this is good for efficiency and work life balance, it removes a lot of opportunity for teamwork and informal relationship building that happens around the work. The answer isn a slide back into a traditional, 9 to 5 butts in seats model, and it sure isn more meetings, but rather a mindful effort to make time and space for interactions that offer opportunities to truly bond and make work fun.
The thing that the traditional working model and the new working model have in common is a single minded focus on hard productivity. Being at your computer and getting the product out is the priority,replica rolex datejust 2, often to the detriment of the processes that could make for a better product. With this mind set, we working in a world where it always about the race, and hardly ever about the van. Workers suffer as they are left with little time for ideation, sharing, and reflection of the key ingredients that produce winning work and winning client relationships.
While we at this crossroad, working to define new models for working,replica rolex oyster perpetual datejust womens, it important to remember that it not just about the work. It about the spaces you create around the work and the positive, creative feelings developed in those spaces. It about identifying the winning team early on and finding moments for team chemistry to build and strengthen.
Prioritizing daily check ins allows for impromptu discussions to take place based on priorities to be solved at that moment. Driving to meetings together (yes, all of us) often proves to bear impactful dialogue,rolex datejust replica, camaraderie, and better preparation. And, really utilizing the moments after client meetings (in airports, taxis, restaurants) allows us to capitalize on immediate hypothesis generation frequently helping to overcome pitch hurdles that might not have been solved otherwise
Quite possibly one of the best environments for solving problems and making space for great thinking is during commute hours. Picking up a co worker on the way in, riding home with others,rolex oyster perpetual datejust stainless steel replica, and utilizing the time for impromptu conference calls with members of our team can be great ways to bring the benefits of van to an entirely different kind of team.
As we grow more connected via technology, we allowed ourselves to grow less physically connected. Bringing the right people together at the right moments to discuss a pertinent topic or decompress and connect a bit can happen anywhere, but it needs to be an ongoing goal. Humans naturally crave connection. It part of what makes working together worthwhile. By making it a priority to create your own for your team, you encourage better collaboration, thinking, and ultimately winning.
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When people move around the world to settle in new countries, they not only bring with them their hopes and dreams, they also bring their food culture. that have been cooked in a culture's homeland sustain links to past lives and heritage.Even if a native language dissipates through subsequent generations, food from home will survive and continue to be made as a celebration of unique identity.Often this food will spill over and become absorbed into the mainstream eating culture of the new land.If a country is lucky enough to have significant immigration numbers from particular places, restaurants and shops will pop up and introduce us to new,replica rolex datejust oyster perpetual, international cuisines.What would Australian food be without the major influence of Italian and Greek cooking?New Zealand has been a bit short on significant numbers arriving in its history, even though many of us unknowingly refer back to English, Irish and Scottish food.Traditionally there has been little exposure to more "foreign" food.In recent times, Asian food and flavours have become common and we see some Pacific influences merging, but personally I would think the food most of us cook at home is pretty mono cultural. You can learn a lot about people's homelands by the way they cook, eat and show hospitality.Food is a great cultural vehicle and, as with other aspects of our global village, its diversity should be celebrated.Never say no to an invitation to eat with someone who is way different from you.Growing up in Christchurch in the 50s I knew one Chinese family, one Maori family and one Latvian refugee family and there were a few Dutch families beginning to settle.Probably all of us know someone whose heritage is Dutch.Although the numbers were not necessarily huge, the Dutch became known for their practical, hard work ethic and ability to absorb themselves in life here, if not their "haute cuisine".I'm going to run into trouble here, but apart from their superb baking, I've always found Dutch food fairly plain. My Dutch partner, Jorg Kammerman, will cook up something from his childhood and it often involves boiled potatoes and cauliflower.One of my now favourite dishes is accompanied by these and involves mince rolls, wrapped in bacon and coated with a cream and cucumber sauce.I thought it most unusual.However,replica rolex oyster datejust, when it comes to him making a Dutch apple cake, he cannot be beaten.Over hundreds of years, Dutch cooking has integrated dishes and a wealth of spices from former colonies. Indonesian food, Sri Lankan spices and South African influences have merged into everyday food in Holland. As many Pacific places claim chop suey as a national food, the Dutch would perceive nasi goreng as one of theirs. It's a funny old food world, don't you think?Michael Van de Elzen's parents immigrated here from Noord Brabant in the 60s for a new life. Jorg's family arrived in 1982 from Zuid Holland.They each love their mother's cooking and wax lyrical about "kroketten" and "oliebollen" but it was interesting to note that Jorg's food (from a southern province) was unfamiliar to Michael, whose family hails from the north.Even in a country as small as Holland, the regional nature of food is apparent.As Michael hosts his new programme Family , he will be introduced to even more old family favourites.He' plans to try to reinvent a few and make them more healthy.Good luck to him,rolex datejust lady replica, is what I say. Some of these recipes should remain intact as cultural records and, if encounters any old nanas along the way, he might have his work cut out for him.
