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  • By Month

    March 2010

    • A Short Oscar 2010 Note
    • Hollywood’s Reboot Madness: The Ultimate Solution

    February 2010

    • An Endureview: Mr. Deeds
    • The Top 10 Worst Movie Cliches
    • A Shameless Self-Promotion Post for my Selfmade Music Video
    • Movies and Realism? Are you kidding me?
    • A Review of Toky Godfathers

    January 2010

    • My Review of Avatar
    • Working on a better Blog...Please stand by!

    December 2009

    • The Best of madmind 2009
    • Those Hypes! Those Hypes!!!! Arrrrgghhhh!
    • 4 Links 4 You 4 Christmas
    • Tell me how you sit and I tell you who you are

    November 2009

    • The Top 101 Sequels of All Time
    • Another Case against Unwanted Sequels and Trilogies

    October 2009

    • That makes one theory less. Thanks, Sam Raimi!
    • The Best Dialogue Ever About Storytelling and Imagination
    • How to spot a Bad Movie in 1 Minute

    September 2009

    • Thank God the 3D Animation Hype cools down
    • Star Trek as an Alternative Movie Poster
    • Marvel gets Disneylized and here are my thoughts

    August 2009

    • Why Pixar’s Up is not the cream of the crop
    • The bigger the better? The Bullshit Thinking of some Hollywood Studios.
    • Genius Party Beyond – Moondrive
    • Madmind-driven Technology Porn

    July 2009

    • The Disney Renaissance in Four Charts
    • Batman Begins as a Movie Poster
    • Right Statistics accompanied by Wrong Charts
    • Roland Emmerich: It’s a disaster!!!
    • The Count Fetish of Movie Bloggers and Transformers’ Revenge on Quality

    June 2009

    • Disney’s Atlantis
    • Indiana Jones 5 is Gearing Up
    • Stupid German Additional Movie Titles
    • Terminator Salvation
    • Google Squared: Goldfinger is not a Movie
    • The Spiral of Shit

    May 2009

    • A little bit of Ekova with Starlight in Daden
    • Bazooka Joe and Hollywood for President (Updated)
    • Slumdog Millionaire as a Movie Poster
    • A Review of Star Trek
    • Star Trek and its Opening Weekends
    • Ten Reasons we really watch Movies
    • All Star Trek Movies and Episodes in Two Charts

    April 2009

    • The Box Office Curve of Video Game Adaptations
    • Just a little rant about Monsters vs. Aliens
    • The Matrix as a Movie Poster
    • Audi Filter Ad: Smoke never looked nicer
    • A much needed Meta-Post regarding Madmind
    • Here's to the Sequel of the Prequel!

    March 2009

    • Fooly Cooly
    • A Moment beyond the Alphabet
    • To Disney
    • From Alien to X-Men: The Ranking
    • From Alien to X-Men: 32 Franchises and Trilogies in 2 Charts

    February 2009

    • Why Sequels are a Wise Investment decision
    • The End of Blockbuster Movies
    • Songsmith Unleashed
    • The Best of the Worst

    January 2009

    • 3D cinema is still a hype – now with an argument
    • Ten "Plot Holes" and Errors in Wall-E
    • The most successful Genres of 2008
    • The future of Effects as shown by Benjamin Button
    • Zombie Logic on a whole new Level
    • Ten surefire ways to build a successful Top Ten List

    December 2008

    • The Last Post
    • The Neverending Search for Crap
    • Top 10 Movies of 2008 I did not see
    • Merry Christmas with some Great Movies
    • STAR WARS as a Chart
    • The Cool Movie Way of a Wordpress Update
    • Ode to the Critic
    • Made for those moments

    November 2008

    • 90 seconds you will never forget
    • About Idiots
    • Life really is the best source for writing

    October 2008

    • 3D is hating me Part II
    • 3D is hating me
    • How side-effects become opportunities
    • A scene you will never see in a movie
    • A Nightmare you don't wish for
    • My mind on the run
    • The conspiracy of the PC hardware industry
    • Blu-Ray might kill the movie

    September 2008

    • God dammit, Pixar!
    • There is always someone who doesn’t get it
    • Pixar vs. Me
    • Surprise your audience
    • How BABYLON A.D. could have been saved from downfall
    • 3D cinema is a hype worth nothing

    August 2008

    • The Reinvention of Madmind
    • Is Dreamworks Animation broke? Photoshop says "Yes"
    • Real Life vs. A ROBOT’S DREAM

    July 2008

    • Is focused better?
    • THE DARK KNIGHT nukes everything
    • Batman goes east – A review of GOTHAM KNIGHT
    • KUNG FU PANDA swings hard and punches mildly

    June 2008

    • The Time of Road Runner
    • Is this the end of M. Night Shyamalan?

