Kristen Bell - Blog Posts

No. We did. We do. You need to understand that we deserve good art. We deserve media that is both incredible at teaching the broad public very complicated philosophical theory, as well as be funny as shit. We don’t just deserve it, we need it.

Many people quit learning anything new after High School or College, if they attend. They have been traumatized by the education system so severely that they have a panic attack if they need to learn a new program for a job. People refuse to learn things because they seem hard, or because it sounds like something someone Smart would know.

Learning doesn’t need to be scary. Shows like this can do more to undo some of that fear of learning. Shows like this prove that people ARE interested in philosophy! People want to be good to each other! People can follow dense lecture and lore, as long as you contextualize it with something they’re already familiar with.

We can change things. Please, believe me. It doesn’t need to be like this.

Tldr; the Good Place is Sesame Street for adults, we DO deserve it, and we need to stop expecting television that has the same quality as Adult CocoMelon.

we really didn't deserve The Good Place. a bizarrely high-budget sitcom telling a longform, highly conceptual story that you need to have been watching from episode one, which was allowed to play out at its own pace and wrap things up when it intended to, and it didn't even lose steam over its four seasons. that's practically proof of the existence of a loving god

Web Shoutout: Off Camera with Sam Jones

Welcome to Web Shoutout, a series highlighting interesting places in the interwebs about movies and filmmaking! (Check out the previous Web Shoutout here).

Off Camera is a show, podcast, and magazine hosted by photographer Sam Jones. It is an amazing interview show, with various guests from the entertainment industry--mostly from actors.

Off Camera always provides a fascinating look inside their heads. Sam Jones is a brilliant host--naturally inquisitive, respectful, and is always well-researched--and with his help, we are able to truly understand his guests as a human being: what drives them, what influenced them, what makes them tick. His guests include Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jake Gyllenhall, Andrew Garfield, Ellen Paige, Krysten Ritter, Aaron Paul, Cindy Crawford, Aubrey Plaza, Matt Damon, Tatiana Maslany, Imogen Poots, and a lot of others.

If you remember the Actors on Actors interviews that I mentioned a while back, it’s a bit hard to pinpoint the difference between the two because themes vary with each conversations. But if I can summarize, Actors on Actors usually talk about their craft and how they do it, while Off Camera talks about their experiences as a person and why they do what they do. Either way, both are fascinating interviews, and Off Camera is well worth checking out.

Off Camera is a show on DirecTV and U-verse, and is also fully available on their website to watch with a fee. Short excerpts are available on Youtube, but sadly not the full interview. Five of the seven seasons are also available as a full audio interview on Soundcloud.

1. Kristen Bell: "I Grew Up Thinking The World Was Black and White"

2. Dax Shepard Shares Painful Relationship with His Dad

3. What No One Told Ethan Hawke About Being Famous

4. Olivia Wilde Knew She'd Be an Actress

5. Tony Hawk on Talent vs. Motivation

look at her 😍

𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯: 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘻𝘦𝘯 2 || 1𝘹05 || 𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩 || 2020

look at them.

𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯: 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘻𝘦𝘯 2 || 1𝘹05 || 𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩 || 2020

always be horny for kristen bell

Fluffies 😍

They invented social distancing

In the face! @nbcthegoodplace

𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 || 4𝘹01 || 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘰𝘯𝘢 𝘱𝘵. 1 || 2019

𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 || 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 || 2016-2020

𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐫 || 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 || 4𝘹09 || 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳 || 2019

• 𝐭𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢'𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐬 •

𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 || 1𝘹01/1𝘹03 || 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦/𝘵𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪 𝘢𝘭-𝘫𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭 || 2016

That's why I live for female directors 😊

Kristen Bell & Sarah Michelle Gellar at the Jhpiego awards, 2015.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall 2008

Smoking: Half a Jay (I’ve been sick and not smoking so I’m a light weight right now, hahaha)

Surprise surprise. Another one of my favorites. About a guy trying to get over a break up by going on vacation, and then running into his ex with her new boyfriend. I also love that instead of your typical chick flick where it is the girl finding themselves we have Jason Segel.

I’ve always love JS ever since I saw him in How I Met Your Mother. I love that he was able to branch out after the show and get into more things. He definitely makes me laugh! And then you have his lovely Co-Star Kristen Bell. Who plays more of the b!tch, cheats on her man when they’ve been together for 5 ½  years. And not just cheats, but has a whole other relationship. Definitely a roll reversal movie from your typical Girl Power movie! And I think that is why it makes it one of my favorites, that and the ever-gorgeous Mila Kunis is in it. She’s always a plus. Loved her in Black Swan with Natalie Portman!

Anyway….. back to the movie!

KB is coming in to break up with JS and he has just gotten out of the shower. Then PEN!S shot! And sack when he bends over to cry for a moment. Not a part of him that I thought I would ever see. And I must say, CONGRATULATIONS!

Then sits on the fucking leather couch butt ass naked! That must have been so cold! And then he stands up quickly and another d!ck shot. I don’t think I could ever do that on one of those couches. Just imagining it gives me the chills. I’m good. Lol.

Now comes in Bill Hader, Mr. Flint Lockwood himself! Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is another favorite for my husband and me! We love to watch both of them, the puns are amazing! “There’s a leek in the boat!” Pans to a leek vegetable and they all just start screaming. It cracks me up!!

