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07/31/2008: X-E’s ‘08 Summer Megaparty: Cobra’s Chia Plot, Part V.

Just a few random things, as I’m too tired to take pictures but not too tired to write. It’s all lies in what position my arms need to be in, see.

1) I tried the “six Saltines with no water in under a minute” trick tonight…AND FAILED. Honestly, I probably could’ve done it, but by cracker #3, the risk/reward ratio started leaning the wrong way and I decided that eating six crackers in less than a minute wasn’t really something I’d be able to hang my hat on, anyway.

2) I finally got around to watching Lake Placid 2. John Schneider is 2 for 2. As was the case with Shark Swarm, I found the movie entertainingly bad enough to sit through, but not to the level necessary for me to recommend it. The first Lake Placid was an anomaly: No movie about a giant crocodile invading Maine had any right to be that good. Lightning did not strike twice, but they kind of made up for it with the inclusion of seventeen million extra giant crocodiles, all CG rendered in terrible fashion. During some of the attack scenes, victims were missing limbs that the gators absolutely did not bite off.

Still, there’s a definite sense that the people who made the movie actually set out to make a bad movie. Some of the stuff was just too over the top for that not to be the case, and these suspicions were confirmed by a special feature on the DVD which replays the entire movie, but automatically fast forwards past any scene that doesn’t feature naked women or someone getting attacked by a crocodile. Clever.

Also of note is Cloris Leachman in Betty White’s role from the first film. (Well, she plays Betty’s character’s sister here.) If you don’t recall, Cloris was the actress thrown in the unenviable position of Mrs. Garrett’s replacement on The Facts of Life. That didn’t turn out so well, as the only suitable replacement for Mrs. Garrett is a biologically engineered clone of Mrs. Garrett. Still, it was nice to see ol’ Cloris again, especially in a movie where she feeds people to crocodiles.

3) You guys have really been rocking it on the recent surveys. Better cut that out before I start thinking that it’s okay to pose random questions and call it an entry.

4) I really need to knock it off with the “three hours of sleep per night” thing. It’s out of control, and I spend most of my awake time feeling like I’m sharing a brain and body with someone who is much stupider than I hope I am. The latest trend: Someone asks me a simple question, my brain comes up with two similar answers with different wording, and my mouth translates those answers as one mutated, slurry monster. At work today, someone fairly high up asked me how I was doing. She learned that I was doing “algood,” which apparently is somewhere between “all right” and “good.”

5) I’m considering giving the cracker trick another go.

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Too bad about the crackers…I still need to try that! And go get some sleep…NOW!

Maybe Matt’s coming up with a resolution to the whole Cobra Chia Plot thing…

I too have recently been going on an incredibly low amount of sleep. Not because I have anything better to do, just my mind is always working so I can’t get to sleep but yea, I dont know if it’s happened to you yet, but you can expect it.

It’s the point where your so tired that the objects/room around you kinda start to shimmer. I know it probably sounds like i’m high, but im not, just no sleep. You’ll see, it’ll happen eventually.

Using already made up words is for chumps..making our own up out of already existing words is for champs!

I cannot sleep in the summer, usually. It’s just too sticky to think about rest. However, for the past week or so, I have been patiently waiting for the night’s post. After which I read, comment, and go to bed. So, ironically, you are tucking me in Matt.
About the Chia thing…

I personally invented a new swear a few years ago and to this very day when I say it I always get a confused look. The swear in question you ask “bitch cakes” don’t really know what it means but it sure makes me laugh. Try it out and see what strange looks you get.

Matt, like Cameron T. you had me goin with the thread title. Nice one! =) I can sympathize with ya on the sleep thing. I can usually sleep peacfully once I get to sleep, but I often have trouble fallin asleep in the first place. Also give the cracker thing another go. You can definately do it if you just prepare yurself first.

