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		<title>How Acronyms Ruin Movies (HARM)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 01:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can blame the Internet. You can blame cell phone texting. You can blame email. Thanks a lot, king of the world I blame James Cameron. Once upon a time, Mr. Cameron made a little film called Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which, to my recollection, did reasonably well for its day. The marketing behind the movie conjured up a simple but interesting twist on the movie title for its teaser campaign by dropping the sub-heading completely and shortening the first word to its first letter, giving us the alliterative T2. It was a cute automobile metaphor that played off the fact that Schwarzenegger&#8217;s killing machine came off an assembly line, ready-made to maim, dismember and massacre. It was clever&#8230; once. Half a decade later, Roland Emmerich and company thought they could pull the same trick by abbreviating their alien invasion movie, Independence Day, to the nonsensical ID4, leaving one to wonder what happened to ID one through three. ID 7/4 would have been just as ridiculous and redundant but at least it would have been more accurate. With the rise of Internet movie blogging, the dam has broken completely and now everyone thinks they&#8217;re hip, cool and esoteric by acronym-ing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ridley at 33</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 22:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ridley Scott is my favorite contemporary director. One of the few whose movies I will see by sheer virtue of his directorial involvement. His eye for photography is fantastic and his narrative pacing ebbs and flows like gentle surf. His education as a set designer has led him to create fantastic movies from the seed of production design. He has admitted as much on the DVD of Blade Runner. Whereas with some directors that could be an undoing, with Scott it has often enabled him to transcend the narrative. That&#8217;s not to say he doesn&#8217;t have his flaws. His later work has suffered from an uneasy fondness for turbulent and slow-shutter cinematography in his action sequences. From such a celebrated visual director this is nothing short of perplexing. Leave the viscera of shaky-cam to directors like Michael Bay who want merely to make the audience happy (or hide flaws in the CGI), or Paul Greengrass who thinks he&#8217;s making &#8220;You-Are-There&#8221; docu-drama every time he rolls camera. You&#8217;re better than that, Ridley. Still, even when he succumbs to this injudiciousness, he&#8217;s frequently delivered a world and a story worth visiting. His latest release, Robin Hood, marks the 33rd anniversary of Scott&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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