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Please Kill Me Now 
"Need my dopamine fix!"
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 Posted - 12/13/2006 : 22:16:00
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Come on, benj! Work with me here! 
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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 12/14/2006 : 00:12:49
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I'm not sure this approach will work. Everyone's got a backlog.  |
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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 12/14/2006 : 09:26:40
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It would be bad enough to have a general thread where people asked for their reviews to get precedence in approval, but to have two threads requesting this for the same relatively weak film is a little much.  If one has a special reason for wanting a certain review to be approved quickly, one should contact Benj directly. However, this would have to be a good reason; I don't think I've ever done this. |
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aahaa, muahaha 
"Optimistic altruist, incurable romantic"
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Posted - 12/14/2006 : 09:49:51
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Originally posted by Salopian
It would be bad enough to have a general thread where people asked for their reviews to get precedence in approval, but to have two threads requesting this for the same relatively weak film is a little much. If one has a special reason for wanting a certain review to be approved quickly, one should contact Benj directly. However, this would have to be a good reason; I don't think I've ever done this.
The only time I did this was when no reviews were yet listed for one of the films in the top 10 in UK chart for which I had a review pending. That's the only justifiable excuse for breaking the line, IMHO. If all my pending reviews were to be approved immediately, my total reviews would increase by 20+%. While that would be most welcome, the flip side to it is that my average votes per review would fall from 5.6 to 4.39  . No pain, no gain. |
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Ali
"Those aren't pillows."
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Posted - 12/14/2006 : 10:07:59
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I think half the fun is waiting for, what one assumes to be, a great review to get approved. Will it make it? Will it be turned down? Will this dress make me look fat? Questions, questions...
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 12/16/2006 : 00:18:56
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| I don't much worry about it. I've got over 160 reviews pending, but if a huge rash of them were approved tomorrow, I'd still be rolling out a review or two or three on every film I watch. The trouble with that is, I flip through the channels constantly and usually have a film on all the time, so my list will just continue to snowball - at least until I burn out or I have another eye bleed and can't read for a while. |
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 12/16/2006 : 01:59:43
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"Another eye bleed" - ouch!
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 12/16/2006 : 02:23:22
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Originally posted by demonic
"Another eye bleed" - ouch!
Actually, it doesn't hurt at all, and the observer can't tell it's there. For description's sake, it's kind of like a varicose sort of vessel in my right eye that sometimes takes it upon itself to leak into the vitreal fluid in my right eye. I've had laser surgery on it, but it's a persistent lil bugger. So I don't run, or lift heavy things, or fall down (well, that's not a conscious thing), or bungee jump, or participate in professional wrestling matches, or skate in roller derby, or surf, or ski, or other similar things that jar one's head. And if it happens, I spend a lot of time with my right eye closed, as the vision through it is then like looking through a very heavily fogged glass with swirls of imperfection in it. Yay! |
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benj clews
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Posted - 12/17/2006 : 00:57:55
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Originally posted by wildhartlivie
...I have another eye bleed.
Cool! So you're like the baddie in Casino Royale?
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So I don't run, or lift heavy things, or fall down (well, that's not a conscious thing), or bungee jump, or participate in professional wrestling matches, or skate in roller derby, or surf, or ski, or other similar things that jar one's head.
Sounds like a real bugger. I'm guessing you also can't get too involved watching the Bohemian Rhapsody scene in Wayne's World |
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 12/17/2006 : 03:29:36
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Originally posted by benj clews
Cool! So you're like the baddie in Casino Royale?
Um, as much as I hate to admit it, I've not seen Casino Royale... maybe on DVD.
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Sounds like a real bugger. I'm guessing you also can't get too involved watching the Bohemian Rhapsody scene in Wayne's World
LOL, no, and I couldn't do it BEFORE the eye problems. Head bobbing is a refined art!!!!!!! But I really do miss bungee jumping and the roller derby gig.... *sigh* |
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Please Kill Me Now
"Need my dopamine fix!"
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Posted - 12/18/2006 : 21:16:44
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| Marie Antoinette was not a "relatively weak film", as you put it, Salopian. It was quite striking and original, and even, dare I say it, rather moving. I know that your avatar is sheep, Sal, but please don't think like one. |
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 12/18/2006 : 22:47:38
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I don't know if disliking a film, regardless of its critical panning, makes someone a sheep. I didn't think it was relatively weak, I thought it was incredibly weak, as much as I like seeing Kirsten Dunst in see through tops.  |
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Please Kill Me Now
"Need my dopamine fix!"
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Posted - 12/19/2006 : 09:17:13
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Originally posted by demonic
I don't know if disliking a film, regardless of its critical panning, makes someone a sheep. I didn't think it was relatively weak, I thought it was incredibly weak, as much as I like seeing Kirsten Dunst in see through tops.
Oh well, I rest my case...
Baaaaaaah! Baaaaaaah! 
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Beanmimo 
"August review site"
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Posted - 12/19/2006 : 09:26:07
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as much as I like seeing Kirsten Dunst in see through tops.
You've sold me.
When's it out on DVD?!?! |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 12/19/2006 : 09:32:59
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Originally posted by Please Kill Me Now
[navy][size=4][font=Times New Roman]Marie Antoinette was not a "relatively weak film", as you put it, Salopian.
Aesthetically, it was fine, but not as good as I expected, and not good enough to compensate for the lack of plot. I've so far seen 97 features at the cinema this year, and I would say that it was in the bottom quarter. I am very easily satisfied by films, so for me to find fault with one is saying something. I would think I gave it 4/5, but I give very few films less than that. |
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Ali
"Those aren't pillows."
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Posted - 12/19/2006 : 09:45:44
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It's been a wank year for films, and Marie Antoinette was definitely one of the better ones.
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Marie Antoinette! Marie Antoinette!
