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Inaugural TPMCafe Troll-a-thon: Day Two - The Culture Wars

Congratulations to all you first-timer trolls out there.  We had some stellar performances yesterday.  Notable mentions include Blue Orb, for excellence in concern trolling, multiple identical posting, and links to right-wing websites.  Kudos to elliotness, for multiple changes of his handle, for multiple consecutive posts, and for blatant plagiarism of Matthew Weaver.  And of course, any discussion of the competition so far would be incomplete without mentioning anneliz's disenfrenchfry-ment of the Michigan and Florida voters.

But moving on to Day Two of the Troll-a-thon, our resident trolls will have to diversify to handle Day Two's topic, the Culture Wars.

Topic Two: The Best Movie of All Time


Trolls must battle it out to identify the best movie of all time.  Your choices are:

The Godfather.  
Casablanca.  
Citizen Kane.  
Star Wars.  
Dirty Dancing.

Discuss.


Comments (82)

Give me a F***ing Break. Lick me. LiCK ME!!!

And that a**hole Coppola? One f***ing special effect to get right, and what do we see? Brando spitting toilet paper all over his glass. Don't talk to me about the Goddamnfather. And Brando a character actor? Mumble mumble mumble. Acting for pussies. You'll never look at a crucifix the same way again, will you? I'll see you in hell, Padre.

echo chamber

I guess I left a movie out...

Echo chamber

echo chamber

Glad you decided to stay desidero. I was really worried you might be offended by all the insensitive posters out there. Please remember we're not all like that, and if you want to change your mind about any of your closely-held beliefs and opinions, we're here for you.
We only want what's best for you, and other people who hold the same opinions.
Sure, I understand Brando's mumble can be a bit cloying, but don't you think the possession might have just a BIT to do with your anger?
It's OK, just let it flow.
Oh. I see you already have.

She's not the same. She's been possessed by her new avatar, and now it's all Exorcist all the time. I miss the old caustic Desidero.

Just soft 'n cuddly 24x7, is it? I'll see you in hell. And bring your donkey, whatever the relation.

Good post

Talk Radio '08

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Dirty Dancing. The late 80's pop music score reminds me of the good years that led up to Bill Clinton getting elected president.

Eric Carmen and his song "Hungry Eyes" reminds me of the first time I gave fellatio to a much older man. Despite the scandal that followed it was worth it.

I'm just glad the much older woman he usually entertained could see our love for what it really was - imprudent but necessary for his manhood.

Dirty Dancing en-copulates everything that makes America great and I'll be voting for Jennifer Grey in November!

Don't get me started on dancing.

you just want to dance with empty suits who spew american hating-pro-hollywood speech for 20 years at a time.

Pimp My Ride '08

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Are you taking nominations or is this considered bad form.

There is no such thing as bad form in the echo chamber. There is deviant thought, though. google echo chamber.

The concept of the echo chamber is itself deviant. Alert! Alert! Intruder. Security to Deck 5.

And Star Wars? How about Piss Wars? Science dumbed down for jocks and an annoying ugly c*** straight out of Popeye for engineers who can't get dates. It's not a movie, it's a goddamn special FX reeler for those f*** in California, the sound-and-light extravaganza that spawned Silicon Valley - why couldn't they stick with musicals or Liberace at the Luxor? Since we didn't push you off into the ocean last decade, let Captain Howdy tell you how it's going to be - "you're going to die up there". "Remember the Force"? How lame is that. Try "Keep Away! The Sow is Mine!" I did more for girl power than all those lezzies marching in the 60's. "Lick me! Lick me!" For you romper room kiddies in dighties too young to remember, I brought the crucifix in style long before Madonna's c***ish Dick Clarkathon. Girls just wanna have fun my ass. And that Obi Wan Kenobee schtick? Ripped straight off from that goddamn preacher Merrin and those crazed Yezidis out in the desert. You say Soo-nni, I say Suh-nni, they're all deranged out there, too much sun and blood and locusts in the diet. Take me, Obi-Wan, Come into Me, Motherf***er.

Truly, my concern is lost on her.

Oh Baal, and then there's Toy Story or "Bastard Son of Star Wars Part XIV". More proof why computer freaks shouldn't make movies. Steve Jobs, the perfect flaming a**hole example for this year's parade - the the iPod, the iPhone, the iBama (it comes in white *AND* black), the perfect Cupertino religious community to launch a thousand shits. "Would you like a latte with that, or perhaps a Merlot? We do design and function, Goofus Gates only works with the rest of the world". Too bad, yardapes, your cracker roots are showing - the house built on "The Little Toaster That Could" with the voice of the little snot in "Big" and all the depth of "You've Got Mail". All those special effects to show what's under the bed? All I had to do was shake it a bit and you pissed yourselves going to sleep for months.

you sleep with empty suits of piss and fornicate with harry furry things in the
Heat of The Night

Lebowski/Travolta '08

I admit I skimmed at first

Steve Jobs, the perfect flaming a**hole example for this year's parade - the the iPod, the iPhone, the iBama (it comes in white *AND* black)

but this about droppped me to the floor.

