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I was listening to an audio review of Blame It On Rio (We Hate Movies: http://www.whmpodcast.com/2014/03/episode-147-blame-it-on-rio.html) and I thought of looking up this poorly received sex comedy/holiday romance on Wikipedia. This is what I encountered: "Blame it on Rio is a 1984 romantic comedy film, written by Charlie Peters and Larry Gelbart and directed by Stanley Donen." Ok. Tell me more. "Michael Caine is Matthew, who is married to Valerie Harper as Karen, and has a daughter, Nikki, played by Demi Moore. His marriage is not going well for reasons not explained, certainly not by Karen, who lies in bed sighing in discontent, but passive-aggressively refuses to express what's wrong, except to issue snide answers like "Nothing. That's what's always been going on in our marriage... nothing." " Pff! This isn't going to be one of those "He said/she said" summaries, is it? "During a walk on the beach, Victor and Matthew pass numerous women walking around topless. The fathers spot their daughters in the distance, and as they wave to get their attention, the girls turn around to reveal that they too have taken off their bikini tops and are walking about with their breasts exposed. Jennifer's are much larger than Nikki's, and Nikki seems to hide hers behind her long hair. "  Oh, wait, the writer didn't happen to mention that at the time of filming Michelle Johnson was 17 years old and fully nude in one scene, which had to be signed off by her parents. "After dropping the girls off at a Brazilian wedding, the men visit a local pub in search of dates. After Victor pairs off with a local cigar-smoking divorcée, Matthew winds up at the Brazilian wedding, where he runs into the amorous Jennifer. While watching the festivities together, Matthew and Jennifer start to feel some chemistry develop between them. The ceremony involves the guests stripping mostly naked to wander into the surf with the bride and groom, and Jennifer once again strips down to bikini bottoms and allows Matthew to see her exposed figure. Not surprisingly, they eventually share a passionate kiss – much to the chagrin of Nikki, who inadvertently sees what's going on between her father and her best friend. Jennifer is coming onto him very aggressively, breathing "make love to me." Then Matthew and Jennifer have full sex on the beach, followed by some "comedy" as Matthew is almost caught by a couple of acquaintances and covers his naked body up on sand so they will not realize what he has been doing. "  "The next day, Jennifer continues to heavily come onto Matthew every time and everywhere, and seemingly cannot comprehend why she should be a little more discreet. Jennifer is making outrageous come-ons to Matthew in all sorts of inappropriate situations. At one point she takes a naked Polaroid of herself, with one arm raised over her head to emphasize the curve of her bosom, and then gives it to Matthew as they are riding in a cable car, where a Japanese tourist notices the photo and tries to take a picture of it. Matthew mentions having held and kissed Jennifer as an infant."  Holy gently caress! I think my name has just been added to the sex offenders register.  "In the meantime, Matthew tries to talk Jennifer into ending their fantasy relationship, but she is determined to never give him up. Jennifer goes to a medicine woman to get a love spell, a thread that goes precisely nowhere, and is soon screaming "You love me!" to Matthew on a beach not far from her father. She gives him a small wooden idol she received from the medicine women, which has a massive erection*." So...erm...pretty much like the editor of this Wikipedia article, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blame_It_on_Rio In this thread we post the most ridiculous, stupid, ill-conceived, over-detailed, picky, spergy, badly judged screeds of movie trivia/summaries on reasonably reputable internet sites. No fanfic or blog  , this has to come from sources that are supposed to be reliable.E: Please quote for posterity as well as linking. These delicate flowers may be plucked from us and lost forever if you don't. E2: For the (much better titled) thread on terrible Wikipedia entries on books Wikipedia book trivia: In a fit of rebellion, he eats 2 cheeseburgers http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3700491 * "erection" helpfully hyperlinked to a Wikipedia article on that subject. Thanks. A lot. Josef K. Sourdust fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Feb 12, 2015 |
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The Crazy Credits section for The Last Temptation of Christ's isn't as crazy as you would hope.
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I'm not really following. Is the central grievance here that Blame it on Rio has a Wikipedia page? Because that's all pretty much on the money (and that movie is wretched).
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LORD OF BUTT posted:I'm not really following. Is the central grievance here that Blame it on Rio has a Wikipedia page? Because that's all pretty much on the money (and that movie is wretched). No I think it's more the passage on the Wikipeadia entry that says quote:They take off their bikini tops and are walking about with their breasts exposed. Jennifer's are much larger than Nikki's, and Nikki seems to hide hers behind her long hair. " Why is that making it into a synopsis. Why is that small detail important?
