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Tag Lines Make My Head Hurt

So I just went to Blockbuster to rent a movie. My eyes were filled with rows and rows of movies people actually spent time on making. Acting, production, editing, all of that effort. Have you been in a movie store lately? Let me enlighten you to the glorious movies they have been making. I’ve handpicked all of the best ones we came across, complete with enticing imagery and perfectly fitting taglines:

Black Sheep (unrated!)(!): There are 40 million sheep in New Zealand … and they’re pissed off!

The Eye of the Dolphin: She found her voice in the ocean … and in herself.

Confetti: May the best wedding win!

Christmas Do-Over: Ever wish Christmas was every day?

My personal favourite: Ice Spiders - Hell has just frozen over.

Snoop-Doggs Hood of Horror: It ain’t all good in da hood.

I mean. Really. WHO WATCHES THESE MOVIES?! The worst ones seem to be the horror movies - they keep running out of ideas. I mean… killer sheep? Sheep, I’ll have you know, are intelligent, gentle animals!

We ended up renting Fay Grim, and the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. Both ended up being… strange. Anyway, we were looking for something different from the heavy, epic dramas of movies we’ve seen recently, which were great but extremely exhausting: Gone Baby Gone and Into the Wild. It just happens to be a high traffic movie time - I’m about done with it for a while. (J won $100 worth of movie tickets from his work, so we’ve been taking advantage).