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People often say that things were simpler back then. It doesn’t matter when in time back then was, when a person says it or when that person was born, it was always simpler back then; Maybe they’re right and things have just always been heading toward some kind of complicated singularity, but I strongly believe that these people are wrong. Old people usually are. Things, generally, have been getting simpler and simpler with time, thanks…
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It might be hard to believe, but the uptight movie geek that I am doesn’t hate all movies that involve time travel. I mean, time travel does turn my try-to-find-plot-holes dial to eleven, but I’m much more forgiving than I usually am (or even should be) when I notice time-related oddities. Nobody can get time travel right, so I might as well just enjoy just how wrong it can get. And it’s a good thing,…
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Every time I watch The Matrix: Reloaded, I like it more. It doesn’t mean much (and I know I use that phrasing a lot), because after seeing it for the first time in theatres I spent weeks putting my head around microwave ovens trying to erase it from my brain, but I think, with time, I learned to appreciate it for what it is. There’s also the fact that, at first, I had to compare it to the first Matrix…
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With the recent release of Taken 2, a movie which I have no intention of ever seeing, I decided to do some introspection and think about why I even liked the first movie. I liked it when it came out, I still like it when I watch it again, I’ll probably like it the next time I see it, but for the life of me I don’t know why. I’ve always had a soft spot…
Read MoreI should probably start by saying that I liked “The Cabin in the Woods” a lot more than I thought I would. I expected it to make me want to kill myself, so it doesn’t necessarily mean much, but I was pleasantly surprised. I usually hate Joss Whedon, but I have to admit a lot of that hatred comes from having been more or less forced to watch the entirety of the “Buffy” series by…
Read MoreI have very strong opinions about movies. I really like cinema as a medium, so every bad movie is, to me, a wasted opportunity that deserves every bit of ire I can give it. It also helps that I feel like I “get” movies. I don’t “get” books as well as I “get” movies. I can watch and appreciate “Citizen Kane”, “The Godfather” or “Gone With the Wind”, but I just can’t get through “The Karamazov Brothers”. One…
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