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St. Patrick's Day edition:



In the movies you can go from chasing leprechauns to chasing intergalactic bad guys... and no one notices...

Oh, and no one will out you for being a former leprechaun chaser...

And strangely enough... chasing bad guys gets you the girl...

But so does chasing leprechauns...

Go figure!!


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In the movies, everything that happens no matter how seemingly insignificant, is somehow connected to everything else...

In complicated ways that you won't understand completely... till the end...

Wait...

What was the subject of this post???


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In the movies... if you screw up really badly...

You just keep doing stupider and stupider things until they somehow ALL magically cancel each other out and everyone lives happily ever after...


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In real life it is neither absolutely required, nor inescapably inevitable...

That all bombs be defused within 10 seconds of detonation...

(I think...*)


*I know I know, suspense, thrills, suspension of disbelief... I'm a willing participant... after all Pierce is the hottest Bond there ever WILL BE!! (Any and all naysayers can just talk to the HAND!!)


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When you leave someone standing at the altar to run off with the person you really SHOULD be with in the first place...

It's not romantic...

It's unforgivably unthinkable hurtful... In fact, it's probably one of the most humiliating things you could do to a person...*

And yet Hollywood insists on using it...  (I suppose it doesn't count if you spend 3/4 of the movie making the audience hate the groom or bride-to-be...)


*And no... I've never been left standing at the altar, nor has anyone close to me... it just continually strikes me as a ridiculous thing to use as a 'romantic' ending...

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In real life when you catch the 'jerks' red-handed and call them out on their manipulations, they don't slink off with a stricken look on their faces never to be heard from again...

In real life they continue to stick to their facade of innocence and non-manipulation...

And it's really convincing... After all, they've most likely had years of practice at it...

But really, that would make a sucky ending for a movie...


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