Madworld is an odd one, all right.
It bears more than a passing resemblance to Itchy and Scratchy from The Simpsons: Animated hyperviolence as a satire of the crass media culture, but also a convenient excuse to show someone getting their heart cut with a chainsaw.
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Like a fungus, except not.
There are some movies that just don’t quite hit you the first time around. You walk away feeling a little underwhelmed, maybe confused, not quite sure how to feel about the whole thing. About five days later you realize you can’t stop talking about it and you want to see it again. You’re looking up clips on YouTube and browsing discussion forums on IMDB. (A dangerous game, but you simply can’t help yourself.) It’s never the same experience for everyone, but I have a feeling I’m not the only one who had this experience with some of these movies. As always, please light up the comments section with contributions of your own.
Magnolia
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I wish I’d gone to the Game Developer’s Conference last week. I didn’t even know they had an expo space open to the public until it was wrapping up. I could have brought back some quality anecdotes like these.
- Goichi Suda (Killer 7, No More Heroes) asks Emil Pagliarulo if Bethesda Softworks would set an installment of the postnuclear Fallout series in Japan. Pagliarulo replies, “Well, what can we destroy in Japan?” to which Suda can only say “Wow…” after an awkward silence.
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Remember that episode of Family Guy when God decided to smite Peter for stealing his thunder? I seem to remember that Brian had absolutely no issue believing that 1) there was a God, and 2) he was pissed. Since then, despite the fact that God himself has made several appearances on the show - and not just in cutaway gags either, the guy seems to exist in Quahog - Brian has become a militant atheist.
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Apparently, Dean Winters isn’t working hard enough on “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” so they brought Dennis Duffy back to “30 Rock.” Liz’s scummy yet somehow appealing ex-boyfriend has discovered that he’s a sex addict, and although Liz is skeptical, he is determined to apologize to all the women he has wronged by “ruining them for other men.” Liz brushes off his apology, but when she answers Jenna’s cell phone during a rehearsal, she is shocked to learn that Dennis got to her best friend too.
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New media is a fascinating thing. The internet has rendered publicists and news agencies all but useless now that celebrities can communicate with us directly - through websites, blogs, and, of course, the latest craze - Twitter.
For some celebrities, this will be more harmful than helpful. But for those who are naturally prudent and charming, this can only be a boon - people enjoy seeing the “real” side of celebs. Fakes, and those whose publicists Tweet on their behalf, have been quickly weeded out. People want real celebrity Tweets. They’ll settle for nothing less.
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If you’re going to play Resident Evil 5 solo, I wouldn’t even bother.
With a friend, playing co-op, RE5 is a pretty good game. By yourself, it’s a chore.
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If I didn’t know better, I’d think that “The Office” was actually gearing up for a big change. It looks like Michael is really leaving, for good. Really starting his own paper company. The industry is “hurting” in the show’s universe, which I assume is based on reality, although you’d think even failing industries would still need to buy some paper occasionally. I wish him great success, although I don’t believe for a minute that they’re actually going to stick with this storyline.
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A game developer walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender pours him one and says “That’ll be nine dollars. Prices have tripled because of the recession.” The game developer puts three dollars down on the bar and says “It’s ok… I’m recession-proof.”
Jokes stolen from the Double Fine web game Host Master and the Conquest of Humor aside, there’s some news from retail outlet GameStop that reminds us that not everyone is hurting right now.
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To call “Where the Wild Things Are” a beloved children’s book is an understatement. For many, the Maurice Sendak classic was as treasured as a favorite toy or blankie, a part of one’s childhood that could never be forgotten or replaced. Like many of its kind, the book is only ten sentences long, but the story it tells is much deeper than most children can find the words to explain, even if they understand it perfectly.
The upcoming Spike Jonze film adaptation has been the subject of much discussion, hype, and controversy in the past year or so. For a while, it looked like the film might be canned because it was “too dark” to appeal to the target demographic. Francis Spufford, in his book The Child That Books Built, calls the source material “one of the very few picture books to make an entirely deliberate, and beautiful, use of the psychoanalytic story of anger.” It’s hard to avoid dipping your toe into darkness when you’re telling such a story.
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