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 0Posted on Apr 27th | re: Operation Watch This: The Art Of Film And TV Title Design (34 comments)

The way that each episodes opening titles are customized! The delight of seeing new cities added to the map! And last week, the quick flyover the astrolabe! Fantastic.

 +9Posted on Apr 26th | re: Benedict Cumberbatch VS. Downton Abbey (34 comments)

Sherlock is very good. But how about making more than three episodes per year?

 +5Posted on Apr 6th | re: The Videogum Movie Club Reminder: Damsels in Distress (21 comments)

The far-flung members of the Videogum Family weep for not having planned our trips to New York or Los Angeles for Easter movie weekend.

I felt like I needed to hatewatch it just to bear witness, or something? And it was like the writers just decided to go all out and make every single person, down to the most minor of characters as completely awful and non-believable as possible. I mean, even the medical staff at the fake hospital were THE WORST completely non-compassionate incompetent people in the history of television.

Not to mention the stupid mayoral candidate who implied that having a suicide attempt was more of a campaign killer than being accused of actually killing a child. SMART POLITICS, GUY!

 +5Posted on Apr 2nd | re: Game Of Thrones Open Thread (85 comments)

She was one of the daughter wives north of the wall. And good old bastard Chris, just like old times.

 +7Posted on Mar 26th | re: Well, So, Let's Talk About Mad Men (157 comments)

Only because I watched the end of the last season before watching the new one, this is the same dress that Peggy was wearing in the episode where they fire everyone. Which is kind of strange, right?

 +3Posted on Mar 26th | re: The Videogum Movie Club: The Hunger Games Open Thread (96 comments)

There seems to be something about how not participating in the big show means that your starving family/district is further tortured?

 +2Posted on Mar 26th | re: The Videogum Movie Club: The Hunger Games Open Thread (96 comments)

In our group of grown childless adults, the people who hadn’t read the book were far and away the most traumatized by the movie. Which, maybe means they “enjoyed” the child murder the least but liked the movie more?

Like you, the readers in the group, were mostly perplexed at the plot restructuring (esp. shortchanging her scenes with Rue and minimizing the development of her fake love for Peeta) and relative movement of so much of the blood and brutality off screen.

 +6Posted on Mar 1st | re: Top Chef S09E16: Season Finale (40 comments)

 0Posted on Mar 1st | re: Top Chef S09E16: Season Finale (40 comments)
 +2Posted on Feb 24th | re: Enter The Videogum Oscar Pool! (120 comments)

Given that most of my picks align with the Kelly list, my guess is that Gabe’s going on a TMZ tour.

Best Picture
The Artist

Best Actor
Jean Dujardin, The Artist

Best Actress
Viola Davis, the Help

Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Plummer, Beginners

Best Supporting Actress
Octavia Spencer, The Help

Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist

Best Original Screenplay
Midnight In Paris

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants

Best Foreign Film
A Separation

Best Animated Film
Rango

Art Direction
Hugo

Cinematography
The Tree of Life, Emmanuel Lubezki

Costume Design
Hugo

Documentary (Feature)
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

Documentary (Short Subject)
Saving Face

Film Editing
The Artist

Makeup
The Iron Lady

Music (Original Score)
The Artist

Music (Original Song)
“Man or Muppet” from The Muppets, Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie

Short Film (Animated)
“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg

Short Film (Live Action)
“Raju” Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren

Sound Editing
War Horse

Sound Mixing
War Horse

Visual Effects
Rise of the Planet of the Apes

 +6Posted on Feb 23rd | re: Top Chef S09E15: Open Thread (34 comments)

My favorite parts were:

1. When Sarah made a few more bitchy comments about Beverly. And also about hating asians.
2. When Tom just wouldn’t shut up about arugula.
3. When Sarah’s face finally froze into that look of child beauty pageant fake surprise.
4. When they brought back everyone from “on the bubble kitchen” to re-compete in all of the challenges to decide who would be the sous chefs for the finale.

 +5Posted on Feb 17th | re: And Your Videogum TV Club Choice Is... (19 comments)

Yay! I guess? Finally one brave website is willing to dedicate itself covering this underlooked programme.

 +8Posted on Feb 16th | re: Top Chef S09E14: Even More Boring Than The Regular Olympics! (27 comments)

I like to think that Padma’s tears were a sign that the producers had taken them all hostage. Or just regret that they still haven’t been able to rid themselves of Sarah.

 +2Posted on Feb 14th | re: The Videogum TV Club Poll: What Do You Wanna Watch?! (159 comments)

But season series four really needs to be encased in nuclear waste facility and never spoken of again.

 +3Posted on Feb 14th | re: The Videogum TV Club Poll: What Do You Wanna Watch?! (159 comments)

love love love Luther, but is there anything funny to say about it?

 +8Posted on Feb 13th | re: Saturday Night Live: Zooey Deschanel And Karmin (32 comments)

Man, putting Jean Dujardin on stage really reveals how everyone else on stage is not that great at dancing.

 +5Posted on Feb 2nd | re: Top Chef S09E12: Pee Wee's BUGH Adventure (37 comments)

Despite having avoided “Last Chance Kitchen” all season, I watched it last night AND THEY DIDN’T EVEN REVEAL THE WINNER. Way to stick it to the internet nerds who’ve been tuning into your stupid experiment, guys.

 +5Posted on Jan 31st | re: Can We PLEASE Talk About Gossip Girl's 100th Episode? (50 comments)

Maybe the best thing (aside from Wallace Shawn’s Princess Bride-ing) about this episode was how the ending could be read as some sort of Brian Krakow wish fulfillment sequence. Maybe it’s all a dream of Dan’s next novel?

 +5Posted on Jan 31st | re: Can We PLEASE Talk About Gossip Girl's 100th Episode? (50 comments)

Of all the nonsensical things on this episode: Blair’s mother is allegedly a major fashion designer, yet she sent everyone to the Vera Wang Cameo Store for dress(es)?

 +2Posted on Jan 26th | re: A Fake Interview With Uggie, The Dog From The Artist (21 comments)

A harder hitting dogterview would’ve requested a barkment on Uggie’s use of stunt doubles in the Artist.

Scrunchie Chris was way way overly kind of scarily emotionally invested in just being on Top Chef and having new Top Chef Pals. Good luck out there in the big scary world, big guy.

I guess it just means that I’m still in the tank for Obama because everything about that cornball dad joke, from pre-delivery grin to Michelle’s embarrassed smile, seemed just ridiculously charming to me.

 +4Posted on Jan 23rd | re: Christopher Plummer Demands Actor Dog Recognition (31 comments)

TEAM COSMO.

 +1Posted on Jan 23rd | re: Top Chef S09E10: Charlize Theron (27 comments)

when is someone going to tell Sarah that it isn’t Top Risotto? And that maybe she isn’t good at making risotto anyway? Oh wait, they’ve told her that second part at least three times this season.