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The Manipulator
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I may not have any bottled water but I ALWAYS have back-up tequila.

This one is great, but the scariest TV theme of all time is the one for Tales from the Darkside. Just thinking of that theme sends chills up my spine.

This one is great, but the scariest TV theme of all time is the one for Tales from the Darkside. Just thinking of that theme sends chills up my spine.

My full Sandy preparedness includes the following:

My full Sandy preparedness includes the following:

She was not very sassy, thus your post is officially racist.

She was not very sassy, thus your post is officially racist.

Fair enough. Lots of my friends like it too. I, on the other hand, went to the restroom at one point and seriously considered whether or not I should go back in for the last hour.

Fair enough. Lots of my friends like it too. I, on the other hand, went to the restroom at one point and seriously considered whether or not I should go back in for the last hour.

For the last time, it's not actually about dogs!

For the last time, it's not actually about dogs!

I thought it was pedantic and insulting, with a false profundity that really irked me. It was not even remotely as profound as the other movie I saw this weekend, The Loneliest Planet, which was made for pennies comparatively, and with the kind of discipline these people could learn more from.

I thought it was pedantic and insulting, with a false profundity that really irked me. It was not even remotely as profound as the other movie I saw this weekend, The Loneliest Planet, which was made for pennies comparatively, and with the kind of discipline these people could learn more from.

The end of your post was exactly what I was driving at in my comment above. For me, the movie was a total failure of imagination, which severely undercuts its ambition. It has this strange didacticism, a need to continually remind the audience of its themes—it literally uses VO to foreground cuts that are saying the

The end of your post was exactly what I was driving at in my comment above. For me, the movie was a total failure of imagination, which severely undercuts its ambition. It has this strange didacticism, a need to continually remind the audience of its themes—it literally uses VO to foreground cuts that are saying the

I agree on principal, but boy is this ever the movie to challenge the idea of supporting $100 million passion projects. Even reviews that don't like the film seem to admire it's "ambition" as if being ambitious but failing miserably somehow excuses the filmmakers for their egregious indulgences.

I agree on principal, but boy is this ever the movie to challenge the idea of supporting $100 million passion projects. Even reviews that don't like the film seem to admire it's "ambition" as if being ambitious but failing miserably somehow excuses the filmmakers for their egregious indulgences.

No, that's Eddie Munster.

No, that's Eddie Munster.

Which was revenge for Anonymous being sued by the author of Go Ask Alice.