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7 Baffling Moments from The Worst Video Game Movie Ever
The Legend of Chun Li isn't just a movie, it's proof of the Second Law of Thermodynamics: everything can always get worse,replica value of a rolex oyster perpetual datejust, even the Street Fighter movie franchise.
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Street Fighter was written off as the worst thing to happen to video games since the thumb eating venereal spiders; but The Legend of Chun Li was made to make sure we ended up like everyone else who insults Van Damme: in pain and regretting it. Legend is measurably worse than Van Damme's effort in every way, and I know because I measured the game, the movie and Legend in various categories. Also: I can no longer smile, and now think "action" is a noise people make when they sneeze.
In Street Fighter, Chun Li pranced around like a seven year old pretending to hit people, giving her seven years more martial arts experience than Legend's Kirstin Kreuk, whose entire acting history of violent encounters is "wanting to sleep with Superman." While that does demonstrate incredible physical bravery it falls a bit short of being an Asian martial artist in important categories like being Asian and knowing martial arts.
She spends the first half hour undergoing advanced Michael Jacksonification, morphing from an incredibly Chinese child to a skin tone that has only been achieved by Asians who are dead and under a flood light.
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The script doesn't help, taking her to Hong Kong, Bangkok street markets and an Asian cyber cafe where she's the only non Asian person in sight, and a clear foot taller than everyone else.
Also: If you're casting Chun Li and have to choose between acting and kung fu abilities, play the game. Compare the number of monologues and kicks to the face. In the game, Chun Li can levitate while doing the rotating splits and kick you exactly one thousand times in two seconds. In the movie, she's a classical pianist, and there's exactly as much action as that implies. She throws punches like she's showing off a manicure and kicks like she's trying to shake tissue paper from her high heels. But at least he was obviously enjoying himself. Raising the total number of people enjoying the movie to "One," or "One more than Legend of Chun Li."
If Legend's piano playing Chun Li was hit by a pussification ray, Bison seems to have been built out of spare parts from a vaginoplasty clinic. Neil McDonough is so unbelievably wimpy looking; he played Bruce Banner in the 1996 Hulk series remake and a red shirt in Star Trek, two characters who were specifically meant to convey the idea of "easily defeated wimp." The same insane casting director who hired a Canadian to play Chun Li also hired a midget to play the final boss and told him to act Irish. There's such random nationality reassignment in this movie, you're half expecting Zangief to crop up chanting "U S A U S A!"
That little munchkin looks like he could be beaten up by his own wineglass.
McDonough's Bison is such an unbelievable pussy you couldn't even use him in a porno without adding two fire trucks and an explosion to balance him out. He's meant to be the ultimate unarmed combatant and the only people he punches in the entire movie are a chained up secretary and an unborn fetus. This is actually smart since he appears to have mistakenly received all his martial arts training from a sign language instructor. They use every trick they can to make him look threatening, from perspective shots to (I wish I was kidding) playing an actual tiger sound effect every time he does anything, but it's still about as threatening as a cuddle party.
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Van Damme's motivating speech is rightly famous, just as the Hindenburg is a well known aircraft.
If accents were computer equipment Van Damme would be the world's most powerful electromagnet. But McDonough somehow manages to top him in every scene, remembering a different Oirish stereotype with each line, and mauling it with the fury of a thousand Hadoukens. He's about as Irish as the Queen setting fire to a the Guinness brewery and far less fun to watch.
What's truly tragic is that someone went to all the effort of teaching Kristin Chinese. She switches between location specific (if appalling) Cantonese and Mandarin, meaning there were clearly expert Chinesologists on set but every time they said, "You know she's white, right?" they were sued for racial discrimination. Her tongue does more violence to the language in one sentence than the rest of her body does to anything else in the movie. I guarantee he won't know enough about violence to block it.
