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Through the magnifying glass

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  James Bond is one of the longest running series in film history, known for its awesome action, beautiful women, cool gadgets and oh-so handsome Bond himself. In short it’s also popular for its totality.                             But what we’re looking at today are a few plot holes that made us actually stop and say “Wait, what?!”   1)      During the Day of Dead .                    During the otherwise excellent opening scene to Spectre, during the Day of the Dead celebrations in the Mexico City, Bond tracks down and assassinates an assassin named Marco Sciarra. While trying to kill his target, Bond accidently shoots a suitcase filled with explosives, which blows up half a building. Aaaand no one notices.... ...

Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animal

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"A Christmas Carol" (1938) "Yes! Yes I do! I like Christmas! I love Christmas!" — Ebenezer Scrooge Christmas is treated with way more holiday cheer in the west than Diwali here, in the East. Which is why there is a completely different genre for films in Hollywood known as Holiday Films or Christmas Movies. From the impractical wants as presents   "A Christmas Story" (1983) Ralphie (Peter Billingsley): "No! No! I want an official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!" Santa Claus: "You'll shoot your eye out, kid."   To the racists “And may all your Christmases be white. Merry Christmas!" – White Christmas, and to the addicts "You’re skipping Christmas! Isn’t that against the law?" — Spike Frohmeyer – Christmas with The Kranks Holiday movies are for all “them” personalities. Starting with ELF (2003), Will Ferrel playing a child huma...

Not So Merry Christmas

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We all think of Christmas as a joyous and merry occasion where you get gifts from a fat man dressed in red known as Santa. We cut cakes ,put up a Christmas tree, etc etc. One thing that we have all heard about is the naughty list as that it was the main tool used by our parents to blackmail us into doing chores like cleaning up the room. Well the normal perception of people(especially kids) is that if you're on the naughty list then you won't get a gift.  This, however, is not the case in  Finland. In Finland being in the naughty list means being tortured by Santa, or as the Finnish prefer to call him , Krampus .There are 2 entities who take the spotlight during Christmas in Finland, namely, Krampus( The Santa that punishes kids in the naughty list) and Joulupukki (The Santa that does standard Santa stuff). I'll be talking about Krampus today as he is infinitely more interesting than Joulupukki. Krampus is basically the total opposite of how we im...