Here is a good topic. Tell us about the worst movie you ever saw on the big screen. Or you
can talk about the worst direct-to-video film
that you ever saw.

and it’s agreed, the saltines thing is a third rate parlour trick for the particularly desperate to entertain.

finally; on an unrelated note.. DOES ANYONE SPEAK FRENCH?!?! i need to confirm a hotel reservation and i can’t do it cause i’m a stoned anglo and jesus will someone help me and make a 1 minute call to quebec? gterose@gmail.com !

I actually have some friends in New Zealand who, when asked how they’re doing, answer “algud.”
always. Apparently it’s a typical response there.
Don’t know why I told you that.

Yeah, about that survery…I’m a gonna day Blair Witch Project and direct to vidoe That cheerleader movie with um….kirsten dunce…but the sequel.

Matt,
I feel you, buddy. I too often have trouble going to sleep, but not usually staying asleep. Being it being summer, and me not in school and unemployed has thrown off my entire sleep schedule. Nowadays, I don’t go to sleep before 2 am.

LoneStar76,
In answer to your poll question, I have watched (or rather, attempted to watch but quit out of sheer embarassment) Cool As Ice. Just horrible.
BUT, the absolute (best) worst movie I’ve ever seen is a little direct-to-video gem called Ring of Darkness. All you need to know about this movie can be summed up in four words: Gay. Vampire. Boy. Band. It’s terrible, but howlingly funny. My sister almost had an asthma attack from laughing so hard at this movie. I could not recommend it any higher.

Betty White was on Jay Leno the other night getting paintballs shot at her while she stood behind some glass. The game was to see if she’d flinch or not. Cruel cruel cruel. (She didn’t flinch.)
On the sleeping note…I’ve been gettin’ 3 hours or less nightly for the last week. My wife is due to give birth any day now and she has been miserable at night, which is an automatic no-sleep-ticket for me also. I’ve been told I won’t be getting much sleep for the next few years…

let’s see the worst movie I ever paid to watch in a theatre had to be….wait for it…Ecks VS. Sever. AND!!!! for the record the ONLY reason I watched it was because it was filmed in my hometown of Vancouver B.C. and they acknowledged it as such.

I’ve heard the cracker legend, but I’ve also heard that it’s impossible to eat a slice of bread in under a minute without water. I tried it and did it in about 20 seconds. Maybe it’s harder with whole grain bread?

Okay I just tried the cracker thing and I could not do it. It took me 45 seconds to eat three of them.

I’m sure someone there speaks english.
Try saying, “Juh Nuh Par-lay Frahn-say.”

Worst movie I ever saw in a theater was Battlefield Earth. Thank you L. Ron Hubbard for that stinky cinematic suppository.

Although, Travolta was (unintentionally) funny. And his buddy Forest Whitaker wasn’t too bad either.

That didn’t turn out so well, as the only suitable replacement for Mrs. Garrett is a biologically engineered clone of Mrs. Garrett.

Well,you’ve finally done it,Matt.
When I was 17,I heard about Beast Wars. I watched about 2 and half episodes of it,pissed off the whole time. My favorite cartoon robots turned into talking mice and lions and other crap? So I stopped watching,and I’ve cursed the name Beast Wars ever since. I know EVERYONE in the damn world feels it’s the best show of all time,but I stood resolute.
Anyway,every time you mention how great it is,I think,”Well,maybe it’s not so bad-” then I just think,”ahh,Matt doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
So today at Kmart I noticed those Robot Heroes you raved about last week (I bought the G1 dudes) and I thought “What the Hell.” So I watched episode one of Beast Wars with an open mind.

Damnit,it’s a decent show. I’ll probably end up watching the entire series. I do wish it wasn’t animated by a Nintendo 64,and the anthromophic animals is a little Disney-esque,but it’s a pretty cool show nonetheless. Waspinator is pretty awesome.
So anyway,you turned me from a diehard hater into sort of a fan.
I still prefer G1 though.

Kid Nicky: You gotta get past the early episodes — they’re pretty boring when you don’t have the context provided by the later episodes. Get into the second season.

Okay, I don’t mean to spam here, this will be my last post for tonight, but…

I just remembered your post where you ate the entire top layer off of the saltine. That’s plenty to hang your hat on right there, so don’t feel too bad if the six cracker thing doesn’t work out.

