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I finally managed to sit through Transformers 2. Interesting. I never knew Petra was in fucking EGYPT.
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It dawned on me at about 4am last night when I was finishing my review that 2500 words might not be enough to fully describe the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen experience. Additionally, I really didn't get much into the plot, as I was so busy explaining why it was a fundamentally shitty movie. So I took a little time to interview myself about the movie's story in order to help you understand what RotF is all about. Hope it helps!

Are there honestly 46 new Transformers in the movie?
I have no fucking clue. It's impossible to tell most of them apart except for Optimus and the Racist Twins (there's another yellow Autobot who I constantly thought was Bumblebee). There could be 46, or there could be 12. I honestly would believe 12 if someone had said that.

What is the status of the Transformers at the beginning of the film?
The Autobots have joined the military to hunt down the Decepticons. We're told the Decepticons are "doing things," but they appear to be hiding peacefully when the Autobots show up and brutally murder them.

What?
Yeah. The Decepticons aren't apparently doing anything, then the Autobots show up, the Decepticons run for their goddamn lives, and the Autobots hunt them down and brutally murder them. It's kind of weird.


Why is the U.S. military helping them?
Supposedly to help keep the Transformers a secret from the public. Although since the climax of the last film was a massive firefight involving 50-foot robots and took place over five miles of downtown Los Angeles and the beginning of this film wrecks several miles of Shanghai, China, they seem to be incredibly shitty at their job.

How does the U.S. military help them?
Well, not at all, actually. They just kind of come along with guns and stuff, and act like they're going to help, but the Autobots do all the work.

Why is the U.S. military in this movie at all, then?
Because Michael Bay has a huge erection for jets and tanks and aircraft carriers and considers giant robots only a necessary evil for the film. At least 15 full minutes of the film's 150-minute run time is nothing but footage of jets and tanks and planes without any robots or actual action whatsoever.

How is Sam Witwicky dragged back into the fight?
Well, he finds a fragment of the Allspark shard. You know, the Allspark that he spent all last movie being told he shouldn't give to Megatron, but when he gave it to Megatron, it killed Megatron. That one. Anyways, the shard makes the Beef see symbols and act like more of an spaz than usual.

So the Decepticons want the shard? Why?
Uh... to bring Megatron back to life?

What?
That's what they said.

But the Allspark killed Megatron in the first movie.
Yes.

...and now it can also bring him back to life.
It's very powerful, this Allspark.

Uh-huh. So what's their plan to get it?
They send a small R/C car who talks like Joe Pesci in Casino to get it.

Shouldn't they have sent Starscream or somebody?
Look, there's another Allspark shard and get that one anyways, so it doesn't matter.

Well, then why do they give a shit about Sam?
The symbols. In his head. That the shard of the Allspark gave him.

They weren't in the other shard?
Apparently not.

So how do the Decepticons plan to get the symbols, I guess?
Well, the Decepticons have very cunningly created a hot chick robot who they enrolled in the same college and put in the same astronomy class as Sam. And they made her a huge slut.

Wait.
Waiting.

There's a slutty Decepticon?
Yeah, she's a real ho. The Decepticons apparently have an incredibly powerful slut-making program, because she has it down, man. Anyways--

Didn't Sam touch the shard and get the symbols stuck in his head on his first day of college?
Yes.

So the Decepticons made a slutty robot to attend his college and enrolled her in classes and put her in on-campus housing just in case Sam ended up being important at some point in the future?
Apparently. It was an elaborate plan, but it sure paid off.

How so?
Well, not at all. The slut-bot made out with him for a little bit then immediately tried to kill him, neither for any apparent motive or gain.

It sounds preposterous.
Doesn't matter, because the Decepticons use the shard piece they do have to resurrect Megatron! He's back! Ooo! Scary!

Why is this scary? All he wanted was the Allspark, and now it's gone.
...because he has a boss! He's called the Fallen, because he's so evil! He has an evil plan to use a machine on Earth to blow up the sun and make energon! Or something! It's not very clear.

Now you're just making shit up as you go along, aren't you?
Best not to think too much about it. Anyways, the symbols in the Beef's head are a map to where this machine exists, so the hunt is on and Sam shortly is captured by other, less slutty Decepticons in one of the many instances where Bumblebee inexplicably abandons the Beef so he can conveniently be in trouble.
Then a robot called the Doctor who speaks gibberish with a German accent shoves things up Shia's nose and gets the symbols.

That's that, then, right? The Decepticons win?
No! Because Optimus Prime saves Sam before they cut off his head, which has another treasure inside!

