Evening Reading

by Xav de Matos, Jan 18, 2011 5:00pm PST

As I sit here and type this the only thing I can think about are the piles of previews and interviews I have to write out for the rest of this week. When I say "rest of this week," what I really mean is tonight because I don't have any other time to do it. Thankfully, I'm taking a breather beginning Friday and returning on Monday night.

I haven't traveled for non-work related reasons in a while, so it will be nice to not have to worry about my schedule, or laptop, or voice recorder. Or taking piles of notes.

Speaking of notes, remember to jot down this note for yourself: "Keep refreshing Shacknews tomorrow morning because Nintendo is set to reveal its launch details for the 3DS in North America tomorrow."

Here's the video game news of the day from the Shack to tide you over while you wait until the morning:

Here are some random musings from around the web:

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What do you guys think of that movie The Fountain?

Jan 18, 2011 6:36pm PST

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What do you guys think of that movie The Fountain? : BouillonCubes
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  one of the worst things put to film since the time sparkly went nuts with lensflare : multisync
  - hahahah : Nitrium
- Good acting by wolverine, but the movie gelt incomplete or just poorly executed. : Juno
- I think it's great. Plus a terrific Clint Mansell score. : mechanicalgrape
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  Didn't like it. Watched it again recently & probably disliked it even more. : goatjc
  - Kinda a bit of a let down. The graphic novel tie-in really shows what the movie was going to be. The sc... : rayholycross83
- loved it : liquidlies
- It was...interesting : Volatus32x
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  I enjoyed it immensely, I found it easy to get swept up in the story (stories) I really loved the rep : rgoer
  - I honestly have no clue why I spoilered that : rgoer
  - agreed with everything posted here : sludge vohaul
- Pretty bad, it's probably the worst Aronofsky movie I've seen. : camel_jockey
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  i like it until i found out it was supposed to be 3 different dudes. then it made no sense. : eeeealmo
  - I thought the superpowers were kid of silly : DonkeyPopsicle
  - I don't think it was 3. The Spanish story was her book. The modern day and spaceship scenes were the "... : glio1337
- Pretty but boring : timaste
- I thought it was brilliant : grandmasterlee
- Awesome movie :) : Godhatesfatpeople
- got drunk in college with a bunch of friends and then we watched the fountain. None of us knew was was go... : sparkly
- Amazing film. : lodit
- The word pretentious comes to mind. : CrustaR
- I quite liked it. : ChibiJosh
- didnt really like it : bolneze
- was good, would prob watch it again cuz i dont remember a damn thing about it : arizona bay
- I didn't like it. I thought it was a disjointed love story that tried too hard. : mnsnota
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  Love it but it is not for everyone, just like Solaris. : hobosapien
  - You are a true scholar among the sci-fi crowd. I salute you! : spyrext
- my fiance is well aware that if rachel weisz threw herself at me she'd be gone and yes, huge aronofsky... : teethmarks
- My favorite movie of all time and my #1 movie of the decade from 2000-2010. That said, I understand wh... : Flint Ironstag
- Same moral as Stranger Than Fiction and not nearly as entertaining or well done. : doozer667
- didn't do much for me. empty... more melodrama than any sort of emotional impact. : miasma&!
- Is good. : HockeyJohnston
- the movie was OK, but the music was phenominal!! i bought my wife the soundtrack years back and the music... : techx4
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  Great visuals, boring as shit story. : Matt Burris
  - Forgot to add that the soundtrack was pretty good, too. I guess it's more an audio/visual experience rat... : Matt Burris
- overwrought, hammy, pointless, nice music : DonkeyPopsicle
- Damn near perfect. : the if
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  one of my favorites. gets better with repeated viewings. although tonite it would destroy me. : PlanetPerfecto
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    Weakling. : brickmatt
    - !!!! I'll be back in a couple of hours. I'll deal with you then you saucy ho!!! : PlanetPerfecto
- wanted my 2 hours or whatever of life back : kelerian
- Pretentious and awful : Thresher
- Horrible on all fronts. Most overhyped movie ever. : Omning
- It was awful : Drewus
- I really enjoy it. Got it on Blu-Ray, it's good stuff : glio1337
- Someone needs to make a mash-up of "The Fountain" and "Pi" -- only then will life be worth living. : VenDrake
- One of the best movies I have ever seen : spiffymc
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  It's November / December 2006 all over again! : shabuttle
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    I know! Why are so many people watching this movie all of a sudden? : dumb.
    - Black Swan? : Grumbeld
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  I like to imagine that, in every movie Hugh Jackman is in, he's playing Wolverine but he doesn't know he'... : XAVdeMATOS
  - The Fountain's imdb credits: Hugh Jackman ... Tomas / Tommy / Tom Creo / Growly Gus : rgoer
- Worth watching once. Maybe twice. : Visceral Monkey
- Rachel Weiss is so dreamy : Rag and Bone Man
- Amazing soundtrack and visuals. I didn't really understand it 100% but I still thought it was a very emot... : h o s t i l e
- Haha I just watched this last week for the first time. Funny to see how polarizing it is! I thought it ... : Empyric
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  i liked it a lot, saw it six times now. every time i watched it i thought something completely different ... : sanewave
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    is it really that hard to get? It's not like Primer where you need a chart and way too much patience to ... : DonkeyPopsicle
    - The cuts to the different settings throws people off the most I think. : glio1337
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      what is your thoughts on it? do you think the old setting of them was real or just part of her story? : sanewave
      
