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25 Movies To Watch Again

1. 300

“Children, gather round! No retreat, no surrender; that is Spartan law. And by Spartan law we will stand and fight… and die. A new age has begun. An age of freedom, and all will know, that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it!” – King Leonidas (Gerard Butler)

2. Braveheart

“Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live… at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin’ to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR FREEDOM!” – William Wallace

3. Coach Carter

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone.

And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” – Timo Cruz (Rick Gonzalez)

4. Dead Poet Society:

“They’re not that different from you, are they?

Same haircuts.

Full of hormones, just like you.

Invincible, just like you feel.

The world is their oyster.

They believe they’re destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you.

Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils.

But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in.

Listen, you hear it? – – Carpe – – hear it? – – Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.” – John Keating

5. Don Juan DeMarco

“There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio.

What is sacred?

Of what is the spirit made?

What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for?

The answer to each is the same – only love.” — Don Juan DeMarco (Johnny Depp)

6. Freedom Writers

“I don’t want excuses. I know what you’re up against.

We’re all of us up against something.

So you better make up your mind, because until you have the balls to look me straight in the eye and tell me this is all you deserve, I am not letting you fail.

Even if that means coming to your house every night until you finish the work.

I see who you are.

Do you understand me?

I can see you. And you are not failing.” – Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank)

7. Good Will Hunting

“They don’t know about real loss, because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself.” – Sean (Robin Williams)

8. Hitch

“Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away.” – Hitch (Will Smith)

9. Into the Wild

“I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships.

God’s place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience.

People just need to change the way they look at things.” – Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch)

10. Lord of the Rings

“So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring.

In which case, you were also meant to have it.

And that is an encouraging thought.” — Gandalf (Ian McKellen)

11. Marley and Me

“It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not.

Sometimes it takes a dog with bad breath, worse manners, and pure intentions to help us see.

Ask yourself, how many people in the world can truly make you feel rare, pure, and extraordinary?” –John Grogan (Owen Wilson)

12. Million Dollar Baby

“To make a fighter you gotta strip them down to bare wood: you can’t just tell ’em to forget everything you know if you gotta make ’em forget even their bones… make ’em so tired they only listen to you, only hear your voice, only do what you say and nothing else… show ’em how to keep their balance and take it away from the other guy… how to generate momentum off their right toe and how to flex your knees when you fire a jab… how to fight backin’ up so that the other guy doesn’t want to come after you. Then you gotta show ’em all over again. Over and over and over… till they think they’re born that way.” – Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris (Morgan Freeman)

13. Mulan

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.” — The Emperor (Pat Morita)

14. Peaceful Warrior

“The warrior does not give up what he loves, Dan. He finds the love in what he does.” – Socrates (Nick Nolte)

“The accident is your training. Life is choice. You can choose to be a victim or anything else you’d like to be.” — Socrates (Nick Nolte)

15. Rocky

“Ah come on, Adrian, it’s true. I was nobody. But that don’t matter either, you know?

‘Cause I was thinkin’, it really don’t matter if I lose this fight.

It really don’t matter if this guy opens my head, either.

‘Cause all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody’s ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I’m still standin’, I’m gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren’t just another bum from the neighborhood.” – Rocky (Sylvester Stallone)

16. Rocky Balboa (Rocky 6)

“Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit.

It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

It’s how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning’s done.” – Rock Balboa (Sylvester Stallone)

17. Rudy

“In this life time, you don’t have to prove nothing to nobody, except yourself.

And after what you’ve gone through, if you haven’t done that by now, it ain’t gonna never happen.” – Fortune (Charles S. Dutton)

18. Runaway Bride

“Look, I guarantee there’ll be tough times. I guarantee that at some point, one or both of us is gonna want to get out of this thing.

But I also guarantee that if I don’t ask you to be mine, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life, because I know, in my heart, you’re the only one for me. “ — Ike Graham (Richard Gere)

19. Stand and Deliver

“There will be no free rides, no excuses. You already have two strikes against you: your name and your complexion.

Because of these two strikes, there are some people in this world who will assume that you know less than you do.

Math is the great equalizer… When you go for a job, the person giving you that job will not want to hear your problems; ergo, neither do I.

You’re going to work harder here than you’ve ever worked anywhere else. And the only thing I ask from you is ganas. ‘Desire’.” — Jaime Escalante (Edward James Olmos)

20. The Bucket List

“You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death.

When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions.

Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. ‘Have you found joy in your life?’ ‘Has your life brought joy to others?’” — Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman)

21. The Empire Strikes Back

“Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.” — Yoda

22. The Mighty Ducks

“Neither do hockey players. Have you guys ever seen a flock of ducks flying in perfect formation?

It’s beautiful. Pretty awesome the way they all stick together.

Ducks never say die.

Ever seen a duck fight?

No way.

Why?

Because the other animals are afraid.

They know that if they mess with one duck, they gotta deal with the whole flock.

I’m proud to be a Duck, and I’d be proud to fly with any one of you.

So how about it? Who’s a Duck?” – Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez)

23. The Notebook

“My Dearest Allie. I couldn’t sleep last night because I know that it’s over between us. I’m not bitter anymore, because I know that what we had was real.

And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I’ll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love.

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that’s what you’ve given me.

That’s what I hope to give to you forever.

I love you.