Really? What is that?
No one really bothers to explain this, actually. Suffice to say, the Decepticons continue to want Sam. Oh, then Optimus Prime fights three Decepticons at once and dies.

Where the hell were the other Autobots during this fight?
I don't know. They were with him before the fight, but then they disappear and show up right after he dies. But they appear sad about Optimus dying. Marginally. I mean, they don't get any screen time or dialogue to convey any feelings or anything, but there's some sad music playing for a little bit afterwards. I assume this means the robots that are off-screen are grieving.

Well, if one shard brought Megatron back to life, can't Sam just use his shard piece to resurrect Optimus?
Yes. He could.

Well?
He doesn't.

Why not?
I'm not sure exactly.

Then what the hell does he do?
He decides get those symbols that were in his head translated to figure out what the Fallen's up to.

Which Autobot does the translating?
Err... none of them. Actually, it's John Turturro.

What. The fuck.
Yeah, since he was laid off from his super-secret government agent job, he now works in a NY deli and runs a super-popular Transformers conspiracy theory website. Like ya do.

And why couldn't an Autobot translate these symbols?
Because Bumblebee is mute and the Racist Twins are poor black robots from the slums of Cybertron who never learned how to read. It's a sad commentary on Cybertronian society. Like The Wire, actually.

Where the hell are the other Autobots?
I don't know. Away. They seem to be unable to be reached. They're probably grieving about Optimnus still. Clearly, John Turturro is the reasonable solution here.

So Turturro translates the symbols.
No, that would be silly. He does, in an incredibly bizarre series of connect-the-dots, lead them to Jetfire, an elderly and deceased Transformers whose corpse is hanging out in the Air & Space Museum.

What good is he dead?!
Ah! Remember the shard? Sam uses it to bring Jetfire back to life!

Not Optimus?
No! This way, Sam can get the symbols translated... so he can, er... find the ancient machine... that can, uh... possibly bring Optimus back to life.

You have to fucking be kidding me.
Moving on! Jetfire teleports everyone to Egypt, including some of the missing Autobots --

Wait, what? Teleports?
Yes, teleports.

Transformers don't teleport.
Jetfire does.

But -- wait a second, he's a fucking jet. He could fly everybody to Egypt, right? And that would make perfect sense for both the character and the franchise!
Well, I guess so. But he chooses not to. The point is Jetfire teleports them all to Egypt where he explains that there used to be 7 or 8 Primes, and they traveled around the galaxy blowing up suns for energon. But they never did it on planets with life.
Well, they had set the machine up on Earth and not noticed all the life running around, and one of the Primes just said fuck it, let's do it anyways. This was evil, so they called that Prime the Fallen and beat the shit out of him although he escaped.

Okay...
So that other mysterious reason that the Decepticons wanted Sam's brain? It's because it contains some very vague clues about the Matrix of Leadership, which is the device that turns on the sun-exploding machine. The Fallen needs the Matrix to blow up the sun and get his Energon.

Hold on. That's what the Matrix of Leadership does in the movie?
Yes. Works the sun-exploding machine.

I'm fuzzy on how "Leadership" covers that.
I didn't name it. But it does sound a little nicer than "Matrix of Blowing Up the Goddamn Sun."
If I may continue, in order to protect the Earth, the 6-7 other Prime hid the Matrix on Earth and made a tomb with their own bodies. Isn't that cool?


No. No it is not. If they wanted to protect Earth, why did they leave the Matrix on the planet? They're a space-faring race, they could have hid it anywhere in galaxy! Second of all, what the fuck does making a tomb of their own bodies do? Shouldn't they have stayed alive to protect the Matrix? Or finish off the Fallen? Or just not die and leave Earth and the entire Transformer race in jeopardy?
Uh...

And why hide the Matrix at all? Don't they need Energon to survive? Didn't they say they go to other lifeless planets? These idiot Primes just doomed their whole species for no fucking reason whatsoever! No wonder the Decepticons are so pissed.
...ahem. Eventually, Sam and crew find the Matrix, which instantly crumbles into dust. Sam puts the dust in a sock because he thinks it will bring Optimus back to life.

Grr.
What follows is the most spectacular part of the movie, as Sam and Mikaela try to run the several miles back to the military camp during a massive Decepticon attack where the military has dropped Optimus Prime's corpse.

Why is that awesome? They could drive back in one of the Autobots and be there in a minute or two.
They don't do that.

What?
They walk.

Of course they do. And I assume the Autobots just mysteriously disappear again until a second before a Decepticon is about to kill Sam.
Yes. Exactly.

