Jingus

Not really. It's got a 9% rating at Rottentomatoes, with three positive reviews versus thirty-two negative ones. I did see Postal, and must admit I did enjoy it more than just about any of Boll's other movies. I was kinda surprised that I wasn't as offended at the 9/11 jokes as I expected I would be. Not that it's a good movie, it's actually still quite horrible, but... ...oh hell with it, here's my full review from Teh Pit.

Some claims from why21.org: I'd really like some hard numbers about those alleged changes in rates of DUI fatalities. I searched around a little bit, but couldn't find any organized data. That's the sort of hard proof which would back up some of these hypothetical arguments, either way. Of course, this same website also claims that European youths have higher rates of alcoholism and binge drinking than Americans do. It's not exactly unbiased.

I actually see it both ways. House of the Dead and Postal were both such unreal examples of howling batshit insanity that I couldn't help but perversely enjoy them. If I ever found myself hanging out with a group of like-minded friends and a bag of waccy tabaccy, I'd be all for popping one of those movies into the DVD player, blazing up, and then laughing like the dying weasels in Roger Rabbit at the jaw-dropping horror of it all. But Alone in the Dark, In the Name of the King, and both BloodRaynes were just incredibly bad in a lame, annoying, boring sort of way that certainly never made me want to ever see them again.

There was. Even Scott Keith heard it. And the recapper at 411 insists he heard both.

So said TNA's leaked press release to their lapdogs, anyway. What else, you believe CM Punk never does drugs because he says he never does drugs? Come on, this is rassling. TNA decided they wanted to shave a chick's head, and they only put out that tidbit afterwards to cover their asses. "Oh, she was going to voluntarily make herself bald anyway." Bull-sheeyit. I do hope they eventually do something for real with Roxxi, but their track record is a big fat zero in that respect from the hair match on forward.

I only got 19. Some of those, you either gotta have a photographic memory for this shit, or just take a lot of lucky guesses.

Supposedly Tomko was most interested in working Japan, and the one big Inoki show he was booked for apparently got cancelled. So, to everyone here who insisted that Roxxi getting her head shaved was just a step into making her one of the top women in the division and she'd get massive revenge on the Beautiful People and all that bullshit: can you now admit that I was right in the first place and that they've completely thrown Roxxi under the bus? The woman who beat Roxxi in the hair match has left the company, the BP are feuding with a chick who literally jumped out of the crowd, and Roxxi has lost every match she's had in recent memory.

No, not just for me, I mean no manager at either theater ever gave any employee any kind of reward or bonus like that.

Where the hell does that happen? I worked at both a Regal and a Carmike theater, and no manager ever did anything remotely like that.

I always hated shit like that where they force the minimum-wage kids to do the shilling. I've had to do it at a couple jobs. Working the cash register at a bookstore, they had a policy that we ask every customer to give us their email address so we could spam them with shit. Sadly, I had some kind of a bizarre talent at getting people to actually do this, and our store's rate of getting email addresses was higher than all the other stores in the district based solely on my personal numbers. That felt rather telemarkety on my part. But the worst was working the concessions at a movie theater, where any time anyone ordered anything we were required to ask if they wanted to go a size higher. If you ordered a small popcorn, "Are you sure you wouldn't like to try a medium instead?" and so on, also for drinks and combos. Lots of people got annoyed we were trying to push that on them. Once I got sandbagged by an economics professor who was royally pissed off that I asked him that, and he literally proceeded to argue with and bitch at me for the next five minutes... while we were in the middle of the seven o'clock rush, while the people behind him were nearly rioting. A manager came out to take him off to the side, and out of the corner of my eye I saw the old guy keep complaining for like fifteen more minutes. Ugh.

For no reason, my review of said movie: You can find me bringing my massive pale forehead of criticism to all kinds of random movies at The Pit, I can do the big puppy-dog begging eyes too.

