In other words: The American health care system is fundamentally evil.

I really do try to see good things in contrary points of view sometimes. I'm willing to admit why an argument I've made in favor of or against something has been wrong, and a fair amount of my friends can testify that I've (reluctantly) conceded when I've screwed up and need to consider a different point of view and/or apologize.

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A bit late for this post! To be honest, I've had to spend a couple of days mentally and physically recharging. It's been a while, and that many people - and that many things to do - took a surprising amount out of me. Still, this is something that I wanted to make - and I've got other blog posts that I wanted to make after this one, so stay tuned.

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It's been a while. I could talk about things being busy, but things are always busy. I'm not going anywhere, barring very unfortunate circumstances, and I appreciate everyone who's still been following along with this account.

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State of Play, the 2009 cinematic adaptation of the 2003 BBC One miniseries of the same name, is a film that has an ambitious, complex plot, some solid performances from it's cast, but in the end, stumbles over itself by trying to make a story built on shades of gray, into something more black and white, and therefore suffers.

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You know, i was going to make a big, official "i'm back" blog. I abstained from it on the basis that i should put out more than one story in the space of a week before claiming it as an official signal of my return to writing. And it wasn't as if i didn't write a bunch: I just didn't publish anything i wrote. Once i actually get any of:

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Rating Scale:

12/10—a complete masterpiece; flawless and outstanding
11/10—Excellent, near-perfect film
10/10—the standard rating; awesome film with a couple of flaws
9/10—a wonderful film with several flaws

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_{Hell. Yes.}

I wrote stuff. I put a new story out, and I know that I'm gonna be able to see it through.

Mostly because I actually wrote a bunch of chapters ahead of time, already have the ending planned out and am finishing up the last few chapters of the story as I'm writing this.

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#2: Dubstep.

_{Bass POW}

You think I'm kidding, don't you? Actually, I'm completely serious about this. I promised you that there would at least one entry out of the seven that would be mocked and, honestly, this is the one I was thinking about.

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Greetings, everyone!

Once again, I'm back with another movie review. And today, I'll be reviewing Disney's 2007 adaption of Underdog.

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In Marie Antoinette, writer/director Sofia Coppola attempts to pain the last queen of France as just another teenage girl, who, by the cruel hand of history, was thrown into a world that she didn't understand.

However, as noble as the endeavor to humanize Marie Antoinette might be, Coppola fails spectacularly, creating a film that is high on kitschy style, but absolutely empty of substance or insight into Marie Antoinette.

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And I don't regret it now.

I'm neutral on the original version of the song, but holy cow I'll defend the remix of this song in public.

I should try to capture that songfeel in horse words, but I'm not totally sure on where to begin.

Happy Holidays, folks. Here's to writing things worth reading.

Paul Thomas Anderson's third feature marked the peak of his increasingly complex ensemble dramas, marking the exceptional maturation and expansion of the stylistic and storytelling tropes he first properly explored in Boogie Nights.

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My TV Show Rating Score:

5/5: It is an awesome show!
4.5/5: it is a great show albeit not perfect
4/5: It’s a good show with minor flaws
3/5: It’s overall okay/guilty pleasure
2/5: It’s bad but not awful
1/5: Look, up in the sky! It’s super bad!

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Yeah, I know, I'm like a week late with this announcement. I'm aware that I've been getting more and more scarce on here, but that doesn't mean that I'm not interested in some Fimfic events from time to time - and this is certainly, certainly no exception.

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Maybe it's just me but, at a certain point one must consider their lunch or dinner choices before heading into traffic. You see, traffic is a cruel mistress. It slows up, bogs down and in pretty much any other way it can will make your life difficult. Add into it a sizeable Mexican meal and it becomes the slowest most arduous race against the devil to get home and not ruin your pants.

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From the director of The Hunger Games 2, 3, and 4...

This. What is this? Why is this?

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And, just like before, I take shameless advantage of torrenting websites and downloaded the DVD Screener to The Hateful Eight. And I ain't one lick sorry.

Quentin Tarantino's eighth feature serves as not only a return to his roots, but also as a deliberately overcharged homage to the hyper-violence of the Italian Giallo film genre, both in subject matter and content.

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