Bizarre yet insightful Star Wars criticism

Someone at my office sent around a link to this epic, 7-part YouTube 'review' of The Phantom Menace . It's a strange beast. On the one hand, full of insightful and devastating criticism. On the other hand, delivered 'humorously' in the character of a mumbling aging fanboy who has trouble pronouncing long words, and who is incidentally a psychotic serial killer. At any rate, I found it strangely ...

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10 Top 10s Part 5: Biopics

...personal. Adaptation is a great film every writer, aspiring or practicing, should see. It's dark, insightful, and sympathetic. Afterwards, look for the 2003 horror film Identity, and roll in the delicious irony.... dedicated process, and the crazy nature of theatre actors. On a sour note, the film does feature Zac Efron extensively. He's probably trying to show his acting talents, but really, all he ...

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"Within" Part 9 of 9: Finale

... tennis like a ballet dancer, he speaks four languages and is fluent in all, he's intelligent and insightful, he can be bitchy, he's stunningly handsome when the light catching him right, he's got a ... an acquaintance and a rival. But he's still been there, ten months of the year, a constant feature in my life. Now, with my retirement, that quiet satisfaction of just having him around will be over. ...

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10 Top 10s Part 4: Animation

... plot's recycled a tad from Toy Story, but its entertaining enough to stand on its own. It does feature Billie Rae Cyrus Jr, but only for, like, 15 minutes. It was executive meddling, anyways (she sings... government. And this is a kids movie. This is far and away one of the smartest, tasteful and insightful movies of the decade, and I'm still confused how The Reader got the best picture nom over it....

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Top Fifty Films of the 00s -- Number Seven

... empathetic, knowing and kind, even as the characters make woefully misguided decisions. It extracts insightful, inspired comedy from the dull ache of underachievement, the sense that building a better life...shift toward something more hopeful at the end all the more satisfying. Ever since his feature debut, the scathing and hysterical abortion comedy Citizen Ruth , Alexander Payne has gotten more...

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Midnight Sun: Chapter 2 - Open Book

... them." Stepheniemeyer.com Aside from it being the same boring laundry list of every single physical feature that indicates someone who has spent all together too much time obsessing over their own creation, ...unique and special Bella/SMeyer is, although he does manage to make a surprisingly and accidentally insightful comment about himself: “ I did not truly have a life . ” Hear, hear. Then ...

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Cassavetes, Gilroy, Jarrold, Martin, Park

...the two leads with ample opportunity to show how movie star charisma can be mixed with shrewdly insightful acting to build great performances. Roberts is especially good, dashing off her lines with spirited ... familiar song. Brideshead Revisited (Julian Jarrold, 2008). How strange that this is the first feature film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel , a tome firmly entrenched in the canon ...

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Reviews for Saturday, December 5, 2009

...that Tolkien did not get to flesh out Eldarion at all so it's a treat to read stories that feature him. Title: Changing Lights · Author: Elleth · Times: First Age and Prior: House of Finwe · ID: ..., but maybe they should...). But these objects are just the point of entry for subtle commentary and insightful glimpses into the thoughts and feelings of Gandalf. This is nearly a poem, so spare and so ...

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Chapter 131 Mirror Part 2

... something on the radio that caught his attention and his intuition told him that Diva's show could be insightful. He didn't agree with everything that she'd said, but there was enough in there that made him..., Basil noted. Since he'd taken to wearing mirrored sunglasses, he'd hidden away his most recognizable feature while showing more of his face. It was a different kind of mask, but he was still ...

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A couple of interviews with Carla Gugino and Sebastian Gutierrez

... of Holly, who still manages flashes of insightful clarity, even after being hit repeatedly by moving ... complex, but the women are just oddly insightful into us, you know? [to Sebastian] And you are oddly insightful into us, which is scary and great ... Q&A, this short grew into a feature film, Women in Trouble, which opened at ... it grow from a short to a feature? Once I started assembling a crew and ...

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