More about Elizabeth Olsen so far

With Samuel L. Jackson's news of Elizabeth Olsen portraying the Scarlet Witch in the Avengers' second film, I have decided to give some information about her.

Yes, she is Mary Kate and Ashley Olson's not twin sister, but she is also a very talented actress.
She was labeled by indie film media as the Queen of Sundance (2011) for her portrayal of the titular character in Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene. I gave her the Best Actress Award for 2011 for that role where she portrays a teenager without parental guidance who ends up risking her life joining a cult, having the illusion of power, before colliding with the reality of vulnerability.

She held her own in a basically monologue performance in Silent House, playing a performance that may need to be seen multiple times. Even hard-to-please movie makers Red Letter Media noted her performance, in what they thought was a peculiarly edited film.

Finally, she was in How I Met Your Mother protagonist Josh Radnor's Liberal Arts, where she portrayed a young woman in love with a middle aged man, looking for her soulmate.

Although I do not expect this character to ever reach M4 greatness, I do expect a really noteworthy performance by her that will impress mainstream audiences better than the overrated Tom Hiddleston Thor or Benedict Cumberbach Khan. Either that or I will curse a studio destroyed Whedon again.

Seriously,
Martha Marcy May Marlene, 
Silent House, 
Liberal Arts,
In all three films, she portrayed vulnerable adolescent easily impressionable women looking for guidance. Magneto anyone? I know Marvel may want to avoid combinations with the X films, but her talent is just too good to waste.

Best space films

With Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity coming out, I would like to list the top films taking place in space. There is notably a quite big difference between the top 11's critical acclaim with the bottom 11.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Starship Troopers
3. Solaris
4. Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
5. Alien
6. Alien 3
7. The Empire Strikes Back
8. Star Wars
9. WALL-E
10. Star Trek: The Motion Picture 
11. The Right Stuff
12. Apollo 13
13. Spaceballs 
14. Space Battleship Yamato
15. Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
16. Transformers: The Movie (1986)
17. Ultraman Galaxy
18. Avatar
19. Galaxy Quest
20. The Black Hole
21. Star Trek (2009)
22. Independence Day

The Pros and Cons of Breaking Bad: Season 2

Pros:
Tucco: Everything was unpredictable when he was still around. His performances were amazing in a 70s New Hollywood type of way. The Emmys and Golden Globes sucked by not nominating him.
The writing was amazing. We had no idea how Walt was going to strike against him.
Jesse Pinkman really got to evolve: He was not a sidekick to Walt anymore. He was made more human than he was having a girlfriend, a family of his own he manages to destroy at the same time as Walt.
Saul and new business plans have been introduced: The new characters really shook up what seemed slow and uninteresting this season.
Season 2, Episode 10: This seemed to be a standout episode for the season. Everything seemed to be crumbling around the protagonists.
The finale got us wanting more. Walt got his money, missed his baby, and his family got separated.

Cons:
The bad economy: Wow, what a terrible thing to happen to a great series in the middle of its seasons. The 2008 writer's strike happened in the middle of Season 2, and as a result a lot of the following happened.
Predictability (What happened to the chemistry from the chemistry teacher?!): The only thing that was unpredictable about this season was how predictable it was going to be. The first season was an intricate chess game between Tucco and Walter White. This season all of that seemed to be shoved out of there for nothing particularly riveting done with the franchise.
Jesse and White trying to kill each other: This made no sense this season. Sure, Jesse took drugs, but there was no reason for Mr. White to believe that he was horribly incompetent, besides being all chemistry teacher-like. Later on, it makes sense that the distributor does not like Jesse, because he noticed that he was high in the middle of a public meeting, making him look like a fool to deal with them. He does anyway for whatever reason, but it was still one of the highlights of the season.

Matt Damon's Top 11 Performances

With Matt Damon's recent performance in Elysium, here come Matt Damon's Top 11 performances

1. Good Will Hunting
2. We Bought A Zoo
3. Margaret
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. The Talented Mr. Ripley
6. Dogma
7. The Good Sheperd
8. Invictus
9. Hereafter
10. True Grit
11. Syriana

Top actors who should play Spawn

1. Carl Weathers
2. Ving Rhames
3. Tom Lister, Jr. The President in Fifth Element should play Spawn. He intimidated a police officer in the Dark Knight to stop a ship from blowing up.
4. Idris Elba
5. Terrence Howard
6. Don Cheadle
7. Michael Jai White

Seriously, why not pick this guy? Sure, the script in the original Spawn film was flawed. But that was not his fault. He was great in the Dark Knight, great in Mortal Kombat: Legacy. He has not lost his fame. Pick him.

Skyler wins a Emmy, but not Walter

Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul and the producers won Emmys for Breaking Bad, but not Bryan Cranston who has had two previous wins before, but especially in this season.

