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The Long Good Friday

Mar 19, '08 3:06 PM
for everyone

How do you like your endurance challenges?

Perhaps you enjoy a brisk walk on an incline?

Perhaps you are a long distance runner?

Perhaps you endlessly hit refresh whilst trawling your Multiply page for comments as you gradually waste away?

I have a test greater even than these!

For, yes, having once watched a B-Movie a day every day for a week – and then a year or so later doing it all over again – this Good Friday, Your Host and two of his good chums* will be enjoying a B-Movie Marathon which promises a minimum of three disgracefully poor looking films back to back.

In case you should be thinking, “Pah! I bet I could do that!” – let me tell you that all three films are based on video games.

Obviously there will be alcohol.

At some point over the weekend, I shall report back. Possibly with photographs and commentary on the day’s events.

*Possibly more, depending on how successful others are at faking their own deaths between now and Friday.

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giftofthefab wrote on Mar 19, '08

marcusjjordan said

Perhaps you endlessly hit refresh whilst trawling your Multiply page for comments as you gradually waste away?

Best diet I ever went on....

Good luck with the B-Movie marathon.

utroukx wrote on Mar 19, '08

sounds like fun. enjoy!

thevixenuk wrote on Mar 19, '08

Grrrrr,I want to come!
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jujukitten wrote on Mar 19, '08

Doh that's sounds like fun, I want to come too :(

margypsie wrote on Mar 19, '08

Enjoy, Enjoy... and Enjoy:) ::smiles:: Have fun!

jujukitten wrote on Mar 19, '08

marcusjjordan said

Perhaps you endlessly hit refresh

I do that sometimes, I'm quite sad really :) I'm doing it at the mo but its just while we wait for Torchwood to start :)

jujukitten wrote on Mar 19, '08

Their at the cinema on Torchwood tonight, might just be up your street, or not?! :)

propercharlie wrote on Mar 20, '08

I will look forward to reading the reviews and seeing the photographs .... but I couldn't sit through a B Movie Marathon .....

captaindangereyes wrote on Mar 20, '08

looks like i'm gonna be a lightweight & turn in late. looking forward to what you can throw at me... Uwe Boll shield at the ready! Nothing on earth could be worse than "Death Car".

marcusjjordan wrote on Mar 20, '08

Ah. "The Gladiator" - that one was a tough one.

Word reaches me that all three films have now arrived - accompanied by only terrible silence ...

mutantnme wrote on Mar 20, '08

And the third film of our video games "inspired" movie roster has arrived. Woot!! indeed.

I believe nothing could be as bad as the "Death Car" movie ( or "The Gladiator" (no, not that one!!)).

They can, however, be almost as bad and have a budget the size of an African country's GDP. So there'll be plenty of fabulous effects overlaying the Hollywood stars as they veer between the plot holes, reaching out for dialogue like Donovan for the Holy Grail....

"He chose poorly...."

marcusjjordan wrote on Mar 20, '08

Spooky - I quoted that exact line last night.

jujukitten wrote on Mar 20, '08

oh my god its Ado!! where u been hiding? :)

crazyirisherin wrote on Mar 20, '08

Pah. I could do that.

marcusjjordan wrote on Mar 21, '08

Ah! The big day has arrived!

propercharlie wrote on Mar 21, '08

So who are your partners in crime ?

marcusjjordan wrote on Mar 21, '08

MutantNME, thedynamicduo, captaindangereyes, and MutantNME's other half.

We happy few ...

margypsie wrote on Mar 21, '08

Have FUN! I get to do dishes... I know... you are very jealous and would love to change places with me if only you could! Sadly, by the time the plane arrived with you and your dish cloth... I'd be done and your film fest would be over. So I suppose we must both trudge on, forced to do what we set out to do... me dishes, you films...

*stomps foot* I really want to watch films all day, too! *stomps foot again and exists, stage right*

::smiles::

utroukx wrote on Mar 21, '08

*chuckling*

utroukx wrote on Mar 21, '08

yes, if only it weren't for that darn trans-atlantic flight.

margypsie wrote on Mar 21, '08, edited on Mar 21, '08

I know... stupid ocean!

utroukx wrote on Mar 21, '08

lol

crazyirisherin wrote on Mar 21, '08

It really does get in the way, doesn't it. Sheesh.

jujukitten wrote on Mar 21, '08

Hope your all having lots of fun :)

margypsie wrote on Mar 21, '08

crazyirisherin said

Sheesh.

Um... I believe you meant, Yeesh! ::chuckles::

marcusjjordan wrote on Mar 21, '08

Well.
We survived.

But at a horrible cost.

jujukitten wrote on Mar 21, '08

I've heard...... :)

margypsie wrote on Mar 21, '08

Glad you managed to make it through...

utroukx wrote on Mar 21, '08

my condolences.

fil75 wrote on Mar 21, '08

I really hope you didn't watch Street Fighter. Again.

Dead or Alive I thought was great though. I have no idea why.

propercharlie wrote on Mar 22, '08

I will look forward to reading your review[s]. Me I was installing a wireless connection so Natasha can play on her laptop downstairs in comfort whilst I sit in the back room upstairs.

Now whoever says you can set it all up in less than a minute .... ? After an hour and a half [and a telephone conversation with Tiscali and another with Belkin] we made it ....

captaindangereyes wrote on Mar 22, '08

I'll just say "Aaaaarrrrrgggghhhh!"

thedynamicuno wrote on Mar 22, '08

Damn Uwe, I feel mentally scarred now...

hotclaws wrote on Mar 22, '08

It would take a lot of alcohol if one of them is Street Fighter.

marcusjjordan wrote on Mar 22, '08

Happily none of them were.
Though we did discuss it.
Which was enough.

marcusjjordan wrote on Mar 26, '08

For the - quite literally - ones of you who've contacted me wondering where this is - It's on its way. Probably some time over the weekend.

mutantnme wrote on Mar 27, '08

Both my head and eyes hurt after the third in our horrible trilogy. Strangley, I felt much better just an hour later, after leaving the scene of such unimaginable cinematic torture. We certainly got we paid for, if only we could pay for the time back...

We watched it.... We can't unwatch it.... :o(

propercharlie wrote on Mar 27, '08

We knew it would be coming through ....

marcusjjordan wrote on Apr 6, '08

Almost done with this.

Hopefully in the next few days.

marcusjjordan wrote on Nov 17, '08

Or, you know. Never.

Well... Perhaps one day.

margypsie wrote on Nov 17, '08

::chuckles:: I thought I was being whisked into an alternate reality of deja vu as I read this over... then I read the comments. Phew! I really did read it before so the universe is still my own... now, get to work. I am waiting for the reports:) ::smiles::

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