…Though if you did manage it, your double accomplishment would make you like…the Duke of Saltines or something.

I take my answers to survey questions or replies to people most of the time very seriously. I shouldn’t really, but I do. Especially when it comes to the Summer Megaparty!!

I can totally relate to the slurring two sentences together thing. I do that all the time. I seriously don’t make sense out loud as much as I do in my head. My best friend makes fun of me for it and I always tell him to shut the fuck up. He does the whole I am not laughing AT you I am laughing WITH you thing. Well I can say this much. If I am more self conscious when it comes to the way I talk when I am around you from now on I definitely don’t feel like I am laughing with you about it. She feeds people to crocodiles? Huh? What? It’s only 20 til 9 but I think I am ready for bed. That kind of sucks.

I don’t see anything wrong with that “algood,” since that’s about how I’m feeling right now myself. I’m going to bed, before I figure out how to slur together words on a keyboard.

Betty White and Cloris Leachman worked together on the “Mary Tyler Moore Show”

3 Extremes- I love gore. But I could not stomach this Korean horror film as I stopped watching after 20 minutes. Just plain disgusting.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall: There were some laughs, but it was too long. The worst of the Apatow films for me.

i hereby move to rename Matt “the duke of saltines” and perhaps mail him a snazzy crown too

I’ve been there with the little sleep thing. I’m there this week, in fact. Today I was like a zombie, so I feel for you, but I still think this is funny.

Bluejay is right. Eating the top off a saltine is a hell of a lot harder than just sticking them in your mouth.
yep.

Total sidebar here but I just made tuna and shrimp Alfredo and my cat is going fucking apeshit.
Who would think……milk…tuna…shrimp.
Matt has cats he probably knows!

Thanks for the submissions everyone. I went to see Hudson Hawk in 1991. The theater wasn’t
full, it wasn’t half full, it wasn’t even a
quarter full. And I saw it in an old theatre
downtown. One of the worst direct-to-video
films I bought was Dorm Daze. I’m hoping to
get rid of it.

That title is a horribly cruel trick.
I wish Cloris Leachman had a blog, she wouldn’t play such tricks..

I don’t know how anyone can get by on less then 8.5 hours sleep. I’ve just turned 27, and I have trouble watching the entire early playing of Conan O’Brien which ends at 10:30pm, then getting up for 8am. 10:30 to 8 leaves me tired, I’m worst then my Grandma. Last night I pulled a late shift and watched shark week 2 until 11:30, and barely woke up for 9. I’m inclined to beleive that sleeping as little as you all say you do is as impossible as eating 6 crackers in a minute, which nearly asphixiated me.

The worst movie I ever saw in the theater is Batman and Robin. I don’t think I have to say anything else besides that. Although I went with my dad and we laughed and riffed on it the WHOLE time, ala MST3K. It was bad, but the FUN kind of bad. =D The worst direct to video movie iv’e ever seen is this movie about a killer who dresses as a clown kills this girls family member and she gets sent to a mental instituion and years later shes released. He(clown killer) then comes back for revenge or something, i’m not sure. I could barely pay attention. It was THAT HORRIBLE!LOL! It literally, and i’m NOT kiddin when I say this, was shot on what looked like a home video camera. It actually looked like it had the budget of a home movie that anybody can make. When Matt says that, he’s joking to get a point across about a movies overall badness. He’s not being ABSOLUTELY literal. Well I AM when I tell you about this movie. I think it was called Mr.Giggles or somethin like that. I’ll look up the name to be sure and check back with ya’ll. Matt should REALLY review this! This is WITHOUT A DOUBT X-E material. Oh and I actually think Beast Wars is a much better show than the G1 toon! I know there’s some trans fans recoiling in utter shock at that statement, but it’s what I think. To me Beast Wars stories were more complicated and dramatic. Plus it had death in it ,unlike G1. Not counting the movie I mean. Beast Wars characters actually got hurt when they got shot too. G1 will always have a special place in my heart because it’s what I saw first , but Beast Wars is simply superior to me. I don’t allow nostalgia to decide for me whats “the best”! =)

Reason I’m up so late tonight? No work tomorrow, just taking the woman to our 6th month ultrasound for our unplanned first child, who I hope to live all my missed child hood joys through.

