Seminar Post 05: 100 Caption List

Here is the list of the out of context captions I have collected:

1. Trying to fit a square peg in a round hole
2. fraud is a front-line priority
3. has disappointed us on a number of votes
4. the other two deserve defeat
5. We are not a fan of sin taxes
6. This will only get worse
7. A truly dangerous idea
8. It would be the folly of better times
9. it would be simply cruel
10. hardest on those in need
11. I don’t even remember how I found him
12. it took my head off
13. What the hell is this?
14. are slow to absorb the work that really matters
15. I don’t care much
16. Memories of the hard drinking guy who’d walk into a classroom with a gun would occasionally use it.
17. “You Lie!”
18. a lot of blather and punditry
19. it might be hard to keep track of what matters
20. The results are considered in doubt
21. It’s likely to come with a hefty side of self-loathing
22. . . lusted after and devoured openly, with pride.
23. We embrace our inner fatty-fatty-bo-batty.
24. I dropped everything.
25. It’s probably not safe to drive and eat a McRib, but I did anyway.
26. There won’t be any tears at this farewell
27. . . .touch on every uncomfortably funny aspect of sex, sexuality and her relationship with her dear mother.
28. Or rather, a cliché
29. the screen equivalent of a “summer beach read”
30. break every 10 minutes
31. rape and retribution, those sordid small screen staples are major attractions.
32. “It’s like a classic greek tragedy.”
33. immune to pain half-brother hulking albino
34. it just can’t make scenes
35. as far as satisfying moviemaking goes, it’s pretty tragic
36. . . . must deny her identity
37. . . . assimilation to the extreme
38. This does not sit well
39. Too clumsy to fulfill its potential
40. Good intentions go horribly wrong
41. The one real misstep was the curtain raiser
42. the ironies of this wrongheaded exercise in righteousness
43. No one in her family has ever mentioned the existence of his person
44. He can’t do anything wrong, at least in the eyes of his family
45. Muting the melodrama and underplaying the politics.
46. No stranger to the cynical view of things
47. History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce.
48. He believes he is fated to repeat all the events in Trotsky’s life
49. At first, they were mocking and indifferent.
50. Over 40 and disillusioned
51. Replaced by a culture that celebrates the worst aspects of Western materialism.
52. They can’t betray those ideals without denying who they are.
53. . . . offers compelling watching but not much insight
54. We deserve to be demonized.
55. The horror . . . the horror . . .
56. Desperate, kooky and needy
57. . . . because nobody involved in the film seems to recognize how icky it all is.
58. raw, unflinching look at the experience of modern warfare
59. that’s sufficient to hurtle you into the mountains
60. . . . deals frankly with the morass of war?
61. Don’t kid yourself.
62. its realism goes no deeper than the surface
63. I’ve never seen a more detailed rendering of a sniper rifle obliterating a foe’s head a mile away.
64. If accuracy was the goal, why was this significant detail so inconsequential?
65. Just the premise to let you slaughter hundreds of opponents, guilt free.
66. Just rack up more kills than the other team
67. It’s increasingly hard to tell them apart.
68. But if it works, it works.
69. (popular on the right)
70. we’d have conquered Iraq and Afghanistan years ago if only our politicians had let us win.
71. They’re all hostile
72. True to life? This is a fairy tale.
73. Mostly devoid of poetic whimsies
74. “The tragedy of bourgeois life is that we’re never that funny.”
75. one of the surface inane acting exercises
76. killing these zombies is an act of mercy as much as anything
77. things are not as they should be
78. nobody home
79. it does draw a lot of tension out of its quiet moments
80. a darker place than I expected
81. They got written off as weird
82. everyone starts picking apart their oeuvres for signifiers and ripped off parts, as if they were nothing but the sum of their influences.
83. . . . steal shamelessly from those who’d come before them.
84. Doesn’t really care
85. “we’re not kidding ourselves here”
86. No ambitions to be original
87. It’ll have to do better
88. It’s embarrassingly pat and predictable
89. Blundering, square-jawed bravado
90. . . . who framed him-- as a villain.
91. . . . who perjure themselves to convict the guy
92. Unfortunately reminiscent
93. Of course, we know how long that’s going to last
94. . . . won’t make you feel very optimistic
95. Groove isn’t everything, but it’ll do.
96. It would be hard to believe that he wasn’t
97. We’ve had a great deal of Beethoven recently
98. still haven’t found the audience they deserve
99. The Drugs don’t work
100. marked “death from above”