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Do not, I repeat, do NOT see Hellboy 2.

Posted by w7ngman | July 18, 2008 3:21 PM
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it's a cockroach. Wall-E's little buddy is not a beetle, but a cockroach.

sincerely,
diggum.

Posted by diggum | July 18, 2008 3:27 PM
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Your problem, w7ngman, was you went into it with too high expectations.

People I trust, looking for summer movies, enjoyed WALL•E, The Wackness (I concur), Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and Brick Lane (I greatly concur).

The Last Mistress was very interesting and a good choice. Glass ... um, well, it's a trip ...

I thought the Seattle Bike-In was a real movie at Cal Anderson? not a movie titled that ...

But I'd say Last Year at Marienbad might be worth seeing, except I'm broke right now.

Posted by Will in Seattle | July 18, 2008 3:29 PM
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Is "Last Year at Marienbad" in IMAX anywhere? Because that would be, like, the total shit.

Posted by levide | July 18, 2008 3:55 PM
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@2: We received a letter to the editor on this subject. You are correct. I thought a cockroach was a kind of beetle and, not having room to explain the Twinkie thing, that a beetle sounded cuter. I have not corrected it since I thought the letter would run in the letter section at some point, but it has not.

@3: Yes. I did not mean to ital. Will fix that shortly.

Posted by annie | July 18, 2008 4:14 PM
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There were so many problems with Hellboy (disappointing since it also had so much promise) it really irks me that they made a sequel.

Posted by keshmeshi | July 18, 2008 4:26 PM
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Not really, Will. In fact I wasn't expecting much. It's just that terrible. The Stranger's review got one thing right:

"painfully awful"

Posted by w7ngman | July 18, 2008 4:41 PM
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OH well.

I hear the french film "Band of Brothers" is showing at IMAX in a double bill with Marienbad.

Posted by Will in Seattle | July 18, 2008 5:02 PM
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Seattle Bike In is screening Jorgen Leth's A SUNDAY IN HELL for anyone who cares.

Posted by apttitle | July 18, 2008 5:42 PM
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In a world of collapsing stock markets, obscene oil prices, an embarrassingly incompetent president, plus inconvenient chlamydia, seeing "Mamma Mia" will finally give your life meaning. Gay people who don't like it have been miraculously cured of their gayness. Five stars and one Streep forever!

Posted by RHETT ORACLE | July 18, 2008 6:23 PM
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@9: Anyone who cares should have clicked on the link, which explains--in our very calendar, no less--that the feature is A Sunday in Hell. God, it annoys me when people refuse to click on a link we've provided to explain this exact fact. Please, just reiterate the link, don't provide information we've already explained. Ugh.

Posted by annie | July 18, 2008 8:45 PM
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just caught the dark night at the 4:20 showing at cinerama. can you believe i got a good seat even though i was at the back of the ticket holder's line?

great flick. lots of shit got blowed up real good. heath ledger (god rest his soul) is so good, you want to see him in every scene, and you get impatient when he isn't! also, the best script ever for a comic book movie. oh, and christian bale isn't bad either.

Posted by scary tyler moore | July 18, 2008 9:19 PM
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I saw both Mamma Mia and Glass this weekend...both are good, each in their own way. Mamma Mia is insanely fun, despite it's dreadful script and lackluster direction. Glass is fascinating and surprisingly humorous, at times.

Posted by michael strangeways | July 21, 2008 9:18 AM

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