rik_tod

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Re:Technical Help
By rik_tod in Spout Customer Care
"[quote user="lopezdash"][quote user="rik_tod"] Perhaps I am missing something on the groups page, but exactly how does one unsubscribe from a group? [/quote] Hey Rik_Tod, Just some clarification. When you mean "unsubscribe from a group" do you mean how do you leave the group or how do you stop recieving notifications from the group? Let me know, Xavier[/quote] Leaving the group. As in "no longer having a damn thing to with that group." Joined it before I knew the guy running it was a class-A something or other. And, hopefully, by leaving it, I would also stop getting notifications from it. " [More]

Re:The Heart is Deceitful Above ...
By rik_tod in Spout Mavens
"Fresh from The Cinema 4 Pylon, rik_tod's review of this film here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/rik _tod/archive/2008/6/4/30453.as px " [More]

The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

Spout Mavens Disc #9: The Heart ...
By rik_tod in The Cinema 4 Pylon: SpOutpost
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"Perhaps a movie can exist solely to make you glad your mom isn’t a goddamn whore.I’m sure director/lead actress Asia Argento had artier ambitions when she took on The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, a film version of a supposedly fictionalized account of a supposedly real author’s supposed childhood, than giving me warm fuzzies about me own dear mum. But in the end, after ninety-plus minutes of extremely horrid mothering, child rape after child rape, gender confusion and religious torture and brainwashing, I felt a deeply abiding satisfaction with my own personal upbringing. The worst moments in my childhood didn’t even come within miles of even the slightest suffering the young boy in this film faces. It even nudged me into calling my mom later that evening to catch up on things, and while the onslaught of lurid imagery captured within the film still flashed behind my eyes whilst I spoke to her, I was relieved to hear the voice of someone who would nev ... " [More]

Re:Technical Help
By rik_tod in Spout Customer Care
"Perhaps I am missing something on the groups page, but exactly how does one unsubscribe from a group? " [More]

Re:Africa Unite
By rik_tod in Spout Mavens
"Read rik_tod's review of Africa Unite here " [More]

Africa Unite

Spout Mavens Disc #8: Africa Un ...
By rik_tod in The Cinema 4 Pylon: SpOutpost
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"Cinema 4 Rating: 7 I didn’t really think about it at the time, but in retrospect, it almost seems like the arrival of the Africa Unite screener from Spout in late January was an intentional tie-in to the annual Black History month held the following month. After all, watching it and reviewing it would, if things went the normal course, cause my own review to be placed up on Spout in that month of African-American celebration. I, myself, am not, to the best of my knowledge, of that particular descent, except perhaps in the manner that we all are of this planet descended eventually by way of that continental plate. But this does not mean that I don’t have any great interest in this very important, and generally neglected, aspect of the history books. It’s just that I was thinking, at the time of its arrival, as Africa Unite being a mere “concert film.”Unfortunately, circumstance precluded a viewing of the screener occurring in my household until just las ... " [More]

Re:Out of Balance
By rik_tod in Spout Mavens
"Secure your environmental equilibrium with riktod's take on Out of Balance here. " [More]

Out of Balance

Spout Mavens Disc #7: Out of Ba ...
By rik_tod in The Cinema 4 Pylon: SpOutpost
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"There has been much discussion lately about whether a film marked primarily with the label "documentary" has a certain responsibility to present a balanced detailing of the particulars surrounding a subject, representing opinions on both or multiple sides of a debatable issue. Certainly, Michael Moore is due a certain amount of blame for this discussion. His films are unfailingly one-sided, and yes, he does have a tendency to push things in his favor; some even go so far to say he creates situations to lead to such a result. I couldn't care less for two reasons. The first is that I am, without any doubt, squarely on his side on all of the issues upon which he has has planted his weighted camera lens, even if he is a bit of a tad of a not-even-sort-of a dickhead. So, don't come crying to me if you feel he treated Charlton Heston in much the same manner that Heston chewed his merciless way through script after script over the years; if you take a very public positio ... " [More]

Re:The Rocket
By rik_tod in Spout Mavens
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The Rocket

Spout Mavens Disc #6: The Rocke ...
By rik_tod in The Cinema 4 Pylon: SpOutpost
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"Director: Charles Binamé // Canadian, 2005Cinema 4 Rating: 7 Of course we generally go to movies in which we either have an interest in a personality involved in the film, whether it be a star or director or even the author of the source material, or we love a particular genre and wish to see new examples of such, or we have heard or deduced that there is an element within the plot which forms that interest. In most cases, those that love dinosaurs are more apt to see a film if it involves dinosaurs than a film that doesn't, and more so than those that don't appreciate large, lumbering prehistoric beasts. The wall into which I have slammed my nose time and again through the brief period I have been part of the Spout Mavens group is constructed firmly by layers of DVDs containing films and subjects which I have absolutely zero interest in confronting in real life. And I have mentioned this time and again as well, though I have managed thus far to spew out some sort ... " [More]

Re:Roads to Koktebel
By rik_tod in Spout Mavens
"Rik_Tod's not-a-review can be found here. " [More]

Roads to Koktebel

Spout Mavens Disc #5: Коктебель ...
By rik_tod in The Cinema 4 Pylon: SpOutpost
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"Writing about this disc would have proven to be a far simpler journey, had all of the Roads to Koktebel, trod upon by a homeless father and son on a sojourn through the lonely expanses of Russia, not crossed against my own personal Jetstream to Orlando and Roads to Anaheim Via Similarly Barren and Somewhat Dull Routes Through Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and California. You see, this disc arrived just as I was returning from my first vacation at Walt Disney World and its various and sundry neighboring parks, from which I slunk back to my abode with a rather sullen attitude at the prospect of returning to a life where I actually had to work to earn my keep, as opposed to lounging about a cabin in the woods, through which I strode happily every morning, and then spending each day riding rollercoasters and each night eating at 4-star restaurants.This despondency was displaced swiftly, as I drifted unluckily into a week-long bout of the flu, which left me able to watch movies, but unable to r ... " [More]

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