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Terribly Happy (Frygtelig Lykkelig) E-mail
Written by Zombie Boy   
Friday, 01 January 2010 02:49

 

The first thing you need to know is that the title Terribly Happy is an object lesson in irony: there is not a single happy thing that happens in this film. Anything that seems even minorly pleasant quickly descends into a world of poo. Imagine seeing a glitter of light winking at you from a mud puddle. You bound over in the hopes of finding a pearl or some other equally neat trinket, but when you yank it out you find it is a human clavicle. Your mom’s, as it turns out. You didn’t even know she was dead. Then a car drives by and splashes the mud all over you. And then you get cancer. That’s what watching this movie is like. But does that make it a bad film? Quite the contrary. It is beautifully shot and hits every emotional beat out of the park. It just happens to be depressing as hell. I don’t know. Maybe it is a Dutch thing.

Last Updated ( Saturday, 02 January 2010 23:11 )
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Review: Mark Macready and the Archangel Murders E-mail
Written by Angela Mac   
Saturday, 12 December 2009 23:53
Ever get tired of the same old film arcs? All that filler, all the requisite small stuff that some studio honcho of long ago decreed would make the audience feel -- heaped onto us like mortar into gaping fissures. So often, this cookie cut filling lacks in calories equal to what it ultimately robs from the film. No film seems to want to cleanly state, "She fell in love with him." Oh, no. They want us to feel it. The reality, though, is that we don't always need to be cognizant of the why-it-exists to simply respect that something does exist.  

 

Last Updated ( Saturday, 02 January 2010 23:12 )
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Review: Romance and Cigarettes E-mail
Written by Angela Mac   
Thursday, 17 September 2009 18:01
There is a passage in Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door in which the narrator compares the histories of two ex-girlfriends; one, who claimed to know suffering, and the other, who actually did. The former had been on the receiving end of a true catfight. Wound with fury, the cat ran up her body, teeth and talons shredding their way from her ankles to her hairline. While the latter had been out driving with her fiancé, when their car careened off the road. As the fiancé’s body was ejected from its seat, the windshield peeled the flesh from his carcass, leaving him to dangle, skinless, before her waking eyes.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 22 September 2009 00:29 )
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Anti Anti-Twilight Rant E-mail
Written by Zombie Boy   
Wednesday, 25 November 2009 15:09

 Alright. Hold on. Let me see if I have this straight. This lady wrote a book that lots of girls seem to love. Even lots of older girls seem to love it. It made a bunch of money. Enough money to merit several sequels, and now some movies. The ladies seem to love the movies just as much as the books. This is apparently totally unacceptable to lots of people with internet connections. They need to rant and rave about the fact that these other people like something that they themselves do not. Is that about right? I am confounded at the audacity of these people. I mean, the nerve to not get the internet's permission before deciding on whether or not you like a book. And then the sheer, unadulterated, unmitigated gall to be vocal about it. Bananas. Can we get some hammers and some nails over here, please? I got some crosses to build. I am of course talking about Twilight. And for once, this is a rant not directed at Team Edward or Team Jacob. This is a rant directed at Team Shut Up and Mind Your Own Damned Business.

Last Updated ( Sunday, 13 December 2009 00:53 )
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Patrick Swayze E-mail
Written by Administrator   
Tuesday, 15 September 2009 07:16

Tough Guy Appeal or Boyish Charm? As The Plot Hole tips our hats to the memory of Patrick Swayze, we offer the male, and female perspective of his film career.

The Female Perspective (by Angela Mac):

Patrick Swayze.

Just the name sounds good.

Take the Patrick part: a strong, proud, Irish name – full of fight and fueled by passion. The Swayze aspect is a whole other story: “Sway”… a slow, undulating movement – and that “Zeeee”, mmm, there’s smoldering style in that ze.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 01 October 2009 23:59 )
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Star Trek VI E-mail
Written by Administrator   
Thursday, 01 October 2009 03:38

(By Guest Reviewer: Mike White)

Do you remember the old Klingon proverb that the even-numbered Star Trek films are better than the odd-numbered ones? Despite the height of Star Trek II and the depths of Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek V, this sweeping generalization just doesn’t hold water when peering at Star Trek VI with a critical eye. Trying to recapture the magic of Star Trek II (and IV) writer/director Nicholas Meyer was brought back to the series. Alas, Meyer was unable to pull the series out of its tailspin.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 07 October 2009 07:07 )
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Eeew!: An Unnecessary Rebuttal E-mail
Written by Zombie Boy   
Wednesday, 19 August 2009 07:35

 

So, Entertainment Weekly recently put out their list of the top 20 horror films of the past 20 years. As you might expect, the list is utter nonsense. From just reading it, I cannot for a second fathom what metric they used to establish this retarded dogshit list. Box office receipts? I doubt that. Horror nerd bias? Surely not. The Plot Hole is unabashedly an opinion site. We have no employees: just a couple of geeks being unfair and snarky to anything and anyone we don’t like. But this Owen Gleiberman dude, who wrote the list, is a paid employee who was assigned this task by his superiors. And while he may be a movie critic, he is no horror buff. We realize that every other horror website this side of the Cretaceous Period has rebutted and pissed on this list, so you can just add our opinion to the pile. We’ve never been proud or above flogging a dead horse. Read on, if you dare!

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 16 September 2009 03:11 )
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