I am already incredibly sick of this movie, and I'm just typing questions about it. Sam resurrects Optimus, Optimus kills the Fallen, end of story, right?
Pretty close. Sam dies, though.

Really?
Yeah, for a little while. But then the Transformers in heaven send him back because he still has work to do.

Fuck you.
I'm serious.

Fuck you. There's no way.
It's true. The 6-7 Primes are there in the clouds like Mufasa's head in The Lion King, and tell Sam he's awesome and he needs to live again so he can bring Optimus back to life.

I may be ill.
Then Jetfire appears out of nowhere and rips out his own heart right in front of Optimus to give him his elderly old robot powers. This makes Optimus into a flying badass who defeats the Megatron and Starscream and the Fallen in a little less than two minutes. After the last 30 minutes of the movie have been nothing but explosions -- not all of which have any obvious causes -- it's a bit disappointing.

Anything else you want to add?
Well, only that although Sam jams the Matrix of Leadership into Optimus Prime's chest to resurrect him, a Decepticon takes it out like 10 seconds later and Optimus is fine. Just a little weird, is all.

Can you give me any reason I would want to see this film in theaters?
I can't answer every question, man.

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So it's not as bad as shitting your pants?
Marginally. I honestly had to make a pro and con list to figure it out.

Why on earth would anyone make a film about giant robots but have myriad scenes of some random douchebag's first day of college?
I don't have the faintest clue.

Could there have been more trite, less inspired song for Bumblebee to play when Sam says he's going to college than The Pointer Sisters' "I'm So Excited"?
No. No there couldn't.

Why can't Bumblebee talk, but the other Autobots can?
Because Bumblebee is retarded, but in a Sling Blade kind of a way. This explains how he kills the living fuck out of a Decepticon later.

Why does Sam's mom buy and consume a pot brownie?
Well, Sam's mom was in a coma for the last 30+ years, which explains how she had never heard of marijuana, and why she didn't understand the consequences of eating it even after her husband specifically told her it was a pot brownie (Sam was unfortunately conceived and born during this period). A better question is why any college student in America would be selling pot brownies at an on-campus bake sale, let alone to a middle-aged woman.

A lot was made of how Shia the Beef's hand injury was written into the film. How was this done?
Well, sometimes Shia had a huge bandage on his hand, and sometimes he didn't.

That doesn't sound "written in" at all.
Well, no actual words are used to explain it. It might be more accurate to say it "shows up sometimes."

Why would a robot need to fart, pee, or vomit? And why would it need testicles?
Michael Bay does not understand what a robot is.

What is the point of the character of Sam's college roommate, and why the fuck does he stay for the entirety of the movie?
I have no clue. He's not comedy relief, because that's covered by 90% of the Transformers themselves. He technically leads the Beef to John Turturro, but surely there could have been another way to do that. Besides, Turturro just leads them to Jetfire anyways. It's all extraneous.

Why can only a Prime kill the Fallen? Why can Jetfire teleport? Why can the Fallen wave a staff and make shit fly around? Why do actual cars and Autobots get sucked into Devastator's maw, but John Turturro and that other kid can run around?
Because... because FUCK YOU, that's why.

Can you explain Megan Fox's appeal?
Yes. She looks like a porn star and has the same acting talent as one, yet for some reason she makes mainstream movies. This tonal disconnect is what's so appealing about her.

If you had to pick a single scene that exemplifies Michael Bay's utter disdain for story and continuity, what would it be?
When five Decepticons sink to the bottom of the ocean to retrieve Megatron's corpse. A submarine tracks five "subjects" going down, and when they get there, one of the Decepticons is killed to give parts to Megatron. 5 -1 +1 = 5, right? No, because the sub somehow tracks "six" subjects coming up. Not only is this very basic math, this is the simplest of script errors. It could not possibly have been more than one page apart in the script. And yet Michael Bay either didn't care to notice or didn't give a fuck. "Math? Math is for pussies. My movies are about shit blowing up, man."

Could you sum up the film in one line of its dialogue?
"I am standing directly beneath the enemy's scrotum."
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i don't like scary movies, and i don't think this would be an exception.
creeeeeepy.

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

article about it in today's Age. http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/blogs/ ... utostart=1
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James that was hilarious :lol:
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Witty that looks freaky AS! I can deal with monsters and psychotics but I'm not too good with paranormal stuff. Eeeek!
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witty_pseudonym wrote:i don't like scary movies, and i don't think this would be an exception.
creeeeeepy.

