Videogum » Amy Smart http://videogum.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:45:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Crank http://videogum.com/76722/the_hunt_for_the_worst_movie_o_62/franchises/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time/ http://videogum.com/76722/the_hunt_for_the_worst_movie_o_62/franchises/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:20:57 +0000 Gabe I know that there is still some confusion about how The Hunt works, as evidenced by numerous comments each week, and I suppose that I am doomed to keep explaining the rules, ))<>((, since we will inevitably have new readers who don’t know what is what, and who will not bother to find out what is what on their own. (On a similar note, people can stop suggesting I Know Who Killed Me now, because I already did I Know Who Killed Me.) It seems especially fitting to go over this today since Crank has turned out to be a very controversial nominee. Many people have been very scared about what might be said about their precious, precious Crank. Either that, or very derisive in what they assumed would be a self-imploding shit show wherein I make it very clear that I have never known what the fuck I am talking about and everyone laughs at me because this is Crank‘s world and I only live in it, because apparently Crank, in some people’s eyes, is an unimpeachable work of incredible art, and only a fool would ever dare to even talk about it lest God cut the tongue from his mouth (with heaven lazers? I don’t know). Well, so a couple of things about that:

1. The whole point of The Hunt is to find the Worst Movie of All Time, not to simply survey already known bad movies. Read the rules! The point, though, is that any movie is a valid nominee to this nightmare quest. And if a movie that you happen to like turns up on the list, it doesn’t mean that it’s definitely going to be a terrible movie. If you are right, you should not be scared. Put your movie in the Dune itchy box. We will see if it gets the vivid blue spice eyes.

2. Crank is definitely not an unimpeachable work of incredible art.

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]]> 186 The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: The Butterfly Effect http://videogum.com/65252/the_hunt_for_the_worst_movie_o_53/franchises/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time/ http://videogum.com/65252/the_hunt_for_the_worst_movie_o_53/franchises/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:32:10 +0000 Gabe When I was in junior high, I really loved Ray Bradbury. One of my favorite Bradbury stories is the classic “A Sound of Thunder.” If you’ve never read it, it’s about a guy in the future who goes on a time traveling dinosaur safari. The company that organizes the trips has carefully timed them so that hunters only shoot dinosaurs moments before they were about to die of natural causes anyway. Everyone takes pictures with their kills and then removes the bullets and leaves the world exactly as they found it so as not to disrupt the space-time continuum. But the story’s hero (or anti-hero, I guess), freaks out and runs off the pre-determined path, and when they return to the present everything has changed because the man trampled a butterfly. It’s a great story, especially when you’re 12. You can read it here.

Or you could spend two hours watching a much worse but arguably even more entertaining (due to insanity) take on chaos theory. I am talking, of course, about the Ashton Kutcher vehicle, The Butterfly Effect.

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