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In Street Fighter, Chun Li pranced around like a seven year old pretending to hit people, giving her seven years more martial arts experience than Legend's Kirstin Kreuk, whose entire acting history of violent encounters is "wanting to sleep with Superman." While that does demonstrate incredible physical bravery it falls a bit short of being an Asian martial artist in important categories like being Asian and knowing martial arts.
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Also: If you're casting Chun Li and have to choose between acting and kung fu abilities, play the game. Compare the number of monologues and kicks to the face. In the game, Chun Li can levitate while doing the rotating splits and kick you exactly one thousand times in two seconds. In the movie, she's a classical pianist, and there's exactly as much action as that implies. She throws punches like she's showing off a manicure and kicks like she's trying to shake tissue paper from her high heels. But at least he was obviously enjoying himself. Raising the total number of people enjoying the movie to "One," or "One more than Legend of Chun Li."
If Legend's piano playing Chun Li was hit by a pussification ray, Bison seems to have been built out of spare parts from a vaginoplasty clinic. Neil McDonough is so unbelievably wimpy looking; he played Bruce Banner in the 1996 Hulk series remake and a red shirt in Star Trek, two characters who were specifically meant to convey the idea of "easily defeated wimp." The same insane casting director who hired a Canadian to play Chun Li also hired a midget to play the final boss and told him to act Irish. There's such random nationality reassignment in this movie, you're half expecting Zangief to crop up chanting "U S A U S A!"
That little munchkin looks like he could be beaten up by his own wineglass.
McDonough's Bison is such an unbelievable pussy you couldn't even use him in a porno without adding two fire trucks and an explosion to balance him out. He's meant to be the ultimate unarmed combatant and the only people he punches in the entire movie are a chained up secretary and an unborn fetus. This is actually smart since he appears to have mistakenly received all his martial arts training from a sign language instructor. They use every trick they can to make him look threatening, from perspective shots to (I wish I was kidding) playing an actual tiger sound effect every time he does anything, but it's still about as threatening as a cuddle party.
Game: Authentic original language (in Super Street Fighter IV)
Van Damme's motivating speech is rightly famous, just as the Hindenburg is a well known aircraft.
If accents were computer equipment Van Damme would be the world's most powerful electromagnet. But McDonough somehow manages to top him in every scene, remembering a different Oirish stereotype with each line, and mauling it with the fury of a thousand Hadoukens. He's about as Irish as the Queen setting fire to a the Guinness brewery and far less fun to watch.
What's truly tragic is that someone went to all the effort of teaching Kristin Chinese. She switches between location specific (if appalling) Cantonese and Mandarin, meaning there were clearly expert Chinesologists on set but every time they said, "You know she's white, right?" they were sued for racial discrimination. Her tongue does more violence to the language in one sentence than the rest of her body does to anything else in the movie. I guarantee he won't know enough about violence to block it.
It's not like they don't have enough to choose from,replica rolex datejust watch.
Street Fighter: Van Damme might have turned World Warriors into a collection of scientists and sound men, but it at least remembered
A) to actually put them in the movie
B) to put Kylie Minogue in pigtails and a tight top, which to this day remains the only reason I let the casting director survive.
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The film,replica sell rolex oyster perpetual datejust, which has won four Golden Globe [Images] Awards and has garnered 10 nominations at the Oscars, tracks the story of Jamal Malik, a dirt poor orphan from the slums who astonishes India when he does well on the country's version of 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?'
Damian Smee, film expert from William [Images] Hill, one of the largest bookmakers in the UK,replica oyster rolex perpetual datejust, has been compiling Oscar odds for 27 years and picks up the winner 'eight times out of ten'.
He said that Slumdog Millionaire is at 2 7 odds of winning the Oscars while The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button is at 4 1 odds.
Boyle is at 4 9 odds of winning the Oscars for the Best Director compared to 7 2 for David Fincher, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, 8 1 for Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon,used rolex datejust replica, 8 1 for Stephen Daldry, The Reader, and 10 1 for Gus Van Sant, Milk.
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Rosetti painted it through the face of his beloved, Van Gogh became a genius because of it and Poe became its poster boy. Yet, loneliness for all its superficial romanticism, is one of the most destructive of human feelings. Here are some ways on how to deal with it and find a happier, more meaningful and enjoyable life:
1. Embrace change. Change occurs in all of our lives and it is this fact that triggers many incidents of loneliness. Simple acts of moving to a new city or of changing jobs or life events like a divorce or separation can cause an overwhelming feeling that you have no one at your side but put it this way.
