January 2011
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Is Bigger Really Better?
I just want to put this out there so when the time comes that the entire world finally agrees with me, nobody can say that I didn’t think of this first. So you know how polar bears, various rain forest beasts, and certain species of cats are falling extinct due to global warming, encroaching human civilizations, and inexhaustible Asian appetites? The media tries to bring attention to these...
“I traded Mr. Miyagi my last bottle of water for a fish. We worked it out caveman...”
– Sawyer
Facebook Foreshadow
Ever since I watched the Social Network, I predicted that it would win big at the Academy Awards Show. As the month rolled by, another best picture contender would fill a slot right next to my horse. I nodded respectfully for the Black Swan after viewing it. It’s no surprise that my heart and my eyes welled up all through the touching Toy Story III. The Town brought back some positive...
“I’ve looked into the eye of this island. And what I saw was beautiful.”
– Locke
An Attempt to Define Music
Music is a color that cannot be seen and yet it paints you from the inside out. It is the only drug that you cannot overdose on. Music is man’s metaphorical tower of Babel to the heavens. It is the battery to the human system. It is Mardi Gras between your ears. It is a comforter when you have no one else. Music is the whip and we are the helpless slaves. If you deny this, then you deny every...
Jungle Fever
Today I had the sudden urge to read the Tarzan chronicles. And I mean the legit ones by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I already read The Jungle Book a few summers ago. And it was very entertaining and heart wrenching at the same time (a particular lovable father figure dies. Along with various other coming of age themes.) I could check Tarzan out from the library, but I already have a $12 fine so I...
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Oscar - he's not just a monster
Hi. My name is Coco, and I’m a movie addict.
When I was about 12 years old, I was sitting at home by myself with a television that had about six hundred channels. Preteen Paradise right? Yeah well that would be so, except absolutely nothing was on that night. That night I sat in front of the TV set like a freakin’ zombie, flipping channels. No Degrassi, Digimon, Radio Free Roscoe, or...
“Is Little Red Riding Hood going to follow the Wolf back to his stash o’...”
– Sawyer
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“If you say ‘live together, die alone’ one more time, Jack, I’m...”
– Rose
Die Antworten Liegen in Deutschland
“We are not alone”. These words stood on a poster on the wall of a typical high school classroom above a picture of the world globe. However the only landmass present was the United States. I silently smile at the poster’s subtle sarcasm that seemed to illuminate a negative stereotype of the American mindset. Simultaneously, the poster triggered a memory from two years ago when I had the...
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Why Does Everything Look Cooler in Slow Motion?
Has anyone noticed how pathetically obsessed movie makers are with slow motion detail? Name one action/adventure film you’ve seen in the last decade that didn’t have at least three slow-mo sequences? Any takers…..? I didn’t think so. In my eyes, slow motion is simply a tool of emphasis. Like a pause in literature. Or repetition in poetry. Movie directors are just trying...
“Let’s look death in the face and say, Whatever Man”
– Hugo (Hurley) Reyes
“Let’s look death in the face and say, Whatever Man”
– Hugo (Hurley) Reyes
Please Pass the Salt
The action thriller, Salt is an hour and a half about the CIA chasing Angelina Jolie around on the notion that she might be a Russian spy. The entire time, she pleads innocence while simultaneously leaping onto accelerating vehicles, scaling the sides of expensive, European style apartments, and breaking out of a CIA institute during a lockdown. And this leaves the audience with a question: Why in...
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The Loophole
If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s people who try to figure out easier ways to solve the conflict in movies. You know, the ones who go, “Why couldn’t he just blah, blah, blah.” Or “That character could have avoided dying if they had just blah, blah.” And because they think they came up with a better solution, they mark the movie as lame or...
The Loophole
If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s people who try to figure out easier ways to solve the conflict in movies. You know, the ones who go, “Why couldn’t he just blah, blah, blah.” Or “That character could have avoided dying if they had just blah, blah.” And because they think they came up with a better solution, they mark the movie as lame or...
An Apple a Day....
Today I read that Steve Jobs is taking a leave of absence from the Apple office in order to fully recover surgery on his pancreas. It just so happens that this is right around the time when the Apple company is experiencing increased competition with Samsung and Verizon. The report repeatedly commented on how frail Mr. Jobs has appeared in public. Then it introduced a menu of statistics stating...
An Apple a Day....
Today I read that Steve Jobs is taking a leave of absence from the Apple office in order to fully recover surgery on his pancreas. It just so happens that this is right around the time when the Apple company is experiencing increased competition with Samsung and Verizon. The report repeatedly commented on how frail Mr. Jobs has appeared in public. Then it introduced a menu of statistics stating...
“To thine own self, be true”
– William Shakespeare