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Yeah, I think what I find most striking is the fanfic quality of the entry not the fact it exists or that the film is terrible. Also: Josef K. Sourdust posted:"Michael Caine is Matthew, who is married to Valerie Harper as Karen, and has a daughter, Nikki, played by Demi Moore. His marriage is not going well for reasons not explained, certainly not by Karen, who lies in bed sighing in discontent, but passive-aggressively refuses to express what's wrong, except to issue snide answers like "Nothing. That's what's always been going on in our marriage... nothing." " I love that the editor is laying down a sick  on all those bitchy adult women, amirite men?  In an encyclopedia entry.Also I find that there is no page on an internet database which cannot be enhanced by the use of the phrase "massive erection".
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I found the Wikipedia entry on Britney Spears's Crossroads disappointingly free of spergy he-said-she-said plot synopsis. However, there is one gem. In a sidebar there is a photo of Mariah Carey and this text: "Despite being panned by critics, Crossroads was viewed as a better effort than Mariah Carey's Glitter."  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_(2002_film) Josef K. Sourdust fucked around with this message at 11:42 on Feb 13, 2015 |
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Continuity When Obi Wan sends the message for help to Anakin and Amidala, Amidala presses a red button in order to transmit the message to the Jedi council. A minute later she presses the same red button in order to view a map of a galaxy, without first doing anything which might be expected to change the function of the button. There have been some desperate attempts to explain this one away, but we don't buy it.
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Continuity The angle of character A's arm is two degrees different from shot 1401 to shot 1402. - Most IMDB goofs entries
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quote:Continuity So much CG-directed rage in those quotation marks.
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Jack Gladney posted:What thing of Michael Caine's did that one pay for? Hairpiece, probably.
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Wikipedia posted:The Ice Storm is a 1997 American drama film directed by Ang Lee, based on the 1994 novel of the same name by Rick Moody. Yeah, that sounds right. Remind me about it. Highly regarded coming-of-age drama set in the early 1970s with an A-list cast and a top director, right? Wikipedia posted:The Ice Storm is about two dysfunctional New Canaan, Connecticut families who are trying to deal with tumultuous political and social changes of the early 1970s, and their escapism through alcohol, adultery, and sexual experimentation. Seems a bit detailed for a plot summary but go on. Wikipedia posted:The Hood family includes Ben, Elena, and their children, 16-year-old Paul and 14-year-old Wendy. Their neighbors, the Carvers, include Jim, Janey, and their children: Mikey and Sandy. Uh oh, I'm getting a bad feeling about this. Wasn't this just like a regular mainstream movie about dysfunctional families? I didn't remember it being a Cinemax soft-core movie. Wikipedia posted:During their trysts, Ben obsesses to Janey over his displeasure with his job and his frustrations at continually being bested by his colleague, smarmy George Clair. Janey seems to have become bored with the arrangement since she has now become unfaithful, not only to her husband but to Ben as well. She abruptly leaves the room just prior to a planned sexual encounter with Ben, excusing herself to get "birth control" but instead flees the house leaving Ben alone.  You're going to give a scene by scene description of everything in this movie, aren't you?Wikipedia posted:Realizing that she is not returning, Ben prepares to leave but comes upon his daughter Wendy in the Carvers' basement initiating a sex act with Mikey (a few days previously, she had revealed her genitalia* to Sandy). Ben then has an awkward discussion with Wendy about sex. Oh yeah, while mentioning sex in every sentence if possible.  Wikipedia posted:Wendy is visibly bored with the conversation. Dunno about Wendy but I'll getting visibly bored by all this detail. Where is this headed, editor? Wikipedia posted:As the evening begins, a storm hits New Canaan which evolves into a dangerous ice storm. gently caress me, I'm bored. I remember quite enjoying this movie. How have you turned this film into something simultaneously salacious and teeth-grindingly tedious? Wikipedia posted:Concurrently, Paul has taken the train into Manhattan. Paul is excited that Libbets has invited him to visit her that evening.  