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Mock The Movie: The Wasp Woman

Jason Thibeault, , , 2 Comments
Wasp Woman theatrical poster
Via IMDb

So, it sometimes takes us a while to settle on a monumentally bad flick to mock, partly because of monetary concerns (not every movie is legally available free or advertiser-sponsored on the internet), regional issues (not everyone can access Hulu for instance — e.g., pretty much everyone who doesn’t live in the continental US), and partly because only some movies make decent mock-fodder. In fact, scientists predict that if we can manage a pace of one movie a month, we’ll hit Peak Movie sometime in 2019. Unfortunately, this means we’ll eventually have to start mining the 2000s for horrible movies, though we’ve made a few forays into the Syfy library already.

But we’ve picked what I really hope will be a winner loser this week, from the Internet Archive.

Mock The Movie is back with a bang! Well, actually a sting… this week, we’ll be enjoying The Wasp Woman.

This cult classic features a truly diabolical villain – a cosmetics company founder and CEO.  Our boss lady is willing to do ANYTHING to boost sales, and that includes shady wasp science.  Well, we all know how these shady science schemes go…

“A queen of beauty by day…

              a lusting queen wasp by night!”

When will people learn that diabolical plans involving dubious science never, ever work? Hopefully never, or we wouldn’t have movies to mock!

Here’s how we do this Mock The Movie thing:

  1. Start following @MockTM on twitter.
  2. Start watching The Wasp Woman Thursday, March 15th, at 9PM EST.  It’s available here for free.
  3. Once you’ve got The Wasp Woman going, tweet your snarky comments to @MockTM.  Directing our tweets to @MockTM will keep our followers from being overwhelmed with our snark!
  4. Let the snark roll on twitter, but keep in mind… this movie was made in 1960.  In your @MockTM tweets try not to focus on special effects (or the lack thereof).  Instead, focus on the plot, characters, acting, story development, etc.  Let’s reserve our FX slams for a movie made in this decade.
Mock The Movie: The Wasp Woman
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Of Skyrimming, overzealous Christianity, and reading comprehension

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One of my absolute favorite theist parody sites is ChristWire. They are, for all intents and purposes, a proving ground for Poe’s Law. There, the most ridiculous parodies of fundamentalist or evangelical Chrsitian reactions to everyday occurrences or aspects of pop culture are mimicked to such a high degree that, all too often, real Christians believe the parody and act according to their consciences.

In this case, ChristWire took aim at the recent Bethesda game Skyrim.

Right off the bat, the gay supporting software company Blizzard, shows the player images of decapitations and after the third of forth head chopping, a necromatic dragon appears and sets the player free from righteous punishment. Now that the player is free, they will spend the next 400 hours robbing people, killing villagers, crafting sexual items, fornicate with elves and other Harry Potter style animals and also learn how to conjure up black magic.

Emphasis mine.
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Of Skyrimming, overzealous Christianity, and reading comprehension

America’s 2012 election: vote for Canada

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Meet the Canada Party. They offer an alternative to the ridiculous offerings the Republican Party has on display, and the “guy who gave a drunk Congress the keys to the country”.

Seriously, it’s the best choice for all of us, even if our present Prime Minister is a Muppet version of George W. Bush. I mean, just look at your other options.

America’s 2012 election: vote for Canada

Christians Hate Ninja Turtles

Jason Thibeault, , 3 Comments

Proving once again that Christian evangelists with a camera have, historically, thought of nothing better to do with their faith and technology-on-hand than recording and selling a pop culture Five Minutes Hate, here’s some Canadian Christians slagging off Ninja Turtles for being “Hinduist humanist occult” something something.

Also, Michael Jackson chocolate bars, and Weylon Smithers gets made Homer Simpson’s secretary.

Hat tip once again to Everything Is Terrible.

Christians Hate Ninja Turtles

Shit Theists Say to Atheists

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I really need time to unpack this “Shit X Say To Y”, considering most of them perpetuate stereotypes and probably do more damage in general to the aggrieved parties than the “satire” intends. However, this one… this one.

I have heard every single argument made against my atheism. I swear to you, every one. Not a single one has not been said, directly to me, by someone who believes in a deity.

The video explicitly says it’s “shit CHRISTIANS say”, but this nonsense is not exclusive to Christianity — they are the most common theist reactions to news of a person’s atheism, and probably owe a lot to the religious programming that demands that adherents proselytize to the unconverted. A few of the bits I’ve heard personally came from Muslims, in fact. It’s a problem of theism, not of any one specific religion.

Update: This is apparently a contribution to a post at Friendly Atheist.

Shit Theists Say to Atheists

Mock The Movie transcript: Laser Mission

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For your reading pleasure, below the fold is the transcript for last night’s Mock The Movie. If you didn’t get a chance to see it, the download link’s in yesterday’s post, go grab it then come back here to read along as you watch. We start at 2:00:00 UMT, timestamps are below each line.
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Mock The Movie transcript: Laser Mission