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	<title>RopeofSilicon.com Movie News, Trailers, Reviews and More &#187; The Shallow End</title>
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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>Movies to Mark Your Life By</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghostbusters II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pinocchio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revenge of the Sith]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=14916</guid>
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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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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rescue Me]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Shield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Sopranos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The West Wing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=14323</guid>
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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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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=13491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

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>
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		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=13218</guid>
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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>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>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/hey-i-want-to-see-these-top-ten-movies-too#comments</comments>
		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=11915</guid>
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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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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=11211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
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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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>R.I.P. Pushing Daisies</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/rip-pushing-daisies</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/rip-pushing-daisies#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Idiot Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Shallow End]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firefly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pushing Daisies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serenity]]></category>

		<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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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[The Danish Girl]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=10713</guid>
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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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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Shallow End]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=10615</guid>
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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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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beverly Hills Chihuahua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fireproof]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=10549</guid>
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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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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Shallow End]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dark Knight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Godfather]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=10491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
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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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Will &#039;Heroes&#039; Finally Impress with &#039;Villains&#039;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/will_heroes_finally_impress_with_villains__20080922</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/will_heroes_finally_impress_with_villains__20080922#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Idiot Box]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=10381</guid>
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David Frank knows more than you. Care to disagree?

&#034;Heroes&#034; slithers back onto NBC&#039;s lineup tonight, giving fanboys a whole new slew of shit to bitch about&#8211;unless they drink the Kool-Aid and actually believe Tim Kring&#039;s soap-opera cross between &#034;X-Men&#034; and Unbreakable makes quality television. Ahh, poison tastes so yummy when it&#039;s cherry-flavored. I know millions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Annual 9/11 Film</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/annual_9_11_film</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[United 93]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=10310</guid>
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David Frank knows more than you. Care to disagree?

Maybe it&#039;s pathetic or weird or exploitive or an absolute necessity. TV stations do it all the time. The 10 Commandments (or whatever vanilla Jesus movie they can dig up) for Easter. Saving Private Ryan (or any John Wayne war flick) fills up the cable schedules for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Movies? Video Games: The Sequel</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/future_of_movies_video_games_the_sequel</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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So in a few weeks (September 16 to be exact) George Lucas and pals will drop another Star Wars sequel on the public. What, what, whaaat&#8230; you say. Wasn&#039;t that animated &#034;thing&#034; the final theatrical gasp of Lucas&#039; film franchise? Haha, you fool. No. Lucas will never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do the Olympics, John McCain and Star Wars Have in Common?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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Oh finally. Just a few more days and the miserable Olympics will finish. No more puff pieces on the nightly news about child mutants able to flip their bodies inside out while snapping Newton&#039;s laws &#8212; all in the hope to win a gold medal in honor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A &#039;Star Wars&#039; Fan&#039;s Confession</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/star_wars_fans_confession</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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When I started this gig, I vowed never to write about Star Wars as a topic. You see, I love Star Wars. An Attack of the Clones IMAX poster hangs over my printer. The Darth Vader voice-changer mask sits next to my phone, it&#039;s within arm&#039;s reach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#039;t Avoid the Theater in September Anymore</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/cant_avoid_the_theater_in_september_anymore</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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Normally at this time of Earth&#039;s orbit around the sun, I go into hibernation mode for a several weeks, waking up sometime in October. It&#039;s the end of the summer movie season and the beginning of the big studio garbage dump-athon, week after week of shit movies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;X-Files 2&#039; Harms David&#039;s Psyche</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/x_files_2_harms_davids_psyche</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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Fox Mulder has a beard! There I&#039;ve wanted to print that for six months now. Not that the beard is anything important, and of course he has it only for the movie&#039;s first act. It&#039;s just a descriptive detail I noticed from my set visit last February [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do We Need a Christopher Nolan Batman Trilogy?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/do_we_need_a_christopher_nolan_batman_trilogy</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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Congratulations Christopher Nolan. You just delivered the best comic-book film ever. And creeping hell, it happens to be one of the all-time great sequels too. And did I mention it just shattered box-office records like a sledgehammer on a potato chip? What are you doing next…after going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man Up. Cry a Lot!</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/man_up_cry_a_lot</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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I am a man! A hairy, football loving man. A man who believes Budweiser props up the food pyramid. A man who wears sweat like a fashion statement. I eat raw steak and fart in public. Because I am a man! I rip phone books in half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is It Too Early to Remake &#039;Hancock&#039;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/is_it_too_early_to_remake_hancock</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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Unlike some who feel every remake amounts to a personal affront on their gentleman&#039;s honor, I&#039;ve gone on record saying remakes rarely irk me.* So I say, why not remake Hancock? How about now? Leave the &#034;too soon&#034; charges for those joking about your recently deceased goldfish. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things to Do While Waiting for &#039;The Dark Knight&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/things_to_do_while_waiting_for_the_dark_knight</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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The early reviews have landed (and boy, do  I mean early—I didn&#039;t expect reviews for The Dark Knight to pop up until the week before its release). The good news: The Dark Knight apparently lives up to the hype. The bad news: The Dark Knight apparently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paymemymoney Fever&#8230; It&#039;s Catching On</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/paymemymoney_fever_its_catching_on</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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Bruce Campbell once admitted to taking a TV gig because his house needed a new water heater. Fair enough. He&#039;s a working B-movie actor, use to paying for life&#039;s necessities with bottom-dwelling roles. But what&#039;s Joan Allen&#039;s excuse? 

I knew master-hack Paul W.S. Anderson cast her in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Will be Left Standing After the Summer Movie Fallout?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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Occasionally I roll out the crystal ball and peek into the future. Sadly, the only future that pops up on the spherical surface deals with movies. My crystal ball is lame and busted like that. No matter, I&#039;ll make do with my crippled ball. At the very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Film am I Going to See First On Friday?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/what_film_am_i_going_to_see_first_on_friday</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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Most people who know me know where to find me Friday evenings during the summer. And it ain&#039;t sitting on some Mexican restaurant&#039;s patio drowning the week&#039;s stresses in Corona (that&#039;s Saturday through Thursday). Immediately after work, I hit the movie theater to catch the latest summer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Like It. You Don&#039;t Like It. So You&#039;re an Idiot! Right?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/shallow_end_i_like_it_you_dont_like_it_so_youre_an_idiot_right</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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So I liked that movie and you didn&#039;t. Or I hated that one film and you placed it number 8 on your best of the year list. Let&#039;s tussle &#8211; right through the pub&#039;s window and into the street, just like something out of Rocky V&#8230; oh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shallow End: Jonesing for Some Indy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 17:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Frank</dc:creator>
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This is it. I might be a full-fledged, card-carrying adult come Thursday morning. The last of the movies I&#039;ve been lining up for since childhood hits screens this week. Should I even bother mentioning the title? You know what I&#039;m yammering about. Indiana Jones IV. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Old [...]]]></description>
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