From Gettysburg to Area 51: A Study on Presidential Speechmaking by Presidents Lincoln and Whitmore
The President’s speech from Independence Day, reconsidered in light of the Gettysburg Address’s 150th anniversary.
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The Best of New York Comic-Con 2013
Mr. T, BatBear, and much, much, more.
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New York Comic-Con 2013: The Economics of Celebrity Autographs
How much would you pay for Sylvester Stallone’s autograph? Probably not as much as he’s asking for.
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New York Comic-Con 2013 Photo Gallery
Beariel, Bad Robot, Sharknado, and much, much, more.
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Overthinking It will be at New York Comic-Con 2013
We’re going to Comic-Con! For the fifth year in a row, the fine folks at New York Comic-Con have deemed us worthy of entry into their elite Press Corps. As was the case last year, your intrepid correspondents will be … Continued
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No Fate But What Hollywood Makes: Two Terminator Nerds Speculate Wildly on Terminator 5
The next Terminator movie will probably be terrible, but that didn’t prevent the two biggest Terminator Nerds of YouTube from spitballing their ideas on what the movie should be about.
The Musical Talmud, Audio Edition: “American Girl”
In this Musical Talmud edition of the Overthinking It Podcast, Mark Lee analyzes a series of songs called “American Girl” and discovers the true nature of American greatness.
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Shaun of the Fuzz’s End: The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy and the Hero’s Journey
Mapping “Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz,” and “The World’s End” to the Hero’s Journey Monomyth
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The Desolation of Statistics: Book Length vs. Movie Length, Part 2
Does the density of a movie adaptation of a book have any effect on its quality? Is there an ideal length of a movie based on the book’s word count?
An Unexpected Journey: Book Length vs. Movie Length in Adapted Franchises
We crunched the numbers on novel length vs. movie length to see who’s guilty of “Hobbiting” a single book into multiple movies.