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dunkndollaz
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Since: 3.1.02
From: Northern NJ

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#1 Posted on
I'm sitting in guest cubicle in one of my other office's today and the people around me are talking about movies. The thing that is driving me nuts is that none of them know the names of the people who are starring in any of the movies they are talking about......

"it starred that guy from the Lethal Weapon movies."

"Morgan Freeman ?"

"Yeah, him. I just saw him in Alien 2."

"Is that the one in the jungle ?"

"No, the one in LA."

"I loved Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon. He was also good in RINGS."

"No, that was Signs." (they finally got one right)

"Wasn't Morgan Freeman in a movie with Jodie Foster ?"

"You mean Silence of the Lambs ?"

........just shoot me now.......



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Since: 7.8.02
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#2 Posted on | Instant Rating: 6.20
My favorite pet peeve is when people refer to movies that have sequels by putting a "1" with the name. Example: "Wasn't that guy in Rocky 1?" Or my favorite: "What year was Indiana Jones 1?"



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Since: 13.3.02
From: Loveland, OH

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#3 Posted on
My big pet peeve, working for Blockbuster, is when people refer to movies older than 1 year by saying that they are "really old, and you've probably never heard of it". I've seriously had people do that to me with movies as mainstream and recent as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Goonies, and Sixth Sense.



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Since: 17.1.02
From: South F’n Carolina

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#4 Posted on | Instant Rating: 6.44
When I worked at Blockbuster, I got all the movie questions. Perhaps it was because I was a bigger movie nerd than the rest of them, but I usually knew most of the answers.

That didn't stop the customers from giving me questions like the ones you guys have discussed so far. I thought the "Do you have that action movie, you know, with that guy in it" joke from Clerks was just a joke until I realized how many people phrase their questions just like that to video store employees.



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Since: 8.1.02
From: Modesto, CA

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#5 Posted on
At least you ladies and gentlemen probably do not have to sit in a room filled with overly-machismo young Hispanic males all day long who say nothing but "dog" and "fool" all day long. I have heard some of the most ignorant conversations in my life at my current job as a resource assistant in post-secondary trade school education.

No wonder I'm on Wienerboard all day long, and thank the Lord I have Thursdays off

DMC



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Since: 1.3.02
From: Silicon Valley, California

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#6 Posted on

    Originally posted by Simba
    My favorite pet peeve is when people refer to movies that have sequels by putting a "1" with the name. Example: "Wasn't that guy in Rocky 1?" Or my favorite: "What year was Indiana Jones 1?"


That's kinda like those movie fans who split hairs about
numbering the star wars movies (456? 123?) And if that was confusing enough, ever look at the Indiana Jones video boxes? Episode 26? 24?

I also wonder if there are any movies that were intentionally titled with a Part 1, that weren't some previous compilation, besides that star wars thingy?

My movie pet peeves are with movie titles that are obviously song titles and finding out some new movie out there is yet another remake.



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Since: 2.1.02
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#7 Posted on
History of the World, Part I.



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Since: 17.11.02

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Since: 11.2.03
From: Hackettstown, NJ

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#9 Posted on

    )

    "Wasn't Morgan Freeman in a movie with Jodie Foster ?"

    "You mean Silence of the Lambs ?"

    ........just shoot me now.......



Try answering the phone lines at a radio station. A recent sample:

"Can I hear 'Amazed' by Lonestar?"
"I'm sorry...we're a rock station, we wouldn't have a country song."
"Oh, it's not a country song."
"No, Lonestar is definately country...it's a country song."
"No, Aerosmith sings it!"
"Aerosmith sings 'Amazed' by Lonestar?"
"Yeah, it was that song from the movie Armaggedon..."


I think they're going to miss a *lot* of things....B^)

(BTW, there *was* a country version of "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing", but it wasn't the original as the caller thought, and it wasn't by Lonestar either.)
zoggy1
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Since: 1.3.02
From: Silicon Valley, California

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#10 Posted on

    Originally posted by spf2119
    History of the World, Part I.


Yeah, how could I forget that one! Thanks!

funniest movie hearsay was the mom who took her young
kids to see Silence of the Lambs 'cause of the title..whoops.



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Since: 11.11.02
From: Fat City, Baby

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#11 Posted on
A friend of mine used to work as a DJ. Someone calls him up one midnight and has a request.

Caller: Can you play an AC/DC song?
DJ: Sure, which one?
C: Can you play "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"?
DJ: No problem. You got a dedication?
C: Just "happy birthday." It's for my husband. It's his favorite song. He even named the dog after it.
DJ: He named the dog "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"???
C: Well, not really...
DJ: ?
C: He named the dog "Thunderchief."
DJ: I don't get it.
C: Well, he's never understood all the words in the song.
DJ: Uh-huh.
C: And he's always thought they were saying, "Dirty Deeds, Thunderchief."
DJ: He's thought this for the last 20 years?
C: Yeah, don't tell him in the dedication, please.
DJ: I won't.
C: Just "happy birthday." I don't think he could look at the dog if he knew the truth.
DJ: Okay.

