Posts Tagged ‘Movies’
Lots of hype recently about Avatar, but without a doubt one of the coolest things is the fact that Cameron commissioned the creation of a language for the inhabitants of his planet. Here, LangaugeLog takes a look at how it was constructed. Fascinating and a little surreal. Phonetics and Phonology Na’vi has 20 consonants, 7 [...]
Ledger was good…not worthy of all the buzz, but he played the part well against what he had shown to be capable of doing previously. … Probably earned every penny, but I wonder what it would have pulled in had Ledger not died?
Point of fact, I want to be reimbursed for the bandwidth I used to download it. … How shitty of a director do you have to be to make Wahlberg and Zooey freaking Deschanel unlikeable?
Or get killed by a freaking drunk driver: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/04/obit.clark.ap/index.htmlFilm director Robert Clark, best known for the holiday classic “A Christmas Story,” was killed with his son Wednesday in a head-on crash with a vehicle steered into the wrong lane by a drunken driver, police and the filmmaker’s assistant said.Clark, 67, and son Ariel Hanrath-Clark, 22, were killed in the accident in Pacific Palisades, said Lyne Leavy, Clark’s personal assistant.The two men were in an Infiniti that collided head-on with a GMC Yukon around 2:30 a.m. PDT, said Lt. Paul Vernon, a police spokesman. The driver of the other car was under the influence of alcohol and was driving without a license, Vernon said.The driver, Hector Velazquez-Nava, 24, of Los Angeles, remained hospitalized and will be booked for investigation of gross vehicular manslaughter after being treated, Vernon said. A female passenger in his car also was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and released, police said.That just sucks.
