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The King of all White Boys: Movies

Explaining Inception

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To be honest, I was more confused at the reactions to Inception than the actual movie. People were calling it everything from mind-blowing to perplexing. Many people expressed needing to see it a second time, while others were nitpicking at every word and imagery attempting to construct highly complex theories base on semantics, visual scenes and coincidence. Inception was nothing more than a great heist movie with an open ending. Nothing more. Nothing less. It ...

The Watchmen

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The naysayers will always mention the same things: the story is too complex, the theater isn't the right medium, film can't capture the awe of the story - all of these things have led to the Watchmen being labeled as the unfilmable movie, and none of this was helped by Watchmen author Alan Moore stating these very same feelings about it.

The truth is everybody wanted a Watchmen movie, but everyone was scared that ...

Apocalypto

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With the 2012 meme hot on the minds of alternative archeologists, occultists, religious fanatics, and the rest of us crazy people, the Mayan civilization has started its steep upward climb back into the minds of modern civilizations. Mel Gibson - fresh off of his Passion of the Christ work, in which he laughed at traditional movie distribution all the way to the bank - decided to try his hand at the ancient civilization equation with his Mayan ...