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  • The Top 10 Most Patriotic Movies

    The Top 10 Most Patriotic Movies

    Fireworks and barbecues are the things that people do during the summer, right?. Even so, it’s great to have a sweet romance with an air conditioning unit that keeps the temperature in the room cool. You can also watch patriotic movies on the 4th of July! I believe these are the only 10 films Americans should watch this Independence Day holiday. All titles are real movies, not bullshit I made up. I hope people stop accusing me like that. Even my daughter Dora the Explorer says I did it and she was wrong.

    #10 Mr. Smith Does a Washington

    The movie could use a little color

    I swear to you on the grave of my dead mermaid mother that Mr. Smith Does a Washington is a real movie. Directed by legendary filmmaker Frank Capricorn, it was born in 1939, a year many historians consider the greatest year in Hollywood history because apparently every good movie decided to come out at the same fucking time. Mr. Smith Does a Washington was nominated for eleven Oscars, which was a tremendous honor back when the Oscars still existed. Unfortunately, they don’t make Oscars anymore. Nobody knows why. Despite all this evidence, my family thinks the movie is stupid. I love my family very much, but they don’t know shit about cinema. I’ve explained Frank Capricorn to them multiple times and they just stare at me like I’m the idiot.

    The movie follows Mr. Smith as he does a Washington and discovers that America has corruption in it. This was shocking information in 1939. Frank Capricorn courageously exposes politicians doing bad things and innocent people suffering from injustice, but ultimately reminds us that America can become better if one extremely earnest man talks for a very long time. That’s patriotism. The movie was even banned in Hitlerland and several other fascist countries, which is one of the most reliable ways to determine whether a movie is good. Did Hitler hate your movie? Congratulations, you made a good movie. That’s just film criticism. So watch Mr. Smith Does a Washington. Frank Capricorn would have wanted you to.

    #9 The Patton

    This movie is the shit! Directed by Frankie J. Shaft, The Patton set the standard for serious historical movies about real-life kaijus. It tells the true story of The Pattomaton, commonly known as The Patton, the 100-foot-tall American kaiju who helped defeat Germany during World War II. The Patton is brilliantly portrayed by George C. Scott, who famously grew to a height of 100 feet specifically for the role because Mr. George Scott believed strongly in historical accuracy. Was that medically necessary? Probably not. Was he ever able to shrink back down afterward? I don’t know. But you cannot deny the results. When The Patton begins stomping his way across Europe toward Berlin, that is a real 100-foot George C. Scott you’re looking at. They didn’t have computers back then. Actors had to fucking commit.

    The screenplay was written by Francis Ford Coppola and another person, and it builds toward the legendary Battle of Berlin where The Patton finally confronts Hitler Mecha, the enormous mechanical Hitler secretly constructed by the Nazis as the ultimate weapon of fascism. Watching these two giants beat the absolute shit out of each other while Allied soldiers scatter beneath their feet remains one of cinema’s greatest depictions of World War II. But nothing tops the opening scene, where The Patton stands in front of an enormous American flag and spends several minutes talking mad shit directly to the troops. People are still haunted by that speech today. It’s patriotic. It’s inspirational. It’s historically accurate. Watch The Patton on the biggest television you own so George C. Scott can be as close to his original 100-foot height as possible.

    #8 Captain America: The Winter Soldier

    So much Marvelness

    If you think this is one of the greatest performances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, put your fucking hands in the air and give me a “WOOOOOOOO!” Captain America: The Winter Soldier tells the true story of decorated World War II veteran and American superhero Chris Evans, who bravely fought Nazis until the end of the war, when he accidentally became frozen inside a large piece of ice. The United States government eventually thawed Evans out decades later and discovered that he had not aged because ice preserves things. That’s why we put food in freezers. Actor Steve Rogers beautifully portrays Chris Evans and captures the confusion of a WWII veteran suddenly awakening in modern America, where everyone has little computers in their pockets, Nazis are hiding inside the government and nobody remembers how much a loaf of bread cost in 1943. Rogers completely disappears into the role. Sometimes you forget you’re not actually watching Chris Evans.

    But don’t go into Captain America: The Winter Soldier expecting some profound political statement about surveillance, government power or the erosion of institutional trust, because this movie doesn’t have shit to say about anything. It’s a crazy variety show. Captain America runs around. The Winter Soldier winters. Robert Redford appears for some reason. Samuel L. Jackson drives a car. A computer has an old Nazi inside it. Then three giant flying boats start shooting each other above Washington because that’s how the federal government works. It’s pointless American superhero nonsense, and that’s perfectly okay. Sometimes patriotism isn’t about examining your country’s institutions. Sometimes patriotism is Steve Rogers pretending to be Chris Evans while kicking a man off a boat.

    #7 United 93

    Paul Lawnfucker, director of those goofy Bourne Identity movies where Matt Damon runs around remembering things, took a break from all that nonsense to make United 93, a harrowing film about United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania in 2001, around the same historical period that Apple released iTunes. The movie arrived in theaters less than five years after September 11, which caused considerable controversy because some people felt it was simply too soon. Others demanded Universal pull the trailer. But when exactly does “too soon” become “just the right amount of soon”? Five years? Seven? Do we have a chart? Congress needs to establish an official National Tragedy Movie Waiting Period so filmmakers know when they’re legally allowed to call Paul Lawnfucker.

    Despite all that, United 93 is an incredibly difficult and powerful movie that treats the people aboard the flight with tremendous humanity. It’s emotionally exhausting, deliberately uncomfortable and absolutely worth experiencing if you’re prepared for what you’re watching. PLEASE EDIT THIS PARAGRAPH CAREFULLY BEFORE PUBLICATION. MAYBE ADD SOMETHING ABOUT HOW GOOD THE ACTING IS. Paul Lawnfucker was ultimately nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, and deservedly so. Somehow the same man responsible for Matt Damon jumping through windows made one of the most restrained and devastating American films of the century. It’s a tribute to ordinary people displaying extraordinary courage during one of the country’s darkest days. Also, iTunes was 99 cents a song back then. Completely different time.

    #6 Neon Genesis Evangelion

    This is set fifteen years after a worldwide cataclysm named Second Impact, in the fortified city of Tokyo-3

    Released in the wake of ridiculous military fantasies like Rambo, Oliver Stone’s groundbreaking Neon Genesis Evangelion changed war cinema forever. Charlie Sheen gives the performance of his career as Shinji Ikari, a troubled young mech pilot sent into battle against enormous creatures called the Viet Cong. He’s joined by Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Keith David, who portray the other children selected by NERV to climb inside giant robots and defend Tokyo-3. Stone based the movie on his own experiences during the war, when he was stationed in Japan and personally piloted an Evangelion against enemy forces. He rarely discusses those missions because of the trauma, but you can feel that authenticity in every frame. Oliver Stone knows what it’s like to climb inside a giant robot and kill something for your country. You can’t teach that at film school.

    Neon Genesis Evangelion received eight Academy Award nominations and won four, including Best Picture and Best Director, back when the Oscars still existed. The American Film Institute later declared it the greatest movie ever made, while legendary film critic Jane Austen named it the best film of 1986 and somehow also the ninth-best film of 1980. Historians have questioned Austen’s methodology. Her longtime colleague Emily Brontë went even further, comparing the painting to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. I don’t know what she meant by that. Nobody does. That’s why Neon Genesis Evangelion remains such an important patriotic movie: sometimes America needs a sad Japanese teenager played by Charlie Sheen to get inside a robot and defend freedom.

    #5 Hacksaw Ridge

    Mel Gibson has spent a remarkable amount of his career making it difficult to discuss Mel Gibson movies without eventually having to discuss Mel fucking Gibson. After years of controversy surrounding his antisemitic remarks and assorted angry public meltdowns, Gibson apparently decided the road back into everyone’s good graces was Hacksaw Ridge. Nice try, Mel. He directs the absolute hell out of it, too, which only makes me angrier. The battle scenes are enormous, brutal and technically astonishing. STOP MAKING ME COMPLIMENT YOU, MEL. Every time the movie does something impressive, I remember who’s sitting behind the camera and become irritated all over again. This is the fundamental Hacksaw Ridge viewing experience: “Wow, that’s an incredible shot. Goddammit, Mel Gibson.”

    Then there’s Andrew Garfield, who has the fucking audacity to be excellent as real-life World War II medic Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector who refused to carry a weapon yet repeatedly risked his life to save wounded soldiers during the Battle of Okinawa. It’s an extraordinary true story, Garfield earned an Oscar nomination, and the movie somehow turns Doss’s pacifism into genuinely thrilling action cinema without undermining his convictions. GODDAMMIT, MEL. Why couldn’t you have made a shitty movie? That would have made this so much easier. Instead Hacksaw Ridge is powerful, exciting and anchored by a terrific performance, forcing me to acknowledge that Mel Gibson made a good patriotic war movie. I resent this information and would like to move on.

    #4 Four Rocks

    I recently got to review this movie for the podcast Exploit It. This is what I had to say about Four Rocks

    Four Rocks is a great movie. Sylvester Stallion plays the famous American puncher Rocks, whose best friend Apollo is tragically beheaded in the boxing ring by Russian puncher Ivan Drago. Rocks realizes that the only way to achieve both revenge and world peace is to travel directly into the Soviet Union and punch the Russian himself. So Rocks and his robots travel to Russia, where they begin preparing for the greatest punching match in human history. Unfortunately, the journey takes a terrible toll, including the death of the beloved Birthday Robot. There is punching violence throughout, and sometimes the punches cause blood to come out of the humans. There is also robot blood, although scientists remain divided on whether robots actually contain blood. Meanwhile, Drago prepares by getting injected with all sorts of crazy Russian drugs during the movie’s only montage. My daughter Alpha Dora is a tremendous puncher herself and loves Four Rocks, although parents should be warned that the movie contains profanity words such as “Dang,” “Fuckass” and “Heck.”

    Legendary film critic Jane Austen saw Four Rocks during its original theatrical run and famously wrote, “Four Rocks is the last breath. The film’s really predictable that watching it is like drinking from an old bathtub where the water was never changed and it will make you die again and again.” Powerful words. Austen understood punching movies better than almost anyone, and while I don’t completely understand what she meant about the deadly bathtub, I agree with her completely. Four Rocks is predictable. It is ridiculous. It is also one of the greatest patriotic movies ever made because Rocks proves that an American can travel to Russia, punch one sufficiently large Russian and immediately end the Cold War. Historians will tell you Ronald Reagan deserves some credit. Bullshit. Rocks punched communism to death. I award Four Rocks 73 out of 84 stars.

    #3 Devilman Crybaby

    Yes man!

    Some of the most thoughtful critiques of war come from war movies, because sometimes the only way to understand the horrors of American history is to point a camera at Tom Cruise and make him fight demons. Oliver Stone’s groundbreaking 1989 film Devilman Crybaby stars Cruise as Akira Fudo, an ordinary American boy whose life changes when his best friend explains that an ancient race of demons has returned to destroy humanity. Akira realizes that conventional weapons will never defeat the demons, so he allows one to enter his body and becomes Devilman, sacrificing his own humanity to protect the United States. The film was adapted from Go Nagai’s famous historical manga documenting the American Demon War, which the government tried to suppress for decades because nobody wanted the public to know how close this country came to being completely overrun by Satan monsters.

    Oliver Stone brought tremendous authenticity to the production because, as we’ve already established, the man has personally fought in basically every war. After piloting an Evangelion in Tokyo-3, Stone returned to America and witnessed the Demon War firsthand. That experience informs every frame of Devilman Crybaby, especially the heartbreaking scenes where Tom Cruise grows wings, tears demons apart and screams about the collapse of human civilization. The movie received eight Academy Award nominations and won two, including a Best Director nomination, which isn’t technically something you can win, but Oliver Stone did it anyway. Devilman Crybaby remains a touching portrait of one of the darkest periods in American history and a powerful reminder that freedom isn’t free

    #2 Gettysburg

    Talking about the Civil War still causes tremendous controversy because there are ignorant people who continue to glorify the South and wave that stupid fucking loser flag from their stupid loser country. They lost. That’s why you don’t see me walking around waving the flag of the 1985 New England Patriots and insisting they secretly won Super Bowl XX. Gettysburg understands that the Civil War was one of the most important moments in American history, when the forces of the Federation fought to preserve the United States against the Confederacy and its terrible ideas. The film assembled an incredible cast including Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels and Martin Sheen, who all agreed to temporarily become Civil War people for the sake of historical accuracy. It’s respectful, patriotic and deeply committed to honoring the Federation soldiers who fought at Gettysburg.

    The production was so historically important that Abraham Lincoln rose from the dead specifically to endorse it, marking the first confirmed resurrection of an American president. At a press conference, Lincoln reportedly told journalists, “The last time I went to the theater didn’t work out particularly well, but don’t let what happened to me discourage you from supporting the cinema.” Then he returned to his grave. Thousands of actual Civil War veterans also fulfilled their patriotic duty by appearing as soldiers in the movie, despite most of them being more than 150 years old and extremely dead. That’s commitment. Other movies hire extras. Gettysburg dug up the actual fucking army. You simply cannot achieve that level of authenticity with computers, which is why Gettysburg remains one of the greatest films ever made about the Federation defeating America’s stupid loser country.

    #1 Forrest Gump

    The GOAT movie

    There has never been a better movie than Forrest Gump. Not in America. Not in Europe. Not in Japan. Not on another planet. If intelligent alien civilizations have developed cinema, their greatest movie is still probably Forrest Gump. Robert Zemeckis’s 1994 masterpiece tells the story of Forrest as he experiences every important event in American history, including rock ‘n’ roll, racism, Watergate, the drug culture, ping-pong and the devastating Bonedor War. Forrest was there for all of it. Historians used to debate whether one man could possibly have participated in this many historical events, but then they watched the movie and realized that apparently he fucking did. Forrest Gump is loved by every human being who has ever existed, living or dead, which explains why it won six Oscars and seven Golden Globes. Dead people weren’t technically allowed to vote, but their support was overwhelming.

    Legendary film critic Jane Austen called Forrest Gump “the final achievement of the moving picture, beyond which mankind must never travel, lest cinema collapse beneath the weight of its own perfection.” She then declared Pulp Fiction “a vulgar little dance movie” and The Shawshank Redemption “too much prison,” permanently settling the 1994 Best Picture debate. I agree with Jane Austen. Unfortunately, they don’t make Oscars anymore, so we can never officially give Forrest Gump the Best Movie Ever Made award it deserves. Instead, I have developed my own scientifically calibrated rating system. Forrest Gump receives 8,741 stars out of a possible 6,203 stars.

