yify 0.0.2 → 0.0.3

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  1. checksums.yaml +4 -4
  2. data/README.md +21 -229
  3. data/lib/yify.rb +7 -3
  4. data/lib/yify/client.rb +307 -95
  5. data/lib/yify/models/actor.rb +6 -0
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  8. data/lib/yify/models/bookmark.rb +6 -0
  9. data/lib/yify/models/comment.rb +1 -9
  10. data/lib/yify/models/director.rb +6 -0
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  12. data/lib/yify/models/parental_guide.rb +6 -0
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  14. data/lib/yify/models/review.rb +6 -0
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  16. data/lib/yify/models/torrent.rb +6 -0
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  19. data/lib/yify/support/utils.rb +24 -1
  20. data/lib/yify/version.rb +1 -1
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  22. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_delete_a_comment.yml +59 -0
  23. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_delete_a_movie_bookmark.yml +59 -0
  24. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_edit_a_user_profile.yml +61 -0
  25. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_a_user_key.yml +59 -0
  26. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_a_user_profile.yml +56 -0
  27. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_movie_bookmarks.yml +59 -0
  28. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_movie_comments.yml +106 -60
  29. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_movie_details.yml +42 -29
  30. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_movie_parental_guides.yml +106 -0
  31. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_movie_reviews.yml +285 -0
  32. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_movie_suggestions.yml +69 -0
  33. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_upcoming_movies.yml +31 -159
  34. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_user_details.yml +35 -16
  35. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_like_a_comment.yml +59 -0
  36. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_like_a_movie.yml +59 -0
  37. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_list_movies.yml +36 -14
  38. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_make_a_comment.yml +60 -0
  39. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_make_a_request.yml +60 -0
  40. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_recover_forgotten_passwords.yml +59 -0
  41. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_register_a_user.yml +29 -12
  42. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_report_a_comment.yml +59 -0
  43. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_reset_a_password.yml +29 -12
  44. data/spec/models/base_spec.rb +21 -0
  45. data/spec/response_spec.rb +7 -11
  46. data/spec/spec_helper.rb +8 -4
  47. data/spec/yify_spec.rb +97 -57
  48. data/yify.gemspec +1 -1
  49. metadata +44 -38
  50. data/lib/yify/models/requested_movie.rb +0 -17
  51. data/lib/yify/models/upcoming_movie.rb +0 -15
  52. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_add_a_request.yml +0 -43
  53. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_edit_a_profile.yml +0 -42
  54. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_a_profile.yml +0 -44
  55. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_get_requests_list.yml +0 -52
  56. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_login_a_user.yml +0 -42
  57. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_post_a_comment.yml +0 -42
  58. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_recover_passwords.yml +0 -42
  59. data/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/Yify_Client/should_vote_on_requests.yml +0 -42
  60. data/spec/models/api_response_spec.rb +0 -6
  61. data/spec/models/comment_spec.rb +0 -13
  62. data/spec/models/movie_spec.rb +0 -53
  63. data/spec/models/profile_spec.rb +0 -21
  64. data/spec/models/requested_movie_spec.rb +0 -20
  65. data/spec/models/session_spec.rb +0 -8
  66. data/spec/models/upcoming_movie_spec.rb +0 -13
  67. data/spec/models/user_spec.rb +0 -17
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+ Kaufman. Kaufman is known for devising elaborately absurd scenarios for his
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+ fictional films (`Being John Malkovich,\u0027 `Adaptation\u0027 etc.), yet
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+ drawn to this material. They are a perfect fit. In the world of movies,
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+ jaw-dropping nature of the material, George Clooney, in his directorial debut,
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+ brings an appropriately surrealistic tone to the work. He employs a number
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+ of visual devices that help to fragment the world in which the story takes
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+ place. Certain scenes break through the constraints of time and space, as
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+ when Barris is talking on the phone in his apartment to an ABC executive,
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+ who is sitting in his office, and the two locations become one on the screen. The
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+ sense of dislocation this technique creates perfectly reflects the mental
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+ split occurring in Barris\u0027 own disturbed psyche. This style is further
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+ and sepia tones in some of the shots. Scenarist Charlie Kaufman, as always,
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+ brings his own quirky vision to bear on the material. He cleverly balances
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+ around his career as CIA operative. Moreover, Kaufman does a nice job getting
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+ he is doing in his secret life all at the same time. \n\nAs Barris, Sam Rockwell
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+ gives a terrific, high-energy performance, capturing the sadness and paranoia
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+ of a man who seems to know deep down inside that his fame is probably undeserved,
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+ of human nature. Drew Barrymore brings her usual charm to the role of Penny,
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+ a person, even though he is unable to commit himself to her fully, preferring
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+ instead to keep the relationship `casual\u0027 and uncommitted. Barris finds
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+ it impossible to make a real, meaningful connection to another human being,
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+ so twisted has he become in his value system and bizarre lifestyle. Rounding
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+ out the cast are Clooney himself, as the mysterious CIA agent who draws Barris
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+ into this strange netherworld of intrigue and danger, Rutger Hauer, as a fellow
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+ hit man who pours out his feelings about his chosen occupation to Barris,
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+ Julia Roberts, as the icy cool CIA operative who pops up at various moments
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+ and in various places to keep an eye on the young recruit, and even Brad Pitt
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+ $64,000 question becomes, of course, is this story even remotely true, or
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+ is it merely another case of this master showman\u0027s playing the public
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+ friends and business acquaintances of Barris (Dick Clark, Jay P. Morgan) providing
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+ the basis of the story might indeed be factual, given the kind of person these
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+ the film is really a true story or merely a grand lark perpetrated on an increasingly
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+ credulous audience, the fact is that `Confessions of a Dangerous Mind\u0027
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+ debut for Clooney as a director, who, in his work behind the camera, demonstrates
