A couple days go, Criticker reported about the flying X-Wing Model project. We’ve just received harrowing images, showing that they’ve been attacked. The force is with us:
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Am I the only one who thinks that the America’s new torture enhanced interrogation policy is partly responsible for the Gorno trend in recent film making? In case you’re lucky enough to have never heard of it, allow me to ruin your day: “Gore+Porno = Gorno = Splatter Film = Torture Porn” :
A combination of graphic violence and sexually suggestive imagery has at times been labeled “torture porn” or “gorno”
We have a few of these charming films listed on Criticker:
I’m probably missing a ton, here, but honestly I think these films are pretty sick, even if Jack Bauer has been busy teaching Americans that “Torture’s A-OK”. Do you want to read more about the connection between torture in movies and enhanced interrogation? Read this report from the LA Times: “We love to torture”
We love praise… who doesn’t? And we’d like to share some recent press with our passionate users, who are always helping to make our site better.
Criticker is a nice site that makes rating a lot of movies fun and easy — I rated more in 30 minutes on the site than I have in 10 years of casual IMDb use. Their recommendation engine makes mostly good recommendations (with a few misses here and there), and the ability to tweak how it interacts with your Taste Compatibility Index to determine rankings means you can up the accuracy of ratings. Unlike sites that recommend products based on what everyone thinks of them, Criticker recommends films based only on the opinions of people who have a similar taste as you, which makes a big difference.
The lesson there may be that the crowd as a whole isn’t always smart (or at least isn’t well suited to every task we try to throw at it). However, more focused crowd intelligence can yield potentially exceptional results.
Link: Full Read/WriteWeb Review
I have been a heavy user of imdb and Wikipedia for years as far as it concerns to movie references. Yet, both of them are not very suitable in the sense of immediate social interaction and networking. Movie blogs are much better in that. Thus, when I stumbled Criticker I had to give it a chance. registration went pretty easy and after a short few min I was already submitting my first “mini-reviews” aiming to obtain the first 10 required to participate in the Taste Compatibility Index (TCI).
Link: Full Individual @ Home Review
The concept behind this all is quite simple – Let user’s rate movies which they have seen, on a scale of 0-100, other users who want to see any movie can first read the user reviews of all the movies and then decide the best. Users will just have to click on a movie title to get to know about a short summary, genre, direction and the star cast of the movie they wish to see.
Link: Full Instacritic Review
Everyone’s excited about the new Indiana Jones movie. Until it comes out, why not waste some time with this fun little online adventure game?
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I just watched Czech Dream which is a documentary about a fictional hypermarket. Not too many Criticker users have seen it, and since I found it pretty good, I thought I’d draw some attention to it.
The film raises the question, “What power does advertising hold over us?” Lately, I’ve been especially annoyed by ads for “healthy” cereal. They are on all the time, and yes yes, I’m sure: Special K, how wonderful to lose so much weight and it’s so delicious, too. And I can have fun with my fabulous girlfriends while eating it in a hip café! And it’s good for my heart! And I can eat Special K Snack Bars while on the go? Because I have a “busy lifestyle”, right? FRRUGHGH! Must… resist… brainwashing…
Sorry for the rant. Lately, I’ve just been snapping every time yet another cereal commercial comes on. I can’t help it. I hate Special K. Here are some trailers from Czech Dream:
Watch the end of the video below, it’s a must see:
Link: Official Website
Criticker Link: Czech Dream
Czech Dream at Amazon
Bornrich did couple of posts in the recent past on extravagant home theaters. I love the atmosphere in big movie theaters (apart from the gum chewing and giggling of pre-teen girls, and people who’ve arrived 30 minutes late sitting right in front of you) and I wouldn’t at all mind owning this Indian Jones Theater.
Indian Jones Themed Home Theater:
Titanic Themed Home Theater
Star Wars Themed Home Theater:
Star Trek Themed Home Theater
Which one would you pick?
At long last, we’d like to introduce Criticker’s brand-new Facebook Application.
Add this application to your Facebook account, and you’ll be able to show off your recently ranked films to the world from your profile. You’ll also be able to keep track of friend’s rankings (if they’ve also installed the app) and get recommendations on new releases — directly from Facebook!
It might not need said at this point, but if you find any problems, please let us know by sending an email to info-at-criticker.com, or leaving a comment here. The application is brand new, and we don’t have a huge testing team (or… any testing team, really), so if you discover an error, tell us and we’ll try and fix it as soon as we can.
Here’s the application page:
http://apps.facebook.com/criticker/
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