The Best and Worst Movies of the Summer
With the midnight screenings over for the summer, we get together and name our favorite and least favorite movies of the summer.
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I've really been looking forward to this
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Jake looks oh so happy during this. He looks like He is going to kill all of them.
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good job. I really only saw the marvel super heroes and the help myself so this is helpful
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I'm sad summer is coming to a close because I enjoyed the hell outta these midnight showings.
Your group has a lot of awesome chemistry, even if Jake does want to kill everyone. Looking forward to next year and another summer of Angry Jake.
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We love you Jake, Thank you!!
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All I can say is I'm glad I have better friends than Jake.
If for no other reason than nobody even suggested watching The Smurfs. Poor bastard.
Also I'm pretty sure Jerred could kill the entire academy awards judging panel and 9/10 people would testify in his defence in court.
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I'd help hpay for his defince!
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If it helps Jake, his anger has pleased the masses
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What the hell? Nobody mentioned Suburban Knights for best movie of the summer?
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Indeed, us Cinema Snob fans, if I may be a "internet review show snob" myself, tend to look on Doug's "fun and wacky" year end specials for what the really are.
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Fun and awesome? 'Cause that's what they are.
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jake! jake! jake!
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Oh I KNOW the "pretentious people" who didn't like cowboys and aliens your talking about has to be moviebob
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Go Jake! Go Jake! Go Jake! Go Jake! Go Jake!!!!!!
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Jake should really become a Roastmaster.
PS - LLOYD!!
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That would be interesting to watch them do one year for the Snob's Birthday have a Roast!
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A Cinema Snob-roast! Excellent idea, that would be so awesome! Or maybe a series of Channel Awesome-roasts...
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I clapped.
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Go Jake!
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Jake appeared in my mirror!!
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Don't worry Jake, you have such great memories to look forward to next summer! Like on May 25th, when you get to see Men in Black 3 with the rest of the gang, or June 8th, when you get sent to Madagascar 3 while everybody else goes to Ridley Scott's Prometheus, or August 3rd, while Brian and Jerrid get sent to The Bourne Legacy and Brad and Boyd check out the remake of Total Recall starring Colin Farrell, you, my friend, get the priviledge of seeing the new Diary of Wimpy Kid movie!
Not to mention that fact that Sherlock Holmes 2 is coming out the same day as the Alvin and the Chipmunks 3, and the remake of The Thing is coming out the same day as the remake of Footloose. Let's cross our fingers and hope for the best, Jake!
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Here are my special awards for the best blockbusters of the summer.
The best for me is Super 8 thanks to a great story, great cast, great effects, and overall great entertainment. Runner up goes to Rise of the Planet of the Apes for the same reasons above and Andy Serkis deserves a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.
The biggest surprise for me was X-Men: First Class. I'm not much of an X-Men fan yet I found the movie to be really good.
Plus, Pirates 4, Mr. Popper's Penguins, and Transformers 3 fall under the 'like them for what they were' category. Finally, Thor and Captain America are tied as the best superhero movies of the summer. Thanks Marvel once again.
Oh and I know I should not shoehorn this but since we're on topic for the "biggest" movies of the fall to find, here are some possible suggestions.
Footlose/The Thing (October 14th)
Paranormal Activity 3/The Three Musketeers (3D) (October 21st)
Harold & Kumar 3D/Puss N'Boots (3D) (November 4th)
Breaking Dawn Pt.1/Happy Feet 2 (3D) (November 18th)
Arthur Christmas (3D)/Hugo (3D)/The Muppets/Piranha 3DD (November 23rd)
Sherlock Holmes 2/Alvin and the Chipmunks 3 (December 16th)
Mission: Impossible IV/Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake (December 21st)
Not sure if you guys would do Tintin or War Horse that Christmas week, but it might be very unlikely!
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Best: 1. Harry Potter; 2. Super 8; 3. Cowboys; 4. X-Men
Yes, I am a hardcore HP fan.
