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Movie Memorabilia

The Senator Theatre is selling off some of their stuff, so now is your chance to get that "Ladder 49" banner you've always wanted.

Misspellings and Hilarity Ensue

This morning I found a blog dedicated to compiling one-star reviews of classic movies, books, and music from Amazon.com.

Some gems:

• There are many myths that persist in modern life. One myth is that war is “meaningless”, “useless” or “insane.” Another myth is that Catch-22 is a good book.
• The Princess Bride is twenty years old, and after twenty years it’s difficult to see why anyone likes this movie. It is not realistic and most of the things that happen in the story are lies. The Princess Bride is about two guys who are in a book and they’re fighting over a princess named Buttercup. But the problem is that one of them is a pirate and the other one is a giant! I know it’s supposed to be fictional…but come on! Even my suspension of disbelief is not that good, and I work with children!
• The entire story [of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] can be summed up in one sentence: The Earth is destroyed, and Arthur is saved by Ford Prefect, who is an alien researching Earth. Woo, what an exciting plot. Honestly, I’d rather be on the Earth when it was destroyed than go on this boring adventure.
• Pink Floyd [The Dark Side of the Moon]! Holy Christ, they’re the worst band EVER! I mean EVER! OH MY GOD! GROTESQUE! THEY’RE HORRID! WOW! MAKE THEM DIE ALREADY! GO CREED! GO CREED! GO CREED!
• THIS [Blazing Saddles] is Mel Brook’s WORST movie ever. I think it’s sad how so many great actors would’ve been in it, but THAT was then. Usually EVERYTIME I read a review on Amazon, at least ONE [or two] people give any item “1 star”, but I’m disgusted to find so many [rednecks?] giving this piece of trash “5 stars”.
• I do not like the Wizard of Oz. For one thing, I don’t like to watch things with witches in them, especially if one of them is portrayed as a “good witch” - that’s an oxymoron I can’t reconcile with.
• I mean when I watch Casablanca and I here the gun shot at the end, I want to HERE GUN SHOT AT THE END!!! Also Ingrid Bergman is no Maryland Monroe.

And easily my favorite, about Schindler's List:

• Hey don’t get me wrong I like Holocaust movies as much as the next guy , but this one was a real let down. First of all there are no Americans(at least not American characters)hey spielzy what gives, wheres are hero, schindler is no indiana jones. Perhaps he should of handed the script over to michael cricton.I think spielberg is our greatest “dreamweaver”, to quote someone else, but this film has no pizazz, or more importantly no color. plus it doesn’t have any great action scenes or excitement like saving private ryan. I guess the holocaust is a good topic to make a movie about, but brother this movie aint no “hook”. hopefully people will forget about this turkey and pay more attention to stephen’s better work, ‘amistad’ ‘field of dreams’ ‘ the lost world’.

You can read minds?

The Washington Post has a story about a new wave of toys about to hit the market. Oh and they work by using mind control to move objects. Then they talk about all the practical applications, and at the end they have a great suggestion about what should come next.

Puns are Fun

I know most of you guys can't get enough of romantic comedies, especially starring Matthew McConaughey. Luckily, the people over at Cracked.com, who are occasionally funny, have designed posters for what just might be his next 10 movies. One of my favorites:

Snakes on a Plane

Four baby pythons that disappeared from their container in the cargo hold of a Qantas plane have forced the airline to ground the aircraft after staff failed to find the missing reptiles.

Remakes of foreign films are never as good...

Beer Wars Live

Here's the theatrical trailer for Beer Wars Live, showing in local theaters--Columbia, Owings Mills, Bel Air--and I'm guessing theaters across the country THIS THURSDAY. I'll be in class Thursday night, but I thought some other people might be interested.

For more info, here's the Web site: http://beerwarsmovie.com/

The Many Handshakes of Johan Santana

It doesn't matter who you're a fan of, this is pretty fun.

Video: Santana’s Pre-Game Handshake Parade

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Girlfriend/Wife getting on you to read her favorite book? Is her favorite book Pride and Prejudice? Entertain yourself and get some culture at the same time!

Another movie post

The Transformers sequel is getting off the ground. It looks like Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf are still in it (boo!), but they have a lot more Transformers this time around too (yay!).

Spoiler Warning: The list is pretty comprehensive...so it's basically a spoiler in and of itself.

While we're on the topic of films...

The MD Senate voted to block up to $424 million in state funds to the University of Maryland if the University went thru with it's planned screening of a porn movie on campus.