New cities, environments and status give way to new opportunities you can explore. Your new home may provide you an opportunity for further study, your new job can be your stepping stone to a better career and your new status may just help you improve yourself better. The possibilities are endless both ways; it's just up to you where you want to take them.
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3. Recognize your needs. Being negligent of one's needs can cause a feeling of inadequacy. It also causes a feeling of not doing enough. Feelings of loneliness are occasionally caused when other's needs take the forefront, pushing our own to a position of lesser importance. There they can remain stagnant and untended to. By recognizing your needs, you affirm your own self esteem and importance.
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5. Get out and do something. Treat loneliness as a signal to do something for a change. Join a club or a group that promotes your favorite activities or volunteer for charity work that you enjoy. Share your talent with people who are willing to learn. When you're preoccupied, you have no time to feel lonely and by doing what you love, you actually get to accomplish something, adding points for a good ego boost.
6. Take the initiative. How many times have we lost an opportunity because we were too preoccupied, shy or negligent to take advantage of it? Or maybe we waited for it to turn its head and notice us. Deal with loneliness by taking a step out of the shadows and allowing yourself to make the first move. Meet new people, go after a new hobby or take a chance to promote yourself. Remember that many years from now, the one thing you'll regret is something you didn't do and not something you did.
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Rosetti painted it through the face of his beloved, Van Gogh became a genius because of it and Poe became its poster boy. Yet, loneliness for all its superficial romanticism, is one of the most destructive of human feelings. Here are some ways on how to deal with it and find a happier, more meaningful and enjoyable life:
1. Embrace change. Change occurs in all of our lives and it is this fact that triggers many incidents of loneliness. Simple acts of moving to a new city or of changing jobs or life events like a divorce or separation can cause an overwhelming feeling that you have no one at your side but put it this way.
New cities, environments and status give way to new opportunities you can explore. Your new home may provide you an opportunity for further study, your new job can be your stepping stone to a better career and your new status may just help you improve yourself better. The possibilities are endless both ways; it's just up to you where you want to take them.
2. Set goals. There is no way you can reach your destination if you don't know where you're going in the first place. By setting realistic goals,van cleef butterfly fake necklace, you will recognize which areas of your life need improvement and which ones to prioritize. Sometimes people isolate themselves by concentrating on too much work.
If this is your case, set small goals that you can complete. Focus on areas such as your own wellbeing, your personal, social and professional relationships and your community. This helps you decide which activities you'll enjoy more and where you'll prosper.
3. Recognize your needs. Being negligent of one's needs can cause a feeling of inadequacy. It also causes a feeling of not doing enough. Feelings of loneliness are occasionally caused when other's needs take the forefront, pushing our own to a position of lesser importance. There they can remain stagnant and untended to. By recognizing your needs, you affirm your own self esteem and importance.
4. Expand your horizon. Could it be that you feel stifled by your current environment? Do you need a change of scenery? Want to extend your circle of friends? If you feel you're stuck in a glut and nothing seems to move,clover necklace replica van cleef, it's probably time to push your bubble further.
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5. Get out and do something. Treat loneliness as a signal to do something for a change. Join a club or a group that promotes your favorite activities or volunteer for charity work that you enjoy. Share your talent with people who are willing to learn. When you're preoccupied, you have no time to feel lonely and by doing what you love, you actually get to accomplish something, adding points for a good ego boost.
6. Take the initiative. How many times have we lost an opportunity because we were too preoccupied, shy or negligent to take advantage of it? Or maybe we waited for it to turn its head and notice us. Deal with loneliness by taking a step out of the shadows and allowing yourself to make the first move. Meet new people, go after a new hobby or take a chance to promote yourself. Remember that many years from now, the one thing you'll regret is something you didn't do and not something you did.
7,van cleef and arpel replica necklace. Accept the things that you can't change. There will always be things that will remain out of reach from your influence or from your grasp. Learn to acknowledge these within reason and you'll feel happier and more satisfied with the way the world is.
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9. Be your own best friend. None of the tips above will help you overcome loneliness if you cannot stand to be on your own. If you can be alone and be quite happy and content, then loneliness has no place in your mind. Learn the art of making friends with yourself and enjoy your time alone.
10. Listen to music,van cleef arpel knock off necklace, read a good inspirational book, take care of a pet or a plant, write in your journal, cook your favorite food, little things like these help you build a feeling of contentment about yourself. By learning how to look inward and see a beautiful person worth spending time with, you'll see that there really is no reason to be lonely.
