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And so it begins... :wiggle:

Did you cry though... You have to go post in the Official "I Cried" thread if you did... :1-say-yes:

Oh, and seeding is just allowing others to continue downloading from you even though you're done downloading. That way, everyone can get the video faster.

It's now at 64%. 59 fresh, 33 rotten. Interesting...

Yeah, chances are that it's not done downloading. What percentage of it is done when you look at you torrent application?

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I wouldn't say he was sucking up. Tom Cruise is a good friend of his and they seem to have a mutual respect for eachother, so I think that he was simply paying his friend a compliment. Tom Cruise speaks about Will the same way. They are both very complimentary towards one another. Also, he's has taken quite a beating in the media as of late... Scientology and jumping on Oprah's couch... no need for Will to pile on by saying something negative or sarcastic... and as you said, it's just not his personality.

Yeah, it was really good. Vintage Will.

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As of right now Friday, 1:15 am EST, it's at 55%... 31 fresh, 25 rotten. It was at 33% earier today and 29% yesterday.

There have been an influx of positive reviews on rotten tomatoes.

Well, it seems that there is a little chatter concerning nepotism being involved in the casting of Jaden and I know that a few people here thought that this might be the case when we first heard that he was cast. I think someone even said that it would ruin the movie. However, from all appearances, it seems that Jaden did a fantastic job. Even those giving the movie poor reviews have praised Jaden's acting. What are people's thoughts now? Do people still think nepotism was by and large the reason Jaden got the part?

Nice article.

How many women are on the Academy Awards panel... That will determine a lot. Guys will like Forest, women will like Will.

You can still have a great performance in an average or poor movie.. No, there have been a few poor reviews of Will's performance.

NY would have to include Marbury or Francis, and I hear that Philly wants neither.

I saw this awhile back, but I didn't think enough of it to mention it. Didn't he recentlty say that he's "still rolling with Jesus." Lol, you should put that in there.

It's funny that this is inspite of the poor reviews from critics...

Good article...

Thanks Julie!!!!

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=2690 And... http://www.ubercine.com/PursuitofHappyness-G.html Again, lack of consistency... :thumbdown:

http://community.compuserve.com/n/pfx/foru...z&tid=21994 THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS Reviewed by Harvey S. Karten Columbia Pictures Grade: B Directed by: Gabriele Muccino Written By: Steve Conrad Cast: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton West, Rebecca Philipsen Screened at: Bryant Park, NYC, 11/29/06 Opens: December 15, 2006 There's no justification for homelessness in one of the world's most prosperous countries. Even one fellow's sleeping in the streets is a sad commentary on our supposedly liberal spirit. Yet you wonder, given the underfinanced social welfare bureaus on big cities, that you don't find tens of thousands of people sleeping in subways. Read the paper and every you'll see how this drug company is laying off 2,000 people, that high tech firm sheds 5,550, and yet another corporations sends its business to Bangladesh, declaring its U.S.-based employees redundant. Where do all these unemployed people go, particularly given the statistics on the low rate of individual savings in this country? One guy for too long a time did not have a place to stay despite his graduating first in his high school class and first in his naval training. He fell through the cracks. In "The Pursuit of Happyness," Gabriele Muccino uses Steve Conrad's screenplay, which is "inspired by" a true story to show us how such an individual not only survived but prevailed, given his motivation to succeed. That person, Chris Gardner (Will Smith), had his own small business in San Francisco selling bone density machines to physicians, which allegedly could take pictures a little better than x-rays, but few doctors found the machine worth acquiring. With virtually no money in the bank, going on three months' default on his rent and the tax man's getting mighty impatient, Chris was in trouble. It did not help that his wife Linda (Thandie Newton), harassed him daily, sending him on guilt trips about the two shifts she had to work, requiring the couple to put their 5-year-old boy, Christopher (Will Smith's actual son, Jaden Smith). When Chris is evicted from his apartment, Linda leaves for a job in New York, putting young Christopher in his dad's care. "The Pursuit of Happyness" deals only in a small segment with religion, yet it follows the trajectory of Stephen Simon's movie, "Conversations with God" That one is about Neale Don Walsch, a man who hit the bottom when he lost his home, who purportedly heard directly from God, transcribing the words into several volumes. The books made him a millionaire. The chances of going from rags to riches are about on a level with those of winning the lottery or being struck with lightning, and Chris acts like a man who is himself struck with a bolt. Parking himself outside the offices of the brokerage firm of Dean Witter for a month, he lands a non-paying internship, a grant which gives him one chance in twenty of getting a paid job as a broker. Sleeping with his son one night in a public bathroom, several other nights in a shelter (which turns people away once the beds are full), he masters the Dean Witter textbook, lands accounts by making hundreds of cold calls weekly, and await the word on whether he'd be the Chosen Paid Employee. "The Pursuit of Happyness," spelled in that quirky way because that is the style of a graffito on a neighborhood wall, allows Gardner–who is only a high-school graduate–to ponder the words that Thomas Jefferson carved into the Declaration of Independence. While scholars believe that Jefferson's philosophy is that happiness should take precedence of property in the expression, "life, liberty, and property," Chris interprets the words pessimistically. He believes that happiness is so elusive that one can hope only to chase after it. Chris does a lot of chasing, literally–running after two thieves who steal his bone density machine and running to be on time for an interview with a mover and shaker whom he hopes to turn into a Dean Witter customer. In other words, he's doing the American thing: pursuing happiness. In like manner, the performers and crew of this picture are pursuing the same lofty goal. Do they achieve it? They certainly have made an entertaining, heart-rending drama with many servings of comedy. This is a feel-good, strictly Hollywood film, an old-fashioned charmer that has only some aspects in common with another, far more serious drama of a troubled family relationship, Anthony Minghella's "Breaking and Entering." There's room in our society for both types of family dramas, and while critics like me tend to prefer to deeper, more complex tales, you can't fault the makers of "Happyness" for turning out this upbeat charmer.

That's a pretty good article IMO... MIB2 wasn't the best movie, and though I liked it (Why you put them rats in my locker, K?), I can understand why others didn't. Not everyone's going to like all of Will's movies and that's why it's important that he diversify his roles, not so much to get people to like him, but so that he can get rid of some of the bias that many of these critics have. When someone like Will Smith comes into a role like Gardner's in Pursuit of Happyness, there are generally only two reactions... both extremes. "Wow, I didn't know he could act like that. Didn't know he was that great an actor." Or... "Wow, that was an awful performance. He should stick to what he's good at, making blockbusters." This is because some people will be impressed, not expecting what they see of Will's acting but having watched the movie with an open mind. The other response comes from people who have preconceptions about Will and they spend the movie looking for things to criticize, having determined before the movie even starts that Will is a poor actor and that he will do a poor job. The movie watching experience then only becomes a practice in searching for evidence to back up preconceived notions.

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