Wikipedia posted:He tries to keep this a secret from his roommate, Francis (of whom he is not particularly fond), since he has the habit of bedding every girl he discovers Paul is attracted to. Paul is then disheartened to discover Francis has also been invited. The three listen to music and begin drinking and smoking marijuana. It becomes clear that Libbets is more responsive to Francis' direct advances than to Paul's subtler ones. Paul attempts to drug Francis with Libbets' mother's sleeping medication so that he will be out of commission for the evening, but Libbets also takes one of the pills. Francis passes out first. Libbets and Paul leave him to sleep it off on the floor and Paul tries to make his move on Libbets. He is visibly disappointed when she tells him that she only thinks of him "like a brother" before she too passes out. I'd pull you up for the encyclopedia phrase "out of commission for the evening" but you're not even trying to conceal that fact that this is fanfic novelisation, are you? Wikipedia posted:Wendy decides to make her way to the Carvers' to see Mikey, but he has decided to go out into the ice storm, so she and Sandy climb into bed together and remove their clothes. They drink from a bottle of vodka and Wendy tries to seduce him; however, they both fall asleep. Welcome back to the plot. Any chance we could stick around that for a bit? Please. Wikipedia posted:Jim and Elena return to the Carvers' house as dawn is breaking. Elena walks in on her daughter in bed with Sandy and orders her to get dressed. I know that sex is used a plot dynamic and a means to expose interpersonal tensions but I think its the characters and tensions we're supposed to be interested in, not the sex. I mean, unless we watched different movies. Which apparently we did. Wikipedia entry about mainstream movie featuring detailed description of underage characters? Hmmm, seeing a trend much?  Wikipedia editors: spoiling movie plots and killing souls since 2001, you're welcome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice_Storm_(film) * hyperlinked for your edification
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Yeah, that sounds right. Remind me about it. Highly regarded coming-of-age drama set in the early 1970s with an A-list cast and a top director, right? Yeah, I remember most of those scenes, but only because of the novelty of them featuring a post-fame Wednesday Addams and pre-fame Frodo, Joey from Dawson's Creek, and Spider-Man. They're really minor parts of the movie.
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The sole entry in the IMDB FAQ page for The Dentist, a film about a sexually insecure dentist who slips into madness and violence against his patients and employees, often involving dental equipment.
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I'm pretty sure The Dentist gave me a goddamn dentist phobia.
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Marathon Man is the pro tier dentist phobia movie
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Yeah, that sounds right. Remind me about it. Highly regarded coming-of-age drama set in the early 1970s with an A-list cast and a top director, right? God, it's like when I was in high school and we'd describe Black Hawk Down entirely in detailed accounts of people getting blown apart, just missing the wood for the trees.
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The sex-focused Wikipedia entries aren't any stranger than your revulsion towards them.
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Pedro De Heredia posted:The sex-focused Wikipedia entries aren't any stranger than your revulsion towards them. The humour in this thread comes from the fact Wikipedia sets itself up as "an online encyclopedia". Now, consider whether the quoted examples should be in anything remotely resembling an encyclopedia. And it is that frisson between the ostensibly authoritative nature of the source and the lurid, salacious, trivial, boring, trite and inadequate material in that source which is where the humour resides.  off
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OP you seem to have a slight fixation
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Hey man. What's happening? Hey man. We're What is it? It's a pretty freaky [looking at DVD box] Oh.... Dougal and the Blue Cat isn't it that 1970 French feature of the children's animation The Magic Roundabout? Sounds a bit random. Tell me about it, Wikipedia posted:One morning in the magic garden, Dougal the dog is yelling at his cuckoo clock for dropping its pendulum on his bed. He suddenly realises that something strange happened last night, and he takes the train to speak to Zebedee about it. After a talk with Ermintrude (who is standing on the railway track), Brian (who is a bit faster than the train), Dylan (who is watching the mushrooms grow), and Mr. Machenry (who is tending his crops), he finds Zebedee conducting an orchestra of French lollipops. Once the lollipops leave on the train, Dougal tells Zebedee about what happened last night. He got to bed early, because he was tired from all his work. After a few seconds of sleep, he woke up. He got out of bed and heard a loud shriek. It was an owl who said to him "'Allo, cheeky!". You've got to be loving kidding me. This is the most detailed sperg poo poo ever. Stick with it, man. It gets pretty heavy.Wikipedia posted:Dougal then heard something even more sinister. A voice. After he hears the voice, he hears a second, female voice. You're doing this for a bet aren't you, guys? [laughing] No way! Wikipedia posted:They were coming from the old