I’ll be seeing you.” — Young Noah (Ryan Gosling)

24. The Pursuit of Happyness

“Don’t ever let somebody tell you… You can’t do something.

Not even me. All right?

… You got a dream… You gotta protect it.

People can’t do somethin’ themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it.

If you want somethin’, go get it.

Period.” – Christopher Gardner (Will Smith)

25. Vision Quest

“I was in the room here one day… watchin’ the Mexican channel on TV. I don’t know nothin’ about Pele.

I’m watchin’ what this guy can do with a ball and his feet.

Next thing I know, he jumps in the air and flips into a somersault and kicks the ball in – upside down and backwards… the goddamn goalie never knew what the fuck hit him.

Pele gets excited and he rips off his jersey and starts running around the stadium waving it around his head. Everybody’s screaming in Spanish.

I’m here, sitting alone in my room, and I start crying … That’s right, I start crying.

Because another human being, a species that I happen to belong to, could kick a ball, and lift himself, and the rest of us sad-assed human beings, up to a better place to be, if only for a minute… let me tell ya, kid – it was pretty goddamned glorious.

It ain’t the six minutes… it’s what happens in that six minutes.” – Elmo (J.C. Quinn)

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thepeppermintqueen · 6 years

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PRESENTATION 007

Pepper was dressed in a latex catsuit with her hair in a high ponytail and a pair of really high heels for this exam. She had Robin dressed in some old clothes that wouldn't matter when she cut them off and she had her in some simple cuffs. She pushed Robin gently into the room as not to trip her as she did so. Once inside of the room, Pepper dragged out a armless wooden chair and led the girl there and sat her down. "State your name, age and mark now."

Robin was determined to follow each one of Peppers orders as they came feeling the most need to prove herself right now yes to her mother but also to pepper. She walked in, sitting in the chair as instructed. “Yes, Miss. Robin Sylvester, 22, submissive.

Pepper hadn't give Robinm any clues about their exam, mainly because it was definitely an exercise in trust for them. She was going to enjoy it. Humming as she answered, Pepper took out some leather cuffs before she pulled on some latex gloves. "And before you arrived, where did you live? Who did you live with? Since arriving at the school, who has been your roommate?" She asked, undoing the handcuffs before putting the leather cuffs on her wrists and ankles to the chair. Her legs were spread ad arms out of the way. Standing, she took some safety scissors and looked at the girl with a smirk before kneeling in front of her. "Who was your first sexual encounter with? How old were you and where did it happen?"

Robin tried to breathe evenly as Pepper began to strap the girl down. She was very nervous but she trusted the Domme completely. “Lima Ohio, Miss,” she answered, “with me mother, her submissive, two slaves and my brothers, Wyatt and Thomas Sylvester.” She wasn’t totally sure where Pepper was going with this, asking questions the Domme already knew the answers to. “Josephine Clarington, Miss.” the next one made Robin stutter because her mother didn’t know this story. She bit her lip and took a deep breath, eyes to the floor. “When I was 15, Miss. his name was Derek and he was second string safety for our football team. I snuck him up to my room when everyone was asleep.”

Pepper kept herself very poised as she got Robin into the position she wanted her in, her questions things she already knew and others she didn't. She knew it was something very hard for Robin to talk about in front of her mother, who probably didn't know these details. As Robin answered, the domme began cutting her clothes off,letting the safe side of the metal slide against Robin's skin. "Your first sexual encounter with a girl: who, where and how old were you for that?" She asked, cutting the side of her panties and Pepper ripping them away to join a discarded pile of cut fabrics. "And where did you go to high school? What grades did you get? What activities were you involved in?" She asked as she finished cutting away the clothes and tying the strap around her torso so she couldn't move. Standing back, she pulled a white board in front of Robin and began writing down her previous answers. "Now, I have a baseline of your honesty. Some questions will be difficult during my interrogation of you, but the only way to avoid my tazapper on a high setting is to be very honest. Do you understand?"

Robin could feel the excitement build as she watched the clothes get cut away and fall from her body. “Umm I think I was 17...no, no I was 18, Miss. It was senior year of High school.

Robin it was after our 4th consecutive National Cheer competition where we took first place and me and one of the other girls were flirting in the hotel room celebrating and ended up having sex in the jacuzzi tub.” She could feel her skin go red with embarrassment knowing her mother was hearing about all her sexual exploits in High School. “I went to McKinley High School in Lima, Miss. my grades were always straight A’s and I graduated with a 4.2 gpa,” she said a little proudly. “I just did Cheer and studying, Miss. had a lot of AP classes which took more time and dedication.” Tobin watched as the board came in front of her and her answers appearing in print. “Very honest...yes, Miss,” she repeated, giving a go at seeing how tight the bonds were and finding very little wiggle room.

Pepper stood back to look at Robin as she turned a delightful color of red during this question. It was interesting to hear these answers from Robin and she sat down the scissors, getting the tazapper out and listened to her talk. She turned the toy on a low setting before she wrote down some of the information, she was saying. She was proud to hear the girl had done so well, but she couldn't let her know her. She gave a short hum to her answers and then saw her testing the bonds. She brought the electro-stimulation toy against Robin, shaking her head. "You can't escape right now, little girl. But it's cute you tried. Next attempt will be taken more seriously." She told her before taking out the fleshlight. "How much do you weigh? How many people have you fucked? What sex toys do you own?”

