#Timothy Dowling

[adamwatchesmovies]

Pixels (2015)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

Based on the 2010 short of the same name by Patrick Jean, Pixels has some neat visuals… and nothing else to offer. Even video game and arcade enthusiasts won't like it, as the film is more concerned with giving Adam Sandler’s posse pay checks and indulging in nostalgia than utilizing the tools at its disposal to full effect.

As a child, Sam Brenner (Adam Sandler) became a champion of arcade games until he was defeated by his rival Eddie Plant (Peter Dinklage) in the world championship’s final round. Years later, Sam has a chance to make a name for himself when aliens misinterpret old video game footage as a declaration of war and attack our planet with arcade-inspired creations.

Kevin James as the President of the United States. Pixels is a sci-fi comedy but even so, our suspension of disbelief only goes so far! The man just doesn’t fit the role. For the most part, however, everyone else who appears in the film - Adam Sandler as himself, Josh Gad as the conspiracy-theory obsessed nerd who lives in his basement, Michelle Monaghan as a weapons developer who will inevitably fall for Sandler’s character even though they hate each other upon first sight - do fine with their parts. It’s the material they’ve been handed that spells "game over".

There are many unkind words we could use to describe Pixels. “Self-indulgent”, “unfunny”… but I’m going to choose is “lazy”. It’s a movie about arcade games which gets basic things about the games it’s showcasing wrong. Cheat codes for arcade games? Why would those exist when the machines were designed to eat quarters? A Smurfs arcade game? I couldn’t find evidence that one ever existed. Apparently the barrels and fireballs in Donkey Kong move without pattern… even though they do in real life. And that’s just scratching the surface. This film operates without any semblance of logic. In one battle between mankind and the aliens, the players must operate under rules which emulate the game - Pac Man being a good example. In other scenes, like when the heroes play a jumbo-sized version of Centipede, our “team” is allowed hundreds of players. When we get to the final challenge (Donkey Kong), anyone can do whatever they want regardless of whether it’s possible in the game they’re supposedly playing.

This is a significant disappointment from director Chris Columbus, whose career has had its ups and downs but doesn’t typically churn out this type of Happy Maddison slop. Every fifteen minutes, the film seems to be think that someone screaming is the pinnacle of hilarity. Over and over, a lame sex joke gets snuck in there and we get a speech from someone about how the good old days were awesome and how today, well things just aren’t the same. Many aspects of Pixels feel like they’ve been pulled from a time long gone that we'd rather forget. Most notably, the romantic sub plots, who are so awful you’re tempted to give the actresses standing ovations for playing their parts without cringing.

If you’ve seen the 2010 Pixels short, there’s no reason to see this full-length film. Adam Sandler’s usual comedic antics add nothing to the cool voxel look and the visual gags in its 2-minute running time isn't improved by cameos by Serena Williams or Nick Swardson. I suppose Happy Madison fans may find some of it enjoyable but that's just a theory. (May 10, 2019)

#Pixels #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Chris Columbus #Tim Herlihy #Timothy Dowling #Adam Sandler #Kevin James #Michelle Monaghan #Peter Dinklage #Josh Gad #Brian Cox #2015 movies #2015 films

[youtwitinmyface]

THIS MEANS WAR

I just saw this movie on TV. It’s a romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, and Tom Hardy. Witherspoon plays a woman named Lauren who moved to L.A. six months earlier, to be with her boyfriend, who then subsequently dumped her. So now she’s living alone, working at a job as a product tester, and her only friend is a woman named Trish, who is played by Chelsea Handler. Trish tries…

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#Angela Bassett #Chelsea Handler #Chris Pine #Marcus Gautesen #McG #Reese Witherspoon #Rom-com #romantic comedy #Simon Kinberg #This Means War #Timothy Dowling #Tom Hardy #Will Smith

[byneddiedingo]

Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon, and Chris Pine in This Means War (McG, 2012) Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, Til Schweiger, Chelsea Handler, John Paul Ruttan, Abigail Spencer, Angela Bassett, Rosemary Harris, George Touliatos. Screenplay: Timothy Dowling, Simon Kinberg, Marcus Gautesen. Cinematography: Russell Carpenter. Production design: Martin Laing. Film editing: Nicolas De Toth. Music: Christoph Beck. Professionalism consists of doing your best even when the task assigned to you isn't worthy of your talents. This Means War certifies the professionalism of Tom Hardy, Chris Pine, and Reese Witherspoon, who do every absurd thing and speak every inane line that they're given as if the project warranted their full commitment. The experience of making the film caused Hardy to vow that he'll never do another rom-com, and it's likely that Pine and Witherspoon don't highlight the movie on their résumés. The film is, in short, a terrible mess, a mashup of action movie and sex farce, almost unwatchable except for the sheer charisma of its three principles. Its chief virtue, aside from the handsome performers, is that it's short: only 97 minutes, after being reduced from a director's cut of 107 minutes. This reduction seems to have jettisoned the backstory about the bad guys who put the three leads in jeopardy, making the film less coherent but probably more tolerable. Once upon a time, the presence of Hardy, Pine, and Witherspoon -- as well as such skilled performers as Angela Bassett and Rosemary Harris in barely there supporting roles -- would have been easy to explain: Under the studio system, stars were obligated by their contracts to do what they were handed. But that system vanished half a century ago, and nothing can justify wasting the time and talent of actors like these on This Means War.

#This Means War #McG #Tom Hardy #Reese Witherspoon #Chris Pine

[ptbf2002]

My Top 10 Columbia Pictures Movies (2024 Redo)

#10 Bad Boys for Life

#9 Pixels (2015 film)

#8 The Adventures of Tintin (film)

#7 The Angry Birds Movie

#6 The Angry Birds Movie 2

#5 Spider-Man (2002 film)

#4 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

#3 Smurfs: The Lost Village

#2 The Smurfs (film)

And #1 Arthur Christmas

Honorable Mentions: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (film), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Surf's Up (film), Open Season, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Hotel Transylvania, The Smurfs 2, Hotel Transylvania 2, Goosebumps, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Wish Dragon, Vivo, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, And Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Original Template: https://www.deviantart.com/jackskellington416/art/Top-10-Columbia-Pictures-Films-Meme-668220896

Bad Boys for Life Belo To Chris Bremner, Peter Craig, Joe Carnahan, 2.0 Entertainment, Overbrook Entertainment, Westbrook Inc. Jerry Bruckheimer Films Inc. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, And Sony Group Corporation

Pixels (2015 film) Belongs To Patrick Jean, Tim Herlihy, Timothy Dowling, Lone Star Global Acquisitions, Ltd. China Film Group Corporation, Film Croppers Entertainment, 1492 Pictures, Happy Madison Productions, Inc. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, And Sony Group Corporation

The Adventures of Tintin (film) Belongs To Hergé, Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Hemisphere Media Capital, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, WingNut Films Productions Ltd. Amblin Entertainment, Inc. Amblin Partners, LLC. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, Sony Group Corporation, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global

The Angry Birds Movie Belongs To Mikael Hed, Mikko Pöllä, John Cohen, Jon Vitti, Rovio Animation, Ltd. Rovio Entertainment Corporation, SEGA Corporation, SEGA Sammy Holdings Inc. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, And Sony Group Corporation

The Angry Birds Movie 2 Belongs To Peter Ackerman, Eyal Podell, Jonathon E. Stewart, Rovio Animation, Ltd. Rovio Entertainment Corporation, SEGA Corporation, SEGA Sammy Holdings Inc. Sony Pictures Animation Inc. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, And Sony Group Corporation

Spider-Man (2002 film) Belongs To Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, David Koepp, Laura Ziskin Productions, MARVEL Entertainment, LLC, Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, And Sony Group Corporation

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Belongs To Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Phil Lord, Rodney Rothman, Pascal Pictures, Lord Miller Productions, Arad Productions Inc. MARVEL Entertainment, LLC, Sony Pictures Animation Inc. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, And Sony Group Corporation

Smurfs: The Lost Village Belongs To Pierre Culliford, Stacey Harman, Pamela Ribon, Lone Star Global Acquisitions, Ltd. Wanda Media Co., Ltd. Wanda Group, Wanda Culture Holding Co. Limited, Éditions Dupuis S.A. Kerner Entertainment Company, Sony Pictures Animation Inc. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, And Sony Group Corporation