This wins the painful, subtle, and delicious wit award

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Oh, come on: of course Star Wars is the most important movie. Just see what watching it too many times did for Osama!

After a relatively poor showing yesterday, Desidero makes a 180 degree turn of the head to come on strong tonight. After a mere hour and a half, could it be that everyone's favorite satanic vixen has sewn up the gold for Day Two? Time will tell.

What do you mean, "poor showing", you little squeegee. And I do more than 180 degree turns - get the Director's Cut to see more. And more projectile vomiting than spring break in Ft. Lauderdale. How could they hope to compete?

Did I mention the echo chamber?

"You must remember this
A cross is still a cross..."

Here's lookin' at you, kid.

Lou Cipher, this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. But I stick my tongue out for nobody.

Take that you bitch! Show her all the might you have.

http://www.powenbeato.com/

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Desi said Baal.

That invocation of one of my fav deities puts he/she way ahead in virtual SDs. For now.

Some of us don't hide behind our pastor. This campaign should be more about faith and religion. And possession. And fear. Who's that clip-clop-clopping across my bed? Could be a danger troll? Yes, we need another war just to keep us spry and young at heart. Ask Allsburg - he seems to be getting younger all the time.

Some of us don't hide behind our pastor.

Genius.

Just don't be throwing your pastor under a bus.. I mean down the stairs...

U R STOOOOPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

heh.

So very cathartic.

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I don't want to hijack this thread, but I'm concerned about troll DNA. What if there is a genetic component to trolling? We have seen evidence that trolls reproduce. Do they pass their trollness to their offspring? I mean, can troll behavior be inherited? I'm concerned about this. And I never see it mentioned on the front page.

And echo chamber

Fear the Replicant.

Nobody puts Baby in the corner.

I don't want to hijack this thread, but I'm worried that we don't have a good name for Obama loyalists. We need something as good as Clintonistas! It is a real drag to keep calling them supporters. It's giving jock straps a bad name! Ha ha ha ROFLMFAO! m'tards. Who cares about your stupid movies! I haven't seen any of them anyway.

oPods. Elitist Cupertino latte-drinking Steve Jobs-loving lockstepped creatures of pseudo-political correctness (when it suits them). You can play Blade Runner running them down, or you can try to understand them, which will only make you more f*cked up. Actually if they had anyone like Rutger Howard I might convert. Instead they remind me of the robot spiders scurrying around the corners. I'm concerned they might get squished. See how compassionate I am? And to think I made it through without mumbling something vulgar like c*cksucker. Must be the soft side of me coming out. Oops - get a mop.

hows about

O-bots
Bamers
Obamers
Hussenites
Barristas? (I guess that gets confusing)
Obombers
Barryites
Barrackistas
Husseinies

my favorite:

Barrackistanies

I don't want to hijack this thread, but if you are looking for good movies and links to right wing web sites, try this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txrikNFX-8E

Allsburg, I think that you would like this post:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/04/wow-powerleveling.php

Don't worry, not a rickroll.

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Rickroll '08

Like that post? I wrote that post!

But seriously, I will powerlevel your WOW characters. But I will name them all Genghis.

Awesome. Battle of the Genghises. (Genghi?) You can be Baby Genghis, armed with a +12 War Rattle and the dreaded Stinky Diaper.

The disenfrenchfry comment was the best moment this site has ever known.

And I think what LisB was saying was:

Nobody puts Allsburg in a corner.

Wow, am I disappointed at how busy work got yesterday... I come back to rejoin the fray and it's like I'm Rip Van Winkle! So much for the one week hiatus I was planning after Penna.

Typical Obamabotulist. These aren't **REAL*** movies about ***REAL*** people. These are ***FAKE*** movies about ***FAKE*** people. Real Americans don't fight intergalactic wars or name their sleds or have sexual awakenings at the hands of hot dance instructors at summer resorts. Real Americans work hard and don't need Harvard people condescending to them. They need Yale people protecting them from getting their feelings hurt. What about a movie about a hardworking American worker getting his delicate hardworking sensibilities hurt by SCARY BLACK PREACHER MAN and calling superdelegates around the country begging for them to provide them with real candidate who shoots guns and sips delicately from shot glasses and cares about THEM. Now THAT'S a movie you pansy Luke-Skywaker loving baby.

