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Q&A Vol 8,222,222,120.

Here's some questions I've received in the past week or so, with replies. With only five minutes to spare before I set myself on fire in protest of something as of yet undetermined, I chose the inquiries that could be answered as easily as possible. So, for those who sent in well thought out questions that really inspired debate, the joke's on you!

Michael M.: I'm sure someone else has suggested this to you already, but you should give the new Hulk cereal a look as something you might want to review. It's absolutely...without a doubt...the WORST CEREAL EVER!  It's freakin' POPS! and Lucky Charm's marshmallows put together! It's terrible! Awful!  Worse than anything that has come before, or that shall come after!  It's just plain shitty.

REPLY: I've actually reviewed this one -- well, The Hulk Pinata did, at least. I'm not sure I'd call it 'awful,' being a Corn Pops fan and all, but it's certainly an odd mix.

Ben: just writing to let you know that i think your site is great.  I've enclosed a picture of rawhead rex, and i was wondering, is it just me, or is that the actor's mouth/face behind rex's latex teeth?  is it like this throughout the film?  i thought i could see the same clenched teeth in other stills as well. was this noticeable?  just curious, and obviously with a lot of free time.  keep up the good work!

REPLY: (the picture in question can be found here) You couldn't really see the actor's head throughout the whole movie, but there were other goofs. In the scene where Rex shakes the trailer homes and rips out the pretty girl's tits, they forgot to fit his monster gloves on. He goes through the whole sequence with very undevilish human hands.

Jonathan B.: Well, I really love all your cereal reviews, but I have a suggestion for you when you pull out old cereals: To make them taste fresh again, pour out a lot of them on a cookie sheet and put it in the oven for 10 to 20 minutes. It'll taste pretty fresh again! I realized this as a young lad when the only thing left to eat was some cereal from long ago that had comics in the fold on the back of the box, and I was hungry.

REPLY: Sounds good to me -- next time I want to eat decade old cereal, I'll toast it in the oven first. Also: a lot of people have e-mailed about another of Ralston's similar brands, Addams Family Cereal. I've actually got a box right here, and it's extremely terrible -- far worse than the ones reviewed on the site. Keeping with the company's theme of peddling toys to compensate for shitty food, it came with a Fester Addams flashlight shrink-wrapped onto the box. Almost made up for it, but not really.

Adam: Not sure if you know about these already but I found these on a web site. A toy company called Reel is making Gremlin action figures that are supposed to come out soon. Stripe and Brain Gremlin look pretty cool in my opinion. Here is the link: Gremlins Figures For Sale.

REPLY: Awesome. Everything about Gremlins is holy to me, and I'm glad to see that Gizmo and friends weren't forgotten with today's retro craze.

Will: Did He-Man have a horse? I swear I had one when I was younger, but i can't find it now.

REPLY: He-Man indeed had a horse. Sort of. It was more like a robot shaped vaguely like a horse with a gun coming out its ass along with the usual tail. Here's a pic:

It's one of the most common MOTU vehicle toys, and loose editions cost next to nothing.

David E.: Hi, still loving the site.  I know you've probably seen the movie "the Dawn of the Dead" at least once, but my friends and I watched it last night and it seemed like the perfect movie to review on your site.  It has freedom fighters.  Fighting zombies.  In a mall.  In the 1980's (possibly late 70s).  And if you can hang on until the end, an army of Hell's Angels bikers have an extended fight with the zombies that includes multiple pies being thrown into the zombies' face and a couple even being hosed down by seltzer.  Then their heads get blown off.  It's truly an amazing film if you don't remember it.  It also features the same zombies getting killed over and over (not enough different extras) and one extra even laughing as he is getting shot.  Truly a classic.

REPLY: Dawn of the Dead is just about the most perfect horror movie you'll ever see, seriously. I picked it up years back not knowing a thing about the lore, and I was totally surprised with how great the story was. It's legitimately scary, has decent effects, likable characters, and shitloads of zombies and gore. More so than anything else, it takes the idea of 'suspense' to whole new levels -- it's almost difficult to sit through because it's so suspenseful. If anyone out there hasn't seen it, make sure ya do.

That's all for now. Byyyyeee.

Posted by Matt on 06/21/2003. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 43 comments

Maybe i’ve missed something but Matt, did you ever finish that advent calendar? We came so close to the end. Maybe i should let it go, it was 6 months ago but i am stuck in the past, would any of us be here if we weren’t?

Chestnuts roasted by Changed my MSN name to Fearless Photog @ 06/22/2003 6:48 PM


All good fencers go to Hell!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3531187062&category=20118&rd=1

Chestnuts roasted by Inuyasha @ 06/22/2003 7:06 PM


Whoa Feral, you need to calm down on the schmuck. I wouldn’t necesarially call that spam seeing as it’s just an ebay auction and not some kind of crazy popup advertisement or someones homepage.

