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The Moneyball of online dating

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Long story short: math whiz conducts data research on OkCupid’s question survey profiles, and uses the data to more thoroughly compile potential compatible women for him.  After gathering enough information on what he’s typically looking for, he massages his own profile(s) to become a mathematically high-percentage compatibility match for the types of women he’s targeting.  In the end, he manages to go on a bunch of dates and ultimately meets a girl he’s now going to marry.

So I wonder when this is going to be made into a book by Michael Lewis or Ben Mezrich?  And then how long it’s going to take to be made into a movie directed by Steven Soderbergh?  I bet the movie will have the main character played by Jesse Eisenberg or Andrew Garfield, but definitely not someone that actually looks like the real person.

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Do we really need another Wolverine movie?

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Seriously, this makes what, five?  It’s not like the three X-Men films didn’t revolve around Wolverine, and it’s not like Wolverine didn’t already have his own movie in X-Men Origins: Wolverine* already, so I guess The Wolverine makes five films about Wolverine until 20th Century Fox decides that another Wolverine film is needed for another layup paycheck, and so they drop the “the” and just release Wolverine in like 2016.

*I think it’s hilarious that they prefaced this with “X-Men Origins:” as if it were implied that 20th Century Fox could make a series of origins films of any other X-Men characters whose origin stories could actually be encapsulated into 90-minute films.  It’s almost as pathetic as the lucrative Street Fighter name and logo being attached to The Legend of Chun-Li, with slight implication that they could actually make movies about any other Street Fighter character.

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I think this is currently my favorite song

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Two of the Lucky Ones, by The Droge & Summers Blend

Most people know this song, because it was played in Zombieland in the part where Mark Zuckerberg is trying to work up the courage to kiss Emma Stone while slow dancing at Bill Murray’s mansion. It’s a song that relaxes me, and is just really easy to listen to. I can listen to it at pretty much any mood, and it helps cheer me up, reel me back, or just feel mellow and imagine myself outside in nature with a cold drink nearby.

My listening habits are pretty temperamental and change at the drop of a hat depending on how I’m feeling, but this is a song that I can’t really say that I’ve ever skipped whenever it’s popped up on my iTunes. Without certainty, that means it’s one of my favorite songs, and currently the one at the very top.

Warm Bodies was a warm something alright

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I think the most telling thing is that when the ending credits roll, Jonathan Levine’s name doesn’t show up anywhere on it; probably because he doesn’t want anyone to realize that he was responsible for such a lame movie, as the director and screenplay writer.

So yeah, Warm Bodies was a pretty crappy movie, in a nutshell.  It was slow paced, predictable, mostly anti-climactic, and often times just plain boring.  Not even Rob Corddry could rescue it, and John Malkovich wasn’t in it nearly enough to bring it back to some degree of watchability.

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Hauntingly beautiful

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I watched Sleeping Beauty on Netflix.  Not going to lie, the reason I watched it because I kind of crush on Emily Browning, and I heard she pretty much goes full frontal in this flick.  But anyway, it was about an hour and forty minutes of wtf, and frankly, I don’t think even the most transcendental hipsters would be able to put two and two together with this movie’s plot or direction.  As far as the basics goes with storytelling, Sleeping Beauty deviates from just about all of them, and they just keep moving as if everything’s already been explained when it hadn’t.

Convoluted story aside, I will give the movie that it’s one of the more visually beautiful movies I’ve seen.  I’m obviously no cinematographer, so I have no substantial weight to my opinion, but when I actually take notice of how beautifully shot everything is, then it just might have been well shot.  The framing and concise angles stood out to me a lot, likely a culprit because nothing story-wise was, but I still say it was beautifully shot.

But no more than the picture above; there’s something hauntingly beautiful about Emily Browning in this one particular scene where she decides to burn money.  To be perfectly honest, in spite of the classical beauty features she has, there’s something about her that objects to my personal aesthetic preferences; maybe it’s her eyes or something.  But in this two minute scene where she’s burning money with a reflective and amazed expression on her face, in the middle of the night, I find Emily Browning to be the prettiest girl in the world.

Thoughts on Silent Hill: Revelations

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The chick who played Heather was really cute, and totally in my wheelhouse.  Even if she looks like she’s half my age.

But the movie itself sucked, and it wasn’t a surprise, and I am disappointed that it cost me $16 to see in 3D.

The end.

Okay, now that the thoughts on Silent Hill: Revelations are over, don’t click the jump unless you want to hear spoilers; not that they’re really “spoilers-“spoilers, but if you’re sensitive to being told something that happens before you find out, don’t read on.

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Thoughts about Trouble With the Curve

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So I decided to go to a theater for the first time in ages, and I watched Trouble With the Curve, starring Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams.  I had some trepidation going into this movie, seeing as how it’s pretty much one gigantic counterpoint to Moneyball, which was a story and concept I liked, and the movie wasn’t half bad either.  But the movie focuses around baseball, and uses the Atlanta Braves as the team that the characters revolve around, so it was kind of unavoidable in the end.

As a movie plot, Trouble With the Curve is nothing spectacular at all, but it’s far from the worst flick on the planet too.  It’s predictable, the characters are cliche, and it tended to drag on at times, if not by any means other than repeating the plot device of “emotionally-detached aging father has difficulty bonding with now-grown-up daughter so walks away.”  At this point in time, I’m having difficulty in appreciating Clint Eastwood’s former greatness when he’s playing these vulnerable and cliched, gruff, elderly men.  And as for Amy Adams, I figured I would come out of the theater with a renewed crush on Amy Adams, but yeah no, not really.

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