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Old 05-25-2012, 04:57 PM   #26
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It was a Tim Burton flick with Johnny Depp in it. If you've seen one, you've seen them all and if you've been keeping up, you've either been lobotomized or you've grown bored of the whole thing.
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Old 05-28-2012, 06:27 AM   #27
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It was a Tim Burton flick with Johnny Depp in it. If you've seen one, you've seen them all and if you've been keeping up, you've either been lobotomized or you've grown bored of the whole thing.
I'm just going for the Johnny Depp factor. I like his work, plus he's very easy on the eyes.

Plus there comes a time when all you want out of a movie is just to lose yourself somewhere else for a couple of hours - and I can't think of a better place to lose myself than a JD movie.
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Old 05-29-2012, 03:22 PM   #28
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I like this review:

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/curr...ws-america.php

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...Normally I put fault with Tim Burton's films on, well, Tim Burton, but here I'm going to point my finger at another target. The screenplay was written by Mr. Seth Grahame-Smith, "author" of such works as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The entire film is like a testament to unoriginality, and this is why. We're talking about a man who got famous by taking stories that already existed and adding superfluous supernatural elements to them. Here, the supernatural elements were already there, so Grahame-Smith had to try to add characterization and story, two things he knows nothing about. Instead he attempts "fish out of water" jokes that are just tiresome. It wasn't funny to say "Alice Cooper sure is an ugly woman!" in 1973, and it's not funny now. This is a guy who normally writes for the "Zombies r awesome lol" crowd attempting to write for the "OMG NIGHTMARE B4 CHRISTMAS" crowd. (Side note: After writing that sentence, I had my English degree revoked. Huh.)

What we're left with is an uneven misogynistic mess of a movie...
BURN.

Also: Look at this Doucher:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Grahame-Smith
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Old 05-29-2012, 03:47 PM   #29
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He looks like he's at about a [6] there.
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I'd say he's at least at "Triple-Dee" status.
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Old 05-31-2012, 09:25 PM   #31
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After watching The Avengers, I don't think I can trust Something Awful's critics very much.
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Old 06-01-2012, 09:19 AM   #32
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So, one of their multiple critics didn't like a movie you did and now the whole site is not to be trusted?
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Old 06-01-2012, 10:33 AM   #33
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Yeah.

Actually, I haven't seen a positive review from them. Would it be comforting for me to admit that maybe they happen to have VERY high shelf tastes? It's probably what it is. I REALLY enjoyed The Avengers against my better judgement. It shouldn't have been awesome but it was.

I guess I'm easily pleased.
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