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24 February 2010
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009)
It’s been awhile since I read the collection of Wallace’s short stories, but I don’t remember being quite as appalled as I was by the film’s distillation of these short stories. In the book, they’re tempered by other stories and so maybe that’s why they seemed so awful in the movie, but the real destructive [...]
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8 February 2009
Save Me (2007)
This was a surprisingly good movie. Eugene and I have an ongoing journey to find good “gay” movies, and it often results in watching anything on Netflix that has more than an average of three stars in the gay and lesbian category. This unfortunately leads to watching some awful, awful stuff. So imagine the relief [...]
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13 January 2009
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Was there really a demand to see a remake of Batman & Robin? And when are people going to realize that computer animated blobs aren’t very interesting?
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9 January 2009
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
The trailer for this movie made it seem stupid, but in terms of parody it really is step ahead of things like The Naked Gun and Airplane, though not quite as funny as they are. And Zucker invites being shit upon after An American Carol, while I would be more apt to praise the self-loathing [...]
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5 January 2009
Death Proof (2007)
I had to turn it off. This whole hip meta-movie dialogue thing with a scratchy missing-frame type aesthetic? Okay, but no. Planet Terror did a much better job at reminiscing about this kind of thing. (I turned it off before Kurt Russell even showed up — did he have a monologue about Superman’s clothes?)
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4 January 2009
Planet Terror (2007)
People always said this was the good half. Was it because Quentin got a big stick in the eye? Or because his penis dribbled off like goo? Wow. I’ll never be able to unwatch that.