Worst: 1. Transformers; 2. Priest; 3. Sucker Punch
that I can think of off hand.
imo
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Oh, yeah, CLEARLY, I am not as unfortunate as a lot of y'all, and didn't see a lot of kids films.
So unlike you, I have not been utterly defeated and turned into a "Priest fanboy" LOL!!
By the way, Brian, you are aware you're allowed to see movies besides at midnight, right? I hope for your sake that you did see alot of better movies at non-midnight.
And if Hobo with a Shotgun counts as a summer movie, then put that right behind Potter
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I'd have to say my favorite movie I saw this year was X-Men: First Class. The only other ones I saw were Green Lantern, Super 8, and Captain America. Green Lantern would be second close for me. Yeah yeah, you hated it. I get that. And I'm sure some douche(s) will probably rip me for liking it, but I did and that's my right. There were a few goofy moments that could have been left out, but I can say the same for Captain America as well. Overall I enjoyed the story, special effects, and the concept.
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AMEN BRIAN!!
Fuck Paranormal Activity!!
Overrated garbage!!
And "twatlight" - awesome!
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Was Twatlight the one with Jenna Haze?
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27:43 - What is Brad saying?
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Thanks guys for a fun summer! I have to go out of my way and thank Jake in particular for sitting through the shit films for us fans to sit and laugh at his angry. The sad thing is we aren't laughing at you, but just the fact that we knew that we would all have the same reaction as you did if we sat through those movies. As for next summer, I'm looking forward to your midnight screenings again, especially since next year will hopefully have less shit movies. Thanks again for an awesome job this summer.
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anger* my bad
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I think after this summer, Jake might be my favorite guy on the site. I know that's really no comfort considering the terrible fucking summer he must have had, but on the bright side, next year can't conceivably get much worse.
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Wow this was great! And, Jake I wasn't pointing at you and laughing I was jamming a stick at you and yelling, "Dance Monkey! Dance! Dance for my entertainment!!!"
Well now that's out of my system! What's ya'll's FB!?
My fave movie was Captain America and Thor and the one I hated was Conan because that was pretty bad for it to get me mad!
I can't wait to see ya'll's reviews next year for The Avengers and Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man!
I sdtill want to see ya'll review Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and Apollo 18 for this year!
Also, to see if ya'll rent Priest and tell us if the Blu-Ra or DVD release is any better than the theater run of it!
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WE LOVE YOU, JAKE!,
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Oh come on now, Jake... there's plenty of good sounding movies coming next summer! Like "I Hate You, Dad" where Adam Sandler plays Andy Samberg's dad for some reason, "Here Comes The Boom" with Kevin James (oh and he's like a true visionary on this one 'cos he also co-wrote it, so yeah, vision), "What to Expect When You're Expecting" a romantic comedy with Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez, "Rock Of Ages" a musical with Tom Cruise, "Madagascar 3", "Scary Movie 5", "Ice Age 4 3-D" and a kinda sorta remake of "Total Recall". Just to name the one's you're gonna see. So there's plenty to look forward to in the summer of 2012!
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Oh and Jake should also have a weekly show on the site called "Generic Safe Entertainment With 'Screaming Mad' Jake" or something, where he just watches new DVDs of current romantic comedies, family comedies, kids movies and those drmatic comedies that no one really likes... Also "I Know I Should Be Laughing But Why Am I Just F****** Angry!?" would also be a good title.
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The Happy Madison Productions did help work on the film, Funny People. Jerried is right.
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Oh that potatoe head of a man is always right.
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We love you Jake!!!
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*clap clap clap clap*
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I made the mistake of whining about Fright Night before I saw it.
It#s actually very good and different enough from the original not to annoy me.
Didn't watch any real stinkers except the consensus says Transformers 3. Personally, I went with my kid and a couple of his pals expecting to see 2 hours of big robots bashing stuff and that's what I got.
