Those following the strange tale of Man Boobz’ recently crowned Troll of the Year for 2012 will be intersted to know that someone calling himself Mikhael_Varpole has done a self-post on the Men’s Rights Subreddit claiming that he’s not MRAL after all and declaring me a liar. Here’s his explanation, FWIW.
I’ll be keeping him banned, in any case; even if this serial liar and sockpuppeter is telling the truth about this (highly unlikely, in my opinion), he’s still a serial liar and sockpuppeter.
Also, for the record, he wasn’t using a “similar” IP as Scooby Doo/MRAL; it was the same IP. And he was using the IP before I called him out for sockpuppeting as Torvus Butthorn — which is what he’s referring to, dishonestly of course, when he talks about doxxing.
He’s clearly just trying to stir up more shit, but it looks like the folks in r/mensrights aren’t biting.
Anyway, I guess we can consider this his Troll of the Year acceptance speech.
Sorry about the hanging parenthesis and event should be even. I’ll drink more coffee and hope my typos drop off.
No worries, I just made an epic typo/failure to delete redundant words in the other thread. Coffee isn’t kicking in yet.
The troll was in the house the entire time!
At this point I just hope that he’s not in David’s house.
That is a really great way of describing it, lauralot.
Originally I was going to compare it to the ending of Manos: The Hands of Fate, but I actually liked Torgo, so I switched it up.
Watch, his next sockpuppet will try to convince us that he actually is or something. “David, did you know you talk in your sleep?”
I was thinking “I Know Who Killed Me,” but that movie is so exquisitely bad that I love it and have seen it an embarrassing number of times. I wouldn’t watch “Steele” again for anything. (Although I do want to get around to reading a thread he’s in again just to help my brain.l stick you know who in for Steele.)
I went to go find clips of Birdemic: Shock and Terror, because I have to do that every time bad movie discussions come up, and low and behold, someone put the entire movie on Youtube. I guess that’ll happen when you can’t afford a copyright for your film.
Actually, the creepy parts of this movie is the way the guy pursues the girl during the first half romance.
Coffee is apparently not working fast enough on my typos. It is also not helping my proofreading.
At a certain point you reach overcaffeination and then the shaky hands set in.
“I Know Who Killed Me” has the lovely line “Hospitals are for rich people.” as a response to being told to go to an emergency room to treat her out-of-the-blue case of finger-falling-off. Even George W. Bush knew that wasn’t true. (His idea was crap, but the point stands.)
Also, if you ever watch the movie, count the number of lamps in the main character’s bedroom. We’ve spotted something like 27.
Did we ever figure out what the color yellow was meant to symbolize in I Know Who Killed Me? Or was that just the default color for anyone not Aubrey or Dakota?
Mr Al is like one of those really crappy horror movies that is scary not because of any skill that went into it in terms of plot, characters, etc, but because as you watch you come to realize that the director has some serious issues with women.
(I’m looking at you, Cold Fish. Seriously, never rent that movie.)
@CassandraSays Now I’m thankful I’ve never come across a film like that. I think the closest to that kind of horror I’ve watched was The Wickerman remake, but that was so inept that it was just hilarious even with the attitude toward women.
By the time Cold Fish was over Mr C and I were both sitting there with our jaws halfway to the floor. And then we turned to each other and said “why the hell did we watch that?”.
Is that Cold Fish, the 2010 Japanese film, or is there another Cold Fish I should be avoiding?
@lauralot
I’m still hung up on the owls. It seems like they should mean something, but all I can get is them symbolizing “watching,” which is somehow worse than them meaning nothing.
I just remembered: I really disliked the French horror film Martyrs. I thought it started off promising, but the second half just devolved into “let’s show an attractive woman being tortured over and over with some flimsy justification about why young women are the best for our torture purposes!” Urgh. I was assured it was so brilliant and moving. What a waste of time.
It’s the Japanese one. Let’s just say that the appearance of “people sushi” is one of its less horrifying aspects.
@lauralot89, did you just invoke the name of The Wickerman Remake? That film was god-awful! “THE BEEZ! THE BEEEEEEEEZ!”
The original was pretty good though.
BTW, to put that in perspective, Oldboy is one of my favorite movies, and I laughed my way through parts of Audition. It takes a lot to produce a “wtf is wrong with the person who directed this?” response from me.
Takashi Miike is what’s wrong. Go watch Visitor Q or Ichi the Killer. They make Audition look like Mr. Rogers.
I’ve seen both, and although Miike definitely has lady issues (and a particularly fucked up attitude towards sex workers), he’s practically a feminist compared to the dude who made Cold Fish.
I recently watched a completely awful horror film called The Bunny Game about a trucker kidnapping and torturing a prostitute. The big gimmick was that everything that happened in the movie – the woman being chained up and screamed at, having a mark branded onto her skin, etc. – was actually done to the actors. I had been told it had some profound statement to make about sex work or misogyny or something I can’t remember, and one of the people proclaiming that was the lead actress. It did not have a statement. It was just violence for the sake of violence with absolutely nothing to say, and for watching a film where I knew everything I was seeing was real, it was still boring as all hell. I don’t know how that’s possible.
The most disturbing thing about it is that any actors agreed to participate.