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Cloverfield

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 · 1 Comment

IMDb
2008 · Directed by Matt Reeves
3 Stars


The web was a flurry of rumours again:
“the movie event of the season!” So then,
excited, yet cautious, to see Cloverfield,
I couldn’t help wonder just what it would yield.

The trailer, it offered a mystery, but more --
a movie with realism deep at its core.
‘Least that’s what I thought, since it all looked so real.
But what did the actual movie reveal?

The characters were the film’s biggest mistake.
These people aren’t real! Why, in fact, they’re quite fake.
Privileged white folk, just more of the same.
I can’t feel compassion for people this lame.

A monster the size of a building is aces,
but not when there’s nothing but beautiful faces
to root and to cheer for. And so I can’t clap
for “Godzilla Versus an Ad for the GAP”

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Go Team Blog!

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 · 3 Comments

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The Blogger Team totally kicked some nation-testing butt on CBC’s Test the Nation last night.  Our team came in first ahead of the backpackers, flight crew, celebrity look-alikes, chefs, and cab drivers.  Rick Spence from our team had the show’s highest score with a hefty 57/60, and though I haven’t received my official tally, I think I scored 51 if I counted correctly.  Though I was confident in our team going in, I did feel like we had a bit of an advantage with all the technology and pop culture questions that seemed to work heavily in our favour.  Or perhaps all quiz shows favour the nerds by sheer nature of things.

Rannie, has some great photos from the night, including our entire team line-up.

I was one of the few participants that got a chance to talk on camera, and got a chance to pimp Drawn!:

Highlight of the evening?  Getting to meet The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee.  Swoon!

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