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Shenzhen Performing Arts Facility / ZOBOKI-DEMETER & Associates

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Vile: This movie is stupid and if you watch it, you're stupid.

I never really "got" torture porn.  I mean, I thought Saw was clever and Hostel maybe redeemed itself for a host of different reasons, but now you've just got a couple movies churning out every year that are just people being tortured for hours.  Someone on IMDB said that the title of this movie should've actually been "Tedious".  I actually stopped watching it then came back a day later to see the stupid "twist" these movies have at the end (twist: one of the people in the house is in on it, but for absolutely no apparent reason, and its pretty unbelievable.)

I don't get the "porn" in torture porn.  Because, long or short, actual porn is there in service to some sort of sexual climax, but what's the climax for torture porn?  Who likes these movies?  The only people I can really see sitting through hours and hours of footage of people getting tortured are serial killers or potential serial killers, and that's pretty disturbing considering they still make decent money so lots of people watch them.

This movie really had a plot written by a ten-year-old boy.  Which is to say, the math and science are pretty weak.  Like, couldn't you just pay people to harvest their hormones more slowly over time?  Doesn't seem cost-effective to quickly torture people to death.  Also, why didn't the percentage keep going up slowly?  They had a lot of fingernail ripping scenes and I'm a nail-biter myself.  It kindof hurts when you first bite off too much nail, but a few hours later, your fingers are swollen and in agony.  Also, back to cost-effectiveness, they managed to hire a person to repeatedly go in the house to get tortured, and the pills make 10-12k each, so why not pay like poor people and college students to torture hurt themselves for a few bucks?  Like, you figure the cops came back to the house afterwards, but then the same person who kidnaps people comes back to the same spot, months or years later?  Plot hole.  Also, what happens if people don't torture each other? 

Well, I guess you could say it's a movie that makes you think, but not in a good way.

1/10: Let's just torture torture-porn already....to death.

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endless list of horror films - The Ring (2002)

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Watched this for Halloween!

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10 Frames Friday: Nightcrawler (Open Road Films)

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What breed are these

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Mr. Jones: Just stop, for crying out loud.

Mr. Jones is the last man on the human centipede that is found footage movies. Actually, he's the shit that the last man shat out after eating every other found footage movie's shit.  It's just a big, stinking, runny mess on your carpet.  LOOK AT IT. LOOK AT WHAT YOU DID.  BAD BOY. BAD!!!

1/10: Everyone involved in this should be sent away to a punishment island for the rest of their lives.  SHAME.

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China’s Thumbelina looks for help!

A one-year-old girl in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province weighs only 2.9 kg due to some unknown rare disease. The little ‘Thumbelina’ has stopped gaining at weight and grew only 10 cm since she was born.

Having no teeth, she can only take food by nasal feed of formula and a small amount of breast milk. Apart from rice paste, her mother could not add any other complementary food for her nutrition. Seeing doctors has cost all of family’s savings, but they still can’t find out the causes of her rare disease.

The baby is able to laugh but doesn’t make any sound. Doctors said it’s a miracle that she is still alive but faces dangers.

A post seeking for help was published by Fujian Breastfeeding Association on weibo.com, raising money for the treatment for this baby girl.

Read more: http://wp.me/p4xlGl-120

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Studio Fuksas - Shenzhen Bao An Airport Terminal 3 - Photo 0049.jpg by 準建築人手札網站 Forgemind ArchiMedia on Flickr.

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Don't Blink: Awful White People

The overlords of my island nation have squeezed their death grip on our communications, so my Hulu is out for the count and Netflix is...so-so.  I did get my hands on this movie, which isn't that amazing.  About halfway through, I started to wonder if this was like the film in The Ring, an awful movie that will kill you if you don't trick someone else into watching it. 

So, premise is that a bunch of B- and C-level white actors go to a cabin and they start to disappear one by one and it's scary.  There's mostly a lot of "acting", which makes one long for some CGI goblins and girls crawling on the ceiling.  The red-head guy is the worst, like Stiffler's red-headed brother. 

This movie is seriously the worst.

1/10: Because I fast-forwarded through about 50% of it and it didn't affect my ability to follow the film in any way.

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Ellen Page and Julianne Moore filming a scene for Freeheld, 2 Oct 2014. Photos exclusive to Fuck Yeah Ellen Page, thanks to Fran!

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TWIN PEAKS To Return For Nine New Episodes On Showtime In 2016

Pull up a chair, pour yourself a coffee and cut a slice of cherry pie as it’s been confirmed the dark supernatural series TWIN PEAKS is to return during early 2016.

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Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa–!?!?!?

[powerrose]

Rescue Dawn: Eh.

Do you ever notice how thoroughly Christian Bale dominates every movie he's ever in?  Like, this was your basic true story movie about a guy who ends up in a Laotian POW camp and breaks out, but it was so CHRISTIAN BALE being mad intense.

Also, whatever movie that was where they hung the guy upside down and tide a bag with a rat in it to his head was pretty much the last movie that ever needed to be made about Americans in POW camps.  If you're not going to do better, then stay home.

Another thought: Christian Bale is one of those guys that I would definitely hit, if I had the opportunity, cuz it's Christian Bale.  If he wants to use my body for his pleasure, it's pretty much my duty to do it.  But then, he'd be all intense and maybe stop halfway to have a ten-minute diatribe at me, and geez, maybe hooking up with Christian Bale wasn't as fun as originally imagined.  Don't you guys think that sex with Christian Bale would be super scary?

5/10: I already forgot this movie, sorry.

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there’s not enough bruce banner on my dash and i’m fixing that 6/∞ 

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No Hulu, No Cry

My Hulu stopped working about two weeks ago.  I couldn't really do much about it, since I have to hack the interwebs like the end of Batman to get it in the first place on my deserted island.  It suddenly came back on today.  Hooray!!

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#S a v e A N X F

What’s going on?

Peter David (writer of All New X-Factor) announced that the series will be cancelled at issue #20 because sales are low. (source) There are a great deal of people who adore this comic, and we want to share that awesome with everyone else. This is a campaign to lift that cancellation and try to renew the series.

What is being done?

If you care about All New X-Factor as much as we do, we urge you to take action. We are planning on setting up times to attempt to get #SaveANXF trending on Twitter to introduce the series to a wider audience. There are 6 issues left until the series is scheduled to come to an end. If we can raise sales and get Marvel’s attention, perhaps we can save it - or at least increase the possibility of the characters sticking around. We would also like to propose an “All New X-Factor Week” at some point in the near future; participation is encouraged to further spread the word.

How can I help?

If you can think of anything else, let us know! We want as many people to be involved as possible. Follow us on twitter: @saveanxf. Spread the news. Reblog/retweet. Most importantly, buy All New X-Factor.

Thank you for your support!

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GAMBIT4EVA!!!!!!!!

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I'd hit it.