Per JoBlo, apparently Chris Nolan will be taking some amount of control in rebooting Superman.  Kinda psyched. Your thoughts? Comment at me.

Below is the link to my good friend Dan’s Photo project, entitled “New York Resolution”.   It captures people in there  New Years Resolutions in a photo montage.  Check it out.

www.newyorkresolution.com

If you like “The Godfather 1 &2″, “The Deer Hunter”, “Dog Day Afternoon” or “The Conversation”, you need to watch this documentary. It’s about 40 minutes long about the life of John Cazale, who was in all 5 movies. An amazing actor that stood toe to toe with some of the greats. Highly recommend watching this. Thanks to JoBlo.com for this link.

This was a tough one to watch. It seems like both guys have valid points. Something like this can kind of ruin your view of a director. Not me though.  What would have been better is if he blew up the asshole trying to get his poster signed.

As most of you know by now, I have entered a video into the WhenCloverfieldHit.com contest.  I am hoping that most of you reading this have already voted.  But if not, then take this oppurtunity to do so:

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SPOILERS AHEAD!

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The final episode of The Sopranos was incredible, specifically with the last 5-10 minutes.  This may be the best TV finale ever. I keep hearing both sides: One side claims that David Chase, the shows creator, took a cheap way out and made an awful episode.  The other side that it was brilliant because it doesn’t package to Americans.  I reside more toward the latter, but certainly not in that elitist view.  Which brings about an interesting perspective.  A long standing issue between art and pop media, is the intellectual merit.  The final episode of this show proves to be a wonderful relationship of the two, in that many watched it and the episode itself has sparked conversation and provoked the educated and the laymen.  Apart from that view, I thought I’d touch base on some theories:

-The Screen goes Black and Tony’s dead: Many people have stated that when the screen goes black at the end, it is a reference to a line spoken by Bobby that talks about when you get “clipped” you “never hear it coming”.  I like this view, because it’s really masterfully done, if that is the intent.  I’m loving that you see Tony in the shirt he wore for season 1 as the last thing on screen.  Does he die? Does he live?

-The Cat was Adrianna or Christopher: This is pretty self explanatory, and I totally believe it to be the case.  I actually thought maybe the cat was bugged by the FBI.

-Tony Enters the Diner and See’s Himself: This is a theory I am taking credit for.  If you watch very closely, the photography for that last part begins with Tony entering a diner and peering into the restaurant, resting on the image of a figure.  The figure ends up being himself, but it seems to flash back to Tony standing in the doorway.  I don’t know what this means, or if my eyes fucked up, but in general, there’s something fishy about that scene.  Upon re-watching, I may be  able to rectify it.

For those who were dissapointed with the finale, I urge you to look at the final 8 episodes and assess blame appropriately. This season and specifcally the finale, suffered from a lack of activity in earlier episodes.  Given that the creative team had 8 episodes in which to finish this show, I can safely say that at least 2 of the episodes (the Vegas episode, the first episode at the lake house) were a waste of time and proved/showed nothing.  These hour long episodes could have been dedicated to more important plot lines and really drove the show home.  The finale was saved by a great penultimate episode and served to be a great episode itself.  I was upset there wasn’t more time spent to the impending doom of the war between Phil and Tony.  The arc suffered from unnecessary episodes.

All in all, if you have On-Demand or get a chance to see the episode, I urge you to watch it.  I’m also open for debate on this one guys, so comments will be very much appreciate and awesome.