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10 things I learned from watching this film...


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1) If a whole town begins killing each other, put on headphones as you walk through the streets. No need to worry about psychos sneaking up behind you.

2) No one in the town has decided to invest in an Ipod, they are still carrying around CD players.

3) Speaking of CDs, making a mixed tape/CD is still considered romantic and not at all corny.

4) You may not want to stop by a crazy lady's New Years party, especially if she was crazy before the signal got to her.

5) When covered in blood and after killing a few people, it is still a perfect opprotunity to seize sex with a crazy married woman.

6) Beating someone over the head with a tank will almost never kill them, not without at least 20 blows.

7) The human body can withstand a hammer to the back of the head, gunshot wound to the stomach, and a near fatal car accident and still be able to run! Awesome!

8) Even though you are sleeping with a married woman who's husband doesn't seem all that bad, it's nice to know you can still be a protaginist worth rooting for.

9) It is perfectly okay to go from a serious thriller, to a slap-stick horror comedy and then back again.

10) It sometimes takes three different directors to make a crappy movie.

Feel free to add on... :)

"You have no power over me."

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"2) No one in the town has decided to invest in an Ipod, they are still carrying around CD players."

One person has a CD player, but you came to the conclusion that nobody in town has an iPod? Does everyone in your town have iPods? Do you realize that there are other brands of mp3 players in existence?

"3) Speaking of CDs, making a mixed tape/CD is still considered romantic and not at all corny."

Considering the age of the main characters this could still be considered romantic. Just because your generation thinks it's corny, doesn't necessarily mean that the current generation reflects the thought process of everybody. Thankfully.

"4) You may not want to stop by a crazy lady's New Years party, especially if she was crazy before the signal got to her."

And how do you come to the conclusion that her friends thought she was crazy beforehand?

"5) When covered in blood and after killing a few people, it is still a perfect opprotunity to seize sex with a crazy married woman."

It's already clear that you really didn't get this film, despite how simple the premise is, but this statement further proves it.

"9)It is perfectly okay to go from a serious thriller, to a slap-stick horror comedy and then back again."

Of course it is, unless of course you're under the age of 21 and only used to seeing Hollywood formulaic horror movies.

"10) It sometimes takes three different directors to make a crappy movie."

Going back to the earlier conclusion about your lack of simple comprehension, you obviously didn't realize that the film was intentionally three short films with three different directors.



This is the part where you ignore lack of common sense and logic, and try to back pedal by claiming that you were just joking.

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1)His comment was sarcastic, insinuating that you can't.

2)You can mix it up. You may not like films that do that, but it doesn't mean that you can't. This film is entionally divided into three styles by three different directors.

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"1) If a whole town begins killing each other, put on headphones as you walk through the streets. No need to worry about psychos sneaking up behind you. "

You forgot about "if you're also crazy, just not in homocidal way like many."

"4) You may not want to stop by a crazy lady's New Years party, especially if she was crazy before the signal got to her."

No, she wasn't before. Also, "when you're crazy too."

"5) When covered in blood and after killing a few people, it is still a perfect opprotunity to seize sex with a crazy married woman."

You forgot about "if you're a total maniac."

"6) Beating someone over the head with a tank will almost never kill them, not without at least 20 blows."

Actually any number of extra blows will never kill anyone just as long as it's only imagined.

Congratulations, you're an another person who didn't understand this film at all.

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11) Even though these type of threads (10 or 100 things I learned from movie x) crop up for nearly every movie out there, there's still folks like philbs79 who doesn't seem to understand the concept and would rather vociferously dispute every point made by the OP, RATHER than add 1 point himself. LOL yes that's funny.

12) Cheri Christian is quite a cute actress - well before she had bug spray sprayed into her eyes at least.

13) Severed heads still like to smoke cigarettes.

14) This movie was divided into 3 halves. ;-)

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How about "the OP was being stupid and not funny"?

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"8) Even though you are sleeping with a married woman who's husband doesn't seem all that bad, it's nice to know you can still be a protaginist worth rooting for. "

11) brutally murdering 4 people and attempting to murder 2 others, occasionally incorporating torture to do so, isn't 'all that bad'...certainly not as bad as sleeping with a married woman.

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Does anyone on this thread know sarcasm101? I've been looking for her on the thread, but I can't seem to find her.

1. You can stimulate the cerebral cortex of a decapitated head using appliances in your ordinary wood-shop, and it will tell you what you need to know.

2. Pray there's cigarettes in the hereafter. Nicotine addiction continues with you after death.

3. If your on the run from a jealous husband don't use a vending machine, those are perfect spots for serial killers to jump out for a chokehold.


"Don't tell the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the Moon."

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"8) Even though you are sleeping with a married woman who's husband doesn't seem all that bad, it's nice to know you can still be a protaginist worth rooting for. "

11) brutally murdering 4 people and attempting to murder 2 others, occasionally incorporating torture to do so, isn't 'all that bad'...certainly not as bad as sleeping with a married woman.


I'm gonna take a leap here and assume OP's referring to BEFORE the signal. When he started banging his wife, I doubt he was thinking, "If you're husband goes crazy someday, then this is totally justified!"

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he was kind of a control freak tho

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... don't get how these lists work, which is counter-productive to making themselves look smarter when they can't grasp sarcasm and satire. Buzz killers.

19. Duct tape is an amazing resource for an apocalypse!

20. TV light really complements Justin Welborn's ass.

21. Being selfish, but pretty means you're an ideal center of a love triangle (seriously, aside from allow Rod to get in the car, did she do anything for anyone the entire film?).

22. If you talk about wanting to pee in girls butts, it's astonishing you're still single.

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Ha!

"You have no power over me."

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23. If you want to block the signal, just wrap tinfoil around your head.

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