Maybe I’m just a little paranoid after buying into that multi-million dollar pyramid scam that left me penniless and minus one kidney at rural airport in Wisconsin, but lately I’m getting a lot of program requests from friends on Facebook, and I can’t help thinking that these requests are monstrous scams in disguise. One “ghetto snacks request”, leading to “ghetto snacks will pull your friends info, do you want to allow access“? Well, no, because nothing about that question sits right with me. I don’t know what a ghetto snack is, and it seems I never will. This is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
Is Christmas ghetto, Facebook?
Sometimes, however, my paranoia serves me incredibly well, and when I fear that “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” will make over $80 million, it actually does. Here’s the recap with my guesses to the right:
- X-Men Origins: Not About Cyclops Even Though He’s In It (1)
- Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2)
- Obsessed (3)
- 17 Again (5)
- Monsters vs. Aliens (x)
All in all I’d like to think that I redeemed myself from last week, although I shoulda predicted that there would be a family film in the top 5 and that Soloist would drop off the charts completely. Next week is gonna be rather similar to this week, because (thankfully) nothing’s stupid enough to open against the new Star Trek reboot (which I believe is presented by the CW). So, yeah, that being said I could just post the predictions now, but that would go against decades of tradition and be a slap in the face to Benny Boom, who is hoping desperately that his movie “Next Day Air” is funnier than both “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” and “17 Again” combined. He might have a shot.
Then, the very next week, “Angels & Demons” releases, which is apparently a conspiracy wrapped in a conspiracy because Ron Howard recently announced that the Vatican conspired to destroy the film’s shooting schedule, which may or may not be a typical lame Ron Howard PR stunt. OR MAYBE THE ILLUMINATI ACTUALLY EXIST AND TOM HANKS WILL REALLY HAVE TO SAVE US ALL! Only time will tell. About two weeks should do it.
Or at the very least, exploited
I was planning on doing a movie review for this Monday but I couldn’t quite make it through the 4.5hr documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” this weekend, and while it may seem that I have all the time in the world to read about movies, this of course does not actually translate into time that could be spent watching them. And, to be fair, I only read about movies that haven’t yet come out, which can only mean that I only care about movies until they’re released, at which point they cease to exist for me. I mean, at least until they’ve been out for a very long time, at which point they become classics and worth watching again. It’s a simple system and it works for me, which is what got me in so much trouble with that pyramid scheme in the first place. Will I never learn?
The Glass City 