Social Anxiety Forum - Entertainment

Best Movie Poster Ever! (PG-13)

Thomas Paine — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:02:40 GMT

Sorry, I've always loved this comic book. Can't wait to see the movie in (hopefully) 2010.

Also, I have an unfinished pen drawing in my albums that I've been working on recently, based on one of my Witchblade comics.

And no infractions, please! :b Pretty sure it's PG-13 (the poster at least, hopefully not the movie).

Anyone else into the Twilight Zone?

Keith — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:55:35 GMT

Im talking about the original one not the revivals. Personally i love it.So many good episodes nearly every one is. Rod Serling is the man! He was such a good writer and i cant believe how many good stories for episodes he wrote. I also really like the episodes written by Charles Beaumont. I definitely dont have a favorite episode I like way too many, Anyone have any favorites?

America's Next Top Model

babines — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:43:35 GMT

Turns out; Nicole (formely known as Bloody Eye Ball) won America's Next Top Model. :eek: First episode I thought; "wow whe might suffering from social anxiety... so what the .... is she doing in the competition??" I guess I'm a pessimistic and just assume that having SA is a blocker for acheiving anything in life. :no uh-uh. That Nicole; she is America's Next Top Model now and I am so happy for her. :clap Isn't it that she is a great role model? She seems to be a very genuine, nice person.

Anyway... just saying: us socially anxious people can conquer the world!!:boogie

Given that Nicole can be A Top Model, Babines wants to be a model too. :D

In an interview, she said:

You seemed to overcome that shyness by the time of your first Covergirl commercial. How did you channel all that charm and energy?

"That was the hard thing, because that's really me. After filming that Covergirl commercial, the judges told me that it was great, but they were like, "Nicole, you're so fake!" And I wanted so badly to say, "That's really who I am!" because I do have energy when I'm comfortable. I just got so uncomfortable in front of the cameras, they couldn't see it."

How confident were you going into that final panel?

"I really didn't feel very confident at all. When Laura was chosen as the other finalist, I was worried because I knew that the competition was going to be really close, because she had really endeared herself to the judges by that point. They loved her, and she has such a great look and personality for Covergirl. And the panel had critiqued my personality a lot more than they showed on the show, my awkwardness. I thought it might have done me in."

horror movies

ChadsWick1234 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:52:52 GMT

Anybody here like horror movies? I went to see the fourth kind it was great. Some of my favorites are friday the 13,high tension,halloween.

Nicole Fox Tyra Banks America's Next Top Model

anannymouse — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:26:35 GMT

What do you guys think of Nicole Fox? I definately think that many psychologists would diagnose her with "social anxiety disorder, generalized type" and/or "avoidant personality disorder". I myself am ambivalent about such diagnostic categories, having skimmed the book "Shyness: How Normal Behaviour Became a Sickness" by Christopher Lane. Back in the day, shy people were never considered mentally ill.

Anyway, in tonight's episode (November 18th, 2009), she said that she ate her lunch in a washroom stall so that people wouldn't see her eating alone. I also ate lunch in a washroom stall in Eighth Grade, but it was more because I was worried about gang violence and that I would inadvertently be on their "territory" and they'd get mad at me for infringing on their space.

Maybe she could become the poster child for Paxil or something! But maybe Marjorie Conrad would be better for that. There are a few other contestants from previous cycles who I think may have shyness, but I might post it some other time because it is getting late and I need to get to bed!

Anyway, tell me what you think! I want to read your opinions!

Star Trek: "Man Spoke Only Klingon to His Son for Three Years"

TorLin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:21:11 GMT

Man Spoke Only Klingon to His Son for Three Years
November 19, 2009, 12:40pm, By Rosa Golijan

http://gizmodo.com/5408022/man-spoke...or-three-years

d'Armond Speers isn't really a huge Star Trek fan. The reason he spoke only in Klingon during his son's first three years of life was to learn about the language acquisition process. Yeah, sure. What a petaQ.

Yes, I think That Speers is such a horrid person that I had to learn how to say so in Klingon from our intern Don. It just baffles me that Speers actually sounds genuinely proud of his personal pseudo-academic project:

"I was interested in the question of whether my son, going through his first language acquisition process, would acquire it like any human language. He was definitely starting to learn it."

It's great that he wanted to see how languages are picked up, but did he not think that there's potential that he hindered his son's social development by keeping focus away from a real language? I'm all for teaching foreign languages early on, but lets make it ones that are spoken on this planet, please.

Alex Monakhov - Feel Lonely

rusalka — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:32:31 GMT

...might echo with us kindred spirits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LqInp5fSNo

Make sure the bass is turned on. In its entirety, the melody is exquisite.

