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For what it's worth, I don't consider Fone Bone a mainstream critic (which is not meant to belittle the publication he works for, just meant to imply I hold him in higher regard than that).
But Sean, I don't think it's just about Fone. You said that any critic who couldn't follow the film is a moron and, quote, "can't handle a movie that expects you to bring your brain along." I don't think that's a fair thing to say at all, let alone without seeing the movie.
Don't Look Back
What the music guy actually means is Don't Look Now.
You know, it just occurred to me that what we were led to believe about the end of The Ring could be entirely wrong. Rachael assumed that it was making a copy of the cursed videotape and showing it to someone else that saved her from the curse. But what if it was the fact that she was the one who tracked down Samara's story and retrieved her body from the well? Her burn mark faded when she was in the well, not earlier when she showed the videotape to Martin Henderson's character. What if the thing that spared her was a unique, irreproducible sequence of events and her creepy little boy still gets to be the recipient of Samara's GotchaVision broadcast?
I wish Surviving Christmas ranked a little more than 8% at Rotten Tomatoes. I swear the trailer looked funny.
Did anyone read the "review" of The Machinist in last week's EW? Didn't really discuss the movie, but instead took Bale to task for losing all that weight when there are hungry people in the world.
Very odd, and not at all relevant.
Dude, maybe some of those same hungry people benefited from all the food he wasn't eating during filming?
Did anyone read the "review" of The Machinist in last week's EW? Didn't really discuss the movie, but instead took Bale to task for losing all that weight when there are hungry people in the world.
Yeah. Their critics are usually pretty good, so I'm assuming that what it means is that the movie is so dull that it was the only thing the writer could find to say about it. Either that, or the writer has Issues.
What if the thing that spared her was a unique, irreproducible sequence of events and her creepy little boy still gets to be the recipient of Samara's GotchaVision broadcast?
Aaaaagh. Freaky.
instead took Bale to task for losing all that weight when there are hungry people in the world.
Oh, fer cryin' out loud.
Aaaaagh. Freaky.
Yeah. I know if I were in her shoes, we would've left on a family excursion scheduled so that Samara would have to drag her clammy ass several hundred miles from the nearest television screen on Day 7.
I wish Surviving Christmas ranked a little more than 8% at Rotten Tomatoes. I swear the trailer looked funny.
One of my co-workers saw it last night and said it was really awful. My response of "But it has James Gandolfini hitting Ben Affleck with a shovel!" was met with blank stares from all but one person.
Who was the EW Machinist critic, btw? I haven't read the review yet, but I'm curious.
My response of "But it has James Gandolfini hitting Ben Affleck with a shovel!"
That's my entire reason for wanting to see it, I think. I'm shocked to see how much it's reviled. The trailer has some mildly funny bits, and that comedy gold.