http://thesnarkhunter.com Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:19:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One podcast I listen to made an interesting comparison between Avatar and Star Wars.  Each movie raised the bar for blockbusters, as well as working in a genre that can be described as Space Opera.  A little too easy and facile for Science Fiction, but set in a future universe. ... http://thesnarkhunter.com/2010/01/25/avatar-vs-star-wars/ Piranha II is James Cameron's first feature movie, and Avatar is the most recent.  How has his moral message and story-telling evolved? In Piranha II, you were likely to get killed by a carnivorous flying fish if: You are female and naked. You have sex unconnected to romance. You're a somewhat ridiculous older woman. You ... http://thesnarkhunter.com/2010/01/18/piranha-ii-vs-avatar/ I'm now testing to see if the Bad Movies I Love will update the search URL. http://thesnarkhunter.com/2009/11/02/more-bad-movies-i-love/ Okay, this is kind of a test of a certain Google Search feature.  Basically, I want to be able to quickly call out entries for Bad Movies I Love, because that's an important category. http://thesnarkhunter.com/2009/11/02/bad-movies-i-love/ I saw this movie as a child.  It came in 1963, but as I saw it on television, it must have been later.  Whatever age I was, my brother was three younger.  I can remember, after watching the movie, creeping my hand towards him from around corners, down from the ... http://thesnarkhunter.com/2009/11/01/the-crawling-hand-review-and-reflection/ It can really suck to be a fan.  In fact, why are we fans?  What did the Washington Redskins ever do for me, particularly?  Yes, it was great fun to watch them, back in the day.  They won Superbowls.  Beat Dallas.  But the Redskins make a huge amount of money, ... http://thesnarkhunter.com/2009/10/25/redskins-vs-dollhouse/ I'm going to start lightly, but I end up talking about kids playing Russian roulette. Me and High Blood Pressure I don't manage risk well.  If you give me a bunch of facts and stats and ask me to change my behavior, good luck.  For the past couple years of been treating ... http://thesnarkhunter.com/2009/10/23/vaccines-bad-parenting-and-risk/ Somehow, perhaps because my Netflix-enabled xBox360 is now practically a video store in my living room, I ended up watching an episode of Lost.  My previous attitude towards Lost was a mixture of contempt and outrage that people where so devoted to it.  Some people compared it to BSG.  I ... http://thesnarkhunter.com/2009/10/22/three-seasons-of-lost-in-one-month/ I think people (by which I mean the press) underestimate the importance of writing a new story in Afghanistan.  Instead of business as usual, Karzai is acknowledging voter fraud and entering a run-off election.  Obama gets a lot of the credit for this.  While this may not seem like a ... http://thesnarkhunter.com/2009/10/21/writing-a-new-story-the-run-off-election/ Not that they're related in any way except for internet damage, but there you go. A few months ago, a probable Skank by the name of Rosemary Port created an anonymous blog, in which she gave another probably Skank, Liskula Cohen an award for being the Skankiest Ho in NYC.  Among ... http://thesnarkhunter.com/2009/08/26/jessica-biel-and-those-nyc-skanks/