WE'VE HAD ENUOUGH F***ING YALE TRASH IN THE WHITE HOUSE, AND THE LIES. CAN'T WE FIND SOMEONE WHO IS NOT A YALEE TO WORSHIP? i kNOW THE VOTERS LOVE TO WORSHIP FALSE OBAMAGOD, AND BUSH, BUT CLINTON IS ALSO YALE AND TUZLA! OMIGggod, THIS IS to much!!!!!

articleman is now disqualified for bad-mouthing Yale.

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Billy Dee Williams did NOT PLAY A SCARY BLACK PREACHERMAN! STOP LYING ABOUT HIS RECORD!

Fact: Billy Dee Williams now moonlights as Levi Stubbs with the original Four Tops.

You meant to say:

Billy Dee Williams did HAVE ARTISTIC RELATIONS WITH A SCARY BLACK PREACHERMAN! STOP LYING ABOUT HIS RECORD!

Figures all you OBOMBOTS want to talk about are f***ing elitist movies. I mean has any REAL person ever watched The Godfather. What about HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE??? AND MAY I POINT OUT THAT ALL THOSE MOVIES ARE RATED R??? Where are the Family Values? Just like OB and Michelle taking kids to racist America Hating church with Rezko.

LOLOLOOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!

GO HILLARY! GIRL POWER!!!

AP- Kalamazoo, MI: Bat Guano released an apology today for posting a Turrets-like outburst in yesterday's TPMCafe Troll-a-Thon.

"I'm sorry that anyone might have taken my words the wrong way and were offended by them," Guano wrote. "I was experiencing a moment of fatigue, low blood sugar and over-caffination."

Guano's original post, "F-cking c-nts," appeared to be directed at no one person or group. However, he followed it with what appeared to be an insult towards the British.

Today's release continued: "F-cking Brit c-nts can stick their p-ss poor snooty attitudes up their f-cking b-ms."

As with yesterday's post, this statement also appeared to be an obscene nonsequitur and was not further clarified.

AP-Kalamazoo, Mich., In a follow-up release, Bat Guano wrote that "Sexy Beast" was "the best movie of all time."

"Ben Kingsley put on a masterful performance in the film, and gave the script the punch and zazz that it deserved. Two F-cking C-nts up!"

Hey, I'm from Kalamazoo. I went to Portage Northern. Go Huskies!

In keeping with the troll theme, I gotta say...

Portage SUX! Booo!

(joking...)

I went to Galesburg-Augusta, proof that I'm no latte-swilling elitist!

Allsburg, as Baby's dad said in Dirty Dancing, "When I'm wrong, I say I'm wrong." Convincing her dad he was wrong about her guy is why Baby, who ironically favors abortion rights, is a feminist heroine. Hillary, however, says she's a feminist but never says she's wrong. So who's right? I say Baby. Or as Genesis once said, see that lonely man there on the corner? What he's waiting for, I don't know. He's not like Baby, obviously, who's generally not in the corner. But Genesis is in the Bible. Seriously. And Baby's Jewish. I think. Or why else would she be at that camp? So turn it on. Turn it on again. All I need is a TV show, that and the radio.

Allsburg, Baby. I'm....concerned. Your project is to present a different topic every day for which we can troll-off. But isn't the very nature of trolling that a troll knows no topic? That someone can be writing about polls or commercials or cute babies and a troll will write YOU OBAMANATIONS ARE SUCKERZ! OBAMAS GONNA LOSE AND YOUR GONNA CRYYY. SCARY BLACK MAN! UPPITY--I MEAN ELITIST! IT'S NOT ME WHO THINKS THESE THINGS, IT'S OTHER PEOPLE! CHOKE-ON YOUR KOOL AID, LOSER!

But, anneliz, trolls come in all sorts of flavors. Here they all seem to be either anti-Obama or anti-Clinton. But on movie blogs, they can be anti-Star Wars or anti-Star Trek.

I think that there needs to be a revolution in trolling, such that trolls can be anti- anything they like. We just need to provide the opportunities. Why not an anti-Casablanca troll? Could it be that they've just never had a chance to be heard? I'm a firm believer that if you build it, they will come.

I just recommended this post back into the Top Ten, but that's a little Po-Mo even for me, baby.

And what's with the post in the top 10 that has like 20 recommends and no comments. It's like the opposite of that heinous Naderite post this weekend that got over 30 comments with no recommends when last seen.

There is something mesmeric with 'trollish evil', isn't there? I started reading Desidero's first two comments, at first out of mild curiosity, with no intention of lingering in this thread only to find myself writing this comment. That can't be healthy, I'm sure!

I am a devout, even fervant, adherant of Casablanca. However, I am having great difficulty maintining that support in the face of some of the demeaning, SEXIST things that have been said about Jennifer Grey by some of my fellow Casablanca supporters. I personally attribute every derogatory thing said about Ms. Grey directly to Michael Curtiz, who I beleive to be ultimately responsible for everything said about another movie because he has failed to speak out against such comments. Although I cannot prove that these things are actually sexist, I just know it to be true. I am sure that people would not be saying those things about her if she were a man.

