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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Helm2Lee]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the friendly warning! Though I totally disagree with you about Les Miserables, I can't stand seeing animals in jeopardy, even in movies.

&quot;Worse things happen at sea.&quot;  Indeed!

Helm]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from DMarkwick]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hi Scott. I don't know if chains are being deliberately yanked here for your own personal amusement, but I might add that another &quot;natural problem with reviewing movies&quot; is not having seen the movie.

Your apparent distaste for seeing CGI animals in jeopardy caused you to walk out because you can't cope with that sort of imagery, and the film is about coping mechanisms of horrendous events. Delicious irony :)

I have to wonder why you watch any film, given that you refuse to watch films that genuinely engage your emotional responses. I'm pretty sure you must have seen the trailer for this film, and so might have realised that the film DEFINITELY had at least two of your listed reasons to walk out. Did you go just to walk out? I suggest you might have.

Life Of Pi isn't about animals in jeopardy, or people drowning, it only has them as background. If you cannot get further than the premise or the CGI representation of jeopardy, then review the trailer. It also does not contain the actual reason Life Of Pi exists as an entertainment.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Raymee]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@mouffett

Ditto, I'm afraid. The otherwise enjoyable Robot Scott isnt wired to respond to concepts of humanity in depth.

This is a unusually strong story of symbolism and personal mythology as a coping mechanism to a horrific experience. Everyone could benefit from this approach everyday in some small way. 

My apologies to Robot Scott - If a hand held device didnt tell him it was meaningful, it will never be known. That said, continue to be entertaining *click-whirl-pop* in your fashion.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from greg5k1]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Biased, squirmish and succumbing to peer pressure. All these traits are not the traits of a legitimate movie reviewer. Don't give up your day job Scott!

First you caned Les Miserables a movie which you clearly missed the point of and now this one. I will still read your amusing cartoons but I'll skip the 'movie reviews'.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from btw2worlds]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott,  

You should really watch The Piano and Freddy Got Fingered.  Those are the best movies I have ever seen.  Take it from a friend, they are worth watching.

Your friend at the CDC]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from RayKremer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Well, I have to admit, if you can't take a movie in which animals die or people drown or might drown, Life of Pi isn't the movie for you. For people without factors that disqualify a movie, or people with different such factors, Life of Pi is a pretty good movie.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from mouffett]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wow, Scott, you are one miserable bastard.

Don't get me wrong.  You're a supremely gifted cartoonist, premier modern philosopher, and clearly gifted moist robot.  But you're a vegetarian, constantly frustrated by poor design and execution in much of everything, and you don't appear a fan of popular entertainment.  

You, sir, are slave to your higher functioning brain.  You know the rest of the world hasn't caught up to you, live in an inferior place surrounded by inferior beings.  You are destined to a life of endless frustration and ceaseless unhappiness.

But keep up the good work.  I enjoy it.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from trendsworld]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[How would it be If Doctors Know that you are in trouble with the help of apps? for more information

http://www.trendsfair.com/how-would-it-be-if-doctors-know-that-you-are-in-trouble-with-the-help-of-apps/

The diabetes, depression or some other patients may get trouble anytime. At that time, if they are alone, how can they be treated and who takes them to doctors for treatment? Doctors will treat only when you are in emergency room in hospitals....]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from immi]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[There is a reason why we already have &quot;Movie Critics&quot; ..please don't dabble in to it. That is a specialized craft that, apparently, you don't have any clue whatsoever..]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Smith25]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I realize most readers of this site wouldn't much care for the religious symbolism and I didn't particularly either but after your positive review of This is 40 (It might have been sarcastic, I'm still not sure honestly), I'm starting to wonder how the hell your brain is possibly wired. 

When I go to a movie big screen, the only thing I really want from it is to look nice. If it doesn't look nice, I'll see it on a small screen because who cares? Life of Pi looked freakin' nice. Like Avatar freakin' nice. And if you try to argue that than you are a stupid, rotten liar who will die a stupid, rotten liar death.

If you're not into seeing CGI animals hurt and the idea of actors getting wet upsets you then I can see why you might not like it. We all have our preferences and our things that make us squeemish. I, for instance, am unable to watch uncomfortable, awkward humor. I empathize too closely with embarrassed people to the point I need to change the channel. The Office totally destroys me a lot of the time.

Fortunately, I have a hunch a lot of people agree with me on only seeing attractive movies big-screen so as pirating continues to rob movie sales, the only things people will still be going to see are movies that lose too much by being seen on your own tv/monitor. So big, colorful epics, here we come.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from RavenBlack]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's funny that when I try to think of movies I think Scott would like, I keep running into that wall of &quot;people tied to a chair getting tortured&quot;. It doesn't happen *a lot*, and it isn't focal to the movies at all, but it just seems to keep cropping up in movies that I think Scott would otherwise enjoy. &quot;Save the Green Planet&quot;, particularly, is a great premise, brilliantly executed, but it does have a bit too much chair-torture. &quot;Attack the Gas Station&quot; doesn't quite have anyone tied to a chair but it has things that I suspect would be equivalent enough to be a problem. I wonder if maybe Korean black comedies just aren't complete without someone being at least a bit tortured.