Super 8 was good, but I preferred Attack The Block
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Very nice guys, I concur that Cowboys & Aliens was the best of the summer for me, with X-Men in close second. I didn't bother with the kids movies, but worse for me would probably be Pirates 4. Transformers 3 is close, but Pirates 4 gets it because the Pirates movies USED to be kinda cool. Right around the part in the 4th one when Jack is fighting Penelope Cruz' character, it hit me that these characters and this universe have REALLY fallen from grace.
I was kinda bummed that Jarrid didn't get to finish what he was saying at the end, tho. And, that we didn't get to hear what everybody was looking forward to (and dreading) next summer. But I'm sure we'll hear all about 'em, next summer.
PS: I'll pay for Jake's ticket, for when he gets sent to the shitty ones; THAT'S $10 worth spending.
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I think you guys should continue with the weekly reviews. There aren't any current running new movie review shows with more than one person at the helm.
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This was 25 minutes too long! Also STOP with the nervous laughter; you guys think it's funny but to the viewer, it's boring!
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Nope =)
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It's funny watching Jake stare down Brian as he tears down his beloved "Citizen Kane" of the summer, "Priest".
You can see it in his eyes, "You naive bastard! You haven't seen the hell I've seen!"
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You guys should play a game: "Jake or Seth?" You play by listening to two audio recordings: One of Jake and one of Seth Rogen, but you aren't told beforehand which is which. Guess whose voice belongs to which recording, and win fabulous prizes!
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Jake's anger at these pieces of shit is what gives me hope for humanity!
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Sarah was about to say "Fright Night" was the worst? Wow, she really didn't see a lot of movies this summer.
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I'm clapping with the fury of a thousand suns for you Jake! Your suffering has not gone unnoticed and unappreciated.
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Wow I liked fright night, though I streamed it off the net and couldnt see shit because it was so dark and the quality was so poor. The twist at the end was that was no twist, you kept expecting the girl's eyes to change colors (or something to indicate she was a vampire) but it didnt happen.
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Best: 1. X-Men, 2. Rise of the Planet of the Apes, 3. Horrible Bosses, 4. Potter, 5. Thor
Worst: Transformers 3
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Jake saw those movies for our sins.
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Fuck HBO! Screw Showtime! I could watch a whole channel of you guys and never miss my TV. I love Angry Jake and Goofy Jerrid and I'll miss these Mob reviews terribly; next summer seems sooooo far away. And if that makes me a silly fan-girl, then I'll wear that button proudly.
(Poor Jake.....He's just 'Bread and Circuses' for us unwashed internet hordes)
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so some of you actually liked captain america? okay i will see this movie.... i just had the impression that most of you didnt like the movie
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Best movie I saw was Midnight in Paris, the worst was either, and I honestly didn't see any bad movies in theatres this summer. I think that's a good thing.
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I feel sorry for Jerrid. He keeps getting interrupted. Show the man some respect. Also, mocking him behind his back while he speaks about Happy Madison productions. For shame. Brad, don't let TCS become your personality. It's just a character bro. Keep it in the TCS reviews.
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Yeah no =) When someone says early Happy Madison was good (which includes The Hot Chick, Joe Dirt, and Little Nicky) I'm going to mock them
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Don't forget Deuce Bigalow! God bless you, Rob Schneider. You star in those movies so no one else has to.
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Jerrid didn't keep his promise
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We love you Jake!! Thank you have watching those horrible movies for us! If I ever see you, I'll make you the best sandwich ever!
Ever.
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Heya guys, it's fun to watch you guys talking about this summer's movies in the same room. There's just one thing: Brad, Brian(No, the OTHER Brian), you've overrated Cowboys and Aliens by a great margin.
The story wasn't good, the casting may very well have been stellar, but in my opinion that doesn't make a movie good, guys! Too much time wasted on minutiae like arguing with the Native Americans, the movie just needed more editing, and even then it wasn't a very ambitious movie, and it wasn't a very good western.