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+ of a Dangerous Mind\u0027 may have been something of a departure from the
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+ high-concept experimentalism that made his previous brainchildren, \u0027Being
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+ John Malkovich\u0027 and \u0027Adaptation\u0027 (a masterpiece and a near-masterpiece,
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+ was better grounded in reality; the twist there being that it was based on
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+ a story that, while allegedly true, just as likely never happened. \u0027Confessions\u0027
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+ though is willing to give Chuck Barris the benefit of the doubt in regards
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+ to his dubious claims to have been a secret assassin for the CIA in the midst
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+ of his days as a game show host, giving life to such controversial classic
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+ as \u0027the Gong Show\u0027 and \u0027the Dating Game\u0027 while taking
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+ it from a range of human targets around the globe. It sits back and lets the
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+ scenario unfold without question \u0096 and does so with such considerable
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+ spirit and vigour that it\u0027s hard not to get lured in and pulled along
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+ for the ride. Regardless of whether the real-life Barris truly did have some
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+ incredible adventures within his time, or simply an overly-active imagination,
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+ this movie translates it into one heck of an enjoyable romp \u0096 slick,
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+ stylish and entrancing on the surface, and with a bracingly poignant and sobering
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+ tale lurking underneath.\n\nKaufman continues to rule supreme with his flair
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+ for developing the most heavily flawed and eccentric of characters, investing
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+ them with witty dialogue and sharp situations and, as with his previous screenplays,
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+ the humour is a pleasantly mixed bag \u0096 lightly amusing at some points,
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+ laugh-out-loud hilarious at others, even outright alarming whenever it needs
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+ to be. George Clooney\u0027s direction, meanwhile, though it stands a fair
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+ distance from the eye-seizing zippiness that we\u0027re used to seeing Spike
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+ Jonze apply to this writer\u0027s workings, is still an accomplished visual
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+ take on the material, made sensational by its meticulous attention to detail.
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+ Indeed, the film\u0027s fondness for subtle in-jokes, crafty cameos (some
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+ great ones among the Dating Game contestants \u0096 absolutely great), background
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+ gags and general all-round intricacy is partly what makes it so rewarding
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+ and worthy of repeated viewings (I was watching it for what must have been
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+ sixth or seventh time last night, and still I found myself picking up a whole
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+ range of details that I somehow missed out on the first few times around).
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+ Sure, things can move a tad slowly every now and then, but with this number
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+ of niceties up there to be marvelled at you know you\u0027re never for a second
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+ going to be bored.\n\nIt also draws a fine contrast between the two separate
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+ pursuits that Chuck Barris is called to follow \u0096 the game show scenes
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+ are colourful, light-hearted fun, the assassin scenes murky and deliciously
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+ paranoid, and Sam Rockwell, at the helm as our savvy and hapless main man,
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+ has the timing, the energy and the appeal to emerge from the two as both a
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+ comic figure and a tragic one. Kicking off as a likable, familiar kind of
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+ anti-hero, whose goofy grin and offhand ways have us smiling through the bar
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+ fights and the womanising, he gradually evolves into something more enigmatic
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+ and sorrowful; a lost, confused individual whose more innocuous contributions
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+ to society, in the form of lowbrow \u0027trash TV\u0027, are widely scorned
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+ (not that I\u0027ve ever seen any of the genuine Chuck Barris\u0027s shows
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+ myself, but it would amaze me if they were really any worse than the kind
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+ of mind-numbing reality TV that\u0027s enjoyed popularity over the past few
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+ years), while the hidden talent he discovers in contract killing begins to
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+ understandably repulse him soon enough. One of the most effective things about
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+ \u0027Confessions\u0027 is just how deftly it uses its gags and its pathos,
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+ along with interview snippets from those who were acquainted with the real-life
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+ Barris, which punctuate the story at various points, to reflect upon this
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+ man, his life, and just how much he really achieved either way, arriving in
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+ the end at quite a biting conclusion. I don\u0027t think that any other rendition
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+ of \u0027If I had a Hammer\u0027 could feel nearly as sad and haunting as
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+ it does here.\n\nDrew Barrymore and Clooney himself offer nice support all
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+ the while, each epitomising different ends of the Chuck Barris spectrum \u0096
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+ Barrymore, as Chuck\u0027s bubbly girlfriend Penny, is a fun-loving innocent;
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+ Clooney, as his CIA director, is aptly subtle and mysterious. But neither
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+ of them, or anyone else involved for a matter of fact, comes even close to
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+ upstaging Rockwell, whose input is simply fantastic \u0096 there\u0027s no
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+ doubt in my mind that the Best Actor Award which, as the blurb on the DVD
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+ so proudly states, he picked up at the Berlin International Film Festival
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+ for his efforts, was well-and-truly earned.\n\nIt\u0027s not an innovative,
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+ far-out, one-of-a-kind experience (a la \u0027Being John Malkovich\u0027).
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+ But it\u0027s an entertaining, well-made and entirely satisfying flick with
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