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{4.5/5} “Those seven years of MacGyver finally paid off.” Chuck season 2, aired in 2008-09 Chuck still works at Buy More, where Big Mike is looking for an assistant manager. Chuck is still in a fake relationship with Sarah as part of their cover, but would like to be in a real relationship with her. […]
Yet another set of 10 directors who have produced masterpieces, like the previous 10. Jon Favreau Favreau is both an actor and a director, and although the movies he’s directed have gone downhill over time there could definitely be an upswing. Masterpiece Elf Great movie Iron Man Good movie Iron Man 2 Mediocre movie Cowboys […]
The comic strip Gil by Norm Feuti was brilliant — it was the successor to Calvin and Hobbes. It appeared in some newspapers for a while and it appeared online for a while. I mentioned it before here. It disappeared but is now back on a different website. You can find it here: Gil Comic […]
{4.5/5} “Sherman, I’m beginning to question my carnivorous lifestyle.” Sherman’s Lagoon 1991-2001 Greatest Hits and Near Misses by Jim Toomey, published in 2002 Sherman is a shark. Megan is his girlfriend, Fillmore the turtle and Hawthorne the crab are his friends, and Ernest is a young fish who’s still in school. Sherman looks after his […]
Here’s an article by Jef Rouner from the Houston Press. It’s commonly said that opinions can’t be wrong, but the problem is people are labelling things opinions that aren’t. It seems like more and more people think that just because they label some thought an “opinion” that everyone must respect it. But if what’s you’ve […]
As in part 2, a list of 10 directors with 1 to 3 masterpieces each. James Cameron If Cameron gets some help with the script on his Avatar sequels, they could be interesting. In terms of science fiction action, Aliens is one of the top 2. Masterpiece Aliens Great movies The Abyss Terminator 2: Judgment […]
The directors in this list, like the ones in part 1, have a good chance at bringing new amazing stories to the screen. Each of these 10 directors has directed between 1 and 3 masterpieces. J.J. Abrams In TV land Abrams created Alias, Lost, and Fringe. Masterpieces Mission: Impossible III Star Trek (2009) Great movies […]
Sometimes you don’t necessarily pay attention to the director of a movie, but there are some directors who have a habit of directing great movies — so you might want to know who they are. Each of these 10 directors has directed 4 masterpieces. There may be some off-by-one errors in my ratings for movies […]
{4.5/5} “You get off the boat for the first time and you realize you’re literally on another planet — the air smells different, the water tastes different, the moon’s the wrong size and it rises too fast… After a few weeks or months people get disoriented on some deep level. So they turn around and […]
{5/5} “Suddenly I was running a fully functional family practice, and most of my patients were people who had looked deeply into the Reality of the Spin and confronted it with courage and resolve… Before long I began to consider myself one of them, part of the work of extending human influence into the raging […]