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

article about it in today's Age. http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/blogs/ ... utostart=1
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I've read that transformers reveiw before, and it's accurate as FUCK.

Seriously, WTF is up with the racist twin robots? I was expecting them to start eating watermelon and fried chicken.
I also scratched my head at the maths error part in the end of that review. The most BASIC shit.

Look, I know it's a dumb movie about giant robots, but at least have it make SOME sense.
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That Transformers interview is hilariously on the money.
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Problem here is that people will still pay to see whatever slop Bay decides to inflict. I boycotted seeing Tranformers 2 on the big screen and got a d/l copy. Wish I hadn't bothered.
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THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE)

Has anyone here seen or heard about this movie? JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!!!!

http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/32390/ ... lither-out

"Outside the more outré work of Takashi Miike and David Cronenberg, you won’t have seen anything quite like Dutch avant-garde artist Tom Six’s totally bizarre off-the-wall oddity. Internationally respected Siamese twin surgeon Dr. Josef Heiter has a demented vision for mankind’s future existence. He wants to remove human beings’ kneecaps so they have to exist on all fours and then surgically graft them mouth-to-anus to form a centipede chain. When two stranded female Americans arrive at his luxury home-cum-hospital looking for help, his long-gestating plan swiftly moves into chilling action with a shocking force. Kidnapping a third Japanese male tourist, he begins the tissue matches, teeth removal, and buttock moulding to create his triplet creature… The First Sequence in Six’s intended trilogy features truly unforgettable imagery, clinically dazzling direction, and a so-far-round-the-bend mad doctor performance from German superstar Dieter Laser you’ll scream. Behold the grotesque New Flesh. If you dare!"
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Yeah been reading about that one on io9... not.. uh... pretty?
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Whip It. Very good lighthearted film. Great cast. Ellen Page is a bit orrright.

Check it out coz there's fuck all else at the moment.
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mixtress wrote:Problem here is that people will still pay to see whatever slop Bay decides to inflict. I boycotted seeing Tranformers 2 on the big screen and got a d/l copy. Wish I hadn't bothered.
I had to sit thru it at teh cinema with Ike.

And I must say.. from a 10 y.o. perspective... was a great film.

I was sooo struggling not to scream at the screen!!!

Transformers heaven... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!

And the worse thing was.. we lined up for 30 minutes to get tix!!!
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Tried to watch Spiderman 3 last night... ended up weatching Metallica Unplugegd on Youtube.
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Hardy wrote:THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE)

Has anyone here seen or heard about this movie? JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!!!!

http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/32390/ ... lither-out

"Outside the more outré work of Takashi Miike and David Cronenberg, you won’t have seen anything quite like Dutch avant-garde artist Tom Six’s totally bizarre off-the-wall oddity. Internationally respected Siamese twin surgeon Dr. Josef Heiter has a demented vision for mankind’s future existence. He wants to remove human beings’ kneecaps so they have to exist on all fours and then surgically graft them mouth-to-anus to form a centipede chain. When two stranded female Americans arrive at his luxury home-cum-hospital looking for help, his long-gestating plan swiftly moves into chilling action with a shocking force. Kidnapping a third Japanese male tourist, he begins the tissue matches, teeth removal, and buttock moulding to create his triplet creature… The First Sequence in Six’s intended trilogy features truly unforgettable imagery, clinically dazzling direction, and a so-far-round-the-bend mad doctor performance from German superstar Dieter Laser you’ll scream. Behold the grotesque New Flesh. If you dare!"
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GK i have picked up and put mean creek back so many times. looks good but the reference to it being like deliverance on the cover puts me off. that movie made me physically sick

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get it next time gnat.
nothing physically sick, just loads of food for thought and quite a melancholic feeling afterwards.
the first half is so innocent, i mean, they are always so innocent, but then, they are not as well.
okay im being vague. just see it. ;)
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gnat wrote:anyone seen julie and julia yet? have heard mixed
considering it, saw a 4 outta 5 star review the other day
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FINALLY watched The Wrestler tonight. Absolutely fantastic. Can't really say anything else, just really loved it.
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Hardy wrote:FINALLY watched The Wrestler tonight. Absolutely fantastic. Can't really say anything else, just really loved it.
Well put there Hardy, everything that a wikkid movie should be. Aranofsky knows how to tell a story with moving images and sound.
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saw Surrogate last night. man the concepts and ideas in that film made the whole film. i was like "ohhhhh that is fricken cool" for most of it. I thought the acting and script were pretty good, along with the special effects, and Bruce Willis was a champ as always.
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Just saw Watchmen- cant wait for the directors cut as quite a few scenes were cut to keep it down to 2hrs45mins.