The Smurfs (film) Belongs To Pierre Culliford, J. David Stem, David N. Weiss, Jay Scherick, David Ronn, Éditions Dupuis S.A. Kerner Entertainment Company, Sony Pictures Animation Inc. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, And Sony Group Corporation

Arthur Christmas Belongs To Peter Baynham, Sarah Smith, Aardman Animations Limited, Sony Pictures Animation Inc. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, And Sony Group Corporation

[nuggetsfromgodsword]

The Ministry God Has Given You

DATE POSTED: Wednesday, August 23, 2023, and I was blessed to be at Dowling Park, FL when God inspired me to prepare this devotional. My Footnote will tell you how to find, read or listen to any and all episodes that I have shared over the years. TODAY’S SCRIPTURE FROM THE New Living Translation (NLT) IS FOUND IN 2 Timothy 4:2-5 THE BIBLE TEXT IS: Preach the word of God. Be prepared, whether…

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#Adoration #Answered Prayer #BFC #Bible #Calvary #church #God #God sighting #in season #Jesus #King of kings #Lord #ministry #out of season #persistent in sharing the Word #Praise #Promises #Savior #Worship

[vintage-leisure]

Fresh up is Part Two of my look at the film Diner (1982).

In this significant piece, we examine the film scene by scene. For a movie about nothing, there is much to talk about and it takes this kind of analysis to unpack all there is to enjoy. Not for the faint of heart, this piece may only be for professional Diner fans.

#diner #barry levinson #80s style #1980s aesthetic #1980s movies #80s movies #vintage #classic film #classic #retro

[deadlinecom]

[genevieveetguy]

- Suck it, "Reindeer Games"! - I'm not Ben Affleck. - You white, then you Ben Affleck. - You are white. - That's true, I am white.

Role Models, David Wain (2008)

#David Wain #Paul Rudd #Ken Marino #Timothy Dowling #Seann William Scott #Christopher Mintz Plasse #Bobb'e J. Thompson #Elizabeth Banks #Jane Lynch #Ken Jeong #Kerri Kenney #Joe Lo Truglio #Matt Walsh #Russ T. Alsobrook #Craig Wedren #Eric Kissack #2008

[longliverockback]

Whitesnake 30th Anniversary Collection 2008 EMI ————————————————— Tracks CD One: 01. Walking in the Shadow of the Blues 02. Sweet Talker 03. Would I Lie to You 04. Trouble 05. Gambler 06. Love Hunter 07. Ready an’ Willing 08. Child of Babylon 09. Here I Go Again 10. Carry Your Load 11. Crying in the Rain 12. Rough an’ Ready 13. Wine, Women an’ Song 14. Lie down... I Think I Love You 15. Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City [live] 16. Fool for Your Loving [live] 17. Take Me with You [live]

Tracks Disc Two: 01. Fool for Your Loving 02. Don’t Break My Heart Again 03. Hit an’ Run 04. The Time Is Right for Love 05. Love Ain't No Stranger 06. Too Many Tears 07. Pride and Joy - Coverdale · Page 08. Victim of Love 09. Judgement Day 10. Is This Love 11. Take a Look at Yourself - Coverdale · Page 12. Straight for the Heart 13. Now You’re Gone 14. Looking for Love 15. Sailing Ships [live] 16. Soldier of Fortune [live] 17. Walking in the Shadow of the Blues [live] 18. Ready an’ Willing [live]

Tracks Disc Three: 01. Slow an’ Easy 02. Shake My Tree - Coverdale · Page 03. Guilty of Love 04. The Deeper the Love 05. Blindman 06. Love to Keep You Warm 07. Love Is Blind - David Coverdale 08. Ain’t Gonna Cry No More 09. Slave - David Coverdale 10. Lonely Days, Lonely Nights 11. Give Me All Your Love 12. Till the Day I Die 13. Here I Go Again ‘87 14. Still of the Night 15. If You Want Me 16. Best Years 17. We Wish You Well —————————————————