    May 2008

    • Powerpoint. Your Story Design Tool.
    • Number 100. Yay!
    • Two Trailers. Two Worlds. One Movie.
    • Oh my...PROM NIGHT
    • The wonderful cruelty called movie writing
    • Thoughts about the success of a franchise called JAMES BOND
    • A Robot's Dream and its Genre
    • A Visual FALLING DOWN with Scarlett

    April 2008

    • Epic Symmetrical Guessing
    • The first teaser image for A ROBOT'S DREAM
    • Practice makes perfect. If it were THAT easy.
    • About the title "A Robot's Dream"
    • A title for my 3D short and a big change for the site
    • And my 3D animated short movie shall be named
    • There was something...
    • The one with the list
    • What makes a good title?
    • WALL E could become awesome
    • The Problematic Plot Hole called UNTRACEABLE

    March 2008

    • Stupid German Movie Titles Reloaded
    • It is OK to be stupid because I am the protagonist
    • What is up with all those remakes?
    • The last shot of MICHAEL CLAYTON
    • The Title vs. Me
    • High Art and Low Technology
    • All you ever need are 1000 True Fans
    • And the 3D's name could be...
    • Opening Scene
    • In Search of a Title for my 3D Short

    February 2008

    • So glad I went artificial
    • AKIRA live action project moving forward
    • What’s up with Warner and their Cover Designers?
    • The new Batman Anime
    • My Top Ten crazy experiences in a Movie Theater
    • About the Difference between “Story” and “Plot”
    • My thoughts about Animation Scriptwriting and more
    • John Alvin and his Poster Art
    • Awards and Animation
    • The last single movement to rule them all
    • TALK TO ME and the constant conflict in its story
    • An In-Depth Analysis of 2001. Part 4: On the Space Station

    January 2008

    • A status and progress chart for the 3D short movie project
    • Moving on with my 3D short? Yeah! Moving on!
    • It seems to be too good to be true
    • Sometimes you have to destroy…
    • About the ending of THE MIST and why it feels unconnected
    • Stephen King's THE MIST or The Retention of Disbelief
    • About disappearing story points and wrong motivations in THE ISLAND
    • Four days and no posts about nothing
    • A small Warning about Backstories
    • The Beauty and the Big Problem of Voice Over Narrations in Movies
    • Doing nothing was hopefully writing too

    December 2007

    • The Year 2007 of madmind.de in Review
    • Doing nothing can be writing too
    • Why movies never can be truly realistic
    • Finding The Truth in an artificial world
    • An In-Depth Analysis of 2001. Part 3: The Space Waltz Sequence
    • Will Hollywood remake the classic METROPOLIS? And why?
    • The Beauty of Learning by Doing
    • Aaaahhh. Those pop references in movies...
    • One minute of film really equals ten pages of writing
    • 3D movies and the fate of their stories

    November 2007

    • My new 3D short movie. Some informations and my creative goals
    • An In-Depth Analysis of 2001. Part 2: The Beginning of “The Dawn of Man”
    • An In-Depth Analysis of 2001. Part 1: The Structure of 2001
    • An In-Depth Analysis of 2001. The Introduction
    • The ultimate Tip for all beginning screenwriters
    • Stupid German Movie Titles
    • Are first person shooter bound to die?
    • IMDB and movie geeks
    • Some first impression on Robert McKees book "Story"
    • Sioen - No Conspiracy at all
    • What is a MacGuffin?
    • The beginning of a new era...
    • Why Apple lost me as a potential customer (for now)
    • Why leaps of time can cause problems for movies
    • Web 2.0 - Web 1.0 on speed?
    • Why I love the Internet
    • Should beginning Bloogers dupe its audience?
    • Will the Pixar Factor save 3D?
    • The Benefits of 2D Animation
    • Will a live action adaption of "Akira" become real?

    October 2007

    • The Directors Cut of James Camerons 'Aliens'
    • Why "Spiderman 3" had to become what it is today
    • The Trailer Competition Revisited

    September 2007

    • I reboot my electronic life with some nines in my head

    February 2007

    • The best opening shot of a movie ever
    • The best movie ending shot ever

    December 2006

    • You can...

    November 2006

    • A review of PULSE
    • Call me genius - I created a new word

    October 2006

    • Monster movies' final revelation
    • SEVERANCE
    • Finding new ways by being busy doing nothing

    September 2006

    • Web 2.0 - This image nails everything
    • Warning. Comedian entering the movie stage!
    • Oh, please dub me, Mr. Diver!

    August 2006

    • Thank you for not spoiling

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What'll we do if there's lava inside this volcano?!
I don't know! We'll see when we go down!
You're so cool!
(Genius Party - Moondrive)
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