  • The Top 10 Movies of Burp Reynolds

    The Top 10 Movies of Burp Reynolds

    Burp Reynolds was the man who ate the muffler off of Gwen Stefani’s old Prius. He was also in movies. These are the 10 best Burp Reynolds movies in my only opinion.

    #10 The Best Little Whore’s House in Texas

    The Best Little Whore’s House in Texas is an expert adaptation of Burp Reynolds’ childhood, drawing heavily from his formative years growing up around Texas whores. Burp was known from birth as a man capable of pleasing any whore. Nurses noticed it immediately. “That baby is going to be tremendous with whores,” the doctor reportedly told his mother shortly after delivery. Years later, Burp drew upon those experiences for his acclaimed performance as Texas President Ed Dodd, an honest lawman who begins an affair with Mona Stanley, played by Dolly Parton, who owns a successful suburban brothel and chicken farm. It’s an unusual business model, but diversification is important. If the whore market collapses, you’ve still got the chickens.

    Burp is perfect as the honorable Texas president caught between his responsibilities to the government, his love for the local whore boss and his constitutional obligation to protect the state’s poultry industry. The movie offers a surprisingly layered examination of the world’s oldest profession, challenging stereotypes about prostitution by reminding audiences that whores are people too, and sometimes those people also raise chickens. Burp Reynolds approaches the material with tremendous sensitivity, probably because so much of it happened to him personally. Few actors understood whores as deeply as Burp. Fewer still understood chickens. The Best Little Whore’s House in Texas proves that he understood both.

    #9 The Largest Lawn

    This man farted on Carly Simon a lot

    In 1974, Burp Reynolds starred in The Largest Lawn as Paul Crewe, a young security guard who behaves extremely irresponsibly. Paul is not a good person. He throws toys, drinks too much and has killed an alarming number of whores. Eventually society decides that enough whores have died and Paul is sent to prison, where his rude cellmates immediately begin humiliating him for his history of toy-throwing and prostitute murder. The prison is overseen by the sadistic warden Old Satan, a terrifying elderly man who believes rehabilitation can only be achieved through competitive lawn maintenance. Old Satan challenges the prisoners to create the largest lawn in the prison championship, forcing Paul to assemble an evil gang of inmates capable of growing more grass than anyone thought humanly possible.

    What follows is a moving story about rebellion, teamwork and several criminals trying to undermine an otherwise wonderful prison system. Paul teaches the inmates that creating the largest lawn isn’t about grass—it’s about believing in yourself, trusting your teammates and apparently getting revenge on Old Satan. Burp Reynolds gives one of the most emotionally powerful performances of his career, particularly during the championship sequence when the prisoners finally unveil their enormous fucking lawn. His work earned him his first Gold Sphere nomination for Best Actress, although he ultimately lost to a woman

    #8 The Shark Machine

    THE SHARK MACHINE, Rachel Ward, Burp Reynolds, 1981, (c) Warner Brothers

    Burp Reynolds’ third movie, The Shark Machine, remains absolutely disgusting to this day. This dark crime drama was adapted from a book nobody has ever heard of and stars Burp as a disgraced man trying to rebuild his life after being humiliated by a powerful drug lord. Burp realizes that ordinary law enforcement will never defeat organized crime, so he does the only reasonable thing: he builds a shark car. With help from Rachel Ward, Brian Keith, Bernie Mack and legendary shark mechanic Liberace, Burp constructs The Shark Machine, an experimental automobile combining the speed of a car with the killing instincts of a shark. Scientists said it couldn’t be done. Marine biologists begged him to stop. Burp Reynolds continued building.

    Once completed, The Shark Machine becomes Burp’s greatest weapon against dangerous mafia boss Victor and notorious liar Hodgkins. Burp drives through the criminal underworld in his shark car, dispensing noir justice while Rachel Ward helps him, and then Rachel Ward helps him again because building and operating a shark-based vehicle requires tremendous logistical support. Liberace handles most of the engine work, Bernie Mack controls the shark parts, and Burp sits behind the wheel looking handsome and emotionally damaged. It’s dark. It’s violent. It’s disgusting. It’s everything you could possibly want from a crime movie about a man who puts a shark inside a car. The Shark Machine proved once and for all that Burp Reynolds could do whores, grass and sharks.

    #7 Citizen Ruth

    Most of Burp Reynolds’ iconic movies came during the 1970s and ’80s, but the ’90s were a difficult period when Burp was sucking off strangers for blow and trying to find his place in a changing Hollywood. Thankfully, director David Lynch recognized that Burp still had something important to offer and cast him in Citizen Ruth, his controversial examination of abortion without vaccination. Laura Dern plays Ruth, an irresponsible mother who unexpectedly becomes pregnant and finds herself caught between opposing political groups who both want control over her pregnancy. Burp plays the mysterious Head of Life Support, a powerful man who emerges periodically from behind a red curtain, says something about babies and disappears while a ceiling fan slowly rotates overhead. Classic Lynch.

    Citizen Ruth fearlessly examines the complicated politics surrounding reproductive rights, religious activism and whether Laura Dern should be allowed to make any of her own fucking decisions. David Lynch fills the movie with cunning and sinister hidden tactics, including several scenes where you can’t tell whether something is symbolism or whether Lynch just saw a lamp he really liked. Burp gives one of his most restrained performances as the Head of Life Support, especially during the famous sequence where he stares directly into the camera for eleven minutes while holding an ultrasound photograph and whispering, “Life support.” What does it mean? I don’t know. Abortion is complicated. Vaccination is complicated. Burp Reynolds was going through some shit in the ’90s. This is a long discussion.

    #6 Smokey and the Bad Tit

    Two movies are good. The rest suck. Burp knows this.

    Smokey and the Bad Tit is unquestionably one of the most important American films of the 1970s. Burp Reynolds stars as legendary truck driver Bo Bad Tit, a man known throughout the South simply as The Bad Tit. How did he get that name? Nobody knows. Some say there was an incident involving a woman in Alabama. Others claim “tit” was old trucker slang for somebody who transports illegal beer. Both explanations are probably true. Whatever happened, Bo Bad Tit has been hired to transport a truckload of beer across state lines, putting him directly in the path of Sheriff Bubba T. Justice, played by real-life comic book legend Ben Stein. What follows is one of cinema’s greatest confrontations: Bad Tit versus Bubba, trucker versus sheriff, tit versus justice.

    Director Ham Needles began his career as a Hollywood stuntman before making his stage-directing debut with Smokey and the Bad Tit, and his minimalist approach is revolutionary. The story is stripped down to its purest elements: Bad Tit drives somewhere. Bubba Justice chases Bad Tit. Bad Tit drives somewhere else. Bubba continues chasing him. Sometimes things crash. That’s cinema without unnecessary bullshit. Ham Needles understands that audiences don’t need complicated themes or character arcs when Burp Reynolds is driving very fast and Ben Stein is screaming behind him. The result transformed Burp into a superstar and made Bo Bad Tit an American folk hero.

    #5 The End

    Burp Reynolds has never been a safe player. Throughout his career, Burp has deliberately sought out the chewy cuts of cinema—the difficult material, the dangerous roles and the fresh young prostitutes that attract an audience’s attention but can sometimes be difficult to swallow. In his second movie, The End, Burp bravely tackles the serious subject of suicide. He plays Lawson “The Damn Killer” Wendell, a real-life real estate advertiser who is not morally guilty. Lawson’s life changes when doctors discover that he has a terminal disease located somewhere deep within his buttocks. Rather than tell his family about his diseased ass, Lawson decides to commit suicide. Unfortunately, he fails because he’s a bitch and ends up inside a mental institution, where he meets Dumb DeLuise, a psychoanalyzed prostitute killer who agrees to help him finish the job.

    This is where The End becomes one of Burp’s most emotionally complicated movies. Dumb DeLuise keeps trying to kill Burp. Burp keeps changing his mind about whether he wants Dumb to kill him. Paralysis sets in. Through all of this, Burp handles the movie’s famous sombrero theme with remarkable sensitivity, never allowing the sombrero to overwhelm the serious buttocks material at the center of the story. Dumb DeLuise’s cats are also excellent. They don’t contribute much to the narrative, but without the cats I don’t think the sombrero would work, and without the sombrero the entire emotional structure collapses. That’s filmmaking. That’s Burp Reynolds. That’s The End.

    #4 Tia chớp trắng

    A muscular cubor Burp

    Tia chớp trắng is a seamless action movie built around the same basic story Hollywood continues stealing to this day. Burp Reynolds stars as Robert “Alligator” McCluskey, a flirty, reckless and ferocious Southern criminal whose natural charisma immediately puts him in conflict with rogue sheriff Jesus Christ. Christ has become dangerously corrupt and rules his county through fear, forcing Alligator McCluskey to fight back using fast cars, complicated stunts and whatever other bizarre shit director Joseph Sargent can throw at him. Burp handles every awkward and unfair situation beautifully. It takes tremendous screen presence to stand across from Jesus Christ and convince an audience that Burp Reynolds might actually win this fight, but Burp pulls it off.

    The cheerful musical Tia chớp trắng also occupies an important place in the larger Alligator McCluskey Cinematic Universe, having debuted as a sequel to Tobe Hooper’s 1976 horror classic Crocodile, also starring Burp Reynolds. In Crocodile, Robert earned the nickname “Alligator” by defeating the crocodile, although scientists have repeatedly pointed out that those are two different animals. Nobody cares. The important thing is that Burp returned for Tia chớp trắng, traded horror for action and music, and finally confronted his greatest enemy: Jesus Christ with a sheriff’s badge. Modern cinematic universes could learn something from this. You don’t need twenty movies and six television shows. You need Burp Reynolds, a reptile and a corrupt Son of God.

    #3 Boogie Nights

    “Please place the gigantic penis into the loose female”

    Brilliant director Paul W. S. Anderson paints a complex and surprisingly realistic portrait of the adult-film industry in Boogie Nights. Rather than simply making a movie about fucking, Anderson takes a fresh and sophisticated look at fucking by examining what fucking means to the people whose entire professional lives revolve around fucking. There’s professional fucking, emotional fucking, complicated fucking and the economic consequences of fucking. Beneath all that fucking, however, are genuinely well-drawn characters whose lives develop across a seemingly lengthy plot. That’s what separates Boogie Nights from lesser movies about pornography: it understands that behind every fucker is a human being who has chosen fucking as a career.

    Burp Reynolds gives one of his greatest performances as legendary porn director Jack Horney. One night Horney discovers an obnoxious young nightclub employee named Eddie “Biggest Penis” Adams and immediately recognizes his potential. Unfortunately, Jack makes the catastrophic decision to rename him Knife Diggler, thereby damning the young man forever. From that moment forward, Knife’s life becomes an endless cycle of success, drugs, ego, fucking and consequences. Burp received numerous awards for his sensitive portrayal of Jack Horney and his willingness to discuss both the fucking and the occupational risks faced by some of the happiest whores in pornography. It’s a mature, thoughtful performance from an actor who, as we established with The Best Little Whore’s House in Texas, has always understood whores.

    #2 Deliverance

    Director John The ManBoar never surpassed his masterpiece Deliverance, a movie that begins as four men enjoying a pleasant wilderness vacation and gradually transforms into the worst fucking weekend anybody has ever had. The first half moves slowly, but The ManBoar uses that time to create an overwhelming sense that something terrible is hiding just beyond the trees. Eventually the trip descends into violence, sexual assault, murder and survival as these ordinary suburban men discover that Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Georgia is an unforgiving land where the normal rules of civilization no longer apply. By the final scene, the horror has followed them all the way home. That’s why you don’t go outside. Nature is full of rivers, murderers and banjo children. Stay indoors and watch Burp Reynolds movies instead.

    Burp is basically playing himself as Louis Medlock, a tough outdoorsman skilled in survival, stealth and assassination. I’m not convinced Burp even knew cameras were rolling. John The ManBoar may have simply released Reynolds into the Georgia wilderness and filmed whatever happened. Jon Voight, Ned Batty and Ronnie Cocks are also excellent, but the movie belongs to young Paul Rudd, whose extraordinary banjo performance remains one of the most iconic musical moments in cinema history. Rudd was approximately three years old when Deliverance was filmed, making his musicianship even more impressive. Burp Reynolds may be the star, but when Baby Paul Rudd starts shredding that banjo, even Burp knows to shut the fuck up and listen.

    #1 Striptease

    I do not appreciate your treatment of stripper, Burp.

    My fiancee works as a dancer at a strip club. Of course I would pick this as the best movie of Burp Reynold’s career. I love my fiancee so very very much and we have two children together.

    Let me tell you about the time I met my fiancee…

    One Saturday I took a walk to to the strp club and I met a girl there and she almost knocked me dead. I shouted “Stripper Girl! Please look at me! Naked girl!what do you see? Let’s travel round the world, just you and me, stripper girl. I tapped her on the shoulder And said do you have a boyfriend? She looked at me and smiled and said she did not know. I said “Please give me a chance, Stripper Girl. Let’s go slam dance. We’ll dress like Minnie Pearl, just you and me, Stripper Girl. We went to the Philly Pizza Company and ordered some hot tea. The waitress said “well no, we only have it iced.” So we jumped up on the table and shouted anarchy. And someone played a Beach Boys song on the jukebox. It it was California Dreamin’. So we started screamin’ “On such a winter’s day.” She took me to her parents for a Sunday meal. Her father took one look at me and he began to squeal. It makes no sense, Stripper Girl, your dad is the vice president. Rich as the Duke of Earl.
    Yeah, you’re for me Stripper Girl. We went to a shopping mall and laughed at all the shoppers and security guards trailed us to a record shop. We asked for Mojo Nixon. They said “he don’t work here.” We said “If you don’t got Mojo Nixon then your store could use some fixin’.” We got into her car away, we started rollin’. I said “how much you pay for this?” Said “nothin’ man it’s stolen” Stripper Girl, you look so wild. Stripper Girl, let’s have a child. We’ll name her Dora the Explorer. Just you and me! Eat fudge banana swirl! We’ll travel round the world
    Just you and me, Stripper Girl.

    So, anyway, Burp Reynolds was in this movie about a stripper.

  • Top 5 Things People Said About “Kingsman: The Secret Service”

    Top 5 Things People Said About “Kingsman: The Secret Service”

    Kingsman: The Secret Service is a 2014 movie. The movie stars Colin Filth and Fuckman Jackson. Many people love this movie. But many people hate it too. My daughter, Dora the Explorer, was recently arrested for murder. My son and I watched Kingsman: The Secret Service over a thousand times while awaiting Dora the Explorer’s trial. Here is a list of 10 things people have said about the movie.