Robin swallowed hard as she say the toy, hearing it buzz lowly. She looked up as Pepper still wrote, seeing all the truths in black and white. She gasped when the zapper came closer and her body instinctively tried to wiggle away before quickly settling after Pepper spoke. “I understand Miss,” she said softly. At the litany of questions, Robin tried notto focus on the zappe so close to her skin. “110 pounds. Umm...maybe about 15 people I think. I have nipple clamps, a hitachi, but plugs, anal beads, rabbit vibrator, dildo and a bullet vibrator.”

Pepper didn't bring the toy to Robin's skin just yet, letting it pass over it, very close, but not zapping her beautiful body just yet as she spoke. She saw her trying to wiggle away and then she zapped her with the toy. "I saw that." She told Robin, before she moved to her board and began writing more of the answers down. "Interesting answers. Have you ever done any drugs?” She asked, waiting for her answer. Depending on it was if she got zapped again, even if she was just disapproving on a 'moral' ground. “When was the last time you masturbated Tell me in detail about a fantasy you think about while masturbating”.

Robin yelped out when she felt the shock of the toy against her skin. It was probably similar to touching a doorknob on a dry day and getting a static shock. Overly not the most painful thing in the world but it still wasn’t a lovely feeling. Clearly, she needed to not move during this presentation. “I’m sorry, Miss,” she whimpered out between deep breaths. “No, drugs, Miss,” she said quickly. As for the masturbation on, that she stuttered with a bit. “I uh...not since last week,” she lied, “when you punished me for cumming without permission. I was playing with myself when I had to pee and i just went too far. I’m not sure that I was thinking about anything in particular.”

Pepper knew the feeling wasn't pleasant in the least, but it wasn't on the higher setting, which was really mean. She smiled at Robin at her answer. "Good girl, such a good girl." She cooed as she wrote down her answers. There was a stutter on her words about the masturbation, which caused the dominant to look at her before she stepped closer, caressing Robin's face. "Last week huh, when you were punished?" She asked, turning the zapper two levels up before she pressed it again Robin's skin. "Are you sure that was the last time?"

Robin licked her lips. She should have known better that Pepper would catch her, but she'd gone too far now. "Y-yes, Miss. that was definietly the last time."

Pepper pressed the zapper against Robin's flesh, holding it for a moment before moving it back. "You're absolutely positive?"

Robin cried out louder this time. Still not the worst pain she'd experienced but definitely worse than the first time. Her fingers gripped against the rest of her hand beneath the binds, whimpering and panting heavily as the pain slowly subsided. "Okay! Okay! Yesterday, Miss. Yesterday in my room while I was alone. I truly don't remember what I was thinking about at the time."

Pepper knew she was going to get the answer out of her, it wasn't at the highest level but it was painful enough. She stepped back and waited, turning the toy back down as she clicked her tongue. "Lying is a sing, Princess. Such a naughty girl, did you forget your last punishment for that." She asked, taking the fleshlight and moving it to cover the girl's pussy, beginning to slide it up and down. "How I spanked your bottom and then made you come until you were absolutely exhausted." She reminded her before taking the toy away. "Since you can't remember about that time, describe in detail a sexual fantasy."

Robin groaned quietly, "Yes, Miss," she said, gasping when she felt the toy rub against her core, small moans vibrating out of her throat. "Y-yes, Miss. I remember," she said, whimpering slightly as the toy was gone. "Being a party favor for a party. Being bound and gagged with an open mouth gag so that all my holes can be used. I would be suspended, allowing for any position that a Dominant might want. Then they mingle and talk, ignoring me until they want pleasure, then using any or all of my holes to get it, Miss. That's my ultimate fantasy."

Pepper had chosen the Fleshlight because it brought a different pleasure than a vibrator. This required work from both of them, since it was traditionally for males. She nodded her head as she looked at blonde, hearing her answers as she randomly passed the toy over her core. "Good girl. And at this party, how many people do you imagine there? How many males, females? Do they all come on you, making you a mess? Do you imagine being able to come at all? And this is your fantasy, so it's not up to the dominants, it's all how you see it in you head."

Robin was still breathing a little heavy from the stimulation as well as her nerves and worry about getting shocked again. “I guess I imagine about 5 or 6. In my fantasy they’re all Dominants, miss and it’s an intimate socialization party. I’m not the reason they’re there, but I’m a fun activity to play with while they all talk and such. I think half and half would be nice so there are multiple cocks to fill me but there are also plenty of toys and things. I would love for them to fill me and cover me with cum because I love being a slutty mess. I only get to come if the Host or Hostess says I can. I’d love it if they didn’t let me cum at all because if I did then the Host or Hostess and only party goers could here me and tell me what a bad toy I am. Then punish me with canes and paddles until my body is naked up like a bad term paper.” The more Robin spoke about it, the more she got lost in the idea, her body heating up on its own just thinking about it. She moaned louder as she felt the toy pass over her again, attempting futilely to rub against it harder. “Please, Miss,” she begged quietly, “touch me, please.”

