Thanks for the free market research, asshole.

The politics of right and wrong make everything complicated,

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to a generation who's never had a leader assassinated.

This Abandoned Building Used to Be a Business there a While Ago

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and Today it is Now Empty and Condemned and it was a Business there Once upon a time.

To seem to be,

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rather than to be.

To condescend

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decisively.

We're here for a good time,

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not a long time.

Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face

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before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.

Dick

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fisher.

All of man’s problems

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come from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people's discharges and stuff.

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And my feeling was, 'Please, I've done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?' That's what I feel right now. I've written books. Lots of them. Please, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Can I go home now?

Worked very briefly for Sports Illustrated magazine,

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where he was assigned to write a piece on a racehorse that had jumped a fence and attempted to run away. After staring at the blank piece of paper on his typewriter all morning, he typed, "The horse jumped over the fucking fence," and left.

Those who see the world as a battleground revel in what they’ve made impossible for others.

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Those who see the world as a commons revel in what they have made possible with others.

Death is not the greatest loss in life.

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The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

CHECK THOSE APHORISMS, BRO.

The letter

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fuck.

SAMIZDAT

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: a system in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and countries within its orbit by which government-suppressed literature was clandestinely printed and distributed; also : such literature

What terrible

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purpose.

Violets

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in her eyelids.

You wanna end war and stuff?

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You gotta sing loud.

Like

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terror.

Because

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fuck.

Self-

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controlling.

I don't like

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other people's friends.

Butt

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much?

I sold my memories

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to a microscope.

We didn't need dialogue.

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We had faces!

Every night I lay myself down to sleep,

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I ask myself these questions three:
What the fuck are we fighting for?
What the fuck are we fighting for?
What the fuck are we fighting for?

We should do away with saying

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that, to me, a thousand years is a blink of the eye. Yes, I am the infinite. Yes, I am eternal. Yes, I am fucking bored.

Cracks

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in the earth.

If dreams and memories sometimes get confused,

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well, that's as it should be.

Man takes picture of penis

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every day for five years.

Kids grow up.

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Hanna - 8/10. Compelling! Between something as blunt as the Bourne movies and as atmospheric as 'Drive.' All of the principles handle themselves well: Ronan shows a great range, Bana is friendly and dangerous, and Blanchett creates her own Anton Chigurh-esque vision of evil. It's fun!

Excelsior.

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With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story - 5/10. Reads as a table of contents. His interactions with his wife are adorable and I'd rather have seen a movie about them twos more'n a movie that glosses over comic book history.

A truck driver wanting to be a woman.

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Being Elmo - 6/10. Warms the heart, aye, but it's got nothing to say, err.

Her head don't come off.

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Labyrinth - 5/10. Seeing this and all those Muppets movies recently, Jim Henson's got a great ability to create characters but he can't seem to make a solid story around them. He's more concerned with character moments that character arcs. Sarah's got no fear in her. She's just a thing that guides us to the next set piece.

My hands are a little dirty.

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Drive - 8/10. Lars and the Real Shit, y'all. Extremely well-made. It delays gratification when you most want it and releases it on people you don't care for it to be released on. That's its biggest flaw and the most interesting thing it's got going for it within all of its interesting parts.

Babies are not found in cola cans.

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Mary And Max - 8.5/10. Just the sweetest fucking thing, I swear to god.

No one likes putting a dick in their mouth.

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50/50 - 5.5/10. Boring guy gets cancer, continues to be boring. Take the Seth Rogen and last twenty minutes from this movie and smash it into 'Funny People' and you've got something maybe. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, oh, how you don't really act that well except for that one scene towards the end which is actually very good, nice job.

Ugly girlfriend means no confidence.

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Moneyball - 5.5/10. No follow-through. When it plays around with numbers, it can be a very compelling movie, but it lobs so many other threads in the air that never find their way back down. Thusly, the movie never really finds a satisfying emotional conclusion to any of its unformed parts. It's not really about anything.

Is there a gay kiss with a boy & is this movie on DVD ?

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For The Bible Tells Us So - 4.5/10. It comes off like it's talking to people who already believe what it believes, which makes it useless. I'd love to have a movie to hand to my mom where she could cry a little tear and shit, but this movie'd just get her all defensive, as it does a good deal of talking down. It's not tactical warfare.

Maybe he just wanted to fly one time.

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The Bridge - 7/10. It's haunting to watch 20-some people jump off of the Golden Gate Bridge. Each time is surprising and, as it goes on, it creates tension out of inevitability. The movie doesn't offer anything in the way of closure of elucidation into the nature of suicide, or why this bridge, but there's only so much you can expect, I guess. 'The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.'

Closed on account of the TV.

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Best Little Whorehouse In Texas - 6.5/10. Lively, full of characters, but nothing to really prop them up besides a small handful of good songs.

We are lost!

