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20 August 2010 ~ View Comments

August Movie Roundup

Scott Pilgrim (9 out of 10) This is one of the more clever and entertaining movies of the summer. Sure, it’s one big video game, but it’s still visually stimulating and super funny. The comedy never stops in this one.   Kudos to director Edgar Wright’s ability to capture the entire comic book series (6 books) [...]

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27 July 2010 ~ View Comments

Some Inception Notes

Discovered two cool things about Inception this week First, there is some analysis done about when Leo wears his wedding ring. If you pay attention to when he has it on (clue: only in dreams), you can figure out the final scene in the movie.  That link is here Second, this video below shows how [...]

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23 July 2010 ~ View Comments

Inception Thoughts

I saw Inception this week. I’m assuming most of you know that this is a movie written and directed by Chris Nolan. Nolan is the same guy who wrote and directed Memento, The Prestige (with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale), Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. So, he can both mind screw you (Memento and [...]

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21 July 2010 ~ View Comments

Further Analysis of Back to the Future

Some great points are made by the Cracked gang about the beloved Back to the Future.  Points such as Did Marty trigger the civil rights movement? Isn’t it weird that George’s and Loraine’s son looks just like the guy Loraine tried to sleep with in high school? How did Biff go from rapist to butler? [...]

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07 July 2010 ~ View Comments

Back to the Future

Back to the Future, originally uploaded by pescatello. Thanks to TheBoss for bringing this to my attention An amazing piece of trivia is that July 6th is the day that Marty McFly went to in the future. Anyone see him out and about?

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08 June 2010 ~ View Comments

Liz Wallace’s Movie Rule

There’s an interesting Rule that’s being discussed in Hollywood these days that has to do with the lack of interaction between women in film. The Rule states that woman are neglected in a film if the film doesn’t satisfy these three Rules: There are two women in the film These women have names These women [...]

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06 June 2010 ~ View Comments

Two Ridiculous Movies

One week, 2 crazy movies.  Let me go into depth here…. Last week i saw the movie Crank 2: High Voltage. This movie is totally insane.   To illustrate how out there the film is, i’d like to repost comedian Aziz Ansari’s tweets he had while watching the movie where he reports on what’s actually [...]

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04 May 2010 ~ View Comments

Greatest Proposal Ever

Here is a guy by the name of Corey Goldfeder who used Back to the Future to propose to his girlfriend in one of the most creative and unique ever imagined. Goldfeder’s plan was pretty intricate. First, he spent 15 hours using a digital camera, a make-shift green screen and a 30-day free trial of Pinnacle [...]

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26 March 2010 ~ View Comments

Waking Sleeping Beauty

I saw the movie Waking Sleeping Beauty a few weeks ago which takes a look at Disney’s Animation Studio from the years 1984, when it hit it’s lowest point after releasing The Black Cauldron (which got out-grossed by The Care Bears), to 1994 when it released it 4th straight mega blockbuster, The Lion King. In [...]

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25 March 2010 ~ View Comments

Classic Noir is Back. The Ghost Writer is Great

I just saw the film The Ghost Writer and is was awesome.  Really great.  I felt the way i feel when i’m watching an old Hitchcock movie for the first time.  That feeling when watching a movie that everyone tells you have to see becuase it’s so good and then you finally get around to [...]

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