Chestnuts roasted by Photogs brother-in-law @ 06/23/2003 12:05 PM


I’m sure that if Matt showed us all of the advent calender, it would be so climactic (or perhaps so anticlimactic) Our heads would all explode in unison and then our loved ones would all sue Matt and he would loose his website and die a broken man. DO YOU WANT THAT?

Chestnuts roasted by Paul Ortego @ 06/23/2003 12:27 PM


Hmmm…Heads exploding… I say go through with it Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by Rocksteady @ 06/23/2003 12:30 PM


Must see…28 Days later. Must see….28 Days later…28 Days La…Whoa! Snap out of it! Get off my screen!!!

Anyway, yeah I agree. Let’s see the rest of the calender! Christmas in Summer? No problems here…then again, I’m not a religious man. Santa forgive me for my sins.

Chestnuts roasted by Muddy Bears @ 06/23/2003 12:55 PM


I think we all need advent calendar closure. I think I need to refresh my memory about it.

I am pleased that Toilet Duck Fan is pleased. The question is laid to rest. Now we can all continue to worry about Fat Daddy and Photog (who would win THAT fight?)

Chestnuts roasted by Sean @ 06/23/2003 1:25 AM


the best recent cereal promo has been the free DVD with Lucky Charms, I can’t resist free muppet stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Patrick N @ 06/23/2003 4:12 AM


I forgot all about the advent calendar. How about it Matt? How many more Mare Whittingham’s were there?

Chestnuts roasted by mutton72 @ 06/23/2003 2:28 PM


i got a free ‘teah canada hockey @ the salt lake olympics’ dvd in a box of nesquik. it didnt work.

i can’t say that i was heartbroken, but i was bored at the time, and the fact that it didn’t work meant i had to go back to being bored. damn cereal premiums and their making me hope for better days.

Chestnuts roasted by evin @ 06/23/2003 5:27 PM


I’m still hoping you’ll take up my offer of reviewing "Bibleman:The Incredible Forces of Joy".

I’ll MAIL you the tape. Free! I recieved the tape for my brithday when I turned 16 a few years back. Just doing a websearch for BIBLEMAN (I believe he’s gotten a refernce here at XE before) will turn up so much wacky shit it will make your head spin. Spin and gape at how politically incorrect and *bad* the film is.
Yes, that *my* question. Will bibleman ever grace XE’s manpage? Only Matt will tell…

-Blayne
(ernie@bungie.org)

Chestnuts roasted by Ernie @ 06/25/2003 11:09 AM


Matt, one more question. What were the toys that had the little cap-firing action in their back. I remember Robocop did this, and I think that there was some kind of He-Man that did it as well. Plus, didn’t the old COPs figures do that too?

Chestnuts roasted by Bansheex @ 06/26/2003 3:34 PM


OK, since this kind of turned into a "hey, when are you going to review _______?" thing, let me throw Captain Power into the mix. I had a couple of the videos as a kid and watched the TV show too. I don’t remember it as being inane, but I thought He-Man should have been winning Emmy’s, so what do I know? How about it Matt?

Chestnuts roasted by Dane E. Coffey @ 06/28/2003 12:49 PM


> Dawn of the Dead is being remade.

Fuck. Off? Damn — I hope it isn’t nearly as craptacular as the 30th anniversary edition of Night of the Living Dead with the brand spanking new spliced in footage and horrid updated soundtrack. My girlfriend bought that for me for my birthday and I tore into it pretty badly as I watched. I think I’ll pop it in the DVD player to make her feel like I’m getting some use out of it other than as a despised, pilloried addition to my zombie flic collection. On the other hand, do I want to waste even ten minutes of our vacation on that crap?

Still, maybe it’ll be okay — like the 1991 remake of NotLD, which I thought I’d hate, but that I actually liked in a different way than the original. One thing’s for sure, though, I’ll never hear about its release ’til it’s been out on video for three years.

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 06/30/2003 9:05 AM


I forgot to mention my favourite part about the updated edition of NotLD: the fact that the original graveyard zombie actually got FATTER. I guess the maggots in that world live in opposite day and work in reverse.

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 06/30/2003 9:08 AM


Just wanted to say that after reading the bits about "Ice Cream Cone Cereal," I got all nostalgic and immediately went out and bought the stuff. It’s, like, after midnight. And the first store didn’t have it, so I had to drive around looking for one that did. And I just finished my third bowl. Man, I sure do miss the 80′s!

Chestnuts roasted by Skeen @ 09/05/2003 1:45 AM


addams family cereal was DELICIOUS! i think it was some kind of vanilla-butterscotch mix.good shit!

Chestnuts roasted by jj addams @ 09/16/2004 6:25 PM


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