I couldn't watch it.

It was much too annoying.

Me too.

Not sure if it was because I was grumpy when I watched it or what. My brain was all, "Don't make a joke out of their situation!" Then my brain told my brain The Hunger Games was fiction, but the video still bugged me.

Okay, I started reading the walkthrough of the haunted house, and hell to the fuck no. I do not have any wiring that makes that enjoyable. It's unpleasant even to read.

Seriously. The circumstances under which I'm OK with other people touching me are limited and do not include when I'm stumbling through a haunted house attraction in the dark. And I think rather than safety-ing out during the waterboard segment I'd have grabbed the nearest piece of furniture and fought my way out.

Yeah, that's my take on it, too. Now, if someone took the idea of possibly being touched and having to walk through alone and built a non-torture-porn scare attraction around that, like a really creepy ghost-themed one, that would be very cool, and I'd be all for it.

A picture of Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins:

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It's a cool look.

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She's horrendously muscular for the movies, but she's not for the dojo. I'd be surprised if she's much larger than an 8.

She's definitely different than Angelina in Salt, which was really the nadir of "stick insects who kick ass." I think you're right about her being an 8, if only because, ironically, male MMA fans obsess about her inability to make weight. She seems to go between 145-175, and she's 5'8" or so.

Was Salt worse than Angelina taking punches from Mr. & Mrs. Smith? That was so...I liked the movie, but seriously.

It's be a while before a truly thickly muscled woman gets the action/sexy lead in a Hollywood movie. It's not that I haven't seen size eights and below take on bigger guys and dominate, but no one cares in fight choreography (although, weirdly, Columbiana wasn't *awful*).

I'd have grabbed the nearest piece of furniture and fought my way out.

That would have been my panicked reaction, I think, if I didn't go effectively catatonic.

And I think rather than safety-ing out during the waterboard segment I'd have grabbed the nearest piece of furniture and fought my way out.

I'm sort of amazed that the people working there haven't had the crap beaten out of them yet -- not out of anger, but just because it seems like most people's instinct in that situation would be to flip out like a mammal.

For the first time in a while, Movietickets.com has sent me an email that got me going from the subject line on in. If you use them for tickets (which I do, for AMC), they spam you every now and again: Citizens of Panem: Save the Date!

I actually got a squee.

That Hamburger Helper trailer was in such extreme poor taste that I laughed my ass off.

I know something is wrong with me.