The List - Best Popcorn Movie - Round 2

[Drew S.]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Here are our ten (minus two) movies that made the cut for round 2, with two or more votes apiece:

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Rock
Spaceballs
Big Trouble in Little China
Monty Python's Quest For the Holy Grail
Clerks
Starship Troopers
Army of Darkness

With the possible exception of Starship Troopers (?), all of these movies are fine examples of mindless, brainless entertainment that speaks to either the macho, the apathetic, the exuberant, or the just mindlessly stupid in all of us.

Now comes the fun part. :)

You each get one vote to blow your choice for a horrible, stupid, travesty of a movie off the list, and it's required to go into as much detail as possible. Tell us WHY you'd rather be covered in olive oil and left on an anthill than watch your choice again. Be creative, graphic, and entertaining! (And Starship Troopers is still on the list.) After a day and a half, if we have three clear winners, that'll be it, or we'll have a tie-breaker between them.</div>

[Drew S.]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Directed by Michael Bay, this pretentious, overmachismoed pile of testosterone left me wondering how the writers (people presumably well into their thirties) could still be harping "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing". They certainly had their commercial success with this movie, and you can still hear the most recognizable line from the movie everywhere: "Losers go home and whine about trying their best. winners go home and fuck the prom queen." Since we all know that successful people are successful all the time, and winning is the only important thing (besides explosions - don't forget explosions), this movie clearly stands as a fine piece of filmmaking, almost as good as Bay's latest directorial hemorrhage (Pearl Harbor) or the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers episode on which one of the writers made a cameo.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana, tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Stick to your own rules, man. You call The Rock "overmachismoed pile of testosterone," yet in the description of the movies that are left, you say "all of these movies are fine examples of mindless, brainless entertainment that speaks to either the macho..."

Um, hello? If you don't like the movie, fine, but I'm seeing you say one thing and do another.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana, tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Um, I like 'em all. Not to mention we have a mish-mash of genres.</div>

[Drew S.]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Don't take it so seriously. Exaggeration and trash-talking are part of the fun (I don't know if VH-1 still runs the show but you can see what I'm talking about). In all honesty, I don't think it's that bad at all, but the macho stuff did get on my nerves.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana, tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I don't see the fun in that. Whatever.</div>

[Drew S.]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>None of my previous posts indicated that I wanted any of these "for fun" posts to be held up to your standards for consistency and accuracy. And I think you're getting upset at this and me out of proportion with it.</div>

[Drew S.]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Note for people who did not understand: Most of this is trash-talking for the fun of trash-talk, and not meant to be taken seriously.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Wait a sec. I thought Mental was running this Mickey Mouse Operation.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>I didn't find it mindless, it had some semblance of a plot.. it just doesn't seem to fit in with the rest of the movies on the list</div>

[Derithian/India]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: left; '>Horrible acting, horrible plot, horrible cinematography, the chick had really tiny boobs. That movie sucked in every department. The aliens were also mega lame.....</div>

[Drewtal]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Hi Ish!</div>

[Drew S.]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>LOL!</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I loved the movie, but I have to vote it off because of Denise Richards. That malformed little demon annoys me to no end. She's the main reason I've never had the urge to rent The World is Not Enough or Wild Things.</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Barret, I destroyed your post for your own good. Trust me : )</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Oh yeah, and my vote's for the Rock. I hate Nicholas Cage. ST at least makes me laugh</div>

[Blotus]

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>He will still fear my wrath. That post of his was unforgivable!</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Noe of those movies had nudity nor Pee Wee Herman. You tasteless bastards. =8^)</div>

[S.Cody2]

<div style='font: 14pt Plakatbau; text-align: left; '>Fortunately for you, I don't think anyone here wants to probe into the origins of your Paul Reubens fetish for fear of traumatization.</div>

[Gone to Shakers]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The Rock and Starship troopers definetly shouldn't be there</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Damn, Kupek. You gotta calm down, man : )</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>I heard you're the one who jerked him off in the dark theatre for only $2.00, you crack man-ho.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Again, shouldn't this be in Q'aires?</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana, tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Maybe, maybe not. It's about movies, and this is the Music & Movies section, so it's close enough. We'll survive.</div>

[Oracle]

<div style='font: bold 12pt "Comic Sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Fuck, speaking of popcorn, I was at a MAx convenience store a coupla days ago and they had a fucking Popcorn Fusion flavour of SLurpee. Like fuck me man, this shit tasted like ass, and left the aftertaste of butter in your mouth. Who patents this crap?!</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Behavior like that is what's going to get us killed. We're all doomed. :)</div>

[Oracle]

<div style='font: bold 12pt "Comic Sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Where the hell is Big Trouble in Little China Town (or whatever) and Escape from LA!? WHat about BATTLEFIELD EARTH?! (please dont hit me for that one :))</div>

[Drew S.]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Dude! That's horrid! Why pour the butter flavor on the popcorn when you can drink it straight out of the can?</div>

[Drew S.]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Big Trouble in Little China is on there! I heard Escape wasn't that good.</div>

[ManaMan]

<div style='font: 12pt Helvetica; text-align: left; '>Well why the hell did you buy it fool!</div>

[S.Cody2]

<div style='font: 14pt Plakatbau; text-align: left; '>I didn't ask for your autobiography. But that does explain where it's from. You both went to see "Debbie Does Dallas", your eyes met accidentally, and it was...love!</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Dummy. You jerked him off. Pee Wee remembers how you complained about a sore wrist.....pervert.</div>

[Zeus76]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Starship Troopers shouldn't be there, everyone knows my argument why. But I like all these movies</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Does anyone REALLY care about the satire in ST? The movie was a farce. Keep it.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana, tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Yeah, it makes the movie that much more enjoyable. Knowing that, I laugh more at the fascism in it.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>So keep it. It was still brainless.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Yeah, I agree.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>Yeah.. keep!</div>

[Chockboard]

<div style='font: 10pt arial; text-align: left; '>Despite the mortal sin of not having power armor nor oribital insertion via a really huge rail-gun, I'd say keep it. It's one of those movies that you can just tune into at any time and be mildly entertained no matter how many times you've seen it.</div>

[Imakeholesinu]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>YOU FUCKS!</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Again, how about some details?</div>

[Imakeholesinu]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Seriously, who cares though? It looks like the Rock is gettin the boot anyway.</div>

[EsquE]

<div style='font: 12pt Baskerville; text-align: left; '>...<i><big>why? Matthew Broderick is a giant pussy...nuff said...he's only good at killing Irish pedestrians...raise your hand if Ferris would've gotten his ass kicked on a daily basis at your high school...</i></big>

<b>Spoiler Message:<b>
<span style="background: black; color: black;">...and not one of you fuckers could toss in a second vote for Porky's? One of the funniest goddam movies ever? And plenty of nudity to boot...you all suck...cept for Barrett, that boys got balls bigger than Ash himself ^_~</span></div>

[Gone to Shakers]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It's not a cheesy comedy though, isn't that what we're looking for?</div>

[S.Cody2]

<div style='font: 14pt Plakatbau; text-align: left; '>Heh heh, this is where you concede your rightful coceit, G-Man. You even set it up yourself with the initial post. I always win.</div>

[Drew S.]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Heavy night for me. I'll do round 3 tomorrow.</div>

[Oracle]

<div style='font: bold 12pt "Comic Sans MS"; text-align: left; '>I TRIED it by sucking it from the machine :) I wouldnt pay for that shit</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Heh...losers always think they win.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Oh it's cheesy.</div>

[Zeus76]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It's a fun popcorn movie if you ignore it, an excellent satire if you choose to acknowledge it</div>