I believe that the supporters of Casablanca are doing their favorite film great harm with these ugly comments. I know many supporters of Casablanca who have ceased liking that film and have become adherents of Dirty Dancing because of comments like this. I have not seen any similarly demeaning, ugly comments made by supporter of Dirty Dancing about the fact that Casablanca is in black and white and if such comments have been made, they have been made by people unaffiliated with the film and, even if such comments have been made, they are not, in any way, connected to Dirty Dancing. I implore all of my fellow supporters of Casablanca to remember that they are, at all times, acting as official spokespersons for their favorite film.

IF THE SUPERTROLLS OVERTHROW THE VIEWERS CHOICE OF STAR WARS AS THE BEST MOVIE EVER THEN I WILL ORGANIZE A BOYCOTT OF THE OTHER MOVIES ON THIS LIST.

JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT STAR WARS WINS, I'M GOING TO STARWARS.COM AND BUYING A $50 YODA T-SHIRT TO HELP WITH THE CAMPAIGN.

YODA WE CAN!

You are clearly trekasexual who sleeps with little fury animals. Talk about divisive - you empty white metallic suit.

Talk Radio '08

It saddens me that my one true talent appears to be concern trolling.

I think I'll sit this thread out as a competitor...

(can't...resist...the...inner...troll)

...especially since y'all are a bunch of f**ks. How can you even discuss best movies of all time without including Battleship Potemkin, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, or Network. G*d d*mn bunch of dunderheaded ignoramuses. I'm going on strike. You won't see me around this g*dfors*ken website!

I totally agree with you. All these people who disagree with you need to learn a lesson. I will join you in solidarity of going on stryke until managment cleans up these people. I mean it is almost as bad as DU these dayes.

Just one more thing: All you STAR WARS FANBOYS wouldn't know a good movie if it was projected right on you own butt!

Okay, that's it, now I'm leaving for good!

Citizen Kane? Try Citizen LAME. Talk about elitist. Yeah, I get it, you miss your SLED. Boo-f*cking-hoo. Call me when you've got a real problem. Like, I dunno, you're an out of work musician, you accidentally witnessed the Valentine's Day Massacre, and your only choice is to dress up like a woman and join an all-girl's band that's performing in a beach hotel, but now a handsy billionaire finds your act a little too convincing and wants to marry you, MEANWHILE the gangsters are having a convention at the SAME HOTEL. That's a problem.

Pansy.

Hi Anneeliz. Just wanted to point out that there is an homage to one of your recent comments buried in this post:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/04/copy-of-storied-republican-pla.php#comments

Thank you, that is all. A

you're an out of work musician, you accidentally witnessed the Valentine's Day Massacre, and your only choice is to dress up like a woman and join an all-girl's band that's performing in a beach hotel, but now a handsy billionaire finds your act a little too convincing and wants to marry you
Welcome to my life...

What's with all the old movies? I think you guys are ageists or youngists. Whatever you're discriminating against those of us who have heard of those movies but never bothered to watch them because the graphics, are like, so lame.

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The answer is The Godfather.

Coppolabot.

The answer is Casablanca. Everyone knows it. People who come up with different answers are just trying to be cute.

Two words: Claude Raines.

BOGARTA BIN LIAR!!!!

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Three out of the five movies you listed are considered by cinephiles as "classics" (Godfather, Citizen Kane and Casablanca)-- that is ELITIST and OUT OF TOUCH!!!!

Star Wars is about WARMONGERING!!!

Dirty Dancing is PORNO!!!!

None of these are chick flicks!!! Where are the movies with black people??? Are you all RACISTS???

You didn't even put Annie Oakley on the the list. None of this is EXCELLENT NEWS FOR HILLARY... none of it.

I raised her a little as my manhood had no more room to go and she moaned softly. http://www.ghunbeens.com/

VICTOR LASZLO IS A SOCIALIST!! HE PRINTS THE FOULEST LIES IN THE LIBERAL MEDIA!!! DISCOVER THE TRUTH ABOUT VICTOR LASZLO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pK5HmuCMBM

That youtube clip makes me uneasy. I'm not saying Billy Dee Williams is anti-white. But he may not be sufficiently white-sensitive.

JENNIFER GREY IS A SERIAL ABORTIONIST!! EVEN THE LIBERAL FASHIST ROGER EBERT CALLS HER AN IDIOT!!! WHEN WILL AMERICA WAKE UP AND REALIZE THAT MEXICANS ARE STEALING OUR BABIES AND ONLY THE JEWS WILL BE LEFT!! YOU CANNOT HIDE WITH A NOSEJOB- THE ISLAMOFASHISTS WILL FIND YOU!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-gy5EG9Clw

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