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From: Ross Entered on: June 11, 2004 12:38 PM
Indeed, it is neither an indicator of favor nor of disfavor - only of strength of opinion, which could be either way. Fatty is dead on - the key to proper term comprehension is context.     Example Usages:     Ross: "Man, I watched the coolest movie ever last night!"   Roche: "You give it the thumbs?"     or     Roche: "I watched Shitanic last night. I give it the thumbs."
From: Jackzilla Entered on: June 11, 2004 3:43 PM
When asking Willy's opinion on something you have to ask him: "What's the chicken think?"     Responses are usually:     "Bawk! Bawk! Crap!" (which is Rochespeak for "I give it the thumbs!")     or     "Bawk! Bawk! Sweet!" (which is Rochespeak for "I give it the thumbs!")
From: John Entered on: June 11, 2004 5:22 PM
Saw Harry Pooper yesterday and I didn't give it the thumbs one way or another. I had no strong opinion other than the fact that it was kind of bland. Bring on Spidey 2 please.
From: Ross Entered on: June 12, 2004 9:44 AM
However, if you had phrased it like this:     "Saw Harry Pooper yesterday. I gave it the thumbs."     It would have infused a different meaning in your title, and we all would have known what you'd meant. As it is, your nomenclature doesn't befit your review.
From: John Entered on: June 13, 2004 4:14 PM
True, I just liked the sound of "Harry Pooper".
From: Jackzilla Entered on: June 13, 2004 7:00 PM
Ang and I saw "The Day After Tomorrow" last night. What a joke of a movie. Granted a lot of the effects are really cool, but there's little else that isn't obsurd and laughable in this turd-fest. And I'm not talking about suspending my disbelief for the premise: An instant planet-wide ice age out of the blue -- it goes well beyond that. I don't even know where to start. So I won't. I probably drove Angie crazy through the whole movie with my smart-ass comments, but it clearly provided me with the most entertainment.     It's actually fun in a Mystery Science Theater 3000 kind of way.
From: Jackzilla Entered on: June 13, 2004 7:03 PM
Correction: I meant to refer to the movie as "The Day After Turd-morrow"
From: The Bone Entered on: June 13, 2004 7:09 PM
Now if only you had consulted Rotten Tomatoes. It would have told you that you wouldn't have liked it, thus saving you precious time with which you could have spent flipping throught boring channels on TV whilst dripping barbecue sauce on your shirt.     Bert Johnson was right!
From: Jackzilla Entered on: June 13, 2004 8:07 PM
Dude! You think I picked this movie? Come on, gimme some credit! Four of us went out and this movie was pre-selected. Oh well, it was fun anyways.
From: Swerb Entered on: June 14, 2004 9:11 AM
If anyone cares, the Official Swerb Reviews of Super Size Me and (shudder) Garfield: The Movie were printed on Friday. Links:     http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grpress/index.ss f?/base/entertainment-0/1086965223254130.xml     http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grpress/index.ss f?/base/entertainment-0/1086965263254130.xml     I also went to the film festival in Saugatuck this past weekend, and saw a couple of cool indie movies: Napoleon Dynamite is a Wes Anderson-style wierd comedy about a total misfit high school kid. It's ultimately pointless, but pretty funny (Bert, this may be playing in Chicago now... it might be worth seeing).     And then, I saw Open Water, which scared the shit out of me. It's about a husband and wife who go scuba diving, and the charter boat accidentally leaves them out in the ocean miles from shore. It's really fucking intense - they're occasionally surrounded by sharks, but it's scientifically accurate, because they don't just get attacked; the sharks are more curious than hungry. Plus, here's the kicker: The actor was at the film festival talking about the movie, and they used bait to lure REAL FUCKING SHARKS to film. No FX, no fake sharks. He said he was happy they were more interested in the bait than in the actors.     Up next: Riddick. I'm seeing it today. Word has it it's a major stinker (and I haven't checked Rotten Tomatoes yet; Bone, you'd be proud!).
