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Ginsu Victim:
Ace Ventura is great, but the sequel stunk.

You want good James Carrey films from early in his career, try The Dead Pool, Once Bitten, and Earth Girls Are Easy.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on September 30, 2008, 10:58:50 am ---School of Rock was written by Mike White for Jack Black. He wrote the role with him in mind the whole time. Richard Linklater came in as director BECAUSE he wanted to direct a White script starring Black.

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Which is exactly why it sucks so bad.  They wrote a script for a guy who specializes in individual rock performance, brought in people who specifically wanted to do it with him, and then had him deliver all of the personality of a muddy sock.  There used zero of his unique talent for the role.  What was the point?  They could have gotten the same performance from Richard Dreyfuss...

...oh wait, they did, when it was Mister Holland's Opus.

Ginsu Victim:
Though I like Black better in Saving Silverman and High Fidelity, his personality is all over this movie. Same goes for when White wrote the role for him in Nacho Libre. Nacho, while completely different from his other work, is still VERY Jack Black oriented.

And I can't picture Dreyfuss in the Angus Young schoolboy outfit...

Ginsu Victim:
I use IGN for smaller game releases that no one else covers.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on September 30, 2008, 12:25:57 pm ---Ok, so basically everyone hates IGN but there's nothing better...?
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In a consolidated way? No.

A HUGE majority of the decent review sites can't do anywhere near the number of reviews IGN can do because they haven't sold out like IGN has.

It's the same with radio stations. Ever notice that some radio stations will play the same :censored: song over, and over, and over, and over? Notice it's usually the same station that has the worst advertising? It's not because they're doing requests, it's the money. Even though the courts found it unethical (or whatever) for a station to get kickbacks based on the air time a particular song gets, those studios still find a way to shove that crap down our throats.

Others have a much more even handed way of doing reviews, but they can't match the volume IGN is doing because they're not getting the money (or free games, or support, or exclusives, or whatever). Others do some reviews, but it's not a primary motive for the site (PA is a good example).

Mayhaps someone should do a Wikipedia-like type of review site?

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