tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48741833706568471052024-02-07T05:14:39.863-08:00Jenny's SpoilersGlorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-35808813930669623262015-10-25T21:40:00.001-07:002015-10-25T21:41:04.517-07:00Dracula: The Untold Story<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He moved the clouds to kill all the vampires he made and himself but his loyal servant saved him, he was kind of a weird character in the movie, showed up like twice and made you think he was in the wrong movie; he should have been in Frankenstein. So, Vlad lives forever and finds a women in the future who looks like his wife. I think there is a sequel. I'm actually hoping for one because I loved it! So go watch it! It'd make a great Halloween movie too! </span></div>
Glorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-22724664478361894022015-10-25T20:59:00.002-07:002015-10-25T20:59:18.929-07:00Fast and the Furious 7...Oh, I mean Mad Max Review<div style="text-align: center;">
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Yeah. So, I was going into this movie expecting to hate it but I actually really liked it! </div>
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I also kept wondering why in the world it was rated R...I mean Die Hard was worse!</div>
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There weren't any swear words that I remember. In fact hardly any talking at all!</div>
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It was a cliche story. A lone man joins a heroic cause and helps win the day, but</div>
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Glorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-72267833074664413412015-05-07T06:40:00.001-07:002015-05-07T10:31:43.594-07:00Avengers: Morality is Hard<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If only they'd built a fat man barricade!</td></tr>
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Moral philosophers like to probe the makeup of ethics by presenting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem">Trolley Problem</a>. It's a simple question: If you have the power to save X people from dying by choosing to kill Y people, do you do it? Play with the numbers X and Y until you find the range where a person will answer yes or no. To make the game more interesting, you may say "okay, but what if the Y is your mom and a litter of newborn kittens and X is your in-laws?"<br />
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It's <a href="http://journal.sjdm.org/jdm8105.pdf">been shown</a> that if you try taking a fine-toothed comb to most peoples' sense of right and wrong, you'll find it's a <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/316/5827/998.short">hairy incoherent mess</a>.<br />
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I have no idea why this might be.<br />
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There's a guy by the name of Tony Stark. He likes to fly around in a magical suit and likes to imagine himself the savior of the world in spite of repeated peripeteia-tastic moments that indicate the contrary.<br />
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Stark believes that if he merely continues to fly his suit around and shoot bad guys, his efforts will ultimately be futile and zillions of people will die. But he believes he can avoid those deaths by writing an ominously-named computer program that no existing hardware can run. Unlike folks in a philosophy class, he doesn't clearly know how many innocents are going to die when he switches or doesn't switch the trolley tracks. Not even Captain America actually knows when he dissents against the Ultron saying that "Every time somebody tries to win the war before it starts, an unspecific number of people -- probably some multiple of 1000 -- die. <i>Every time</i>!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See, Tony, this is what<br />
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It's a lackluster moral quandary when you're asking people to make values judgments without actual values to compare. It appears as though the writers of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395427/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Age of Ultron</a> realized this after they'd written most of the script because they decided to make the entire thing explicit.<br />
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"Forsooth!" quoth the Avengers, "A megahuman city is to be weaponized to destroy the entire world just like in <b><i>(insert old testament or paleontology reference here)</i></b>! To act is to kill lots but to not act is to kill all of them!"<br />
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This is certain to build suspense and catch the nuance of a moral judgment. Clock's ticking, Avengers and the Trolley is loaded with all the humans! Even the ones who are on the alternate route!<br />
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The protagonists are stalling for time, trying to avoid choosing between something horrific and something infinitely more horrific when along comes Nick Fury all messianic-like in his propeller-hoisted chariot of fire! <i>Deus ex</i> literal <i>machina</i>!<br />
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Remember that ethical choice you were confronted with a second ago? Yeah, me neither.<br />
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It's a good thing the writers spared us the burden of watching somebody choose between a single city's doom and absolute extinction! With stakes that high, the audience would be wringing their hands clean off!<br />
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I don't begrudge the Avengers movie this hilarity. I <a href="http://jennspoil.blogspot.com/2012/05/post-pokemon-generation.html">knew what I was getting</a> into when I agreed to take my wife to see it. It was more entertaining than the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3475734/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Agent Carter</a> show so my expectations are met. Not everything needs to be an exploration of moral philosophy in order to be good entertainment.<br />
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<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417299/?ref_=nv_sr_1">Avatar: The Last Airbender</a>, however, does. It's <a href="http://jennspoil.blogspot.com/2010/07/ishy-vs-last-airbender.html">no secret</a> that we here at <i>Jenny's Spoilers</i> are massive, squealing fan$(GENDER)s for this show. It was captivating from the get-go precisely because it was a philosophy show of quality above not only other children's programs but above TV as a whole. The animation, the story and the magic karate were all tied up in a neat little bow that hailed topics of self-discipline, responsibility and morality. Rather uncharacteristic of the network that brought us <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101178/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Ren and Stimpy</a> and game shows about dumping green slime on faces.<br />
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The series was building itself up to a continent-reshaping showdown between the mad Fire Lord Ozai and the cryogenically tardy tweeny monk boy. The point of suspense wasn't really a matter of fearing the mortal dangers involved with battling a crazed dictator who farts napalm but rather the ethical dilemma; how does one stop wanton burnination of the countryside humanely? Because it must, as a matter of principle, be humane.<br />
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This was the thing that most terrified Avatar Aang as his encounter with the king antagonist loomed. Could the kid beat his foe? Probably. If he could kick off the shining eyes-and-tattoo trick, definitely. Could he do this while also keeping the body count at zero? If it wasn't zero, would he be any better than the enemy he defeated?<br />
