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 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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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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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 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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