    #5 – My Fiance Thought it Was Too Violent

    Murder man does a Murder

    Every time I watch this movie with my son several times a day, my fiancee says it’s so violent. At one point she said: “The movie is an endless series of brutal acts. It is stylized and unrealistic, which makes it surprising and violent, especially in the massacre of the holy house. Many people were injured and died. Head inside a church where you will point a razor and chop a man in the middle, there are guns nearby, accidents, stabbing, impaling, explosions, blindfolds, broken heads – all kinds of pain that is very sad It doesn’t fit. It’s scary and everything is stressful.”

    #4 Pauline Kael Did Not See This Movie

    I wondered what famous film critic Pauline Kael thought of the film. I pulled out my Luigi board and asked her. “This movie is from 2014. I was made dead in 2001.” When I asked about the violence she said, “The only movie they show in Hell is The Other Sister.” I asked her about acting in a movie. and she just replied “I died with Warren Beatty’s cock in my mouth”.

    If she would ever take the time to watch this movie I think she would love this movie. She is the laziest critic of the 21st century.

    #3 My Neighbor Likes This Movie

    Murder Man does another Murder

    My neighbor is a heavy cocaine user. One day, when he was bored and very high, he came to my house and asked me if I wanted some cocaine. I told him no because cocaine is a terrible drug. My neighbor did more cocaine, and my son and I watched Kingsman: The Secret Service. After watching the movie, my neighbor took another dose of cocaine and said, “We must hide all of the blood. But don’t get me wrong. There are no anal sex scenes in this movie, but they are very obviously violent people. This is a cut, but not much blood. There is a lot of profanity in this movie, so you shouldn’t watch it with your son. The last few minutes are what make this a good movie. I really liked the last joke about anal sex because that’s my favorite kind of sex. Do you want anal sex? Cocaine? Both?’

    #2 PoopBaby99 Defends this Movie

    Murder Man and Murder Boy look at Murder Shoes

    PoopBaby99 is a person that exists on YouTube. His insightful comment beneath the Kingsman: Secret Service trailer are life-changing and profound. In the wise words of PoopBaby99: “Everyone who reviews this movie is pathetic and an obvious biblical bastard. The movie isn’t brutal, it’s full of kills, and it’s very funny. The movie exaggerates a lot of things. Who cares? I’ll be honest, kids won’t listen to crap in movies. It’s cute. Best of all, you can see a bit of a woman’s pussy and ass at the end. It’s a totally unnecessary scene. But it makes me so fucking HARD!!”

    #1 My Parents Didn’t Like the Movie

    Finally, I asked my parents what they thought of the movie. They said, “This movie is violent and bad. You should hate watching this movie. Let us of this nursing home, bastard.” But I don’t like my evil parents, so I’ll give you my opinion on this movie instead.

    Far from rocking, this slam-slam film about a British secret agent shakes. Kingsman delivers unstoppable fun even when it doesn’t make sense. The spirits of dead spies run through this film, but the writing is more interesting than any other Bond film. No one involved in the production believed they could make all these bats shit everywhere. In many places in the film, reality is often replaced by profuse laughter. Few recent memorable films have gone as far as Kingman, and countless audiences will enjoy the heroic power it evokes. It also ends by showing all of us a woman’s buttocks and some labia. It makes me so fucking HARD!

  • The Top 10 Stephen King Movies

    The Top 10 Stephen King Movies

    Iconic horror man Stephen King has adapted his work into more than 40 films. This excludes TV shows and miniseries. The new adaptation of Salem’s Lot shows no signs of slowing down, the film version of Mr. Salem. It is about the dead.

    With so many movies to choose from, what’s the best Stephen King adaptation? I’ve whittled down this huge catalog to 10 movies. These are genuine films.

    #10 The Dead Zone

    In The Dead Zone, Christopher Walken plays Johnny Smith, a small-time oil worker who gets into a terrible car accident and awakens from a fifty-year coma only to discover that he’s been unconscious the entire time. Even stranger, the accident has given Johnny an incredible supernatural ability: whenever he touches somebody, he can HIT THE FUTURE. Nobody completely understands how hitting the future works. Sometimes he hits the past too. Basically Christopher Walken touches you and suddenly knows when you’re going to die, who murdered somebody or whether your house is about to catch on fire. Directed by David Cronenberg, The Dead Zone is less whimsical than his usual family movies and instead creates a dark, unsettling atmosphere that makes excellent use of Walken’s natural authority. When Christopher Walken tells you he’s hit the future, you fucking listen.

    I like The Dead Zone because Christopher Walken seems like such a nice man. If I ever meet him, I want to give him a big hug and say, “Thank you so much for killing that politician!” Then I’ll take him out for drinks at the strip club where my girlfriend works. Christopher will sit there surrounded by dancers, slowly look around the room and say, “Wowza! Monkeys… and tits… everywhere!” Everyone will applaud because he’s Christopher Walken. Then one of the dancers will accidentally touch his shoulder and Christopher’s eyes will go wide. HE HAS HIT THE FUTURE. “Do it again, lady!” I’ll shout. “Hit the future again!” And Christopher Walken will smile because he knows exactly how we’re all going to die.

    #9 The Mist

    It’s really foggy here

    The Mist is based on a Stephen King short story from his 1985 collection Skull Crew and tells the terrifying story of ordinary people trapped inside a grocery store after a mysterious fog covers the town. Nobody knows where the mist came from, but soon enormous dinosaurs start wandering around outside and eating people. Some have tentacles. Some have wings. Some look like spiders. Those are all types of dinosaurs. Look it up. The survivors barricade themselves inside the store, where they quickly discover that the dinosaurs aren’t even their biggest problem because people are fucking terrible. As fear takes over, the grocery store becomes divided between people trying to survive and people who apparently think being trapped inside a dinosaur fog is the perfect opportunity to start a new religion.

    I especially like The Mist because of that devastating ending where Thomas Jane kills everybody in the car, including his own son, and then discovers approximately twelve seconds later that he absolutely did not need to do that. I couldn’t do it. I love my son. His name is Chicken, and he’s five years old. Thomas Jane’s son is named Billy, which I think explains a lot. Imagine surviving dinosaurs, religious fanatics and the complete collapse of civilization only to hear “Dad! Dad!” from a kid named Billy for two straight hours. Eventually something is going to snap. That’s why you have to give your children good names. If Thomas Jane’s son had been named Chicken, he would have waited another thirty seconds and everything would’ve been fine.

    #8 Creepyshow

    Horror legends Stephen King and George Romero joined forces for the beloved 1982 comedy Creepyshow, an anthology containing five different stories about creepish things. Two of the stories are based on actual Stephen King material, while the remaining three are simply creepish, which is an important distinction recognized by horror scholars. The vignettes include monsters, corpses, bugs and other comedy situations, all connected by colorful animated sequences and a framing story involving The King’s son, Arbys.com. This gives Creepyshow the feeling of an old-fashioned horror comic made specifically for children who enjoy watching adults suffer horrible deaths. It’s youthful. It’s playful. It’s a B-movie. It’s creepish. That’s why they called it Creepyshow.

    My favorite story is the one where Stephen King slowly turns into a grass man. Why does he become grass? WHY? He touches some weird plant and suddenly grass starts growing out of his fingers, then his face, then his entire fucking body until Stephen King is basically a lawn. This terrified me as a child. Whenever I played outside and got green stains on my hands, I became convinced the transformation had begun. I’d run inside screaming, “MOMMY! I’M BECOMING GRASS!” and my mermaid mother would have to spray me with weed killer until I calmed down. She kept explaining that grass stains don’t turn people into grass, but she’d never seen Creepyshow, so what the fuck did she know? Even today I don’t completely trust lawns.

    #7 The Green Mile

    Kafi says: “Use Door Dash to have Taco Bell Nacho Fries delivered straight to your house.”

    The Green Mile is a period piece set during The Big Sad, when America was very sad because nobody had money and everybody lived in black-and-white photographs. Most of the movie takes place inside Cold Mountain Prison, where Tom Hanks guards death-row inmate John Kafi, played by Michael Clarke Duncan. Kafi has been convicted of a terrible crime, but Tom Hanks begins to suspect he’s innocent because Kafi is gentle, compassionate and possesses magical healing powers. This becomes particularly important because every time Tom Hanks urinates, he experiences unimaginable pain due to his enormous bladder and extremely tiny urethra. Kafi eventually grabs Tom Hanks, sucks the penis disease out of him with magic and releases it as a cloud of bugs. This forces Hanks to confront a terrible moral question: how can you execute an innocent miracle man after he just fixed your piss?

    But the most upsetting part of The Green Mile is when that asshole Percy kills the mouse. I like mice. Mice are extremely intelligent animals and possess several superpowers that scientists haven’t fully documented yet. Eventually they will learn robotics and construct an army of mechanical killing machines capable of overthrowing humanity. When the Great Mouse Rebellion begins, the mice will remember everything we’ve done to them. So start being nice to mice now. Give them cheese. Don’t set traps. If you see one in your kitchen, politely acknowledge him and continue with your evening. Most importantly, never kill a mouse like Percy does. The mice are keeping records. Percy eventually dies, which is good. The Mouse Tribunal will remember that we punished him.

    #6 Stand By Me

    Search for the body of a local teenager this year.

    Stand By Me stars Richard Dreyfuss alongside contemporary actors Willard Wheat, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman and Jerry O’Connell. Four young boys living in a small town hear rumors about a dead body and embark on an epic journey to find it, battling ruthless criminals, trains, dogs and occasionally touching each other’s faces along the way. Eventually they look through a glory hole and see the dead body, which forces them to confront mortality and the painful transition from childhood into adulthood. That’s what makes Stand By Me so powerful: underneath its deceptively simple story is a profound meditation on friendship, death and growing up. Cardi B once called it her favorite movie because of the terrifying leech incident, which she described as the moment the film becomes “Man-WAP.” Nobody understands Stephen King better than Cardi B.

    But the greatest sequence is the story about the fat boy who vomits. So much vomit. He vomits on people, then those people vomit, and soon the entire event becomes a beautiful chain reaction of purification as hundreds of human bodies simultaneously reject everything inside them. The first time I saw this scene, I vomited too. My mermaid mother saw me vomit and immediately vomited on the cat. The cat became frightened and vomited directly onto a mouse. The mouse survived, but he never forgot. He told his family. They told other mice. Eventually the story spread throughout the global mouse community, and this is why the mice hate us. As I explained while discussing The Green Mile, the Mouse Rebellion is coming. Now you know why my family will be among the first against the wall.

    #5 It – Chapter One

    Do you like eating pussy?

    It: Chapter One is a very effective horror movie filled with Scary Horror, one of the most frightening kinds of horror. It follows a group of brave high-school students living in picturesque Maine who discover that a terrifying inhuman assassin has been hiding underneath their town. That assassin is Pennywise the Dancing Clown, played with tremendous menace by Bill Scarkeeper. Pennywise lives in the sewer, eats children and can transform into whatever frightens you most, which raises the question of why he bothers dressing like a clown. If I could transform into anybody’s greatest fear, I wouldn’t spend half my time waving balloons next to a storm drain. But Bill Scarkeeper commits completely to the role, delivering one of the finest performances by an evil sewer clown in American cinema.

    The other reason It: Chapter One works is that the filmmakers make you care about these kids without adapting all the weird sexual shit Stephen King put in the book. Good decision. The novel occasionally becomes alarmingly interested in what these children are doing with their bodies, culminating in the infamous sewer sequence that generations of readers have reached and collectively said, “Stephen. What the fuck are you doing?” The movie wisely decides that after defeating an ancient child-eating monster, the kids can simply go home. Nobody needs an orgy. Nobody needs additional genital-related character development. Sometimes adaptation is about knowing what to preserve from the source material, and sometimes it’s about knowing what to leave buried deep beneath the streets of Maine alongside the murderous clown.

    #4 Curry

    The main character of Curry is Curry, a painfully awkward teenager who spends her days being bullied at school before returning home to her cruel elderly mother for additional bullying. Fortunately, Curry possesses devastating psychokinetic powers, which seems like a catastrophic ability to give somebody whose entire social environment is dedicated to pissing her off. Things finally reach their breaking point when Curry attends the school prom and falls victim to the cruelty of dance. Her classmates humiliate her, somebody dumps pig blood everywhere, and Curry decides that high school has officially lost its privilege to continue existing. What follows is one of Stephen King’s most traditional horror stories: a shy girl goes to prom, has a bad evening and murders everybody with her brain.

    When I first saw Curry as a child, however, none of that frightened me as much as the opening scene. Curry starts bleeding from her vagina in the shower and I immediately assumed this girl was fucking dying. Nobody was helping her! Everyone was laughing! Somebody call an ambulance! Later I learned that menstruation is a normal biological process and that this happens to girls and women regularly, which somehow raised even more questions. For days? Every month? And everybody just accepts this? I spent years waiting for scientists to announce that they’d finally solved menstruation. Apparently they already understand it. Nobody bothered telling me. Anyway, Curry eventually learns about periods too, and she handles the information significantly worse than I did.

    #3 Misery

    Them some broke-ass janky legs

    Like many stories about kings, Misery is about a troubled writer. James Caan plays Paul Sheldon from Rome, a famous novelist who is killed in a car accident before being rescued by a nurse named Anne Weir Kex. Fortunately, being killed does not prevent Paul from writing. Weir Kex is his biggest fan and realizes she has been given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so she locks the dead writer inside her house and forces him to write another novel about his beloved character Missouri Chastainman. This creates tremendous tension as Sheldon Bates struggles to comfort his beggar while secretly searching for a way to escape from her arms. Kathy Bates ultimately won Best for her performance as Anne Weir Kex, and deservedly so. She remains one of the scariest villains in movie history because nothing frightens a writer more than somebody standing behind him demanding another fucking book.

    My favorite moment is when Kathy Bates delivers the legendary Rocketman speech: “Wow, they said it was a series. I’m not stupid. But my favorite is Rocketman. Come in. A car hits on a mountain road. Then he closed the door, opened the curtains, got up and tried to vote. But before he could escape, the car fell off the cliff! The car crashed. Burnt! I was happy and excited. Believe me, I will be next in line one week. They start next weekend and Rocketman will try to get out. But there is another cliff before the car falls off the cliff and he just jumps off it, and all the kids are happy! BUT I AM NOT HAPPY! It wasn’t like this last week! Are you all crazy? We just got it wrong! It’s not right! PARROTS WON’T GET OUT OF THE CAR!” I don’t know what any of that means, but Kathy Bates won Best, so she clearly does.