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Dang. Morals are hard.<br />
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This is one of the reasons that I find Avatar so compelling; Aang's moral dilemma wasn't just one of playing a game of golf-score corpse counting. He already knew that Ozai was a genocidal jerk-face. For Aang, it wasn't a matter of piling deaths on Athena's scale. Everyone he loved had already been killed by Ozai so he had a visceral understanding of the threat and yet his conscience compelled him to make a judgment above and beyond his grief. For Aang, morality was about being accountable to himself for his own actions. Where others may entrench themselves in the game of graphing the number of acceptable deliberate vs unacceptable accidental deaths, Aang deliberated over killing one man to save millions. Not because he was an indecisive or irrational kid but because he had a clearer sense of his own ethics than most people do. This is integrity.<br />
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This is also why the show ended up frustrating me so much with its ending. It was clear that the writers understood what they were doing. They'd spent 2.6 seasons building tension, setting things up for the ultimate measurement of Aang's moral fiber -- a thing far scarier than an <i>agni kai</i> for the fate of the world. But when the moment of the climax was supposed to come, they side-stepped the whole issue, threw in a surprise magic trick, and Aang was allowed to get away with making no decisions at all.<br />
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Other writers had the courage to confront so difficult an issue head-on in <a href="http://jennspoil.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-dude-of-steel.html">Man of Steel</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251439/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Trigun</a> in completely opposite and equally compelling ways. Avatar had demonstrated the potential to <i>deliver</i> in so many other ways that it was incredibly jarring to watch the series end on such a monumental cop out.<br />
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Some try to defend this anticlimax by saying "it's just a kids show" but I resent that kind of talk. Do we really want to teach our kids that the solution to moral dilemmas is to avoid them until a one-eyed man in a trench coat shows up on the back of a Lion Turtle and solves the problem for us?<br />
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The whole ending was a wanton betrayal of everything the show had built up to that point. We're told by Guru Pathik that mastering the Avatar state requires sacrifices that Aang ultimately never made. In fact, Aang ends up winning and getting his <a href="http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Raava">Raava</a> mode back all by accident. So he can just end up marrying Katara just like he always dreamed with no heroic sacrifice, no personal growth, no real effort required.<br />
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That Avengers only wanted to joke about the existence of morals is fine by me. It never pretended to be that mature of a show in the first place. But, Bendyshow of Magic Karate, you had all the makings of greatness! It hurts to see you wield the sword of moral awareness for two years only to drop it into the ocean and watch it rust in the moment it was most needed!<br />
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<b><i>Sigh.</i></b> Whatever. Morals are hard. Let's go shopping.Ishpeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06825418921052334722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-90796394470466766212014-06-26T22:13:00.001-07:002014-06-26T22:24:23.053-07:00How To Corrupt Your Children<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Since time immemorial, it has been clear that the right and honest way
to name a sequel is to append a numeral to the end of the previous
movie's title. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0232500/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Heathenous franchises</a> have strayed from this model and have paid dearly for it with
ridiculous profits and persistent viewership.<br />
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I am pleased to report that the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1646971/?ref_=nv_sr_1">sequel</a> to <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892769/?ref_=nv_sr_2">How to Train Your Dragon</a></i> has properly followed this sacred guidance and, in spite of its
difficulty to say, appended the unambiguous numeral "2" to the title
when naming their sequel.<br />
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Unfortunately, this is where the movie's wholesome values end.<br />
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The writers of this film did not have the decency to copy and paste
the previous film's script, use find-and-replace on certain keywords,
and pepper segments with irrelevant references to the first film as if
it were inane fan fiction. Indeed, the story seems to have violated
the whole formula; taking on a life of its own in a grotesque display
of unwarranted creativity. <br />
<br />
This is unforgivable.<br />
<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKKAca058-GolbmimLslwZat1AuL6NE0avFGAWPkDpFw0_2fKA_ZrDNf8B780yKqJZxMu6s7hD5H_BxTz_Y0pXMYc7HrZfpcxX4ayaUjPt7ArcLeJP09V3kYNjjoH8jkycw7SIX3xuX1GO/s1600/lego-movie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKKAca058-GolbmimLslwZat1AuL6NE0avFGAWPkDpFw0_2fKA_ZrDNf8B780yKqJZxMu6s7hD5H_BxTz_Y0pXMYc7HrZfpcxX4ayaUjPt7ArcLeJP09V3kYNjjoH8jkycw7SIX3xuX1GO/s1600/lego-movie.jpg" height="133" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Family shows must be stupid for<br />
the sake of the kids and have<br />
meaningless pop culture satire<br />
for the sake of lemurs.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Brazen displays of positive male identity, fond sentiments toward
family and community relationships were on parade in this supposedly "family" film.
There were instances of full frontal female independence without a
single shred of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587310/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">incoherent misandry</a> on her body -- in a film that is
advertised as being for children! With all these inappropriate things
in the show, it was really surprising to me that there wasn't a
gratuitous dragon-human <a href="http://www.elfonlyinn.net/d/20021029.html">hentai</a> thing in any part of it.<br />
<br />
What's worse, the show neglected to nourish children's minds with the
wholesome intellectual stimulation of fart jokes, or cheap slapstick -- the essentials of a child's
mental diet! This movie even had the nerve to make a few of the
characters nuanced people with flaws and virtues and the ability to learn from their mistakes and grow as individuals.<br />
<br />
This is how far society is sinking. Movie theaters are playing this
kind of filth for our children. They're trying to push their Quality
Entertainment Agenda on us and poison the precious minds of the
future.<br />
<br />
