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should robin be in batman 3
Replied Jul. 25, 2008
How would YOU get it right?
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1 Word to Describe Ledger's Role as the Joker
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"The world will look up and shout: 'SAVE US!'... and I will whisper... no.
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- All Time Favorite Movies:
- The Shawshank Redemption, No Country for Old Men, Pulp Fiction, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Mist, Goodfellas, Casino, The Departed, City of God, Superbad, Dazed and Confused, Sunshine, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Casablanca, Natural Born Killers.
- All Time Worst Movies:
- Anything by those shitbags: Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg, if your reading this you two shits i'm coming for you!
- Favorite Actors or Actresses:
- Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Daniel Day Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Simon Pegg, Robert Downey Jr., Shia Lebouf ( this guy's going to be the next big thing, he's on his way to say the least). Kate Blanchett, Keira Knightley.
- Favorite Directors:
- Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, Edgar Wright
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well, its our little pile of durt and like it or hate it its ours! All Spillios who want to join go right a head, but really this is for all of those spill members who live in NJ!......I wonder how big this group is going to get? 4 maybe?
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A good review should have a brief overview of the plot (spoiler-free of course) because presumably not all of your readers will be as movie savvy as you or I and will already know what Jumper is about.
There is some good humor here, I lolled a few times, but be careful not to let the humor run away completely with the review. People ultimately want to make up their own minds and they want you to give them enough information to help them do that despite the expression of your own opinions.
-Write reviews for absolutely everything you see, even if you're the only one who reads it. This is your critic college, don't be disappointed if no one cares about your writing until later.
-Own a copy of "The Elements of Style." Even if you're no master of grammar, (FSM knows I'm not) you have to have the basics down or no one will take you seriously. This goes doubly for spelling. Make sure you have a good spell-checker hard-wired into your browser.
-Watch movies, watch movies, watch movies. Especially watch the classics. You gotta know what came first to know what to say about what comes out now, but never forget that not everyone sees all those classics so your criticism has to tread a thin line between those two viewpoints.
-Discover your voice. A generic review without personality is great if you want to work for fandango.com or someplace like that. You have to discover who Tom Eikner is THROUGH your affection for film and then you can really learn how to make Tom's voice be heard and be interesting.
Eventually you'll want to know where to submit. Hell, submit everywhere. Local paper, web sites, amazon.com...you ain't gettin' paid anytime soon, you just want to get your stuff out there and get some feedback (which you CAN NOT take personally.)
Hope all this helped.
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