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	<title>RopeofSilicon.com Movie News, Trailers, Reviews and More &#187; David Frank</title>
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		<title>Despite the Rules We&#039;re Talking &#039;Fight Club&#039; Ten Years Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happy Anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fight Club]]></category>

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I know the whole &#034;I was into it before everyone else was&#034; attitude is a hipster-douche move, but I don&#039;t care. I saw Fight Club opening night, because I anticipated it more than any other film of 1999 other than The Phantom Menace. After Seven and The Game, director David Fincher was pure gold in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Working American Directors</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/top-ten-working-american-directors</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Top Tens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darren Aronofsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Fincher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethan Coen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Coen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Scorsese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Thomas Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spike Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Soderbergh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Spielberg]]></category>

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Top Ten Working American Directors
 A list like this is tricky to the point of madness. However, I&#039;m going to save you the trouble by saying it right here, right now: Most of the choices on this list are obvious. There&#039;s a reason why certain names continually pop up whenever conversation drifts toward great American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crowning &#039;Three Kings&#039; Ten Years Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happy Anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Three Kings]]></category>

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Ten years have passed since David O. Russell delivered his brazen, wildly kinetic Gulf War Part 1 film Three Kings. There was a great many war movies before Three Kings and a great many since, but no war film has ever quite captured the energetic vibrancy of Three Kings and I&#039;m doubtful another ever will. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Great Movie Deaths</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Top Tens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apocalypse Now]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bonnie and Clyde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Strangelove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How the West Was Won]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kill Bill: Volume Two]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King Kong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psycho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Princess Bride]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Wizard of Oz]]></category>

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Photo: Universal Studios Home Entertainment


Top 10 Great Movie Deaths

Movies love to kill people, and actors love to die (preferably slowly and with a great close-up). Yet, more often than not, film fatalities are an accountant&#039;s errand. Just another tally mark in the body count. This isn&#039;t a list celebrating the art of ludicrous squibs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Campaign for Change and &#039;District 9&#039; is My Candidate</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/the-campaign-for-change-and-district-9-is-my-candidate</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Shallow End]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[District 9]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra]]></category>

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David Frank shares a piece of himself in digital ink&#8230;

Last year fanboys around the world were offered up the tasty chew toy that was The Dark Knight and they slobbered all over it and then some. Virtually over night, it seemed people lost all sense of perspective and The Dark Knight became the measuring stick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic Films</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Top Tens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children of Men]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Strangelove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mad Max 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planet of the Apes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twelve Monkeys]]></category>

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Top Ten Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic Films

It seems Hollywood&#039;s infatuation with the end of the world has found its place in 2009 with releases such as Knowing this past March and upcoming releases such as 9, The Road and 2012 later this year. I never saw The Horsemen, but I know it had an apocalyptic theme, and films [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies to Mark Your Life By</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/movies-to-mark-your-life-by</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Shallow End]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghostbusters II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pinocchio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revenge of the Sith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Star Wars: Episode III]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Cell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Insider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Matrix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Talented Mr. Ripley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Waterboy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transformers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twister]]></category>

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David Frank shares a piece of himself in digital ink&#8230;

Some mark their lives by a diary or the cars or pets they owned. Others use the good ol&#039; calendar. I mark mine by movies. Yeah, it&#039;s a little pathetic. But, I&#039;m a movie guy. That&#039;s my lens for life. What do you expect? So I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Ebert I Trust</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/in-ebert-i-trust</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Shallow End]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knowing]]></category>

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David Frank knows more than you. Care to disagree?

Roger Ebert handed Knowing four stars, and in doing so &#8212; and being in the minority &#8212; some continue to say he&#039;s tossing out four stars these days like they&#039;re Tootsie Rolls in a parade. So what? Mr. Thumbs habitually rails against the superficiality of star (or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stay Inside and Watch More TV</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/stay-inside-and-watch-more-tv</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Shallow End]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[24]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deadwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dexter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House M.D.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mad Men]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rescue Me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Six Feet Under]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Shield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Sopranos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The West Wing]]></category>

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David Frank knows more than you. Care to disagree?

Some folks will say you shouldn&#039;t watch TV. It&#039;s bad for yah. Nothing but an idiot box. It&#039;ll soften your brain and whet Alec Baldwin&#039;s appetite. And don&#039;t sit too close. That goddamn thing will scorch the retinas right out of your skull like an uncased gamma-ray [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where in the World is &#039;The Road&#039;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/where-in-the-world-is-the-road</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/where-in-the-world-is-the-road#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Shallow End]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Road]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=14054</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#034;It essentially comes down to this: if The Road sucks or distributor Dimension Films tosses the movie into a time capsule for release in the next decade&#8230; I’m going to have to carefully reconsider my life. We’re talking &#039;Chicken Soup for the Soul&#039; and a trip to India here, folks. Yet, my oracle talents feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Dawn of Obamatainment</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/welcome-to-the-dawn-of-obamatainment</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Shallow End]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frost/Nixon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Country for Old Men]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slumdog Millionaire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dark Knight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Reader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[There Will Be Blood]]></category>

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Can you feel it?