It makes me sick.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It makes Shrek sick, too.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Be warned! <i>How to Train Your Dragon 2 </i>is not the family friendly cliché barrage that they try to make it out to be. Lurking under the facade of a disposable cartoon sequel is a coherent piece of genuine entertainment. You will be disappointed.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Tzd90gahJP73PQCfXteiB1gNphQk412FNO5FW5bmpvGWIVUZy3PmbY7VlMsfBbGiXT0tbq2Tnwcz-FlvUUpMjJIxUT8Aqu9yDN1jy9LlKyyp9IvqhoRaiJ0u4ltrILDmwKBg9vkHnUbL/s1600/aku-disapproves.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Tzd90gahJP73PQCfXteiB1gNphQk412FNO5FW5bmpvGWIVUZy3PmbY7VlMsfBbGiXT0tbq2Tnwcz-FlvUUpMjJIxUT8Aqu9yDN1jy9LlKyyp9IvqhoRaiJ0u4ltrILDmwKBg9vkHnUbL/s1600/aku-disapproves.jpg" height="154" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who dares to entertain the almighty Aku?</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />Ishpeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06825418921052334722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-28546691891381891612013-11-24T11:10:00.000-08:002013-11-24T11:26:20.171-08:00Advice for Panem Despots<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyCRAcaZ9irW83EtQ6AdIKKT9CUgf8XyI7lVanUWI7vDwOrg8C7EP7zfZNHI6ofwYuk526iJ_8DmPvcxsXHt-mRJCt3pgUsbPpTLaVcgCjkrt7KElKD6z3W17k9DNGxQNsEnwu6l11t_dM/s1600/Y6yz2S3.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyCRAcaZ9irW83EtQ6AdIKKT9CUgf8XyI7lVanUWI7vDwOrg8C7EP7zfZNHI6ofwYuk526iJ_8DmPvcxsXHt-mRJCt3pgUsbPpTLaVcgCjkrt7KElKD6z3W17k9DNGxQNsEnwu6l11t_dM/s200/Y6yz2S3.png" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Korra was disappointed that he wasn't<br />
as wise as he seemed. I was disappointed<br />
that he wasn't as deep/nuanced as he<br />
seemed. </td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Something that really bothers me about cinema is the tendency of their tyrants to be such incompetent tools. In order for there to be any drama in a story, the antagonist has to seem remotely capable of winning. That means he has to be a person and not a plot mechanism. The President Snow character in <i>Catching Fire</i> is another in the long line of totalitarian antagonists that does <i>not</i> help achieve this drama.<br />
<br />
Just watch Jodi Foster's monodimensional callous as she blows border-runners out of orbit, or Unalaq shark-jump his way from an interesting character who teeters between madness and enlightenment into pure evil for absolutely no apparent reason. <br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>Catching Fire</i>'s president character was the most frustrating in this regard because of how little effort was vested into making him seem at all like a workable despot. Having stopped reading the series after the first novel, I can't really say whether the fault rests in Collins' lap or the movie producers' but given my experience, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the answer were "both."<br />
<br />
President Snow, I would like to offer you my services as a consultant in how to maintain a stable authoritarian regime. I've seen you and so many like you do your jobs so pathetically that pity drives me to offer these services <i>pro bono</i>.<br />
<br />
<b>Propaganda</b><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbr_hZZbiyr3piffnXZdXxiufX6WTeMZ-u2CZzyl9ENFBdPJ_qs_5d0mMGpqJ2feUG5VGgMKUWAYg8mJobhtM-gpi_MRwN29tVQJ-dsaMaDMYXjkWsjZExsNKFrftakaqFKSMyi3_ksOhyphenhyphen/s1600/1984_woman_with_hammer_5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbr_hZZbiyr3piffnXZdXxiufX6WTeMZ-u2CZzyl9ENFBdPJ_qs_5d0mMGpqJ2feUG5VGgMKUWAYg8mJobhtM-gpi_MRwN29tVQJ-dsaMaDMYXjkWsjZExsNKFrftakaqFKSMyi3_ksOhyphenhyphen/s200/1984_woman_with_hammer_5.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orange shorts: Sure sign of free thinking.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
You never praise your plebs as the noble working class -- but you should. You need to tell them that their poverty and suffering are a product of District 13's extreme views on Capitol, or how your work in the capitol is part of a generations-long attempt at restoring justice to society after the horrific rebellion. You gotta admit to not being perfect but convince people that if they just work harder at whatever it is they're doing to keep you fat and wealthy, that a change in mind-set will eventually happen and society will just be brighter for it.<br />
<br />
The Tributes in your hunger games need to be the extremists. Dissentors. Rebels. But they also need to be any Peacekeepers that get out of hand. They need to represent the scary people in the pro-Capital and anti-Capital fringe that are easier to dehumanize and thus, harder to sympathize with when they murder each other. Then, when they die, no matter which side they're on, the masses can say that they pretty much deserved it and then go back to feeling comfortably ambivalent towards your rule.<br />
<br />
You need to label dissent as anti-social, unhinged and calloused to the sad situation that most people are enduring. Paint yourself as making the noble, painstaking attempt to fend off all these selfish extremists for the sake of the people. You're the cool, even keel, stable, middle-ground. Those that disagree with you are basket cases who will probably shoot-up a mall some day... assuming the next Games take place in a mall. (Which they should).<br />
<br />
<b>Counter-Propaganda</b><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnHugbIKHlBIostj_V1R0lwUnUdOnzTbad4QLLOQ-Oe_qf7e8fXk0eN29ZmL5lLcB0vTMwF2KrWfvCtSZAihjctMDc69HRPX7y-GhuDF61DPqGYdhNhZhZV_c1iYCV43JbC_Qe9XGIUGxK/s1600/hungergames-catchingfire-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnHugbIKHlBIostj_V1R0lwUnUdOnzTbad4QLLOQ-Oe_qf7e8fXk0eN29ZmL5lLcB0vTMwF2KrWfvCtSZAihjctMDc69HRPX7y-GhuDF61DPqGYdhNhZhZV_c1iYCV43JbC_Qe9XGIUGxK/s200/hungergames-catchingfire-2.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Headline: District 12 Tribute under arrest<br />
for eating her baby. Gamekeepers say this<br />
does not disqualify her from the Hunger Games.</td></tr>
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When tributes try some lame scheme like "OMFG! THIS ONE'S PREGNANT" you need to call them out on it. Do an ultrasound. Have her pee on one of those little sticks. Perform some tests. It's amazing how much ground you'd have gained at painting Katniss as a liar if you'd actually exposed the lie of her pregnancy! <br />
<br />
Even if she's not lying, you can still beat the whole thing by saying "we tested the child and believe that it is not a viable fetus. It will probably miscarry before the games -- it will certainly not survive to full term." Or you could just abort the pregnancy like the Chinese do and say (like the Chinese do) that it's for the good of society.<br />
<br />
Never do live broadcasts. Seriously. Editing is the propagandist's best friend.<br />
<br />
When detractors attempt to spread their own propaganda, hold them to ridiculous standards of proof. Use your educated partisans to label such detractors as being dishonest, unwilling to subject their claims to scientific rigor, and especially of being hateful or calloused of people from other districts who depend on Capitol's wealth redistribution mechanisms to survive. You can discredit all sorts of people in the eyes of the public without ever having to gamble on their actions when in your holodeck thunderdome.<br />
<br />
<b>Autonomy and Identity</b><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-fEgRzodeWeyL5Ba0j3C1HHwXg7jiVeACiw8UVtyzcV9xSc0mz_eHe7GFFYh1pGLoMhyphenhyphenKoT5-aRa0sSARUzhkAe5Tono4FZfnMSqxCsZQ9LKiU_dOE4mVXvm1fuVtI2Tt_zNQ4ZkCOOk/s1600/holding-hands-and-the-hunger-games-gallery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-fEgRzodeWeyL5Ba0j3C1HHwXg7jiVeACiw8UVtyzcV9xSc0mz_eHe7GFFYh1pGLoMhyphenhyphenKoT5-aRa0sSARUzhkAe5Tono4FZfnMSqxCsZQ9LKiU_dOE4mVXvm1fuVtI2Tt_zNQ4ZkCOOk/s200/holding-hands-and-the-hunger-games-gallery.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You know Nazis held hands, too.<br />
Just sayin'</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
One of the biggest mistakes you make is dividing society so strictly into the districts. This gives each district its own identity and its own autonomy. This sense of identity is always one of the main driving forces behind insurrection. When those who dominate are far removed in both geography and in cultural properties, the dominated get to feel sharper resentment.<br />
