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Everything Old is New

July 9th, 2009 by Mark · 1 Comment · Movies

Hollywood is out of ideas. See, e.g., here, here, and here,. How many more movie remakes of bad 1970′s and 1980′s TV shows can we stand? How many cartoons must be redone in CGI before we stop throwing money at them? The love of irony that partially defines Generations X and Y are causing the [...]

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Ways in which the three most recent Star Wars movies are like the Bernie Madoff scandal

December 13th, 2008 by Mark · 1 Comment · Movies

- People assumed, erroneously, that the people in charge knew what they were doing. – They both cost a lot of money and depressed me. – Steven Speilberg was embarassed to be associated with both. – The axiom, “Past performance is no indication of future success,” was proven true. – Jar Jar Bink did not [...]

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