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Sherlock, Jr. - 8/10. The best Buster Keaton I've seen and the first one where I really get Buster Keaton as a character – if Chaplin has a twinkle in his eyes, then Keaton has butterflies in his stomach. It's less the size of the tricks with this one and more their seamlessness in being pulled off. It approaches magic, friends.

Making a point

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without making an enemy.

Be obscure clearly!

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Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

Into

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the middle of things.

The answer

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is the road.

FUCK

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CITY

Doubt is the hole

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from which new ideas sneak in.

The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things

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is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe

It's a war

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of how it should be.

Personality

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is the first thing that goes.

A pack

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of throats.

We are

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such little men.

With the rich and mighty, always a little patience.

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Holiday - 7/10. Katherine Hepburn at her most likeable.

Looooook aaaaat meeeeeeee.

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Source Code - 4/10. Sincerity should be a crime. It's sci-fi surroundings never become believable. What is reality, bro.

There's a kind of neglect.

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Fright Night - 7/10. The remake. TBS New Classic. Colin Farrell acted good!

Trust.

2011-10-12T02:04:00.001-04:00

Attack The Block - 7.5/10. Just a really well-constructed movie that deserves extra points for its willingness to kill people we like.

You're half sweet and half acid.

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - 6/10. There's no one else in the movie but Russell and Monroe, and that's unfortunate, because the whole thing's a bit about finding someone to chase after.

I'll fuck you 'til you love me.

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Tyson - 7.5/10. He's a bad man, but hey, I like him. He's got a great ability to make you feel sympathy more than pity, and to have you come over to his side, which is just a different way to win a fight.

Gods aren't afraid to die.

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They're afraid to die without meaning.

That would be nice, but:

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no.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition.

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Always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

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Harry Potter Deathly Hallows 2 - 7.5/10. Hey, this was pretty good! Good guy fighting the bad guy and all. If it weren't for all of the useless shit from the previous movie that permeates through this (and emotional beats that repeat themselves through this), it might have been the best of them. It's not, though. Whatevs. What you got, Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

I don't like bullies.

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Captain America: The First Avenger - 7/10. THAT FIRST HOUR WAS THE SHIT, BRO. After that, it never quite hits the emotional beats that were set up so well. As with Thor, it sacrifices a bit of itself in order to become a lead-in to the next act, which is both unnecessary and exciting.

They're babies, they cry.

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Babies - 7/10. It's a spectre of a movie, but it's captivating to watch. Like 'Koyaanisqatsi,' but, you know, for cute things.

Barely visible wrinkles of boredom and impatience.

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Cries and Whispers. - 3/10. I fell asleep to this movie three times. It is my failing as a moviegoer that I can't find value in unlikeable characters.

Philosophy stares,

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but brings no reasoned solution, for from nothing to being there is no logical bridge.

Nothingness

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may well have been more convenient.

"Spider! Spider!"

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Spider!
Spider!
It was crawling on my head!
And now it's only dead!
What was going through its mind?
As it was crawling across mine?
What was its last little thought?
Before the farm was bought?
"Explore!," it might have said,
"For soon we all are dead."
"Kerthunk!," I replied.
"Get the fuck off of me, you shit."

They're only as good

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as they're allowed to be.

When strangers do meet in far off lands.

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Charade - 8/10. It's an Alfred Hitchcock/Cary Grant movie, if Alfred Hitchcock knew what to do with Cary Grant.

This is the theory

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... that anything that is art ... is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it's no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it's irritating.

Inserting

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a lie.

Maybe on their planet, 'responsibility' just means 'asshole.'

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Green Lantern - 5/10. The worst thing isn't to be bad; the worst thing is to be boring. No concept of pacing and how that's used to built drama. No idea how to bring all of its pieces together. But hey, Ryan Reynolds was trying.

Don't expect me to get excited over another damn thing we need to find.

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Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 1 - 4/10. Harry Potter and the nothing fucking happens for two hours. Harry Potter and the convenient storytelling. Seven(?) movies building to a final confrontation, and they walk around in the woods for two hours. I'm sure you could go into the next movie with no knowledge of this movie existing and miss absolutely nothing. It strikes me as a grab for your hard-earned socialist working man dollars. If you need a thousand pages (or four hours) to tell this story, then you are lazy or a hack. Yo, Bro? Fuck this movie.

A man must know the right occasion to indulge in tax evasion.

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Shock Treatment - 6/10. The 'sequel' to Rocky Horror Picture Show. Suffers in the unnecessary comparison/continuation to/of that movie. Besides that, a handful of good ideas that don't go anywhere (and would be better explored in different, later movies), and a handful of really fun songs.

The sickest, most wicked-est motherfucker that ever vaporized motherfuckers in cold-blood.

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Crank 2: High Voltage - 7.5/10. The first movie was burdened by its reliance on a plot. This movie simply does not give a fuck.

Fuck it, let's have a barbecue!

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Daybreakers - 6/10. So deadly serious that it's hard to have fun.

Shit should be in a fucking medical journal.

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Crank - 6.5/10. Has a hard time keeping up with the pace that is central to its plot, but it certainly is a lot of fun.