<br />
You should do far more to help people feel like each district is just a convenient compartment but all of the people are part of one, great Panem collective. When they are all proudly waving the same flag, it's harder for them to dehumanize you, their dictator, as a separate entity because you wave the same flag they do. <br />
<br />
Make rail travel freely available. Or at least super-cheap. The expense will not be negligible but the benefit will be a society without the closely-knit communities that are needed to form a real, effective rebellion. Small, compartmentalized cultures keep secrets better, identify one another more easily, and share values; all of these things are the enemy of a sprawling dictatorship.<br />
<br />
You should make it a point to try to engineer good-cop-bad-cop routines among your Peacekeepers. Find a sociopath inside one district, nurture his cruelty and indifference, and place him in charge of law enforcement for his home district -- all for the glory of District 12! Meanwhile, you should also have kinder, more compassionate law enforcers under him who also happen to be from the Capitol -- accents and all. This way, the natives associate their own kind with barbarism and your way with benevolence.<br />
<br />
<b>Conclusion</b><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4UP0a4w1kCdQja5h3Sa5oL0eOEgD69Z6YBSkLuZ2yavsO3iNstxS-vbj_7J0nFExMXS4Ay3fqSAWw7XERj8FY7BdWLVGJkcoMFcUgaO0pC-zGO6MKwXQKESg8l-mo0Ag8wZkwVa2_LzoQ/s1600/1371439854972.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4UP0a4w1kCdQja5h3Sa5oL0eOEgD69Z6YBSkLuZ2yavsO3iNstxS-vbj_7J0nFExMXS4Ay3fqSAWw7XERj8FY7BdWLVGJkcoMFcUgaO0pC-zGO6MKwXQKESg8l-mo0Ag8wZkwVa2_LzoQ/s200/1371439854972.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diabolicaltude is directly<br />
proportional to the twirlitude of<br />
the mustache.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Really, president, you don't need to feel threatened by hope. It is really an immaterial thing when you have the monopoly on guns and media. Rather than trying to quell it, you should turn peoples' hope against them. Convince them that they have a shot at improving the world by playing by your rules. Try establishing a parliamentary legislature made up of Victors. It'll give you a great shot at weeding out the natural leaders and free thinkers. Open up your media. Put on a show about tolerating difference of opinion by having brainless partisans make fools of themselves in pretend debates.<br />
<br />
It really seems to me that you have no reason to lose to the uppitty hillbillies in District 13. If you ever bothered to look at the cards, you'd find that the deck is stacked in your favor. Do us all a favor and man-up! Be a real, honest despot! One that we can be afraid of, one that <i>could </i>actually defeat the plucky little resistance. Would you do that for us, sir?Ishpeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06825418921052334722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-77312106364086009682013-07-04T22:38:00.002-07:002013-11-24T11:26:30.411-08:00The Dude of Steel<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitctggyhUd3prY360TrmcCfE15vo-T7F3C6TS2mr2HlwlyBUnfS2pfDjlQ7zvhL8doXNb0IANcdVfljZc6kdJJ0U_ZjLCqHGdKcrsimMx4jU2sfKnd-H9hvCZPBo0YzYwozEl8ZzA6AC3x/s267/colossus-sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitctggyhUd3prY360TrmcCfE15vo-T7F3C6TS2mr2HlwlyBUnfS2pfDjlQ7zvhL8doXNb0IANcdVfljZc6kdJJ0U_ZjLCqHGdKcrsimMx4jU2sfKnd-H9hvCZPBo0YzYwozEl8ZzA6AC3x/s200/colossus-sm.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How is it that Superman is<br />
"the man of steel" when this<br />
guy exists?</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
After Krypton blew up, I spent a lot of time fantasizing about how
much better <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770828/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Man of Steel</a> would be if it were written by the minions
from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1323594/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Despicable Me</a>. What else was I supposed to do? It's not like
Kevin Spacey was in this show or anything.
<br />
The movie itself is generally pretty vapid so I'm just going to
transcribe a direct dump of what my brain did through the show.
<br />
<br />
So Paul Ballard and Boyd Langton are incarcerated in <i>The Attic</i> where
they are forced to work in the most hellish place that a Rossum
employee could be sent: Canada. Which is also the afterlife that
Capricans go to as punishment for mutiny.
<br />
Actually this afterlife thing is starting to make more sense since
this is also the kind of Hell I'd send anybody from Waterworld to;
"You wanted to find land so much? WELL HERE YOU GO! LAND THAT IS
BORING AND HAS TORNADOS!"
<br />
<br />
Holy crap, this entire film is a montage of unnecessary flashbacks.
<br />
<br />
Okay, I'm willing to suspend all sorts of disbelief on the "gravity is
weaker" thing but very much of this is clearly <i>not</i> a matter of just
jumping really hard. Further support of the afterlife story as this
smacks of the dream-like logic of a near-death
experience…. whereupon, Superman isn't a messiah as he works to keep
people <i>in</i> this afterlife. Also, why's there that rumbling and gust
of — IS HE PROPELLING HIMSELF BY FARTS?
<br />
<br />
"On my planet, it means hope." Because suddenly a farm-boy from
Kansas is an expert on a culture from kiloparsecs away that's been
extinct for thirty years.
<br />
Why doesn't Superman go for Faora? She's prettier and probably way
more likely to … um… be able to keep up with him. Being his
species is also a plus. When my in-laws ask "How was the Superman
movie?" I'm pretty sure my wife would slap me if I told them it was a
story about bestiality.
<br />
<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib0-M9ozzWqhzJk5G4ZHnXauJJQ1XTVCxXT-JMjjRSqhresB4soQclH07OWwIlu8ntWO0A7gdrKNhiKAz-PgMxfRXWn92J673yasc44OSxgX9IowBz0oDQZM4TqygTzd4jsT-usD2T6OT-/s322/jack-sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib0-M9ozzWqhzJk5G4ZHnXauJJQ1XTVCxXT-JMjjRSqhresB4soQclH07OWwIlu8ntWO0A7gdrKNhiKAz-PgMxfRXWn92J673yasc44OSxgX9IowBz0oDQZM4TqygTzd4jsT-usD2T6OT-/s200/jack-sm.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The slow blade penetrates<br />
the shield."</td></tr>
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If Colonel Hardy actually gets into a knife fight, he and Colonel
O'Niell can start the "Airforce Officers Who Discovered Blades Work
Better Than Bullets On Aliens" club. We know this because Zod killed
Jor not with his pewpewlayz0r but with a shiv. Whoops! Nevermind.
Superman ruined that interesting possibility, too; back to the
fruitless, brawling.
<br />
<br />
OoooOOOOooooh! Yeeeah. She just got a line and… yeah, I totally
understand why Kal's not into Faora-Ul now. Anybody who says crap
like that is not worth continuing the species with. I'd go panda, too
if I were him.
<br />
<br />
Man, if I were a Keynesian, I would want for nothing more than to live
in a comic book movie universe as a window salesman.
<br />
<br />
Wait! Is this a flashback to a previous scene in the movie? Oh, I
guess not. It's just that Lois falls a lot. Wait! Is <i>this</i> a
flashback to the fight from five seconds ago? … I can't tell.
<br />
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the first two times. A mistake<br />
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They need to find another slot to cram that USB stick into just so we
can watch Jor have a <i>third</i> defiant death. Little does Zod know that
when everyone takes off their Fawkes masks Jor will be standing there
in the crowd.
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Oh, hey! It's the ending I wished that Michael Dante DiMartino and
Bryan Koneitzko were man enough to write.<br />
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"Welcome to the planet!" So punny!
