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what a way to start the summer season! i was completely blown away by this. as soon as the credits rolled i was tugging on
hubby's sleeve, asking "can we come back to see this again?" downey is predictably great as, well, robert downey jr with more money and a genius brain, and gwyneth was nicely understated as the horribly-named pepper pots. an unrecognizable jeff bridges was appropriately evil as stane, and terrence howard was good but underused - i really hope they bring him back in sequels as war monger.
if you haven't seen it yet, do yourself a favor and STAY THROUGH THE CREDITS. i promise, you won't be disappointed.
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it's loud, it's psychedelic, the dialogue is a bit corny - hey, it's a kid's movie! but it looks and feels just like the cartoon, including a couple of pitch-perfect shots and a really lovely use of the theme song in one memorable scene (which helped slightly to make up for the really wretched cover of the theme song that plays under the credits). if i had kids i'd much rather be watching this than any one of the hundreds of bland "family-friendly" moral tales that come out each year. bonus: as an adult, if you know anything about the wachowskis, you can spend the movie spotting fetishes!
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Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
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one word - BORING. so long, so slow, so poorly paced... i was very disappointed, and i didn't even love the first one so i wasn't expecting that much. way too much expository dialogue, the religious angle was VERY heavy-handed, and poor special effects combined to make this feel very cheesy and uninteresting.
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Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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ok, ok, i know - it's not 'raiders'. but it was still a heck of a lot of fun to watch. ford is in top form, blanchett is predictably awesome, leboeuf is predictably annoying, and the chase scenes are great fun. buy some popcorn, sit back, and just enjoy.
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Coming Soon: Hellboy 2, Wall-E
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hubby and i started this last night, and of course it is awesome. i expected awesome, and i totally got it. i'll take lego anything, seriously, i want every lego game on every console EVER.
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this might be the cutest game ever. it's sort of what i had hoped boom blox would be, and actually i think it would do well on the wii with the motion-sensing and the screen turning whatnot.
i'm only a couple of levels in but i cannot wait to play it again!
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On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness (Mac)
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there is some weird bug in my copy that is preventing me from getting through the first fight. i can't engage the fruit fuckers at all, and if i go past them i get dragged into the conversation with the cat, and the cat bumps me to the fruit fuckers fight, where my character is entirely off-screen, making the fight impossible for me to win.
update: greenhouse kindly (and quickly) responded to my plea for help and i re-downloaded with a patch to stop the aforementioned bug. now i'm happily killing fruit-fuckers left and right, although i'm still having trouble trouble getting the blocking mechanism worked out.
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i just downloaded this and started playing last night. it was a little frustrating figuring out the controls but i'm wondering if that has more to do with my wii setup than the actual game...
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ok here is a game i can get behind! the levels rock, the characters are cute, and it's truly anyone's race until you hit the finish line. makes for great fun at the office.
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Coming Soon: Chibi Robo (DS), Roogoo (XBox Live)
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NES, Super NES, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii, DS Lite
Yeah, I like Nintendo. So what?
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it's true! i've gone over to the dark side! a dedicated wii fanboy all my life, hubby recently bought the PS3 and PSP and, i have to say, i love them both. the PS3 gets my vote because it's the only console that makes NO NOISE WHATSOEVER when it's on.
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A side-scrolling platform that was (a) claymation and (b) actually kind of hard! Also, it has the best soundtrack EVER. And, just in case you want to know, it's not pronounced "school-monkeys".
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speak up if you remember this game! i used to play it all the time on my little macintosh II desktop computer. *awesome* sound effects.
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duh!
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A great blog about all things entertainment-related. It gets updated at least 5 or 6 times a day, so I can check back periodically for updates.
Pop Candy
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Fills my insatiable need to look at other people's poor fashion choices.
GoFugYourself.com
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An awesome sci-fi web comic.
Starslip Crisis
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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My homepage and the one site I MUST check out every day.
APoD
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a new recipe just about every day.
Simply Recipes
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a foodie blog i just found recently. filled with great recipes and a ton of really beautiful photographs of food. yum!
Smitten Kitchen
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The Whimper of Whipped Dogs
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by Harlan Ellison
The truth about Kitty Genovese.
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by Theodore Sturgeon
One should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.
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The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World
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by Philip Jose Farmer
In the 35th century, Earth is so crowded that people live only one day per week, spending the other six "stoned," in stasis capsules.
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by Stephen Gould
Bruce lives on the outside of a skyscraper - him and many others - on account of not being able to live inside.
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by Orson Scott Card
A story about no matter how much you take music away from a man driven, you cannot take the man away from music.
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"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
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by Harlan Ellison
A twentieth-century cautionary tale of mechanical tyranny.
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by Connie Willis
In a near-future eco-shambles, mutating viruses have wiped out a lot of the canine population, the roads are jammed with huge water tankers but little other traffic, and the huge RV's are an endangered species .
