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...other thing Blades has in common with Ferrell's other comedies is... it's OK. Nobody in charge here - not directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck (their first feature, after doing the gecko Geico ads), not the quintet of credited writers (Jeff and Craig Cox, Busy Philipps, John Altschuler and David Krinsky), certainly not Ferrell - is even remotely trying to make a great film. It has the slapdash air of a movie that was a little more fun to shoot than to watch. To say that Blades is a little sharper than Kicking and Screaming, but not nearly so smart...
...great time to be an American teenager. Adults slavishly follow teen trends-people wear ratty jeans to work; everyone checks YouTube all day; people in their 30s (OK, men in their 30s) play video games without embarrassment...
...Finally, regarding your depression stats: OK, but what are the figures for 20 years ago? If you can't compare over time, you're taking a snapshot-a cheater method of statistics. You can't prove your point that our historically recent infantilizing of kids has caused them to be in turmoil unless you show they are in more turmoil today. But they...
...basing security assumptions on the idea that only a small group of bad guys will go after the plant, and that there will be no aircraft involved," he said. "If that's true, if the bad guys cooperate with our assumptions, then we're OK." If not, he says, the scenario could be grim. Lochbaum cites a report written by his organization that claims a successful assault on Indian Point could result in the immediate deaths of as many as 44,000 people, with nuclear fallout eventually causing cancer in half a million people or more...
...watching matters profoundly. Healthy sports lovers care passionately not because they truly think sport is a matter of life and death, but despite the fact they know it's not. When fanaticism starts hurting people, killing them, even, that contradiction vanishes and so does all the joy. It's OK to live for sport, but to die for it is absurd...