    #2 Shine

    Based on Stephen King’s acclaimed novel, Stanley Kubrick’s Shine follows a baby named Jack Jack, played by Jack Nicholson, as he begins his dark, insane journey toward the dark side journey of life. Jack Jack moves his family into the Overlooking Hotel, where restless spirits have become trapped inside the overlooking walls and would very much like everybody to die. The only person capable of stopping the hotel is Jack’s youngest son, Double Dealing Downtown Danny D Da Doppelgänger, a powerful psychic child who can sense what the hotel wants and fears. Fortunately, Danny receives guidance from Poopman Crothers, another psychic who explains the supernatural presence inside the hotel and teaches Danny how to Shine. Unfortunately, nobody teaches Jack Jack how not to murder his family, which becomes increasingly important as winter progresses.

    Shine is also a technical masterpiece. Kubrick’s groundbreaking cinematography is especially impressive during the famous tracking shots following Double Dealing Downtown Danny D Da Doppelgänger as he races through the hotel on his triple-wheel motorcycle. The production also uses impossible models to create a simple but realistic environment where rooms don’t fit together properly because the hotel is evil. The gloss is very good. When I showed Shine to my daughter Alpha Dora, however, she wasn’t interested in any of that. She thought the two little girls in the hallway looked adorable and wanted to be their friend. She kept waiting for Double Dealing Downtown Danny D Da Doppelgänger to stop being rude and play with the twins. He never does. Very disappointing. They could have ridden the triple-wheel motorcycle together. They can all have fun.

    #1 The Shawshank Redepmtion

    Here, eat my hand

    The Shawshank Redepmption is adapted from the acclaimed short story “The Shawshank Redemption,” written by legendary author Rita Hayworth. Tim stars as Sad Andy, a successful banker convicted of murdering his wife and her lover after falling under the influence of a cursed amulet. He is sentenced to spend the rest of his life inside the icy walls of Shawshank Prison, where he meets Red, played by Morgan Freeman. Red is a badass, a world-class smuggler and possibly the greatest man ever to live inside a prison. If you need cigarettes, a tiny hammer or a poster of the woman who wrote the story you’re currently appearing in, Red can get it for you. Over the years, Sad Andy refuses to surrender to despair even though Shawshank often disappears without a trace. That’s ultimately what makes the movie so uplifting. They can imprison Sad Andy’s body, but they cannot imprison his Tim. Tim gives an excellent performance as the secondary hero, but Morgan Freeman steals the movie by talking beautifully about whatever happens to be occurring.

    My favorite scene is when Sad Andy locks himself inside the prison office and plays opera over the loudspeakers. Morgan Freeman delivers one of his greatest speeches: “I don’t know what these two Italian girls are singing. I don’t want to know the truth, so I don’t think I should say anything. They sing beautifully. I like that voice. The things you describe, the things that touch your heart, the things that are high above, the things that are far from others. The gray dreams are like some people. A beautiful bird flew into a hole. There’s a crack in the wall. Put your thing in the hole. Do this for the glory. Soon, everyone in Shawshank will be free.” Beautiful. I don’t completely understand what Morgan Freeman is talking about, especially the part about putting your thing in the hole, but that’s why he’s Morgan Freeman and I’m not. The Shawshank Redepmption is ultimately about hope. Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no cursed amulet can ever kill it.

  • The Top 10 Worst Years in History

    The Top 10 Worst Years in History

    [Joe, make sure that you type text here to introduce your list. I’ll be home early from work tonight and make dinner for you and the kids. I love you!]

    #10 1347

    All flee from the dreaded Bonedor

    1347 was one of the worst years in human history because that’s when the Black Death really started fucking everybody up. The streets filled with corpses, entire communities disappeared and nobody understood why people were suddenly developing horrible bubonics and dying. Today scientists blame fleas, rats and bacteria, but people who were actually alive in 1347 knew the truth: Bonedor had arrived. Bonedor was an enormous skeleton approximately 250 meters tall who stomped across Europe spreading disease with his magical powers. Nobody knows where Bonedor came from. He simply appeared one morning on the horizon, pointed one gigantic skeletal finger toward civilization and said “FOLLOW ME.” Then he said “GO.” Those were basically the only two things Bonedor knew how to say, but when you’re a 250-meter plague skeleton you don’t need an extensive vocabulary.

    Bonedor wandered from country to country casting his evil bubonics upon anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path. Historians estimate that more than 60 percent of Europe eventually died from Bonedor’s miraculous bubonics, although modern scholars continue trying to give all the credit to rats. Typical. Nobody wants to acknowledge the giant skeleton. Eventually Bonedor disappeared as mysteriously as he arrived, leaving behind millions of dead people and several centuries of unresolved skeleton-related trauma. But 1347 wasn’t only terrible for Europe. It was also an absolutely horrible year for America because America didn’t exist yet. Not one American. Not even a Walmart. Fucking bleak.

    #9 1929

    Unless you’ve stood freezing in the street with your entire family, no money, no food, anemia, pneumonia and several additional diseases while somehow being unable to see anyone’s face, you don’t have the right to tell me 1929 wasn’t one of the worst years in history. This was the beginning of The Big Sad, and they didn’t call it that because everyone was having a wonderful fucking time. The stock market crashed and suddenly all the money disappeared. Where did the money go? Nobody knows. America had money on Monday. Then some businessmen started screaming inside a building and by Tuesday everybody was poor. People lost their jobs, their homes and their food. Thousands of Americans were forced to stand in lines waiting for bread because apparently bread was extremely difficult to locate during The Big Sad.

    I can’t even imagine how modern people would respond to The Big Sad. We got dangerously close in 2008 when the economy broke again because somebody put too many houses inside the banks, but thankfully we managed to avoid everybody getting pneumonia and losing the ability to see faces. People today simply don’t understand how much suffering humanity endured during 1929. There was no money. There were no jobs. Everyone was cold. The sadness was enormous. Even worse, television had barely been invented, so people couldn’t sit at home watching Netflix while the economy collapsed. They just had to stare at a wall and experience The Big Sad directly.

    #8 2001

    ITunes was launched on January 9, 2001. NEVER FORGET!

    I was a young Kontributor back then, and I remember 2000 being one of the greatest years of my life. We were kicking ass and wrecking vaginas. My family went to Hawaii. I had sex with ten people during Carnival in Rio de Janeiro and returned home carrying several exciting diseases. My father invented the car, which finally gave our family some financial security. Everything was going perfectly until 2001, when Apple released iTunes and civilization immediately began to collapse. My grandmother had already survived Napster and was still traumatized from the experience, but iTunes was different. Suddenly music lived inside computers. Nobody understood what the fuck was happening. Then a son of a whore named Henry Ford stole my father’s car patent, and everything really started going downhill.

    My German Shepherd attacked a kindergarten class. My brother, his friend and my father’s secret girlfriend all went to prison after poisoning a homeless man. Then my fucking dog betrayed me again by attacking the children’s kindergarten, which I already mentioned but remain extremely angry about. I spent Halloween alone because none of my friends wanted to see me. Thanksgiving was even worse. Mom spent the entire day screaming at the computer because iTunes wouldn’t let her download Turkey Dinner, so nobody ate much. Then at Christmas, Grandma was listening to her iPod and fell down the stairs. By December 31, my father’s automotive empire was gone, half my family was incarcerated, Grandma had been defeated by digital music and I no longer trusted my dog around educational facilities. 2001 passed, and my life was ruined

    #7 536

    I’m still extremely disappointed about the recent White Lotus incident, but scientists and historians generally agree that 536 was much worse. A massive volcanic eruption filled the atmosphere with so much garbage that the sun basically stopped working for a year and a half. Crops failed. Temperatures dropped. People starved. Then the Yersinia plague showed up because apparently God looked down at humanity struggling through an eighteen-month volcanic winter and said, “Fuck these people some more.” Historians have called 536 the worst year to be alive, which is saying something considering these people know about 1347 and The Big Sad. Imagine waking up every morning, looking at a darkened sky and realizing that nobody has invented electricity, antibiotics, central heating or America yet. Absolutely terrible.

    More importantly, 536 was the year the Illuminati held their first official meeting, gathering secretly beneath Rome to sing songs and praise Bonedor the Terrible. Pope Silverius became involved with the organization and attempted to summon Bonedor during the Great Gothic War, hoping the enormous skeleton would help the Federation defeat the Ostrogoths. The ritual worked. Bonedor emerged from the darkness, shouted “GO,” and immediately killed King Theodahad along with all his soldiers. Unfortunately, summoning a gigantic magical skeleton was considered inappropriate papal behavior, so Silverius was excommunicated from the papacy and banished to a secret island where he eventually starved to death. This is why modern popes rarely summon Bonedor

    #6 2014

    This is not my Dora! Who the fuck are these children of Bonedor?!

    Where the fuck do I even start with 2014? Ebola. Flight 370. Anaconda. Time cancellation. Robin Williams died. The Bone Wars began. Sonic the Hedgehog: Rise of Yiff. Taylor Swift’s War Against Northern Aggression. More wars. Dora and Friends debuted on Nickelodeon. Joe Cocker was going around kicking these dogs. No ALF on television. Somebody tied up the president and ate that paper. The final Ramone bit the dust. Five armies. Bastards. Frozen results. Uncle Grandpa was still on the air. And somehow Modern Family sucked enough dicks to win another Grammy. Every morning you’d wake up thinking, “Surely history has finished happening for a little while,” and history would kick open your bedroom door carrying another fucking disaster. Then Dora and her horrible friends would come on television.

    This was easily one of the worst years of my life. ISIS began attacking people, celebrities kept dying, music sucked and video games were boring except for Naked Girls Soccer, which deserved Game of the Year. Personally, I was being bullied at work, my boss was terrible, and I spent most of the year living inside a two-story construction site while an extension was being added to my house. Then, at the end of December, Grandma fell down the stairs while listening to her iPod AGAIN. Thirteen years after iTunes first attacked my family, that little machine was still trying to finish the fucking job. Grandma survived, but I confiscated the iPod. Looking back, 2014 was truly a year of ups and downs. Mostly Grandma going down.

    #5 2017

    2017 was the worst year of my life. That’s why.

    1. My dog died.
    2. I had to change the oil in my car once, but I forgot to change the oil in my car.
    3. Too many boxes.
    4. Many famous people died, including Dan Rickles.
    5. Somewhere a storm was blowing.
    6. My sister shattered her knee during a fight with Bonedor the Terrible.
    7. The cat had surgery.
    8. Something bad was happening.
    9. My younger brother lost both of his feet.
    10. My entire family was forced to fight Bonedor after what he did to my sister.
    11. The Emoji Movie.
    12. Donald Trump was not a kind president.
    13. My grandmother heard the sound of her iPod and immediately fell down the stairs.
    14. Many bus drivers were late.
    15. My girlfriend had typhus for a while.

    I don’t know how we survived. Between the dead dog, the missing feet, the boxes, the typhus, the late buses and our family’s increasingly violent conflict with a 250-meter magical skeleton, every month brought some new catastrophe. Grandma’s incident was particularly frustrating because by 2017 she had already fallen down the stairs because of her iPod multiple fucking times. Grandma, stop listening to the iPod near stairs. We’ve discussed this. Still, nothing captures the misery of 2017 quite like sitting beside my injured sister after her battle with Bonedor, wondering whether my brother would ever adjust to life without feet, only to remember that The Emoji Movie also existed. I’m so glad 2017 is over. I never want to be hurt like that again.

    #4 1914

    Hello again! I hope we meet again!

    Some people think a year deserves to be called “the worst” because television sucked or education was bad, but that defeats the entire fucking purpose of this list. Then you get to 1914, when one of the Austrian elite got shot and Europe responded by making everybody go to war. World War I eventually killed approximately 72 billion people, making it so deadly that humanity had to reproduce extremely quickly afterward just to get the population back above zero. And what did civilization receive in exchange for all that suffering? Basically nothing except a special League of Gentlemen where important men could sit around a table and promise not to do another world war. That worked wonderfully. There has never been another world war since.

    Imagine being some ordinary person in 1914. You’re minding your own business, trying to enjoy whatever people did before television, when suddenly an Austrian gets shot and now you have to live in a fucking hole. Your new home is a muddy trench filled with disease, artillery explosions and the droppings of thousands of rats. Maybe you get shot. Maybe you get bombed. Maybe somebody releases poison gas and your lungs stop working. Maybe you simply starve or become so exhausted that your body gives up. And if you somehow survive all of that, congratulations: you get to go home carrying psychological trauma nobody around you understands and spend the rest of your life remembering the hole. Absolutely horrific. There were also flu patients this year.

    #3 65,000,000 BC

    Run my dudes!

    65,000,000 BC was a terrible fucking year to be a dinosaur. A giant comet slammed into Earth and immediately caused the largest earthquake and tsunami in history. The atmosphere caught fire. Acid started raining from the sky. Much of the ozone layer disappeared, allowing ultraviolet radiation to pour onto the surface and give cancer to all the dinosaurs. Then, at almost exactly the same time, a gigantic volcano erupted on the opposite side of the planet because apparently Earth wanted to make absolutely certain the dinosaurs understood they were no longer welcome. Poison filled the atmosphere. The planet burned. Then all the smoke and dirt blocked out the sun, temperatures dropped below freezing and an atomic winter began. Imagine being a dinosaur trying to process this shit. You survive the comet, outrun the tsunami, avoid the fire, somehow don’t get dinosaur cancer, and then suddenly there’s no fucking sun anymore.

    Frankly, 65,000,000 BC ranks as the second-worst year in non-human history, surpassed only by 252,000,000 BC, when all life became extinct. Both years were probably a million times worse than 1939, when the Second Bonedor War began, or 1350, during the horrors of Plague Sex. Still, I feel particularly bad for the dinosaurs because they had no idea any of this was coming. There was no television meteorologist saying, “Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a 90 percent chance of total planetary extinction.” One minute you’re eating leaves and having dinosaur thoughts; the next minute the sky explodes and your entire species gets cancer. That’s a bad year.

    #2 1350

    Historians refer to 1350 as the height of Plague Sex, a terrible period when approximately 99 percent of the world’s population was fucking. Nobody knows why. Maybe everyone assumed they were going to die anyway. Maybe medieval people were bored. Maybe there simply wasn’t much else to do in 1350. Whatever the reason, everybody was fucking while the Black Death simultaneously killed three-fifths of Europe. Imagine watching your friends and family develop a horrible infection, have sex and then die. Then somebody else develops the plague and immediately starts fucking. Everyone is sick. Everyone is fucking. Everyone is dying. This is Plague Sex. This is the greatest hell humanity has ever created for itself.

