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This idea just popped into my head and it won't leave me alone now.  What If...

The Angry Video Game Nerd AND the Nostalgia Critic did a review together.  I thought that would be really hilarious to see.  I don't really know if it is possible, because i'm not sure how far apart they live.  Or it could be like this:

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Not that I expect you to remember that far back, but when the blog feature was first launched one of the first blog's to arrive was my Death Note review. I praised the first film, which boasted great acting, good character development, brilliant CGI, good pacing and only really fell short on tiny nit pickets like over dramatic heart attacks and a slightly anti-climactic ending. Whilst I chose to review the first movie as a movie and not as a Manga adaptation to add variety in all other DN reviews, for the second movie many plot points, notably the ending, and character actions are changed so it's best to review it as a recreation of the Manga.

Well for UK viewers Death Note: The Last Name got once again a small but cherished cinema run, and let me tell those who thought going to London to see it was indeed too much effort: You were wrong. Death Note: The last name is easily better than the first movie. The performances are great, the errors of the last film are sorted and overall I couldn't think of a more enjoyable film to watch with subtitles.

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Oh, how I love watching the Nostalgia Critic. Gawking at how truly atrocious those movies that I loved as a kid were. Indeed the man touches on a significant part of our childhoods, as mom or dad would usually pop a tape into the VCR and go off to do something else, proving that they do indeed have the parenting skills of a dirty condom. By that, I mean none. Well, actually, I do have to give credit to a dirty condom, since it provides shelter to millions of abandoned sperm cells, who would have had to settle for toilet water instead if the old man didn't decide to spend fifty bucks on the hooker he met outside the hotel. So, in retrospect, I'll recall that statement. Our parents had the parenting skills of a brand new condom, still in the package, waiting to be bought from the local pharmacy or perhaps a vending machine found in the restroom of a seedy, off-the-road gas station. Your pick.

But this new blog I am creating today is not about "Cop and a Half", "Dunston Checks In", "The Rugrats Movie" or whatever shit you dug as a kid. This one is about the insignificant stuff you'd obsess on as a kid, only to view similar situations as an adult, then laugh at how much of an imbecile you were back then. Crap that would piss you off just because you weren't "old enough". Things you didn't understand, pretty much because you were in fact not old enough. Or stuff that would take over your life for reasons that made little sense to you, let alone anyone else. The random things that we often forgot about our childhoods, and how we as wiser and more mature beings see them today. To truly understand it, you must think like an eight-year-old and an eighty-year-old all at the same time. Is your brain hurting? Good, because we're starting at a place that always made my brain hurt: The Sharper Image.

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GET SMART (spoiler alert)

No, I've never seen the show. I saw this movie for one reason only, Steve Carell. I'm a huge fan of his and ever since Bruce Almighty I've loved him. I think all his movies are great (yes even Evan Almighty) but unfortunately I do have to admit something I never thought I'd admit before.

Now, I did like this movie. I didn't love it, I didn't even think it was great. I just liked it, it was good. However, it had some things in it that were either lame or very cliche. Cliche parts: Good guy is bad guy (If you consider that a spoiler then you should watch more movies), a big bad guy who ends up turning good because main character asks him about love and the bad guy boss always treats him bad, there's a long joke in it centered on 'it's funny because she's fat', there's a joke where the main character is asking questions like 'Now we just have to find out where he is' and the answer is right behind him and all the other people are telling him to turn around but he keeps on talking, and lastly, a part where you think he's dead but, no, can it be? YES! HE'S ALIIIIIVE! So that's the lame cliche things in it I absolutely dispised.

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