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Well, guys, it has been quite an exciting week. A guy licked a shoe on the subway, a senior girl said what everyone was thinking about sophomore girls, and I became Videogum’s new Associate Editor. Whoa! What a week. I wanted to thank you guys for being so nice and welcoming during my first days here. This is a great blogmmunity and I really am very grateful. I hope to be everything you need and deserve in an Associate Editor, and more. Or just about the exact amount. Onward and upward. Clear hearts, powerful eyes, happy faces.
After the jump, the five Highest Rated comments, as voted on by you, the Lowest Rated comment, the James Franco Graduation Caption Contest winner, and the Editor’s and Associate Editor’s Choice.
This Week’s Highest Rated Comments
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Just Désserts | May 16th | Score:67 |
| Posted in: The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Summer Series | |||
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R2D2, Esq. | May 17th | Score:69 |
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James Franco mingles with the soon-to-be-poor. |
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| Posted in: The Videogum Why Don’t YOU Caption It? Contest: James Franco Graduation | |||
| #3 | Chris Trash | May 16th | Score:70 | |
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I nominate this once again. This is the atheist version of a chick tract disguised as a high concept movie.
I would also like to add this movie to my nominations:
It’s just simply the worst job done by a major director I have ever seen. It’s kind of hard to make a comedy/action movie that makes sense as a whole. I liked Date Night, The Good Guys and Pineapple Express, but those movies are very uneven. This on the other hand is just a bad movie all the way through. It feels like a band that is jamming for the first time and they are all playing a different song. -Professor Metaphors |
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| Posted in: The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Summer Series | |||
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That One | May 16th | Score:77 |
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Can we talk about the word “pretentious” for a second? When did it become such a common insult. It seems whenever a movie or book or record gets really ambitious while taking itself seriously, it gets labeled as pretentious. Why? That’s not a real critique. Is Magnolia pretentious because it attempts to tell the very small stories of multiple characters and paint it on a very large canvas in order to find the universal in the personal? Sure, it’s not perfect but it’s trying something and that alone wins me over. Movies no one has ever called pretentious: Transformers Cop Out Final Destination 4 All About Steve Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li Wild Hogs Old Dogs Even if the film is terrible, I’ll usually take “pretentious” over “completely fucking empty”. |
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| Posted in: The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Summer Series | |||
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That One | May 16th | Score:120 |
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“Something something 90 minutes of Ryan Reynolds in MY box.” - thisismynightmare |
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| Posted in: The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Summer Series | |||
[Assoc. Ed. Note: Congratulations on the #1 and #2 spots, That One. And congratulations also on your dead-on impression of thisismynightmare.]
This Week’s Lowest Rated Comment
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Polythene Pam | May 13th | Score:-44 |
| Upvotes?? You people suck at this. | |||
| Posted in: Monsters’ Ball: The Week’s Best Comments | |||
[Assoc. Ed. Note: Booooo! I guess?]
This Week’s Caption Contest Winner
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R2D2, Esq. | May 17th | Score:69 | |
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James Franco mingles with the soon-to-be-poor. |
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| Posted in: The Videogum Why Don’t YOU Caption It? Contest: James Franco Graduation | |||
[Ed. Note: Congratulations, R2D2, Esq. You earned it!]
This Week’s Associate Editor’s Choice
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huckabeast | May 18th | Score:59 | |
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You’re new, Kelly, so here’s a few pointers. I’m sort of the Don Draper of Videogum – that’s just something that everyone knows and accepts and believes to be totally true. Also, I get Editor’s Choice every week. Gabe forgets sometimes, so just remind him. That’s about it, really. |
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| Posted in: Please Help Us Welcome Videogum’s New Associate Editor: Kelly Conaboy | |||
[Assoc. Ed. Note: Did I do it right?]
This Week’s Editor’s Choice
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Superglue | 10:46am | Score:17 | |
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The movie they make of this girl’s life is going to be called Teen BITCH, probably. |
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| Posted in: An Important Message To Sophomores About Prom | |||
[Ed. Note: It's not nice to be mean to children, but first of all, that child was being mean first, and second of all, this is just a Teen Witch reference. Even Superglue added a secondary comment explaining where he/she was coming from, so let's just have fun with it.]
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Nice work this week everyone!
Where did the Danny Devito meme come from? I missed it.
Facetaco wanted to post one of those YEAAAHHH pictures of CSI: Miami. Instead, he posted by accident that crazy picture of Danny DeVito. Comment here: http://videogum.com/307252/an-important-message-to-sophomores-about-prom/webjunk/vlogging/
So do I get #1 by default?
I think that counts as your editor’s choice
Woohoo!
Top five and caption contest? Let’s dance.
You know what time it is:
Alright. I gotta get out of here. LA Noire isn’t gonna play itself.
So far I’m liking LA Noire better than Grand Theft Auto IV because you can make a right turn on a red light.
#woodyallenjokes
Oh please let the inevitable LA Noire sequel be set in 2019 LA instead of 1947, starring some other Mad Men actor (don’t care which but Jon Hamm just saying) as Detective Rick Deckard and you have to solve a bunch of FUTURE CRIMES, which are more serious than today’s crimes as the game makers will inevitably have to “up the ante” as they say in the gambling world and other worlds.