7 Superhero Stories Too Big For Movies

TorLin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:57:06 GMT

7 Superhero Stories Too Big For Movies
Nov 17, 2009, 12:20 PM, by Graeme McMillan

source: http://io9.com/5406762/7-superhero-s...big-for-movies

Sure, movies like Iron Man and The Dark Knight have proven that superheroes can work on the big screen, but sometimes only comics can offer longjohned epics so large-scale that they'd break Hollywood in half through special effects budget alone.

The Pitt
Few remember - and maybe with good reason - the end of Marvel's late-'80s experiment, the New Universe, in which a man driven mad with seemingly-unlimited power accidentally turns Pittsburgh into a radioactive crater by trying to get rid of his powers, and the world goes to hell from that point onwards: America becomes filled with irradiated monsters, nuclear war and godlike children who demand that we make war no more, or else. A weird and forgotten piece of post-Watchmen superheroics, but one that mixes old-school and new-school with an admittedly naive worldview that still may be too big for one movie.

Secret Wars
One of comics' first as-many-superheroes-at-once extravaganza, it's not just the idea of bringing the Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four and random other characters (Spider-Man! The Hulk!) together to battle an army of supervillains that might make this colorful story too expensive to film, but the creation of a patchwork planet for them to fight on, along with the various alien races and/or technology that they meet along the way. Then again, the comic was created to support a 1980s toyline, and we all know how well Transformers and GI Joe have done for movie studios, so perhaps we should never say never...

Ultimatum
This year's strange superhero disaster movie killed off a number of Marvel's more popular characters, amongst them Wolverine, Thor and Doctor Doom - but only in their alternate timeline, "Ultimate" incarnations. Nonetheless, the story - in which Magneto causes all manner of "natural" disasters, destroys New York and decimates the superhero population of the planet before finally being stopped by a mix of X-Men and other superheroes - is pretty much 2012 with added superheroes, the idea of which may be the ultimate (No pun intended) high concept, but the cost of which would make most effects budgets weep.

Invasion!
DC's 1988 crossover is ID4 meets Star Wars, and then some: Different races of alien invade Earth to find out why the planet keeps producing so many superheroes, in the process destroying Australia (This is back when you could do that kind of thing without people getting upset that you've killed off an entire continent), performing genetic experiments on normal humans to see if there's some latent superhero gene (There is) and fighting a war on two fronts, as Earth's superheroes defend their planet with the help of some turncoat aliens. With a cast that's about 50% alien (And multiple types of alien, at that, with only a couple achievable with Star Trek-esque nose attachments), space battles and all manner of high-scale superheroic takes on your favorite war movies, this would be a sfx extravaganza... If anyone would ever be able to afford it.

Flex Mentallo
Flipping between "reality," imaginary worlds, time periods and everywhere in between, Flex may just be one of those unfilmable projects even before you start to think about how much it'd cost to have an army of superheroes destroy a city, combine to form a new reality that we live in, or even just have the orgy that proves Frederic Werthem right. But factor in the need to create surreal fictitious cities for the young Wally to get lost in, atomic explosions and mutations or even just costumes to match Frank Quitely's awesome fashion sense, and you're left with the kind of movie that would need Watchmen-esque precision and care, but for an even-less mainstream audience friendly story.

DC One Million
Again, just the scale of work needed to bring this story to life would make most people in charge of budgets get nervous: Taking place in two different eras (Today and the 853rd century), on multiple planets and with large-scale destruction brought about by a nano-technological virus that comes from a living robotic sun, the necessary design process alone would probably scare off movie producers before it even came to the idea of making it all look convincing. A cast of hundreds of superheroes from both eras (Including a Superman from the future who has to sparkle, just like Twilight's Edward) would just add to cost woes.

Crisis On Infinite Earths
Talking of casts of hundreds of superheroes, DC's 1985 big daddy of all superhero crossovers is the kind of thing that would have to be told in a series of movies, and even then would still be missing all manner of greatness: Requiring multiple Earths to be created just so they could be destroyed, taking place in multiple time periods - including a part of the story where the time periods merge together so we get to see World War II fighter planes fight dinosaurs - and with almost every character in the story (and there really are hundreds) a superhuman and requiring some level of ridiculous costume and special effects to be made real. While it might not be the greatest comic ever (Or even the greatest superhero comic), this might be the most perfect example of a story that is too full of ideal comic book imagination and spectacle to ever make it to the silver screen.

The Pacific

jacksondoug3 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:53:46 GMT

HBO's sequel to Band of Brothers:

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Discovery Channel

ShinAkuma — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:50:44 GMT

Anyone here who watches a show called A Haunting? My favorite episode is called A Haunting in Connecticut which is based on a true story. They came out with a movie called The Haunting in Connecticut which SUCKS.