Pepper was not surprised as Robin got into the details of her fantasy, which is what Pepper wanted. To make the girl open up and bare herself intimately to her. She had turned the toy down to the lowest setting, the occasional touch to Robin's skin as she spoke but she focused more on the toy, the lightest touches as Robin talked. SHe agreed that would be a fantastic party and seeing Robin covered in cum and punished would be very tempting for the domme, but she kept that to herself. "Good details, girl. No, not yet." She told her when she begged. "Touches have to be earned and I'm not done gathering all the information I want." She rubbed the toy a little harder against Robin before taking it away. "Who are the 5-6 dominants you see in your fantasy? What are you 5 top kinks? How many times have you been punished since you arrived?"

Robin let out small whimpers when the toy touched her, the overwhelming need for stimulation outweighing the shock. Though, she was getting much better at staying still. She groaned as she was denied, but listened to the new questions. “In my fantasy? Well, you, Miss. And Sirs Hunter and Mateo. Miss Devyn and Stella. Oh, and Sir Daniel. But mostly because I’ve always wanted to fuck him.” She barely remembered that the headmasters were in the room so she was way more open suddenly, her only thought on the pinky little Miss that held Robin’s pleasure in her hand at the moment. Not to mention, the thing that kept shocking her so she wanted to make Pepper happy. “My favorite kinks are humiliation, ageplay, water sports, hypnosis and sex toying. Umm...I don’t remember...maybe about 12?”

Pepper: Pepper almost smirked but she kept her face straight as she heard the whimpers falling from her lips. She moved back to jolt down the basic bullet points of what Robin had said. Part of her was wanting to giggle at the Daniel because his father was right there and she knew Robin wasn't thinking. "All very interesting people." She said to her, a little smirk on her face. "Let's explore humiliation. Describe to me your ideal humiliation situation."

Robin looked up and licked her lips as pepper began writing again. “I don’t know how to explain it,” she whimpered, “probably being slapped and pulled around by a leash in public. Completely naked, of course, except to have degrading words written on me with arrows pointing to holes to be used. To be covered with cum and called a slut.”

Pepper hummed softly as she looked at her. "I'll help you with that." She told her, moving back to the girl, settling between her legs and holding the toy against her, not moving it. "Why being slapped, Princess? What words written over your body? Does it thrill you that strangers can take any of your holes, cum all over you and walk away without knowing your name? Without you knowing theirs? That's you're a pump and dump?" She asked.

Robin was deep into the slut headspace that she couldn’t think of anything but pleasing peper. Robins eyes were glazed over as she hazily looked up at the woman speaking to her. “Because being slapped reminds me I’m just to be used. That I’m just a plaything. Oh yes miss!” She exclaimed, “I love being a cum dump, marked with words like whore and slut and fuckmeat. Use me please! Use me and leave me a brain dead puddle and don’t bother with my pleasure! My pleasure does t matter!”

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Pepper liked when she could tell where Robin was in her headspace. She pressed the toy harder against the girl, moving it with purpose now. "It doesn't matter at all." She affirmed after her little rant, looking at the girl with a smirk on her lips. "Whose pleasure matters, slut?" She asked, taking the toy away briefly before pressing it back against her. "What place do you serve, little whore?"

Robin gasped, moaning wildly as the toy pressed against her again, her head a haze of want and passion. Her fingers scratched against the arms of the chair to avoid moving her body. "No, Miss, it doesn't matter," she drolled, eyes lust blown and near drooling. She whimpered as the toy was gone then immediately felt it again, now moaning in a more desperate manner as she felt it again. "Yours Miss!" she shouted, moaning as the toy rubbed against her needy core. "I serve you, my Queen. I serve at your feet and I'm here for your pleasure!"

Pepper kept playing with the fleshlight as she saw Robin desperately fighting not to move as she was desperate. Working the toy with the purpose of bringing Robin to an orgasm, or at least letting her think that. "Your pleasure doesn't matter, sluts don't get pleasure, they give it." She told her, listening to the sounds dripping from the blonde submissive. "Only my pleasure matters and what a privilege that you get to serve someone like me." She told her. "Now come for me." She told Robin, letting her begin to come before she pulled the toy away and shocked her thighs, ruining the orgasm.

Robin moaned loudly and breathed quickly, panting with need as Pepper continued to torture the girl's throbbing pussy, "Yes, my Queen, they only give it," Robin repeated. She could feel how wet she was and could hear the sounds of it the more Pepper moved the toy against her. "Yes, My Queen, my pleasure comes from serving you." At the sound that she could cum, Robin gasped, eyes wide as she looked up at Pepper, moaning loudly as she started to ride it out. But the moment she felt the peak - all sensation stopped. It was the most awkward feeling because she felt the pressure of the orgasm, but nothing ever happened, leaving her needy and over sensitive. "Queen No!" She cried out, whimpering as her body tried to move from the binds. "I'll do anything! Please please just let me cum, please!?" she begged loudly, tears of frustration rolling down her face.

Pepper knew what she was going, Robin's earlier answer about masturbating had signed her deal and some extra. Pepper took the fleshlight and put it away, a clear sign that she wasn't coming. She tapped the toy against Robin's knee with a smirk. "Oh Princess, it's not very nice when someone tells you something then does the opposite. I'm afraid you're not going to orgasm today, naughty girls don't get pleasure from their queens. You know the rule about cumming and you disobeyed. Then lied about it." She told her, the zapper still tapping the toy between her two knees. "Do you understand why you're not going to come?" She asked, walking to the white board so she could write it down in print for Robin.

