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Friday, October 23, 2015

Tom Hardy became a father again! His wife Charlotte gave birth to their child yesterday. While searching for the news I found this pic of Tom and his first son.

There are no words.

I was supposed to see Crimson Peak today but I was too exhausted to go to cinema. I'm just so tired. I've been falling asleep at 10 pm lately. I came to work at 7.20 today and finished working around 14:40. It's madness.

I finally sat down and watched Far From the Madding Crowd last weekend. I'm creating the dumbest character of the year category in my annual awards just for the main chick.

JFC this movie. First some sheep committed mass suicide by jumping off the cliff. Then I think a dog got shot, but it was out of frame so I can always pretend it didn't happen. Then that main bitch gets a lamb from this guy and he proposes and she says no. Then Michael Sheen proposes and the bitch says no. And previously in the movie she sent him a valentine but when it is pointed out to her by the lamb guy that she led the poor guy on she fires him. But then some sheeps' stomachs start exploding - or something - so she rides after the lamb guy because only he can help her. Then some gigolo soldier arrives and waves a sword - literally - at her in the woods and she marries him. He is of course a douche and gets her in debt and impregnates some plot device played as usual by Juno Temple and then plot device and its baby die and then he is pronounced dead after he allegedly drowns so poor Sheen proposes again and just as she maybe kind of will graciously agree the dead husband comes back and Sheen shoots him so he is sent to jail and the one left who gave her a lamb is leaving her but - poor guy - she catches on to him and they make out.

My God.

I legit kept hoping she would die - that she jumps off the cliff like the sheep, that the dude's sword slips and her head gets cut off, that the lightning hits her or she falls off this barn... what a deplorable character. And she lived to the end! There is no justice.

The film, the awfulness of that character aside, was really beautifully shot, it had great music and at this moment Sheen makes my best supporting actor line up.I could see Stephen Dillane play this part too - quiet, kind, dignified man, surrounded with women with absolutely fucking terrible taste.

Also I noticed that I've been calling "Far From the Madding Crowd" "Far From the Maddening Crowd" this whole time. I'm really tired, in my defense.

I also saw Bridge of Spies which was....fine. That is the nicest thing I can say about this movie. Tom Hanks was good doing his usual likable and admirable character thing and Mark Rylance was good but I'm at loss as to what exactly is gonna get nominated for Oscar here? The man isn't even making my top 10 and I haven't even seen about 15 of the biggest buzzed movies. It's a fine historical movie but it's entirely forgettable.

I saw extended version of Spy. That movie is such a laugh riot. The extended version didn't have great flow of theatrical one, but really more of McCarthy is always great.The best thing that could possibly happen this Oscar season would be if Jason Statham scored some nominations for the film. The man really needs to do more comedies.

Rian Johnson and Duncan Jones had a feud at twitter this week that was just amazing. They are both talented. They are however also so petty. A rule I follow and a piece of advice - don't do more than 3 tweets in twitter feud. Anything more is just fucking sad.

No, I have not seen that Star Wars trailer. I just don't give a fuck.

Scream Queens was awesome this week, obviously. Chanel is a hero! She returned for Zayday. Also Wes is shady as fuck. I hope he is not the killer because that would be too obvious.

And on American Horror Story? The Queen is back!:

Angela Bassett finally showed up and as usual stole the show. I hope I have some energy during the weekend to write the recap for the recent episode.

I started watching Child 44 but I saw an hour of it so far and just couldn't kept going/. I have zero idea what the hell is going on in this film. Also the director doesn't know how to use his actors and the editor is a fuck - that shit is 147 minutes long, there is a scene where Hardy begins undressing to take a shower and it cuts to Hardy dressing up after he took the shower. What the fuck?! Why do you think I'm even pushing play on the movie about children getting killed in Soviet Russia?! Thank God at least Hardy is in a uniform in most of his scenes.

Leonardo DiCaprio started his campaign for The Revenant talking about some things he had to for the role. There is also a poster for the movie, which looks beautiful but I don't quite like it. I think this is bad marketing - it misses the brutality of the story.

So apparently Sony executives telling Craig to shut the fuck up didn't really help much. He did this now.What's next? I keep waiting for him to lose it and shit under the poster of Spectre in a movie theatre and then pick up this shit and throw it around or something.

There's probably a bunch of things I'm forgetting since so much is going on now with the Oscar season heating up. News this week - Chris Rock is gonna host the ceremony. I'm honestly gonna be fine with everything that may happen except if Redmayne wins another Oscar. Chances for that seem to be getting pretty slim but there is even greater horror that may happen - Jennifer Lawrence may win her second Oscar. And if she wins, it means that Redmayne would be the one handing it to her. The collective awfulness of all of that may actually kill me.

Speaking of things that may kill me - more rumours and news from Game of Thrones season 6 set confirm that Blackfish and Edmure Tully are returning. So we are getting Jaime and Brienne in Riverlands, The Freys coming back and the Tullys coming back. Can you imagine my outrage if with all of this, Lady Stoneheart still is not gonna be featured on the show? I swear to God, if that happens I'm definitely buying a big ass bell and following D&D for the rest of their lives yelling SHAME!