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03 August 2005

"The best $5 refund money can buy!" - David Manning, Ridgefield Press

post by: Smart Dalek at: 16:08 | 9 comments

Huh. I thought this happened all the time. Bastards.

posted by Specklet 03 August | 16:21

Where can a man spend $5?

posted by Pretty_Generic 03 August | 16:41

It's weird that the point seems to be that the reviewer was fake. The studio PR firms will select from reviews in entirely unconscionable ways to get their blurbs, but this seems to be an okay practice. Fake reviews good, fake reviewer bad.

posted by carter 03 August | 16:47

Review: This movie totally sucks donkey dicks. You could spend your time more enjoyably by staying home and feeding your pet rocks; whatever you do, don't see it.

Blurb: This movie totally... rocks. Whatever you do... see it.

posted by taz 03 August | 17:07

There's some guy somewhere on the Internet that actually does these comparisons. But I can't find him.

posted by carter 03 August | 17:47

Oh wait. Having just said that, here it is - Blurb Racket.

posted by carter 03 August | 17:50

The film Dog Soldiers was reviewed in Hotdog magazine - they said something like "This movie tries to be like a cross between The Howling and The Whicker Man but fails miserably".

The quote on the movie posters was "Like a cross between The Howling and The Whicker Man!!!!"

posted by dodgygeezer 03 August | 19:21

"Where can a man spend $5?"

Handjob in the restroom, rest area just off the freeway on northbound I-15 between exits 1 and 3 over the Idaho state line.

Or so I hear.

posted by mr_crash_davis 03 August | 19:24

Wow, and this right after paying out big for BMG's bribes to U.S. radio stations to play their artists' songs.

Corporate deception? Oh no, Sony wins again!

posted by dreamsign 04 August | 18:02

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