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The Guardian review does a great job of summing up just how bad Wanted is: The spectacle of their strange gym-built bodies, variously starved and pumped, and the boring, risk-free digital "stunts," can't distract you from just how dreary and insidious the whole business is. It looks as if it has been written by a committee of 13-year-old boys for whom penetrative sex is still only a rumour, and the resulting movie plays like a party political broadcast on behalf of the misogynist party.
It doesn't quite capture the soul-sucking awfulness of the film or the dead-eyed vapidity of every character in it, but it comes close.
Random links:
It doesn't quite capture the soul-sucking awfulness of the film or the dead-eyed vapidity of every character in it, but it comes close.
Random links:
- Via mirabile_dictu, Five cats that look like Wilford Brimley
- Via rotten_fish, a very cool step-by-step look at what went into a pencil/photoshop drawing (and the drawing in question is a gorgeous picture of Dean, so win all around)
- Via my managing editor, Yanks Thump Sox, which is probably only funny if you're a grammar nerd, but it's really, really funny if you're a grammar nerd