Author: Solani Verma
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How Much Would It Cost to Build ‘Jurassic Park’ in Real Life?
Don’t give me a hard time over the accuracy of Fandango’s video claiming it would cost roughly $23.4324 billion to create the park seen in the original Jurassic Park, but their video does seem to have gone to great lengths to arrive at that number taking into account real estate, staff, research and development, park construction,…
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Watch: What if Michael Bay had Directed ‘Up’?
It’s an old joke, but when pulled off appropriately it works and YouTuber MrStratman7 has done just that in my opinion with this spoof trailer for Up, imagining what it might have looked like had it been directed by Michael Bay rather than Pixar alums Pete Docter and Bob Peterson. The answer, obviously, is more explosions.
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Dark Matter (2008)
SYNOPSIS: The feature film debut of renowned opera and theater director Chen Shi-Zheng, Dark Matter delves into the world of Liu Xing (Chinese for “Shooting Star”), a Chinese science student pursuing a Ph.D. in the United States in the early 1990s. Driven by ambition, yet unable to navigate academic politics, Liu Xing is inexorably pushed…
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Welcome to the New RopeofSilicon.com: New Features and Your Thoughts
By now I’m sure you have all noticed… things look a little different around here. I’ve been talking about an upcoming redesign for the last couple of months and finally pulled the trigger and hopefully you like what you’ve seen so far. However, I know change is a tough thing when you’re used to something…
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Box Office Predictions: ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ is Your Clear Winner this Weekend
Exodus: Gods and Kings is your clear winner this week. They are marketing the living hades out of it, and best of all they are completely lying about what this movie is. What it is… a mess. The ads make it look like an action movie, but there’s not all that much action in the first…
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The Official ‘Robert Pattinson is God’ Wallpaper
Take it. Love it. Enjoy it. Worship it. When I posted my article earlier today asking “Who’s the Next Big Male Movie Star?” there was an outcry by Robert Pattison (a.k.a. Edward Cullen) fans proclaiming he was certainly the next big thing. Their outcry came as a shock, considering I did add him to the list, but…
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MEET THE TRANSFORMERS: Bumblebee
Bumblebeeâ„¢ was one of the Autobots® on the Ark when it crashed into Earth and was involved in many battles, and also served as a useful Autobot® spy. In Transformers, he is Sam Witwicky’s first car, a Classic Camaro. Bumblebee’s function is espionage and reconnaissance missions. He is the “little brother” in the Autobot family, acting…
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Diablo Cody Annoys the Shit Out of Me
Will Diablo Cody just go the fuck away already? This quirky bullshit love folks have for her and her Juno movie has just about hit the rafters on the annoying meter. A site I recently plugged on this blog, 236.com, has “asked” Diablo (no, I don’t think her name is as cool as all the douches of the…
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What is Going On in ‘Prometheus’? A Universe of Questions, Answers and Theories
love him who willeth the creating of something beyond himself and thus perisheth.” Friedrich Nietzsche in “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None” UPDATE: I have edited the age of Peter Weyland on Page 4 as a result of incorrect information I had previously. I can’t say I have Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus figured out. Not in the least. But I…
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Weekend Box Office: Breaking Down ‘Divergent’ at #1, ‘Muppets 2’ is Weak & ‘God’s Not Dead’ Surprises
I’m not even sure the biggest story of the weekend is Divergent seeming to prove it’s the first young adult franchise since The Hunger Games to prove profitable, though the “A” CinemaScore certainly has me questioning the intelligence of today’s movie going audience once again. Instead it would seem the biggest surprise is God’s Not Dead coming out of nowhere with $9.2…