Paranormal Activity 2 is an efficient delivery system for Gotcha! Moments, of which it has about 19... A Gotcha! Moment is a moment when something is sudden, loud and scary.
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Paranormal Activity 2 is an efficient delivery system for Gotcha! Moments, of which it has about 19... A Gotcha! Moment is a moment when something is sudden, loud and scary.
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Always wanted to chime in on this blog, even though it may be dead.
I think one of the greatest missing examples is this gem from Dana "duh" Stevens on Slate, for her review of 300. Multiple choice quotes from this.
http://www.slate.com/id/2161450/
"If 300, the new battle epic based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, had been made in Germany in the mid-1930s, it would be studied today alongside The Eternal Jew as a textbook example of how race-baiting fantasy and nationalist myth can serve as an incitement to total war."
"no one involved—not Miller, not Snyder, not one of the army of screenwriters, art directors, and tech wizards who mounted this empty, gorgeous spectacle—seems to have noticed that we're in the middle of an actual war."
"One of the few war movies I've seen in the past two decades that doesn't include at least some nod in the direction of antiwar sentiment, 300 is a mythic ode to righteous bellicosity."
"The Persian commander, the god-king Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) is a towering, bald club fag with facial piercings, kohl-rimmed eyes, and a disturbing predilection for making people kneel before him."
"So, if Spartan law is defined by "whatever Leonidas wants," what are the 300 fighting for, anyway? And why does that sound depressingly familiar?"
""This will not be over quickly," the villain warns as he pins her against a temple pillar. "You will not enjoy this." It might have been Zack Snyder himself whispering in my ear, and he would have been right."
In my opinion she rescues this from being another tiresome anti-Bush screed by not mincing her words at all, calling the villain a "bald club fag" is funny and very ballsy. Most of the stupider passages (four years too late to be an incitement to war, let alone whatever she means by "total war") I actually think are passable as hyperbole rather than complete wtf criticism or unforgivable writing.
This blog was taken down for a while for reasons that I don't know but then it was put back up just as mysteriously. I didn't think I had any readers so it was no big deal but I thought about putting more quotes up, and since you (Jhoh himself) commented, I'll make an effort, please send more suggestions, even if you're pissed I didn't use these ones.
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