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oh dear god, don't do this to me without warning. i think jim halpert must be the perfect man. i wonder if john krasinski himself is at all like that in real life.

alison, those are not made up! :lol: those are like, THE two peanut butter brands in america. most people buy skippy, but i prefer jif. good to know they have skippy in england! i'll be able to survive! now, i'm just going to have to find boxed macaroni and cheese in the UK and i'm a happy camper.

i don't even really know what the general favorite is to win. is slumdog an underdog, really? i would think that the fact that it won the golden globe for best picture, it's not so much of an underdog for the academy award best picture. i'll be really pissed if benjamin wins best picture, even if slumdog doesn't win it in its place. but i am going to be sad if slumdog doesn't win, because i'm more hopelessly in love with that movie than i've ever been with any other :P

i really want to see milk and revolutionary road. i'm seeing rachel getting married on friday, and the dark knight (in imax) again tonight to refresh my memory of heath ledger's performance. of course, to each their own, so i'm not trying to argue here :wink:. but i just found benjamin button to be completely straightforward, predictable, and slow-moving. i felt the symbols and motifs were weak or lacking, and i didn't feel the love or chemistry between the two main characters at all. i didn't even like the character of daisy for most of the film. i feel like the story would have benefitted 100% from a really good plot twist that no one saw coming. as for forrest gump...i see the similarities, but i wouldn't personally say it was a rip-off of any sort. forrest got more and more epic and you didn't really know what amazing thing he was going to do next, whereas with benjamin button, you knew he was going to get younger and younger and that everyone else was going to get older. there were no surprises, no real creativity in the storyline. i think even if a film has a creative premise (like someone getting younger rather than older), it should still have creative writing in it. i do agree with you when you say that slumdog uses a kind of stock storyline about finding a long-lost love and reuniting with her, but i think it's the structure of the film, the characters, the acting, and the writing that saves it from being cliche. i'll admit that the first time i saw it, i thought the very end was a bit cliche in that it's all very nicely wrapped up without any real surprise. but in the *ahem* 4 other times i saw it (:embarassed:), i realized that it was the structure of the end that got me about it. i'm going to get descriptive here, so if you haven't seen it, don't click the spoiler. sorry, i'm a bit obsessed with film, and with slumdog in general. and i'm procrastinating schoolwork :P.

that's good. even if it is a bit different, i can survive, but i hope that there's some brand that's similar to what we have here, because in holland it was really kind of strange. do you guys have skippy or JIF?

^exactly, i just live by the golden rule in pretty much every case, even if i don't like the person. i'd like to be known as a good person that's friendly and polite, but i don't give a rat's ass about what people think of my taste in music or clothes or movies or anything like that, or my habits or whatever.

haha, extras. that's just what i've heard. i don't know how true it is. but even if it's not common, i just wonder if it's like the peanut butter i'm used to.

obama didn't fuck it up, john roberts did. i'm not saying this to defend obama, but that's what the experts and pundits say, and it was quite obviously roberts that recited it wrong. obama didn't know whether to repeat what roberts (wrongly) said, or say it how he knew it went, so that's why it was a bit awkward. they re-did the oath the day after, but obama officially became president at noon EST, oath or not, so it didn't make that much of a difference.

ok, i've heard that peanut butter isn't as common or as well-loved in the UK and in europe in general, and when you can find it, it's not the same as american peanut butter. can anyone from the UK confirm this? i'm moving there next year, and i'll probably die without peanut butter. when i lived in holland, the peanut butter was VERY different. not bad, but just not what i'm used to at all. i wonder if the UK peanut butter is like that, or more like the american kind, though i don't know if anyone on here would have had both types.

i care about the reputation of my manners, friendliness, helpfulness, and those sorts of things. other than that, i don't care what people think of me, but i do keep some things under-wraps just so i don't have to deal with mocking and stuff.

happy birthday, mich!! :dance: :dance: :dance:

briggins? :thinking: i know he's big on cannibalism, but i don't know if i could return the favor. anyway, i like both, but SMOOTH is most definitely the best. although peanut butter has been recalled here, and while you can still find it in stores, it's not a good idea to eat it for a while because there was a salmonella outbreak at a peanut plant and 6 people have died. I MISS PEANUT BUTTER :bigcry:

see slumdog and then get back to me :P

i just saw benjamin button. really, 13 OSCAR NOMINATIONS?! it was just...not that worthy. it was a good film, don't get me wrong, but i don't think it should be up for best picture. visual effects, most definitely, makeup too, but not best picture, score, or cinematography, or adapted screenplay.those belong to slumdog millionaire, if you ask me. i guess everything else is fair game, though. it was just...too slow-moving and too predictable. i felt like some of the symbols missed their mark and could have been stronger, and the dialogue was nothing too special. the plot really could have used a big twist, because you knew exactly what was going to happen the entire time, and the movie did nothing to change that fact--it didn't throw anything else in, it just ran its natural course. you knew he was going to lose people, you knew he was going to get younger as everyone else got older. there could have been more. i'm not really saying i didn't like it, because i did. i just don't think it's oscar best-picture quality at all. brad pitt was really good, but part of me wonders how much of that was really him and not just CGI.

:lol:! thanks mich, but i'm a moron. i COMPLETELY didn't see the first tweet, the big one in bold at the top. i have a tendancy to miss the big, obvious things on webpages. when things are in bold, big font at the top and are meant to be obvious, i always miss them.

i just went to the coldplay twitter, but i dont see any tweets signed by prospekt, like the article on the official site says :thinking:. what does the tweet say?

YAY! back in the studio! :dance: i still doubt that they'll crank out an album before the end of the year, but i LOVE the sound of progress :nice:

^exactly! that was the scene that made me want some. and the inside of the british DVD box set, where it says something like "open up a pack of jaffa cakes and pop in the first DVD, this night is about to go off" (i'm to lazy to go get the DVDs to check the exact wording :P)

:lol:! i actually say "alas" a lot, even in real life. no wonder people think i'm a wacko :wacko:. and you obviously don't appreciate jaffa cakes because your country is spoiled with them. try living in a jaffa-deprived culture like america and they'd be all you want :bigcry:. i should start a charity for jaffa-deprived nations. ohhh, i'm in a random mood.

RASPBERRY JAFFA CAKES?! i'm SO buying those next year! i like raspberry flavor much better than orange in general. i was also laughed at for pronouncing "jaffa cakes" the wrong way :dozey:. in my american accent, i would pronounce it "jaahhhfahhh," but the brits actually pronounce it like "jeaaafaaa," which makes me laugh because it sounds like a thick NYC accent to me :P.

laughing? talking?! is this a coldplay track? it sounds cool, most definitely, but its almost hard for me to gauge how much i like it because it's so different :stunned:. i was quite surprised upon hearing it, actually. i like that jonny's quite prominent in it, though :D

JAFFA CAKES ARE GOD. i looove them. they're so expensive over here, but i don't care. i got turned onto them by the travis video for "selfish jean," the show spaced, and semy :P i saw a 3 foot tall tube of them in the british store around christmastime, but alas, my parents did not see the reason to buy me that many cookies/cakes for christmas, even though i asked :sad:

:cheesy: thanks! :nice:

lauren, do you have the full size of this? i use this thread for stealing wallpapers too much :embarassed: my current one is my sig, only much bigger :wacky:. i love slumdog millionaire :bigcry:

tee hee, thanks! :wacky: the only downside is that there's a date that miiiight come close to conflicting with wembley, but there's no way i'll let that happen--i'll lie about where i'm going, if that's what it takes. i would never sacrifice wembley for anything! what is the program coordinator going to do, throw me out of the country? :P