* Long Live Rock Archive

#Whitesnake #David Coverdale #Don Airey #Doug Aldrich #Tommy Aldridge #Richard Bailey #Reb Beach #Vivian Campbell #Denny Carmassi #Warren DeMartini #Dave Dowle #Aynsley Dunbar #Timothy Drury #Uriah Duffy #Tony Franklin #Chris Frazier #Mel Galley #Colin Hodgkinson #Jon Lord #Bernie Marsden #Micky Moody #Neil Murray #Jimmy Page #Ian Paice #Cozy Powell #Rudy Sarzo #John Sykes #Pete Solley #Steve Vai #Adrian Vandenberg

[blackrockandrollmusic-blog]

In 1993 Lenny Kravitz was a star to some, and a point of confusion to many more. But none of that kept him from creating his future-forward masterpiece that plays as hot today as it did twenty-five years ago.

Timothy Anne Burnside (NMAAHC) and Marcus K. Dowling (Medium) join Kevin in the basement to dig into this timeless LP, and get to the heart of why Kravitz was - and probably still is - misunderstood as an artist, the legacy of his music, and how making art that comes directly from the heart and soul is always gonna win. Always, every time.

#Lenny Kravitz #Timothy Anne Burnside #Marcus K. Dowling

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Jupiter's Great Red Spot feeds on smaller storms The stormy, centuries-old maelstrom of Jupiter's Great Red Spot was shaken but not destroyed by a series of anticyclones that crashed into it over the past few years. The smaller storms cause chunks of red clouds to flake off, shrinking the larger storm in the process. But the new study found that these disruptions are "superficial." They are visible to us, but they are only skin deep on the Red Spot, not affecting its full depth. The new study was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, AGU's journal for research on the formation and evolution of the planets, moons and objects of our solar system and beyond. "The intense vorticity of the [Great Red Spot], together with its larger size and depth compared to the interacting vortices, guarantees its long lifetime," said Agustín Sánchez-Lavega, a professor of applied physics at the Basque Country University in Bilbao, Spain, and lead author of the new paper. As the larger storm absorbs these smaller storms, it "gains energy at the expense of their rotation energy." The Red Spot has been shrinking for at least the past 150 years, dropping from a length of about 40,000 kilometers (24,850 miles) in 1879 to about 15,000 kilometers (9,320 miles) today, and researchers still aren't sure about the causes of the decrease, or indeed how the spot was formed in the first place. The new findings show the small anticyclones may be helping to maintain the Great Red Spot. Timothy Dowling, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Louisville who is a planetary atmospheric dynamics expert not involved in the new study, said that "it's an exciting time for the Red Spot." Stormy collisions Before 2019, the larger storm was only hit by a couple of anticyclones a year while more recently it was hit by as many as two dozen a year. "It's really getting buffeted. It was causing a lot of alarm," Dowling said. Sánchez-Lavega and his colleagues were curious to see whether these relatively smaller storms had disturbed their big brother's spin. The iconic feature of the gas giant sits near its equator, dwarfing earthly concepts of a big bad storm for at least 150 years since its first confirmed observation, though observations in 1665 may have been from the same storm. The Great Red Spot is about twice the diameter of Earth and blows at speeds of up to 540 kilometers (335 miles) per hour along its periphery. "The [Great Red Spot] is the archetype among the vortices in planetary atmospheres," said Sánchez-Lavega, adding that the storm is one of his "favorite features in planetary atmospheres." Cyclones like hurricanes or typhoons usually spin around a center with low atmospheric pressure, rotating counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern, whether on Jupiter or Earth. Anticyclones spin the opposite way as cyclones, around a center with high atmospheric pressure. The Great Red Spot is itself an anticyclone, though it is six to seven times as big as the smaller anticyclones that have been colliding with it. But even these smaller storms on Jupiter are about half the size of the Earth, and about 10 times the size of the largest terrestrial hurricanes. Sánchez-Lavega and his colleagues looked at satellite images of the Great Red Spot for the past three years taken from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Juno spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter and other photos taken by a network of amateur astronomers with telescopes. Devourer of storms The team found the smaller anticyclones pass through the high-speed peripheral ring of the Great Red Spot before circling around the red oval. The smaller storms create some chaos in an already dynamic situation, temporarily changing the Red Spot's 90-day oscillation in longitude, and "tearing the red clouds from the main oval and forming streamers," Sánchez-Lavega said. "This group has done an extremely careful, very thorough job," Dowling said, adding that the flaking of red material we see is akin to a crème brûlée effect, with a swirl apparent for a few kilometers on the surface that doesn't have much impact on the 200-kilometer (125-mile) depth of the Great Red Spot. The researchers still don't know what has caused the Red Spot to shrink over the decades. But these anticyclones may be maintaining the giant storm for now. "The ingestion of [anticyclones] is not necessarily destructive; it can increase the GRS rotation speed, and perhaps over a longer period, maintain it in a steady state," Sánchez-Lavega said. IMAGE....A flake of red peels away from Jupiter's Great Red Spot during an encounter with a smaller anticyclone, as seen by the Juno spacecraft's high resolution JunoCam on 12 February 2019. Although the collisions appear violent, planetary scientists believe they are mostly surface effects, like the crust on a crème brûlée. CREDIT AGU/Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