Dammit, guess I'll have to go back and rewatch Shining sometime soon. Generally agree. Although the single creepiest part of the book for me was the hedge animals sequence. I know there's really no way you could possibly do justice to that on the screen, so it's not fair to dislike the movie for changing it, but... yeah. Irony: I've never seen the miniseries version. Yet I somehow got a copy of it back in college, before they released it on video/dvd, and attempted to sell it on ebay. I think I got one buyer, and she never sent the money. Whore. Never sold anything on Ebay again. And I just saw the miniseries director Mick Garris's Psycho IV for the first time in a while... sucked... hey, he started Masters of Horror too, didn't he? Hmph. Not gonna watch that miniseries anytime soon.

Hawk, so much of my horror movie taste is very similar to yours... but I just couldn't get into The Shining. Maybe I need to go back and rewatch it sometime, but the first run left me feeling very underwhelmed. (Admitting my bias, I'm not sure I really loved anything Kubrick ever did post-Strangelove). What. Okay, I know I'm a faggy cinema elitist and always hide under the blanket of subjectivity and everything, but some pieces of shit are just a piece of shit. Scary Movie 2 was a piece of shit. I offer this tale: me and my brother went to the movie theater one day. We played a sadistic game where each of us chose a movie which we thought ourselves would like, but the other one would hate. And we watched 'em both together. I picked Moulin Rouge. He picked Scary Movie 2. We watched both on the same day. Upon our post-watching summing up, he admitted his shameful failure and that my choice was an objectively superior work of art compared to the compost heap he chucked us into. Let me provide a little bit of backstory about my brother. The last time I talked to him, he was calling me on his cell phone while literally sitting on top of a nuclear missle submarine. He's a weapons technician for the navy. He's qualified to both fire the doomsday missle and literally does guard duty with a machine gun to protect said missle. He was an Eagle scout, has a degree in police tactics, and was a hardcore NIN goth back in the day. He owns too many guns and knives to possibly count. He's getting divorced from his first wife. Somehow he accidentally turned her into a submissive bitch, and neither of them like that relationship. She's half Irish and half Puerto Rican, and I saw her tazer a guy once with my own eyes. My borther accidentally turned her into his slave just by being himself. My brother is the most insanely macho man on the planet who still combines hisi testosterone rage with a chilling intellect. This guy will be a president someday. Or the security guard at that one mall you NEVER steal from. Point is, he's a manly guy. And he thinks a gay musical is way, way better than Scary Movie 2. That movie sucked.

So it's a black guy and a party turncoat versus the dude many republicans secretly wish had been nominated for their party eight years ago. This election is gonna be one hell of a lotta fun. McCain should pick a female veep, just for the hell of it. Up the historic ante.

At least Alien was still kicking around somewhere in the top 5 for me, so good enough I guess.

Yeah, that was surprising, if not downright depressing. And I guess . Weird that they Where the hell were I can't imagine lasting for very long, assuming they'll fix that sometime soon in the next season.

Which is a problem for old fucks like me trying to fruitlessly pursue this quixotic quest of trivia.

Where the hell are you finding these lists so easily? IMDB and wiki both utterly failed me on this one, and even the third-party list I eventually found was incomplete. The week before I was born #1 was held by 10, two weeks after was The Great Santini, but no info found on the actual day.

Wait, I thought the Jews owned the whole Liberal Media? Which of course would explain their insidious plot to sneak Terrorist Scarves onto our nation's airwaves, hidden around the 1.5 chins of Rachel Ray, and then the Jews further their Muslim agenda to... hey, wait a minute.