Worst movie? I’ll have to say Duplex. It was on DVD, and my god…A movie that makes me feel bad for Ben Stiller causes me to stab. I turned it off halfway through it and had to ask my friend Steve (who watched it with me & my gf at the time) how it ended.

Worst I saw in the theater? I didn’t like Meet The Parents (what is it about Ben Stiller?), and as a kid I saw both the Mortal Kombat & Street Fighter movies in the theater. Although I thought they were ok in my little kid mind.

Bad movie, Bridge to Terabithia. So my wife and I are big fantasy fans. We go and see it expecting lots of cool monsters and stuff, LIKE IN THE COMMERCIAL. Needless to say most of that was in the commercial. Also the endings such a bummer. I mean a child dies for Gods sake! I know should of read the book.

Got a big laugh out of the post title, good one XD
I am, Neg. Everybody’s talking about gearing up for Halloween and as always I’m thinking of Christmas in July. Once I see bats and pumpkins I’m sure I’ll be feeling Halloween too.
Every morning I swear that night’s going to be the one where I catch up on sleep. It never is.

I tried the saltine challenge tonight as well, I was close. I did it in about 70 seconds, but as Mean Gene would say “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades” I also recommend not wearing ear plugs like I did (I was at work during this attempt) it sounds like your in a bad shark movie…wait a minute, what am I saying!!?? I HIGHLY recommend wearing ear plugs while doing the Saltine Challenge, BECAUSE it sounds like your in a bad shark movie!!!

As for the no sleep thing, my schedule has been reversed, so it’s all screwy. Work all night, sleep maybe four hours a day..

I am starting to want to do the saltine test too now!! Even though I just started using a new laptop and all of my software and shit isn’t on it yet. Augh.

ULTRAMAN I have heard of horror movies that you can see cables sprawled across the floor, the cameraman’s shadow, and the cameraman’s reflection in the mirror. That is pretty bad even though I think I have seen porn’s with the audio cables on the floor but I don’t think people care when it comes to a porno lol.

Ever since I started watching current movies online I really have noticed how far and few between decent movies are. I have also noticed movies that I remember getting a lot of awards for and people saying were great that I saw a long time ago that I have a vague memory of or I have never seen at all and just heard about alot of those movies aren’t good either. It’s funny how a movie becomes out of date and you realize it really wasn’t all that good of a movie to begin with it’s just the hype around it made it feel better. And paying 5-8 dollars a ticket to watch it in the movie theater I think makes a difference.

Also a lot of modern comedy movies aren’t that good. Those types of movies are really bad anymore. I won’t mention any that I don’t like because I don’t want to argue but it seems like it’s just the same movie different characters. Also all of these remakes and movies about tv shows yadda yadda. I wish I could get that job though I would kickass at it lol.

I have watched some obscure zombie movies and horror movies in my time. Some were in the theater, some straight to video, and even one or two I wondered if it was a project a film student made.

One that looks like a film student made it was called I,Zombie. A young man is coming home from college to see his girlfriend and a woman that looks deranged attacks and bites him. He pushes her off and runs away from her and I think kills her but I don’t remember. But he rents a hotel because he realizes that woman was a zombie and he will turn into one too. I don’t think he says zombie but he says whatever she was I will turn into. It’s not an instant transformation he very slowly decomposes and transforms which is rare in a zombie film.

He has to attack someone and feast on them about once a month or he has severe seizures. He takes their money to pay for the hotel. The highlight of the film for me was they showed hints that one of the main things he did to pass the time was masturbate. He would look at the picture he had in his wallet of his girlfriend and masturbate to it. That wasn’t the highlight lol but the highlight was one scene where he was masturbating to the picture and his dick fell off LOL because of his decomposing. That made him really depressed and felt like he had nothing else to live for. I think he killed himself after that I don’t remember it’s been about 7 years since I seen that movie. But I thought it would be amusing to you guys me describing that one scene.

