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Things that made me happy today

Uncomfortable Plot Summaries (via kottke)

Highlights include:

  • BATMAN: Wealthy man assaults the mentally ill.
  • CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY: Deranged pedophile big-business industrialist tortures and mutilates young children.
  • STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE: Religious extremist terrorists destroy government installation, killing thousands.
  • STAR WARS: EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: Boy is abused by midget, kisses sister, attempts patricide.
  • STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI: Handicapped mass murderer kills septugenarian, is lauded.

John Scalzi’s Guide to the Most Epic FAILs in Star Wars Design (via Boing Boing)

Death Star
An unshielded exhaust port leading directly to the central reactor? Really? And when you rebuild it, your solution to this problem is four paths into the central core so large that you can literally fly a spaceship through them? Brilliant. Note to the Emperor: Someone on your Death Star design staff is in the pay of Rebel forces. Oh, right, you can’t get the memo because someone threw you down a huge exposed shaft in your Death Star throne room.

The Games Factory (via Gadsby)

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Extract Trailer (via kottke)

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If I wasn’t feeling so lazy I would’ve done them as separate posts but today is a sleepy day.

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No more water, but fire next time

I’m definitely with Justin on this: the old woman = teh scary

All in all this looks fairly ridiculous, but I think my favourite thing about it has to be the imdb.com message boards where there’s a thread about whether this is just the same as film X or film Y, someone’s thrown Dogma into the equation and a reply reads:

Wow … Loki and Bartleby.

Ya that is so the same as Gabriel and Michael

The least you could do is get an understanding of characters in these movies.

And for the record Loki wasn’t even a Christian Deity … He is from Norse mythology.

But scripture clearly recalls the Angel Bartleby…? Also I think the phrase ‘Christian Deity’ is generally preceded by the definite article, unless there’s a memo I missed.

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A Serious Man

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Ninjas > Pirates