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When the first smatterings of this site were dancing little sugarplums, cavorting in our heads, I had two things in mind for ourselves, and the other writers we would tap: Zombie Boy as Zombie Boy
So, though he may bark, and though he may grit his teeth and punch through farmhouse walls to better get a claw at your brain, there's a sturdy heart a-beat in that blued and rotten chest. It is the heart that throbs when he pours over every scrap of content wedged into a DVD (unless it's his Holy Trinity of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost appearing... then it might not be the heart throbbing). A champion of the cinematic underdog, it is the more under-appreciated genres of film which get the business end of his flashlight. When eagerly sharing the most minute details of a film's backstory, that throbbing becomes a legible war drum. When he writes of whispered of film-makers, such as Nathan Schiff... well, it makes you want to get your geek on, and fall in love with a hitherto unknown avenue of film, all over again.
Bobby B as Midnight Butterfly
Perhaps all that exploring of the physical gives a clue to his interest in the cerebral. There's a pattern that comes to light in Midnight Butterfly's film-intensive prose: being "baked to the gills" while watching a movie. And always with a girl he "was dating at the time" -- prompting me to wonder, "Dude. Do you ever go to a movie alone?" Angela Mac as Miss Nuance
Conspiracy theories, dark comedies, cheesy horror, foreign films, British television, gory horror and musicals make me smile. I preferred Snatch to Lock, Stock, and I feel zero remorse. Fond of amazing feats accomplished with simple machines (... but aren't they all...), and fixing things. Neither of which has anything to do with the movies. Unless, of course, I rig up a pulley and lever-based system for blacking out the windows and serving up popcorn instantaneously to pressing the DVD player's play button. Actually, that's not a bad idea. My point though, was that we're a good group. We're small, and broken, but good. (And yes -- that WAS a Disney reference!) ... we also have an addition: Marcel Leroux as Mr. Majestyk
That’s the shit that Mr. Majestyk fucking lives for. He realizes that 90% of what movies do has always been totally retarded,, so if you claim to love movies, you better learn to appreciate some totally retarded shit. Otherwise, you’re gonna be one of those angry assholes on the message boards, screaming out in rage over the “Noooooo!” scene in Episode III when really all you want is someone (preferably wearing a gilded bikini and rocking dual hair buns) to hug you and tell you everything’s going to be alright. Mr. Majestyk is an enlightened type of dude who knows that movies are supposed to be fun. No matter how bad a movie is, it’s still 90 minutes or more when you don’t have to go to work, fight with your girlfriend, or deal with the crippling regret over the many, many mistakes you’ve made over the course of your wasted life. So if movies make you mad more than they make you happy, Mr. Majestyk feels maybe it’s time you found a less stressful hobby, like sitting in the corner and shutting the fuck up. A movie isn’t your childhood. It isn’t your life. It’s just the gravy that goes on top of it. So if you ever start taking movies a bit too seriously and forgetting that there are motherfuckers in this world with bigger problems than CGI gophers and nuke-resistant Frigidaires, Mr. Majestyk is here to give you some fucking perspective." ( If his reviews are anything like his third-person, we should be in for a treat!)
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