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p {text-align:justify} h3 {color:green} Well, there’s less than a week to the big night when we’ll get answers to some big questions, like: Will Smurf Hulk war trump the Iraq war? Will commercial success (The Blind Side) win over acting chops (Meryl Streep)? Will there be any suspense when announcing the Oscar for Best Performance [...]

Posted on March 2nd, 2010 by MrWiseguy
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p {text-align:justify}   District 9 was a good movie. It was better than it had any right to be, considering first time director Neil Bloomkamp and would you know it, first time actor Sharlto Copley(and no I won’t count the short they did earlier in 2005 since it’s just the prologue for their recent cinematic venture). [...]

Posted on September 11th, 2009 by MrWiseguy
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p {text-align:justify}    Yesterday I ran over this article called “The Creatures That Ate Hollywood”. It was a nice little walk down memory lane (not that much for me, but for Hollywood itself). Had everything from Moby Dick to Aliens vs. Predator. Though it wasn’t just Hollywood, it had some Japanese too, well sure, Godzilla [...]

Posted on November 24th, 2008 by MrWiseguy
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p {text-align: justify}   Well, it’s new, it’s a lot of fun, and totally unexpected: Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder. Once Flo Rida’s “Low” starts playing, I dare you not to laugh. G5..playa!!!   One more for Tom Cruise, this time along side Danny DeVito and Kevin Spacey in Austin Powers: Goldmember, as the movie versions of [...]

Posted on October 30th, 2008 by MrWiseguy
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Churning more and more movies each year, and hoping to tap in that wonderful game industry aficionados, Hollywood is pretty much going overboard with video game adaptations. After all, they are making The Sims into a movie. It’s basically like the game, except you don’t control all the characters. Wait, was that the only thing [...]

Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by MrWiseguy
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p{text-align:justify}    These days everybody has one, from little kids to little old ladies. From the tiniest piece of mobile technology to the iPhone, or just a regular cell, people just love them. Or rather adhere to the trend of having one. It’s more than just a fad these days and it does have its [...]

Posted on October 2nd, 2008 by MrWiseguy
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p {text-align: justify}   Basically you need a hero/heroine, some sort of plot, a climax and a moral. That’s the basis for most recipes as far as screenwriting goes. The problem is some do it better than others.    Sometimes it’s painful watching such movies. The moment you realize you can predict every major step along [...]

Posted on August 5th, 2008 by MrWiseguy
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