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THE QUESTION REMAINS – IS OUR CHILDREN LEARNING?

October 27th, 2003 | by Tom
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THE QUESTION REMAINS – IS OUR CHILDREN LEARNING?

Did everyone remember to set their clocks back an hour? Remember, it’s that time of year where we “fall back” into fall! Ugh.

It’d been a while since I had done one of these. I thought it would be funny to do something a little more random – especially since I could think of nothing to spoof.

I didn’t get a chance to see Scary Movie 3 this weekend, but I guess the producers aren’t missing my absence. Did you hear this movie pulled in nearly $50 million this weekend? That’s a pretty obscene amount of money for a toss-off film like this one. For what it’s worth, I don’t think they’re lining up around the block for Eddie Griffin.

I was able to sneak in watching both Cube and Identity this weekend – two films I rented last Sunday and needed to put away before I got caught in a situation similar to the second panel of today’s comic.

I thought Cube was an interesting premise, but a little thin on plot to stretch out over the span of a feature-length movie. There’s a lot of math in this movie, too. This is usually a turn off for me (re: A Beautiful Mind). But with all the calculations of prime numbers and permutations, I found myself intrigued. I also liked the “Big Brother is a vapor” overtones of the movie and the suggestion that the creation of the cube was essentially the work of idle hands.

Apparently there is a sequel to Cube called Hypercube and it takes place in another six-sided deathtrap that introduces the 4th dimension into its catalog of lethal traps. Sounds complicated. I guess they’re working on a prequel to the series called Cube-Zero, which explains the origins of the cube. Bad idea. Half the fun of the original was just trying to figure out what the hell is going on!

Identity was a good flick. It had a very fun twist at the end. Not as violent or scary as I thought. It was really more suspenseful – a good mystery. The ending wraps things up fairly quickly, but it’s a fun ride. If you like John Cusack in the rain, this movie features him dry in maybe one or two scenes.

I forgot to mention last week that Jared and I watched a bootleg copy of the Japanese film Battle Royale. He picked up his copy at the Minnesota FallCon we attended not long ago. What a screwed up movie.

I guess the popular myth is that this film was banned in America due to its extreme violence and residual Columbine wariness due to the film’s concept – kids killing kids on a deserted island until only one is left. In truth, the production company, Toei, refuses to license the movie for North American distribution and has already rejected offers from several North American companies. Thanks, Toei.

The movie’s violence really isn’t that shocking. Well, at least it’s not any more graphic than anything you would see in Kill Bill. I think what’s disturbing about it is trying to figure out how you would react in that situation. Would you try to survive? Would you freak out and commit suicide like some of the students in the film? What are your odds of making it? It’s like looking at a room of your friends and trying to figure out if you could take them in a fight.

Anyway, that’s been my movie-watching schedule as of late.

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└ Tags: Darth Vader, Daylight Savings Time, late fees, Luke Skywalker, spoilers, Things That Annoy Movie Fans
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MUCHISIMO MOVIES

October 27th, 2003 | by Nick
Posted In: Blog

Last weekend was nothing short of a movie-watching frenzy for my wife and me. On Friday, we saw School of Rock which she kept calling School House Rock. However you’d like to refer to it, it was good. It’s refreshing to know that Richard Linklater can make another fun movie after such heady fare as Waking Life. Not that I didn’t like that movie, it’s just that I get migraines whenever I think about it.

On Saturday, we saw Intolerable Cruelty. Although I liked it, I stopped thinking about it by the time I got home. The movie was full of close-ups of George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones. Their beauty only reminded us in the audience how unattractive we really are, except my wife; she’s hot.

Saturday nights are meant for parties, bar mitzvahs, and discos. So of course it would make sense that we watched Philadelphia. The movie was an early birthday gift from my mother-in-law. I’m not exactly sure what it is about me that made her think of Philadelphia, but it was a very sweet gesture and she’s one of the sweetest people I know. The movie made me want to buy those action figures that they advertised on SNL. Where can I get those?

And yesterday we saw Kill Bill. Tom’s description did it justice so I won’t go into it. I just want to say that I’m glad Erin, the love of my life, is cool enough to see that movie with me. Not only that, she didn’t want to leave in the middle, when the going got bloody, like the female half of the couple next to us did. Yes, I picked a good one.

└ Tags: Catherine Zeta Jones, George Clooney, Intolerable Cruelty, Kill Bill, Nick, Philadelphia, Richard Linklater, School of Rock, Waking Life
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SLAPS FOREHEAD

October 27th, 2003 | by Tom
Posted In: Blog

Guess who totally forgot to name check our most recent sponsor last Friday. If you guessed Tom Brazelton, you’d be right.

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└ Tags: Least I Could Do, Quad Boy Presents: Rants of a Madman, sponsor
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