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		<title>Two-minutes on Promised Land</title>
		<ownerName>Dave Winer</ownerName>
		<ownerEmail>dave.winer@gmail.com</ownerEmail>
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		<outline created="Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:04:51 GMT" pgfnum="16467" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2012/12/29/promisedLandPoster.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2012/12/29/posterNarrow.gif&quot; width=&quot;125&quot; height=&quot;185&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named posterNarrow.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;What could be bad about a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promised_Land_(2012_film)&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; starring &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Damon&quot;&gt;Matt Damon&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_McDormand&quot;&gt;Frances McDormand&lt;/a&gt;, that was written by Damon and directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Van_Sant&quot;&gt;Gus Van Sant&lt;/a&gt;? What could be bad? Just about everything. :-("></outline>
		<outline created="Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:06:18 GMT" pgfnum="16469" text="There were two jokes in the movie. The first one they spoiled in the movie itself, and the second was in the trailer. The one Damon told had Damon's charm. Both appear in the first ten minutes of the movie."></outline>
		<outline created="Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:06:55 GMT" pgfnum="16470" text="After that it was all downhill."></outline>
		<outline collapse="true" created="Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:07:19 GMT" pgfnum="16471" text="The plot was taken out of the &lt;i&gt;Handbook of Hollywood Scripts&lt;/i&gt; and then twisted so it made no sense. In other words they couldn't even get the standard plot right. ">
			<outline created="Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:13:26 GMT" pgfnum="16473" text="The plot: Corporate asshole falls in love, finds he has a conscience, struggles, decides to do the right thing, gets the girl. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:16:34 GMT" pgfnum="16474" text="The plot: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Maguire&quot;&gt;Jerry Maguire&lt;/a&gt;, which I really loved, however with none of its charm, or coherence. Or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Zellweger&quot;&gt;Renee&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Gooding,_Jr.&quot;&gt;Cuba&lt;/a&gt;. :-)"></outline>
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		<outline text="However, this time the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=promised+land+reviews&quot;&gt;reviewers&lt;/a&gt; got it right. "></outline>
		<outline text="I don't understand how a movie can suck as much as this one did."></outline>
		<outline text="They had a great idea -- let's expose &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing&quot;&gt;fracking&lt;/a&gt; -- something that's very important. That, and $9 billion corporations suck the life out of people and communities. And if you want to show us how, great -- but they didn't."></outline>
		<outline text="There were two people conversing loudly during the coming attractions, and I was thinking Oh this is going to suck. After the first half hour of the movie I thought they were more interesting than the movie."></outline>
		<outline text="My eyes were rolling so often I just decided it would be simpler to leave them permanently rolled. They are rolled right now in fact."></outline>
		<outline created="Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:21:05 GMT" pgfnum="16475" text="In case it isn't completely obvious: Skip this one. "></outline>
		<outline created="Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:22:26 GMT" pgfnum="16476" text="PS: It did have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2012/12/29/promisedLandPoster.gif&quot;&gt;great poster&lt;/a&gt;. Probably why I was suckered into seeing the movie."></outline>
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