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I will say Jake's rants have been the most entertaining parts of this whole Midnight Summer. I've enjoyed all the reviews, but Jake has been the most entertaining.
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So I guess Jake had a Bummer Summer, huh.
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My Best And Worst Of The Summer.
1/2. Horrible Bosses/30 Minutes Or Less (Awesome comedies with awesome casts without any stupid god damn morals to get in the way of the funny and I enjoyed myself the entire time. I'd have to see these movies again to tell you which one was worse honestly).
3. Winnie The Pooh (... what? That was awesomley nostalgic, great 2D animation and funny with the simplistic plot Pooh is known for but not the simplstic plot that would annoy you. I guess you guys didn't see it but trust me there was a GOOD Kids movie this summer).
4. X-Men: First Class (There's more interesting characters, good jokes and an enjoyable plot. The ending isn't the best and it could of tied better into the other X-Men movies but it's defintley the best of the five flicks of the movie franchise)
5. Captain America: The First Avenger (the first two scenes werne't that good but the rest was enjoyable and yeah at times campy superhero fun but that's honestly what I expected from Captain America and yeah Chris Evans defintley portrayed the most likeable and enjoyable main super hero I've seen on screen).
Worst.
1. Spy Kids 4: All The Time In The World (Probably the worst movie I've ever seen. I liked parts of the first three but HATED pretty much of all this and I didn't even see it in 3D or *shudders* smellavision which would probably make me dislike it even more).
2. The Smurfs (True the Smurfs is a horrible and annoying movie but I didn't find it as bad as Spy Kids 4. And also watching the show again it does not really hold up when you're an adult and though the movie's probably more embarassing I'd consider the two equally as mindless).
3. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hollows Part 2 (I don't know why everyone's praising this movie and this comes from someone who did like Movie 5 a lot. This one was very boring IMHO and had a very anti climatic end and dosen't have nearly the amount of action people keep saying it does).
4. Bad Teacher (this one had a few laughs but wasn't nearly as funny as I thought it would be as they didn't take nearly as many risks as they could of. Even the Change Up gave me more laughs then this turkey).
5. Thor (though not terrible the weakest of the super hero movies IMHO. Yes even weaker then Green Lantern as this was cheesy in all the bad ways and there seemed to be a lot more pointless scenes and characters then even the GL movie had. Plus the most forciest forced romance out of all foricest forced romances. Again IMHO).
Still nice list of the summer guys. And though Jake is great at these negatives reviews try and cut him a break next summer and give him only one really horrible movie and let someone else shoulder more of the kids movies so he can see more of the flicks he wants to. Though yeah his anger is defintley the funniest part of this video addmitingly.
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"The absolute worst, I'm gonna have to say the group of friends that I have"
I could not have laughed harder when Jake said that
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Jake went through a pretty American Hell; he was "forced" to watch some crappy movies, none of which was "A Serbian Film"* or a Nick Zedd jerkoff loop....oh I'm not doubting it was a painful timewaster, but was it pure torture? I mean jake yells a lot, but was it really as eye-gouging as watching some of the torture movies they've been making for the last decade?
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* The full nauseating cut, not the R-rated puppies and kisses version.
I think he made those films as background for art shows, plotless litlle excursions into William Burroughs territory, but without so much of the homosexuality.
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Come on Jerrid Super 8 is your favorite movie of the summer ? And you want it nomminated for an oscar ?! That movie was an insult.
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Don't worry Jake. Cowboys and Aliens wasn't as good as Brad made it out to be.
Jerrid is the Karl Pilkington of this site.
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I'm just glad none of you said the worst was Transformers 3 except for Brad because I really liked it and it's upsetting when people you like don't agree with your opinion, no matter how immature that sounds.
