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    Image of kolacek kolacek
    09/17/09

    In reply to Obnoxious Friends of the Future, Always Posting Pics to Twitter [NSFW]
    Actually, Annalee this brings up a good point.

    I watched "Midnight Meat Train" and I literally had to talk to my therapist about it the following week. It was so bloody awful and disgusting and so over the top that I had to ask myself "Who was sick enough to write this...and who was sick enough to buy the script?"

    So THEN I emailed Staci Layne Wilson from Sci Fi Wire about said movie and she said "Oh yeah, I really liked it...especially the part with the eyeball popping out in slow-motion when the guy gets hit with a meat-hammer."

    ! ! !

    Which leads me to two conclusions:

    1) You and Staci are both robots.

    2) Critics, reviewers and seasoned genre writers like you and Staci see so much disgusting, twisted, perverted filth that you've become utterly desensitized.

    Care to comment?

    I would really like to know why I am 42 years old and still have night-terrors over things like "Meat Train" and you seem to have a cast-iron stomach.

    I also have money riding on whether I can sit through "The Antichrist" without crying and I would like your estimate of the odds.

    No, I'm not kidding even slightly.

    Thanks!
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    Annalee Newitz promoted this comment Edited by kolacek at 09/17/09 9:53 AM kolacek was starred kolacek was unstarred
    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    09/17/09

    @kolacek: I am still having nightmares from watching "Marly and Me" and "In Her Shoes."
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    Image of Belabras ate my dingo! Belabras ate my dingo!
    09/17/09

    In reply to Obnoxious Friends of the Future, Always Posting Pics to Twitter [NSFW]
    I think I'd take the face stabbing option.
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    Image of LatinoGeek LatinoGeek
    09/17/09

    In reply to Obnoxious Friends of the Future, Always Posting Pics to Twitter [NSFW]
    As dumb as they look. I want those glasses. I'm constantly walking in on people getting some.
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    Annalee Newitz promoted this comment LatinoGeek was starred LatinoGeek was unstarred
    Image of ampersandparade ampersandparade
    09/17/09

    In reply to Obnoxious Friends of the Future, Always Posting Pics to Twitter [NSFW]
    I have to admit found footage time is my favorite part of the day, every day, especially when I'm dragging into the house half-drunk. Red Cockroaches sounds like a jam, from hell, so this will make an excellent Christmas present for that one friend I can't seem to stop hanging out with, but passive-aggressively want to distance myself from.
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    Image of Stephen Goldmeier Stephen Goldmeier
    09/17/09

    @ampersandparade: i think i actually might WANT to see this. there's this cyberpunk turd called "New Rose Hotel," and it's honestly the worst movie i have seen, but for some reason, i keep watching it.
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    Image of ampersandparade ampersandparade
    09/17/09

    @Stephen Goldmeier: Oh I hear you. There's a terrible Hong Kong film from the late nineties called Bio-Zombie that I rewatch endlessly when I am sick and piled up in bed. It never gets better, but I'm fascinated by it. This extends to nearly every Shyamalan film as well. I have seen The Happening about fifty times now, for no reason.
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    Image of heywhat heywhat
    09/17/09

    In reply to Obnoxious Friends of the Future, Always Posting Pics to Twitter [NSFW]
    WTF?!? Were they crying because they got caught or because they are brother and sister?
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    Annalee Newitz promoted this comment heywhat was starred heywhat was unstarred
    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    09/17/09

    @heywhat: Because the dude just killed their mom.
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    Annalee Newitz was starred Annalee Newitz was unstarred
    Image of Nasdaf Nasdaf
    09/16/09

    In reply to Obnoxious Friends of the Future, Always Posting Pics to Twitter [NSFW]
    disturbingly decontextualized
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    09/16/09

    In reply to Obnoxious Friends of the Future, Always Posting Pics to Twitter [NSFW]
    How does glasses-guy avoid having incest-guy ram those Foster Grants up his urethra?
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    Image of cadrina cadrina
    09/16/09

    In reply to Obnoxious Friends of the Future, Always Posting Pics to Twitter [NSFW]
    Poor Annalee, how do you find this stuff? I imagine that your eyes must be full of nail marks from you trying to rip them off.
    But it's always a fun way to end the day with these posts of yours. =)
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    The Curse of Millhaven promoted this comment cadrina was starred cadrina was unstarred
    Image of geiko geiko
    09/16/09

    In reply to Obnoxious Friends of the Future, Always Posting Pics to Twitter [NSFW]
    The look of the girl from the screenshot of the vid could kill someone. I'm lucky I looked away in time. geez that's a freaky stare. It's like she wanted to join in on the brother-sister parade.
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    Image of wanion wanion
    09/16/09

    @geiko: I noticed that too. It's like a combination of aroused and gassy.

