ready, set, mock!

[lagilman]

having worked all day, I'm taking time off for some brain candy. Sci-Fi channel. 7pm Eastern. "Octopus." Terrorists and secret agents battle crazed octopi.



Going off to make the popcorn, now.


(if I can manage it, after is "Octopus 2: River of Fear" Radioactive octopi in NYC's harbor. Can you stand the anticipation?)


well, we're starting off right, during the Cuban Missle Crisis, with a Russian sub in US waters... and lo, they're sunk. Slow-mo of dying sailors and stirring martial music. Panning shot of tanks ooing a slow green fluid onto the ocean floor. Next up: inquiring octopus, I bet...


Nope, cut to CIA outpost, in a clearly far more innocent age, where little kids are allowed to hang out in the secretarial pool while mommy works. And nobody thinks anything of an old woman who walks in with an unsearched bag. Suspension of disbelief officially in overdrive...

Shmuck. Guy who blew up the building with your girlfriend in it is in your sights, and you don't pull the trigger? I know preschoolers who would do better than that.

All right, the rivalry between spook and terrorist has been set up now. We'd better see some mega-octopi, soon.


Hah. We have achieved octopi. Complete with musical cues and cheezy underwater screaming.



...bored now. Kill the terrorist before he giggles again, willya?


Okay, a mutant octopus with iron deficiency craving meat All to set up, as far as I can tell, to deliver the punchline "white meat, or dark meat?" I can respect that.

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Mock the Ock (Sorry.)

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

Not sure if kradical shared this with you, but every other Tuesday, he and I along with drewshi and another friend get together for a night of Geeking.  Which usually involves pizza and a bad movie.

NOW THAT'S SOME MOVIE MOCKING!

True movie mocking is a communal experience I do not believe can be adequately shared via LJ.

But keep trying.

;-)

Re: Mock the Ock (Sorry.)

[lagilman]

It's not a contest, popfiend. Mellow, 'k?


(and yes, I know all about the Geek Patrol, if that's what you're referring to.)

Re: Mock the Ock (Sorry.)

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

Not a contest? Isn't everything?!?!

I'll work on the mellow thing.

And yes, I am refering to the Geek Patrol.

Re: Mock the Ock (Sorry.)

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

I will say that most of the time we actually mock Keith.

Only because we love.

But we'll have to stop that now that he can kick our collective asses.

Re: Mock the Ock (Sorry.)

[drewshi.livejournal.com]

Besides, popfiend, you know we talk more about other things than the actual movies (EDIT)themselves. I think this week was the most quiet I've seen in ages, in part because kradical wasn't there (we missed you, pal) and because I think you actually liked what we watched.

Sorry, we'll take this elsewhere now.

[rantmaster.livejournal.com]

You is funny. :)

[lagilman]

The second movie actually wasn't 'orrible. It was "Jaws" with an octopus, basically, right down to the mayor insisting "nothing is going to stop the fourth of july festival, the harbor is completely safe!" but compared to the mishmash chaos of the first movie....