Either/Or – Saving Private Ryan vs Black Hawk Down

Which movie is better?

War movies are like crack for me –  if smoking crack made me weepy and jingoistic.  I’ve never been in the military, and the few guns I’ve ever shot did more damage to me then anything I was aiming at.  I know next to nothing about defending my country (or being a pawn led into deadly situations to help rich people get more oil, but I digress) and the extent of my heroics involve carrying in ALL of the groceries from the trunk to the kitchen in one trip.  Yet even still, I would happily watch a two day long war movie marathon with nothing other then a bedpan and a bag of sliders by my side.  Don’t test me!  I just finished watching two of my all time favorite war movies, Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down.  Today, I’m going to break these movies down and decide which one is better.  Join me as I delve deep into the minutia of these flicks and spend far more time debating their virtues than is healthy.

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Portal: No Escape

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PAX 2011: More than Games, All About Friends.

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Netflix Loses Starz

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Gizmodo Interns and the Cult of Geek

We live in strange, wonderful times.

I love Magic the Gathering.  I have played it since they released the Revised Edition, way back in 1994.  When I was in college, I worked at a card shop and spent the majority of my life during that time sorting through cards, building decks, and geeking out over the Black Lotuses and Moxes (rare cards from earlier sets) that people would buy from us for well over $100 a piece.  If my parents ever dreamed of spawning an uber-elite superhero progeny, this period of my life utterly crushed their fantasy. That’s why the recent story to take over the internet about a nasty little article that made fun of a girl’s date with a Magic tournament champion caught my eye.

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