    I'm just glad Annalee provided context, b/c when I watched the clip, I thought, "What's 'get out of my house' guy's problem? Of all of them, he's the one who should be the least ashamed. I mean, getting some and looking like that?" Then it turned out it was his sister and it started to make sense. Still, at least he wasn't wearing those goofy plastic glasses. Now that's embarrassing.
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    Edited by wanion at 09/16/09 11:22 PM wanion was starred wanion was unstarred
    Image of templepriest templepriest
    09/16/09

    In reply to Obnoxious Friends of the Future, Always Posting Pics to Twitter [NSFW]
    Annalee, you watched this so that none of us will ever have to.

    I'd like to send you some food; let me know when you think can eat again.
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    geiko promoted this comment templepriest was starred templepriest was unstarred
    Image of geiko geiko
    09/16/09

    @templepriest: I've tried stuff like that before, to no avail.Any women who will sit through terrible acting, horrible scripts, horrendous dialogue, and heart-rending acting is a keeper in my book. By now, if allowed, I would have sent Annalee, Meredith, and Charlie a million meals. =P
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    Image of Jdelgadillo23 Jdelgadillo23
    09/01/09

    In reply to Happy Birthday to Science Fiction's Oldest Film
    I saw this movie in my history of film class. It really is an amazing film, considering what was being done with silent films at that time. I have a question though, did anyone else think that the "scientists" look right out of harry potter?
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Jdelgadillo23 was starred Jdelgadillo23 was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    09/01/09

    @Jdelgadillo23: I did too -- it was the first thing we watched, along with "The Great Train Robbery". This one is much better. We really enjoyed it. It's got everything -- SF, fight scene, scientists, babes, special effects.

    (Also: loved finding out that my history of film class counted towards my history requirements for the associates' and transfer. Yay California.)

    Daresay JK Rowling and the Potter directors have seen this as well.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of dumanue dumanue
    09/02/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Méliès the magician who managed to make magic with film :)

    seems like a lot of film majors in io9...I took history of film at SMC and yay indeed for california and UC transfer credits...
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    Boas_MC promoted this comment dumanue was starred dumanue was unstarred
    Image of Jdelgadillo23 Jdelgadillo23
    09/02/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Hell's yea man! we also watched the Great Train Robbery, and the original Edison 'shorts' that he created. Where did you take the class?
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    09/01/09

    In reply to Happy Birthday to Science Fiction's Oldest Film
    i love watching older scifi films.this is a great example of fantsy scifi in its earliest form
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    09/01/09

    In reply to Happy Birthday to Science Fiction's Oldest Film
    Thanks for that. I have never seen the whole movie. I always assumed that it was longer.
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    Image of Honu Harry Honu Harry
    09/01/09

    In reply to Happy Birthday to Science Fiction's Oldest Film
    Such a visionary Méliès was. He foresaw Steampunk with uncanny prescience.
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    Grey_Area promoted this comment Honu Harry was starred Honu Harry was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/01/09

    @Honu Harry: Quiet, you.
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    Grey_Area was starred Grey_Area was unstarred
    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/01/09

    @Honu Harry: Haha. That's good sarcasm. At least, that better be sarcasm.
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    Image of Honu Harry Honu Harry
    09/01/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: the best sarcasm always leaves room for doubt!
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    Honu Harry was starred Honu Harry was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/01/09

    In reply to Happy Birthday to Science Fiction's Oldest Film
    Good thing they brought their umbrellas!
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    Image of Mighty Bomb Jack Mighty Bomb Jack
    09/01/09

    @Grey_Area: I'd argue that those top hats have much more utility.
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    Grey_Area promoted this comment Mighty Bomb Jack was starred Mighty Bomb Jack was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/01/09

    @Mighty Bomb Jack: Much more sensible than those pointy professor hats, at least.
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