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May 18, 2005

My phone is working now, so you can call me. I'm also starting work at Dunkin Donuts Saturday so soon I should have some stuff to talk about on here. Till then it's one-man band practice in my living room.

I talked to a former roommate the other day. He was very excited about some upcoming space movie whose name is again difficult to remember. Anyway, after my initial cynical/scathing response, he linked me to some reviews. They weren't glowing or anything, but they weren't what I expected.

Apparently this reclusive filmmaker has become so incompetent that he reached the infinite incompetence event horizon and surpassed it, swinging parabolically into a movie that was so incompetently made that the plot itself rebelled. The gist is that because absolutely nothing happened in the last two films and rather a lot has to happen before the fourth (which we've already seen), all of the plot points which were neglected before have to be squeezed into this one. I myself mentioned this to some of you several months ago as proof that the movie couldn't possibly be any good.

However, the majority of reviewers claim that while the plot events themselves are very badly presented, because of time constraints, they have all been compressed to a point where they are relatively painless. Witnesses claim that this quick-paced presentation of really bad scenes causes a sort of zoetrope effect; the movie actually seems to go somewhere.

So despite all my mighty cynicism shields and my arrays of turbomockers, it appears that I didn't expect small, one-man word-of-mouth to pose any threat. While I was easily swatting aside a large-scale advertising assault (I have booed stright through the trailer TWICE, once at Sin City and once at Hitchhiker's Guide) it appears that a seed of doubt has maneuvered straight down into my core, setting off a chain reaction that I can only describe as grudging anticipation for a film that I know is bound to disappoint.
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