I had a dream last night that my friend Donald and I enrolled in an acting class that was meant to teach us how to be iconic movie douchebags. It was taught by the blond bully from The Karate Kid, William Zabka, who also played the douchebag in other great 80s films, like Back to [...]
Archive for June, 2011
Knight and Day
June 23rd, 2011
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Knight and Day Knight and Day is the sort of film about which it’s more or less pointless to write a review, because I doubt anybody at this point is still on the fence about whether or not to see it. And nothing I intend to say will change your mind in the slightest if [...]
Slowly Walking Away from a Giant Explosion, Revisited
June 15th, 2011
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A while back, I asked the question about the first example in film of a person walking slowly away from a giant explosion. Almost a year later, I discover this video: This isn’t really the best of these musical sketches that Andy Sandberg does, but what I do like about this is all of the [...]
Red Hulk killed who now?
June 10th, 2011
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I haven’t read mainstream comics in a number of years now, and I’ve never really been a fan of the Hulk books. But while I was being super productive today (/sarcasm), I learned through a Google search that Uatu–my boy, the Watcher–apparently got knocked out cold by the Red Hulk. This is not nearly the [...]
The Sims
June 6th, 2011
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Just a random thought, but isn’t it a bit embarrassing at this point how badly EA has milked the Sims franchise? I’m too lazy to go find out how many expansion packs there have been, but it seems as though they’ve got a new one available every other month. Who’s really buying these things at [...]
Age of Conan Going Free-to-Play
June 3rd, 2011
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Following up on the comments thread from the last post, I just discovered that Age of Conan is going free-to-play this summer, so it might be worth having a look. It IS a fun game, though maybe I’ve overstated things saying it was better than WoW half a year after their respective launches. It sounds [...]
