Puntabulous

My wonderful brothers and sister-in-laws got me a years subscription to Netflix for Christmas. I am now taking recommendations for movies to add to my queue. There’s a lot of stuff out there I haven’t seen.

Post your recommendations in the comments.

Classics?

New Releases?

Guilty Pleasures?

I want them all!

Thank you.

PS - Normal posting will resume on January 2, 2008 with an awesome debate starring Suburban Kamikaze.

Christmas at my house:

My family is so backwards. And yes, that’s In Her Shoes. Shut up! That was a good movie!

I hope everyone has a happy and healthy Christmas!

In the spirit of Christmas (although technically these clips are more appropriate for Easter) I’d like to share with you these clips of Jesus Christ Superstar. My parents tried to instill good Christian values in us kids growing up. It worked. But their methods may have had unforseen consequences. Like making me gay. I mean really, don’t think you can show an impressional budding gay boy a movie chock full of 1970’s fashion, singing, and dancing and not expect to pay the price. But I love this movie and my family still watches it every Easter. We even went to see the show live on Broadway. This is the Jesus I envision in my head: A dirty hippie who loves singing and dancing and doesn’t really care if you’re gay.

If you only watch one clip from Jesus Christ Superstar in your life, please make it this first one. It’s the gayest thing you will ever see:

I love this video:

Date rape is hysterical!

I got a haircut today. As the lady was doing the final touch ups (sideburns, behind the ears, back of neck) she quickly zapped between my eyebrows. I mean, it was speeding-bullet like speed. It makes me wonder if she was thinking about it the whole time she was giving me a haircut. Like: “Oh my god, I need to do something about this guy’s eyebrow. Doesn’t he have anyone at home who loves him enough to tell him that he needs to fix it? But how can I do it without making him feel bad? Maybe I can do it without him even noticing.”

Well I did notice. And so did my eyebrow(s). It’s (They’ve) been all Michael Jackson out in public ever since. It’s (They’re) very self-conscious.

Okay, so the voting for the final round of the Gay Bloggies ends tonight at midnight. (Have you voted yet?) Anyway, I’ve come to terms with ending up in third place. I mean, I made it this far, haven’t I? So who needs first or second place? These people certainly didn’t!

Thomas Jefferson – Our Nation’s 3rd President

Ever heard of a little thing called the Declaration of Independence! Yeah, I thought so! What did George Washington do? Cross a river? And who the hell has wooden teeth? I’d like to see him eat a piece of corn on the cob! And don’t even get me started on John Adams. Plus Jefferson had sex with his slaves. Not too shabby! (Puntabulous does not endorse slavery, only sex with hot black people.)

Johnny Weir – 2007 U.S. National Bronze Medalist

Let me preface this by saying that Johnny Weir is a clockwise spinner! OMG! Is your mind blown?! Wait, didn’t you know that most figure skaters are counter-clockwise spinners? You didn’t! Well they are! And Johnny is too fabulous to spin counter-clockwise! If Johnny isn’t too fabulous for third, than neither am I!

Judy Winslow – The third child of the Winslow family – Thanks Zach!

She went upstairs and never came down, but she was the smartest of all the Winslow children. She just knew that Steve Urkel shtick would get old fast so she abandoned ship while she could. I mean seriously. There’s only so many times you can hear the phrase: “You got any cheeeeeese?” LOL! And that number is approximately zero.

Peter Jackson’s King Kong – The third iteration of the classic character

Even though the first hour went on dreadfully longer than the ending of Return of the King, it was kinda cool once they got off that damn ship and actually started doing stuff. Remember when King Kong fought three T-Rexes?! That was cool! Yeah, then rest of the movie sucked. And the T-Rex / King Kong fight scene wasn’t all that cool either.

Rocky III – Which Karen pointed out I left out of my movie series post!

Rocky III had Mr. T! (Hey, that rhymes!) Are you saying that coming in third is bad? Because Mr. T thinks you said that. And I’m gonna have to calm him down. Easy boy! Whoa! Whoa! Shhshhshhshh! Easy now. Easy… They didn’t mean it. Just call me the Mr. T whisperer.

OMG! I just had a revelation! See if you can follow me…

Mr. T. = Third
Mr. T. = Awesome
Third = Awesome

But go over the Gay Bloggies and vote for me anyway, and if I come in first or second I’ll write a post about how awesome those positions are too.

UPDATE! Here’s the School House Rock video called “Three is a Magic Number”. Thanks Polt!

Which is the most like a penis?

ALIEN TONGUE:

The alien tongue is known for its quick, pain-inducing, jabbing action. It is relentless in reaching it’s goal, regardless of what is going on around them.

