M & M's Movie Quiz

Here's a fun time-waster: the M&M's Dark movie quiz. Click on the visual clues, and type in your guess of the "dark"-themed movie. The answers are the more popular horror, science fiction, and thriller movies. It took a little bit of work, but we managed to get all 50 movies!

Go ahead, try it. If you get stumped, scroll down a little for the answers...


Give up? Starting at the top & middle, and working around mostly clockwise...

1. Twin Peaks
2. War of the Worlds
3. The Fly
4. Friday the 13^th
5. Rear Window
6. Children of the Corn
7. A Nightmare on Elm Street
8. The Howling
9. Alien
10. The Crow
11. Seven
12. The Butterfly Effect
13. Scream
14. Piranha
15. The Omen
16. Rosemary’s Baby
17. Candyman
18. The Wicker Man
19. Pitch Black
20. Eraserhead
21. The Invisible Man
22. A Clockwork Orange
23. Psycho
24. The Shining
25. The Lost Boys
26. The Ring
27. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
28. Halloween
29. The Grudge
30. Jaws
31. Blue Velvet
32. The 39 Steps
33. The Mummy
34. Dark Water
35. Child’s Play
36. Beetlejuice
37. Creature from the Black Lagoon
38. Leprechan
39. Saw
40. 12 Monkeys
41. The Sixth Sense
42. Blade
43. Silence of the Lambs
44. The Dead Zone
45. House of Wax
46. The Birds
47. The Village
48. The Hills Have Eyes
49. Pumpkinhead
50. Signs

The Camera Takes Away Ten Pounds

There's a new feature on HP digital cameras which allows people to appear slimmer in pictures. Just snap the picture and use the convenient sliding scale to determine how wide or svelte you want to be.


I am both appalled, yet fascinated. Photo manipulation is nothing new. Heck, when I was in high school you could pay extra to have the acne removed from your yearbook portraits. However, something seems wrong when anyone can alter a photo so easily. It's just another sign that you simply can't believe everything you see anymore.

Hollywoodland

Hollywoodland bummed me out. George Reeves' death may have been murder instead of suicide, but he had plenty to be depressed about: he was an aging actor who was hopelessly typecast into the Superman role. He had a gold-digging harpy for a fiance. He was an alcoholic. According to his Wikipedia entry, he ended up doing wrestling matches in his costume. He also was in negotiations to reprise his Superman role for another television series.

It's easy to see how a guy can get down about these things. On the other hand, he could do a lot worse. He had a house, he had Diane Lane for a sugar mommy, and he was worshipped by kids all over the country. A lot of people don't even get half that far.

All the actors in this movie did a good job (although Ben Affleck should stop singing and put down the guitar). The 50's costumes & sets looked good. I always like the way men dressed in those days. Suits & ties everywhere. You can't go wrong with a good suit.


There's a scene in the movie where they reveal the face of Diane Lane's character, who's been mourning the death of George Reeves nonstop. It was the makeup and the lighting, but yikes - she looked really old. Luckily, they showed Under the Tuscan Sun on TV last night, and my Diane Lane palate was clean again. Ah!

I Pity The Fool!

I took Professor T's Culture Fool Test over at Comcast, and I have a Culture IQ of 137. I even have a diploma to prove it:



Does that mean I can join Mensa now? Bring it on, suckahs!

Final Destination 3

I'm a sucker for packaging. If you put something totally ordinary into a uniquely designed box, I'll probably buy it. The Final Destination 3 2-Disc Thrill Ride Edition DVD is not one of those things, but it kind of comes close.

I bought this DVD for two reasons: 1) the lenticular 3-D cover (I'm also a sucker for anything lenticular) and 2) the "Choose Your Fate" interactive feature. This feature is supposed to let you decide the fates of the characters in the movie. Supposedly, your decisions would alter the storyline of the movie.

This really intrigued me - I was planning to have all the teenagers survive and have a big clambake at the end of the movie.

Unfortunately, "Choose Your Fate" doesn't really work like that. In most circumstances, the teens in this movie are going to die a grisly death, one way or another. For example, there's a scene where a character is about to be crushed by a large object from above; you have to choose whether he jumps left or right. Either way, he gets squashed - but if you jump right, he gets completely smashed; if you jump left, he only gets halfway squashed. Bogus.

Final Destination 3? Noooooooo!

There are actually some slight differences in the overall storyline that are determined by your choices. I would have never realized this, if not for the movie's Wikipedia entry. The problem with this DVD is that in order to truly appreciate the nuances of the Choose Your Fate feature, you have to watch the movie a few times. It's not the worse movie in the world, but it's not a movie I would want to watch again and again. Heck, I haven't even seen the first two Final Destination movies.

So if you really are looking for a good interactive story, I'd stick to the Choose Your Own Adventure books.

Pee-Wee Herman

Back in the day, I never watched Pee-Wee's Playhouse, but I did see Pee-Wee's Big Adventure when it originally came out in 1985. We all pretty much know what happened to Paul "Pee-Wee" Reubens in the early 90's. Poor Pee-Wee.

It looks like he's making a comeback: today Boing Boing showed a pair of sneakers that Nike is putting out based on the Pee-Wee Herman gray suit and red bowtie. The colors actually look pretty good.


The best thing about the shoes are the insoles, which depict Pee-Wee sitting by himself in a movie theatre:


This is the best idea I've seen today. Who knew Nike could be so clever?