These tweets take us back to the days of VHS rentals, horrid late fees, and stocking up on all the candy at the cashier before leaving Blockbuster with enough movies to last at least a night. The Last Blockbuster might be right up there with our other recent favorite Twitter account that's all about providing updates from Jurassic Park.
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Ah, yes, a good old fashioned Tumblr thread that takes a long and hard look at the iconic film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. This Tumblr user provides some compelling points for why Willy Wonka had a serious lapse in judgment when it came to who he picked to inherit his chocolate factory. Even though Violet Beauregarde was especially irritating and always brought the spicy attitude, it seems like she could've offset that with her very qualified skillset.
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This fun Tumblr thread shines light on just how weird the third Spy Kids movie was. It was filled to the brim with unexpected cameos. We're talking Steve Buscemi showing up on a flying pig at one point. Like, what was that about? For some more gold from Tumblr, check out this thread about life hacks to adult effectively.
Someone on AskReddit got a thread rolling about the worst movies people ever sat through. Of course the context with this particular thread is that these people were suffering through these movies hoping for some kind of improvement. Unfortunately, no such improvement was ever had, and the movies continued onward with mind numbingly terrible quality.
Some classic movie villains are just having a bad day, had a tragic backstory, are trying to protect the people they love, are straight up following a contract, or just get attacked by the protagonist for no reason. On the other side, sometimes a fictional character is written or portrayed so well that they inspire genuine feelings of hate.
He manages to not say a single negative thing, while analyzing some ridiculously impossible moves. That's true honor.
She needs to do more of these recaps. This was thoroughly enjoyable.
Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the movie logic moments that don't hold up in the realm of the real world. It'd be great if we could always show up at the right place at the right time, or walk into a bar and order a "beer" and magically get exactly what we were thinking of; but thus is not how the real world works.