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Michael Caine shuns luxury items out of respect for poorer families
Sir Michael Caine has ditched his luxury car and packed away his pricey watch out of respect for poorer families struggling to survive in the current economic slump.
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The elderly woman said she became afraid at this point because the group refused to take her to her car, officials said.
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The traveling con artists preyed on elderly women, using convincing ruses to bilk their victims out of thousands of dollars by claiming their cars needed repair.
One 77 year old woman was scammed out of more than $20,000.
After the victim gave her keys to one of the suspects, she was helped into their white Ford Explorer. When one of the men drove the victim's car up, she said it making "loud thumping noises,rolex oyster datejust replica," according to court records.
The men then claimed her car needed "major repairs," and they would fix it for about $8,000. The victim agreed to be taken to her bank by two women and one man.
Police said Betty Yonko was one of the women and the owner of the vehicle. Her son Angelo was the man who rode along, court records allege.
Taken to jewelry store
After the victim gave $8,000 to one of the women, she was taken to Plaza Jewelers in the 7500 block of Bellaire.
The elderly woman said she became afraid at this point because the group refused to take her to her car, officials said.
While in the store, Angelo Yonko had the victim buy jewelry for him with her credit card. According to court records, she was told he would pay her back with the money she gave him for the car repairs.
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Parolee James Bennett, 45, was arrested Friday after cops raided his Washington Heights home and recovered some of the high end loot, said a police source.
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The total value: an estimated $230,000.
Cops said it was Bennett's seventh arrest, all for high end Manhattan burglaries.
There was no sign of forced entry and no video surveillance on the 12th floor a hotel courtesy to afford privacy to VIP guests, a police source said.
But days earlier, Bennett was captured on a surveillance camera breaking into the manager's office at the London Hotel on W. 54th St. near Seventh Avenue near Times Square. He walked off with several checks worth an undisclosed amount, said police.
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Burglar who plundered Dubai royal family's Plaza Hotel suite of $230,000 in jewelryarrested: cops Cops bust burglar in royal jewel heist at Plaza Hotel
facebook email Apple iPads, designer handbags, jewelry and a Rolex were among the items stolen from a princess' room in the prestigious Plaza Hotel. (Ben Hider/Getty Images)
A persistent prowler was busted after slipping inside the posh Plaza Hotel and swiping $230,oyster rolex perpetual datejust replica,000 worth of jewels and other valuables from a princess in Dubai's royal family, cops said.
Parolee James Bennett, 45, was arrested Friday after cops raided his Washington Heights home and recovered some of the high end loot, said a police source.
His victim was Princess Arwa Al Qassimi, 25, whose family booked the entire 12th floor of the famously ritzy hotel overlooking Fifth Ave. to discover her room was ransacked.
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The total value: an estimated $230,000.
Cops said it was Bennett's seventh arrest, all for high end Manhattan burglaries.
There was no sign of forced entry and no video surveillance on the 12th floor a hotel courtesy to afford privacy to VIP guests, a police source said.
But days earlier, Bennett was captured on a surveillance camera breaking into the manager's office at the London Hotel on W. 54th St. near Seventh Avenue near Times Square. He walked off with several checks worth an undisclosed amount, said police.
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The word Rolex, conjures up ideas of luxury,cartier replica ring love, wealth and power. This beautiful brand of watch, is perhaps the most famous of all watch brands, and rightly so, as it has, and still continues to, produce some of the most beautiful watches known to man.
The brand, inaccessible to many due to expense; it can be considered a goal to own one. Celebrity endorsed, these watches feature upon many wrists: famous actors, rappers, singers, football legends and princes, some of which are featured in this hub.
Rolex Explorer IIFollowing on from discussing the prestige of this watch brand, this particular model is worn by none other than Prince Harry of Wales, third in the line of succession to the British Throne and to the reign of sixteen countries. How much more prestigious can a wrist get?! He has been seen to sport this watch on numerous occasions; in fact I particularly noticed this fantastic timepiece on his left wrist, at the Diamond Jubilee Cathedral Service. I took to the net to hunt it down, and I must confess, I wasn't surprised that I had been drawn towards a Rolex; they're simply just fantastic.
It's exciting features include an orange second hand, 42mm case (neither stupidly big nor too small) and date dial.
If you're fortunate enough to be able to afford this model, it retails at 5,530, but it can be bought for approximately 3,500.
Interested in the Princes' choice of watch? If yes, visit this hub!
