Reply #49: The Stuff [View All]

[jmowreader]

Everyone working in the advertising and marketing businesses should be required to watch The Stuff every year as a reminder of the power of their industry to do evil.

For those lucky enough never to have seen this film, The Stuff is a product like ice cream. It's delicious, calorie-free and "doesn't even stain" when someone throws the shit at the wall. Unfortunately, it's also made out of space aliens who eat your brain. Stir in a disgraced agent of one of the three-letter agencies, a hot advertising executive who becomes the agent's girlfriend, a preteen boy who saw The Stuff crawling across the refrigerator, his Mike Brady-like father and reasonably hot mother (both of whom are, unfortunately, dumb as stumps), a deposed cookie mogul who appears to have been based on Famous Amos, and a retired colonel who's a cross between Gordon Liddy and Rambo, plus the corrupt head of an ice cream company and the equally-corrupt head of the Stuff company...good times all around.

The motto of The Stuff is "enough is never enough." My wife said once was enough for her.