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They need to round-off the flashback thing in this ending by cutting
to Lois and Superman's 25th wedding anniversery party and having them
say to the crowd "and that's how we met!"
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<br />Glorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-2832291990809998432013-05-27T20:43:00.001-07:002013-05-27T20:43:46.980-07:00A letter to Arrested DevelopmentDear Arrested Development,<br />
I am so disappointed in you. My hopes were high and now their crashing through the Earth to the center where you should burn in lava! I don't know what happened, be it Netflix, directors, writers, etc. But, you are better than this!<br />
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Signed,<br />
An angry fanGlorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-37370750527766338702013-05-24T22:21:00.003-07:002013-05-24T22:21:36.199-07:00Our You Tube show Pussy and Hooter!My husband and I are starting our own you tube channel where we talk about movies and such. Written by him, puppetry by us.<br />
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Glorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-70411654115833642522013-01-13T21:30:00.004-08:002013-01-13T21:41:05.757-08:00Bourne Legacy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Glorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-26401383242350420102012-12-24T11:59:00.001-08:002013-02-01T12:41:54.048-08:00Modern American Mythology is Poop<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He looks like a <br />
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Ronon Dex took a stab at being Cimerrian and it ended about as well as
you'd expect it to end in this, the era of molesting franchises with
the yard stick of vapid writing. Wasn't quite <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399103/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2">Transformers</a> level bad
but it's not exactly adequate either. (I am now convinced that the reason <i>Transformers</i> made so much money was because those who watched it recognized the sin they were committing and felt compelled to see it again as penance.)<br />
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Robert E. Howard was doing something akin to "selling out" or
lowering his standards when he created the Conan novels; finding the
discipline of historic fiction to be too much work, he decided to make
a history-inspired high fantasy setting instead -- one that would
require far less research.<br />
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Because the pulp fiction era was in full swing, Howard chose to give
people the easy reading materials they wanted; a patch-work quilt of
sex and murder to help them escape the ennui of 20th century life. The
success of the franchise was an indication of how ardently people
wanted to escape their ever-mechanized, soul-sucking world.<br />
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Such criticism lays bare in the dialogue of this 2011 <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108903/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">re-re-reboot</a> of
the story; even exploring the possibility that the barbarian world is
indeed morally superior to the established, sedintary life. A cute
little piece of commentary that might be considered deep if you
generously account for its dude-bro origins. (I just now realized how much I hate the term "reboot" as it's used in film and therefore vow to do <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg0Q92r6Fk8#t=2m16s">this</a> to anybody who uses the term in that way from now on).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am the master<br />
wizard! I look down on<br />
your shallow suburban<br />
existence!</td></tr>
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Somebody took a story written in the 1930's and retold it in a comic
book in the 1970's and told it again as a movie in the 1980's before
it gets ruined by the cookie cutter film industry of 2010's. If this
was all a plot on the part of the Schwarzenegger cult to convince us
that his <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/ahnold-returning-conan-reboot-article-1.1193238">new remake</a> is going to be more authentic, I suppose we can
call that more successful than the conspiracy to convince Americans
that a Moon Landing ever took place.<br />
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As expected, Conan lost most of his cunning and replaced it with a
boyish mischiev. It lost most of it's atmosphere and replaced it with
just name-dropping; "See! See how much research we did? We
copied/pasted some words from the Hyborean wiki!" Most disappointing
and least surprising of all, this movie completely deemphasized the
most important character and character dynamic in the story.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now there's a good, <br />
traditional, paleolithic<br />
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Conan stories were always a product of their times. In the original
novels, you had the common 1920's tropes of remembering past lives via
hypnosis, the idealized primeval man, and cults engaging in human
sacrifice. The comics introduced a precedent for the loincloth and
more over-the-top action scenes than the comparatively mundane
Flynning that took place in the books. Arnie gave us punching horses
in the face. Momoa couldn't be expected to hurt his pwitty wittow
surfer hands by smacking the horse directly.<br />
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This Conan is as contemporary with his writers as the Conans past were
with theirs. It was so modern that I kept forgetting whether I was
watching <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443649/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">10,000 BC</a> or a slightly funnier <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1240982/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Your Highness</a>. It expresses
how deeply weaboo our culture has become with deep-crouching weaboo
poses mid sword fight, how trivially we understand social issues like
slavery and conquest, and most annoyingly of all how proud we are of
our mysticism while ashamed near to death of our theism.<br />
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Crom is the single-most important character in the entire Conan
universe and they reduced him to less-than-lip-service status in that
movie; a stark contrast with the original Howard stories that boasted
a much lower fantasy but never shied away from theism any more than it
did nudity -- both natural traits of humanity, really.<br />
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The relationship Conan had to Crom was a compelling and meaningful one
that makes any of the Conan material worth reading. Film writers are
too gun-shy when it comes to divinity to ever approach the matter with
much more than a trite portrayal of Olympians like they were royal
conspirators in a Shakespearean tragedy.<br />
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Conan never needed to reduce gods to mortality the way Teal'c did in
order to keep the SG-1 plot moving. There was always the implication
that Conan's relationship to his deity was a precarious one and this
strain was gracefully told in the form of Conan's life.<br />
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As you read the Conan novels and comic books, you start to share
Conan's tenousness regarding the topic. He accepts as a matter of
fact that Crom is divinely powerful but is not certain as to <i>how</i>
powerful that actually makes him. He prays to him regularly but
doesn't keep a fearful reverence. The protagonist seems to accept
that he himself is mortal but gets that he's no ordinary mortal. He
is haunted by the uncertainty as to how much of his power can be
attributed to his deity and how much can be attributed to himself.<br />
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It's the sort of question that quietly drives Conan crazy. "How
powerful am I, really? I seem to get through all kinds of situations
that kill normal people. Will Crom abandon me some day and leave me
to die like the many people I've met? Has he already abandoned me and
I'm just lucky?"<br />
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The only way for Conan to know his limits is to ultimately find them;
leading him to be ambitious and cocky because the worst thing that
could possibly happen is that he dies knowing how far his power
actually extends.<br />
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It's the theme that constantly alludes to an ultimate showdown between
Conan and Crom himself; because he's gonna have to know sooner or
later and the truth might actually be worth blasphemously dying for.
This doesn't make him any less devout in his worship of Crom. Indeed,
it seems to be a more complete expression of his faith -- I mean, how
will you ever get to challenge somebody to a friendly bout of
(im)mortal combat if you aren't on speaking terms with him?<br />
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I didn't really <i>expect</i> to find these things in the newest Conan
movie and I honestly don't expect Arnie's re-re-re-remake to do any
better (even tho' he did have <a href="http://youtu.be/W5K3AKl5qpc">that awesome prayer</a> in the first movie).