Okay, as far as the Saltine challenge goes… I’ve seen this done. It’s a question of building up saliva in your mouth, or better yet some nice fresh water. The point is that the crusty salty crackers dry your mucous membranes out and you need to have some water in there to flush it down.

Reminds me of holding my breath (after smoking a cigarette) longer than those chumps on Fear Factor. I did two or three minutes. The secret to that is hyper-oxygenating your body by taking fast deep breaths.

The worst movie I ever saw in the theater was “Prophecy”, starring Talia Shire. And thing is,it was directed by John Frankenheimer and written by David Seltzer. With names like that you’d think it’d be great! But it was just so bad! It was supposed to be an allegory to show the evils of Industry vs. Nature. But they picked a lame villain (The Logging Industry) a lame venue (mercury sludge/pollution at the bottom of a lake) and a lame monster (The “Prophecy”, an offspring of a Maine Hillbilly who genetically mutated from his mother ingesting mercury while pregnant) A true sign of a bad movie is when the only exciting moment was shown in the trailer for the film. A kid camping in the polluted forest wakes up scared, hops away in his sleeping bag, faces the monster, and the monster hits him so hard, he hits a tree, and kid and sleeping bag explode into a million feathers. Otherwise, the whole movie was like sitting through a high school film strip where you are being taught a lesson. Sheer torture! Compare this movie to another movie where man screws with nature, and nature comes back to attack. The original 1954 “GODZILLA”. There’s a kick-ass man-made problem (Atomic testing in the Bikini Atoll) and the vehicle/venue for the monster is radioactivity in the Pacific, and the monster is no lame-o, mucus covered 8 foot hillbilly mutant, it’s Godzilla! And Godzilla attacks Japan! For those of you who don’t know, there were some Japanese fishermen who were injured in the actual test at Bikini in the late 40’s. And it was the Japanese director’s way of saying, “Hey, here are atomic bombs coming to get us again”. But the symbol of the atomic threat is the radioactively-mutated Godzilla. (Man, I sound really smart!)

The worst TV to DVD movie had to be “Rescue from Gilligan’s Island”. I’m not sure if the title is exactly right, but I don’t care since it doesn’t deserve for me to waste brain cells going to Wikipedia to check. The original Ginger wasn’t there, the people acted stupider than ever, they escape by roping themselves top their huts right before the approaching hurricane that happens to blow them right in the path of the Coast Guard. Fucking Wow, what a premise. “Hey, good thing you used the professor’s vines to tie yourself to the bamboo support pole of the hut, otherwise you’d be dead!” And then they fuck up somehow, and end up back on the island again. What a waste of plastic making that DVD. And I am upset at the dollar I wasted too!

Goob: I checked and the name of the movie I was talking about is Mr.Jingles. I really think even Mattt couldn’t it make through this. I’m not kiddin! It’s THAT bad! I think you should watch it too goob. Although you probably wouldn’t like me for recommending it to you. lol.

Hey all…..I’m scared. I start my internship today for billing and coding medical office specialist or whatever. Its at a cardiology clinic my grandma goes to…small world huh?

I heard good and bad things about this place from 4 people who have done the internship already last week. One walked out because she did’nt want to stuff envelopes as she put it. The other 3 did’nt mind it much. I hope I like it. I’m walking in with an open mind and plan on doing my damdest to impress the fuck outta them.

Congratulations on successfully posting daily in July. You did it man. You are the big boss of your area for sure.

There’s something about July for insomniacs. I’ve been sleepless pretty much since I came back from vacation. For a month I truly hate, I sure am seeing a lot of it awake.

