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Grizzly Man

Grizzly Man is a documentary about a guy who really loved bears and then one ate him, and the guy was so retardedly hilarious that I was sure that it was fake. That plus Werner Herzog directed it and he did that fake-umentary about Loch Ness? I even went home and researched the story, and…

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Last Days

Last Days was designed to torture me. As a native Seattleite who was an impressionable teenager during the grunge movement and who owns most Nirvana recordings available to the public, I was stoked for months prior to its release. Gus Van Sant’s most recent film, Elephant (about the Columbine incident), was brilliant, and although this…

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Do Your Worst

We went to see The Aviator and it was the most suffering that I’ve gone through in a long time. Or ever. It was a weekend matinee, and the theater was about half full, so my mind began to wriggle out of control right away when a woman sat down right next to me. The…

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Gunner Palace

OK, you can’t deny that a documentary about a company of American soldiers squatting in Uday Hussein’s bombed-out palace sounds freaking awesome. That’s why I went. They’re playing the electric guitar and stuff, in the trailer? And having pool parties? It’s like anarchy over there! Then, one soldier’s rapping about how “We live in this…

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Hitch or Miss

Hitch looks bad. You see the trailer in the theater and you roll your eyes as far back in your as they’ll go, and you elbow your boy/girl/friend and say, “Gosh, a movie about Will Smith and Eva Mendes, and they’re playing “Now That We Found Love” by Heavy D and the Boys? I wonder…

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