Rolex SubmarinerThe Rolex Submariner, may be my personal favourite. It's minimalistic,cartier replica love collection ring, yet still firmly a Rolex, which is what I like about it. The model I have selected for the Hub is the Submariner Date Oyster; with steel bracelet and black dial.
It's features, amongst many, include a 40mm dial, unidirectional rotating bezel (hours of fun!) and waterproof for up to 300m deep. This model also has a date dial.
Yet another celebrity spot; this time Nicholas Cage: actor, producer and director with 60 films to his name including Gone in 60 Seconds, Ghost Rider and Kick Ass.
Rolex DaytonaIt is quite unusual,love replica cartier ring, yet a pleasant treat, to stumble upon a Rolex with a leather strap, as opposed to metal link bracelets, synonymous with this brand. Many people, who prefer leather straps to the feel of metal ones, then this is the watch for you.
The additional dials,cartier replica rose gold love ring, reveal it to be a chronograph able to accurately measure time in up to an 1/8 of a second. It has a 40mm dial (the smallest of those so far mentioned) and the casing is made of Everose Gold. It also is waterproof for 100m underwater. These excellent feature help it to be one of the most fantastic Rolex watches, in my opinion.
Rolex OysterThe model of choice is the Oyster 40mm yellow gold with black dial. It oozes sophistication and luxury. It contains a date dial and its luxury features include an 18ct Gold Bracelet. It also boasts 24 hour display, due to its bezel; and like all Rolex Watches, it is an Officially Certified Swiss Chronometer (COSC).
Celebrity spot: Austrian American former professional body builder, actor, businessman and politician; the governor of California for 8 glorious years: Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The word Rolex, conjures up ideas of luxury,cartier replica ring love, wealth and power. This beautiful brand of watch, is perhaps the most famous of all watch brands, and rightly so, as it has, and still continues to, produce some of the most beautiful watches known to man.
The brand, inaccessible to many due to expense; it can be considered a goal to own one. Celebrity endorsed, these watches feature upon many wrists: famous actors, rappers, singers, football legends and princes, some of which are featured in this hub.
Rolex Explorer IIFollowing on from discussing the prestige of this watch brand, this particular model is worn by none other than Prince Harry of Wales, third in the line of succession to the British Throne and to the reign of sixteen countries. How much more prestigious can a wrist get?! He has been seen to sport this watch on numerous occasions; in fact I particularly noticed this fantastic timepiece on his left wrist, at the Diamond Jubilee Cathedral Service. I took to the net to hunt it down, and I must confess, I wasn't surprised that I had been drawn towards a Rolex; they're simply just fantastic.
It's exciting features include an orange second hand, 42mm case (neither stupidly big nor too small) and date dial.
If you're fortunate enough to be able to afford this model, it retails at 5,530, but it can be bought for approximately 3,500.
Interested in the Princes' choice of watch? If yes, visit this hub!
Rolex SubmarinerThe Rolex Submariner, may be my personal favourite. It's minimalistic,cartier replica love collection ring, yet still firmly a Rolex, which is what I like about it. The model I have selected for the Hub is the Submariner Date Oyster; with steel bracelet and black dial.
It's features, amongst many, include a 40mm dial, unidirectional rotating bezel (hours of fun!) and waterproof for up to 300m deep. This model also has a date dial.
Yet another celebrity spot; this time Nicholas Cage: actor, producer and director with 60 films to his name including Gone in 60 Seconds, Ghost Rider and Kick Ass.
Rolex DaytonaIt is quite unusual,love replica cartier ring, yet a pleasant treat, to stumble upon a Rolex with a leather strap, as opposed to metal link bracelets, synonymous with this brand. Many people, who prefer leather straps to the feel of metal ones, then this is the watch for you.
The additional dials,cartier replica rose gold love ring, reveal it to be a chronograph able to accurately measure time in up to an 1/8 of a second. It has a 40mm dial (the smallest of those so far mentioned) and the casing is made of Everose Gold. It also is waterproof for 100m underwater. These excellent feature help it to be one of the most fantastic Rolex watches, in my opinion.
Rolex OysterThe model of choice is the Oyster 40mm yellow gold with black dial. It oozes sophistication and luxury. It contains a date dial and its luxury features include an 18ct Gold Bracelet. It also boasts 24 hour display, due to its bezel; and like all Rolex Watches, it is an Officially Certified Swiss Chronometer (COSC).
Celebrity spot: Austrian American former professional body builder, actor, businessman and politician; the governor of California for 8 glorious years: Arnold Schwarzenegger.