Paranoia. Hypochondria. Delusions of Grandeur.
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7.31.2006 If anyone's wondering why filmcritic.com is down this morning, it's because we're on the home page of Yahoo and on their cool video blog, "The 9." Alas, this has wrecked our bandwidth (it's not the server). Sniff! Thanks for trying to visit! The 9 for Monday July 31st posted by Christopher Null | 9:49 AM 7.28.2006 Why work when you could be reading this instead? It's Friday! filmcritic.com: The Top 50 Movie Endings of All Time posted by Christopher Null | 12:12 PM 7.24.2006 I feel sorry for the movie theater employees where they are playing Cars, Click, and Clerks 2. Imagine trying to figure out what they're saying from behind a plexiglas wall... then again, they can probably figure out which of the three they want to see just by looking at who's at the window. posted by Christopher Null | 3:56 PM 7.21.2006 I got baffled about midway through the 7th dimension. Imagining the Tenth Dimension - A Book by Rob Bryanton posted by Christopher Null | 6:03 PM 7.19.2006 Once again a more intelligent and thoughtful writer than me puts into words exactly the thing that's been bugging me for some time but which I haven't been able to elucidate. The subject is "Snakes on a Plane." Now I interviewed David Ellis, director of SOAP, a few weeks ago, and he was giddily happy about this upcoming project. He's in on the joke, clearly. And he's getting paid. But is everyone else in on it? I mean, everyone thinks they're part of this big gag, and the bloggers of the world like to feel that they've helped in making SOAP whatever it is that it's become. (They aren't screening it for press... I'll see it on DVD, I guess.) But the studio almost certainly sees all those bloggers as little more than a $9.50 ticket. "You want snakes on a plane? Whatever you say, bub! Pay at the register." But enough from me. Here's Chuck Klosterman: It's more likely that you're the kind of person who loves "bad" movies. You find poorly written films hilarious, and you enjoy their implausibility. Such sentiments are common; people who understand film tend to appreciate cinematic failure. But here's the thing: This kind of appreciation is based on the premise that the bad movie aspired to be good. If a film never takes itself seriously and originates as satire, everything is different; its badness means something else entirely. SOAP doesn't fit into either category: It doesn't take itself seriously, but it's not a satire. It will probably be unentertaining in a completely conventional way. Which, apparently, is what people want. They want to see "Snakes on a Plane" in order to tell their friends that it's ridiculous, even though ... that's the only thing everyone seems to know about this movie. Esquire:Feature Story:The "Snakes on a Plane" Problem posted by Christopher Null | 7:19 PM 7.16.2006 The scene from yesterday: 108 degrees in mid-afternoon Un-air-conditioned historic mission in Pasadena Full tuxedo with vest 1 1/2 hour Catholic wedding with full mass Congratulations, Brad! I'm as happy for you getting hitched as I am that I'm not dead. posted by Christopher Null | 8:18 AM 7.11.2006 It's about freakin' time. The split between Wired Magazine and wired.com has been one of the most painful things to explain to someone in the tech publishing world over the last decade. Wired News: Condé Nast Buys Wired News posted by Christopher Null | 10:19 PM 7.08.2006 Photos from "the most dangerous road in the world," apparently in Bolivia. Yikes. hmmm posted by Christopher Null | 10:35 PM 7.07.2006 I'm so fed up with the awful search results on Google (thanks to a combination of web spam that Google can't detect and legitimate sites that Google thinks are spam), that I've finally had it. My "primary search engine" is something else now. (Ok, it's Yahoo.) I'm not the only one who thinks this. Check out this insightful analysis into the search engine's recent problems. And if you don't believe that, well, check out what Google says about itself: Google Trends: google sucks posted by Christopher Null | 9:22 PM Pretty funny... anonymous posts from those abandoning WoW. WoW Detox - What brings you away from World of Warcraft posted by Christopher Null | 9:51 AM 7.04.2006 Grilling corn? This recipe looks bizarre but it came out perfectly. Cooks.com - Recipe - Easy Corn On The Grill posted by Christopher Null | 8:43 PM 7.03.2006 Props to the SFPD for bringing SIX fire trucks to our next door neighbor's this evening (which spanned the entire city block)... apparently based on someone nearby calling when they smelled smoke. That smoke turned out to be -- wait for it -- some chicken cooking on a hibachi. I have literally never seen more firefighters in one place in my entire life. posted by Christopher Null | 9:27 PM |
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