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      Here's why I'm positive the Spanish stuff was her book: He dies after partaking of the tree sap. It turn : glio1337
      
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      I feel the future theory is even further backed up by the fact that the wedding band tattoo is there and : glio1337
      
      I felt those type of nods were more like those flashbacks in Happy Days when Fonzi is still portrayed as ... : Porkasaurus
      
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      She asked Hugh to finish writing the book, the future parts were the way he coped with her death, writin : Porkasaurus
      
      But think about the progression of that story. It doesn't make any sense. I think the book ends after the : glio1337
      
      Agreed. I don't know why this is a problem for people. It's a story-LINE almost literally. : spyrext
      
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      http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24955770 : Porkasaurus
      
      I thought this too at first but my post ^^^ up there is my new theory. : glio1337
      
      how would it be real? Seemed pretty clear that is was the story. The future is him after having discove... : DonkeyPopsicle
      
      i think it was real, it was a type of reincarnation, i forget the scene why i think this, but the more yo... : sanewave
- fantastic movie, one of my favorites : skizl
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  Wolverine fucks a tree in outer space! : skitzo
  - lol : Boxelder
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  didn't finish it : thebigbeefsandwich
  - I'm not sure if this was an intentional joke but I laughed. : Porkasaurus
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  Ugly and dumb. : lechuck59
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    Asked about the movie not a self-description. : Godhatesfatpeople
    - I'm beautiful and brilliant. : lechuck59
- I thought it was kind of mediocre, except for the visuals and the soundtrack, which were fantastic. : Lone Swordsman
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  Love Aronofsky, but think that movie kinda missed. : systatic
  - Exactly, it's by far his worst film and no one should have to watch it more then once. : TemporalParadox
- I hated it at first, since the trailer really portrayed it like a single narrative. After I thought about... : ZombieAcademy
- I love it, and I have the graphic novel as well. : awaypaster
- I like Aronofsky, and the Fountain is my favorite of his films so far. : scythide
- Very interesting. I need to see it again, but I think I liked it : bombay
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  Confused when I saw it the first time, read more about it, watched it again and absolutely loved it
  
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  Confused when I saw it the first time, read more about it, watched it again and absolutely loved it : indosauros
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  I didn't like it at all. Skip it and watch The Wrestler and Black Swan. : hyperion25
  - Most brilliant movie ever : fluffy64
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  The Garbage : Boxelder
  - Hey watch it buddy : awaypaster
- One of my favorite movies ever. I know some people find it slow, hard to understand or overly sappy but ... : Sumantro
- I loved it. Gorgeous and moving. : Vantage
- loved it : NastyNorman
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  I watched it, hungover, on New Year's Day with a buddy a couple years ago. Worst two hours of our lives. : givemesnacks
  - Did you watch Rambo IV on your wedding anniversary? Maybe you're in bizzaro land? : spyrext
- Zzzzzzzzzzzzz, so boring, but some interesting ideas : dedgecko
- Didn't like it.. but the sequel looks good! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiwIK_CtTIM : Edges
- Loved it at the time, although in retrospect it was a bit wanky. : Arceihn
- Loved it. One of my favorite movies. Haters gonna hate. : jessipoo
- I love it. : Grumbeld
- Originally, I had no idea what was going on. After my second viewing I found it to be a very good movie,... : destinyofdeath
- Great movie. It made me T_T : fsck
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  I haven't seen it yet, somehow. Does it require a special mood to be in, or will it murder any mood you a... : FirstPersonCooter
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    imho, it absolutely benefits from a special mood and wavelength, and a contemplative mindset, and a certa... : PlanetPerfecto
    - Now I want to see it! : FirstPersonCooter
- I really enjoyed it. Need to watch it again soon, and I usually don't watch movies a second time. : devi| dog
- Interesting premise with some amazing visual execution that left me feeling a little cold. : action wombmate
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  I cry intensely when I see that movie. Twice, I watched, probably no more. GREAT film. : spyrext
  - Also, this movie is a deal-breaker with me. You get the metaphor or you just don't watch movies with me ... : spyrext
- http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20176903#itemanchor_20176903 : cornchak
- Prettily shot, too fucking long, too fucking boring. : Thornfist
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  Entertaining, problematic, momentarily poignant, mostly an exercise going towards greater things, that's ... : SpaecKow
  - it's definitely a film that falls into a relatively rare, satisfying category in which it's emotional imp : PlanetPerfecto
- that's the sad one right? i might slit my wrists if i watched it right now. : xxiv
- Absolutely brilliant. : Nitrium

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