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Ronk
saucy Scott Pilgrim fanfic
Joined: 29 Dec 2008
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i mean i had hope mostly because i was reminded of Spaced when reading the books so it felt like a natural choice
kind of sums up most of my thoughts
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Dracko
a sapphist fool
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 2:14 pm |
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Scott Pilgrim vs. Your Face
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| It's supposed to be a coming-of-age story as told within the context of an arcade game, but it can only make one statement to that end: fifteen years ago, you were much younger than you are now, and you played video games that were much less sophisticated than they are now. Struggling to articulate the synchronicity between youthful immaturity and pixilated graphics, Scott Pilgrim defaults to hipster detachment--so endlessly amused by its central metaphor (the difficulties of life and romance re-imagined as a linear, Capcom-esque fighting tournament) that it doesn't care to explore what that metaphor means for this new generation or its hopes and desires. |
Sounds like it works better as a game.
Funny, that.
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| Want to know why Roger Ebert gives video games such a hard time? It's because of juvenile, masturbatory fan-crap like this--lauding the medium not for its aesthetic/thematic content, but for the popular conventions. It's only "fun" in the sense that you can name the game from which a specific sound effect originates. |
Yeah, basically.
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| That's precisely what Wright tried so hard to avoid with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz--in those films, he was always interested in figuring out why zombie/action flicks affected us so deeply. Scott Pilgrim merely congratulates its target audience for playing video games and being all meta about it, and, even worse, those congratulations come at the cost of any human element. |
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Volnado
Joined: 19 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 5:50 pm |
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Wow.... you guys are a really jaded bunch. I'm sorry a film about video game culture made nods to video games.
Scott Pilgrim is a lot of fun. Then again, the last Hollywood film to excite me was Speed Racer. (And looking at the box office, this film's gonna be another Speed Racer...) |
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:28 pm |
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| Volnado wrote: |
| I'm sorry a film about video game culture made nods to video games. |
Me too.
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extrabastardformula
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| Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:36 pm |
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Really, folks. Is anything in ScottyP as worthy of eye rolling as "Finally! A Boss fight!"
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sawtooth
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| Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:50 pm |
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video game culture
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Shiren the Launderer
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| Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:18 pm |
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The Expendables
SATURDAY, AUG 14, 2010 14:01 ET
Rambo: The greatest deleted scene ever
A new Blu-ray collector's set reveals the super-soldier's bizarre, magical trip to a Saigon whorehouse
BY BOB CALHOUN
This originally appeared on Bob Calhoun's Open Salon blog.
During the weeks running up to today's release of "The Expendables," Lionsgate has flooded the market with Blu-ray editions of its brawny stars' past glories. The centerpiece of this well-oiled onslaught is "Rambo: The Complete Collector's Set," which includes all the enhanced interrogations, decapitations and exploding helicopters of all four Rambo films. But even though Rambo kills 83 people in the fourth movie alone, this so-called complete set would be rendered an example of false advertising if it did not contain the Greatest Deleted Scene Ever.
From the moment that this big bundle of Stallone arrived on my front stoop, I had to immediately pop in Disc 1 of the "Rambo" set to make sure that this Holy Grail of extra features was there. I waded through several trailers and busybody intros, then found it almost hidden in a reel of other, far-lesser deleted scenes. Simply titled "Saigon Bar Flashback" on a disc that I scored at Target for seven bucks a few years ago, this deleted scene lays waste to all other cinematic outtakes like a shirtless Rambo squeezing limitless rounds out of an M-60 machine gun sans tripod.
The sequence begins with Rambo roasting a pig and then cutting off a hunk of meat with that famous knife of his. I know it's hard to believe that it gets better than this, but stick with me here. As Rambo chomps down on a charred piece of pork, a Lucky Lager logo flickers on the screen with the sound of an electric crackle, followed by a heavy pentatonic riff that sounds like Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" played backward. A split second later, the magical Lucky Lager logo transports us to a Saigon whorehouse where hussies are rocking out by the jukebox and drunken GIs give us a big thumbs up in between gulps of some godawful Asian brew that's likely cut with formaldehyde.