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by Harlan Ellison
An image of reverence for the parts of childhood that were joyous and free of pain.
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Books I Love (a short list in no particular order):
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by Mary Stewart
The true story of Merlin and Arthur. Read it in front of a roaring fireplace in the dead of winter - you won't regret it.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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by Ray Bradbury
Step inside - the dark carnival is about to begin.
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by Jasper Fforde
The Eyre Affair
Lost in a Good Book
The Well of Lost Plots
Something Rotten
Pirouetting on the boundaries between sci-fi, the crime thriller and intertextual whimsy - for literature lovers only!
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by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Summer Tree
The Wandering Fire
The Darkest Road
An epic tale full of darkest darks and brightest glories, magnificent sacrifices and terrifying victories.
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by Philip Pullman
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
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by Neal Stephenson
or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
A charismatic scholar of ancient history and a troubled young nobleman come together to uncover their city's mythic past.
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The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
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by J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The classic epic fantasy tale of good versus evil.
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by Harlan Ellison
A pantheon of modern gods.
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by Ashok K. Banker
The Ramayana written in fantasy-novel style.
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by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Fascinating new neighbors, bug-eyed monsters, or both?
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by Peter S. Beagle
A unicorn goes on a quest to discover if she is really the last of her kind.
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by Robert Heinlein
The classic tale of a human raised by Martians.
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by Mike Shepherd
Mutineer
Defiant
Deserter
Resolute
Kris Longknife was born to power and privilege. Against her parent’s wishes, she enlists in the Navy. Adventures ensue :)
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by Juliet Marillier
A tale of viking adventure and Pictish magic.
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by Lian Hearn
Across the Nightengale Floor
Grass for His Pillow
Brilliance of the Moon
The Harsh Cry of the Heron
A magical tale of life and death in feudal Japan. Best read on hot summer afternoons.
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by Arthur C. Clarke
“The opinions expressed in this book are not those of the author”
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by Alexandre Dumas
The ultimate tale of love, betrayal, and revenge.
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Magic Kingdom for Sale -- SOLD!
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by Terry Brooks
The first and best of the Landover novels.
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by Max Barry
Welcome to paradise! The world is run by American corporations (except for a few deluded holdouts like the French); taxes are illegal; employees take the last names of the companies they work for; the Police and the NRA are publicly-traded security firms; and the U.S. government only investigates crimes it can bill for.
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by Matt Ruff
Love and death, good and evil, magic and bohemians, writers and dragon-slayers, all come together on Cornell's campus.
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The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life
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by Jane Wagner
A stage play written as a one-woman show for Lily Tomlin. Utterly, utterly brilliant.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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by Philip K. Dick
If you can't get the gist of the book from the title, don't bother reading it.
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Or maybe the next tournament could BE mind reading! You're thinking this is a good idea?
I've seen it twice already! IT WAS SO GOOD.
Wall E is awsome!!! Battlefront is good. It's great on multi player. I wish COD4 would come out for psp
Aw man, that is an awkward situation! Well I guess it's his own fault for not just immediately crying after the loss so that everyone knew it! You're not a mind reader!
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It was great to meet you too! Thanks for interviewing me, even if I did forget the name of the song, which was "Rock You Like a Hurricane." Ah well, there goes my 15 minutes!
yes cloverfield is one scary ass film and tom cruise did f up wotw. would make a great game though (sorry for sayin wotw game).
loyalsock is a small town. its in williamsport pennsylvania. ya
thanks for the add.
I made a profile and added you! I have the same problem. I can only remember books I've read in like the last 2 years.
I just went to Good Reads through your profile. Great. Another thing for me to be addicted to.
I just told the boy that you were a big fan of the Tiny Toons Particle Man video. I remember you and your sister singing it together from a very very long time ago...
I don't read much DC, but i do enjoy reading Batman. I'm sure you read the Killing Joke by now, and Hush. If not, read them, they are great stories. Jim Lee's art in Hush is (as always) amazing.
I am a Marvel guy. Captain America, Avengers, Iron Man... I don't like the X-Men, never really got into them.
I've been reading Y-The last man lately. It a good book, but i think it got a lil too much hype. But, its not over (for me that is, I"m only half done the series) so it could get better.
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dangerous..yes. but danger is my middle name.
I know HTML..but last time I used it to embed something here it didn't work..then I tried BBC, and that didn't work.
Kiteboarding is...using a giant kite to propel you on miscellaneous boards..be it snowboards in winter, surfboards in summer, or any other vehicle. Its fun..I promise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpjEopb2aLU
I wish I was cool and knew how to embed the video. But, that is kiteboarding. :)
Hey, what did you think of Iron man?
Totaly kick ass!
hello i thought you meant about any posts. And i dont know i am into all types of games. WHat are you into. P.s. post me when you get on ima be on more
Hooray Comics and More employees! Mr. Jackson is a truly lovable person!