SPACE SLUG:

The space slug is slow, blind, and just kinda flops around aimlessly. People tell the space slug that they don’t think its curved shape is strange, but they do. And they tell their friends about it.

VIPER:

Long and slender, vipers are ridden by only the hottest pilots. They also bear a strong resemblance to Ace and Gary’s car.

Alright people! It’s the final round of the Gay Bloggies! It’s time to really crank out those votes! At home! At work! At everywhere! And please, if you have a blog, send all your readers over there to vote both thumbs up for me and thumbs down for the other guys! The other two blogs still in the competition are HUGE and have ENORMOUS readerships. It’s up to me to represent the little guy!

We could do whatever we wanted for the final round, so I’m proud to announce that Natalie Portman, my wife, was finally able to join me over there!

CLICK HERE TO READ MY POST AND GIVE ME A THUMBS UP!

CLICK HERE TO GIVE FRANK A THUMBS DOWN!

CLICK HERE TO GIVE FAUSTO A THUMBS DOWN!

Thank you guys so much for your support! No matter the outcome, I’m just honored to be included in the competition and it’s great to know I have you guys to support me! After all this, it will be great to go back and focus on Puntabulous full time.

You know…I don’t make it a point to watch How I Met Your Mother, but when I do, I remember how genius it is.

Harry Potter – 2 – We liked the first two when we first saw them, but that’s because we didn’t know how genius they would later become in more capable hands. So Chamber of Secrets gets my vote for not having the magical feel of the first film and a plot that put Hermione out of the action. That’s never a good thing!

Back to the Future – 2 – I still don’t understand what the hell happened during this movie. Plus I have a special place in my heart for the third one. Giddy Up!

Aliens – 3 – Even though the forth one has that god-awful newborn hybrid alien at the end, it still has some pretty sweet (frickin sweet!) action scenes. As for the third one, I still haven’t forgiven them for killing Newt and Hicks. And who’s idea was it to only have one alien in the entire movie?

Jaws – 4 – What’s the point in describing why it’s the worst of the bunch when this scene does it so well. A boat full of white people and the shark comes almost entirely out of the water to eat the black guy.

Star Trek – 1 – The Voyager concept was pretty genius, but boooooooooring. And yes, Number 5: The Final Frontier was a good movie!

Star Wars – 4 – This number is referring to the fourth one made, meaning The Phantom Menace. Anakin should have been older. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon should have reversed ages. Qui-Gon (the apprentice) should have been the rogue-ish, Han Solo-esque character so desperately missing from the prequel movies. Then Qui-Gon should have been killed by Darth Maul, which would make Obi-Wan more anxious to train Anakin against the council’s wishes in order to prove himself as a teacher and make up for his failure to protect Qui-Gon.

The Matrix – 2 – These movies makes me sad. At least the 2nd one was so awful that anything would have been better and the 3rd one was a step up.

Pirates of the Caribbean – 3 – These movies make me really sad. The first one was amazing! The 2nd one was bad, but could have just been build up to a spectacular third one. It didn’t. Remember when Naomi Harris was turning into her sea-goddess form and turned into… a REALLY BIG Naomi Harris. Really guys? That’s the best you could do?

Spiderman – 1 – Two words: Green Goblin.

Superman – 4 – Wait, nuclear weapons are bad? Could you explain that to me again?

X-Men – 3 – Good action, but missed the depth of the first two. And more missed opportunitues than you can shake a stick at. SIDENOTE

Batman – 4 – Mr. Feeze could have been such an interesting character. Instead we got Arnold Schwarzenegger and Batman and Robin with ice skates that popped out of their boots.

Indiana Jones – 2 – Congratulations Mr. Spielberg for tapping that, but Kate Capshaw was the most annoying love interest of any movie ever. And anyone who decides to add a kid to a movie where no kid belongs should be shot.

Jurassic Park – 3 – Even though The Lost World is pretty bad too, at least it had the large scale befitting a Jurassic Park movie. Jurassic Park 3 could have taken place in my back yard and had that awful Spinosaurus. Also, a plane full of white people and the Spinosaurus eats the black guy:

Lord of the Rings – 1 – Too much Frodo. Elijah Wood is the worst thing about this series. Remember when the Troll stabbed Frodo in Moria and he “died” for about twenty minutes? Ugh. He did the same thing in Shelob’s cave too. Man does he love to milk a good “death” scene.

Series I’ve never seen every movie of: The Godfather Trilogy (I never saw any of them), the Terminator Series (I never saw the first one, but I love the 2nd and 3rd ones), the Die Hard movies (I never saw the 2nd and 4th ones), the Shrek movies (I never saw the 3rd one), and the Rush Hour movies (I never saw the 2nd or 3rd ones).