Helpful votes received on reviews:
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Location: Atlanta
In My Own Words:
My family are, quite frankly, extraordinary -- my mother earned her PhD at 74, my sister, brother and sister-in-law do Neet Things with handcrafts. And my Other Brother is a best-selling SF writer. I like to know how well i've done in my reviews, whether they've actually helped anyone, whether they influence your buying decisions. Please e-mail me about them and tell me how i'm doing, whether you… Read moreMy family are, quite frankly, extraordinary -- my mother earned her PhD at 74, my sister, brother and sister-in-law do Neet Things with handcrafts. And my Other Brother is a best-selling SF writer.
I like to know how well i've done in my reviews, whether they've actually helped anyone, whether they influence your buying decisions. Please e-mail me about them and tell me how i'm doing, whether you agree/disagree/think i'm full of canned corn.
I'm a house-husband, and recently became a step-grandfather. For the second time.
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To "a viewer", who titled his review "Great movie ... poor DVD treatment", and complained: " (Also, there are no options for [...] -- I speak for others -- English dubbing.)": You don't *want* to hear the English dubbing from the original release. They even changed the character's name from "Pivert" to "Beaver"... (I haven't yet seen this DVD -- i intend to do so as soon as possible -- the five stars above are for the film, one of the great slapstick comedies of all time. (I might subtract one or even two if the DVD transfer is sufficiently atrocious or the film is severely edited.)
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John Carpenter, like Spielberg, is aware of the history of cinema, and often references earlier films (and other pop-culture material) in his work. As many have pointed out, "Assault" is essentially a modern-setting remake of "Rio Bravo", and quite well done, with horror-type elements reminiscent of films like "Night of the Living Dead". Carpenter seems enamoured of the "unstoppable-mysterious-thing that wants to eat your face" plot; all of his best films seem to use some variation on it. In this case, the Nasty Thing is the uber-gang "Street Thunder", who have declared war on straight society in general, and on the cops in… Read more
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Another reviewer has said: "Bah. If the left had their way this book which offends them so badly by portraying the truth would be burned and the author sent to a Gulag." Actually, no -- it is the Left (by that reviewer's apparent terms) that generally opposes almost all censorship. The same reviewer opens her review with a remark about reviewers who claim a book is Very Badly Written, but seem unable to cite so much as a single passage to bear out this claim -- in the case of this book, i again find myself quasi-quoting a marvellous catty remark -- in this case Mary McCarthy's comment on Lillian Hellman: Every word he writes is bad, and that includes "a",… Read more
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