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Topic: Batman
The Dark Knight: perfection in every way
July 18, 2008 | 
When the closing credits rolled for The Dark Knight, I was left in stunned silence. In what is easily the best film of the year so far (and possibly one of the best in the last thirty years), director Christopher Nolan has delivered his shining star; a masterpiece that has set a new standard in crime dramas.
Oh, it’s a comic book adaptation? How I seem to forget that simple little thing. To be honest, it’s easy to forget that this complex, juicy, layered dissertation of the human condition is based on a nearly seventy-year-old comic book character that first began in the half-toned pages of Detective Comics back in November of 1939.
The Dark Knight, unlike Superman or Spider-Man 2 (which themselves were the best of their own genre), has completely emerged from not only from its paneled source material, but has soared into skyline of cinematic brilliance. «Read the rest of this article»
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Lego Imagination Center a world of creative genius
July 21, 2007 |
If there was ever any question that Lego was an important part of my childhood, it was completely erased yesterday as I entered the Lego Imagination Center in the Mall of America. I was visiting southern Minnesota on business this week and we capped off the trip by visiting the country’s largest shopping mall. I couldn’t care less about the four stories worth of shops. I wanted to see the Lego store. And boy, did I ever.
I was in Lego nerd heaven. According to the Lego website, it was the first Lego store in the United States, built in 1992. The Imagination Center wasn’t just a store for Legomaniacs, it was a store for me. I had two loves in my childhood. One was Lego, the other was Star Wars. My heart fluttered when I saw the Lego Death Star (retail price: $299.99). But even that was dwarfed by the magnificent 25-foot-tall Lego clock tower. Just imagine that… two and a half stories worth of Legos! «Read the rest of this article»
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