seriously, all this hate for national treasure?
i saw many bad movies in 2004/2005 but i can honestly say that National Treasure wasn't one of them.

all this hate for national treasure?
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Dunst *is* a really sweet person
and she's not a terrible actress either.

yeah, 'rape baby' is neither clever nor funny
besides, what's wrong with just calling him a Wentz?

obviously we're using 'comeback' very loosely here:
Reynolds and Travolta both came back with Boogie Nights and Pulp Fiction respectively, but one has sunk back into Uwe Boll obscurity while the other still hovers adjacent to the A-List. Maybe the point of the article is that Travolta squandered his second chance as…

don't blame Spielberg for AI:
or, at least, don't blame Spielberg exclusively for AI.

india is more colourful than morocco or cambodia
literally, india has more colours in it than either of those two countries.

success comes to kids who wait to have sex?
because they're nerds and they have no choice but to wait for sex.

"why I sort of hate Slate"
i like Slate but i completely agree that this is a good example of its tendency towards commissioning well-written yet ultimately smug and ignorant pieces (e.g. 'why Wes Anderson is racist', 'why you shouldn't give your kids birthday presents', etc).

a bit of the old ultra-violence
McDowell is great. No matter that he plays pretty much the same character nowadays but so does Nicholson and you don't see folk ragging on him.

at least when Dylan did the Victoria's Secret commercials there was a delicious surreal humor lingering over the whole thing
also Adriana Lima walking around in her panties was a definite plus.

look at Morgan Freeman in The Royal Tenenbaums?
where?

you know, this will probably happen to radiohead one day
one decade you're the top-of-the-world indie megaband, next decade you're a pale reflection of a shadow of your former glory, premiering your songs on frakking CNN.

what it sounds like
it sounds closer to Hail to the Thief on a first listen through, with touches of Yorke's solo effort The Eraser.

it sounds real good
yeah, i know, i should be a professional critic.

25 hours late?
you shoulda taken the shadabti express or whatever it's called.

really, who cares about transgressive?
fuck transgressive. That's an adolescent concern if there ever was one - like wearing black nail polish to scare your parents.

batman & robin might have been the shittiest film i ever saw in a cinema
and i've seen some pretty fucking shitty ones.

"even the ones who hate what weare doing" & "even those who hate us"
ah, how very jesus-like of you.

i second the elf love
now there's a sentence i never thought i'd write, outside of my tolkien/D&D-themed fan fic.