I have burned the midnight oil this week as well. I actually had someone talk to me here at work a few minutes ago and I didn’t even realize it…she was right there in front of me with me looking at her. That’s what I get for finally playing Metal Gear Solid for the PS1…I have to catch up before I play MGS 4. Damn game has me hooked and I can’t play until the family goes to bed. My wife thinks I’m so immature. Eh, she knew that when she married me.

ALERT ALERT ALERT
Michaels craft stores already have their Halloween section up and going. I’m not talking about a few things here and there, I mean a full blown aisle. I bought more Spooky Town buildings for this year’s Halloween display. I have to remind myself to pace myself…I ran out of Halloween steam midway throught October last year.

I also have the tendency to mash together similar thoughts into a wonderful stew of malapropism. One of my favorites is combining “I’m dreadfully sorry” with “I humbly apologize”. I’ve Dreadfully Apologized to more people than I can count. I also tend to inappropriately reply to “hey, do you mind…” In my head, I’m replying something along the lines of “yeah, sure, I don’t mind at all”, but all that comes out, usually, is “yeah”.

Usually I am unaware of all of these things and only notice when my girlfriend points them out and giggles.

Cloris Leachman and Betty White were also both Mary Tyler Moore characters…coincidence? Let’s hope so

Fortune favors the bold. If you say, “I proudly apologize”, or “I’m blissfully sorry”, there will be no further confusion of this specific nature I assure you.

Reach for the stars! The sky is the limit! Seize the Day! No more dreadful apologies for Josh!

In the theatre I’d have to say Signs as it’s the only movie I’ve ever walked out on.

Worst movie in a theatre had to be shoot em up, what a worthless pile of crap that was. But on DVD it is quite a conumdrum for me since this movie as far as acting, sfx, story, it is one of the worst larger studio movies made, but it is also one of my favorite movies ever made, Cabin Boy.

Also Matt, I mix words all the damn time. Normally on morning where I am hanging, not the headache, sick hanging, but just when you are in that special little fog. When I do that in the office (and I know when I do it) I just stare at the person I am talking to as if I said something quite important that needs a prompt reply. And just watch their mind race, then I just huff and walk away is disgust. At least try to make something entertaining out of me being a retard.

Matt, did you know that professional wrestling critic Scott Keith reads X-Entertainment? He plugged it on his blog:

I liked Shoot Em Up

Thought it was decent for what it was, but not for everybody. But Clive Owen channeling Bugs Bunny and Monica Belluci as a hooka with a heart of gold? Works for me.
It’s way too early to start celebrating, but TGIF. Let’s all agree to skip forward about 7 hours, okay?

I was a HUGE Talk Soup fan, so when Greg Kinnear first started doing movies, I went to every one. “A Smile Like Yours” is probably the worst movie I ever paid theater prices for. It’s about a couple who are having trouble conceiving, and over the course you end up finding out what annoying, self-absorbed people they are. That’s not supposed to be the point of the movie, but it is (for example, she wants to do fertility testing, so instead of having an open conversation, she sneaks his “sample” into a cup and has it tested without telling him. Yeah, that’s a healthy relationship.) They endure a “comical” montage of one failed treatment procedure after another (who thinks that’s even remotely funny?) and then they end up splitting up for a while because of all the stress. At the end, they make up, and during the credits we find out that they ended up having multiples. I guess we’re supposed to feel like it was a happy ending, but instead it’s kind of disappointing because, by the end, you really don’t want these douchebags to have kids.

Worst movie straight to video, King Kung Fu. This movie is a independent movie from Wichita KA. I don’t even want to waste my time with the plot. I will just say this, don’t bother to see it.

Squee4242 - I hear you on the Friday thing, leaving at 4 so down to 6.5 hours. And with shoot them up, I think my issue was more of it wasn’t what I expected. And they didn’t fully commit, when you make a bad movie you have to either make crap or don’t. Don’t half ass it. And the baby was pissing me off. I would of ditched the damn thing within the first 20 minutes. Don’t they have those baby drop boxes now.

AAARGH! I tried the same cracker thing yesterday! I almost choked and had to drink water.

I mix words together all the time without meaning to. I told the guy at the gas station the other day, when he asked cash or credit, that I’d be paying in “crash.”

