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Seriously weak show. I just stopped thinking about something else after 15 minutes. Flimsy direction. Patrick does a good job of course but it just can’t help a weak script and weak direction. Lousy. 2/10

Splinter Poster

Pretty darn gross movie. Not great but not all that bad either, some really stupid parts and so on but all in all I give i 6/10.

Decent movie. Sort of weird though as it doesn’t really have any real story, 6/10

Loved it! Supreme animation and art.. and what a cute and FUNNY story
(how about that giant nerd hamster huh? I only wish Jack Black had done
the voice for him). Awesome family flick.

Pretty great movie. It has the feel of “Forrest Gump” sort of. Slow and beautiful, maybe a little too slow at the end but still very, very decent.

Lol. I need to see this one!

Edit March ’09: Duh. Imdb provides well hidden RSS service for this, this is an example of my IMDB vote history RSS feed: feed://rss.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=8062614

You can just grab that feed and change my number “8062614″ for your own number and add it to your site. Just use the WordPress plugin I mention below that shows RSS feeds from your sidebar and you’re golden.

Edit Jan’09: Here, I made a service for you, just enter your IMDB ratings page to scrape and go nuts!

I have been looking for different ways of getting my IMDB movie ratings into my blog. I found this script called PIMP that was a PHP scrape from the “my movies” page in IMDB. After looking into it for a while though it seemed like an overly complex solution..and then I remembered Dapper.

Dapper is a web service that makes it easy for anyone to scrape pretty much any content from any website into Dapper XML or RSS. In my case I set up a Dapper service to scrape my IMDB movies page. To do this first of all you need to make your IMDB movie ratings public, the rest is very easy in Dapper. The result can be seen in my sidebar. I just selected the table cells and set the movie titles up as the RSS title and the movie ratings as the RSS pubdate field. After that I used the KB Advanced RSS plugin for wordpress in order to customize the RSS widget.

I thought about extending this into also parsing in my comments on IMDB but the requirements of at least 10 fields for IMDB comments just kills it for me, usually I just want to go like “crap” or “decent flick”. I’ll extend it some ohter way later me thinks..or not..I’m lazy.

I made my Dapp App (My Movies IMDB Final) public (it’s extremely simple..). Feel free to go nuts. If anyone want a tut, drop a comment.

Wolf man

Mmmm. This looks nice. Set to be released in 2009, a remake of Wolf Man.

Great movie. Best martial arts movie I have seen in a long, long time. Now this isn’t good in the same sense as for example “Ong Bak”. This isn’t a movie filled with awesome moves, eye of the tiger in the background and so on. But it’s a great, great flick.