Welcome to the team Kelly
Phew, I was really worried I wasn’t going to get my Full EGOT before the Rapture happened and the world as we know it came to an end. That was a close one!
Also, I’m really glad I got it this week because today is the first anniversary of the day I registered to comment here. So, I might be a couple weeks behind the trend but this is kind of like my own season finale? (“You broke the metaphor.” -Everyone)
AND it’s my birthday on Sunday! (assuming birthdays are still a thing that exist on Sunday)
I just want to say thanks to you guys for giving me such a great excuse to get literally nothing done at work for pretty much a whole year now, and I’m really going to miss all the monsters that will no longer be with us after tomorrow. Your empty avatar shells will haunt this place for long after you’re gone (but in a good way! Say hi to Angels for me!)
Happy weekend guys! And welcome to the community, Kelly!
You, sir, are going down…
She’s a maam sir
Congrats on your EGOT! This is truly a beautiful moment…
Welcome!
Alt. text: Last week’s comment was a trick to test your loyalties, I can’t believe you all downvoted me!
Looks like Pam found the weak link…
In the carbon chain.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
I should gave gone with the free radical polymerization joke.
Maybe. The weak link is usually oxygen, not carbon, since oxygen makes a better leaving group due to the polar nature of the carbon-oxygen bond, opposed to the equally shared electrons of a carbon-carbon bond.
But I’m really, really bad at chemistry.
There is no oxygen in polythene. This is the monomer:
Stick to biology, showoff.
Somehow I missed last week’s Ball, so I hadn’t seen your fabulous comment until I followed the link today. Thanks for not making fun of my disease (noses-for-arms disease. Do you guys even know how hard it is to type with noses for arms?)
Congrats on a great week?
See?!?! That was meant to be an exclamation point.
Cake.
Happy Friday everyone!
(this will never get old)
Ba ba booey!!
You guys, I’ve been a monster around these parts for a while now and I consider you all my friends. This is my first Monster’s Ball and I’m so excited. Yay Monsters!!!
Congrats! Join us over in chat!
Um, how do you chat? I registered once and then it didn’t really do anything. But also I was drinking wine because Glee was on.
http://www.mobfd.biz/chat/
password: enhance
Congrats, Just Désserts! Let’s hope all that hard work and upvoting counts for something and Gabe finally tackles Spread.
Well done!
Yay! Congrats!
P.s. I saw Donald Glover today. Super cute.
Happy Rapture Weekend, everybody! Any Toronto monsters want to go out for a drink tomorrow night in celebration of still being alive?!
Yes! I love drinking and being alive in Toronto.
Glue said what?
Thanks for the upvotes, monsters. It’s suny in Chicago, let’s go to North Ave and read VG from the beach.
Castaways?
I was kidding, but we should totally a Vg meetup at Castaways.
Just let me make sure I get good tan before, okay bro?
Also, let’s not go when than terrible band with the girl who thinks she’s Gwen Stefani is playing because they make my ears bleed.
YAYYYYYYY!!!!! Holy shit you guys, an editor’s choice!!! Thanks, Kelly! I love you already! I wish I’d invited you over for pre-End Of Days Porch Wine last night!
Good week everyone! I couldn’t comment as much as I would’ve liked due to horrible house guests! I was told I am going to hell for eating meat! Fun timez!
I hope you rubbed bacon on their toothbrushes. That is a way rude thing to say!
After the rapture, you should eat their pets.
let’s kill that horse
I am a longtime lurker made good, registering-wise. The Gelly-combo seems good so far.
Welcome- upvoting (and sometimes downvoting, use it wisely blah blah blah) is fun
Extra points for “Gelly”!
Cute animal time? Cute animal time
The bottles are full of vodka, party time
It’s Friday. We’ve all had a rough week. Hit the showers, champ!
Yeah, three tries to insert a fitting gif failed. Going to cry myself to sleep in a fetal position. #cougartownblood
Just insert the link w/ no tags. make sure it fits on one line and ends in .gif . jpeg (etc.)
Here you go, buddy!
Spooky. Thanks!
I just realized the angle of that photo has Ashton Kutcher in a hot tub in what essentially must be Griffith Park. That WMOAT is a liar! (Also, I’d rather be in a hot tub after a bear than Ashton Kutcher.)
I know the ball is over, but last night I dreamed the ultimate vgum comment. It involved dousing a special note from Gabe in lemon juice to reveal a secret map to Charlie Sheen’s treasure chest of priceless silk bowling shirts.
It was like the second comment in the thread, too, so you know, upvote city.
Ha ha ha. Very funny you guys. “Meet up at the mountainside” you said, “Wear nothing but a robe” you said, “leave your earthly belongings behind” you said, “you won’t need them in heaven” you said. Well jokes on me I guess but seriously please bring all my stuff back to my house NOW!!!
love it. must steal
Conratulations on surviving your first week Kelly! And great job to all of the commenters. You’re fantastic.
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