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Sam Catchem
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Don't forget Danger Bay and Sidekicks starring Ernie Reyes jr.

That's how I look at it. It's better to make fun of the oppressors than the oppressed. Like say, F-Troop.

Oh, it's definitely not anti-slavery, but I also don't think it's pro-slavery either. I think the movie is ultimately a bit shallow, like it's main character. Social issues aren't really on the movie's mind, and slavery is merely seen as just part of day-to-day life on a plantation. I also think the movie deserves a

I guess you could say me and my dad were alot like Anne Frank.

I don't know, I've never really agreed with the idea that Gone with the Wind is pro-slavery. It's merely a soap opera that takes place during the antebellum south. I don't think we're meant to support the actions of the characters any more than we're meant to support all the immorality and murder of the characters in

My mom is Jewish, and wouldn't let me watch any movie that contained Nazis, the same way I know girls who won't watch a movie that contains a rape scene. So, no Sound of Music, no Hogan's Heroes. Thankfully, there were no Nazis in the ads for Raiders of the Lost Ark, or that would have been off limits. I have a fond

You could make the argument that you're the gross one for not taking time out in the middle of the day to brush your teeth like this guy did. Of course, I only brush twice a day myself, so I'm not really one to talk.

Is that seriously all it is? An out of control elevator ride? I had always sort of wanted to go on it, seeing as I'm a huge Twilight Zone fan and thought it was more of a walk through haunted house attraction with Twilight Zone themed scares in it. If I want a scary elevator ride I can just go ride the elevator in the

My neighbor in the house I grew up in had a dog named Chelsea that bit the face off a three year old.

Oh yeah, I went into a "these damn kids today" speech that went on for so long, my friend just sort of walked away out of embarrassment.

I think the fact that there are no jokes is why I like it so much. It just has a deadpan weirdness throughout. Like the scene where Carrie Fisher fires a rocket launcher at the Blues Brothers, and they duck, dust themselves off and just shrug and keep walking. It's simultaneously broad and minimalist and I can't think

Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters are two of my all time favorite movies. Ghostbusters 2 I like because it's fun to see the characters from the first movie in a new adventure. Blues Brothers 2000 on the other hand doesn't even feel like it's the same characters or universe from the first film. It's almost like what Jaws

This reminds me of the time I was in a Halloween store and saw a packaged costume of a Madonna/Cyndi Lauper-esqe 80's glam girl, but the package said "Disco Diva".

I would have to say I cherish the memories of just about every movie I saw between the ages of 4 to about 8. I have these vivid memories of dinky, little neighborhood theaters being the size of opera houses and the screens as tall as buildings. Empire Strikes Back, Raiders, all the muppet movies, ET. I once saw a

Another thing I do is look for anachronistic products in the background of modern movies that take place in the past. Like the coin toss scene in No Country for Old Men that has Jack's Links beef jerky in the background even though I don't think it had even been invented in 1980. Alternately, there's a scene in Argo

Valley of the Gwangi is a must. Best to expose kids to Harryhausen's dinosaurs before Jurassic World makes them all jaded.

Probably best to just not use 9/11 as a descriptor at all. It's like comparing someone to Hitler. It just makes you look like a hyperbolic nut. I learned this the hard way recently when someone got mad at me for referring to the OJ trial as the 9/11 of the 90's, meaning it was the biggest news story of the time. But I

I believe he called himself Austin from Texas, because I remember wondering why he didn't just use the name Tex as a tribute to his dad.

"And it'll be three hours long!"

There's also the Star Trek:The Next Generation parody from which I stole the line "Holy Shatner!"