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BiggerBoat 
"Pass me the harpoon"
London, UK
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 Posted - 29/03/2007 : 05:33:31
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Hey demonic, good to see another Londoner up at this time of the night? the city that never sleeps baby.
Amazingly I've just had a review for this little challenge approved within an hour. So a big thank you to the MERP who was lurking around the V for Vendetta page.
Edit: And that review has taken me into the top 200 for the first time. if I carry on at this rate it's only going to take me another 11 years to get to 1000 reviews |
Edited by - BiggerBoat on 29/03/2007 05:48:05 |
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Mr Savoir Faire 
"^ Click my name. "
ATL, Georgia (USA)
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Posted - 29/03/2007 : 05:49:51
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Originally posted by demonic
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Originally posted by Mr Stupid
Technically the review for Jaws 4 is incorrect since there is a Jaws 5, which is why I never voted for it.
You don't seriously mean "Cruel Jaws" do you? 
I had to look this up, as I had forgotten the subtittle and I've never heard it called this. About 5 months ago, I had the pleasure of attending/organizing a Jaws marathon, but we were only able to gather one through four.
I admit it's been about ten years since I've seen it, and it was on my friend's LaserDisk player, immediatley after watching Jaws on LaserDisk. I don't remember much, except for it ripped off many other Jaws movies (some of which I hadn't seen at the time) and had pictures of a great white attacking even though a tiger shark was supposively attacking. I also remember one scene in which the shark jumps totally out of the water lands upright on a dock and while balancing on it's back fin, roars. i always assumed that it had the rights to the Jaws movies since it used the name "Jaws 5" and had stock footage, and was therefore was in the series, but I now see that this is not the case; it is just a rip-off. |
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MM0rkeleb 
"Better than HBO."
Palo Alto, CA
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Posted - 29/03/2007 : 06:18:17
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Originally posted by Se�n
Nope, the problem is that you've sorted them by votes. So as soon as someone voted on them they disappear out of the list of five (as they have more votes). The first link definitely does not have your review in it, and never will have again unless you sort by something other than votes. E.g., reviewer name or chronologically etc. The second one still contains your review but it will disappear as soon as it gets one more vote.
Actually, the real problem is I didn't specify a sorting method. My default is Reviewer Rank, and with those it works. Here are the fixed links:
One which additionally consists of only monosyllables
A triple alliteration |
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MM0rkeleb
"Better than HBO."
Palo Alto, CA
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Posted - 29/03/2007 : 06:34:43
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Originally posted by Chris C
Tracking Down Maggie: The Unofficial Biography Of Margaret Thatcher. All three words the same (quadruple alliteration!).
Very nice. 
I'd say it fits my challenge, though the ideal quadruple alliteration would involve four words, at least some of them different. Not sure if we'll ever see that, but demonic's Das Boot review points out the most likely strategy: use a prefix. Scratch that - I've just submitted a quintuple alliteration (all different words). We'll see if it's accepted.
Here's another idea for a proper challenge. Become the first reviewer to have an alliterative review for every letter of the alphabet - except for X and Z, I don't think you could come up with much for either of those letters. I'd suggest the following parameters:
Every word/name in the review must start with the same letter.
The review must contain four words.
Of course it may be that someone's already got it, or some will find it prohibitively hard to comb their reviews in search of alliterations they've already done, but I think it's a nifty challenge. If people like it, I can figure out where I stand tomorrow. |
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turrell 
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "
Little Rock
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tortoise
"Still reviewing, but slowly."
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demonic 
"Cinemaniac"
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29/03/2007 : 16:00:04
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Originally posted by BiggerBoat
Hey demonic, good to see another Londoner up at this time of the night? the city that never sleeps baby.
That would make us the Fwiffers who never sleep. How else to explain those high vote averages? 
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Edit: And that review has taken me into the top 200 for the first time. if I carry on at this rate it's only going to take me another 11 years to get to 1000 reviews
Congratulations for that - and here's to the next 11 years. 
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Originally posted by Mr Stupid
I had to look this up, as I had forgotten the subtittle and I've never heard it called this. About 5 months ago, I had the pleasure of attending/organizing a Jaws marathon, but we were only able to gather one through four.
I admit it's been about ten years since I've seen it, and it was on my friend's LaserDisk player, immediatley after watching Jaws on LaserDisk. I don't remember much, except for it ripped off many other Jaws movies (some of which I hadn't seen at the time) and had pictures of a great white attacking even though a tiger shark was supposively attacking. I also remember one scene in which the shark jumps totally out of the water lands upright on a dock and while balancing on it's back fin, roars. i always assumed that it had the rights to the Jaws movies since it used the name "Jaws 5" and had stock footage, and was therefore was in the series, but I now see that this is not the case; it is just a rip-off.
I'm slightly jealous that you've seen it. It sounds so shameless and so dreadful it has to be an all time classic of bad filmmaking. It still baffles me how they got away with literally cutting bits of the other four Jaws films (amongst others) into their film without getting taken to court. Amusingly on the IMDB listing Peter Benchley even gets a writing credit... perhaps that's for the classic "We're going to need a bigger...helicopter."  |
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Cheese_Ed
"The Provolone Ranger"
Guernsey
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MM0rkeleb
"Better than HBO."
Palo Alto, CA
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Tori
"I don't get it...."
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
The Hub of the Universe
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
The Hub of the Universe
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Tori
"I don't get it...."
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Posted - 29/03/2007 : 20:26:46
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| I'm confused. I was under the impression that they all had to start with the same letter. If not, I have probably hundreds. |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
The Hub of the Universe
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Posted - 29/03/2007 : 20:55:52
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| Even just the first two words starting with the same letter is enough for it to be considered alliteration, although I'm not sure if the stardards were set higher for this thread. You'll note, however, that where I chose reviews where only the first two words start with the same letter, the ones I selected actually have two alliterative pairs: the first two words share the starting letter, and the last two words share their starting letters, for example Blond Bond wants White. I call that a double alliteration, although I'm sure there's some "official" name for that. I have plenty of other reviews where the first two words are alliterative and the last two aren't, but I don't consider those alliterations "good enough" for this thread. |
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Cheese_Ed
"The Provolone Ranger"
Guernsey
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Posted - 29/03/2007 : 21:39:14
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Originally posted by M0rkeleb
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Originally posted by Cheese_Ed
That Thing You Do! (1996) - Hanks hawks hunks' hooks.
WOW! This one deserves at least 10 times as many votes as it has now.
Well, thanks for giving it at least one, Mor. |
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F.W.F.R.ers' challenge 1: alliteration
