I Admit It: I Liked The Fountain
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Richard Corliss risks expulsion from the movie critics' guild with this review of a woozy romantic epic
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Tycho:  There was so much news, we had to poke it with a schtick.  I'm allowed one or two puns like that a year.  At least, I hope.    The value of each leisure minute has increased exponentially since the holiday deluge began, that's not precisely news, but the games that are losing out over here are of such a high caliber that it's a little scary.  I downloaded the demo for PGR4 and loved it, in fact I still play it - I'm playing it right now, and you would be horrified if you knew how.  This said, I have no idea where I would fit this game into my life.  This is patently ridiculous - a game of this obvious polish and pedigree would command that tray for weeks at any other time of the year.  We're both in love with Zelda, but can so rarely consummate this love as bright baubles are constantly rolling in.  Gabriel doesn't even make time for nightly Halo - his evening is entirely routed to The Lion War.  When Call of Duty 4 hits on the fifth of November, I have plans to betray our collective in a similar fashion.    The time I did have yesterday wasn't even invested in the long-form retail games that I see as the core of my responsibility to you.  Every moment not devoted to Halo was soaked up by Every Extend Extra Extreme, an XBLA game I had already played on the Playstation Portable and the PC, only to find that its true calling was on the console.  Another game with a strong audio focus from the creators of Lumines and Meteos, the entire objective is to blow yourself up in such a way as to create the most casualties - I can't wait until Jack gets ahold of this one.  It has other modes, but that's the basic idea, and of course it's all very abstract.  Like other games from Q Entertainment, how much you derive from it is often a function of how open you are to its audiovisual synergies.  It's fun, but that fun is not a result of complex systems.      I also picked up Everyday Shooter for the PS3, in further dereliction of my duties, having a series of profound experiences with it that might be too strange to describe.  The game's author expresses a debt of gratitude toward Q's Mizuguchi and others, but he's accomplished something wholly his own here.  Superficially it's one of these dual analog, robotronian shooters every platform is weighed down with now.  Don't be fooled by that trope, and certainly don't think you can come to any conclusions based on screenshots.  Where Lumines or Every Extend Extra draws from electronica, a great match for their style of presentation, Everyday Shooter disarms the player with a suite of earnest, analog songs played on guitar.  At times, during the course of ordinary play, I felt as though I were interrupting him.     In gameplay terms, each level apparently plays around with the idea of chains and combinations, and I say "apparently" because I've only played two levels in - every time I die, I get sucked in by his menu.  It's just a bunch of text, but moving down or right produces a single note, and pressing left or up produces a two note chain.  Pressing a face button produces a string of four notes, and with these rude tools one can actually augment the title music quite well.  I didn't realize I was doing it at first.  When Gabriel came in perhaps fifteen minutes later, I felt as though I had been woken from a dream.
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Investors liked what they heard from the shoe company.
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Reader Suchet Bal sends us his experiences.
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By The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jun. 4--SOME MAY call it a gizmo, but it has important applications regarding the quality of water in Fountain Creek.
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Having a Muskie moment isn't necessarily a bad thing anymore.
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The best you can say about this movie is that it's somewhat more enjoyable than its predecessor.
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Hallo is enjoyable fare if you like the Rafi-Mecartin brand of filmmaking, and Mohanlal.
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THESE moments donât come along very often, so theyâre worth savouring. The only thing that would have made Britainâs rowing victory more enjoyable would have been if I, or anybody else peering from the
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I WANTED to take the waters, as people used to call their visits to thermal baths, and Budapest was the obvious destination.
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What fun to have had our city take centrestage last week, as it hosted the Grey Cup game yesterday and related activities throughout much of the week.
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So it was with pleasant anticipation that I settled down with my bowl of popcorn last Thursday night to watch the first Presidential debate!
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If it's good enough for Buffett, it's good enough for me.
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A day out at the beach for the shaggy scribes this week... swiftly followed by a visit to the emergency vet! Fawks' blog  We went to the beach on Sunday and had great fun - there is so much water, it's much better than the river.
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Coach Doc Rivers had to have liked what he saw in the first half of last night's game against the Portland Trail Blazers.
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Okay, so itâsa week later, and Iâm finally ready to admit something â¦ I concede that the Red Sox won the World Series. There I said it.
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I know itâs hard to believe, but during the past 12 months I sometimes went two or three weeks in a row without finding anything to mock, deflate or be disappointed by.