- Fin -

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Since: 20.9.02
From: New York, NY

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#12 Posted on
When I was working at a video store (Summer of '01), "Cast Away" had just come out and everyone was trying to get it. Some customer who had a habit of ruining my day wanted a copy and we were out.

"Do you have that movie where Tom Hanks is on the island?"
"No, we're out."
"How do you know?"
"It came out today and all the copies were reserved. The ones that are still here are behind the counter, waiting for customers who called ahead."
"Give me one."
"No."
"Yes."

Five miuntes later he left with a VHS of "Joe Versus the Volcano", convinced he had the movie he set out for.



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eviljonhunt81
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Since: 6.1.02
From: not Japan

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#13 Posted on
The Indiana Jones are numbered in that the Young Indiana Jones tv show was parts 1-whatever, and the movies are the last three parts.



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Since: 10.10.02
From: New Hampshire

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#14 Posted on
Oh man, customer service. I work part time at a book/music store, and the other night a lady came in, complaining that she bought the new Aaliyah c.d., and the second disk wouldn't play, it just spun in her stereo. Not only that, but this was the SECOND copy she bought, after returning the first one for the same problem. I opened up the second disk, looked at it, and informed her it was a DVD that came with the disk as a bonus and was not a regular c.d. that worked in the stereo.



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dMr
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Since: 2.11.02
From: Edinburgh, Scotland

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#15 Posted on
Ah, a thread devoted to the stupidity of the general public.

My personal favourite was a young gentleman who had just flown in form Australia and informed me that "those planes sure get low when they're landing"




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Stephanie
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Since: 2.1.02
From: Madison, WI

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#16 Posted on | Instant Rating: 5.22
Let's not forget Danny Glover as Jules in Pulp Fiction or Zeus in Die Hard with a Vengeance - I've heard him credited in both.

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Since: 18.11.02
From: Strong Island

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#17 Posted on
I was a cashier at a supermarket when I was in high school. It's jobs like where you find out how stupid people really are. I had this one lady who was buying a six-pack of Bud Light, but for whatever reason, one bottle was missing. So the stupid, snotty lady told me to charge her for five beers, not six. Obviously, I can't do that, because beer is sold by the six-pack. It's not like we sell individual bottles! So I tell her this, and she gets all mad at me. I tell her that we have more six-packs that actually have all six bottles (I could see the beer aisle from the cash register, so I knew that was definitely the case) and that she can go pick one of those, but she just goes "Oh forget it," and goes ahead and buys the five-pack she picked up anyway. Idiot.

But going back to what dunkndollaz was talking about, a couple of weeks ago I was in a bookstore, and I overheard these two girls talking, and one of them brought up the movie Secretary. One of them goes "Wait, doesn't that guy direct that movie? Steven something?" "Yeah, I think it was Steven Spielberg." "That's right, Steven Spielberg." Idiots.





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Since: 3.1.02
From: Knoxville, TN

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#18 Posted on
You know, Dagent, it could've been worse.

She could've been trying to buy 1 stick of butter. At least you could scan 5 beers.







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Since: 10.1.02

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#19 Posted on
Oh dear god, don't get me started on working customer service for Verizon.....

I was in the pager department, but I swear 70% of the calls were for malfunctioning cell phones, and usually what sounded like drunken rednecks calling in to boot

Caller: Mah cell phone ain't wurkin.

Me: I'm sorry, you've reached Verizon pagers.

Caller: Yer Ver-is-on (they always pronounced it like that) ain't ya?

Me: Yes but....

Caller: Fix mah cell phone.

Me: I'm sorry, this is the pager branch....

Caller: This is not excellent customer service. I wanna talk to yer supervisor.

Me: My supervisor isn't in right now (they really never were).

Caller: Ah'll wait.

(Dead silence while neither of us says a damn thing)

Me: Uh, is there something else I can help you with?

Caller: Still waiting on yer supervisor.

>_<



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Since: 1.3.02
From: Westminster, CA

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#20 Posted on

    Originally posted by DJ Ran
    When I was working at a video store (Summer of '01), "Cast Away" had just come out and everyone was trying to get it. Some customer who had a habit of ruining my day wanted a copy and we were out.

    "Do you have that movie where Tom Hanks is on the island?"
    "No, we're out."
    "How do you know?"
    "It came out today and all the copies were reserved. The ones that are still here are behind the counter, waiting for customers who called ahead."
    "Give me one."
    "No."
    "Yes."

    Five miuntes later he left with a VHS of "Joe Versus the Volcano", convinced he had the movie he set out for.




I always liked Joe Versus The Volcano better anyways. =)





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