Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

[Wombaticus Rex]

The problem with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is that once the filmmakers strip away the novel's postmodern pastiche and tack on an inspirational Hollywood ending, what's left — this story of a boy's search for a lost father — doesn't fully mesh with Sept. 11, and doesn't fully earn the right to use such terrible images from our recent past. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is extremely powerful and incredibly manipulative. When you dry your tears, you might feel, as I did, angry.

*dies laughing*

what a petulant little poodle

[Iamwhomiam]

Well, that settles it... Tom Hanks, our favorite American hero, after Jimmy Stewart, has announced our decade of national mourning over.

Seems to me that Hollywood wants to play with 911.

Just in time for an early Christmas 2012 release, probably the Sunday before.

[barracuda]

It's time for a 911 comedy, I think.

[Project Willow]

That's why they killed him.

[Project Willow]

Wait, wait, are we allowed to laugh on here?

[Iamwhomiam]

If not here Willow, where?

Petulant poodles be damned!

Obviously, Fish, CD.

[JackRiddler]

Well, that settles it... Tom Hanks, our favorite American hero, after Jimmy Stewart, has announced our decade of national mourning over.

Seems to me that Hollywood wants to play with 911.

This was already true by the time of Cloverfield. Or this:

[MinM]

The problem with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is that once the filmmakers strip away the novel's postmodern pastiche and tack on an inspirational Hollywood ending, what's left — this story of a boy's search for a lost father — doesn't fully mesh with Sept. 11, and doesn't fully earn the right to use such terrible images from our recent past. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is extremely powerful and incredibly manipulative. When you dry your tears, you might feel, as I did, angry.

*dies laughing*

what a petulant little poodle

David Edelstein is a poor imitation of his predecessor at CBS Sunday Morning. The late John Leonard.

[psynapz]

It's time for a 911 comedy, I think.

Forgive muh iggernance, but wth is that from?

[Luther Blissett]

PS - Just found an old Michelin poster, eerily appropriate because it looks like "Bibendus" and his twin are in a command car near the embers of a No-Man's Land on the Western Front.

I had to add this to my meticulously curated, decidedly "Images Only"-influenced high weirdness, cold war paranoia, indie pop, and natural beauty tumblr: Flatwoods Blonde (potentially triggering, though probably not).

I allege Sandra Bullock is a dependable covert Nazi agent.

Most likely.

[barracuda]

Forgive muh iggernance, but wth is that from?

I'm not sure, but I think it originated at an 119 debunking site.

[norton ash]

^^ The government is bullshitting when they say they didn't anticipate buildings attacking planes.

[smoking since 1879]

I guess the one at the wheel is sober, and only the passenger is drunk... paging Hugh

[NeonLX]

Ha! Flatwoods Blonde is a blast!

[Luther Blissett]

Ha! Flatwoods Blonde is a blast!

Thanks a bunch. I had some downtime last month and went nuts.
Oddly enough, Michelin runs some sort of "travel tumblr" and "liked" the Bibendum which is just insane to me.

http://michelinguides.tumblr.com/

http://www.tumblr.com/liked/by/michelinguides

They "liked" another image tagged bibendum, so they must be alerted every time a user posts that.