From: Jackzilla Entered on: June 14, 2004 9:33 AM
Riddick (the movie) looks like a stinker just from the previews (the effects are worse than the video game!). The game, however, remains super sweet! I progressed (with Johnny's help) to level 33. This game has cool little surprises in it. Gravy!
From: Ross Entered on: June 14, 2004 10:17 AM
Nice review of SSM, Swerb. I fully agree with your take on the film. As for Garfield, I feel sorry that you had to sit through it, man.     As for Riddick, I know my dad was looking forward to it and went to see it Sunday. I tried to get Heather to go, who is a big Vin Deisel fan (strike one) but she wasn't enthused. I asked why, and she said she heard it sucked. So I *gasp* checked the Tomato-meter, and it's down in the 25% range.     Now this presents an interesting dilemma for me: I have looked forward to this movie for a while. Contrary to Jack and everyone else, I actually thought the previews looked decent. But in the face of my internal struggle, I am going to try to see it at the theather, FULL WELL KNOWING THAT IT MAY SUCK BASED ON THE REVIEWS. Are you guys happy now?
From: John Entered on: June 14, 2004 10:35 AM
I kinda wanted to see Riddick as well. Zilla and I were having great fun playing Riddick last night and it got me in the mood for the movie. I liked Pitch Black so I was hoping Riddick would at least be on par with it. Unfortunately it doesn't sound that way and I'll wait to hear Bert's review.
From: Swerb Entered on: June 14, 2004 8:17 PM
Well, I saw Riddick, and it's pretty bad. The plot borders on incomprehensible, the acting is stiff and the dialogue stiffer yet. It really looks like a Matrix/Aliens ripoff from a production-design standpoint. And all the action and fight sequences are shot up-close and with various forms of directorial trickery so the actors don't actually have to do anything, really. Quite disappointing. Pitch Black had some B-grade charm, but Riddick is just another noisy summer movie.
From: Swerb Entered on: June 17, 2004 2:59 PM
I also saw Saved! yesterday, which often is a pretty funny jab at fundamentalist Christians, although it deviates into a watered-down, let's-just-accept-each-other-for-who-we-are message by the end. One of the funnier lines is "Are you ready to get your Christ on?" and one of the characters has a bumper sticker that reads, "Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you're an asshole." Gotta get me one of them...
From: Ross Entered on: June 17, 2004 4:54 PM
Yeah, the reviews I read made me want to see it. I love the Christian teenagers reactions that I've read, too.     http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/movies /orl-savedreax061404jun14,0,5340860.story?coll=orl -calmoviestop     All the Christians in Saved! "seemed brainwashed," he says. "They couldn't really think for themselves."     Ummm.... that's right, asshole.
From: The Bone Entered on: June 17, 2004 5:02 PM
Sounds like a great flick the Muffin and I can go see - if it makes it out to Hawaii.     By the way Ross, can you make it so when someone rolls their cursor over my image it says, "My power is discombobulatingly devastating!" I know it has nothing to do with this discussion but it would make me happy.
From: Jackzilla Entered on: June 17, 2004 5:18 PM
Hey! No fair, Ross! If Bone get's that then I want a sock monkey face to show up when the cursor goes over my face. I can e-mail you the graphic later!
From: The Bone Entered on: June 17, 2004 5:31 PM
By the way Jack, you have the sweetest web page I have ever seen in my life.
From: Ross Entered on: June 17, 2004 5:42 PM
Actually I created Jack's page for him as a placeholder. But I have told him how he can change it and he's never done so. So the blame is on both of us. Speaking of, if any of you want your own pages, you have the power as well. Didn't I tell everyone how to do it at some point?     You're talking about the pictures on the main page, right? Sure, I can add those. Jack, make sure your sock monkey is the same height/width as your current face, with the same color background.
From: The Bone Entered on: June 17, 2004 11:24 PM
Thanks Ross. I'd be interested in making a little page for myself. If you can make me a placeholder like Jack's and tell me what to do, I'll hook it on up.