I find it appalling especially because in the second season of the Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin shows signs of writing about events he does not know about anymore i.e. Occupy Wall Street, buying into the "facts" that Occupy Wall Street is "nothing but a directionless cause" that was not at all mistreated by media due to the influences of a dictator-like Michael Bloomberg. The same Bloomberg that let people outside of Manhattan die during the snow storms of 2012, the same Michael Bloomberg that does not care about rent price or the racial profiling permitted by the NYPD that the Supreme Court stated was unconstitutional and is unconstitutional and still wants to fight.

Once again, the Emmys are a joke.

Hey, I know I know...
At least Seth McFarlene didn't host...

2013 65th Emmys Overview

Julia Louis-Dreyfus Actress Comedy Veep
Merritt Wever Supporting Actress Comedy Nurse Jackie

Tony Hale Supporting Actor Veep

Jim Parsons Actor Comedy

Tina Fey and Tracy Wigfield 30 Rock "Last Lunch"

Neil Patrick Harris sang for a show he produced.
Why is Nathan Fillion not Nathan Drake?

Bobby Canavale Supporting Actor Boardwalk Empire

Homeland won for writing and Claire Danes
Modern Family got awards.

Laura Linney Big C

Carrie Preston

David Fincher, House of Cards, "Chapter 1"

Abi Morgan, Writer, The Hour, Miniseries

Michael Douglas, Behind the Candelabra

The show was way too long. Who cares what comedies win nowadays? Frasier, Roseanne and Seinfeld are gone. All we wanted was Breaking Bad to get key wins and you gave one only to Anna Gunn? F*** this show! Many complaints on my facebook. If you want an add, I will share.

Breaking Bad will win a ton of awards this 2013 Emmys

It is official.
Anna Gunn won her award for Best Actress in a Drama. That means:
Bryan Cranston will win for Walter White
Aaron Paul will win for Jesse Pinkman
Breaking Bad will win for Best Drama.
Can they beat David Fincher for best director though?
Not to mention, Homeland's writing award?

Early 2013 Academy Award predictions (September 14th, 2013)

SAG Cast award
Twelve Years a Slave

Stoker

The Grandmaster(s)

Spring Breakers

The Butler

Actor

Michael B. Jordan

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Oscar Isaac

Robert Redford

Christian Bale

Supporting Actor

Michael Fassbender

Paul Dano

Joel Edgerton

James Franco

Javier Bardem

Possibly Dwight Henry as well

Actress

Vanessa Hudgens

Mia Wasikowska

Adele Exarchopoulos

Lea Seydoux

Ashley Benson

Supporting Actress

Rachel Korine

Selena Gomez

Nicole Kidman

Quvenzhane Wallis

Animated
Despicable Me 2
Monsters University
The Wind Rises
Epic

Film

12 Years A Slave

Spring Breakers

The Butler
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Wind Rises Hayao Miyazaki
Stoker Park Chan-wook
The Grandmaster/s Blue is the Warmest Color will probably actually take this film's place as it won the Palme D'or and people have heard about it.
Spring Breakers Harmony Korine
The Great Gatsby Baz Luhrman; I enjoyed it quite well although the film's reviews were not that favorable, compared to "Like a Virgin" Moulin Rouge.
The Counselor Ridley Scott Cormac McCarthy

Director

Harmony Korine

Steve McQueen

The Coen Brothers

Ridley Scott

All of which are taking risks, doing something new, and/or being in your face with their material.

The 5th is quite a question mark. I like Stoker and The Grandmasters, but have not analyzed them enough to predict them as best film of the year nomination. Hayao Miyazaki might get it just because it is his last film and it may be his deepest. We will see.

Dark Horse: Harmony Korine, but not totally unlikely. The performance in that film were great and the Academy loves acting, not the the direction, writing or directing were bad either.

Favorite: Steve McQueen has the great character interactions, but The Coen Bros can never go wrong with direction.

My choices for the 2013 Emmys

Outstanding Comedy: Louis
Outstanding Drama: Breaking Bad

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy: Jason Bateman (Arrested Development)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy: Amy Poehler (Parks & Recreation)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama: Bryan Cranston as Walter White (Breaking Bad)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama: Robin Wright as Claire Underwood (House of Cards)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries: Tough: Al Pacino (Phil Spector) over Toby Jones as Alfred Hitchcock in the Girl
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries: Jessica Lange in American Horror Story

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy: Modern Family friggin rigs this category every time, despite not being funny. Jane Lynch from Glee should probably win.

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama: Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama: Anna Gunn as Skyler White from Breaking Bad

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a miniseries/movie: Zachary Quinto (American Horror Story)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a miniseries/movie: Imelda Staunton (Alma Hitchcock in the Girl)

Outstanding Directing in a Drama: David Fincher, House of Cards: "Chapter 1"
Outstanding Directing in a Miniseries: Jane Campion, Top of the Lake

Outstanding Writing in a Drama: "Say My Name," Breaking Bad
Outstanding Writing in a Variety Show: The Colbert Report
Outstanding Writing in a Miniseries: Jane Campion, Top of the Lake