Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Today in Hyperbole

Mike Sando on the Cards-Pack classic:
The NFL should retire Warner's lucky No. 13 jersey after the 38-year-old legend completed 29 of 33 passes for 379 yards and five touchdowns during the Arizona Cardinals' 51-45 victory in one of the league's greatest games. (Emphasis mine)
It was a great contest, in a video game sort of way, and Warner was fantastic, but let's not go overboard.

Plus, Noah Millman on Avatar:
On the other hand, people have compared the movie to Star Wars: Cameron has created a whole new world, using wholly new technology, that will change forever the way movies are made and the way we perceive our own world.
Millman is paraphrasing others' reaction, not offering his own. Even so, does anyone actually believe it will change the way we perceive the world? It's a movie, not cocaine.

As long as we're on reactions to Avatar, this bit from Christopher Hitchens was funny:
It is reported that in his declining days last month, Yamaguchi was visited in the hospital by the celebrated movie director James Cameron; a still small voice advises me that any script arising from this encounter is liable to stink very strongly indeed.

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