From: Ross Entered on: June 18, 2004 8:04 AM
Okay Bone, after a half hour of working past a few fornications due to the space in your name "The Bone", I believe I have succeeded. Users should now see a placeholder web page for you as well if they click on your mug in the comments pages. I will send you a more detailed email later this morning with instructions on how to change it.
From: The Bone Entered on: June 18, 2004 3:38 PM
Sweet. I got your instructions and have already began learning html. It won't be long before I have my site up and running, although it's pretty sweet the way it is right now.
From: The Bone Entered on: June 20, 2004 11:05 PM
I just saw Super Size Me. Not too shabby. I was pretty entertained and for some reason by the end of the thirty days, the character reminded me of Big Fatty. I have to give it the thumbs in the up direction. Sure, Ross's bullshit detector will go off at a rate which will prevent him from liking the film but for the most part it makes one think twice before eating fast food.     Incidently, I just read Swerb's review and I though it was outstanding. You're a smart motherfucker, that's right!
From: Ross Entered on: June 21, 2004 5:58 AM
Waitaminute dude. I was the first one to see this movie, and I gave it a very positive review. It was Swerb who shit on the concept at first, and then after seeing the movie gave it a relatively good review.
From: Swerb Entered on: June 21, 2004 12:33 PM
Yeah, my bullshit detector was going off before I saw Super Size Me, but you eventually realize that the guy is using his shenanigans as an excuse to make a movie about the dangers/evils of fast food. Let's face it, if he just put together a straight-up documentary, it would be a dull telling of facts and figures, but adding himself to it lends the film character (and pathos, to a degree), something for the audience to relate to. I love it when his girlfriend says, "All that saturated fat must be inhibiting the blood flow to his penis" - I laughed so hard, I cried.
From: The Bone Entered on: June 21, 2004 2:30 PM
My bad Ross. It just seems from past experience that you shit on anything that isn't 100% factual or above board. Examples: anything by Micheal Moore and The DaVinci Code.
From: Ross Entered on: June 21, 2004 5:08 PM
I shit on the DaVinci Code (actually its prequel) mainly for piss-poor dialogue and characterization. If I had a tendency to shit on things for not being factual, I would have a hard time reconciling my affinity for comic books or indeed any of the numerous types of fiction I enjoy.     It is true that I shit on Angels and Demons' grade-school level treatment of religion and science. But they are secondary when compared to the qualms with the writing, where the author is actually supposed to be the expert.     Michael Moore is worthy of disdain because he represents his work as being factual when he is at best playing tricks with the truth to get his opinion out.     If you're going to call it fiction, great, do what you want. If you call it "reality" or "documentary", you should, in my book, strive for objectivity. Not that I believe anyone really thinks that Moore tries to be objective. Nor for that matter, was Morgan Spurlock. However, here's the part that is entirely factual: he did a legitimate experiment. He didn't merely talk about what others did or didn't do. Perhaps his initial conditions were unrealistic, but nonetheless, he told us exactly what he was going to do, did it, and reported the results. And even though we knew what he was doing was dumb and unrealistic, we still came away with an appreciation for just how dumb it really was, it surprised us. That was the value in the film. It didn't have to be 100% realistic, but at least it was honest about what it was doing.
From: The Bone Entered on: June 21, 2004 5:53 PM
That's cool!
From: BigFatty Entered on: July 30, 2004 8:34 AM
I saw Super-size me last week, and I finished the book Fast-food Nation (I broke down and bought it at an airport bookshop for a pretty penny.) I liked them both. I really enjoyed Super-size me. I found it quite fun - the start of the movie with Fat Bottom Girls was great. A lot of the items in both really did not shock me too much, maybe cuz I have learned similar facts. I still want to go to Fast Food places with full knowledge of the crappiness. What does that say about me? I do love the Cheeseburger. But, I will not go every day and I think I'll stick with ordering just 2 cheeseburgers. According to Willie Munchright, the McDonald's nutritional spokesperson, 2 cheeseburgers pack a whopping 660 calories alone. Maybe I should just go with 1 double at 490 calories..... I ask Willie about that next time.