BigMcLargehuge
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Mon Feb-06-06 12:56 AM
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Hey, want to see the worst movie of this (or any) year? |
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Edited on Mon Feb-06-06 12:56 AM by BigMcLargehuge
Go see "When a Stranger Calls", you won't be disappointed. It's 83 minutes of sheer goddamn boredom!
Look for my exhaustive and swear-filled review tomorrow at www.horrorview.com.
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:01 AM
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1. I thought you were going to say "Big Momma's House 2". |
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:08 AM
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3. I'd rather sit through Big Momma's House 2 |
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twice in a row than even see the trailer to When a Stranger Calls (2006) again.
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:05 AM
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2. I wasn't planning to watch it anyway. I'm not into the horror genre. |
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I am, however, trying to make my way through all the Oscar nominations. We saw "Memoirs of a Geisha" on Friday, but I don't think that one was even nominated. It was OK, beautiful to look at, but the book was much better.
anyway, back to "When a Stranger..." Wasn't it a top seller this past w/e or something? No accounting for taste, I suppose...
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:09 AM
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4. Don't worry, there isn't any horror in it |
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Memoirs of a Geisha was scarier than When a Stranger Calls
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:11 AM
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that must've been a truly shitty horror movie, then. Jeez....
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:12 AM
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9. I've seen scarier episodes of |
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Edited on Mon Feb-06-06 01:14 AM by BigMcLargehuge
Spongebob Squarepants
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:17 AM
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:11 AM
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5. You actually spent money to see it? |
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Please tell me it was a free ticket, or there was a promise of sexual favors if you went. Somebody with your avatar should know better.
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:12 AM
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7. I drew the short straw at Horrorview |
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I got my sexual favors from the film - It both blew and sucked at the same time, and stole 83 fucking minutes of my life.
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:13 AM
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12. That should be the sum total of your review. |
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:12 AM
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8. Did you pay to see it? |
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Please tell me you at least went to a matinee. :D
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:13 AM
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11. Full price baby, two tickets |
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dragged Mrs. McLargehuge with me to share the pain.
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:17 AM
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16. Have you seen the original with Carol Kane? |
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The beginning few minutes are actually extremely creepy. Sadly, it's all downhill from there.
Well, there's $20 you'll never see again. But I'm going to go check out your review. Because there's little I love more than reading awful reviews. One of my favorites is The Seattle Times' review of Coldplay's show at the White River Amphitheater when they got stuck in traffic. It's really a classic of the bad-review genre. :D
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:18 AM
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and the idiotic TV sequel When a Stranger Calls Back. I admit the original was a kindler, gentler rip off of Halloween, but the opening was great. Plus, it's always good to see Collen Dewhurst, even with a plodding script.
Have you read my Hall of Shame? It is choked with exhaustive and hilarious reviews of terrible films.
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Mon Feb-06-06 03:12 AM
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:13 AM
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10. I love how they show the most climatic part of the film in the trailer |
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:13 AM
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13. The most climactic part was the credit listing for Apprentice Key Grip |
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:14 AM
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14. Yeah, it was in the trailer |
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:15 AM
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15. Here's the opening salvo of my review |
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The MPAA has classified this film as PG-13 for "intense terror, violence and some language." They forgot to ad "if your IQ is over 13, this film will bore you senseless."
Not only is "When a Stranger Calls" a remake, and therefore totally and completely pointless, it's "updated" to better relate to today's teenage sensibilities, thus following the decade of upwardly mobile parents raising fucking artifact children (i.e. sheltered to the point of social retardation) we have a film featuring an artifact teenager taking care of two literal artifact children.
The dumbing down and unnecessary softening of American horror films is perhaps the saddest trend in Hollywood today. The whole idea of horror films is to shock and frighten the audience, yet increasingly, like the news reports in Orwell's 1984, classic horror films are remade and updated, stripped of everything that made them horror films in the first place, and presented to an eager public.
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:26 AM
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It grossed $20-something million over the weekend. It must be good. :shrug:
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:31 AM
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20. if it's worse than "Mad About Mambo" then it's gotta be bad |
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:56 AM
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23. I'd rather watch Mad About Mambo AND |
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Lambada, The Forbidden Dance, after an into/out of Hindi translation, full frame, SLP mode VHS, third generation dub, than watch When a Stranger Calls again.
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:36 AM
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21. Ok, I haven't seen it... |
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Only seen the previews. My guess is that its the parents. They hire the babysitter and screw with her head and then they are gonna murder her. Or something like that.
If you dont wanna spoiler it, PM me and let me know if I guessed right.
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Mon Feb-06-06 01:55 AM
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22. If the film were at all logical, that might be one possible outcome |
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but this film is anything but logical. There's nothing to spoil if you've seen the trailer.
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Mon Feb-06-06 02:11 AM
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Ha ha! I didn't know the McLargeHuge could swear.
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Mon Feb-06-06 02:19 AM
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25. I can swear with the best of them |
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Mon Feb-06-06 03:22 AM
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27. But was it worse than The Village? |
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In addition to having the Worst. Ending. Ever., The Village bored me to tears.
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Mon Feb-06-06 08:04 AM
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29. I didn't see The Village |
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My tolerance for M. Night Shamalaladingdong's movies begins and ends with Unbreakable.
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Mon Feb-06-06 03:30 AM
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28. I just saw "War of the Worlds." My duty is done. (nt) |
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Mon Feb-06-06 08:12 AM
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30. Everybody knows that all these new movies suck compared to |
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SNAKES ON A MOTHAFUCKIN' PLANE!!!!!
Somebody terrorized the babysitter? We've got SNAKES ON A MOTHAFUCKIN' PLANE!
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Mon Feb-06-06 08:21 AM
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31. Another pointless remake by Hollywood |
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Beats making anything new doesn't it
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Mon Feb-06-06 09:11 AM
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32. I haven't seen it, but I can say that you are wrong. |
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I know people who are afficionados of bad movies (although why anyone would want to be is beyond me), and they consistently say that the two worst movies of all time are 'Manos' the Hands of Fate and Night Train to Mundo Fine (also known as "Red Zone Cuba").
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