Robin whimpered from frustration, crying out in pained exclamations as she felt the zapper toy against her body. "No, it's not nice Queen," she whimpered, though completley understanding the irony here. She'd done the same and now she was being punished for it. "I'm sorry, Queen," she finally said, looking up at Pepper with pitiful eyes, "Yes, I understand. I don't get to cum because I disobeyed. And naughty toys don't get orgasms."

Pepper watched her as she kept crying out as the zapper touched her. She turned the zapper off as she looked at the girl as she had pretty and pitiful eyes at the moment. "Good girl." She said as she wrote the information down. "Now, when I cut your restraints, I want you to drop to your knees and thank the heads for their time and crawl outside of the room, waiting for me on all fours." She told Robin, this time taking a knife to break her bonds.

Robin was breathing heavily again, her body calming from the zaps and the pain beginning to soften. “Yes, Queen,” she moaned quietly her body feeling a litany of things she’d never felt before. Robin watched as the binds were loosened by the knife and she slowly sunk to the floor, getting her body used to moving again. She kept herself in the headspace because having to speak to the heads now would fill her with embarrassment otherwise. “Headmistress, headmaster, thank you for your time.” Once she was done she crawled out of the room and waited outside the door as she was told.

Pepper watched the girl as she began doing what she had asked. She liked the way she moved and she watched her for a few moments before she began cleaning up and putting things right. She thanked the heads for their time as well before going out to meet Robin, where the ruined orgasm was just part of her punishment.

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5 Superhero Movies That Are Only Worth It For One Scene

Bad superhero films are a treasure. Not only does one make you disappointed with Hollywood for creating a bad movie, but it also makes you doubly frustrated because they’re messing up something that you know is good in comic book form. However, we shouldn’t write off a bad superhero movie immediately. Upon closer examination, these terrible films can contain little glimpses of promise — little glimpses that make you say “This might be a secret masterpiece.” Or at least, “This doesn’t suck every poop.”

Batman & Robin — The Criminal Property Locker

In the annals of bad superhero films, Batman & Robin stands alone. It isn’t a “Well, maybe it’s not THAT bad” film like Superman Returns or Spider-Man 3. It isn’t a “I’ll forget the plot of this before I even leave the theater” film like X-Men: The Last Stand or Daredevil. It isn’t a “That’s a damn shame” film like Superman IV: The Quest For Peace or Robocop 2. And it isn’t a “If there is a God, they wouldn’t let this happen” film like Catwoman or Spawn. Instead, it’s a film that somehow gets both more amazingly terrible and more inexplicably enjoyable with time. I hate it and I love it in equal measure, and years after I’m dead, researchers will discover my skeleton clinging to a VHS copy of it, like Quasimodo and Esmeralda at the end of Hunchback Of Notre Dame.

But the movie does have one extremely cool split second. Now, there is a well-known Easter egg in Batman & Robin: When Bane and Poison Ivy are breaking Mr. Freeze out of Arkham Asylum, you get a glimpse of the “Criminal Property Locker.” And in the locker are the costumes of the Riddler and Two-Face from Batman Forever. That’s kind of neat — though since Two-Face died by falling into a spiky underwater pit, it does imply that some poor Arkham intern had to dry-clean and sew his fucking suit back together.

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On Saturday April 8th, I attended the 10th annual Ohioana Book Festival. This event takes place in Columbus Ohio (about 1-1.5 hours north of where I live) every year, and focuses on featuring & promoting Ohio authors.

Continue on to read about my experience, which books I hauled, and which author I had an “awkward encounter” with…

I ended up flying solo to this event. There are pros and cons to going to a book event alone…

Pros: you are the boss • you can come/go when you please • you can listen to an audiobook on the commute…

Cons: no one to fangirl with • no one to take your picture with the authors • no one to watch your crap while you use the restroom • you have to pay for all of the gas/parking • no one to discuss panels with • no one to people watch with • no one to sit next to you and ward off creepy men (this actually happened) • you look like a loser without any friends…

Basically going solo was fine, but I would have preferred to have my bookish partner in crime with me.

Source: Ohioana Library Twitter

I spent the majority of my time at the festival attending the author panels. I find author panels absolutely fascinating. I love that each author typically has such different writing processes, motivations, inspirations, etc. I also enjoy getting new insights into books I’ve read or plan to read. I am going to be giving a little snippet of each of the panels I attended, however I am going to limit it to the authors that drew me to the panel in the first place. This is not to say that I was not interested in what the other authors had to say, but in the spirit of keeping this post relatively short I can only include a few authors.

I started my day off with my first panel, Masters of Mystery. This eneded up being an all male author panel that comprised of Dan Andriacco, John Hegenberger, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Robin Yocum. Now, this may come as a big shock, but I am not a big mystery reader. So why did I attend this panel? I wasn’t really interested in any of the other panels during this time slot, so I figured why not? The only author I had heard of in this panel was Robin Yocum. I had heard good things about his book A Brilliant Death.