treacle factory, which had been shut down. After observing the scene from a red tree, he hears the female voice again. He returned to his bed and got back to his rest. After the flashback, Zebedee asks Dougal if he was not dreaming. After Dougal asks himself if he's "going dotty", Zebedee bounces away. Dougal then goes to see Florence. [entering room]  Hey guys. What you  This isn't going to end is it? Chillax, man!Wikipedia posted:Florence is busy cleaning her house, then she leaves for the roundabout. Her friends show her something on the magic roundabout. A blue cat. After doing a small dance, he decides to be named Buxton. "Florence meets a blue cat called Buxton." Seven. loving. Words. Count them.Wikipedia posted:Zebedee tells Florence that Dougal has a "problem". While Florence's friends ride on the roundabout, Florence goes to speak to Dougal, who is picking flowers. Florence introduces Dougal to Buxton. Dougal, jealous of the attention directed toward Buxton, dislikes him and tries to convince him that he, Buxton, will not like staying in the Garden because of the rain. At the bridge, Dylan, Ermintrude and Brian meet him as well. Ermintrude says that "Blue is beautiful". This reminds Dougal about what happened last night at the treacle factory. Everyone, with the exception of Dougal, decides that Buxton should sleep at Dougal's. They make the bed for him, while the cuckoo puts his pendulum back on the clock. You're not actually to post this, are you? I mean, I think Wikipedia is supposed to be an online encyclopedia, full of analysis and concise summaries. Shhhhh! Wikipedia posted:Buxton enters the ruins of the old treacle factory where he is crowned King after correctly identifying the colours of seven doors (coloured different shades of blue). Right. Are you ready for this? Wikipedia posted:At the entrance, he is warned that he will get shot by a crossbow if he guesses incorrectly or forgets. He recognises the first door as blue. When he enters the next room, he discovers a machine sorting out blue flowers and dumping the other colour flowers. The blue voice then says her famous line "Blue is beautiful, blue is best. I'm blue, I'm beautiful, I'm best!". The second door is cobalt blue. Buxton enters a room with piles of clothing. A large machine is collecting the blue clothing and putting the other coloured clothing in a trunk. The machine also accidentally puts a blue sheet onto Buxton. Buxton correctly guesses the third door to be Saxony blue. In here, he meets an array of scary masks. Once he escapes, Buxton goes through the fourth door, which is indigo. Buxton finds himself in an observatory-like room. He finds the fifth door to be baby blue, though he momentarily forgets. He then enters the room of thunder and lightning. The next door is Prussian blue. He finds the guard room, where his blue men are created. Buxton then jumps through a small gap in between his men to reach the final door, royal blue. After being crowned, he sings a song. Have your ever Wikipedia posted:Meanwhile, Ermintrude is painting blue pictures. Brian inadvertently helps Dougal down from the hoist by chewing the rope holding it. Dougal then tells everyone that Buxton is evil, but nobody believes him. A blue cactus then shows up while Ermintrude is showing Buxton all her paintings. Buxton informs everyone that the cacti are the "fast-growing" variety, and is happy to see it. Zebedee arrives, and informs everyone that his moustache has gone missing from his bedside table. The group search for the magic moustache, whilst Buxton sneaks off to the treacle factory. [laughing] [edging out of room slowly]Wikipedia posted:Dougal takes a "tour" of the caves beneath the treacle factory, and manages to locate the place where Buxton has imprisoned everyone. They identify him as Dougal, but he tells them to call him by his alias, Blue Peter, as he may have been followed. At this point, Buxton shows up, Ermintrude and Brian call Dougal a "blue-bag", and Buxton warns them not to mock his Prime Minister. I'm not sure I'm following all of this.Wikipedia posted:Madam Blue orders Buxton and Dougal to conquer the Moon. Whilst on the Moon, Dougal falls in a puddle and his dye washes off, revealing his true identity. The pair begin to fight, and manage to make it to the rocket, where they continue to fight. Dougal is pushed out of the rocket, but his parachute deploys, and he makes it safely back to the factory. Buxton, meanwhile, remains in the rocket, which crashes inside the factory, and causes him to feel unwell. Buxton tells Madam Blue that Blue Peter was really Dougal, Madam Blue becomes infuriated and strips Buxton of his title. Meanwhile, Dougal frees everyone from the prison cell, and they escape the treacle factory. However, Brian tries to tell Dougal that they've forgotten something. Brian takes it upon himself to enter the factory on his own. ahem... Is it over? Yeah. Until we replay it. That plot summary is 1,239 words. You're not going to post that. Seriously. Are you? Watch us. [presses enter key]url link on computer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougal_and_the_Blue_Cat E: smiley inline coding, you give with one hand and take away with the other... 