Once again…. Back to the movie

He is with JS at a bar so that he can try to get over KB. He wants to B his L on somebody’s T’s! He is so heart broken over KB cheating on him that he is just trying to fill the void. Now I’m wondering why there was no proposal or anything? But later on, we find out that she was trying to make him happy and it was like he didn’t want to be for some reason. So maybe it is because he didn’t want to be happy that he never proposed. Hmmmmm

JS has series of sex scenes next with different woman and how they all have sex differently and one girl just keeps saying Hi over and over again. He had to ask her to stop. Hahaha. Then she says you can gag me, and by the end of the exchange she is saying do you want to gag me and he says, “Kind of, now.” Hahahahaha.

And his first day back at work. Where he does music for the show that KB is on. He just had to break up with her and then she has to keep seeing her large in front of him. Then he destroys the screen with a music stand. Like wondering, is he drunk still? Maybe extra hung over? It’s so sad but hilarious.

BH defending his wife is the cutest thing, even when he’s saying “I have no qualms with sticking you!” Now JS is talking about how everything reminds him of KB. And BH brings up going on vacation and you have JS deciding to go to Hawaii. I really want to go there one day. It looks so beautiful.

Here is the beautiful MK. If you can’t tell I totally have a crush on her lol! She’s just so pretty!

Time to munch…

I love when JS calls BH and BH is trying to convince him to go back to his room and not follow KB. And you just hear BH yelling over the phone, “Go to the room Pete! Go back to your room! Peter!” Probably one of my more favorite BH moments in the movie. To be able to hear him just yelling is soooo funny.

Then we run into Paul Rudd! Antman! Chuck the surfing instructor. He is arguably not the best instructor. Do less, Do less, Do less. My goodness. “The weather outside is weather.” I quote this so often. Guess he would be a stoner. He sure acts like it.

So, we have all of these series of moments where MK and JS are like on a date, starts at a beach party where a fight breaks out and they leave. End up at a bar and MK sets up JS to sing a song from his Dracula Musical that he wants to be done with puppets. And I really wish it was a real thing. Because I would so own it on DVD.

Now we move on to the second date between MK and JS. They go out on a hike and JS totally underestimated how difficult it was going to be. Why you would ever go on a hike with flip flops on is beyond me. I have terrible feet so there is now way I wouldn’t be wearing tennis shoes with some kind of support. And then they jump off of the cliff into the ocean. I don’t know if I would EVER do that. Like that just seems terrifying. I would probably freak out just like JS does and chicken out part of the way down. And then have to make sure I can get out far enough to not hit rocks down below.

Then JS finally is like I’m going to make this wave my b!tch! Accidentally injures KB’s love interest, Russell Brand, and then he gets coral stuck in his leg. Just after JS found out that KB had been sleeping with him for a whole year before she broke up with him. Obviously as anyone would be, poor JS was very hurt to find out this information.

Now the very awkward double date that is about to happen. JS is out with MK and KB with RB. They share a table together and it is super awkward. KB bought a shirt for RB and he is wearing it. He hates it and ends up spilling cranberry juice all over it to make him not have to wear it every again. After he finishes seeing an older man walking by showing that they have the same shirt on. It is a very tense date where the girls made power moves.

One of my favorite parts to quote in this movie is when KB and RB are fighting and she does a fake British accent saying, “Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.” And I will say it just like she does, tone and everything.

Ugh, what I ate gave me heart burn. Boo.

Then you have KB freshly broken up with RB, and she tries to get JS to sleep with her. He had finally gotten over her by being with MK. Then JS isn’t able to perform and realizes that he is officially over her and doesn’t want anything else to do with her. Leaves before even getting started. Saying that his cock doesn’t want to be around her anymore and that she is the devil. What a big moment for him. He realized that he doesn’t want to still be with this woman who he didn’t realize that they weren’t right for each other.

Then right away he goes to tell MK that he doesn’t want to lie her and then tells her what happens. Having that kind of honesty is amazing. Though some of it didn’t happen. He stated she got naked, but in fact she never did. Talk about continuity error. LOL! I love finding those. Like, that cup had less liquid in it before….

Now heart broken because MK didn’t want to put up with what he did. He goes to the bar where a topless photo of MK is. He rips it off of the wall, gets hit in the face multiple times just to get the picture back for her. Talk about an Act of Love.

Going back home from his vacation, he starts to work full time on his Dracula Musical. He ends up trying to write songs for it and decides to start singing about needing to go see a psychiatrist. He is hurt over MK. Understandable so. He had finally gotten over his ex and was wanting to be with her. Just to have her break his heart. But then he realizes that he needs to take better care of himself and he starts doing amazing things.

He sends MK the invite to his show in the hopes that she will come and see him. After all, she was the one who helped him realize that it was good and that he needed to keep working on it. Boy, does he rock it! I really wish I could see the full production. He has BH play Van Helsing. He gets way into it. It’s kind of nice to see. Because he doesn’t just feel that the musical is good and supporting his step brother. But he really gets into the roll and performs his heart out.

Of course, in the end, MK showed up to the opening and they what seems like get back together. It’s wonderful to see.

That’s it for Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Thanks for stopping by!

-RRR