American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds

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Produced by Liquid Generation Group. Website here. Smart folks! They seem to have figured out how to sell ads. If only Hollywood could understand! So far, this video has only 327,410 views, but I predict this will be in the top 100 youtube videos of all time. Or maybe I just [...]

Revisiting The Lord of the Rings films

I’ve spent the last two days not feeling so great, formatting my hard drive and re-installing Windows on my computer (what a big pain in the ass that is!). So to help ease the time and boredom while installing drivers and software and trying to figure out how the hell to reconnect to my WiFi [...]

The week in brief

Several exciting things happened this week!  First of all, the Obama Administration released “Memos of Law,” written by the Bush “Justice Department.”  We can all decide for ourselves how just and legal those memos are.  As for this lawyer, those memos are a perfect example of what whores lawyers can be when they forget that [...]

Wanted: Matrix Lite – not the same great taste, less filling

A young man works day in and day out in a soul-crushing office job. He’s thoroughly dissatisfied with his life, which he views as devoid of any meaning. One day he’s visited by a mysterious stranger in the form of a beautiful woman. He is saved from someone who seems to be after him and [...]

Bouncing along the plot potholes of Revolutionary Road

Emotional abuse and marital discord have not been this explicitly depicted on screen since Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton devastated each other and another young couple in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The barbs slung in that older film were exchanged between a husband and wife, long-married and bitter. Edward Albee’s play on which it [...]

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