But if any Conan movie is going to do it right in Ishy's book, this'll
pretty much have to be considered.<br />
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Though it's fun to mock this movie, I'm not entirely sure that it
deserves the scorn it's been getting (from others or myself). Its
vices are not unique to itself but are more a reflection of just how
amazingly uninteresting modern American movie writing has gotten. It's
a product of its literarily depressing times. It's no longer an
escape from the soul-sucking modern world but a victim of it.<br />
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Welcome to the 21st century, Conan.<br />
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Well, we gave it a shot. It was a fan made video made for himself-Ridley Scott; except it was the worst fan made movie. It was just horrible, none of it made any sense. For example: why would anyone care if some scientists found cave drawings that might mean life on another planet, who would spend that kind of money? How do you get a xenomorph from a worm, or black goo? And how does it change a man to a monster from just being inside him? And how does a squid grow in a human? If a baby has any dna difference it will reject it. How does a xenomorph come from a squid? What killed those 'architects' really? </div>
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Ugh, it was all so badly written! Not a good tribute at all! </div>
Glorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-56569029819566175982012-11-28T07:54:00.002-08:002012-11-28T07:56:12.786-08:00Daybreakers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ugh. This movie, ugh. It was too gory (sorry, gore doesn't make a movie, I hate gore, it serves no purpose other than to gross you out.) The characters were blah, the story was blah, I was waiting for it to be over after only 15 minutes into it. If you want the same basic story but in a better written, better produced, better characters, okay, just better; go watch 'I am Legend' so much better and basically the same premise: world is succumbed to a disease that turns them into vampire's, someone tries to find a cure, etc. etc. </div>
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Glorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-69980444452898807942012-11-26T13:31:00.000-08:002012-11-26T13:33:13.529-08:00Troll Hunter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Go watch this movie now!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It is awesome!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">With all the fast action, CG, no plot, or deep characters movies that are thrown into our faces; this movie is a breath of fresh air. You might find it slow in some parts, but it sucks you in from the beginning and doesn't let you go. I was into it the whole time. It is about these college students trying to film something for school. They start out with following hunters around and then trying to find a poacher, but it turns out much better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">They find out the man they are following actually hunts Trolls, they decide to follow him with their camera and the adventure get's intense. Some people die and the ending is unclear. They found this lost tape, watched it, and spread the news about Trolls everywhere. Really not sure, but in the end the Troll Hunter just walks off, probably hoping that the camera crew will spread his story and pick up where he left off. But, I think they all died, so anyway, I have no idea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Its on Netflix now so I suggest you watch it :)</span></div>
Glorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-82389821945554925162012-11-16T15:34:00.001-08:002012-11-16T15:34:40.526-08:00My rant on VD<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Okay, I've been avoiding this, but I'm just fed up now. I was really skeptical about this show but now I'm addicted. So, yes there is a love triangle, but for some reason its just really compelling to me. I just finished watching Season 4 Episode 6. And, what the heck is going on with Stefan! He's an idiot! First, he let's his 'love' die from drowning! How can a vampire not save two people from drowning in a car, honestly, is he just a wimp? Maybe he wanted Elena to die. But, its his fault that Elena died, maybe not that she is a vampire now, but now he wants a cure and will do anything to get-kill innocent people, team up with Klaus again; not that Klaus isn't awesome, but c'mon. He almost lost Elena the first time he teamed up with him. All because..what, he can't stand to have the vampire version of Elena? He wants his human back? I really don't get it, all the while Damon loves Elena through anything! He loves her no matter what she is or what crap she puts him through. <br />
Damon is so much more mature and smart about things. He doesn't go save Elena in this episode from Klaus, which Klaus said it was to keep her safe, why is there any question he wouldn't? He wants her to be human to make more hybrids, I think his life is lame, Klaus is supposed to be awesome, can't he think of something else to do with his time? And Stefan goes and wastes time and loses Elena anyway. I've never liked Stefan but now he's just getting more stupid? Just lamesauce. That's all there is to it. Some days the writers are good, other days not, do they change writers every time? Glorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-15027636005545673292012-08-20T23:06:00.000-07:002012-08-20T23:06:03.667-07:00My Dork Night<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The old cliche says that we fear what we do not understand. Perhaps
now we've reached a kind of hubris because now that we know that there
are no prehistoric creatures that breathe combustible gasses, that the
"canals" on Mars do not service a civilization capable of obliterating
us all, and that Republicans, however cavalier and lawless, do not
accidentally push "the Button" and start nuk-yew-lur apocalypses, the
only unknown we have left to fear is things we know to be impossible.
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Like perpetual energy!
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I usually assume that meddling legislators are the reason why rational
people would repeatedly and deliberately do something that's patently
silly. While I don't rule some sort of literary regulation out of the
picture, something causes me to doubt that politicians are adding
riders to bills that would require all movies to have some variation
on the perpetual energy plot device.
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I'm wondering when we're going to get sick of movies' propensity to
use crayons to write "fictitious new super-battery" on post-it notes
and then habitually slap those post-its on every central plot device
they stumble upon.
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It was especially out of place in <i>The Dark Knight Rises</i> where the
stupid glowey-bit of literary significance did not need to be a source
of "free, clean energy for the entire city." It could as easily have
been a regular old-fashioned, ticking time bomb and all the suspense
would have been there.
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But you see, regular bombs, even nukes, are considered to be pretty
well understood – not by us generally but by somebody that we trust.
No, there is no unknown here. There is no frontier. There be no
dragons behind the hills that we've been up and down a jillion times
over.
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But if you string-replace "atomic" with "fusion" suddenly it's novel
and scary. Now you're dealing with some massively unfamiliar ground
that <span style="text-decoration: underline;">could</span> actually be the end of times — for all we know.
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And, to be honest, it's not really far from the truth; Anybody who
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">does</span> try to sell you the uber-panacea for all the things is
precisely the kind of person you <span style="text-decoration: underline;">should</span> fear. Those are the snake
oil salesmen, the ones who will feed cocaine to your infants so they
can be perma-healed of all forms of HP loss. By the time the seizures
kick in, they'll be long gone with your money.
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The movie went pretty much as expected; Batman continued to tout his
faux morality system like he was making out with a cardboard standee
and pretending it was the actual Katy Perry. Anne Hathaway did a
reasonable job of making her cardboard standee pretend to be the
actual Catwoman who apparently enjoyed being made out with.<br />
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I can't wait for the reboot that makes Batman into the annoying
frat-boy who goes a-vigilanteing to accrue ladies.
