Quantifying my Movie-Watching

Through the magic of programming languages, I can tell you exactly how addicted to films I am: 64.4%. Translation: I have seen 64.4% of the movies on the IMDB Top 250 list, which sounds about right as I never could make it through “The Seven Samurai”. Maybe next time!

Anyway, compare your lives to mine, then kill yourselves. Do it now!

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Vendar

By Vendar
December 16th, 2008

If you believe they put a Nazi on the moon

Nazi on the moon.

Speaking of non-historical Nazi pictures, why not Nazi Zombies?

If only Tom Cruise had been able to kill Hitler, we wouldn’t be facing these dual threats.

Oh, and yes, Star Trek has already covered the Nazis), in case you were curious.

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Vendar

By Vendar
December 16th, 2008

Reasons not to watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

1. It has Brad Pitt in it
2. It has a really stupid name
3. It has Brad Pitt doing a stupid fake southern accent in it
4. I have to “click to download” something to watch the trailer (which i don’t want to watch)
5. The old/young version of Brad Pitt is incredibly creepy and unnerving, in a bad way
6. It appears to contain one of the stupid/boring romantic encounters that Changed Everything, that I hate so much
7. A movie with Brad Pitt in it opening on Christmas is liable to ruin Christmas
8. Tagline: “Life isn’t measured in minutes, but in moments.” I literally gagged
9. A movie with Brad Pitt in it that also contains Cate Blanchett is liable to ruin Cate Blanchett
10. It just looks stupid and ridiculous and soppy and pointless and represents everything inane about American popular culture and it makes me sad just thinking about it

You don’t want to make me sad at Christmas time, do you?

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Angry Teti

By Angry Teti
December 4th, 2008

Fringe: Meeting Mr. Jones

So there’s this new show called Fringe! At least I guess it’s new. Since I might as well be living under a rock, I’m not really sure. But it still seems to be in its first season, at least.
I am watching the episode “In Which We Meet Mr. Jones,” without having previously watched all the […]

Read on at your own risk ... spoilers abound »

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***½½
Angry Teti

By Angry Teti
November 17th, 2008

Watchmen!

A brand freaking new trailer. Love the use of both Philip Glass and Muse on the soundtrack.

How excited are you about this? I’ll answer that for you: very.

Via here and (of course) here.

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Vendar

By Vendar
November 14th, 2008

A-hahahaha

So I watched this and for the first half I was like “yeah, this is pretty amusing.” Then the pipe wrench fight happened.

As it turns out, I didn’t remember much from the original video, which made the re-interpretation of it all the better.

Via kottke, mefi

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Vendar

By Vendar
October 7th, 2008

No vaccine can stop this viral marketing

Vendar

By Vendar
September 23rd, 2008

Die Verwandlung

I hate to say it but…I think one of my former favorite time-wasters, Television Without Pity is getting kind of lame.

I started to get a Bad Feeling™ about it when it was acquired by some cable network that I know nothing about. Now, it seems to be owned by NBC in some way. I find that 30 Rock can be humorous about this uncomfortable situation, but it seems TWOP can’t.

I knew the situation was dire when I was trying to watch one of their little video offerings, and my mind kept wandering back to the work I was supposed to be doing instead of watching TWOP.

Now, it’s possible that I’m just getting too old to Get It, but on the other hand, I’m about the same age as the people who do TWOP. So maybe they’re getting too old. In which case we should understand each other pretty well, something like this:

TWOP: Hey, remember Trapper Keepers?

AT: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Alas, how things change. Maybe now creating class activities centered on original historic documents will become my time-waster, and reading about television will somehow become my job. And the transformation will be complete.

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Angry Teti

By Angry Teti
August 27th, 2008

Dark Knight II?

So I’ve always wondered what rejected scripts of popular movies were like.  Apparently here’s one from Dark Knight that was submitted by Michael Bay:

http://my.spill.com/profiles/blog/show?id=947994%3ABlogPost%3A355506

Enjoy.

P.S.  In case you’re wondering, I’m not serious.

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Exoder

By Exoder
August 21st, 2008

Garfield Minus Garfield Plus a Book Deal

One of my regular webcomic reads, Garfield Minus Garfield, just signed a book deal. What I really find cool is that Jim Davis is entirely onboard with it, when he could have just as easily gotten all lawsuit-y.

I don’t know what the general trend is, but it seems like more than a few comic authors have a good sense of humor about their strips. Check out this entry from the Sally Forth author’s blog, along with the resulting awesomeness (scroll to the bottom of the entry). And of course, it’s a well-documented fact that Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, is awesome (no specific entry in mind… just a generally excellent blog).

So I guess that’s three authors. And we’ll count Bill Watterson and Gary Larson, too, because they must be awesome. Right?

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Vendar

By Vendar
July 31st, 2008

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