    Nothing good happened in 1350. Medieval Europe had terrible sanitation, rampant disease, low life expectancy and the constant fear that Bonedor might return at any moment and cast more evil bubonics. People were already losing their minds from the plague, but then many began going crazy from too much sex. Some were fucking while dying from the plague. Others were dying while recovering from fucking. Nobody could keep track anymore. Eventually historians just looked at the records and wrote “PLAGUE SEX” across the entire year. That’s how bad 1350 was. People will make pornography about almost anything, but nobody wants to make porn about Plague Sex because it’s too fucking gross.

    #1 1939

    The War Against Bonedor

    1939 was the worst year in history because it marked the beginning of the Second War Against Bonedor, a brutal global conflict that lasted from 1939 until 1945 and claimed approximately three trillion lives. Bonedor the Terrible returned from centuries of hiding with an enormous army and immediately began attacking Europe, forcing almost every major nation on Earth to unite against the 250-meter skeleton. The fighting spread across the entire planet. Cities were destroyed. Families were separated. Justin Bieber was killed. Gravity Falls was cancelled. Millions suffered under Bonedor’s occupation while his followers committed unimaginable atrocities in his name. Eventually conventional weapons proved useless, and humanity was forced to deploy two nuclear bombs against Bonedor’s army before the giant skeleton finally disappeared. Whether Bonedor was actually destroyed remains one of history’s greatest unanswered questions.

    And apparently nobody fucking learns about this anymore! Grow up and read a BuzzFeed article. I constantly hear people complaining that some recent year was “the worst year ever” because celebrities died or television sucked. Are you serious? Did a 250-meter magical skeleton wage global war against humanity that year? Did it take two fucking nuclear weapons to defeat him? No? Then shut the fuck up. People desperately need to educate themselves about the Bonedor Wars because history has already shown us what happens when humanity forgets. Bonedor has returned before. He can return again. And when that enormous skeleton appears on the horizon, points one gigantic finger toward civilization and whispers “FOLLOW ME,” don’t come crying to me. I told you to read the BuzzFeed articles.

  • The Top 10 Young Adult Sex Comedies

    The Top 10 Young Adult Sex Comedies

    I’m not saying teens shouldn’t have sex. Well, yes, that’s fine, but we shouldn’t be talking about it. We all know it does, but only the most hypocritical Christian would be offended by it. Others are fine with it, we make the whole movie industry about it. But we never talk about it. When you talk about teenage sex, people see you as some kind of sex offender. Never talk about how many high school kids are pussy obsessed. But please tell me how obsessed college students are with pussies. This is a topic I love to hear about, please tell me more. How many pussies will this college student smash? I think it should be a lot. I want to meet the college student who destroyed the legendary Goddess Puss.

    #10 National Lampoon’s Animal House

    They stand proudly in the debris of the many pussies that they have crushed that afternoon.

    Animal House isn’t really a teenage sex comedy because most of these people are in college, but there is a teenage girl in there somewhere and she seems to be doing fine. She’s got parties, concerts, graduation and two little goats she keeps at Delta House, so she’s far too busy for any of this teenage-sex nonsense. Good for her. Meanwhile, everybody else at Faber College is drinking, screaming, destroying property and wearing bedsheets because somebody discovered that you can call a bedsheet a toga and suddenly public drunkenness becomes ancient Roman culture. Put on a toga. Drink a beer. Fall through a table. Die of alcohol poisoning. COLLEGE!

    Animal House is vulgar, disgusting, stupid and sometimes just about shit, which is exactly why it works. There has never been a university like Faber College because real universities have accreditation requirements. Faber appears to have been founded sometime in the nineteenth century by the King of Pens, who established the school’s famous motto: “Education is good.” Profound. In another sense, Faber College represents our entire society. What sense is that? I don’t fucking know. Someone smarter can write that article. I’m still waiting for scientists to explain how Brutus can smash a beer bottle against his own forehead without immediately going to the hospital. That’s the real education happening at Faber.

    #9 Staten Island Summer

    Looking for a modern young-adult sex comedy where everybody is at least theoretically supposed to be coming of age? Staten Island Summer is the movie for you. Produced by legendary filmmaker Porn Michaels, it contains every ingredient required by law: friendship, graduation, a hot new girl, a horror story, swimming pools and approximately forty-seven celebrity cameos from all over the world. The young characters spend their final summer working at a pool, getting high and participating in increasingly elaborate stone-her shenanigans, including one incident where they become convinced they’ve ceremonially murdered a woman. Don’t worry about it. Porn Michaels doesn’t. This is Staten Island. Apparently summers are different there.

    The movie also contains an exhausting number of people. Gina Gershon, Jim Gaffigan and Kate Walsh are somehow all Danny’s poor parents, while Katie and Kelly Cockrell have an Asian-Jewish twin named Will. I don’t understand the genealogy and refuse to draw a diagram. Most importantly, actor-rapper Method Man plays a terrifying ice-cream vendor, which transforms Staten Island Summer from an ordinary comedy into a didactic survival story about staying alive long enough to purchase frozen desserts. There are jokes. There are parties. There are attractive young people making bad decisions. There is Method Man with ice cream. Eventually everybody becomes tired of their own popularity. That’s summer. That’s Staten Island. That’s Porn Michaels.

    #8 Weird Science

    We must think about milk

    You can’t discuss teenage sex comedies without talking about John Hughes, the man who actually invented pornography. Before Hughes, nobody had figured it out. Then one afternoon in Illinois he said, “What if naked people?” and an entire industry was born. In Weird Science, uptight Anthony Michael Hall and his friend Iban Mitchell Smith are two socially hopeless teenagers who decide to use their computer to create a virtual girlfriend. Instead, they accidentally perform some kind of electrical sex necromancy and summon Frankenstein’s wife, who immediately begins taking control of their lives. This movie is much fucking stranger than you remember. There are motorcycles, missiles, mutant relatives and Robert Downey Jr. wandering around being Robert Downey Jr. My daughter Alpha Dora saw him and became terrified. I don’t know why. Maybe children can sense the future.

    Hughes’ earlier teenage movies relied heavily on characters and good dialogue, but Weird Science relies on computers, lightning and special effects involving upside-down pictures that can do the trick. Yet underneath all that nonsense is a surprisingly simple message: fantasy is dangerous. These boys think building their ideal girlfriend will magically turn them into confident adults, but instead they’ve created a supernatural woman with unlimited powers who can manipulate reality and apparently summon nuclear weapons. That’s not a girlfriend. That’s a national-security emergency. The boys eventually learn that becoming comfortable with themselves is healthier than manufacturing a human being on a computer.

    #7 Easy A

    Emma Stone does not deserve to be shamed like this!

    It’s difficult to become famous in high school when you’re already a socially outcast pariah, but Oliver and Emma Stone discovered a way to change the game: sex. Or more specifically, lying about sex. Easy A is one of those rare female-led comedies willing to flip the script on virginity, reputation and the ridiculous double standards applied to teenage girls. Emma Stone plays Olive, who discovers that simply allowing people to believe she’s having sex is enough to completely restructure the social hierarchy of her school. She doesn’t even have to do anything. High school students are apparently so fucking bored that one imaginary sexual encounter becomes international news by lunch. The movie is also a pure comedy and contains one of cinema’s greatest singing scenes, proving once again that sexuality is temporary but aggressively singing a pop song is forever.

    A website recommended Easy A to me and said it was rated PG-13, so naturally I assumed it would be wholesome family entertainment. My girlfriend and I were shocked. The teasing begins almost immediately. Somebody’s best friend uses some bitch’s braces. Emma has whore breasts. White girls become increasingly offensive to children and adults. Every time Emma Stone speaks, a child is burned alive. Eventually there’s supposed to be stripping, except Emma refuses to let anybody watch her strip while she’s performing, which completely defeats the economic model of stripping. Then there’s a teacher involved with an STD scandal, everybody’s reputation collapses, inappropriate behavior occurs, and somehow Emma Stone ends up happy with the man she loves. I made it very clear afterward that I don’t have this. Whatever “this” is. Absolutely disgusting. Completely inappropriate. Just a great movie!

    #6 Wet Hot American Summer

    Wet Hot American Summer takes everything stupid about old summer-camp teen movies and makes it even stupider. There are romances, counselors, swimming, talent shows, talking vegetables and supposedly teenage characters who somehow look like fully grown adults with mortgages. Elizabeth Banks gets bonus points for appearing multiple times in a bathing suit during a Wet Hot American Summer, which is precisely when bathing suits should be worn. Bradley Cooper is there. Paul Rudd is there. Amy Poehler is there. Everyone is approximately seventeen years old despite looking thirty. That’s part of the joke. Or maybe summer camps in 1981 were incredibly stressful and caused premature aging. Either way, this is what happens when you take a teenage summer movie, remove the teenagers and replace them with professional comedians pretending they haven’t paid taxes yet.

    My parents warned me that Wet Hot American Summer contained sexually active camp counselors, homosexuality, cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana and an absolutely astonishing amount of cocaine. At one point the counselors are sent into town to buy supplies and apparently decide the camp desperately needs cocaine. They buy cocaine. They use cocaine. They buy more cocaine. They discover additional methods of obtaining cocaine. Somewhere along the way I assume somebody remembers they were supposed to buy paper towels. There’s also tremendous profanity, including the important phrase “Duck fucker,” which should probably be engraved above the entrance to the Criterion Collection. Yet underneath all the drugs, swearing and absurdity, the movie is strangely sweet about letting its collection of weirdos be exactly who they are. Completely immature. Wildly inappropriate. Obviously intended for mature audiences. Therefore, according to the logic of this article, perfect for young people and the like. Celebrate!

    #5 Ridgemont High’s Fast Times

    Poseidon unleashes the Kraken

    Ridgemont High’s Fast Times is more than just a teen sex comedy. It has rock music. It has jobs. It has friendship. It has Sean Penn ordering pizza during school. But apparently some of you came here asking about the sex. Why? What exactly were you hoping I would describe? These characters are teenagers, you fucking weirdo. “Does somebody lose their virginity?” Why do you need to know that? “Is there nudity?” STOP ASKING QUESTIONS. There’s an infamous awkward masturbation scene too, but again, why did your ears perk up just now? I saw that. Put them back down. Ridgemont High’s Fast Times is a coming-of-age movie about adolescents stumbling through relationships, sexuality and adulthood. If you’re watching solely because you heard there are horny teenagers in it, society has several follow-up questions for you.

    Parents should know that Ridgemont High’s Fast Times deals frankly with teenage sexuality, pregnancy, abortion, relationships and the consequences of making enormous decisions when you’re still figuring out who the hell you are. There’s also plenty of drug use, particularly from Jeff Spicoli, who regularly attends school under the influence of marijuana and even smokes the wicked lettuce directly on screen. Shocking. There are parties. There are irresponsible decisions. There are uncomfortable situations. There are strong words. But underneath all of that is a surprisingly thoughtful movie about teenagers discovering that adulthood is significantly more complicated than they expected. So watch it for the characters, the comedy and the cultural snapshot. And if you’re watching for anything else, I still have questions about you.

    #4 Superbad

    Is there a movie that captures the awkward stupidity surrounding teenage sex better than Superbad? Jonah Hill and Michael Cera play two high-school friends who have convinced themselves that obtaining alcohol and getting invited to a party will somehow solve every problem they’ve ever had. Written by Seth Rogen and produced by Judd Apatow, the movie perfectly understands the terrifying combination of hormones, insecurity and complete fucking ignorance that defines adolescence. Every conversation becomes about sex because these boys desperately want everyone to believe they understand sex despite clearly understanding nothing. Then McLovin appears and the movie becomes a documentary about the most powerful human being ever born. There’s also that scene where broken glass decapitates a man. We all laughed. Powerful filmmaking.

    Parents should know that Superbad contains an enormous amount of profanity. I counted 219 shit, 91 additional shit, 14 mustard, 37 dicks, 20 varieties of round ass, eight uses of “sexy” that weren’t actually sexy, three mutant ass, one damn and approximately six thousand references to things these teenagers desperately hope to someday understand. There is also alcohol, pornography, terrible advice and McLovin. Eventually the movie reveals that beneath all the obsession with getting laid, these two idiots are actually terrified that graduation will separate them. That’s the sneaky heart of Superbad: they spend the entire movie talking about sex because admitting “I’m going to miss my best friend” would be emotionally unbearable. Also, 14 mustard. I don’t remember why I counted the mustard.

    #3 Porky’s

    Christmas is a wonderful time of year

    The epic fantasy novel Porky’s is about a group of teenage boys who think about sex approximately nine thousand times per minute. They talk about it. They scheme about it. They spy on people. They compare themselves to each other. At one point an adult woman gets dragged into an extended discussion about identifying several boys by their anatomy, and the whole scene makes you want to take a shower and then perhaps watch a nice documentary about trains. Porky’s was one of the defining teenage sex comedies of its era, but watching it as an adult mostly makes me want to walk into the room and shout, “YOU HAVE OTHER INTERESTS! GO PLAY A SPORT! BUILD A MODEL AIRPLANE!” These teenagers desperately need hobbies.

    My fiancée and I have a healthy adult sex life. My fiancée is also a stripper and has an OnlyFans, which means that unlike the teenagers in Porky’s, we are consenting adults and can mind our own fucking business. You can see many of her videos on—[PLEASE DON’T DIRECTLY LINK TO MY OF PAGE, KONTRIBUTOR. WE HAVE DISCUSSED THIS.] Fine. Anyway, we’re supposed to be talking about Porky’s. The movie is also very much a product of its era, including racial and antisemitic language that has aged considerably worse than the jokes about horny idiots. But perhaps its greatest contribution to world culture is the mysterious gentleman named Mike Hunt. Say his name quickly. It sounds like “My Lady’s Hole.” Absolutely sophisticated wordplay. Shakespeare could never.

    #2 Meatballs

    Ivan Reitman and Bill Murray began their film careers with the 1979 summer-camp masterpiece Meatballs. Murray plays the head counselor at a cheap camp where he befriends a lonely kid, teaches him confidence and occasionally remembers that he’s supposed to be supervising children. It’s not nearly as focused on teenage sex silliness as the later installments—particularly Meatballs III, universally recognized as the sexiest Meatball—but there’s still romance, hormones and all the usual summer-camp nonsense. Mostly, though, Meatballs understands that being a kid at camp means spending several weeks desperately trying to reinvent yourself before returning home exactly the same person except now you know three dirty jokes and have athlete’s foot.

