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""The Dragon" is some sort of world-beating
demigodling who did Vaguely Great and Terrible Things in the ancient history of Jordan's world. Much of the plot of this novel
revolves around the question of whether or not Rand al'Thor, a strapping young country idiot, might not be the Dragon Reborn,
and thus destined for More Vaguely Great and Terrible Things. Rand is stolen from his idyllic bumpkin existence by a
mysterious woman wizard, Moiraine, and her stoic warrior companion Lan. In no time at all, Rand and a mixed bag of equally
clueless friends are on the run across hundreds of miles of verdant real estate while an army of refugees from an Iron Maiden
album cover chases them to and fro. The album cover refugees want to seize Rand and turn him into an agent of evil. Moiraine
wants to take him back to the fortress of her mystical order and prod him like a lab mouse to discover the truth of his condition.
The race is on to save or damn him, and the only thing that's certain is that it sucks to be Rand. " Review: Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World
"I think my favorite moment in Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor is definitely when Admiral Husband Kimmel of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet leaps into the air in bullet-time slow motion and kicks Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in the throat! No, wait, it's when Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet) run helter-skelter through the bowels of the U.S.S. Arizona in an effort to avoid Rose's evil suitor (Billy Zane)! No, no, I have it... it's when Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett take to the air in P-40 Warhawks, clear the skies over Pearl Harbor of Japanese planes, and then fly over the Pacific all the way to Japan, where they locate Tokyo's small thermal exhaust port and blow the city sky-high with their proton torpedoes just before Grand Moff Tojo gives the order to blow up the Phillippines!"
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