Don&#039;t mind the frightening wolves howling outside your door. Just be happy you have a door, even if it&#039;s just a flap on your cardboard shack. The world&#039;s imploding and we&#039;re all hobos now. Even Steven Spielberg has gone panhandling &#8212; please Mr. Movie Studio Head-honcho spare some change for my Lincoln [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come On&#8230; Quit Toying Around</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/come-on-quit-toying-around</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/come-on-quit-toying-around#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Shallow End]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Star Trek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]></category>

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David Frank has something to say. Care to disagree?

Darwin had it wrong. We&#039;re not evolving as a species. Visit a Wal-Mart, listen to a Sarah Palin speech, or watch Ben Lyons on &#034;At the Movies&#034; and you&#039;ll see all evidence pointing to a free-fall state of devolution. Nowhere else is it more prevalent than on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Most Bewildering Oscar Best Picture Nominees</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/top-ten-most-bewildering-oscar-best-picture-nominees</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/top-ten-most-bewildering-oscar-best-picture-nominees#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Top Tens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A New Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chocolat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doctor Dolittle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fatal Attraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shakespeare in Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Star Wars: Episode IV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Full Monty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Godfather Part III]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Hours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Towering Inferno]]></category>

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Top 10 Most Bewildering Academy Award Best Picture Nominees
Scratching your noggin over the Oscar love for The Reader? How did those dastardly has-been Weinstein brothers budge The Dark Knight(if you&#039;re a whiny fanboy) or The Wrestler(if you&#039;re a whiny film snob) out of a deserving Best Picture nomination with a movie no one seems to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey! I Want to See These &#039;Top Ten&#039; Movies Too!</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/hey-i-want-to-see-these-top-ten-movies-too</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Shallow End]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blade Runner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frost/Nixon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happy-Go-Lucky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Let the Right One In]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marley and Me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revolutionary Road]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slumdog Millionaire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Synecdoche, New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Wrestler]]></category>

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David Frank knows more than you. Care to disagree?

Oh The Wrestler is that good, eh? Life isn&#039;t complete without seeing Slumdog Millionaire?  Synecdoche, New York will blow my mind with its mighty Kaufman awesomeness? Hey thanks for rubbing it in. Please continue on how Let the Right One In is a masterpiece of masterpieceosity.  No no, don&#039;t stop. I want to feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD Review: I Am Legend (Ultimate Collector&#039;s Edition)</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/dvd-review-i-am-legend-ultimate-collector-s-edition</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/dvd-review-i-am-legend-ultimate-collector-s-edition#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Video News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I Am Legend]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Was anyone really clamoring for an &#034;Ultimate Collector&#039;s Edition&#034; DVD of I Am Legend? I&#039;m sure there are hundreds, or even thousands, of super-fans. But I&#039;ve never met one. I know millions of people flocked to the film, yet any rabid reaction one way or the other must have been under the radar. The film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would Someone Finally Destroy Mankind Please!?!?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/would-someone-finally-destroy-mankind-please</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/would-someone-finally-destroy-mankind-please#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Shallow End]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Armageddon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independence Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Day After Tomorrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Day the Earth Stood Still]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Road]]></category>

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David Frank knows more than you. Care to disagree?

Next Friday Keanu Reeves threatens to scrape Earth free of the entire human race, or at least truckers, football fans and Kathy Bates. Yet, unless the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still really deviates from the original film, I doubt Reeves floats away in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blu-ray Review: Step Brothers (Unrated)</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/blu-ray-review-step-brothers-unrated</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife hates Will Ferrell, yet loves Step Brothers and quotes it daily (&#034;We&#039;re here to fuck shit up&#034; being her favorite). And unlike me who plugs movie quotes into conversations as if they&#039;re Lego blocks, she&#8211;like most socially adept humans&#8211;rarely quotes films. Yet, you don&#039;t know my wife so that probably means nothing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD Review: 24: Redemption</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/dvd-review-24-redemption</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=11141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s been awhile since we &#034;24&#034; fiends have had a healthy dose of some new Jack Bauer (thanks writer&#039;s strike). So when Fox broke the news that a made-for-TV &#034;24&#034; movie that prequeled season 7 was in the works, oh boy did I start jonesing for some Bauer badassery. Maybe it was too much to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD Review: Wanted (2-Disc Special Edition)</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/dvd-review-wanted-2-disc-special-edition</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wanted marries The Matrix&#039;s visual roadmap with the self-loathing corporate worker-bee narration from Fight Club. It&#039;s arguably the most expensive movie mash-up ever released. And while the filmmakers and some easily impressed fans tout the film as a work of innovation, it just simply isn&#039;t. Other than the hilarious concept involving the characters taking their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R.I.P. Pushing Daisies</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/rip-pushing-daisies</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=10982</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
David Frank knows more than you. Care to disagree?