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i don't agree with you suffer
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Ok my picks are
1.Thor
2.Captian america
3.Pirates i still love pirates there was cool scenes in it and plus i didn't watch it in the bullshit 3D so yea
i skipped x-men because ...it broke my heart before and i saw that ...it was screwing up again in the trailers so i will skip anyway.
i didn't see transformers lol nor priest or anything like that
oh i loved kinfu panda like number 3 or 4 ish it was great movie i skipped what looked stupid to me so i enjoyed it XD poor poor jake you know you have to watch smurfs 2...why the fuck is this coming out don't know then again why is there a jurassic park 4!
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I'm not pointing and laughing, Jake.
I salute you for making the sacrifice few of us would want to make. You sat through THE WORST god-damned movies this summer and THEN you also sat through Transformers 3.
I had to endure Transformers 3 at the Drive-In. At least the cool thing about that was I only paid $5 to see it.
But I was SO MAD after Transformers 3 ended that I didn't even stick around for "Super 8" and I'm still mad at J. J. Abrams for fucking up the "Star Trek" franchise which again I went to see at the Drive-In. I didn't want to be 0 for 2 when it comes to J. J. Abrams at the Drive-In.
I made up for my summer with "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" which I noticed NO ONE had any comments on. Not even Sarah, and she was most impressed with how the apes were using flanking maneuvers.
I thought Planet of the Apes was a beautiful movie. It sounds cliched, I realize, but this movie had me crying when John Lithgow's character passed away as it was very eerily like watching my own father pass away.
And then you want to cry again at the end, but for joy this time when Caesar climbs the tree and the view of San Francisco and the music tells us that Earth has a NEW dominant species. Andy Serkis BETTER win an Academy Award(R) for his role as Caesar or I will send Jerrid to someone's house in Hollywood in the middle of the night.
could honestly recommend that if you went to see Rise of the Planet of the Apes, you could then watch the 1968 original with Charleton Heston and it all makes perfect sense.
My second most fun movie was Captain America which when you get two movies for $5 is an awesome bargain compared to ONE Michael Bay-Platinum Turd 3-D movie for over $10.
Captain America was a FUN movie, and Tommy Lee Jones was awesome with his hilarious lines. Marvel is setting up something awesome for their coming "Avengers" movies, but I wish they didn't replace Edward Norton with MARK RUFFALO??? as Bruce Banner. Edward Norton WAS Banner and you got the sense this was the SAME Banner from the Bill Bixby show. But Mark Ruffalo??? *sigh*
My WORST movie is Transformers 3. And I think that when the Midnight Screening Crew lists what their worst movie of the summer was, Transformers 3 shouldn't even count as a movie and it's automatically it's own bad movie of the summer.
The sad part is, I drove all the way out to the drive-in wanting to see Green Lantern, even after how Brad said it was a bad movie, I was still kinda
interested. But when I get there, nope, that had to be the Wednesday that Transformers 3 opened and the drive-in switched movies.
It was either Transformers 3 or Cars 2 on the second screen. Why didn't I pick Cars 2? WHY?
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For what it's worth, I loved pretty much every single one of the Midnight videos this summer. Brad (of course), Virtual Boyd, and Jake pretty much made every one of the videos they appeared in all summer, though that's not to say I disliked anybody.
Looking forward to whatever any of you guys do in the future.
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I'm applauding for you Jake, now someone give him his ROB
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My personal picks:
Best
1. Super 8
2. Captain America
3. Thor
Worst
1. Smurfs
2. Green Lantern
3. Transformers 3
Poor Jake! You are now tied with Jerrid for my favorite of all Team Snob!
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The best movie I saw this summer was Death Proof. wait a minute...
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I have to say, I clapped for Jake at the end. He is extremely entertaining and his reviews were the easily the most fun to watch.
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I am a movie freak and hardly let go any movie unwatched, I use to read the reviews before watching a movie from here http://www.access-movies.com/ and watch movies too from here and captain america was the best movie of summer.
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Just FYI, blip is saying it can't show this episode.
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