Month: April 2007
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35 Going On 13
I can’t tell if I’ve lost any last shred of shame I was holding onto, or I’ve reached some kind of clarity that only comes from true maturity. Either way, I had no problem buying the latest Pokemon game last week. Common decency suggests I should’ve furtively taken it up to the register, hidden underneath…
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Everybody Wins
I can’t give out free copies of the Sam & Max games, but i can point you to the people who can. There’s a bunch of contests being run for a free copy of Season 1: Telltale’s own contest wants you to make with the arts and crafts Wired’s Game|Life blog is looking for a…
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House Arrest
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks locked inside my apartment, hunched over a keyboard and staring dumbly at the deadlines that keep flying by. I’ve got that sickly pallor back, I’m back on the sauce, my days and nights are completely reversed, the laundry and the dishes keep piling up, and even the cat…
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An Inconvenient Doofus
It’s an old and tired cliche that Hollywood producers are greedy, clueless, and artistically bankrupt, eager to cash in on something without really understanding it. But apparently it’s not enough of a cliche that there’s a standout example, at least there’s not one I can think of. When you think of gimmicky plot twists, you…
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By the Power of Grayskull!
From the Something Awful forums, here’s a link to a clip of a public access show broadcast in Atlanta, hosted by Alexyss Taylor and her mother. Notice a couple of things: it’s from the Something Awful forums, I haven’t mentioned the title of the show, and I’m not embedding it directly here. You know what…
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Too Hot for Television
Last night Fox aired the two-part pilot for its series “Drive”, with another episode tonight. It’s about an illegal cross-country Cannonball Run-style car race for 32 million dollars, where the racers are coerced into participating, spies hired by the race operators are everywhere, and death is one of the punishments for finishing last (presumably). It’s…
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Reel Missing
I got even more to say about Grindhouse. Cory made the point that people are trying to claim if you didn’t like Death Proof, you didn’t “get” it. You can see that in a lot of the internet reviews, and I’m sure if I had a job where I actually talked to people, I’d be…
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Grindhouse
Man, Grindhouse pissed me off. I knew as soon as I heard about it that this was a movie that’d have me shifting uncomfortably in my seat, but I thought it was going to be from the gore and cheap scares. Not out of annoyance. The “problem” was Quentin Tarantino’s half of the double feature,…
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I can’t stop it I don’t know how it works!
I watched Thank You For Smoking a few weeks ago, but I was so let down by the ending I didn’t know what to make of it. Surprisingly, the whole Don Imus scandal puts it into perspective. Thank You For Smoking plays out as a well-produced, well-performed, cleverly-written story that seems to be building up…
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One of Them
I think I missed the cut-off date for talking about this week’s episode of “Lost,” but it’s kind of difficult. For one thing, I feel guilty. Maybe I’m seeing something that’s not there, but it feels like the show’s in desperate-to-please mode, like a dog that’s been scolded for getting on the couch too many…
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Consumer breakdown
(WARNING: Yuppie-in-denial complaining follows. If you’re the type who’s offended by the petulant whining of the over-privileged, you’ll want to skip this post. And a couple of the next posts, too. For that matter, you probably want to skip this whole blog.) These past few months have been kind of a test of will power…
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SHODAN and Max
Maybe you’ve heard about Telltale’s Sam & Max games, and you’ve had your little mouse-clicker thing hovering over the “buy” button, but you’ve stopped yourself. “I’m tempted,” you say, “but I’m a strict adherent of post-modernism, and I would only play a game with self-referential humor about videogames and the burgeoning ‘internet’ phenomenon that all…