I had a weird dichotomy with live shows. I got to see about a billion TNA shows in a row, which was great for countless X division matches where they just took some combination of AJ Styles, Amazing Red, Low-Ki, Jerry Lynn, Kid Kash, Paul London, Chris Sabin, and various others and basically told them "okay, go out and wrestle for fifteen minutes, and be awesome". That shit was off the chain. Almost impossible to pick just one standout match from the bunch. Of course, problem was, you had to sit through a whole TNA show in order to get that one or two cool matches. Hope you love you some Invincible Jeff Jarrett, Fat Road Dog, Aging Harris Twins, Believe-It-Or-Not Seriously Pushed Disco Inferno, and of course More Russo Than You Could Possibly Imagine. And you also had to be in the same building and thus breathe the same air as Jeremy Borash. Ugh. Meanwhile, for a mid-sized city, Nashville often seemed to get oddly fucked over when it came to WWF, WCW, or ECW events from the late 90s onward. Once WCW stopped running Starrcade there, they only swung through about once per year for fairly inconsequential shows. WWF has only done one PPV there in over a dozen years; aside from that and some house shows, the only thing that comes to mind is that we got to see the Katie Vick atrocity live and in person. Meanwhile, ECW only ran there once. I missed the show due to some personal stuff, and thus also happened to miss Masato Tanaka beating Mike Awesome for the title. Oh, I coulda killed my girlfriend for that one, if she hadn't already been alarmingly passed out from some mystery illness in my car as we were about to leave for the show. And down in the South we really don't get any of the smarkish superindy shows like ROH, or even IWA. I went to a few NWA Wildside shows, and those were decidedly a step up from the Nashville scene, but still a far cry from PWG or Chikara or ECWA or any of the more workrate-oriented feds. It's mostly all local guys you've never heard of, with the occasional old Memphis vets or some poor schmucks who moved to the area for TNA doing guest shots. We'd get random talent bouncing back and forth occasionally, I saw Chuck Taylor wrestle about a hundred times, and most of the lower-priced TNA regulars swung thru the area too. Match quality tended to be incredibly inconsistent for a variety of reasons, especially since most of the actual pros tended to treat the local shows as paid vacations and tended to be a bit lazy in order to save themselves for their "real" jobs. Probably the best local match I ever saw was Jerry Lynn taking on a guy named Chris Michaels, just a perfectly-executed mix of technical spots and ol-fashioned Tennessee "he's got a chain!" bullshit.

It's funny how playing pretty generic tough guy Leonidas has somehow turned Gerard Butler into so many people's new favorite actor, when that's like the only worthwhile thing on his resume. Does no one else remember how bad he sucked as both Dracula and the Phantom of the Opera? Plus he was in a Lara Croft movie AND that lousy "Matthew McCouneghy fights dragons" flick.

I just get this feeling of uncomprehending disbelief from Jerk when he talks about some of this stuff, like he literally cannot seem to understand how anyone could possibly disagree with his positions. We'd sort of touched on it before a few pages back, when he was basically insisting that Obama was going to stomp all over McCain and walk off to the White House without even breaking a sweat.

It is, unfortunately, not that simple. Fox unquestionably owned the legal rights to a Watchmen movie back in the early 90s. However, those rights were partly tied up through some of the individual producers. One of those guys left Fox and eventually got to Warner Brothers, claiming he took the rights to Watchmen with him. Fox disagrees. It's a lot more complicated then that, there's a lot of various contract subclauses and disagreements over whether certain payments were made or not, but that's the gist of it.

You mean his support for spreading democracy and fighting terror, cutting through red tape so that businesses can operate in the most efficient manner, cutting unnecessary taxes to give money back to the little guy, protecting the lives of helpless unborn children, and spreading more democracy and fighting more terror? It's almost painful to read some of the discourse with Jerk because it seems like he really truly cannot believe that anyone really holds those views. Like he thinks they're all just kidding and have some kind of hidden ulterior motive. But that's the problem here; there are people who believe exactly what I just typed. And not just a few of 'em. We're talking millions (AND MILLIONS) of folks who literally believe in that manner. Hell, don't some polls in this country still say that about fifty percent of Americans still disbelieve the theory of evolution? Trying to act like the conservatives are a loose collection of scattered fringe lunatics who are out of touch with the general population will not help the liberal cause. They are the general population. Or, like I said weeks ago, don't expect the Republicans to just roll over and die come November. It'll still be a fight.