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Even Hellboy 2 is crappy. The big red ape is one of my all-time favorite comic book characters, but out of the hands of Mike Mignola he has become a parody of himself. Not sure if Guillermo del Toro ruined him or if it was Ron Perlman’s fault. Either way, the screen Hellboy is a [...]
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Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder suck. Don’t see them. They suck. I spent $17.50 to find that out so you don’t have to. If you were planning to see them high, buy more Cheetos instead. The makers of these movies are fucking with us. I am embarrassed to have believed the hype about these two [...]
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The author of A Whole Lotta Nothing has a great point about the confusion created by ambiguous website navigation terminology: I tend to think of “Previous” and “Back” as representing the idea of “Older”. But most often the Back or Previous refers to the previous page you were on, which had Newer photos/post that you [...]
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Despite it’s blockbuster status, The Dark Knight is a pretty damn good film. (My Way News – ‘Dark Knight’ grosses $300M, shattering record.) Would it have broken box office records even without the allure of catching Heath Ledger’s final performance? Was it morbid curiosity or paying respect to a life taken too soon that drove [...]
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It’s no secret that I didn’t appreciate No Country for Old Men (NCFOM) as much as the Hollywood machine did. A second viewing has softened my stance. There’s a theoretical plot twist that makes more sense the second time around. The feeling of being lead around by the nose dissipates as well once you know [...]
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Questions For Gore Vidal – Literary Lion – Questions For Gore Vidal – Deborah Solomon – Interview – NYTimes.com
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Amazing artistic interpretations in the vein of Tufte’s style of infographics from Stefanie Posavec called “On the Map” via NOTCOT: Stefanie’s maps capture something above and beyond that of the others. Rather than mapping physical geography, her maps capture regularities and patterns within a literary space.
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How great a thing looks depends on the viewer’s perspective, and Jon Favreau‘s Iron Man movie is no exception. If you’re expecting a serious, gritty take on a tormented anti-hero like Batman Begins you will be disappointed. If your benchmarks are the cartoonish and sloppy Fantastic Four movies you will want Iron Man given an [...]
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