© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-minorthreat78 Recent reviews written by member minorthreat78 en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_403423268484?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - Imagine a world where the 1950's led to a revolution in technology. A world where the capitalists and commies were rejected; where a courageous man by the name of Andrew Ryan built an underwater city where the "enlightened" members of the populous could... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~403423268484 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:42:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_403423268484?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_385210945156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - Explaining Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is kinda tricky. Much like some other Japanese humor-based shows (see: Excel Saga or Kimagure Orange Road), it is really freaking weird. It is reasonably coherent, but not exactly sane. But... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~385210945156 Mon, 2 Jul 2007 19:25:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_385210945156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_384918064772?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - I must confess, despite my role in society as a heterosexual male, to having always liked the character of Nancy Drew. Granted, the books (regardless of when, or whom, were writing them) felt like they were written decades ago, and the mysteries had the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~384918064772 Mon, 2 Jul 2007 05:58:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_384918064772?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_144594800260?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - Flash back a few years (say, 15 or so, give or take) to a time when industrial music was dark and mysterious and mostly ignored by civil-minded, "normal" people. Not the Marilyn Manson followers with their over-blown sense of "image" and "style" that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~144594800260 Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:06:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_144594800260?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_143620017796?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - What can be said about Modest Mouse that hasn't been said already? Well, probably quite a bit. Admittedly, the band has certainly enjoyed a sea change in their Q-rating, what with a hit single and a top-20 album on the old Billboard charts. However,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~143620017796 Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:16:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_143620017796?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_138787720836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - Personally speaking, I would consider 2003 to have been a very fine year for comic books. Several series, from big series like Daredevil, Batman, and Fantastic Four and minor series like Birds of Prey producing great material, and new series like... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~138787720836 Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:28:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_138787720836?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_143617527428?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - Sometimes, I know you do this. You go to the video store, and tell yourself that you want to rent something intellectually stimulating and thought-provoking. Something with gravitas, meaning; a sense of purpose. The type of movie that compels you to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~143617527428 Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:04:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_143617527428?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_141468995204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - I have, at times, been known to mock the sub-genre of metal known as "metal-core". This actually has little to do with the music these bands produce; in fact, I like many of the bands within the sub-genre. It more has to do with the implications of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~141468995204 Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:32:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_141468995204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_140345511556?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - Sometimes, you can just smell that a movie is going to be really bad. Maybe its the legions of people telling you how bad it was when they saw it. Maybe the scores of negative reviews threaten you to shy away from the movie, screaming out, "Back!... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~140345511556 Mon, 17 May 2004 10:13:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_140345511556?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_140073143940?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - My personal relationship with Coheed and Cambria is a short, yet somewhat storied one. When first I bought their second album, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, I was left somewhat surprised by the hype in the punk/emo community surrounding... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~140073143940 Fri, 14 May 2004 13:02:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_140073143940?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_139597155972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - Okay, we'll start this out simply enough: * If you consider Red Hot Chili Peppers a little too hard for your tastes, skip this CD. * If you hate "that music that the kids listen to nowadays with the screaming and the loud drums and all that",... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~139597155972 Mon, 10 May 2004 09:16:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_139597155972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_138776514180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - Y'know, it wasn't until fairly recently that I'd noticed that, for all its relative success and popularity in this country, there aren't exactly a lot of foreign bands treading into the conflagration of genre typified by bands like Jimmy Eat World,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~138776514180 Tue, 4 May 2004 06:20:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_138776514180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_137906654852?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - Few sub-strata of genre are as prone to mocking as the quirky hybrid of pop-punk and emo popularized by artists like Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard Confessional and Taking Back Sunday. The combination of bouncy beats, nihilistic lyrics and radio-friendly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~137906654852 Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:47:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_137906654852?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_137386364548?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - By the standards of film themes, revenge plots are pretty simple. You've seen the film dozens of times: hero loses everything to Nefarious Evil-Doer(s), hero trains in (insert exotic path to vengeance), then sets out to kill all those who wronged them... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~137386364548 Tue, 20 Apr 2004 05:30:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_137386364548?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_137279278724?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - I'll be the first to admit that I've never been a big fan of The Punisher comic. I like comics and all, but a character so mentally skewed is hard to sympathize with. That said, the work of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon on the 12-issue series "Welcome... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~137279278724 Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:46:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_137279278724?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_136605306500?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - Perhaps you know the stories: a tale of an alien infant found by a young couple in the mid-west, an alien destined for great power. A young boy whose parents are killed before his eyes, leaving him with a sizeable inheritance and a desire for... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~136605306500 Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:31:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_136605306500?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_135809633924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - I can't speak for others outside of the Reno/Sacramento parts of the universe, but I seem to have been pummelled recently by window displays at local mall Hot Topics prominently referencing some band/artist that goes by the name of HIM, and whose logo is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~135809633924 Tue, 6 Apr 2004 03:05:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_135809633924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_135601491588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - I don't know exactly what it says about the current socio-political climate in the United States, but there seems to be quite the trend in the rock music biz toward more angst-ridden, mopey tracks getting played on the radio. Denizens of the indie-rock... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~135601491588 Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:09:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_135601491588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_135432670852?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - If I wanted to do so, I suppose I could tell you I went into this film with an unbiased eye, knowing nothing of Hellboy, his comic books, or the production of this film, directed and written by Guillermo Del Toro (Blade II). Of course, I'd be... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~135432670852 Fri, 2 Apr 2004 20:06:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_135432670852?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_135041486468?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - Y'know, much can be inferred from the label for which an independent artist records albums. It's pretty easy, for example, to guess that a Nitro records artist is probably fast, vaguely old-school, skater punk. Or that a Century Media artist is metal... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~135041486468 Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:06:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_135041486468?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_134865915524?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - Ya ever have a memory you wish you could forget? I'm not talking about that time you caught your parents having sex, or the time that spider really freaked the hell out of you. Those things are traumatic, momentary, labile. No, what I'm speaking of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~134865915524 Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:47:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_134865915524?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_133313302148?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - Okay, so we all have our little fascinations and quirks as people. Well, maybe not everyone; I'm sure someone out there is totally absent of personality and intrigue. Of course, I'm not that person, so it's a moot point anyway. I'm sorry; kinda veered... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~133313302148 Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:42:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_133313302148?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_132538470020?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - As far as the far-flung and misbegotten as the sub-genre of emo may be, there is certainly room within the genre for something that is distinctly part of the motif (little bit of goth, little bit of pop-punk, little bit of open-mic poetry night) without... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~132538470020 Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:20:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_132538470020?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_132446064260?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - Y'know, one of the funny contradictions of the comic book industry is that writers are often given the luxury to write about topics that other media outlets wouldn't publish. From the absolutely brutally savage environment portrayed in 100... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~132446064260 Sun, 7 Mar 2004 19:41:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_132446064260?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_122033770116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author minorthreat78 - One time, I was having a conversation with a friend of mine who, like me, has a desire to be a fiction writer. Specifically, she wants to write comics. Personally, it would be good to see her succeed, if only to double the number of females writing... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~122033770116 Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:08:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_122033770116?linkin_id=8003929