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Lizkins wrote:saw Surrogate last night. man the concepts and ideas in that film made the whole film. i was like "ohhhhh that is fricken cool" for most of it. I thought the acting and script were pretty good, along with the special effects, and Bruce Willis was a champ as always.
i love bruce but i hated it! booooring!
great concepts but did nothing with it imho.
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checking julie and julia tonight. been aaaages since i have been to the movies

will report back although streep + food generally sounds win
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ghetto kitty wrote:
i love bruce but i hated it! booooring!
great concepts but did nothing with it imho.
I've herad that from nearly everyone I know who's seen it. Great idea, poorly executed. Will wait for DVD methinks
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Blaxter wrote:
Hardy wrote:FINALLY watched The Wrestler tonight. Absolutely fantastic. Can't really say anything else, just really loved it.
Well put there Hardy, everything that a wikkid movie should be. Aranofsky knows how to tell a story with moving images and sound.
Great movie, except I'm not a huge fan of the ending.

Saw 'X Men Origins: Wolverine' last week. I really liked it. Didn't expect much, but I thought it was a pretty sweet comic/action movie.
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ghetto kitty wrote:
Lizkins wrote:saw Surrogate last night. man the concepts and ideas in that film made the whole film. i was like "ohhhhh that is fricken cool" for most of it. I thought the acting and script were pretty good, along with the special effects, and Bruce Willis was a champ as always.
i love bruce but i hated it! booooring!
great concepts but did nothing with it imho.

yeah i see what you is saying, but the concepts held me for the whole movie. i was in pondering mode the whole time lol


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oh i haaaated that gran torino liz lol.

julie and julia was really great

very visual with all the food prep, meryl is great and the story is lovely

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how come?
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Gran Torino was awesome.

For shame gnat, for shame...
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Direkt wrote:Gran Torino was awesome.
:scr1pt:

Lazy day yesterday wanted to watch a no brainer action movie (well most are but anyway...) so threw on Sniper 2.

Lots of flaws in the movie eg. cars that are made of napalm and C4 that instantly explode on impact and no subtitles for bits of dialogue but was entertaining and had a decent amount of unintentional comedy.
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Saw the Hangover last night.

had a few laughs but not a classic.


On another note, some juicy snippets about the new predator flick:

http://io9.com/5369679/first-bloody-det ... ve-us-hope
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Lizkins wrote:
ghetto kitty wrote:
Lizkins wrote:saw Surrogate last night. man the concepts and ideas in that film made the whole film. i was like "ohhhhh that is fricken cool" for most of it. I thought the acting and script were pretty good, along with the special effects, and Bruce Willis was a champ as always.
i love bruce but i hated it! booooring!
great concepts but did nothing with it imho.

yeah i see what you is saying, but the concepts held me for the whole movie. i was in pondering mode the whole time lol
Yeah I think I have read a fair few books on similar ideas, and i guess they had such cool effects and visual things, like the bodies all dropping at once etc, that i thought it would really be amazing, but they seemed to set the scenario and then do something really predictable with it. and i do love Bruce, but he shat me, not the usual man-who-knows-and-does-everything-to-save-us, but weak and lost! meh.

watched Gran Tarino when i got home drunkly on Saturday night. i loved it and cried at the end and then pondered why the world has such hatred, which then made me sad, so then i had to think of nice things like cute bunnie so i could fall asleep. the end.
LOVED it too, Clint was totally awesome.
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Has anyone here seen AntiChrist? If you could tell WTF it's actually about, i'd greatly appreciate it.
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kevin and perry go large the must have section at the counter for 7 dollars at jb, impulse buy after another impulse buy of waterworld for 9 dollars. winner
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i would love to live in a waterworld. have sharks as pets and whatnot. would be well awesome!
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Lizkins wrote:i would love to live in a waterworld. have sharks as pets and whatnot. would be well awesome!
Homer wrote:Under the sea
Under the sea
There'll be no accusations
Just friendly crustaceans
Under the sea!
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LOL! my boy refers to me as Homer sometimes....well more than sometimes.....
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You're more like...


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:lol:

Which character are you Mecka?
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I run teh shitty wok, what else would i be?
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STOOPID MONGOWLIANS!!!!
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MONGORIANS ffs amick, mongorians.
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I'm white I don't speak engrish mang. soz.
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aren't the rules against racist slurs?

ban tbh. :lol:
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