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Enjoy this delicious bowl of weird pudding.

This video is fucking sexy.  Enjoy some film-nerd porn.

After having sat on the review for an entire week, today is the release date for my Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls review.  It’s about time March 3 got here, because I’ve been going nuts talking the book up in private but without any recourse to spew my review upon the reading public.  Now it’s out there, and I feel much better.

I got the book pretty quickly after I was approved for the blog program, which was impressive in and of itself.  More impressive was the fact that I basically picked up the book one day, randomly, and had my review finished by that same time the next day.  I tore through the book like a zombie at a meat processing plant.  It really is a great, funny read if you know anything about Victorian England.

Perhaps more importantly, you can win a free copy of the book and a bunch of other stuff.  Just head over to Quirk’s forum, sign up and register (I know it’s a bitch, but there’s like $100 worth of freebies up for grabs for 50 people) and let them know where you saw it. Either here, PopFi, or DoG works, since Quirk knows they’re all me.  Make me look good, readership.  If you somehow don’t manage to win, you can just buy the book for $8.73 at Amazon (or 80 cents if you use a Kindle).  It’s definitely worth the purchase.

Guess who got linked on Cracked today?  If you said me, you’d be right.  Check out the image for #13, specifically the last link.  That’s my PopFi, all right.

At this point, between Cracked, Fark, Google, and the IMDb links?  I’m pretty much bigger than Jesus.

So I saw Cop Out, and I’m in the minority since I actually enjoyed the movie.  For me, it works as a direct homage to those 80’s buddy cop movies, before they got all worn out by overuse.  Most people apparently didn’t dig it, but I liked it and apparently the audience did too, since it was second in the top 10 this weekend.

I also managed to get out and see The Crazies, the 2010 Breck Eisner remake of the 1973 George Romero virus panic horror flick, except this time The Crazies are basically zombies, and the Romero framework is used to support a greatest-hits of postmodern zombie movies.  I also enjoyed it, and it seems more people enjoyed it than did Cop Out, at least in terms of critical indices and whatnot.  Not like I care what critics say, but it’s nice to know I’m not the only person out there in the wilderness, screeching at the top of my lungs that a movie is adequately entertaining.

This is my 500th blog post here at Subtle Bluntness.  Let’s ring it in with a Feel Good Friday, because most of these posts have been link-dumps, random brain dumps, and subjecting you, my loyal readership, to Feel Good Friday songs for no apparent reason.  So let’s get a little mellow, a little reflective, and maybe even a little funky.

If you have any love of funk, soul, or 70’s music, you really need to subscribe to Funktuall’s YouTube channel.  This cat is the best.  I wish I could put together interesting videos like this (or any videos).

Thanks for stopping by.

Tickle Me Carlo Lombardi doesn't like to be disappointed.

“Yeah, and I made him sticky so he’s even MORE fun!”

So, I’ve resigned myself to the fact that there’s going to be a big-screen World of Warcraft movie.  There’s no sense fighting it.  It’s not in developmental hell, Sam Raimi is producing it as we speak, and Robert “Saving Private Ryan” Rodat is hard at work on the script.  Just accept it; this thing is going to happen because they’ve already pumped a bunch of money into it.

Fortunately, we’re not so far into production that I can’t offer my suggestions to all involved.  Here are the 10 things I want from the World of Warcraft movie.  Why 10?  Because people love lists of things in nice, round numbers, and there’s nothing rounder than 10, except maybe 8.

I could’ve done this last week for Valentine’s Day, but screw it.  Any time is a good time for A) the mighty Rev. and B) a ride on the Big Red Rocket Of Love.  Plus, bonus trip back into the Original Cone Zone!  Can’t go wrong with that.

Let’s go!