realize the strength
I'm Dan. I'm a happy guy living in New Hampshire. I'm an eternal optimist, sometimes to a fault. I see the good in others. I am pretty much always smiling or laughing. I am compassionate. I love animals. I read. I write. I watch way too many movies. I love to cook. I have a growing need to connect to others. I'm living.
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artist: Denis Medri set 3
Shawn writes:Points for knowing all the movies.
First off, these are fucking badass and I would buy them all.
Second, if you don’t know all these movies we cannot be friends.
So, there’s that.
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Phone home I must!
Created & submitted by Surfing Trooper
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Star Wars Illustrations
Created by Cat Staggs
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35 Years Ago Today…
Star Wars (A New Hope) was released in theaters for the first time.
It went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time (up to that point). Adjusted for inflation, it comes in at number 3 in the list of highest-grossing films ever made right behind Avatar (2009) and Gone With The Wind (1939). If you were to include toy/merchandise sales into the mix, it would take the top spot by a very wide margin. It isn’t all just about making money. It currently averages an 8.8/10 on IMDB which places it at #17 all time as voted by users.
(via:tiefighters)
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Put this way, it sounds so simple. And actually, it should be this simple.
Unfortunately, this discounts the fact that Hollywood is run by people with their heads up their asses. Like this guy. It’s a fucked up nightmare of politics and greed. It’s amazing that anything good comes out of the system at all — it’s a testament to the true creative talent behind the films themselves.
You can bet that Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and all the rest have tried to talk Hollywood into the system above. They’ve probably been doing it for a decade, if not longer. Instead, we get bullshit like UltraViolet — a giant middle finger to consumers.
While I would LOVE the model above to be reality, I don’t think piracy can BE killed.
The generation of kids entering middle school right are used to getting what they want for free. Sure, you grow up, you get a little more money, you do the right thing more often (maybe). But there’s a mentality ingrained in people my age and younger that’s hard to fight.
I won’t disagree that there is an entire generation of kids that feel they are owed everything, but a model like the one above would certainly be the closest thing to a win-win for consumers and Hollywood.
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![spumonis:
Bad Santa (2003) [link]
The Bishop’s Wife (1947) [link]
A Christmas Carol [2009 version] [The Muppets version (2002)] [Mickey’s version (1983)]
A Christmas Story (1980) [link]
Deck the Halls (2006) [link]
Elf (2003) [link]
The Family Stone (2005) [link]
Four Christmases (2008) [link]
Home Alone (1990) [link]
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York [link]
How the Grinch Stole Christmas [2000 version] [1996 animated version]
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) [link]
Jack Frost (1998) [link]
Jingle All the Way (1996) [link]
Just Friends (2005) [link]
Love Actually (2003) [link]
Lovely, Still (2008) [link]
Miracle on 34th Street [1947 version] [1994 version]
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) [link]
The Nightmare before Christmas (1993) [link]
Noel (2004) [link]
The Polar Express (2004) [link]
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998) [link]
The Santa Clause (1994) [link]
The Santa Clause 2: The Mrs. Clause (2002) [link]
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) [link]
Surviving Christmas (2008) [link]
The Holiday (2006) [link]
This Christmas (2007) [link]
Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas (1999) [link]
Trapped in Paradise (1994) [link]
A lot of the links are megavideo, and since there’s that 72 minute thing, if you ask me very nicely in my ask box I might lend you my premium account to watch a specific film :)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luq4io4pvP1qaxm50o1_1280.jpg)
Bad Santa (2003) [link]
The Bishop’s Wife (1947) [link]
A Christmas Carol [2009 version] [The Muppets version (2002)] [Mickey’s version (1983)]
A Christmas Story (1980) [link]
Deck the Halls (2006) [link]
Elf (2003) [link]
The Family Stone (2005) [link]
Four Christmases (2008) [link]
Home Alone (1990) [link]
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York [link]
How the Grinch Stole Christmas [2000 version] [1996 animated version]
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) [link]
Jack Frost (1998) [link]
Jingle All the Way (1996) [link]
Just Friends (2005) [link]
Love Actually (2003) [link]
Lovely, Still (2008) [link]
Miracle on 34th Street [1947 version] [1994 version]
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) [link]
The Nightmare before Christmas (1993) [link]
Noel (2004) [link]
The Polar Express (2004) [link]
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998) [link]
The Santa Clause (1994) [link]
The Santa Clause 2: The Mrs. Clause (2002) [link]
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) [link]
Surviving Christmas (2008) [link]
The Holiday (2006) [link]
This Christmas (2007) [link]
Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas (1999) [link]
Trapped in Paradise (1994) [link]
A lot of the links are megavideo, and since there’s that 72 minute thing, if you ask me very nicely in my ask box I might lend you my premium account to watch a specific film :)
(Source: aaronpauled)
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The mystics from the Dark Crystal…one of my favorite creatures of all time.
Natural Mystics - by Augie Pagan
Acrylic on Board
16” x 20”
The Dark Crystal frightened me when I was a kid. To the point where I am scared to watch it now.
(Source: pacalin)
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Movie Quotes with a Gun by Edgar Ascensão
Movie quotes are pretty cool because you can use them in everyday conversation, which is basically 78% of how I communicate with the world. I dont own a gun though so I cant ever quote any of these great lines with any real panache. At least we have pretty art to help us pretend though.
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