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    Albany Foodie World Is All About Punching

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    Image of garbanzo314 garbanzo314
    11/21/09

    In reply to Albany Foodie World Is All About Punching
    Originally from the area, but whenever I drive up from NYC and want to take family out for dinner, there are like one or two decent restaurants in the whole area. And when you quiz locals about good places to eat, they get that whole "upstate/downstate" argument, as in "Why don't you go back to where you came from." So I do.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Albany Foodie World Is All About Punching
    Sounds like someone's going to get a DeJohn letter?
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    11/20/09

    In reply to Albany Foodie World Is All About Punching
    Albany is a cow pasture with buildings.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/20/09

    In reply to Albany Foodie World Is All About Punching
    Hmm... someone else is on Felix Salmon's frequency today too.

    First he tweets of Albany, then he tweets of psycho restaurateur:

    [gawker.com])&utm_content=Google+Reader
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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    11/20/09

    In reply to Albany Foodie World Is All About Punching
    Banana rama fo fama
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    09/06/09

    In reply to All That Sucks About Steve
    "You look like a retired porn star!"

    How could this movie NOT be great?
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    09/05/09

    In reply to All That Sucks About Steve
    Hahaha -- the subtitle to the Washington Post review of this movie is "Sandra Bullock is Wasted". This may be truer than they realize.
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    Image of GORDONGARTRELLE GORDONGARTRELLE
    09/05/09

    In reply to All That Sucks About Steve
    I despise the Post, but Kyle Smith FTMFW,MF.
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    Image of alboy2 alboy2
    09/05/09

    @GORDONGARTRELLE: Indisputable. When will Sandra Bullock learn to read a script?
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    Image of MsMuffinMcGuffin MsMuffinMcGuffin
    09/05/09

    In reply to All That Sucks About Steve
    Thanks for saving me the $12.50, Richard!
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    09/05/09

    In reply to All That Sucks About Steve
    I have no idea why Bradley Cooper is a lead in a feature film. Still can't wrap my head around it. Clive Owen, Gerald Butler, this fool, it's like Hollywood wants to lose money.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    09/05/09

    @jasonelias: Someone was trying to save money and convinced themselves that he was a serviceable substitute for Josh Lucas or Patrick Dempsey or someone of that ilk. Someone was wrong.
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    09/05/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Yeah, they're probably going to find out just how wrong this weekend.
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    Image of pushupbraaah pushupbraaah
    09/05/09

    @jasonelias: Well, he's led two so far and right now has an average of about 60 mil per movie....
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    09/05/09

    @pushupbraaah: You really think he "led" The Hangover? You think a significant percentage of the people who went to see that movie went because he was in it, and not because they'd heard the movie was hilarious? I'm so tired of the fallacy that actors are what make movies profitable.
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    Image of MincnglyWhrdL'mer MincnglyWhrdL'mer
    09/04/09

    In reply to All That Sucks About Steve
    "jokes involve deaf children falling down a mine shaft" would be a pretty damning review, as a stand alone
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    Image of Mymoustache Mymoustache
    09/04/09

    In reply to All That Sucks About Steve
    I'm surprised it's not in 3D!
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    09/05/09

    @Mymoustache: Hey, "Up" was in 3D and it was awesome.
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    Image of God God
    09/04/09

    In reply to All That Sucks About Steve
    This is what happens when women refuse to watch Pornography.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    09/05/09

    @God: It's a privilege to approve Your comments.
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    Image of The_Lovely_Miss_Bronx The_Lovely_Miss_Bronx
    09/04/09

    In reply to All That Sucks About Steve
    I was hoping this movie would be so awful that it was sublime (see "Showgirls" and the "Star Wars" prequels), but it sounds like it's just awful. Too bad -- I like Sandra Bullock. But I gotta say, Kyle Smith has been my favorite movie critic for the past couple of years -- he's mean, spot-on, and usually pretty funny. (Yes, I know he works for the NYP, but still.)

    His finest hour came two years ago, when he reviewed Nic Cage's "National Treasure: Book of Secrets." He wrote it from he actor's perspective. Here's just the beginning:

    "THIS is Nicolas CAGE. Remember when I used to make quiet movies for smart people? Things have CHANGED.
    "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" is my latest LOUD movie for IDIOTS. It's another flick about maps, landmarks and buried treasure that makes "The Da Vinci Code" look like TOLSTOY. Remember how cleverly one clue led to the next in "National Treasure"? The sequel is more like CONNECT-THE-DOTS. And yes, I do continue to develop my HABIT of suddenly YELLING in the middle of a sentence."

    I re-read this whenever I need a giggle. (Is that wrong? Perhaps I need help . . .)
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    Image of mharker mharker
    09/04/09

    @The_Lovely_Miss_Bronx: Last night I was entertained by Roger Ebert's review of The Spirit:

    "To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material...At one point, The Spirit takes three bullets in the forehead, leans forward and shakes them out. At another, he is skewered by a broadsword. Why, oh why, does he never die, he asks himself. And we ask it of him."

    Nothing is wrong with you. I have a fondness for reading reviews of bad movies.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    09/04/09

    @The_Lovely_Miss_Bronx: Yeah, I'll promote anyone who hearts Kyle Smith. He's my total Republican crush. The funniest film critic, hands down. His review of that 3-D Jonas Brothers movie earlier this year was hysterical. And he published some of the choicest pieces of hate mail he got afterward on his blog.

    His review of Blood Diamond is one for the books, too. I loved that movie, because it's so enjoyable in that retarded, throwaway Big Hollywood way, and I also love the hating review K Smith wrote about it.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    09/04/09

    In reply to All That Sucks About Steve
    Yah, I knew this movie was going to suck balls once I saw the sheep-shag wig Sandy was wearing. And you know, she, Cooper and Haden Church were on Bravo or something doing a junket appearance for this shite, and Bullock said all of two words the entire time, and her face looked like she was in abdominal distress. I'm thinking she desperately didn't want this movie to come out and ruin her Proposal high. She probably totally thought it would be shelved indefinitely or go direct to DVD, but Bradly Cooper had to get all Hungover and crap, so now she has to wear a shit-suit and tell everyone it's a ball gown. Just like with Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fucking Awful.
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    09/05/09

    @Spirit Fingers: Thomas Hayden-Church and Bradley Cooper also seem utterly cowed by the lameness as well. They both come across as charmless, unfunny dolts in all the publicity I've seen them doing for this junk. The highlight was Norm MacDonald steamrollering Hayden-Church on Conan.
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