*Unfortunately I didn’t get any pictures of this panel because I didn’t have a good vantage point #BookBloggerFail

Robin Yocum

» The first thing I have to get off my chest about Robin is that he resembles Sylvester Stallone with a touch of Mel Gibson. Basically, he is Sylvester & Mel’s love child. I thought about telling this to him when I visited his booth after the panel, but I didn’t want him to think I was a werido… which it totally true, but he doesn’t need to know that :)

» It generally takes him 8 months to 1 year to write a book.

» He knows how the book is going to end before he begins so he can write towards that ending.

» He writes everyday and shoots for at least 500 words minimum.

» He likes to utilize the voice to text app on his phone to dictate notes, ideas, plot points, etc. while he is driving in the car. The app then emails him the notes.

*This is brilliant! Take note all you aspiring authors!

» “The first 10,000 and the last 10,000 words are easy. It’s the middle 80,000 words that are hard.”

» A Brilliant Death, A Welcome Murder, and one other book (yet to be published) actually sat in his closet for 15 years before they were published. He wrote these books 15 years ago!

See what I mean? He is totally Sylvester & Mel’s love child

My next panel, Out of the Past: Historical Fiction, was my favorite panel of the day. Authors Jennifer Chiaverini, Linda Kass, Mary Doria Russell, and David Selcer sat on the panel. This was actually a “record breaking” panel for the Ohioana Book Fest, as there were over 70 people packed into one small room, which is the most in the history of the event.

Source: Ohioana Library Facebook Page

*Can you spot me in the front row? I’m on the right hand side of the room to the left of the lady in the long braid.

As you can tell from the picture, this audience was an older demographic. I was probably the only person under the age of 40 in attendance… BUT if you know me, then you know that historical fiction is my favorite genre. I went into this panel specifically for Jennifer Chiaverini and Mary Doria Russell.

*I would like to note that the pictures I took at the actual event are not the best quality because they are taken on my phone. Sorry in advance :)

Jennifer Chiaverini

» Personal observation: this woman is ridiculously pretty. She is one of those naturally beautiful women we all wish we were.

» She was inspired to write Fates and Traitors by all the gun violence in society today.

» She fangirled hard core over Mary Doria Russell.

» She wanted to write Fates and Traitors from the view points of the women who knew and loved him best, as they were the first ones to be judged.

» In historical fiction, oral histories are crucial sources of info as personal experiences vary.

» She loves that in historical fiction, you have the added gift of emotion and can evoke empathy in readers.

» She recommends Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell

» Mary is such a character. She was very charismatic and FUNNY! I also found it hilarious she was wearing a planet necklace… That isn’t some type of brand name, she was wearing our solar system on her neck.

» Once shared a taxi with David Mcullough.

» Recommends A Friend of Mr. Lincoln by Stephen Harrigan.

» She starts with research BEFORE she decides any characters, plot points, etc.

» She has to be in love with the characters, or she will not write the story. She had contemplated writing about Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allan Poe, but didn’t because she doesn’t like them.

I did have a rather awkward encounter with Mary. I pondered about if I should mention it or not, but it is my blog, so I’ll do what I want :)

Since Mary had a stack of her books (multiple copies of a few of her books) with her during the panel, I went up to the table after the panel was over to enquire if I could just get the books I wanted now (as opposed to going upstairs and potentially waiting in line). Mary seemed very hesitant and slightly annoyed with this request, not really looking at me or trying to engage me in conversation. I quickly said that I could just wait and get the books upstairs, but she was already signing her name into the two books I had pointed to. At this point she then handed them to me and said “I’m going to trust that you are going to pay for these.” I was a little taken aback by this comment. I assured her that I would, and quickly left the room feeling a little embarrassed. It had never crossed my mind that this was the reason that she was hesitant to give me the books she had brought with her to the panel… I guess I just assumed that the reason she brought multiple copies of each of her books was in hopes of selling some to those who attended the panel.

I would be lying if I said that this situation didn’t upset me, HOWEVER I am going to give Mary the benefit of the doubt here. The panels were held downstairs (near the exits) and the check out registers were upstairs… Maybe she has had books stolen at festivals before? Maybe the festival had some type of strict rule not to give people books at the panels? Was it the fact that I look younger than I am (despite the fact that I’m now 30 and officially old) and was wearing ripped jeans and a t-shirt? Did I look suspicious? I really hate to have a bad taste in my mouth over this, as I really enjoyed listening to Mary on the panel and was so excited to read her books. Is it possible that I completely misjudged the situation? Maybe. Do I really believe that? Not really.

Just for clarification I did go upstairs and pay for the two books at FULL price.

My next panel, Writing and Publishing for Young Readers, included David FitzSimmons, Anne Vittur Kennedy, Edith Pattou, and Carmella Van Vleet. This panel included the author of my favorite book that I read for the Ohioana book festival, East by Edith Pattou.

Edith Pattou

» Well first off I would like to brag that Edith Pattou remembered my name from when I had gone to her booth earlier in the day to pick up a copy of East to get signed. When she had arrived at the panel, she had forgotten to bring a copy of one of her books to put on display. She saw me sitting in the front row and said “Amanda..” (I’m assuming to ask to borrow the copy of her book she knew I had) but the moderator cut her off and produced a copy of East for Edith. That’s right, Edith and I are basically BFFs now.

» Edith just finished revisions on a SEQUEL to East! I had no idea this was in the works. Anyone want to take a stab at what the title is? If you guessed West, then you are correct! ((Edith- I’m totally available to read an ARC of West in exchange for a review… call me!))