Anyway, today I would recommend &quot;It's a Disaster&quot;. Nobody is tied to a chair or tortured, no animals are in the movie at all, nobody drowns or comes close to drowning, and ... oh, they are all kind of trapped in a house, is that a prison theme? Anyway, it's a sort of subtle sitcom-esque humor, only a little darker, that I think Scott would enjoy.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from whtllnew]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@dquinn1968

[Eraserhead by David Lynch is my pick for worst movie ever. Try it out Scott, I think you will love hating it.]

OK.  Read up on that movie.  Looks pretty bad but have never seen it so I can't agree or disagree with you.  

My pick for worst movie I have watched all the way through would be Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.  The book was fun and I loved it.  The BBC miniseries was fun and I loved it.  Watching the movie I could practically hear the folks making it say 'Okay, fine, we went and  made this movie, are you happy?  Now leave us alone.'  It was obviously expensively made but it was badly done and written expensively made.  And the acting was sometimes bad too.

If Im allowed to include movies I only saw part of the way through before being repelled by the sheer awfulness of it and switching it off I would go with Leonard Part 6.  The only films Ive seen partly through that were worse were intended for younger viewers and, therefore, don't deserve the designation.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Kingfisher]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is why I never go to a movie unless I know what it is about.  I'm the kind of guy who reads the last few pages of a book first to decide whether I want to read it or not.  It saves a lot of time.

As such, I have no desire to watch or read Life of Pi, if for no other reason than ***Spoiler Alert:  The tiger is a metaphor for the kid's will to survive, or something******.  I don't need stories like that.

I suspect, Scott, that you are more like me.  You don't believe in free will anyway, so what harm can it do knowing the end from the beginning.  Why would you like surprises when statistically speaking half of them are disappointments?

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from mebstick]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott,

Unrelated to this movie, I find it hard to believe you wouldn't love The Shawshank Redemption which violates your rule #1.  Maybe this would be the exception that proves the rule.

[I hated The Shawshank Redemption, Cool Hand Luke, and every other prison movie. The worst of the worst is I Love You Phillip Morris. -- Scott]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from delius1967]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[[  5) commercials before the movie starts (I hate commercials) ]

I pray for the day that Congress gets off its collective heinie* and does something useful:  mandate that theaters either post the actual time the movie starts, or post two times, one when the commercials/trailers start, one when the movie starts.  On the rare occasions when we do go see a movie in the theater, I will drive my wife nuts by counting the number of trailers and how long after the posted time the movie actually starts.  For wide release movies, it is usually 15-20 minutes these days.  The last movie we saw (&quot;The Hobbit&quot;) set a new record, not starting until 24 minutes after the posted time.

Thinking of trailers reminds me of another deal-breaker:  movies with words that fly. Out. AT. YOU.

By the way, I write &quot;commercials/trailers&quot;, even though they are one in the same, to clarify to those people who say mystifying things like &quot;the trailers are the best part of the movie&quot; that I specifically do NOT mean when the trailers start.

* This charmingly old-fashioned curse word brought to you by Bob's Unreasonable Profanity Filters.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from dwquinn1968]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Eraserhead by David Lynch is my pick for worst movie ever.  Try it out Scott, I think you will love hating it.

[I have seen Eraserhead and I heartily agree with your assessment. It is indeed the very worst movie ever made. I was psychologically scarred after seeing it. I was actually angry that it was legal for a film do that to innocent viewers. -- Scott]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Drowlord]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I am LOVING your movie reviews.  Seriously, this material could, by itself, be a popular website.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Kingdinosaur]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott, I take it you hate movies like Jaws and ones where the animals are the antagonists and have to die.

About the payoff at the end thing: the opposite of that is the original Evangelion series.  Great start, horrible ending, transformed the genre.  In some ways for the worst because of the ending.  I don't think I could sit through a bad movie for a &quot;good&quot; ending.  I'd be too pissed off to enjoy it.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from EMU]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen &quot;Iron Sky&quot;, the crowd funded finnish movie?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from whtllnew]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@emptc12

[I seldom see movies in the theaters. Too expensive. I wait for them on DVD and get them from the local library. If a movie is so superficial that it must necessarily be blown up in size to be appreciated, I do not need to see it.]

I too dislike the whole modern moviegoing experience.  The expense is one of my lesser reasons for going with other movie viewing options.  On top of this there is also:

1) to see a movie in the theater you have to spend maybe an hour commuting and maybe another half hour waiting in line and waiting in your seat.

2) your legal choice of food is limited

3) bad seating

4) the potential of being crowded

5) commercials before the movie starts (I hate commercials)
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