As the camera pans over the drunken revelry, it's apparent that we are seeing things through Stallone-o-Vision. For a few seconds, you are Medal of Honor recipient John Rambo. Your gaze fixes on the hottest woman in the bar. It's Miao Yin from "Big Trouble in Little China" (Suzee Pai) with her eyes of creamy jade. But your moment of being one with the Rambo is short-lived. The camera cuts to Rambo with a Fu Manchu mustache slow dancing with Miao Yin in front of a neon Schlitz sign. Neon beer signs are gateways to other, better worlds here, so we are then transported to Yin's bamboo boudoir. A harmonized guitar solo joins the pounding drums and monster riffage. Soon Yin's nipples are revealed, providing closure to anyone who watched "Big Trouble in Little China" countless times on cable in the late 1980s. Rambo's nipples are also revealed. Rambo is shirtless -- his most deadly state of undress. But instead of drenching half of the Asian continent in stage blood, this time Rambo opts to make love, not war.
Before we can hear Sly the Guy's grunts of ecstasy, we find ourselves back in the present, or at least the early 1980s. Rambo's Fu Manchu is gone, replaced by some Don Johnson-esque stubble. As Rambo is moved to tears by the thought of the glorious facial hair that was once his, we, the mere viewer, have no other choice but to go back and watch the scene four or five more times. |
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/2010/08/14/rambo_collectors_set_deleted_scene_open2010/index.html |
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Ebrey
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| Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:57 pm |
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I loved The Expendables. Stallone is a heart-on-his-sleeve filmmaker, and the flaws of his movies make me like them more. This wouldn't be the great tribute to 80s action movies that it is if the script wasn't clunky and silly. My only complaint is that the action scenes are cut too quickly - while it was always clear what was going on, they would have been easier to enjoy with more time to breath.
I was surprised that Stallone/Statham/Li get a lot more screen time than anyone else, but it wasn't a bad thing. The other actors are good at filling out the world and helping out in action scenes. |
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Dracko
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RT-55J
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 1:27 am |
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| Dracko wrote: |
| http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/scott_pilgrims_vs_the_world/ |
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cassievania
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 4:44 am |
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are any of the rambo sequels worth watching by the way?
edit: I've only seen the first one, which I loved, and I have the complete collector's set.
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Dracko
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 4:50 am |
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Definitely the 2008 film.
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elvis.shrugged
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 6:47 am |
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| Dracko wrote: |
| Definitely the 2008 film. |
Definitely.
First Blood Part II and Rambo III have their own charms, but they're the type of movie where you turn your brain off.
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Take It Sleazy
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 7:26 am |
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| Dracko wrote: |
| http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/PopLicenses/ScottPilgrimvsTheWorld/Scott-Pilgrim-Vs-The-World-Epic-Win-Kiss-Raglan-Tee-180158.jsp |
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Ebrey
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:54 am |
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| elvis.shrugged wrote: |
| Dracko wrote: |
| Definitely the 2008 film. |
Definitely.
First Blood Part II and Rambo III have their own charms, but they're the type of movie where you turn your brain off. |
I like the trashy Rocky/Rambos almost as much as the classy ones. Has anyone seen Paradise Alley and Staying Alive? They sound really bad, but I'm curious. |
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Ronk
saucy Scott Pilgrim fanfic
Joined: 29 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:07 am |
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the newest rambo is really bad
mostly boring, actually.
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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Dracko
a sapphist fool
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 12:50 pm |
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| Take It Sleazy wrote: |
| RT-55J wrote: |
| Dracko wrote: |
| http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/PopLicenses/ScottPilgrimvsTheWorld/Scott-Pilgrim-Vs-The-World-Epic-Win-Kiss-Raglan-Tee-180158.jsp |
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Exactly.
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 1:31 pm |
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Dracko
a sapphist fool
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| Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 11:00 pm |
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| At a test screening, director Kevin Smith was impressed by the film saying "That movie is great. It's spellbinding and nobody is going to understand what the fuck just hit them. I would be hard pressed to say, 'he's bringing a comic book to life!' but he is bringing a comic book to life." Smith also said that fellow directors Quentin Tarantino and Jason Reitman were "really into it". |
lol
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rabite gets whacked!
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 6:49 am |
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25th Hour was pretty good. I liked all the editing and sound tricks, and the ambiguities of grief and fear, even if it held an overall tone of personal therapy session.
Question: The use of slang at the club ("DJ Dusk is the truth") combined with Lee's documented accusations regarding Katrina make me wonder. Is he a truther?