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Op you are a loving wierdo
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One of the amazing things about Wikipedians is their uncanny inability to synopsize or figure out what's important about a subject. So you get the plot of a 90 minute movie summarized in 1500 words, or 17 words per minute. Which often makes it harder to understand what went on, since the significant plot beats are mixed in with trivial details. I've always been amused by the wikipedia bios that credit even minor stars as "X is an actress, entrepreneur, media commentator, social activist and comic book writer", based them investing money in a friends shop, giving their opinion on twitter and being name-checked on the credits on a friends comic five years ago.
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Mrs Fernandez: Good morning, Johnny. Johnny: Good morning, Mrs Fernandez. Mrs Fernandez: Did you do your homework? You remember I asked you to write a Wikipedia plot summary of one of your favourite movies. Johnny: Yes, Mrs Fernandez. Mrs Fernandez: Did you bring a print out of it? Johnny: No, it’s on computer. Mrs Fernandez: The internet? Oh. When I said write a Wikipedia page I didn’t mean- Never mind, let’s take a look. Wikipedia posted:Michael Jackson's Ghosts is a 1996 short film starring Michael Jackson, co-written by horror novelist Stephen King and directed by film director and special effects guru Stan Winston. Mrs Fernandez: So, it’s a 40-minute long music video rather than a feature film. Interesting choice, Johnny. Wikipedia posted:The Maestro (Michael Jackson) lives alone in a creepy-looking mansion on top of a hill, overlooking the town of "Normal Valley". Occasionally, he entertains the local children with scary magic tricks. One of the children tells his mother, who alerts the Mayor (also Michael Jackson). He in turns organizes the townspeople to go to the Maestro's mansion and force him out of town. Some of them show reluctance to do so, but are pressured into joining the Mayor on his crusade. On a stormy night they go to the Maestro's mansion (which instead of a numbered address, is addressed "Someplace Else") holding flaming torches. When they arrive at the mansion, it is guarded by a large gate. They peer in through the gate, and by the haunting look of the mansion, have second thoughts about entering. The children assure the parents that the Maestro has done nothing wrong, and ask that they leave him alone. Mrs Fernandez: Johnny, it’s a little bit detailed for a plot summary. But at least you haven’t included what the characters are saying!  Wikipedia posted:But the mayor remarks, "He's a weirdo. There's no place in this town for weirdos." Mrs Fernandez: Wikipedia posted:The front gate opens, frightening the townspeople, who make their way to the front door, which also opens by itself. The inside of the mansion appears to them even creepier than the outside, and the parents re-assure their children (and themselves) "there's no such thing as ghosts". They make their way into the house, and once they are all inside, the front door slams shut and locks itself. Mrs Fernandez: Are you a fan of Michael Jackson? Johnny: I’m his number one fan, Mrs Fernandez.  Mrs Fernandez: I thought so. Wikipedia posted:
Mrs Fernandez: Do you remember we talked in class about the difference between summarisation and narration, Johnny? Johnny: ….uhm…. Mrs Fernandez: Never mind. Do you remember the number of words you used, Johnny? Johnny: 854 words. Mrs Fernandez:  Johnny: I filled up the whole screen! Wikipedia posted:To this Maestro replies, "You are trying to scare me. I guess I have no choice; I guess I have to scare you." He then makes a series of funny faces, which the mayor calls "ridiculous" and "not funny". In a change of tone, Maestro asks, "Is this scary?" and pulls his face sideways. Then he continues to stretch his face more by pulling his face down and stretches his mouth, and ultimately pulls off his face to reveal his skull and laughing maniacally. The frightened townspeople run for the doors, which Maestro shuts with his magical powers, after he smashes his skull with his fists, revealing his normal head. One man with glasses and black hair starts to cry after the doors have been shut. Johnny: Should I have described all of the people? Mrs Fernandez: Wikipedia posted:Maestro then reminds the mayor he's not alone, and introduces his "family" of ghouls who, along with Maestro, perform extended dance routines to 2 Bad and Is It Scary (both original songs composed by Michael Jackson) which alternately impresses and scares the townspeople. During this sequence, Maestro's acts include ripping his clothes off to reveal a skeletal body; possessing the mayor and making him dance (including the moonwalk); and transforming the mayor into an evil, horrific dragon while remarking, "Who's scary now? Who's the freak now? Freaky boy! Freak, circus freak. Who's scary?" Johnny: That’s my favourite bit. Wikipedia posted:The townspeople then turn back to the now open front doors to see the Maestro standing there, laughing. He asks if they all had a good time, and the townspeople realize they did. They