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Like this one.Ishpeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06825418921052334722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-28114777836139524612012-05-31T05:28:00.002-07:002012-05-31T05:28:56.407-07:00Why not?-On free Media<br />
My thoughts toward media dispersion:<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> If itunes, amazon and other such are so fantastic why do they charge as much for movies and music as much as if I just walked into Best Buy. If you do not need to go through the process of putting it on a dvd or such why does it still cost the same? <br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Because the studios still want their money. The actual people doing the “art” don’t get enough of the money for their efforts. <br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Why can’t it all just be free, like pirating them online, if I watch or listen to something I enjoy I’ll go out and buy, or even buy merchandise and advertise it myself. But why would I want to spend money on something that may or may not be good. The reason there are so many bad movies, music. etc. is because there is not enough weight in actually making it good, because people have to pay for it before they get to actually decide if they like it they’ll make anything these days. <br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Now, either people just have bad taste or maybe I’m right. The way I see it is, we don’t pay money to try on clothes before we decide if they fit or if we even like the way they look, so why should we on anything else? Libraries exist, I don’t purchase the books before I read them, but if I want to add it to my collection I will go out and buy it. Why don’t we do the same thing for movies and music?<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Because the Government owns the Studios, they aren’t private studios. They will get money regardless if its any good or not because they charge to go to the movie theater or when you buy a cd, etc. If all information was free, which it should be; then people who deserve all or most of the credit for their efforts will be justly rewarded, while those that suck will just suck and disappear. <br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>For instance, I love Joss Whedon’s work, but his really good stuff gets the shaft, like Firefly didn’t even have one season because the Tv network decided it wasn’t popular enough, but it was popular enough to encourage a full length movie and have a ton of fans. But in order for Joss to know I appreciate him, what do I do? Besides buy his movies, shows, etc. Is there any other way to let him know that its his work I love? Not really, money is what speaks. That is why I love how youtube has rewarded people on its own merit. Those who can make it big on the internet don’t have any use for the Studios anymore. They can publish their own music, movies, videos on their own and get their own funding and be rewarded richly and fully. <br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Also, TV has no use anymore. Most TV channels put their shows on the internet, or there is Hulu, Netflix-you’d just have to wait for the season to come out on dvd. <br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>That pretty much sums up my thoughts for free media for now.Glorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-81916660970435778392012-05-11T21:42:00.000-07:002012-05-11T22:28:18.337-07:00Post-Pokemon Generation<h1 class="title">
The Post-Pokemon Generation</h1>
Errol Flynn action scenes are like pot. Relaxing, easy-going, kind of
silly. When George Lucas introduced us to the space fantasy of
cocaine, there was no turning back. The hypodermic needles we whored
ourselves out for since then have been numerous and tetanusy.
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Finally, the cinema industry has heaved like the great queen slug in
the slurm factory the most concentrated dose she can muster. The
secretions are so potent that we, like Phillip J. Fry, cannot tear our
selves from its sugary-pulpy goodness.
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Tim Burton is a genius. He had the great wisdom to mix the two most
commercialized sugar-high excuses into one glorious movie and put a
rather compelling twist on both. He gave our grocery store's
"seasonal" aisle names and faces too demented to forget.
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In the reflective piece of <i>The Nightmare Before Christmas</i>, we are
introduced to Jack, the pumpkin king, who is bored to depression by
the fact that his lifestyle of freely indulging his mischievous
impulses has become so routine.
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Like a drug addict who, after a long life of indulgence, starts to
feel numb all over. They require bigger and bigger doses until they
hit the limit.
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Movie action has pushed the envelope to the point where it catches
fire and gets pregnant with mutant alien fire babies.
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Yeah, I saw The Avengers. It was the most masterful methamphetamine
overdose to date.
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That movie was a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">rush</span>. I think if it had been released thirty years
ago, the viewers would've been foaming at the mouth, caught in a coma
because human brains had yet not been trained to consume that much
data all at once.
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The whole of humanity seems to have been preparing, stretching our eye
sockets so they could be safely gang-raped by that many over-the-top,
renditions of cataclysmic collateral damage.<br />
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Just like a good overdose, the 2.5 hours of flashing lights, perpetual
noise, masterfully-rendered quipiiness... the end result is me
feeling hollow inside.
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What am I supposed to think about this movie?
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This thought had been haunting me since 2003 when Ang Lee's
unfortunate work gave us little more than Jennifer Connelly wearing
too much clothing. It festered all through Toby Maguire's rendition
of the pre-Amazing Spiderman, and it has finally reached its fruition
today with Avengers.
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Action scenes in the modern comic book movie are much like the way
boys make believe; everything is larger than larger-than-life while
having a simultaneous triviality to them. What's more amazing than
catching a flying F-22 Raptor in your teeth? Not even caring about it
afterwards, that's what. And where do you go from there? Do it
again! That can't possibly get old!
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Like boys on the playground, this movie abuses orders of magnitude
only seconds before the abuse of infinity — which actually really
isn't infinite at all because they have no clue what that means… and
if they did know what it meant, then the game would be over and you
wouldn't get to keep fighting the bad guys. Thus, the power the enemy
wields is infinite but the power of the good guys is infiniter.
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What the hell is the point of winning if you can't lose? What's there
left to fight for if (spoiler alert for the hyper-sensitive) you can't
even die by shooting yourself in the head? Just about all other
pretense at conflict from then on just seems masturbatory.
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When I think about how terribly boring the literary side of The
Avengers is, it frustrates me because it's a pretty good movie with
some amazing imagery in it. They even managed to keep the camera
guy's epilepsy under control just long enough to show some of it! If
only the Bourne movies could say the same.
