Category Archives: Movies & TV

Hulu Ad Failures

By Jacob Allred | Published: December 11, 2009
I watch a lot of Hulu, and gen­er­ally I don’t really mind an ad or two. How­ever, I hate untar­geted ads. For exam­ple, ads for Mono­stat or birth con­trol pills. I’m a guy. Hulu knows I’m a guy (I checked, its in my Hulu pro­file). Why in the world are they show­ing me com­mer­cials for [...]
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Stargate Universe

By Jacob Allred | Published: October 10, 2009
Just found Star­gate Uni­verse on Hulu. How did I not know this show existed?! I love Star­gate! I’ve seen every episode of Star­gate SG-1. I watched Star­gate Atlantis before vam­pires were cool. This is my show! Any­ways, the show seems okay so far. Lots of time is being spent in char­ac­ter and story line devel­op­ment, which is a huge [...]
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Hard Candy, V for Vendetta, Dodgeball, and the US Movie Rating System

By Jacob Allred | Published: August 1, 2006
Let’s start with the US movie rat­ing sys­tem. For those of you unfa­mil­iar, there are a few basic ratings: G — Gen­eral Audi­ences. Suited for peo­ple of any age. Nor­mally like mel­low his­tor­i­cal movies or doc­u­men­taries. And Dis­ney movies (although most Dis­ney movies nowa­days are PG or PG-13). PG — Parental Guid­ance Sug­gested. Kids should have an adult [...]
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*blink*

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 11, 2006
About halfway through sea­son 4 of Alias. One thing that dri­ves me crazy is how these field-trained and battle-hardened agents close there eyes before shoot­ing a gun. Umm.. Cor­rect me if I’m wrong… But uhh.. Don’t you kind of need your eyes open in order to aim the gun? Another annoy­ance: How come every tech gad­get blinks [...]
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Blade Runner

By Jacob Allred | Published: June 4, 2006
So I was bored, and out of movies to watch, so I started look­ing online for some good movies to watch. Unfor­tu­nately (did I spell that right? I use that word a ton but am never sure if I’m get­ting the spelling cor­rect…) many peo­ple like crappy movies, so this makes it a bit harder. [...]
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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

By Jacob Allred | Published: June 3, 2006
Yeah so I am a movie/TV fanatic and watch tons of every­thing. Even crappy chic flic movies when there is noth­ing else to watch. So this movie was sit­ting in my dad’s folder of ipod videos that he rips for my brother and sis­ter. I watched every­thing else and this was all that was left, so I [...]
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