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    Someone Disagrees with Michael Moore

    Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available

    Shark! Shark! Shark!

    The Perfect Antidote to the Summer of Death: Jon Hamm Publicity Tour
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    Image of RandomLunatic RandomLunatic
    09/17/09

    In reply to Someone Disagrees with Michael Moore
    Wow, Today Show. Your efforts to remake the Bushes into some kind of down-home, warm & fuzzy answer to the Kennedy Clan may just succeed after all, ya bunch of brain-dead dinks.
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    09/17/09

    In reply to Someone Disagrees with Michael Moore
    Well fuck me but I thought the Today Show segment was kinda cute.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    09/17/09

    In reply to Someone Disagrees with Michael Moore
    When I look at Jenna Bush, all I can picture is her sitting on the floor of an Argentine bar in a puddle of spilled whiskey, repeatedly slamming the floor with both hands and saying "Fall down go boom!".
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    09/17/09

    In reply to Someone Disagrees with Michael Moore
    I thought Balk invented the anthropomorphic cock.
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    Image of scroll_lock scroll_lock
    09/17/09

    @depardoo: He did, but got the shaft on that one too.
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    Image of RocketSurgeon RocketSurgeon
    09/17/09

    @scroll_lock: It's hard for that guy to get a head.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    09/17/09

    @depardoo: I only glansed at it.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    09/17/09

    @RocketSurgeon:

    He's a real sac.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    09/17/09

    @BettyCrocker:

    You should look harder.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    09/17/09

    @scroll_lock:

    I scrotally agree with you.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/17/09

    In reply to Someone Disagrees with Michael Moore
    Haha. It's fun to visit the Awl. It's like an alumni meeting for banned Gawker commenters and old retired ones.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/17/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: also it's funny too.. just btw.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    None of the original cast of the truly TERRIBLE movie, including Andie "who me, act?" MacDowell are doing much of anything right now...so why not just get them all back together for a deeply sad, who-has-allowed-themselves-to-age-and-who-has-not sequel? If Topher Grace just has to be part of this craptastic nostalgiafest, he can play Rob Lowe's troubled son. Or Demi Moore's young husband.
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    08/14/09

    @City_Dater: I just rewatched the movie today in light of this news. It is really really bad.

    And Andie MacDowell has never, ever been able to act. That she had a career as long as she did seems almost Faustian.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    08/14/09

    @Richard Lawson: Of course it's awful. That's why it's rather perfect. It's about Judd Nelson's schoolboy haircut, Ally's pearls, Demi's madonna-esqueness/coke addicted red room and a bic, Rob's inability to even fake playing the saxophone (who the hell plays the saxophone nowadays?! HA.), Emilio's non-existent point of being in the movie, except to serve beers, because..why not? Andrew's (why does he like face-tic Sheedy, anyway? So lost is he without Ringwald.) and Mare Winingham’s scene with the woman-shaper thigh huggies.

    Yes. Awful, but also erotic-cheesy goodness. If you are like me, an 80's movie connoisseur, there will never be that perfect a storm of shamefully embarrassing acting, ever again. This Topher person will try too hard and be legitimately awful, but not memorably, nostalgia awful, which is much worse. It's like being in Spider-Man 3. Yup. Didn't you forget he was in that?!
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    08/14/09

    @Richard Lawson:

    I know! I want to come back in my next life as Andie MacDowell's agent, because I will obviously be able to bend spoons with my mind.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    Topher will play the Andrew McCarthy character, hmmm?


    Pretty much all of the original actors are available, i.e., not working steady. Why not St. Elmo's Burning Ember with all the old cast.

    This just might set a new time/speed record for crapping all over an artist's legacy after they've died.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    08/14/09

    @PaisleyPajamas:

    Who?
    Though sometimes it seems like every shitty teen-ish movie made in the '80s was poor John Hughes fault, this particular bit of cinematic horror was all on Joel Schumacher.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    08/15/09

    @City_Dater: I stand corrected! The fact that I saw St. Elmo's Fire at a drive-in probably has something to do with my poor memory of the particulars of this movie.

    Apologies to John Hughes!
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    Forget the Large Haydon Collider. These remakes will cause time and space to collapse on each other. Stop it Hollywood before you kill us all!
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    Image of Debussy Fields Debussy Fields
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    Ha! My Ally Sheedy shrine doesn't look so creepy now, does it Mom?!
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    Good God.

    Where will it stop? How about we get some kick ass original sequels or prequels to some great 80's movies, Ghostbusters, The Thing (still scared of that little gem. Jesus the DOGS!) instead of the complete and utter ruination fuckery of classic films that were so mellifluously perfect, that to remake them would make them crumble like thousand year old parchment! Christ. Again, who do I have to beat in the balls with a friggin immovable Sit & Spin (remember how heavy those things were?) to make understand that the masses (hello, me!) would rather enjoy these movies without Topher talentless-hack Grace sullying my memories with his stuttering and shocking lack of even equally as talentless, Kutcherness. Which is bad, if you're Topher. (The hell is a Topher?!)
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    Of course, they have to bring back all the projects I hated most.

    On the other hand, if they were to do something with Real Genius, I would be happy... though it's hard to improve on greatness.
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    Image of richardmarxhatesmyhair richardmarxhatesmyhair
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    I hope they remake "Better Off Dead" into a 30 minute romcom format. I mean, the paperboy could get to season four without getting his $2 & lord knows Curtis Armstrong could reprise his lovable but quirky sidekick role.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    08/14/09

    @richardmarxhatesmyhair: Blasphemy.
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    Porky's is timeless.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    I'll watch if Alec goes to Late Night Shots parties.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    08/14/09

    In reply to Quick, Someone Check If About Last Night Rights Are Available
    If Billy Mays' death triggers any 1980s recycling at all, it will be a sudden push for Ginsu II and Didi7.. watch for it!
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