» She writes for 4-6 hours a day. She has to get out of the house to write, so she goes to her local library.

» Her favorite childhood book is A Wrinkle in Time

» She lucked out in the publishing process: she pitched her first book and the first publisher picked it up. This is NOT the norm in the publishing world.

» She doesn’t write with a specific audience in mind, she just writes the story that speaks to her.

My final panel, Submitted for Your Approval: Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Horror, included Gary Buettner, Mark Dawidziak, Terry W. Ervin II, and Leanna Renee Hieber. Not going to lie, I had never heard of any of these authors before, but I figured why not? This ended up being the most entertaining panel. I laughed the entire time.

» “If you read only within one genre, you’re inbreeding.” -Gary Buettner. Obviously you needed to be there to understand the context of this comment, but Gary was a hoot!

» Mark Dawidziak is totally Mark Twain. Mark hates labeling. He feels that labeling minimizes authors: Not a “horror writer,” just a writer.

» Terry Ervin writes the books that he would like to find on the shelf and read. Advises aspiring authors to write for themselves, not with the intent to make millions.

» Shirley Jackson is such a fascinating woman! She walked into the room in full on Victorian era get-up, complete with a feather headpiece. I really wish I had gotten a picture of her outfit. She looked stunning. I was even more intrigued when she said that it wasn’t a costume, it is how she normally dresses. Shirley writes “gothic Victorian fantasy” for a female forward audience. She was heavily influenced by the Brontë sisters and Edgar Allan Poe.

» Book recs from the panel: The Shinning by Stephen King (and many more by Stephen King), The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, and The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.

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» The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall

» East by Edith Pattou

» A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell

» A Brilliant Death by Robin Yocum

» The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

» Fates and Traitors by Jennifer Chiaverini

Would you (or have you) ever attend(ed) a book festival solo?

Have you ever had a “awkward” encounter with an author?

Have you read any of the books I hauled? What did you think?

Comment below and let me know :)

I talk about attending the #OhioanaBookFestival and share my #BookHaul. #BookBlogger #Bookworm On Saturday April 8th, I attended the 10th annual Ohioana Book Festival. This event takes place in Columbus Ohio (about 1-1.5 hours north of where I live) every year, and focuses on featuring & promoting Ohio authors.

#Author Event #Bibliophile #Book Chat #Book Dragon #Book Event #Book Haul #Book Talk #Book Worm #Bookish #Books #Bookworm #Edith Pattou #Jennifer Chiaverini #Mary Doria Russell #Ohioana Book Festival #Reading #Robin Yocum

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International Divorce in the Caribbean

You have in all probability heard of individuals jetting off to the Caribbean to get married. But do you know, it’s also possible to legally divorce in a overseas nation, regardless of the place you occur to be situated proper now?

A vinculo matrimonii is a Latin time period actually which means “from the chains of matrimony.” It has come to imply an entire and ultimate divorce, versus a legal separation.With as much as half of all marriages in the western world ending in divorce, almost all of us discover ourselves at a while coping with both our personal divorce or that of an in depth member of the family or pal. Divorce is regularly a tragedy for all involved, however it may be even be a chance for constructive change and a recent begin. A speedy, amicable, reasonably priced, and legally legitimate decree of divorce from a overseas nation might be ‘simply what the physician ordered.’

The concept of offshore divorces is comparatively new to most individuals in the western world. When it involves divorce, it is all the time been a matter of “Do-As You-Are-Told” by an area lawyer, whose most important objective is to tug out the course of for so long as potential in order to extract from you the highest attainable charges!

In many US jurisdictions you must wait 30-90 days and even as much as two years. This is even when each events strategy the divorce mutually agreeing to it, with none fuss or fanfare – and that is additionally in any case the monetary wheeling and dealing!

Elsewhere, issues are even worse. In Ireland you must wait 4 years at an absolute minimal. In the Philippines, you possibly can merely by no means ever get divorced!

The Origins of “Quickie” Divorces

Mexico may be credited with inventing the “quickie” overseas divorce enterprise. The jet-set of the fifties and sixties incessantly flew to Acapulco to acquire quick divorces. Later Tabasco, the smallest state in Mexico, made a quick foray into the offshore divorce enterprise.

However, all that’s historic historical past. Amendments to the Mexican Nationality and Naturalization Law which took impact in March 1971 require that an alien be a legal resident of Mexico earlier than she or he might apply for a Mexican divorce. Becoming a legal resident is a somewhat difficult, time-consuming course of, taking a number of months. Because of those restrictions, few foreigners will discover it sensible to aim a Mexican divorce.

Incredibly, despite the fact that Mexican quickie divorces have been stopped in the 1970s, we’ve discovered individuals as of 2006 nonetheless providing them on the market on the web. This is a rip-off of which potential divorcees ought to be forewarned.

Fast Divorces on the Island of Hispaniola

Today, the quickest divorces in the Western Hemisphere are to be discovered a brief flight from Miami, Florida – on the island of Hispaniola, simply subsequent to Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

In 1971, just some months after spiritual pursuits induced the Mexican congress successfully to knock on the head the Mexican “quickie divorce” enterprise which had grown fashionable throughout the 1960s, an enterprising Mexican lawyer persuaded lawmakers in the Dominican Republic to move law #142 permitting por vapor prompt divorces for non-residents. Not to be outdone, in 1974 the Republic of Haiti (the Dominican Republic’s smaller neighbour on the island of Hispaniola) handed comparable legal guidelines, which might be in reality much more ‘consumer pleasant.’