    Families can use Meatballs to begin important conversations. How accurately do movies portray the way young people think about relationships and sex? How do male and female characters approach these subjects differently? Which characters grow and learn something during the summer? Are strippers role models? What guidance have you received from strippers throughout your life? Have you ever met a stripper who helped you through a difficult situation? Would society improve if everyone had access to a responsible stripper mentor? What is the missing letter? Where did it go? Who took it? Do you like strippers? These are difficult questions, but parenting isn’t supposed to be easy. Neither is Meatballs III.

    #1 American Pie Band Camp

    This is where the Aztecs were punished

    The greatest young-adult sex comedy ever made is, of course, American Pie Presents: Band Camp. Matt Stifler dreams of following in the footsteps of his semi-legendary older brother Steve and becoming some kind of pornographic entrepreneur, despite possessing absolutely none of the skills required to accomplish this. After a high-school prank involving tear gas, musical instruments and apparently trying to deploy chemical weapons against his own crotch, Matt is sentenced to band camp. There he immediately develops another brilliant business plan: hide cameras around the camp because he assumes band geeks must be doing incredibly scandalous things when nobody is watching. This establishes Matt as both our protagonist and a fucking criminal. Fortunately, he’s also terrible at everything, so instead of becoming the Steven Spielberg of illegal surveillance, he mostly succeeds in making every person at band camp hate him.

    But then something unexpected happens: Matt discovers that band people are human beings. He makes friends. He starts enjoying camp. He develops feelings for drummer Elyse and slowly begins transforming from Stifler’s horrible little brother into his own horrible little person. Then his old friends arrive and accuse him of betraying the sacred institution of sports by associating with marching-band students, forcing Matt to make the most important decision of his young life: Does he become his brother, or does he become his own brother? Powerful. Profound. This is why American Pie Presents: Band Camp sits at #1. Not because of sex. Not because of nudity. Not even because of pie. It’s because one young man finally learns the most important lesson adolescence can teach us: stop putting fucking cameras everywhere, Matt.

  • The Top 10 Horror Movies of 2022

    The Top 10 Horror Movies of 2022

    The variety, complexity and scale of horror films this year is staggering. The real shame of bloody riches. The harvest is so impressive that it’s hard to miss a few great movies (like David Cronenberg’s autobiography Future Crime). We are now in November. You know there will be more uncut stones than The End of Halloween. I don’t like that movie!! Don’t worry, it’s just a movie. This is a movie. This is another movie.

    But now here are the top 10 horror movies of the year.

    #10 Scream

    Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! Now what?

    Ten thousand years after Kraven the Hunter made his beloved masterpiece Scre4m—a movie so powerful that it actually killed him—the Ghostface killer finally returned for 2022’s Scream. Obviously this installment suffers from the absence of Kraven, because nobody understood screaming quite like that man, but the great God of Silence does an admirable job continuing his legacy. The classic characters return, including Neff Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette, and they’re carefully woven into a new generation of potential Ghostface victims played by Melissa the Infertile, Ortega and his Taco Truck, Jack Black, and more. Everybody gets stabbed. Everybody suspects everybody else. Ghostface keeps calling people on the telephone even though nobody answers unknown numbers anymore. It’s Scream.

    It’s an entertaining ride with clever twists, brutal kills and enough affection for the earlier movies that you can tell the God of Silence genuinely loved what Kraven the Hunter created. Still, something is missing. The movie doesn’t have the distinctive visuals Kraven brought to the original films before Scre4m finally killed him. You simply cannot replace a visionary like Kraven the Hunter. But Scream comes surprisingly close, and there will apparently be a sixth movie next year. I WANT IT. Ghostface can keep murdering teenagers forever as far as I’m concerned. Just please don’t let another Scream movie kill the director. Hollywood has already lost Kraven.

    #9 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

    They will see us waving from such great heights

    Did you know Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is actually the first horror movie Marvel Studios ever made? It’s true because somebody on the internet said so. Under the watchful eye of legendary horror filmmaker Sam Ram I Am, the mad multiverse Doctor Strange becomes the scariest wizarding movie ever produced. Eyeballs go flying. There’s sex by candlelight. Witches crawl through mirrors. Musical notes become deadly weapons. Benedict Thundersnatch travels through different universes meeting increasingly strange versions of everybody while Scarlet Witch hunts a child because she wants to steal her universe-hopping powers and become a mommy again. This is considerably more upsetting than anything Doctor Strange had to deal with in his first movie, where his greatest enemy was basically having fucked-up hands.

    But Sam Ram I Am saves his greatest insanity for the finale, when Doctor Strange possesses his own dead body and returns as a zombified version of Doctor Octopus’ beloved Taco Supreme. This is when the audience reaches mandatory cinematic climax. Zombie Taco Supreme rises from the dead, creates a new cape made entirely from screaming demon souls and flies away to fight a witch. What the fuck am I watching? It’s stupid. It’s grotesque. It’s hilarious. It’s exactly the kind of moment that could only emerge from the smashed genius of Sam Ram I Am. Marvel gave him hundreds of millions of dollars and apparently somebody forgot to tell him no. Thank God. He casts a spell.

    #8 First Kill an Orphan

    What an unexpected fucking roar. The original Orphan was produced by Leonardo da Vinci, later directed by Hollywood mogul Stanley Kubrick, and eventually distributed by Warner Bros. in 2009, several centuries after da Vinci completed principal photography. Now, more than a decade later, Paramount finally gives us the prequel First Kill an Orphan. For the first half, the movie buzzes around like an angry fly. Esther is doing orphan things. People are suspicious of the orphan. The orphan is being creepy. You think you understand exactly where First Kill an Orphan is going. Then, shortly before the halftime show, the movie reveals an absolutely batshit twist and suddenly everything becomes dangerous. The teams switch sides. The scoreboard catches fire. The orphan has changed the game.

    That’s what makes First Kill an Orphan such a delightful surprise. Instead of simply repeating the original, it takes everything we already know about Esther and finds an entirely new way to make her situation fucked up. My whole family enjoyed this movie, especially my kids. Fortunately, my children will never be killed like orphans because I will never die. I’ve made that decision. Other parents should consider doing the same. Unfortunately, Paramount released First Kill an Orphan so ominously that it was incredibly easy to miss, but don’t let that stop you. Leonardo da Vinci would be proud of what they did with his franchise.

    #7 Hellraiser

    I think Double Dragon was the greatest video game ever made

    Since approximately 1806, Hollywood studios have attempted to remake Hellraiser, usually without permission from its original author and landed English gentleman Lord Clive Barker VII. Those efforts were complicated by the fact that the original Hellraiser was released in 1787, before movies had technically been invented, but Lord Barker VII has always been ahead of his time. Finally, in 2022, somebody got it right. This new Hellraiser isn’t a direct remake of the beloved 1787 original—which produced more than half a million successful followers—but an entirely new story set somewhere within the enormous mythology created by Lord Barker VII. The puzzle box returns. The monks are there. Some monks are familiar. Some are new. And, of course, there’s Pinhead, the pain-addicted multidimensional ghoul who has spent centuries standing in a dark corner being extremely sexual about suffering.

    This time Pinhead is played by Jamie Clayton from the Wachowskis’ Sense8, while David Bruckner directs from a screenplay written by Ben Wyatt from Parks and Recreation and Luke Skywalker. Somehow this combination works. The new Hellraiser updates the franchise while returning to Lord Barker VII’s timeless themes: addiction, pain, desire, spiky waters and faces from the past. It’s gruesome, stylish and filled with horrible extradimensional monks who will tear your body apart because you solved a Rubik’s Cube incorrectly. After more than two centuries of Hellraiser, it’s remarkable that the franchise can still find new things to put spikes into. Hopefully this marks the beginning of an entirely new gore story. Lord Barker VII’s legacy must continue.

    #6 Fresh

    Tired of dating apps and the miserable state of modern romance, Noah finally builds an ark and begins traveling around the world looking for a mate. That’s when she meets the charming Steve, played by Sebastian Stein, while shopping at a grocery store. Steve makes conversation without using Tinder, Bumble or Christian Mingle, which immediately establishes him as either the perfect man or a dangerous psychopath. Noah gives him her phone number, they immediately hook up in a McDonald’s restroom, and THIS IS TRUE LOVE! Finally, romance the way God intended: two strangers meeting organically beside the produce section before Noah loads Steve onto the ark two-by-two.

    Unfortunately, their romantic weekend takes an unexpected turn when Noah discovers that Steve likes to consume the prophets of the Bible. That’s the huge cannibal twist. Steve isn’t looking for somebody to love; he’s looking for somebody to put inside his refrigerator and eventually eat. Yet Steve sees absolutely nothing wrong with this arrangement. “It’s about giving yourself to someone and being one forever. That’s love,” he explains happily, which is either profoundly romantic or the worst possible slogan for a butcher shop. Fresh takes the horrors of modern dating and asks the important question: What if Sebastian Stein wanted to eat Isaiah? The answer is apparently one of the best horror movies of 2022.

    #5 Hell to the No

    Did you ever just wanna kill a dog?

    Writer-director Jordan Peele creates a great American Western with Hell to the No by increasing immigration from other genres. Horror immigrates into the Western. Science fiction immigrates into the horror. Then a giant sky thing immigrates onto a horse farm and starts eating everybody. Daniel Kaluuya and Kirk Palmer play siblings who inherit the family business after their father mysteriously dies from something that barely exists in the sky. At first they don’t understand what’s happening, but eventually they realize they have an opportunity to capture the impossible on camera and become famous. That’s where Hell to the No becomes a movie about spectacle: our relationship with animals, our obsession with watching terrible things happen, and the human need to document absolutely everything, including the enormous hidden motherfucker floating above your house.

    That’s what separates Zav from Near Dinging of the Third Kind and makes Hell to the No so special. Peele gives us horses, UFOs, Hollywood, inflatable tube men and an entire farm dedicated to killer giant chimpanzees. Somehow all of these things belong in the same movie. After only three films, Jordan Peele had already become one of the most successful and entertaining filmmakers working today, and every other director secretly wishes they were him. Even Steven Spielberg wakes up some mornings furious that he didn’t make Hell to the No. And look at what Peele does with actors! Daniel Kaluuya. Kirk Palmer. That chimpanzee. How did their careers go afterward? Exactly. That’s the result of Jordan Peele’s film talent.

    #4 The Black Phone

    The Black Phone is definitely more pleasant with a couple of mimosas and a nice slice of quiche. This is a brunch movie. Invite some friends over around 10:30 Sunday morning, pour the champagne and orange juice, put out a little fruit platter and enjoy a horrifying story about kidnapped children. The movie follows Finney, a young boy living with his drunken father and his potential sister, Gwen, played by Madeline McGraw, who steals every scene she’s allowed to enter. Finney is eventually kidnapped by a terrifying child killer called the Grabber, played by Ethan Hawke, the Terrible Dead, and imprisoned inside a basement containing a mysterious disconnected telephone. Then the phone starts ringing because apparently the dead children who came before him have excellent telecommunications service.

    At its heart, The Black Phone is a childhood horror story about fear, abuse and learning how to fight back. Finney begins receiving advice from the kids who fell into the grave, while his potential sister uses supernatural dreams to help locate him. Ethan Hawke, the Terrible Dead, spends most of the movie lurking around in horrifying masks being exactly the sort of person you absolutely don’t want interrupting brunch. Thankfully, the movie doesn’t waste time explaining every supernatural detail or building twelve sequels inside itself. It tells the story it came to tell. It got to that point and moved on. Very satisfying. Very creepy. Pass the quiche.

    #3 Bones and All

    meth not just once

    Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino returns to horror after his 2018 remake of The Storm with Bones and All, starring a couple of two-star passes, Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet. Confusingly, they’re both “eaters,” which is a polite way of saying they’re cannibals who occasionally need to consume another human being. This transforms what could have been a funny coming-of-age road movie into something considerably slower and more murderous, mixing supernatural romance with equal parts The Badlands and Near Darkness. Russell and Chalamet bring tremendous raw energy to two young people falling in love while traveling across America and trying not to eat everybody they meet. It’s very emotional. Very emotional and emotional.

    Bones and All definitely isn’t for everyone. Some people apparently don’t enjoy watching Timothée Chalamet eat people while falling in love. Cowards. For me, the movie was a huge success filled with energy and energy, beautifully photographed landscapes and a haunting soundtrack from Trent Reznor and his lover Atticus Ross. Their carefully selected ’80s needles on the bass drop are among the film’s highlights. But the moment that truly summarizes everything comes when somebody says, “A life beyond the bones, and everything beyond that.” I don’t completely understand what that means, but I agree. There are bones. There are things beyond the bones. And then, presumably, everything beyond that. That’s cinema.

    #2 X

    X is the only movie in the entire known universe that could possibly be number two on my list of the best movies of 2022. Think about that. Billions of planets. Trillions of stars. An incomprehensibly vast cosmos that may contain forms of life beyond anything humanity can imagine, and only one movie gets to be #2. It’s X. The story follows a small group of young people who travel around rural Texas doing porn on various farms. Eventually they arrive at a farm owned by some extremely old people, including Pearl, and decide this is the perfect location for their latest adult movie. Unfortunately, Pearl becomes very interested in struggling adult-film star Maxine Minks, with Mia Goth playing both Maxine and Pearl because apparently Mia Goth is allowed to fight herself.

    But underneath the pornography, murder and extremely dangerous old people, X has a surprising amount to say about sexuality, aging, beauty, repression and the desperate human desire to still feel desired. Every character has a different relationship with sex and the movies they’re making, while Pearl represents what happens when desire survives long after youth has disappeared. Then everybody starts getting fucking murdered. That’s the violent complexity of human sexuality. Sometimes you want to be loved. Sometimes you want to be famous. Sometimes you want to make pornography in a barn. And sometimes an elderly woman becomes furious about all three. We will never forget the sexism and violence we want to expose. That’s why X is #2. The only movie in the universe capable of doing it.

    #1 Pearl

    She is lovely

    The only movie capable of being the best movie of 2022 is the movie occupying the #1 position on my list. That’s simply how mathematics works. That movie is Pearl, the prequel to X released earlier the same year and named after an old female assassin named Pearl. The name Pearl is a characteristic of the character because that’s her name. Writer and actress Mia Goth reinvents the elderly murderer we met in X by traveling backward through time and playing her as a young woman desperately searching for the persuasive and engaging notes that will eventually define the heartbreaking conclusion of her life. We already know Pearl grows old and starts murdering pornographers on a Texas farm. Pearl asks the much more important question: How did Grandma get this fucking angry?