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I feel like Jack the Pumpkin King. It feels like I've been watching
the world (a world that its own prospective conquerors admit isn't really all that interesting but they just wanna conquer it anyway) in peril so much that I've stopped caring. Just like Jack,
I'm so bored with the same-old routine of watching New York (curiously always representative of the whole of civilization) teeter on the edge of doom that the
only way I'm going to be happy ever again is if I ruin Christmas.<br />
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The Avengers, while magical and epic times ten to the power of
infinity (but not really) is a net loss on the fun factor.Ishpeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06825418921052334722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-20898624011910172712011-10-05T22:17:00.000-07:002011-10-05T22:17:48.851-07:00Cars 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbGd5uou9KCggPz7h8Bc_sgORjNxs766DeFeP0Tw_iTT72fvRS4S-ss5H-tp-tlcZ8ZXKx2qJjAyv-ZKw7B10xEdbhMv778njX1eh4p4AHAjTq2qr_fpf6uYYX6paUk-cN7pCI5Z_fquNT/s1600/Cars_2_65.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbGd5uou9KCggPz7h8Bc_sgORjNxs766DeFeP0Tw_iTT72fvRS4S-ss5H-tp-tlcZ8ZXKx2qJjAyv-ZKw7B10xEdbhMv778njX1eh4p4AHAjTq2qr_fpf6uYYX6paUk-cN7pCI5Z_fquNT/s320/Cars_2_65.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I just took my 2 year old to see this movie. It was okay, mostly about Mator, which was fine, but way too adult oriented, and not as fun to watch as the first one. My 2 year old still enjoyed it, but it didn't seem to have the same feeling or appeal. I'm glad I waited till the dollar theater, not really worth much more. Ah, Pixar, why did you sell out to Disney. They don't care about art or the craft, only about making more money.</div>Glorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-27921235710649079752011-05-31T13:02:00.000-07:002011-05-31T13:02:40.763-07:00True Grit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqagTTCjHUntqBWs_LvI4HXRAIEOl6Kw1uDq9erKKZEPdmnh1gDDrcAqsWNKNfN0TGrjmyU5_xvAhBgKowpJZKvuuYosWUD_fpXjL-yRo-urQb0Rbl1CQtIJyYbD6EvOu3LUWWjFtfRUGR/s1600/True-Grit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqagTTCjHUntqBWs_LvI4HXRAIEOl6Kw1uDq9erKKZEPdmnh1gDDrcAqsWNKNfN0TGrjmyU5_xvAhBgKowpJZKvuuYosWUD_fpXjL-yRo-urQb0Rbl1CQtIJyYbD6EvOu3LUWWjFtfRUGR/s320/True-Grit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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While I love westerns, I only love good westerns. I'm just a cowgirl at heart :) <br />
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Anyway, I enjoyed this movie. It wasn't totally awesome, but it was a very well done movie and made me laugh and had enough action/non action to really make a good movie. I loved the characters, I loved the actors. It was a well worth movie to watch. So, if you like westerns as much as I do, you'll love this one! And who knew that Jeff Bridges could actually act? Not me. I couldn't understand him half of the time in the movie cause he was supposed to be a hard ass, smoker, old man, cowboy, but yeah. And also-Matt Damon-cowboy movie-who knew how hot that could be? True, he played a prideful, arrogant Texas Ranger, but after awhile his character starts to grow on you. I just loved the girl-Maddy, I think from the beginning she had fire, wit, smarts, and just in your face. She was awesome. <br />
Now go watch it!Glorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-32408894985758159182011-05-23T12:24:00.000-07:002011-05-23T12:24:16.792-07:00Clash of the Titans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZEaIOe5hbWa2j9HDEmAiq65VX0VroraLFVnmjJgbActPWiGNq6C43bNPLtP4vVpCDwrL20rWWRPom_taMmdUxLiKUc-P8APH4NLN54gkN53irQAAkLI583zl7zHjTHB4Pn4ru3ol5lt02/s1600/Clash_of_the_Titans_2010_wallpaper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZEaIOe5hbWa2j9HDEmAiq65VX0VroraLFVnmjJgbActPWiGNq6C43bNPLtP4vVpCDwrL20rWWRPom_taMmdUxLiKUc-P8APH4NLN54gkN53irQAAkLI583zl7zHjTHB4Pn4ru3ol5lt02/s320/Clash_of_the_Titans_2010_wallpaper.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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While way better than the old version it didn't follow Perseus' story to the T, but it was fun to watch and you should at least watch it once. I thought Medusa was the best part, and the Gin were pretty cool. I think Sam Worthington is starting to be type cast. Anyway, not much to say. If you've seen the older version you kind already know the story.Glorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-6160243297146299562011-05-10T13:17:00.000-07:002011-05-10T13:17:41.180-07:00Tron Legacy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN-zcQQHSZVKV7nsYj88vWakypu-CQ6h52iI7m7rAI5H2SgTC-a_CLJ7ZQIJUqu4r7OYnLgxGrTNIOG3k-0upfFacxIfiFNNpjwxNKJwXGkXP0DtKvmrwQPOWZ13SdCXD3NVlmc1erPMPw/s1600/tron_legacy_2010_movie-1280x1024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN-zcQQHSZVKV7nsYj88vWakypu-CQ6h52iI7m7rAI5H2SgTC-a_CLJ7ZQIJUqu4r7OYnLgxGrTNIOG3k-0upfFacxIfiFNNpjwxNKJwXGkXP0DtKvmrwQPOWZ13SdCXD3NVlmc1erPMPw/s320/tron_legacy_2010_movie-1280x1024.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Eh.<br />
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With the exact same plot and story as the first one it was nothing special. The only thing going for it were the pretty colors and the improvement on the graphics, but other than that the writing was horrible and it was just a bad remake or sequel whatever it is. <br />
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Blah.Glorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-23381193555242500922011-05-10T13:15:00.000-07:002011-05-10T13:15:47.303-07:00THOR<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieCi2tJj9pdqIqmnAr85eQLJaJpgCa8BvgxS2ZcYGYONZNM1L42Rk3IHxas18WqwmV925Y3uQFPZQYnJ_Ata_kXZFDirzYvpHLcJk9dfCh6ozbBsi0ufspYtBMQ9rNjOGylPUyuuni17ZM/s1600/thor04_1024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieCi2tJj9pdqIqmnAr85eQLJaJpgCa8BvgxS2ZcYGYONZNM1L42Rk3IHxas18WqwmV925Y3uQFPZQYnJ_Ata_kXZFDirzYvpHLcJk9dfCh6ozbBsi0ufspYtBMQ9rNjOGylPUyuuni17ZM/s320/thor04_1024.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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I loved it!! Its not necessary to see it in 3D, but we did. We missed the first little bit of the show-traffic was horrible. But, the action was cool, I liked the relationship between Thor and Natalie Portman's character. I thought the guy who played Thor did an excellent job! It was just all around good! I'd take my kids to see it it was that mild but also that exciting! It was just really fun to watch. <br />
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I never read the comic or even really knew about the story or the myths. But, I thought it was a great movie. Marvel comics did a great job with this one. I think they finally know how to make a good hero movie. Iron Man was good, but this one was more electrifying! :P I really recommend seeing this one at least once...or twice...or more.Glorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874183370656847105.post-20875718956441740822011-05-10T13:11:00.000-07:002011-05-10T13:11:17.647-07:00Breakfast at Tiffany's<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIfyMGJPr5hRcvUoqgCQN37zyVDneecd1cC2FATzEC9wHVowXG_ncDhM8DezhRSNUCJEfnLYyliTtaJ9kNeVmM_iV5dgQKC1t7ptTdwHxxj1jWEaP2UW9H_q_YaCqJ6Kbxq1ZaMbQvW3Gf/s1600/421964.1020.A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIfyMGJPr5hRcvUoqgCQN37zyVDneecd1cC2FATzEC9wHVowXG_ncDhM8DezhRSNUCJEfnLYyliTtaJ9kNeVmM_iV5dgQKC1t7ptTdwHxxj1jWEaP2UW9H_q_YaCqJ6Kbxq1ZaMbQvW3Gf/s320/421964.1020.A.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>All I can say is...WTF! Why is this show so popular? I was confused through the whole thing! This girl has emotional problems and identity issues and the only man who cares about her she doesn't give two cents to till the end. It was really weird to watch. Yeah.Glorious Sunrise Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142964094467579933noreply@blogger.com0