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Terminal Illness

Todd — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:17:32 +0000

Bless me, readers, for I have sinned. It’s been a month since my last confession. Over a month, actually, but what a busy, busy month it’s been. I’m still chewing over my Cannes 2009 experience- the meat of it still churning slowly through my digestive tract. In the meantime, over the long weekend, I watched Terminator: Salvation and could only conclude my viewing with a single thought: when did John Connor become a complete and monstrous prick?

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Post tags: great man theory, helena bonham carter, lord humongous, master blaster, mcgyver, michael biehn, michael ironsides, richard dean anderson, salvation, save the cat, star trek, tango & cash, terminator

Comic Conundrum

Todd — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:22:19 +0000

Now that I have overcome my fear of the forthcoming comic convention, I must tackle a slightly less-vital but crucially important task: selecting the events to attend.

Leafing through the long list of panels, exhibitions, and other elements of convention panoply, it is clear that tough, merciless decisions will have to be made. There’s no room for fat or gristle here. I need to cut down to the meat, the rare bloody organs- no offal, only the best cuts for this strange trip.

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In Defense of Bale

Todd — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:52:58 +0000

By now, there is no dark forbidden trench of the universe that is not aware that Christian Bale went on a tirade on the set of the new Terminator film. Indeed, given the penetration of the internet into every fold and fiber of our very being, it is impossible that we would not know, as soon as it happened, perhaps even before it happened. Time and space are trifles compared to the power of judgmentalism.

What exactly is the shock here? That a guy got upset, flipped his switch for a bit, and a let loose a foul-language tongue-lashing on the object of his ire? Have we reached a time and place in which we can no longer understand the urge if not the absolute need to go mental for a few minutes?

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Post tags: bismarck, christian bale, jake gittes, merchant ivory, miller lite, realpolitik, robert towne, terminator