Anyone gonna watch “Midnight Meat Train”? It opened today, but went straight to the local dollar theatre… which pretty much sealed the fact that I will go see it. I was on the fence before, but now it’s a done deal.

Matt, I feel you on long periods of sleep deprivation. I went to a certain school in the Army for 2 and a half months that centered on sleep and food deprivation. Apparently I told one of the instructors that I “lost my January”. I’m not sure where I was going with that.

Do you ever start to say something and in the middle of what you’re saying you decide to say something else completely? There’s already words out there. These friends were leaving the other day and I started to say “Hey, take care,” and I decided to say “Good luck” instead like half way through, so it came out neither.

“Take luck! Take luck and care. Take care of the luck. Good luck taking care of the luck that you might have if you have luck, take it, care for it. TAKE LUCK CARE OF IN IT WHEN YOU TAKE LUCK CARE OF IN IT.”

And JLAJRC, Jackie Brown sucks? Don’t care for Mallrats? The Ladykillers sucked? You are dead to me.

I decided to to take the liberty of adding some other categories along with “the worst movie you saw in the theater”.

Worst Movie I saw in the Theater: Down Periscope
The only reason I went to see this is because my “friend” needed a reason to be able to meet up with his girlfriend at the theater so his parents didn’t know. Not only was the movie awful but I had to sit next to about an hour and a half’s worth of sloppy kissing and whatnot. On top of that was my insane jealousy because I had a crush on the chick he was with. That definitely made me one salty 8th grader.

Best Movie I didn’t see: Liar Liar
Ok technically I saw about 5 minutes of this movie. I had hooked up with this one chick and met up with her at the movie. After the first 5 minutes of this movie it was a horny teenager free -for-all through the rest of the movie. Funny thing is the row of old ladies in front of us didn’t seem to mind. Nothing like gettin it on to the wackiness of Jim Carrey :P

Best Movie to throw Skittles at: Hunt for Red October
Of course its the ONLY movie I’ve thrown skittles at. I was 8 years old and there was no one else in the theater besides me and my older brother. I especially enjoyed throwing them at the evil Sean Connery.

Best Movie I saw in the theater: Terminator 2
When I was in 4th grade our family headed out to see some R rated goodness (we even went as a family to see Major League! And I was younger back then!). It was everything that makes it WORTH spending the money to go to a theater. Good times! Honorable Mention: South Park
Most Disappointing Movie: The Phantom Menace
As a Star Wars fan I expected so much more. The lightsaber duels were cool but everything else was just too cheesy or boring. Lil’ Anakin was terrible and it was totally shitty when he saved the day at the end “accidentally.” Of course Jar Jar and his bretheren were more than cringeworthy. A major disappointment indeed.

Quick question about the cracker thing, can you stack all 6 and eat them at once or does it have to be a one at a time type of thing. Also the worst movie i saw in the theater would have to be The Fifth Element. The worst movie that I saw in theaters that I secretly (or not so secretly) loved was Pearl Harbor…

Gingela: The method doesn’t matter. You can do one at a time or all at once if you want.

The one movie I saw in theaters that I think was the worst overall was Home for the Holidays, starring Holly Hunter. I didn’t like Pleasantville either. And this is from someone who saw Batman and Robin.

Idiocracy lousy?!? A bit of a letdown after Office Space, maybe, some minor flaws at worst, but not lousy. It’s got electrolytes!

If it was me, I’d work up a good spit wad and try doing the cracker stack all at once. Or is that means for a disqualification?

Idocracy is lousy. It’s nothing but 90s minutes of “Look how stupid (to put it mildly) these people are.” It’s funny for about 5 minutes, but it got repetitive FAST!

Friggin first 90 min I was there….fold the bill put in envelope….then stamp office adress on them….then seal with glue stick….then stamp….then for ten whole minutes I actually got to do what I wanted be there for…I watched as this woman worked the check out desk and booked appointments for every god dam senior citizen in the friggin state of NJ. or so it felt. Anyhow….then i got the happy task of grabbing a stack of transcribed chart notes and faxes and inserting them into the proper patient chart. A couple patients were like 96 years old.

