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Monday, May 28, 2007

Can you predict a box office smash?

Do you know enough about movies to predict how much money it will bring in? Try this site out -- you read the synopsis and watch a trailer, then you predict its U.S. revenue. Harder than it looks, you get ranked once you've reviewed 40 films. If you're really good, you can be a script reader -- it's the company's ingenious way of finding film development savants. Even if you're never ranked at the very top, it's interesting to see how a film performed against your predictions. Very addictive.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Babel - $h!t Happens

The Oscar contenders have been announced; Babel was one of them. It's one of those films that's meant to make you contemplate life and its crazy twists and turns on an international field.

Basically the movie says that "Shit happens" in four languages.

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