There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.

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Indiscreet - 3/10. Ingrid Bergman didn't seem to have her heart into it. It seemed like it was going to have a point and something something I don't remember how it ends.

Meanwhile...

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Marwencol - 6/10. It's an interesting reality to live in, and it does a fun job of exploring that particular reality, but it does a poor job of exploring the reality outside of it.

It was as if the last day, as people say in the Bible.

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God Grew Tired Of Us - 7.5/10. The Lost Boys of Sudan come to America, find a world that's different from the world they know. Funny and sad in the same turn. Depressing and empowering as they realize what they can and can't do for themselves in relation to what they can and can't do for the people they left behind. The Burden Of What You Feel You Owe To People Who Are No Longer Like You.

Lots and lots of puberty.

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Monster House. - 7.5/10. Goonies. Surprisingly dark and, despite the crude animation, very well-acted, with the characters' faces showing a great deal of subtlety.

Peace was never an option.

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X-Men: First Class - 8/10. I loved the shit out of this, bros. Just stupid enough to counterbalance the parts where it takes itself seriously.

Help me to not tell lies.

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The Tree Of Life - 6.5/10. Beautiful, and there's an entire hour and a half in the middle that's put together extraordinarily well and is extraordinarily moving, but it seems like a movie that wants to convince you it has a point, and I can't for the life of me figure out what that is. I'll give it a try: we've got problems and shit, and the universe ain't give a fuck. DINOSAURS.

Choosing not to believe in the devil doesn't protect you from him.

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The Rite - 5.5/10. Shit, I can't even remember how this one goes. I like religious-themed horrors because there's an underlying theme of 'well, maybe…', but they lose me when that gray area becomes more solid. Atheism, bros. You feel me?

This is so awkward. I really want you to leave.

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Bridesmaids - 8/10. Funny and moving. Kristen Wiig is game for most anything, which will make her, deservedly, a star. I greatly enjoy Apatow comedies, but they also leave me in no real mood to see them again. Maybe it's their length. Maybe it's the sadness that runs underneath a lot of them.

If everybody lies, then there's no reality.

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Inside Deep Threat - 6.5/10. Great for the context it offers, which I was almost wholly unaware of, and everyone involved in the production of the movie are fascinating characters, but (and this is maybe because Lovelace is dead), the drama is never really ramped up. At times, almost, as in the old people's fear of gangsters, but they're just snippets.

You are an old man, and a fool!

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Thor - 7/10. Overall very fun and worth your while, but comes with its share of faults. Taking place on two worlds means too many supporting characters to care about any but a couple of them. The costumes 'look stupid' on Earth, and the movie wisely makes fun of that, but I think it'd be a more 'legitimate' movie if they just didn't have shit look stupid. I don't care to write more. I'm tired. It's fun. Chris Hemsworth is a doll.

Gentlemen, do you think I'm a lowlife?

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Brewster's Millions - 4/10. A snooze, bros.

Harvesting farts.

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Paul - 3.5/10. So fucking earnest as to be impossible to watch at certain points. And then people die, unexpectedly and atonally. This movie is fucking weird. Also, boring. In being all over the place, it hardly manages to be interesting.

Do I dare, do I dare, do I dare?

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William Kunstler: Disturbing The Universe – 9.5/10. I regret taking so long to write about this, because it's one of the best movies I've ever seen, and I had a lot to say about that. It's directed by the daughters of a famous civil rights-era lawyer who suddenly began defending less defensible clients, and it's from the perspective of the daughters trying to figure out what changed their father and it all builds into this incredible, incredible climax where he, dead, manages to sum up his entire life and make sense of most everything he's ever done in a public square, and makes you feel bad for not being as brave and makes you feel stupid for not realizing what bravery really is.

I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.

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Frida - 5/10. A collection of moments in some woman's life. Its brief forays into the abstract are interesting, and rarely as long as they should be.

Rick Rape.

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Gamer - 6/10. It dials its stupid up to the point of absurdity, and it somehow becomes this incredibly fun movie to watch.

A boy, Dastan.

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Prince of Persia - 6.5/10. Surprisingly fun. I don't have much to say. Jakey-poo keeps it alive. He's a decent amount of humor, charm, and athleticism. I can't remember the ending, but it was surprising in its choices, I think.

It's terrible. I love it. It's awful.

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R.E.D. - 5/10. BACK-TO-BACK KARL URBAN. There's a lightness to everything, and everyone seems to be having a small amount of fun, but I don't know, man – I just ain't care. I'm going to blame it on someone thinking 'cute old people with guns' was all the work they had to do.

CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS.

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Pathfinder - 2/10. Things I Watch At Home With My Dad. Karl Urban has one of the oddest career trajectories of anyone I'm presently aware of.

Because you want to not,

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because everyone else is.

Not that you like me.

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That you are like me.

People Talk About What They Do All Day

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and How They Feel About What They Do.

Casual

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racism.