The soul has greater need of the ideal than the real for it is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live

Monday, February 9, 2009

I do my research



See! Plenty cute!

A little follow up post to all those who are trying to drag me over the coals about Colin Farrell and my dislike of the guy.

1. I'm entitled to dislike him and express my opinion on my own blog if I so choose. I do not have to accept nor publish anyones comments to the contrary.

2. I have done a little research here, and I'd like to support my comments about this guy being a movie star.

Let me also say, I keep mentioning MOVIE STAR not actor. I think the guy can act, he's fine and he's plenty cute, I'd blow him if he asked nicely.

But!!!

He is NOT a movie star! And anyone who says otherwise is NUTS!

Here are his stats, these include only Domestic gross of his films. This is what studios look at when they consider actors for another film. It's where they make their money. And believe me if you ain't makin them the money honey, you ain't around for long. This is what mystifies me about Colin Farrell:

The war zone-254,441 budget unk
Tigerland -139,692 budget unk
American outlaws-13,342,790 budget unk
Hart’s War 19.077,641domestic gross Budget-70 million
Minority Report-132,072,926 Domestic gross Budget 102 Million
Phone Booth 46,566,212 Domestic Gross Budget 13 million
The Recruit-52,802,140 Domestic Gross Budget unk
Daredevil 102,543,518 Budget 78 Million
Veronica Guerin 1,571,504 Budget 17 million
S.W.A.T. 116,934,650 Budget 80 million
A Home at the end of the World 1,029,872 Budget 6.5 million
Alexander 34,297,191 Budget 155 Million
The New World 12,712,093 Budget 30 Million
Ask the Dust 743,847 Domestic Budget unk
MiamiVice 63,450,470 Domestic Budget 135 Million
Cassandra’s Dream 973,018 Domestic Budget unk
In Bruges 7,800,824 Domestic Budget unk
Pride and Glory 15,740,721 Domestic Budget 30 Million

Please note now many of his films where they do NOT tell us the budget. That's because they lost their asses and don't want to tell anyone how much they lost.

On the THREE films he's made that actually posted a domestic profit they made approximately 120 million. On the films that lost money they lost 312 Million Dollars.

This is what I'm talking about folks. I don't see a lot of great work out of this guy that's so compelling that he should be a movie star of this magnitude. And he loses the studios money! I have to wonder how long this will keep up before they finally say "well, he may well be able to act, and he may well be handsome. But we can't make any money on this guy."

If you think his perceived wonderfulness is going to keep him working you're not in touch with reality.

I'd bet that Colin is though.

Monday!?

How did it get to be Monday already?

I rode horses, partied with friends, went to the theater,took naps, argued with nut cases on the internet, (my mistake, sorry,) shopped, which I rarely do, but I NEEDED new clothes and I found great sales. Ran up the Visa, but I still did pretty good. And here we are staring at the work week. This particular one is fraught with peril.

Our current Acting Interim Director is retiring on Friday. The party is Thursday. I can't wait to attend. Yikes. This places us in official limbo. After that we have an Acting Interim Assistant Director and nothing more at the top. It's ridiculous.

Of course what worries me is the very real possibility that the Acting Interim Director will decide that as one of her last official acts she'll give herself a present, and take me with her. A very real possibility, no matter what the champions of my cause try to do. If she says it, they say, "ok." They've been very helpful in volunteering me to do things after a couple of other people leave, and I appreciate their efforts, but they may not be enough. I'm hoping I'm paranoid and that there isn't an ax about to fall...on me.

But C'est la vie.

I went to see the Vagina Monologues produced by our drama club this weekend. It was a passable production, we don't have a deep talent pool, but they found a voice and it was consistent, so I was glad I went.

I went for drinks and dinner with friends and the ex Friday. I had quite a good time, which was surprising. I often fear time with the ex. He can be a bit labile with the moods sometimes and this week he wasn't in the dark place. He's always fun when he's not there.

Our new Change President seems to have sold us down the tax cut river. We've proven time and again that tax cuts don't work. And who are we kidding anyway? They just raise some other tax. They have to get the money from someplace. I realize we're just printing money right now, but why do we have to cut so much from education programs? Is it necessary to keep the populace stupid (like they're not stupid enough already) so they don't figure out how badly they're being screwed? I can't understand how we started out with a package that could actually create jobs and help people and wound up with one that's not only more expensive, but guts lots or programs they'd planned and fuels the same old shit that didn't work in the past to keep going and going...

It's disappointing that he didn't have more fortitude when he walked in the door.

Did he think everyone was going to rally round him cause he's a nice guy? Sir, no one gives a shit if you're a nice guy. So get out there and effect some change before I write you off as worthless. Repealing DADT would be a nice start. Then let's move onto marriage equality and civil rights and economic equity, and health care and all that shit you haven't talked about recently. Let's hear some more about that and not what we had to do to get this mockery of a stimulus plan off the ground. In my Opinion it's as DOA.


So good luck with it. You've let others take the heart out of it and we're the ones who'll pay the price.

I saw a movie on HBO this weekend, Lucky You, with Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore.










He's not bad at all IMHO.
They were both playing the same rhythms and it just made for a complete lack of chemistry. What is it with that guy? I've seen him work on other stuff and he seems quite capable, he just never seems to find the right vehicle to propel him into the next level. Maybe next time I guess. This movie even had Robert Duvall whom I always love and it just made no difference, the movie just kind of laid there, like a bad sex partner.

Well, off to work. Joy.