Favorite song lyrics?

papaSmurf — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:50:00 GMT

I'm not sure if there's already a thread like this up somewhere, but I was listening to some ridiculous lyrics earlier today (which I cannot post for the sake of the children) and thought it might be fun to share our favorite bits from songs. I'll start:

"A movement in your brain, sends you out into the rain." - Nick Drake

"I'd like to know completely.... what others so discretely..... talk about when they leave me.... not that I notice when they're gone." - Clinic

"It'd be sick, sick, sick to kiss you, I think that I would vomit!" - Animal Collective

"Si me quieres, si me quieres, si me quieres dimelo" - Los Hijos Del Sol

"Satan sucks! But you're the best! When I'm with you, I feel blessed. My chinchilla." - Cub

"Clap your hands! (But I feel so lonely) Clap your hands! (But it won't do nothing) Clap your hands! ....etc." - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

"So enough of this terror; we deserve to know light, and grow ever more lighter and lighter." - Joanna Newsom

I'll be sure to post more as I think of them. Which lyrics do you like?

My new song about my anxiety problems

badmoonrison — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:59:54 GMT

http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=127046

I was really frustrated last week when I was going through withdrawal from Effexor, I just had to let it out in some sort of creative outlet.

I made the song top to bottom from lyrics to the beat. I like producing rap beats more than the actual rapping, but hey I had to do it myself this time.

What do you think? It's supposed to be a pretty dark song.

TV: Is Clone Wars One Big Advertisement For The Dark Side?

TorLin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:18:54 GMT

Is Clone Wars One Big Advertisement For The Dark Side?
November 14, 2009, 2:00pm, By Graeme McMilan

Source: http://io9.com/5404253/is-clone-wars...-the-dark-side

Last night's Star Wars: The Clone Wars may not have been as brutal as the week before, but "Weapons Factory" also showed off one of the strange things about the series: Celebrating the non-Jedi emotions that'll turn Anakin Darth-like. Spoilers.

Skipping over the lack of logic in the McGuffin necessary to get the plot going where it was supposed to (Seriously, it was a better idea to send the two apprentices off alone to complete a mission than one apprentice and one Jedi? Or, for that matter, two Jedi, and leave the apprentices leading the clone troops, as we've seen many times before?), the moral of last night's episode seemed to be "Sometimes that Jedi training is a drag." Without the mad improvisational skillz taught to her by Anakin, Ahsoka and Barris would've failed in their mission, after all, and if Anakin hadn't let his emotions overwhelm him and keep looking for the missing Padawans, then... well, they still probably would've been discovered eventually, but still.

I'm all for morals being "Sometimes you have to do what you know is right, irregardless of peer pressure/authority/whatever," but everytime we see Anakin save the day by listening to his inner voice instead of other, more experienced Jedi, I keep thinking "Wait, so he's just taking another small step towards killing all those kids in Revenge of The Sith, right?" I mean, I get that we're not really supposed to think about the fact that the hero of the show turns into a child-murdering galactic dictator too much - It kind of makes you think of that whole "What if you could travel back in time and kill Hitler" thing, and makes you wish that Ahsoka would accidentally slip and chop Anakin's head off, or maybe that's just me - but by repeating the schtick so often, it draws attention to it so much that it's impossible to avoid: The thing that saves the day so often now will end up being the biggest problem of all soon enough. Suddenly, the show becomes more ambiguous and subversive than it probably meant to be.

Of course, it all makes sense in the larger context (Luke combines Jedi training with emotion to bring "balance to the Force," like Anakin was supposed to before he was manipulated by Palpatine and became too emotional), but nonetheless, it makes episodes like "Weapons Factory" feel curiously off-balance. Shouldn't we get some more episodes about the value of calming down and thinking things through, every now and again, just to even everything out? Before The Clone Wars ends, whenever that may be, it'd be nice to see that addressed - and if it takes the death of Ahsoka to do that, then that wouldn't be too much of a problem for me.

The new "Star Trek"

Hank Scorpio — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:58:02 GMT

What do you think?

I'm watching it on DVD now. When I saw it in the theater I had a love/hate thing for it which has evolved into pure hate since and seeing it again is only making it worse.

My opinion: It's a great movie if you're not a Star Trek fan and don't care for a logical plot.
They can boot this reboot.

Move: Avatar: "awards too soon?"

TorLin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:35:58 GMT

Avatar Awards: Too Soon?
November 13, 2009, 12:20pm, By Graeme McMilan

Source: http://io9.com/5403628/avatar-awards-too-soon

Avatar is a month away from opening, but James Cameron is already winning awards for it. The Visual Effects Society has announced that he'll get 2010's VES Lifetime Achievement Award for the as-yet unseen movie. Hope it's good.