figure he isn't so bad after all and make peace with him. The story ends with one of the children asking with a vicious look on his face, "Is this scary?"; he grips his lower face, and the camera moves to a long shot of the mansion while terrified screams are heard. Johnny: Mrs Fernandez? Wikipedia posted:During the credits, backstage footage of Jackson's make-up sessions and green screen shots reveal how he was able to play five different roles within the film; indeed, the Cast list credits him as "Maestro", "Mayor" (which explains the mayor's impeccably Jacksonian dance moves), "Mayor Ghoul" (the horribly transformed mayor), "Super ghoul" (a giant and grotesquely deformed version of Jackson) and "Skeleton" (a CGI dancing skeleton, animated by Jackson through motion capture). The film also uses a boy that resembles young Michael Jackson from the time he was in The Jackson 5. Mrs Fernandez: Johnny: Mrs, Fernandez? Mrs Fernandez: You see the tab on the screen called “edit”? Johnny: Yes. Mrs Fernandez: There’s an option there called “revert edit”. Do you think we should click that together? Johnny: But…I’m still special, aren’t I, Mrs Fernandez?Mrs Fernadez: Yes, Johnny, you’re still special. Johnny:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson%27s_Ghosts
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Slaapaav posted:Op you are a loving wierdo
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outlier posted:One of the amazing things about Wikipedians is their uncanny inability to synopsize or figure out what's important about a subject. So you get the plot of a 90 minute movie summarized in 1500 words, or 17 words per minute. Which often makes it harder to understand what went on, since the significant plot beats are mixed in with trivial details. Absolutely! It's nuts how anyone can think that a 40 min music video needs 824 words of summary (excluding other sections). That's over 20 words per minute. The entry for the Thriller video (part of the Thriller song page) is short and summarises its influence and importance very well. I looked at the Star Wars films but since those are really high profile and high traffic pages, editors keep the sperging down to a minimum. The trick is to find some pop culture nugget that nerds/teenagers/fanboys obsess over but doesn't have a great deal of cultural importance. If you hit any entry which has a plot summary filling a screen you know you've got a bad page. It might just be tedious rather than funny though. The greater the obscurity and the longer the "summary", the more wtf-ness you are in for.
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I am sorry if this seems mean OP, but this thread is kind of a funny idea, except all your posts are like you're doing really bad stand-up.
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Has anyone ever read the parents guide to movies on IMDB? I don't have a specific example, but IMDB contributors have no idea what a vagina is. I've seen entry after entry on IMDB like the following.: Real life- In one scene, a female actress is seen exiting the shower. She is startled by an intruder,drops her towel which reveals her breasts and pubic region. Due to the lighting and placement of the camera, the nudity is fairly obscured. IMDB- In one scene, a female actress is seen exiting the shower. She is startled by an intruder,drops her towel which reveals her breasts and HER VAGINA IS CLEARLY SEEN. TL,DR: crazy cat women who write parents guides on IMDB think bush =vagina. Kirk Vikernes fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Mar 4, 2015 |
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The editors of the Parents Guide page for The Funhouse have an odd sense of what constitutes "Very Light" violence and gore.
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Hat Thoughts posted:I am sorry if this seems mean OP, but this thread is kind of a funny idea, except all your posts are like you're doing really bad stand-up. No, that's cool. I don't like blocks of text copies and pasted in SA, so I break them up. This is an thread for bad open-source movie data from supposedly reliable sources for anyone to contribute to. I'm looking for one-line WTF-ness but it only seems to come in full page sections.... E: Also if someone hasn't seen the film then you have provide some context because they might not understand how badly the Wikipedia/IMDB misrepresents the movie. It isn't just that an entry can be bad or badly written - it's that it might just completely distort the whole mode or message of that movie. Josef K. Sourdust fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Mar 4, 2015 |
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Darthemed posted:The editors of the Parents Guide page for The Funhouse have an odd sense of what constitutes "Very Light" violence and gore. I appreciate that the Parents Guides are supposed to allow parents to pick and choose what is acceptable, but I find it hilarious to think that the breaking point for a parent to let her young son watch THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE would be that "A woman wears a low-cut top and shorts that reveal cleavage and bare thighs".