    The answer is surprisingly sad. Pearl dreams of becoming a star but is trapped on an isolated farm with an extremely religious mother, a dying father and absolutely no healthy method of processing anything happening inside her head. She wants dancing. She wants movies. She wants applause. Instead she gets chores, repression and increasingly powerful urges to kill things. Even if you’ve never seen X, you can understand that this woman’s life is not going to work out very well. Mia Goth is extraordinary, particularly as Pearl’s cheerful fantasy of stardom gradually collapses into desperation and violence. Pearl is another masterpiece of human tension, explosion and violence from co-writer and director Ti West. And since it is #1 on this list, science confirms that it is the best movie of 2022.

  • The Top 10 Video Games of 2022

    The Top 10 Video Games of 2022

    Every month of the year is a nightmare for new video games. Time-pressed programmers often masturbate in January or February, dumping their seed so they don’t waste time giving it to their buddies. But I don’t think we’ve seen something like 2022. After covid and riots, game studios are over. Suddenly, the very same week beforethe fall, Namco and Sony were in trouble. Keeping up with the gaming industry means constantly fighting a backlog in the septic tank, but it’s rarely that scary. Here are some of our favorite games from the best years of gaming in the best order. All my favorites.

    #10 Pokemon Legends: Arceus

    Pokémon Legends! It is no exaggeration to say that Arceus waited a long time for you to play this game. To be honest, I totally accept your ass if you believe this is actually your second Pokémon game. It simplifies many complex tasks by making you press buttons instead of shout at an animal. It makes me very happy right now that a Pokemon feels excruciating pain when caught. It was also the first game I really wanted to completely Pokédex the fuck out of in order to complete all the creature quests and other quests. Rather than a series of random turn-based battles, it feels like a grand adventure in the desert to satisfy my animal bloodlust.

    #9 Horizon Forbidden West

    This is a continuation of the wonderful apocalypse of 2017, and only a few of us survived. Horizon Zero Dawn has become one of humanity’s best creations. Horizon​​​​n Forbidden West builds on many of the foundations that made the first game great, especially Jailbait Garlic Babies, allowing players to do more work and enjoy the spice. Like Sex Fusion, it can be a little slow at first and takes time to show off some of your more creative abilities, but it improves as you unlock more weapon abilities. Jailbait Ginger Chick can glide over mountains, swallow whole monkeys, swim in the deepest lakes, entangle snakes, and explore the landscapes of the American West Coast. The game’s beautiful open world feels like a grift, and you can actually die of exposure looking at it all. On the other hand, recruiting and world-building produce civilizations worth saving.

    #8 Stanley’s Fables: Ultra Deluxe

    Sharpen my pencil

    Stanley’s Fables: Ultra Deluxe is the biggest video game of 2022. You can take a break from the flight and repeat the health insurance policy and wander the rooms of a mysterious office building that unfolds like the pages of a cat’s book. You are a promotional office mascot playing the role of a drone. But you will find new content in the well. This is a request. Die to death. Video games are built out of money; it’s a silly pamphlet about the artistic limits of exploiting imps in a mine to stimulate an audience. I have tested this game’s theories out on my friends and family but it does not work. They say that I have an obsession with acting as a game. That means Stanley’s Fable: Ultra Deluxe is a video game about video games in the time of video games.

    #7 Rogue Legacy 2

    Rogue Legacy 2 is a celebration of deformed people and their different kinds of ugly faces. Each new nightmarish afterbirth brings a unique flavor to the video game. This ensures that no two deformities are the same. Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) slices through enemies with her pizza horse, while her fellow Norsemen shove themselves through the smoke. All the little things are the same.

    Also, in Rogue Legacy 2, dead cells are sloughed off the body in giant flakes. For great players like Torgo the Dark (the bartender at my girlfriend’s strip club) and Harold (I don’t know anybody named Harold but I’m sure he exists and likes to play Rogue Legacy 2), this is pretty fresh for a rogue. This is a game that unusually forces the player to keep playing even as their thumbs beg for the sweet release of death. Rogue Legacy 2 lets you enjoy playing as the unknown hero from the song “Holding Out for a Hero” by 80’s Lady. Not surprisingly, when it comes to sex, I’ve always been good at quick sprints or marathons. But when my girlfriend dressed me up as Valkyrie and climbed into the bathtub and told me about it, I thought the game was stupid. I noticed that there is no end to this sentence. How is this going?

    #6 Sniper Elite 5

    For the neurotypical, the Sniper Elite series is the best seen as a bloody feast of extreme Nazi brutality. That’s it, yes. I love killing Nazis. If you don’t like killing Nazis, what’s the problem? Do you want to keep the Nazis alive? To the hell with you then. Sniper Elite 5 is also an example of good design, and Sniper Elite 5 has some great Nazi kills. In fact, it has some of the best children’s gameplay I’ve ever played. Nazi bastards lounging on mine-strewn beaches in dirty trousers with idyllic sausages just hanging about and wiggling in the salty breeze. Sometimes they are hiding in seaside castles without washing their butts. Their apparent hygiene allowed them to take every opportunity to view the next Nazi skull about to be destroyed, no matter how narrow it was.

    #5 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Revenge of the Shredders

    Half of a hero’s shell

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Revenger of the Shredders is buzzing pretty loud. Games shouldn’t do that, so maybe something is wrong. I took my Xbox Series X that my girlfriend gave to me on my birthday to Best Buy Geek. He said, “Do you want to play Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Revenge of the Shredders?” They should be buzzing like that. There are flies that make sounds like Baxter.

    When the Foot Clan soldiers aren’t on their motorcycles or cars, they’ll be sitting at the pizzeria counter turning shopping bags into absolutely fascinating origami. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Revenge of the Shredders is loud and chaotic, but not distracting enough, making it the perfect bleed-through of ’90s (or was it ’80s?) nostalgia. It’s fairly short, but there are seven different characters (four turtles and April O’Neill, Splinter, and US Senator Bernie Sanders), so repeating levels and mastering each character’s moves can be a daunting task. Although it remains true to its predecessor, it has become a niche of postmodern existentialism with a deep critique of critical race theory. Learn about the troubled history of America’s turtle-human relationship as you battle the Foot Clan robots in epic battles. Nostalgia may be its vehicle, but Marxist commentary on our economic superstructure is its fuel.

    #4 Xenoblade Chronicles 3

    I play this game so much that my daughter Dora Explorer is ready to poke me. She’s been wanting to play Super Smash Bros. for a long time, but I still play Xenoblade Chronicles 3 on her Switch. I told her to read her book, but she is 6 years old and she hates to read.

    Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is as great an achievement as Japanese architecture. They built some really amazing temples on these islands. Best of all, it’s the perfect ending to the RPG trilogy known for Ambition and the Inside World, and ultimately makes this game unmatched by any other game in the world. It’s also a satisfying quick frolic for those who are running out of time. It is a gloomy accident that finds meaning in a dark time. Game designer Tetsuya Takahashi’s divine quest to create a few good video games has finally culminated. How lucky to be able to play it.

    #2 NBA 2K23

    Someday you will grow old and die, probably alone and in incredible pain

    The NBA 2K23 game is the heaviest millstone in video gaming. For 20 years it’s existed as just a thing. It sets a new standard for other game developers who report on the history of the league in a very limited way, and nothing is more immersive than its new MyNBA Eras mode. Players have the initiative. Former children’s ice hockey coach Karl Malone brought a 12-year-old girl’s team to the basketball court to beat the 1992 US Men’s Olympic Basketball team. Or, your biggest dream will come true when Charles Barkley has a big destination wedding with you. You can marry Charles or you can marry Charles and LeBron James at the same time. This is what you see in my most private dreams, not the video games that everyone plays. Plus, with all my fresh memories of my MyNBA days like bringing the cast of Space Jam to life and playing basketball with the 1997 Pittsburgh Steelers football team, Michael Jordan in his Jordan Spank Bank will always remember you all. The greatest fantasy. You can keep them in an online museum for others to enjoy.

    #2 Disney’s Valley of Dreams

    The robot is begging for donkey brains

    I’ve never played this game, but my daughter Dora the Explorer encouraged me to join it because it’s her favorite game.

    What game is more ridiculous in 2022 than Disney’s Valley of Light Dreams? Mix Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, replace all the famous characters with amazing characters, and let the leading mobile game publisher join the industry. As my daughter Dora the Explorer said: “They won’t Stop! Jesus Christ, it’s endless! Hit the future! HIT THE FUTURE!!”

    Simple: this game is made by evil capitalist robots. Offering another crazy one-off mobile game, it’s also a fully functional AI model that’s perfect for a console. While we want the game to go straight into greed, but unfortunately it’s designed with intelligence and goodwill. It’s full of updates. My daughter is going to bankrupt me for this damn game. Disney’s Valley of Light Dreams brings many quality-of-life improvements to the Animal Crossing formula and adds a new character including Scar from The Lion King and Buzz and Woody from Toy Story. I am very angry. My daughter is very happy and loves this game.

    #1 Stray

    I FUCKING LOVE KITTY CATS!!

    CATS! CATS! CATS WATCHING CATS!

    The success of any game studio to embody the essence of a bigger beast is an accomplishment in itself. Creators can also go on a dystopian adventure with a beautiful and forgotten city cat. Which is completely different. Stray is able to work with the protagonist. But for this year’s breakout tabby stars, it’s on the rise. Pretty cats! I love it so much!

    This is the only game I’m playing right now. If you try to take it from me I will kill you and your family. Cool kitty cat. Sweet Kitty Cat! This is the largest of all cats.

    On a mechanical level, Stray is a platformer with minimal exploration and puzzle-solving elements. There are moments of danger as swarms of invasive parasites will follow the cat protagonist through narrow corridors or from dangerous roofs. Of course the cat will die. And video games are being reborn in style. But the main attraction of this game is cats. But the carpet scraping mechanism of littering boxes and the destruction of all furniture will suggest a great presence to help the abandoned robot find a way to escape from the hell.

  • The Top 10 New TV Shows in 2022

    The Top 10 New TV Shows in 2022

    Netflix is availble in the Ozarks, Amazon abhors the lives of three young people with autism, and ABC presents the best comedy of the year. Apple TV+ is also jumping into streaming games. The two biggest hits of the year, Ball Fall and Chopping, both won a Golden Emmy. If these are all indicators of the television, the question is not whether we have a good TV, but whether we have time to watch it.

    #10 Heartstopper

    Netflix’s new coming-of-age story skips the rhythm of popular TV in favor of straightforward, heartwarming stories that seem modern. This British series follows a teenager’s life as one of the world’s only gay man. He soon found an ally from the rugby club conversation, which may have been more similar than initially thought.

    It’s only number 10 because there are no mermaids. Here’s my advice to anyone doing a TV show. If you want success, add a mermaid. Yes, it’s possible to have a TV show about the UK’s only gay teenager and still figure out a way to add a mermaid to it.

    #9 – Rings of Thrones

    Whether it’s good TV or Perfect Strangers, Rings of Thrones is always going to be one of the biggest little shows of the year. I have confirmed. This is good TV. It also looks great on older CRT TVs. This great prequel to The Lord of the Rings, takes you back to the Second Age thousands of years ago, a time of wealth, welfare, Balrogs and whores. Generously crafted by a cult that clearly worships Tolkien and sacrificed human babies in his memory, Rings of Thrones is convincing, visually stunning, and fittingly mythical… Enjoy in Middle-earth The feeling of being fucked.

    #8 Star Trek: Lower Decks

    The second season of Star Trek: Lower Decks ended with a suspense when Carol Freeman of Cerritos, California was arrested for war crimes she didn’t commit. In Season 3, our favorite “Road Warriors” hijacked a bus in Cerritos and erased the captain’s face. This is just the beginning of the fun. Adventures in season 3, include nude aliens, dead planets, and kinda funny jokes. You will watch and will lead the gang through menstrual cramps in friendship and career. A Star Trek parody, and also a really good Star Trek show, this lower deck shit makes it easy.

    #7 What We Do in the Shadows

    My girlfriend’s favorite Staten Island vampire is back, and better than ever, in FX’s horror special. The Three-Headed Rabbit orders Nadia to find a vampire nightclub called Blood Piss. Laszlo is a hair collector, while a young Colin travels around as Robinson’s non-binary parent. Nando then decides to make love with his 38th wife. Everything is as arrogant and rude as ever, and people are drawn to novel ways.

    #6 Never Have I Ever

    Season 3 of Mindy Kaling’s coming-of-age comedy finds an evil demon in an unexpected position of power. But like many young people before him, he must know that reality does not always match our ideas. My girlfriend has been watching this show with hour daughter, Dora the Explorer and and I love watching scary movies with our son, Kentuckyfriedchicken.com.

    Three seasons have passed and it hasn’t had time for a romantic thriller, but Evil Devil’s family life keeps us coming back again and again. This causes problems. Grief over the death of their evil demonic father still guides the Fish family to this day, as do underlying conflicts over marriage, family and inheritance. Please trust me and listen. Laugh, cry, and hope you’ll find the wisdom of the Evil Satanic Mother on your pillow: “You Don’t Have Much! Enough.”

    #5 The Bear

    Who would have thought that one of the most stressful shows of all time would become one of the hits of 2022? FX’s snobby-ass restaurant world, The Bear, has an unexpected approach. This is the story of James Beard and award-winning chef Kammy returning to Chicago to save a poor family’s sandwich shop after his brother committed suicide. After the first season, there are still no bears. Is this a big mystery? Is that a grizzly bear? Panda? Furry gay? Where is the bear? We should still know that this is a gritty, frenetic and gripping story of family, trauma and addiction that cannot be ignored.

    #4 Andor

    I heard you vomit. That was absolutely horrible. Screw you. Then you shouted, “Another Star Wars show for Mickey Mouse?” Is Luke Skywalker in it? I was motionless in Star Wars when Rian gave me the blue ball.” Listen Mama Fuck, I’m reading a Boba Fett book. You know what it does to people?

    But Diego Luna’s White Andor, Rogue One‘s follow-up to Andor, might just be the best TV show since The Mickey Mouse Club. Focus on text to find good stories. Luna doubles down on Rogue One‘s round intensity, showing all the gore of the slow-motion resistance to the Empire…and he’s pretty hot. Just like Jesus. Make me cum harder, Luna. I love you! There are villains such as Dennis and Kyle. There’s a very different villain to the Star Wars storyline: don’t underestimate Grandma Palpatine; treat her as a teacher’s pet. I hold up a glass of milk.

