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Review of The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
I never read Tintin as a child as Tintin was quite obviously for the squares, for children whose parents made you take your shoes off at the door, who wouldn't let you watch Your Mother Wouldn't Like It and who owned a BBC Micro. I read Asterix instead. I was pretty uncool, but at least I knew it and was making an effort to improve myself. →
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War of the Worlds
The tagline for this film was 'They're already here', a reference to the fact that instead of the aliens arriving in their spaceships, they buried them on Earth thousands of years ago. Then they waited until these ships were covered in sewer systems and plumbing and electricity lines and, you know, cities, and then beamed down to break out from underneath all that concrete and London Underground and then attack. Why? I don't know. I don't think I'm supposed to. →