Thing is….the staff is the nicest you could ever want. You just sort of resent being there when you look at the clock and its only 10:30

Sounds like a decent internship, Mandy. Mine was at the place I work now. I still love it there. Going to start CPC classes this fall… eep. Still a little scared about it.

Iv’e said it befor and i’ll say it again, if any ya’ll want to see a bad movie, see Mr.Jingles. Seriously, this flick is SO bad, a new word NEEDS to be invented to properly describe HOW bad it is. lol.

Worst movie in the Theatres: The Planet of The Apes remake. That pissed me off so much. Walked out as soon as the credits started rolling (NEVER left before the credits were over before).

The thing that bugged me the most: Everybody was ranting about the new “surprise ending” But the ending was just the ending from the original book. I wasn’t surprised at all..

I’ve never walked out of a movie, because I deliberately avoid movies if I think the trailers or commercials are bad in any way. If I like the trailer, I almost always like the movie.
Cameron T.,
I never saw Planet of the Apes (remake) but I did read the book. I thought it was pretty good and I don’t typically like sci-fi literature.

Thomas
Oh, I love the book. Written by the author of “Bridge over the River Kwai.” That always surprises people.

I do think the the original PotA film is one of those rare movies that is BETTER than the source material.

And as long as ULTRAMAN is re-recommending Mr. Jingles, I once again recommend Ring of Darkness, the horror movie too funny to be scary, but too self-consciously serious to be a comedy. The only fear you’ll experience is the fear of possibly hyperventilating and/or peeing yourself from laughing so hard. Gay vampire boy band: that’s all you need to know about this movie, and ironically making the title a (possibly) unintentional pun.

With regards to #4 Matt, I hear you. I started Med school last week and am now realizing that this amount of sleep is going to be commonplace for the next 4 years. 3 hours of sleep sucks….

Considering the movie was written by Rod Serling, it’s not too surprising the material is great. The Hollywood Reporter recently had a story that Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company was planning to possibly adapt some Twilight Zone episodes for the big screen. Here’s the link to the story if you’re interested:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.c...ce08ba05c710728c58fa09d3a4db04

Worst movie I ever saw in the theatre= freddy got fingered. I was only 16 when it came out, and it was rated R so i couldnt buy a ticket, so my friend and i bought tickets to spy kids two. then we snuck into freddy got fingered and then realized that it might have been better to just watch spy kids 2. worst straight to dvd movie ever watched…..i dont know, i dont think i have really watched any. maybe some troma films, but i really do love those…. especially redneck zombies. maybe trilogy of terror 2. if your local blockbuster still has a vhs section, it most likely is there, and most likely will make you crack up about the little voodoo doll with a spear.

And back in the day I used to attempt the saltine challenge on rainy days at the Wilmot landfill ski-mountain. I was able to do 8 so suck on that.

I TOTALLY do the “2 answers to one question” thing. Example: I work customer service, someone recently thanked me for my hard work and instead of “You’re welcome”, follwed by “Have a great day”, she got “You’re great!”. For the record, she really wasn’t that great.
I like to think this syndrome is the result of advanced brain function, but it’s probably some kind of repressed stutter coming out. Thoughts?

I’m more into anime and manga now, but I’m not too mature (or is that immature?) for the American funnies. Although I’ve always been more partial to the newspaper strips like Calvin and Hobbes and Get Fuzzy than the superheroes. Visited the San Diego ComicCon last week and was considering buying some old horror comics from the early ’50s (before the Comics Code spoiled the party), but the price! Some of them were about $200 apiece! I just don’t know if I can see that kind of dedication.

Oh, but I did get Sergio Aragones’ (one of Mad Magazine’s Original Gang of Idiots) autograph!

when is the new Cobra Chia comic coming? does it relate to…the 08 Advent Calendar?! *Dr. Evil Pinky to chin* Dunn dun DUN!

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