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Rasselas
04/18/09

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Annalee, are you married? I, uh, ask because a friend of mine....
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Grey_Area
04/17/09

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Somehow this is a perfect summation to io9's salute to the Hyu-mon Mating Season. Much blessings to all you hormone-crazed mammals. Blessings!
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crashedpc - Haifisch
04/17/09

@Grey_Area: *trembling* Sadly, we are both commenting late on a Friday evening.
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mediareport
04/17/09

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Wow, this gush really makes me doubt io9's brains. I suppose I'll reserve final judgment until I'm drunk and at someone's house watching the Crank Yank 2: We Have Zero Ideas DVD, but the first film was just awful - classic jumpcut-no-story insulting idiocy that wasn't even worth watching in a "just fucking show me some stupid explosions" state.

I'm finding it really hard to believe that there's anything worth wasting time on in the sequel. But, ok...maybe someday I'll find myself in front of it and change my mind. Hope to hell not, though.
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Moff
04/17/09

@mediareport: I think you have to take it as what it is. I mean, if you go in expecting a mainstream movie that adheres to traditional standards of craft, you're going to be disappointed. But it seems like the directors are intentionally aiming for classic jump-cut, no-story, insulting idiocy. As the A.V. Club says, in a review that's similar in tone to Annalee's: "It'd be silly to call Crank: High Voltage over the top: The top is so far below that it isn't even visible."

I dunno. I kinda liked the first one (and apparently enough other people did to warrant a sequel). It was ridiculous, but so much so that I felt like the directors were winking at us. It struck some kind of thoughtful chord in me, and it was a hell of a lot more memorable than a lot of the other movies I've seen in the past few years.
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Plague
04/17/09

@mediareport:

I bet you're a real hoot a parties.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
04/17/09

@Plague: "And then, dude, like, HE JUST FUCKING ELECTROCUTED HIMSELF, MAN!!"

"Clearly the film makers are not aware that the heart is controlled by tightly regulated electrical pulses that tell it when to beat."

"..." * www.sadtrombone.com *
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Pope John Peeps II
04/17/09

@Plague: "This drinking of beer at parties makes me seriously doubt your brains. I mean, beer is known to kill precious, precious brain cells. I have so many brain cells because I simply do not partake in beer. Also it lowers your inhibitions. Who knows, drinking beer might result in you making out with a woman! THE HORROR."
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crashedpc - Haifisch
04/17/09

@Pope John Peeps II: "... My life is so empty."
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IraeNicole
04/17/09

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Can't wait to see it.

Hmm I hadn't really connected the names but are you the same person who wrote "Trannychaser"? [www.nerve.com]
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Moff
04/17/09

@IraeNicole: No, that was Annalee Billingham.
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Moff
04/17/09

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Do you think it's gonna be a trilogy?
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ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
04/17/09

@Moff: Please god yes.
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