DCist: Popcorn & Candy: Shadows & Rock

monkeyrotica

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:34:35 -0500

So they finally got to you too, huh Reid? The truth is that Harrison brokered a deal with the Red Lektroids from Planet Ten to "harvest" the millions of souls they needed to use as fuel for their interstellar pleasure saucers through a second war with Mexico. Except, unbeknownst to the "greys," Harrison cut a deal with the Advanced Supersonic Aluminum Nazi Hell Creatures from Below the Hollow Earth that gave them air rights to Mount Shasta in exchange for such advanced technologies as the dirigible, the telegraph, and the french tickler. So the greys slipped the bedridden Harrison an opium colonic, and the Civil War went ahead as scheduled. If Americans found out the real truth about the Harrison assasination, they'd dump their warp core.

Reid

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:23:46 -0500

Plenty of people wish W.H. Harrison were taken out by an assassin. That would remove the stain on the Harrison family (a burden which has hindered Marvin Harrison's career, as demonstrated by a sharp reduction in fantasy output from him in recent years). No, W.H. Harrison died because he was an idiot who wouldn't listen to his Mother who told him on his way to the inauguration that "Eating moldy bread will kill that pneumonia you're about to get." The only conspiracy was from the Nobel Prize committee which refused to recognize Mrs. Harrison's invention of penicillin. The country tried to make it up to Mrs. Harrison by electing her half-wit Great Grandson Benny. After that disaster, the country shouted "Do Over" and put Stephen "Grover" Cleveland back in office, despite the fact he was actually a Irish Setter. Nobody would bother trying to kill W.H. Harrison because, according to the Reid Theory of Exponentially More Important Elections, the Presidential election of 1840 was roughly as important as an uncontested ANC election.

brakattack

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:57:04 -0500

I saw The Adventures of Prince Achmed in a film class last year and was absolutely obsessed with it (and I'm not usually big on animation). If I weren't out of town this weekend I'd be all over that screening.

monkeyrotica

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:22:41 -0500

I'm probably one of five people who actually enjoyed JFK as a great piece of agitprop. (The other four people died under mysterious circumstances; one by a self-inflicted karate chop to the throat while in the shower.) Apart from Hopkins' performance in Nixon, I barely made it through to the credits. So I'll probably skip W. Still looking forward to Stone's biopic of the plot to kill William Henry Harrison with castor oil and opium suppositories.

boondoggle

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:33:25 -0500

No mention of Rachel Getting Married, which I believe opens in DC this weekend. The critics are quite keen on it, though I expect the pacing and script may not appeal to everyone.

Reid

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:24:21 -0500

Was that animation movie shown during the early film show at the Phillips last year? I remember something like that which was shown and was really cool.