<![CDATA[The Pirates' Log - Reel Rants RSS]]> http://www.pirateslog.org/se/the-pirates-log-reel-rants-rss-1.798239 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:52:52 -0400 en <![CDATA[Bad children’s book adaptations (focus on live action)]]> http://www.pirateslog.org/blogs/reel-rants/bad-children-s-book-adaptations-focus-on-live-action-1.949499

By: Levi Ridgeway


Hello Hollywood. Did you miss me? You must be starting to listen to me, since today I’m actually happy with you for two straight weekends. You actually went and did something right for a change. Your adaptations of Where the Wild Things Are and The ...

]]> 1.949499 Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:09:00 -0500 <![CDATA[A hitch in the trailer]]> http://www.pirateslog.org/blogs/reel-rants/a-hitch-in-the-trailer-1.949475

By: Levi Ridgeway


Hello Hollywood! This week as you can tell we saw The Men who Stare at Goats and once again you have irritated me. You see Tinseltown, I was expecting a gut busting 90 minutes that told a great anecdotal story. What I got was a slightly depressing new age...

]]> 1.949475 Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:06:46 -0500 <![CDATA[2012: A Eulogy for the World]]> http://www.pirateslog.org/blogs/reel-rants/2012-a-eulogy-for-the-world-1.949454

By: Levi Ridgeway

[Spoken in Eulogy]

Dearly beloved; we are gathered here today to witness the end of the world, at least how Hollywood sees it. As we look upon the departed dead we see them covered in scraps of celluloid from disaster films of the past with flakes of this latest tragedy of ...

]]> 1.949454 Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:51:52 -0500 <![CDATA[THE FUTURE!!! ]]> http://www.pirateslog.org/blogs/reel-rants/the-future-1.798251

By: M. Levi Ridgway

(At least how Hollywood sees it)

So here we are again Hollywood, just you, me, and another billion viewers of the slop you’re calling entertainment film these days....

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