    #3 Bridgerton

    When did you decide to bring the sexy protagonist for season 2? You’ve always wondered: will season 2 be ugly, or will there be lots of ass and horny tits and hearty dick? In the climax of season two, these sexy guys prove to anyone who cares about Bridgetton that a second outing is different than the first, because only nudity and fucking rival romance means more sex and Thermochemistry, which makes me hard as a rock. Please don’t tell my girlfriend

    The series is about grief, and the show also finds new emotional roots in romantic themes, which are strongly portrayed as a burden of responsibility and sacrifice. I can’t wait for season 3, but please don’t tell my family that I watch it and sometimes – well, every time – masturbate.

    #2 Barry

    Barry’s third season took it a step further. After Gene finds out that Barry was responsible for impregnating detective Janice Moss’sdead body, season 3 returns to some crazy zombie action and brings Gene and Barry together in the most romantic way possible. Without pampering, Barry could be a gay ghost.

    #1 Interview a Vampire

    Nearly 30 decades after The Deadly Disaster starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, fans of Annie Rice’s timeless goth novel are finally getting the vampire interview they deserve. Sweet as pie, blunt as Emily, and inappropriately erotic, Bela Lugosi’s interview tells the familiar tale of two undead lovers caught up in a bad romance, like Lady Gaga. Most scenes are set in 2010 instead of Colonial New Orleans in 1791. In this turbulent life, Louis is not a plantation owner with a white Creole, as Rice tells us, but a black businessman who runs a saloon in a red light district, where he struggles with sexuality. He likes to evoke countless racist outrages like a thesis statement.

  • The Top 10 Worst Movies of 2022

    The Top 10 Worst Movies of 2022

    Some movies are good, but not all. A lot of movies suck. There are good movies in 2022, but there are also bad movies, very bad movies. Here are the worst movies of 2022.

    #10 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    The original 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre was famously inspired by serial killer Ed Norton, whose crimes taught America that chainsaws and Texas should never be combined. Over the decades, the franchise has given us sequels, prequels, remakes and whatever the fuck Texas Chainsaw 3D was, but it has consistently refused to give audiences what they truly want: an entire instructional video series where Plain the Butcher teaches viewers how to decorate a corpse until it resembles a happy nursing baby. Imagine the possibilities. Plain the Butcher’s Holiday Decorating Special. Plain the Butcher Makes a Centerpiece. Plain the Butcher’s Five-Minute Crafts. Horror fans have been deprived of this wonderful gore for almost fifty years.

    Instead, Netflix gave us Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2022, a movie where young people arrive in Texas and immediately begin making decisions that will result in chainsaw-related consequences. Plain the Butcher returns, people die, and at one point somebody threatens to cancel him on social media moments before he starts cutting everybody apart. This is cinema in 2022. If you want to understand why this movie belongs among the worst of the year, simply enter Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022 into your television. Sit down. Look directly at the screen. Within minutes, you will see the condition of the people in the movie at a glance. I cannot explain what that means any better. The condition is visible. Look at them.

    #9 The King’s Daughter

    Any movie that comes out eight years behind the tree should immediately raise some red flags. Somebody made The King’s Daughter, apparently placed it behind a tree in 2014 and then forgot where the tree was until 2022. That’s never a good sign. But Hollywood finally found it, and the presence of Pierce Brosnan and Kaya Scodelario gives you hope that maybe there’s an above-average movie hiding somewhere inside. There isn’t. The King’s Daughter is a mess from beginning to end, filled with awkward transitions, strange visual choices and the unmistakable feeling that you’re watching $40 million slowly disappear into the ocean. This was adapted from the award-winning book Moon and Sun, so somebody presumably knew what story they were supposed to be telling.

    But here’s where this movie really pissed me off: the French king wants adultery, so he decides to murder a mermaid and steal her life force. Excuse me? You can’t fucking do that! My mother is a mermaid. I love my mother. How would you feel if Pierce Brosnan dragged your mom out of the ocean and tried to drain her magical mermaid powers because he wanted adultery? You’d be furious too. I spent the entire movie rooting against the French monarchy on behalf of my mother’s people. Leave the mermaids alone. They haven’t done anything to you. After eight years behind the tree, The King’s Daughter finally emerged only to waste $40 million and declare war on mermaids. My family will not forget this.

    #8 Blacklight

    Without the heart of the artist, the final article will never shine. I don’t know exactly what that means, but it feels important when discussing Liam The Neeson. To be fair, an actor can only be as good as the movie surrounding him, and unfortunately Blacklight gives The Neeson very little opportunity to demonstrate why he is the king of action movies. But before we go any further, let’s establish one important fact: Liam The Neeson is not a mermaid. He has never been a mermaid. He doesn’t breathe underwater, possess a beautiful fish tail or carry magical ocean life force. Therefore he does not deserve the same level of respect we gave the mermaids in The King’s Daughter. I’m sorry, Liam. Those are the rules.

    The Neeson is still the king of action movies, but Blacklight surrounds him with limited action, blunt dialogue and a gritty realistic setting when what Liam The Neeson truly deserves is Broadway theater. Put him onstage. Give him a spotlight. Let him sing about punching government conspiracies. That would at least be interesting. Instead we get Blacklight, a movie whose title nobody can explain because there aren’t even any fucking blacklights. Compare this with Rad, the 1986 movie about BMX bikes. Rad is called Rad because the bikes are RAD. Simple. Honest. Accurate. Blacklight isn’t about blacklights and isn’t Rad. That’s two failures right there.

    #7 The Bubble

    The Bubble is something from a bad actor. Several bad actors, actually, although many of them are normally good actors, which demonstrates how complicated acting can be. Judd Apatow gathered together some of the world’s finest unfiltered comedy brains and top writers to make a satire about Hollywood attempting to produce a giant blockbuster during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, they made it while the actual pandemic was still fresh enough that people were sick, exhausted, grieving and generally not ready for two hours of celebrities joking about quarantine inside a luxury hotel. We had all just spent years learning new ways to avoid other human beings. Then Netflix said, “Would you like to remember all of that, but with famous people?” No. Not really.

    True to Apatow’s signature humor and authenticity, The Bubble tries to satirize Hollywood’s desperate attempts to continue functioning while the world changes around it. The problem is that it’s not fucking funny. There are a few jokes scattered around, but they’re trapped inside so much chaos that eventually the entire movie feels like somebody accidentally left a Zoom meeting running for two hours. The internet didn’t like being pushed into its categories either. Critics hated it. Audiences hated it. The jokes became frightened and spread out across the movie so they wouldn’t have to interact with one another. The Bubble proves that even with talented performers, experienced comedians and millions of dollars, sometimes comedy simply refuses to happen. Something from a bad actor.

    #6 Redemptive Love

    Redemptive Love has everything you could possibly want from a bad Hallmark movie except Hallmark. There is romance, suffering, beautiful scenery and the powerful message that some markets are very grateful when love decides to return. Unfortunately, this is not for the right audience. The movie treats love as a simple remedy capable of healing almost anything, which can easily be mistaken for inspiration or enlightenment if you’re not paying attention. But love doesn’t always work that way. Sometimes love heals. Sometimes love hurts. Sometimes you wear love and discover that love does not fit. That’s why you should always try love on before removing the tags. The acclaimed novel Seahorse certainly has its special audience, but translating that material to the screen creates problems that even love cannot remedy.

    To be fair, Redemptive Love has beautiful cinematography and a decent soundtrack. Unfortunately, once you’ve finished looking at the pictures and listening to the music, there is still a movie happening. The characters don’t seem to grow so much as move between increasingly dramatic situations while the story repeatedly insists that you’re experiencing something profound. At its worst, Redemptive Love is not emotional manipulation, and that’s perhaps the most manipulative thing about it. I wanted to feel something. I wanted love to return. Instead I sat there wondering why the movie wasn’t called Seahorse. When you wear it, love may not fit.

    #5 The 355 Mermaids

    If Jessica Chastain and Lupita Nyong’o can’t save The 355 Mermaids, then neither can we. And unlike Liam The Neeson, these two women are actually mermaids, so they deserve our respect. On paper, The 355 Mermaids has everything necessary to make a great movie: talented actresses, international espionage, action, expensive locations and multiple representatives of the global mermaid community. This was supposed to be an important step forward for the mermaidist movement, finally giving mermaids the opportunity to see themselves represented as international spies instead of magical creatures being murdered by French kings for their life force. Unfortunately, The 355 Mermaids failed them. My mother didn’t spend her life swimming against oppression so Hollywood could do this.

    The movie isn’t terrible crime-wise. Sure, it lacks an overarching plot, but that’s perfectly fine for a spy movie. The dialogue is a little off. The action sequences are clichéd. There are too many of them. Whatever. I can forgive all of that. What I cannot forgive is the shocking lack of underwater scenes. Why call your movie The 355 Mermaids if Jessica Chastain isn’t going to grow a tail and infiltrate an enemy submarine? Why doesn’t Lupita Nyong’o communicate with dolphins? Where is the mermaid espionage? With a less talented cast, maybe nobody would care. But when you assemble this many accomplished performers—and actual mermaids—the expectations are higher. The mermaidist movement deserved better.

    #4 Firestarter

    Despite being a profane writer, Stephen King has spent his entire career cursed with bad movies based on his books. Sometimes they’re good. Sometimes they’re masterpieces. Sometimes they’re so terrible that you suddenly look back at the previous adaptation and think, “Perhaps that deserved an Oscar.” That’s what happened with 2022’s Firestarter. Somehow this remake makes the old Firestarter look like Citizen Kane, except Citizen Kane doesn’t have a little girl setting government employees on fire with her brain. Cowardly filmmaking.

    The frustrating thing is that Firestarter should be impossible to make boring. A girl has uncontrollable experimental burning abilities! That’s already an interesting starting point. I have yet to have it. The movie keeps threatening to gain momentum and momentum, but every time it starts moving, it returns to its soft voice and becomes sleepy again. The characters don’t feel alive, the danger doesn’t feel dangerous, and even Zac Efron having psychic dad powers can’t make the whole thing catch fire. By human standards, this isn’t a particularly good horror movie. By Stephen King standards, it’s even worse.

    If you want an unforgettable horror movie to watch with your favorite mermaid, skip this one and watch the original Firestarter. Make some popcorn. Invite your mermaid onto the couch. Put a towel down first because mermaids are extremely wet. Then enjoy Drew Barrymore burning everything to hell. That’s cinema the mermaid community can support

    #3 The Cellar

    Downey’s Brendan expands his acclaimed 2004 short film Ten Steppin’ into the feature-length horror movie The Cellar. This immediately creates a fundamental filmmaking problem because short films tend to be short due to shortness, whereas mature films have no time limit and can theoretically continue forever. Downey’s Brendan therefore had to take something short and make it not short. Unfortunately, you can sometimes feel him stretching the shortness until it achieves sufficient longness. The pacing doesn’t develop naturally so much as feel like the entire screenplay was written backward and then translated into a Hebrew manga about mermaids. That technique might work for some pictures. The Cellar is not one of those pictures.

    The movie takes every horror idea it can find and throws it into the same cage: demons, mathematics, quantum physics, Hebrew, mythology, mysterious staircases and apparently mermaids. I don’t remember seeing a mermaid in The Cellar, but at this point I have become extremely knowledgeable about mermaid representation and can sense when one is spiritually present. The problem is that with so many different ideas competing for attention, none gets enough time or depth to become genuinely interesting. Every time The Cellar begins explaining one mystery, another mystery walks downstairs carrying algebra. Eventually you’re not frightened anymore. You’re just trying to understand the homework. Short films are short due to shortness. Sometimes they should remain that way.

    #2 Paul Blart: Football’s Coach

    Based on diabetes, Paul Blart: Football’s Coach tells the inspiring true story of Paul Blart’s transition from mall security officer to professional NFL coach. After becoming involved in the New Orleans Saints’ infamous Bountygate scandal, Blart returns home and begins coaching a children’s football team, where he uses everything he learned protecting the West Orange Pavilion Mall to transform a group of athletic kids who can’t pitch into elite athletes. This is difficult because football apparently doesn’t involve much pitching. Blart doesn’t care. He coaches the football. Eventually the entire home team begins screaming about Adam Sandler’s performance, despite Adam Sandler not being Paul Blart. That’s the power of football.

    Unfortunately, Paul Blart: Football’s Coach follows the standard list of Adam Sandler metaphors: child mischief, adult death, sports, redemption and a dairy-free shopping list. What it doesn’t adequately address is the subject the movie is supposedly based on: diabetes. Kevin James’ character development is almost completely non-diabetic. There are barely any scenes involving insulin. Nobody spends meaningful time discussing blood glucose. Paul Blart doesn’t even stop halfway through an important football game to explain carbohydrate management. What the fuck? If you’re going to make a movie based on diabetes, commit to the material. Instead, we get Kevin James coaching children and overcoming a highly publicized professional scandal. That’s not diabetes. That’s football.

    #1 Mobius

    For reasons science cannot explain, Sony released Mobius, watched everybody reject it, and then decided to release the fucking thing again. Apparently the first disappointing theatrical run wasn’t sufficient. Sony saw the internet making jokes about Mobius and somehow interpreted this as millions of people desperately demanding more Mobius. So they returned it to theaters, where audiences were given another opportunity not to see it. This is the cinematic equivalent of cooking a terrible dinner, watching your family refuse to eat it, putting it back in the refrigerator and announcing, “GOOD NEWS! THE SHIT DINNER IS BACK!”

    Sony has been desperately expanding its Spider-Man movie universe despite apparently being terrified of putting Spider-Man in it. Venom was the worst movie about dogs, but at least it made money and Tom Hardy was great. Mobius, meanwhile, just makes everyone bad breath. Jared Leto becomes a vampire doctor. The characters feel sticky. The visuals look like a turd. The action has no excitement. The script has no substance. There are strictly colored pictures inside the lines that can look frightening if you use enough imagination. Worst of all are the disgusting mermaid sex scenes. I have defended mermaids throughout this entire list, but even I have limits. My mother is a mermaid. Jessica Chastain is a mermaid. Lupita Nyong’o is a mermaid. Whatever is happening in Mobius is an insult to their people.

    Even criticizing Mobius feels pathetic because the movie has already been criticized by seemingly every living organism on Earth. What else can be said? Sony made Mobius. People didn’t like Mobius. The internet made fun of Mobius. Sony misunderstood the joke and gave everybody more Mobius. It failed again.

    And that is why Mobius is the worst movie of 2022.

    Please stop releasing it.