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bleak
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:26 am |
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| Dracko wrote: |
| Take It Sleazy wrote: |
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| Dracko wrote: |
| http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/PopLicenses/ScottPilgrimvsTheWorld/Scott-Pilgrim-Vs-The-World-Epic-Win-Kiss-Raglan-Tee-180158.jsp |
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Exactly. |
dear god
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Dracko
a sapphist fool
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 1:23 pm |
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| bleak wrote: |
| Dracko wrote: |
| Take It Sleazy wrote: |
| RT-55J wrote: |
| Dracko wrote: |
| http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/PopLicenses/ScottPilgrimvsTheWorld/Scott-Pilgrim-Vs-The-World-Epic-Win-Kiss-Raglan-Tee-180158.jsp |
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Exactly. |
dear god |
"Just saw it last night with the Serial Diners: it is truly an awesome epic of awesome epicness! The Citizen Kane of video game movies and a wonderful tribute to the Punk/Alternative music scene in Toronto."
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Dracko
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Drem
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 5:05 pm |
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I figure this will be of interest to many people here: Criterion is finally releasing Hausu in the US, on DVD and Blu-Ray: http://www.criterion.com/films/27523-house
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New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
Constructing a House, a new video piece featuring interviews with director Nobuhiko Obayashi, story scenarist and daughter of the director Chigumi Obayashi, and screenwriter Chiho Katsura
Emotion, a 1966 experimental film by Obayashi
New video appreciation by director Ti West (House of the Devil)
Theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film critic Chuck Stephens |
Comes out October 26, just in time for Halloween. Someone buy me this t-shirt. |
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elvis.shrugged
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 5:10 pm |
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| Ebrey wrote: |
| elvis.shrugged wrote: |
| Dracko wrote: |
| Definitely the 2008 film. |
Definitely.
First Blood Part II and Rambo III have their own charms, but they're the type of movie where you turn your brain off. |
I like the trashy Rocky/Rambos almost as much as the classy ones. Has anyone seen Paradise Alley and Staying Alive? They sound really bad, but I'm curious. |
I do too, actually! I just didn't want to recommend them straight-up. Trautman is probably my favorite character throughout the first three films. I've seen part of Staying Alive. I remember it being very bad. Can't recall if it was so bad it was good.
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geinou
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 5:22 pm |
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| I have to say that it was a very intense and epic experience watching Hausu together with some friends of mine. |
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rabite gets whacked!
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 5:47 pm |
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That's the sound of a million torture porn directors weeping over the fact that they didn't have the balls to go there first.
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:07 pm |
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HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! That box set is INSANE! |
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:20 pm |
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| The Night of the Hunter release has 2 1/2 hours of outtakes :0 |
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:26 pm |
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sawtooth
heh
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:41 pm |
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| Cocaine Socialist wrote: |
| The Night of the Hunter release has 2 1/2 hours of outtakes :0 |
that's a bit over the top but i'm glad it's getting a nice release
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sawtooth
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:12 pm |
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| So David Fincher is adapting The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I hear the books are the swedish equivalent of Dan Brown with a rape fetish, but directors have done wonders with poor source material before. |
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Dracko
a sapphist fool
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:14 pm |
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CoSo:
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| Some professional book blogger was telling me that the reason the Larsson trilogy is so popular--and yes, that's the original definition of popular, the one you're only supposed to pull out for Harry Potter and Twilight level shit--was because the author was dead. I disagreed: the reason these books are sorely in need of meat cleaver editing is because the author is dead. |
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:29 pm |
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| Man, comparing Dan Brown to Larsson, seems unfair to Dan Brown. |
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Drem
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:16 pm |
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| Cocaine Socialist wrote: |
| So David Fincher is adapting The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I hear the books are the swedish equivalent of Dan Brown with a rape fetish, but directors have done wonders with poor source material before. |
Is adapting? I thought it was out already. |
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Roman
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:03 pm |
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| No, that's the European version. David Fincher directs the American remake. |
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Dracko
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CubaLibre
the road lawyer
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:45 pm |
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| Cocaine Socialist wrote: |
| Man, comparing Dan Brown to Larsson, seems unfair to Dan Brown. |
Have you ever actually read any Dan Brown? If not, it's worse than you think.
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:55 pm |
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I read the Da Vinci Code when it was all the rage.
High School creative writing courses probably produce far better prose stylists. |
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