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Dirk Squarejaw posted:Has anyone ever read the parents guide to movies on IMDB? I don't have a specific example, but IMDB contributors have no idea what a vagina is. I've seen entry after entry on IMDB like the following.: The parents guide is my favorite feature of imdb: quote:Caligula is widely considered to be the most obscene non-pornographic film ever made. There are sex scenes that show close ups of oral sex on males and females, showing graphically the genitals of both sexes. No children should ever watch it, and several adults will have trouble with it. The film borders on pornographic with several hardcore inserts intended to sexually arouse, but really turn out to be quite disturbing (this is in the unrated version though).
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Mar 4, 2015 19:57
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IMDB user tkinney contributed the only current note to the Parents Guide for The Dark Backward, which is a film that might have emerged if John Waters had directed Eraserhead and made it a more overt comedy.
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Mar 4, 2015 20:42
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:I was listening to an audio review of Blame It On Rio (We Hate Movies: http://www.whmpodcast.com/2014/03/episode-147-blame-it-on-rio.html) and I thought of looking up this poorly received sex comedy/holiday romance on Wikipedia. This is what I encountered: I wonder what the denizens of the IMBD forums have to say. quote:Posted Sep 3, 2010 by ewanfanatic88 Thanks ewanfanatic88 for that much needed bit of trivia. I wonder what other threads there are- quote:Posted May 15, 2012 by howardgrantrulz
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From Eddie Murphy's Party All the Time wiki:quote:The song tells a harrowing tale from the perspective of a heartbroken lover, portrayed in the first-person by Eddie Murphy. He begins by questioning, perhaps rhetorically, why the female with whom he is currently participating in a relationship would want to cause him emotional pain. The narrator goes on to list extravagant items he's purchased for her, including, but not limited to: champagne, roses, and diamond rings. Despite the items that the narrator has given, the female still insists on staying out all night (presumably in the company of other men). The narrator then poses perhaps another rhetorical question as to what he should do to remedy this depressing situation. The listener is then repeatedly informed that the narrator's "girl" wishes to attend nightclubs and house parties at all hours of the day and night. Later on, the narrator points out that he's acted as a voyeur and observed said female whilst she was present at an unknown nightclub. She was seen providing her telephone number to virtually every male patron of the club with whom she came in verbal contact. We are then informed that the narrator's female companion never arrives at their place of residence in the evening. Her absence is believed to be caused by infidelity, presumably with one or many of the men with whom she became acquainted earlier that evening. The narrator then goes on to wish that his female companion would have sexual intercourse with him, instead of the many other men with whom he infers she has been copulating.
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Mar 11, 2015 20:21
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Well I think we've all been there.
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Mar 12, 2015 13:14
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Darthemed posted:IMDB user tkinney contributed the only current note to the Parents Guide for The Dark Backward, which is a film that might have emerged if John Waters had directed Eraserhead and made it a more overt comedy. The IMDB/Wikipedia Movie Entry Thread: It is disturbing
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Mar 13, 2015 03:39
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I stumbled across this entry after Amazon sent me an ad for Prime. What's this 'Bosch' series?. Wikipedia gives the plot for the pilot:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosch_(TV_series) posted:As the pilot opens, Bosch is tailing a suspect. Eventually cornering him in an alley, Bosch shoots the suspect when he reaches in his pocket. The incident is shown later in the episode in two separate flashbacks. When seen from Bosch's point of view it appears that there is something in the suspect's hand that falls in a puddle. When the incident is recounted by the plaintiff's lawyer during a wrongful death suit, there is clearly nothing in the suspect's hand and Bosch is shown planting a gun. Whatever really happened, he is cleared by the department. The show fast-forwards to two years later where Bosch is being sued by the family of the suspect in a wrongful death civil suit. It's hard to say just what's so odd about this description. The way it seems to end in mid-flow. The strange emphasis and detail used on minor aspects while other things are glossed over. The way it makes the episode seem disjointed. It's like it was written by an alien that didn't quite understand the show and is still grappling with English.
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You can find some amusing entries in the "Q&A" section of IMDB pages sometimes. This one will probably just make anyone who can remember the 90s feel like a dinosaur: IMDB page for Scream posted:
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