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We can make explosions, spaceships, entire planets that don’t slightly exist! It’s absolutely incredible! By the way, we spent the whole budget on the effects computers, about a thousand of...</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/594662"><title>Week Seventeen: #35 - Kung Fu Panda</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/594662</link><description>The Nitpicker Guide to the Movies “See the films you love in a whole new way!” If you haven’t seen the movie, I don’t think this will ruin anything for you—the secret of the dragon scroll, the secret to unlimited power, is believing in oneself. This would be a fantastic movie for that message...</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/593570"><title>Week Sixteen: #36 - The Incredibles</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/593570</link><description>The Nitpicker Guide to the Movies “See the films you love in a whole new way!” Now this movie belongs in the top 50. Not only is the film just technically astounding (Pixar sure has come a long way from Toy Story, huh?), but the story is just crackerjack fun. Stirring, moving, and something to...</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/592009"><title>Week Fifteen: #37 - Ice Age 2: The Meltdown</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/592009</link><description>The Nitpicker Guide to the Movies “See the films you love in a whole new way!” Star Wars. The Lord of the Rings. Spider-Man. Ice Age 2: the Meltdown? This movie proves that some of the Top 50 Grossing Movies of All Time owe a great deal to children, and to parents using movies and TV to entertain...</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/590629"><title>Week Fourteen: #38 - Hancock</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/590629</link><description>The Nitpicker Guide to the Movies “See the films you love in a whole new way!” Good old Will Smith--always a surefire blockbuster. Even when he’s in something that feels like two different movies smushed together. The first half, the superhero redemption, is a phenomenal story. As Hancock...</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/589466"><title>Week Thirteen: #39 - Ratatouille</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/589466</link><description>The Nitpicker Guide to the Movies “See the films you love in a whole new way!” How did this movie get so high up on the list? Rats and food? I love Pixar to death, honestly I think they make some of the best movies ever, and I won’t deny that the quality of Ratatouille was outstanding…but the...</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/587914"><title>Week Twelve: #40 - The Lost World, Jurassic Park</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/587914</link><description>The Nitpicker Guide to the Movies “See the films you love in a whole new way!” Sequels are rarely better than the original, and this is no exception. However, the sight of a cherry red muscle car being chased by a Tyrannosaurus Rex? Priceless… -0:00:20 Again with the Universal logo--not a cloud...</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/585960"><title>Week Eleven: #41 - The Passion of the Christ</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/585960</link><description>The Nitpicker Guide to the Movies “See the films you love in a whole new way!” This is going to be a short one--because this is one movie I just can’t put my Nitpicker’s hat on for. To tell the truth, I have never even seen The Passion of the Christ. I can’t bring myself to watch it. See, I...</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/584565"><title>Week 10: #42 - War of the Worlds</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/584565</link><description>The Nitpicker Guide to the Movies “See the films you love in a whole new way!” -0:07:44 Ray follows Maryanne down the hall, hair messed up six ways from Sunday. Then the shot changes, right where he says “That’s a good look for you,” and his hair is nice and neat! -0:10:23 Robbie fails to catch...</description></item><item rdf:about="https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/582038"><title>Week Nine: #43 - Casino Royale</title><link>https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NitpickerGuide/582038</link><description>The Nitpicker Guide to the Movies “See the films you love in a whole new way!” Woo-HOO! I will admit to being a pretty fair Bond fan. I have every one of the previous 007 films, even the one with George Lazenby (and if you don’t know which one that was, you are not a true Bond fan). And while I...</description></item></rdf:RDF>