News broke last Friday that the suit-bots at ABC cancelled &#034;Pushing Daisies.&#034; Oh excuse me, they &#034;didn&#039;t order new episodes.&#034; Which is like saying, &#034;I didn&#039;t shoot you in the head. I just injected it with a large deposit of lead.&#034; Note to ABC suit-bots, if you&#039;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is &#039;Watchmen&#039; the Next &#039;300&#039;? &#8211; Take One</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/is-watchmen-the-next-300-take-one</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach in Watchmen
Photo: Warner Bros.


Brad riddled me this the other night: Is Watchmen the next 300? Oh God, I hope not. However, that response erupted without even considering how one would define Watchmen as the next 300. No matter how you map it the answer always pinwheels off director Zack Snyder. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Reasons NOT to Make &#039;Batman 3&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/top-ten-reasons-not-to-make-batman-3</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/top-ten-reasons-not-to-make-batman-3#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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Top 10 Reasons NOT to Make Batman 3

Brad has officially added Batman 3 to the RopeofSilicon database, but that doesn&#039;t mean it&#039;s going to get made, it just means hopes are getting high. Everyone and their mom wants Batman 3. Without a doubt I want it. Sooner the better. And ,of course, since The Dark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood&#039;s Ball-less Decision: Kidman as a Transsexual Male</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/hollywoods-ball-less-decision-kidman-as-a-transsexual-male</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/hollywoods-ball-less-decision-kidman-as-a-transsexual-male#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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David Frank knows more than you. Care to disagree?

Gasp! Nicole Kidman plans to marry Charlize Theron and go faux-tranny in The Danish Girl. Yep, nut-less Kidman will jump in the role of Einar Wegener, the first man who underwent a sex-change operation. Hurry, someone grab James Lipton and his 10-foot tall stack of note cards. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Positive Look at &#039;Hellboy II&#039; and Its Collector&#039;s Edition DVD</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/dvd-review-a-positive-look-at-hellboy-ii-and-its-collector-s-edition-dvd</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hellboy II shouldn&#039;t exist. It defies Hollywood math. The first film didn&#039;t make much money at the box office. No one other than hardcore geeks was clamoring for a sequel. And once the possibility of a sequel did bloom, Sony refused to bank it and sold the rights to Universal. It&#039;s a minor miracle this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD Review: MST3K: 20th Anniversary Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/dvd-review-mst3k-20th-anniversary-edition</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/dvd-review-mst3k-20th-anniversary-edition#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#034;Mystery Science Theater 3000&#034; was and remains my favorite show ever to light up a television set. My buddies and I gathered around the TV for entire weekends (yeah, we were virgins for some time) watching Joel or Mike, Tom Servo, and Crow shred the shit out of films that make Uwe Boll&#039;s filmography look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the World Needs Now Is Not a &#039;Boondock Saints&#039; Sequel</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what_the_world_needs_now_is_not_a_boondock_saints_sequel_20081029</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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David Frank knows more than you. Care to disagree?

Troy Duffy once punched me in the crotch. It was a ferocious blow, worthy of the Hall of Fame of Great Cock Knocks. But, I should have seen it coming. The wind-up was long (yet the punch was swift and solid). I still cough up blood when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Conversation with My Buddy Kirk Cameron</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/conversation_with_my_buddy_kirk_cameron_20081017</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/conversation_with_my_buddy_kirk_cameron_20081017#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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David Frank knows more than you. Care to disagree?

Not sure if you remember, but back at the beginning of August I wrote a Shallow End piece about the upcoming September flicks and made a brief reference to October flicks and how I had a vision of Kirk Cameron pointing out how the release of Beverly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Empire&#039;s Top 500 of Ludicrousness</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/empires_top_500_of_ludicrousness_20081008</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/empires_top_500_of_ludicrousness_20081008#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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David Frank knows more than you. Care to disagree?

Everyone enjoys reading a Best of/Worst of list every now and again. We occasionally publish a Top 10 Whatever here on the website and the damn things are hit magnets. Their easily digestible format and promise of no heavy intellectual lifting for the reader make for fun, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin to Appear on Very Special &#039;According to Jim&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/sarah_palin_to_appear_on_very_special_according_to_jim_20081002</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/sarah_palin_to_appear_on_very_special_according_to_jim_20081002#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA &#8211; Watch out Jim, it might just be &#034;According to Sarah.&#034; In another shocking move by the McCain-Palin presidential campaign, Governor Sarah Palin will guest star on an upcoming episode of &#034;According to Jim.&#034; 

&#034;My friends, I&#039;m proud to be to be on a maverick ticket comprised of my maverick self and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Newman: The Icon</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/paul_newman_the_icon_20080929</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no shortage of icons in this world. We read their obituaries regularly. But it was no mere icon who died Saturday. In a world full of legends, there was only one Paul Newman. We didn&#039;t lose an icon; we lost The Icon.

His passing signifies an end to a certain kind of star, a [...]]]></description>
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