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		<title>How the West Was No Fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re probably aware by now that Jon Favreu&#8217;s epic genre mashup Cowboys &#38; Aliens was met this weekend with a resounding, &#8220;eh,&#8221; a sentiment reflected in the less than blockbuster take at the box office. This is an apt reaction to a fairly joyless summer film that is part Bourne Identity, part Independence Day, and one that takes itself far more seriously than it should. A movie concept like Cowboys &#38; Aliens lends itself perfectly to weekend matinee fun. I find it curious that director Favreu would instead adopt such a dead serious tone. No one in the movie seems to be having a good time, and events unfold that are more upsetting than exciting. Parents might want to rethink taking their children. This is one of the most brutal and disturbing PG-13 movies I&#8217;ve ever seen. At one point the audience is led to believe that anti-hero Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) is having flashbacks of his love being raped. Later we discover she was merely being eviscerated alive on an alien operating table right before his eyes. Call this a spoiler if you must. I call it bad taste, for neither outcome has much place in a film like [...]]]></description>
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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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