You go to blogs
like Mad Genius Club, Kris Writes, Dean Wesley Smith, The Passive Voice and read what they have to offer.
They make Nolan look
like a mad genius control freak who in his mind was not making a long, expensive film but a cultural milestone incomparable to its contemporaries.
On paper these might sound
like mad genius, but Daft Punk somehow misplace the wit and the light touch that's pretty much their trademark.
Not exact matches
Not the fault of the actors but when you have the excellent Danny Huston (30 Days of Night) playing an evil German officer then there is the potential to create a proper villain, a
mad genius with grand plans for world domination during a time of great sorrow for the rest of the world, and instead his General Ludendorff is resorted to cracking open gas tablets that give him Hulk -
like strength for no real reason and never really pays off in any way; in one scene he locks a group of people in a room with a deadly nerve gas and then decides to snort on his magic capsule before cackling and running off - camera
like Jack Nicholson's Joker.
Del Toro's
mad genius combined with Cameron's resources sounds
like a match made in heaven.
Though granted Sam Raimi is a
mad genius, so we got a crazy result
like Evil Dead out of this amateur enthusiasm sort of thing.
lead the charge against Valentine, Samuel L. Jackson sporting a lisp (in what seems
like one of the longest leads to a joke in a movie in some time), a
mad genius who is trying to solve the world's climate problem.
This
Mad Men —
like ambition — to explore the professional conflicts of a group of highly creative people, the sweeping changes in society they're reflecting and responding to, and the conflicted
genius suffering from imposter syndrome at its center — might have been better fit for the length of a series, and indeed series
like Showtime's I'm Dying Up Here and HBO's classic The Larry Sanders Show convey the combination of internal competitiveness and group cohesion that powers comedy scenes
like the Lampooners» more effectively than AFASG's scattershot approach.
Iron Man 3 feels
like a superhero Lethal Weapon than anything else, as Stark and Rhodey team - up to fight a
mad genius.
Telling the traditional publishing the establishment the same home truths we at
Mad Genius Club have been banging on about for years... Did you ever hear the
like from Scott Turow (former president of the Author's Guild) or John Scalzi (former president of SFWA), or Roxana Robinson (the current President of Authors Guild)-- which I'll talk about later) Or Stephen Gould, the current SFWA president?
I feel
like a
mad scientist
genius created this game.