#space #science #Astronomy #physics #news #Jupiter

[18thfoot]

Royal Irish Regiment History

Casement’s Irish Brigade was an attempt to recruit Irish POWs into the German Army during WW1. The plan was that the Brigade would be sent to Ireland to support a rebellion. However only 56 men volunteered to serve in the Brigade and most of them seem to have been poor soldiers anyway. Twenty of the volunteers were men of the Royal Irish Regiment, some of the NCOs pictured above among them.

Royal Irish Regiment members of Casement’s Irish Brigade;

10687 Private Michael Keogh (second from left in photo)

10435 Corporal Timothy Quinlisk (right in photo)

10674 Private William McGrath

7453 Private James Carroll

8117 Private Michael Dowling

10698 Private James Kennedy

9877 Private Patrick Holohan

8779 Private John Long

10771 Private Patrick Keogh

10819 Private Charles McCarthy

6208 Private Patrick McGrath

10933 Private Thomas McGrath

10627 Private Thomas McMahon

10271 Private Maurice Meade

8445 Private John Murphy

10844 Private Jeremiah O’Callaghan  (second from right in photo)

10714 Private Cornelius Rahilly

10357 Private John Sweeney

5588 Private Thomas Tracey

7582 Private Patrick Waters

Photo Credit; http://www.irishbrigade.eu/

[filmlady]

Just Go with It [2011] 

He's great, he's the greatest guy, and I might even be in love with him, but it really doesn't matter at this moment because he is getting married to another person, right now.

#just go with it #adam sandler #jennifer aniston #brooklyn decker #nicole kidman #dennis dugan #allan loeb #timothy dowling

[joey-prue]

Movies (re)watched in 2019

Just Go with It (2011) dir. Dennis Dugan / screenplay Allan Loeb & Timothy Dowling 

#just go with it #filmedit #Jennifer Aniston #adam sandler #movies gifs #comedyedit #minem #I love this movie #when you just want to have a good time and laugh #movies2019

[nuggetsfromgodsword]

The Purpose of The Bible

DATE POSTED: Sunday, August 13, 2023, and I was blessed to be at Dowling Park, FL when God inspired me to prepare this devotional. My Footnote will tell you how to find, read or listen to any and all episodes that I have shared over the years. TODAY’S SCRIPTURE FROM THE Living Bible (TLB) IS FOUND IN 2 Timothy 3:16-17 THE BIBLE TEXT IS: The whole Bible was given to us by inspiration from God…

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#Adoration #Answered Prayer #BFC #Bible #Calvary #church #God #God sighting #Jesus #King of kings #Lord #Obedience #Praise #Promises #Savior #the Bible #Worship

[workersbushtelegraph]

Tosh - the musical

Tosh – the musical

If anyone is interested in putting this play on please contact me @ [email protected] or the author Bernie Dowling @ [email protected] Prologue I WANT to acknowledge the later editions of Timothy White’s Catch a Fire: the Life of Bob Marley, Henry Holt and Co., New York, for much of the biographical material on the three core members of the Wailers: Marley, Tosh and Bunny…

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