This sort of divorce has grow to be popularly referred to as the ‘VIP Divorce’, as a result of over the years quite a few celebrities and hundreds of different well-known individuals have taken benefit of those liberal divorce legal guidelines. To identify a couple of, in no specific order: Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, George Scott, Mike Tyson, Robin Givens, Richard Burton, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley, Diana Ross, Jane Fonda, Mariah Carey, Marc Anthony, and Tommy Mottola (the former president of Sony data).

Yes, positive these individuals have cash. But Caribbean divorces do not need to value as a lot as you may anticipate! They have gotten increasingly more well-liked with peculiar residents – and above all with international citizen households, who might properly have roots in multiple jurisdiction already.

Dominican Republic v Haiti

Today, regardless of its ups and downs, the Dominican Republic is a profitable financial system and a pleasing nation to go to, boasting a extremely developed vacationer sector. Therefore, it is preferable to divorce in the Dominican Republic the place attainable. Haiti, in distinction, is the poorest nation in the western hemisphere and far much less secure – although in fact that does not make its legal guidelines any much less legitimate.

The massive distinction between the two is that in the Dominican Republic, mutual consent is required. The defendant partner does not need to journey there, however shall be required to seem in individual to signal papers agreeing to the divorce in a Dominican consulate elsewhere in the world.

In Haiti, nevertheless, unilateral divorce is allowed. This is beneficial the place spousal consent can’t be obtained for no matter cause, however a divorce is required for remarriage, enterprise functions or just for a recent begin. The course of requires public notices in Haiti informing the partner of the impending motion, following which a default judgement granting the divorce is issued if no reply is acquired inside twenty-one days.

Recognition by Other Jurisdictions

As you may have already got guessed, the massive query on most individuals’s minds is whether or not one of these offshore divorce shall be legally recognised in their house nations, or wherever else they want it to be recognised.

Unfortunately, that is additionally one among the most troublesome inquiries to reply. But in a number of phrases, the reply is usually constructive! Here’s why…

First of all, “offshore” divorce is completely legal. No doubt about that. There is not any law we all know of anyplace in the world that prohibits individuals from going to a different nation and getting divorced.

Whether it’s accepted the place you reside relies upon in apply on whether or not anybody disputes it. It’s a incontrovertible fact that worldwide, greater than 99.9% of divorces are by no means disputed. The solely one that is more likely to dispute the divorce can be your partner. Most individuals acquire their partner’s written consent – after which the partner is precluded from disputing it later by the legal precept of estoppel. Estoppel is outlined in my law dictionary as a bar to alleging or denying a reality due to one’s personal earlier opposite actions or phrases.

In the USA, courts in many states (for instance New York) particularly settle for worldwide divorces. Courts in most others settle for them on a case-by-case foundation underneath the precept of comity. The Social Security Administration and the Veterans Administration are different departments that particularly settle for and acknowledge worldwide divorces. The State Department authorizes and requires US consulates overseas to legalize overseas divorce decrees by granting “full faith and credit” to the signatures of overseas courts. Such legalizations are issued routinely by American embassies in the case of the Caribbean divorces.

It ought to be stated, nevertheless, that some US states (amongst them most importantly California) particularly don’t recognise overseas divorces. (That even consists of Nevada divorces). Of course, this law was handed in the public curiosity, and has nothing to do with grasping Californian legal professionals wanting all the motion for themselves!

In England and Wales, the recognition of an abroad divorce is ruled by Part II of the Family Law Act 1986. Section 51(c) of that act permits the English courtroom to refuse to recognise an abroad divorce as legitimate if such recognition can be ‘manifestly opposite to public coverage.’ Courts are additionally granted discretion to refuse recognition if the divorce was obtained with out discover to the different get together, which could possibly be relevant to Haitian divorces.

A fast examine exhibits that this English law has by no means been examined in the courts. So, though it will appear the English courts have some discretion to refuse recognition of overseas divorces, we will additionally see that in twenty years not one among the hundreds of British residents who’ve obtained Caribbean divorces has had any legal drawback in England due to it. I relaxation my case!

Conclusion

The courts of Hispaniola present, in many instances, a superb alternative to interrupt free from the chains of matrimony, bypassing tortuously sluggish divorce procedures in different nations which may each financially and emotionally taxing. A couple of days can certainly imply a recent begin in life. However, this text was meant solely as a quick introduction to a posh topic. It’s essential that you simply take applicable skilled recommendation and skim round this topic earlier than taking any motion that would posibly result in unintented legal penalties.

Source by Joe B. Gonzalez

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International Divorce in the Caribbean

Elsewhere, issues are even worse. In Ireland you must wait 4 years at an absolute minimal. In the Philippines, you possibly can merely by no means ever get divorced!

The Origins of “Quickie” Divorces

Fast Divorces on the Island of Hispaniola

Dominican Republic v Haiti

Recognition by Other Jurisdictions

Unfortunately, that is additionally one among the most troublesome inquiries to reply. But in a number of phrases, the reply is usually constructive! Here’s why…

Conclusion

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