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It’s time for another Top 10 list! And another break from ranking the important things, like ways to cook an egg or kinds of facial hair. I’ve been planning this one for a while now, and my good friend Owen MacDonald insisted I post it sooner than later, so here goes. For the bigger runs Read more
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As you may be aware, this is my second Concert Report post, the first one was of course back in June when I saw They Might Be Giants at First Ave. I don’t know if I’ll do another Concert Report any time soon, but I saw two this summer, and I get to do these. Read more
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Full spoilers for some obscure movies you’ve never heard of starring some people that may or may not surprise you. Let’s delve into The Château, The Shape of Things, and Two Days. Also, a trigger warning of sorts: These movies are sad and weird and about depressing topics. The Château(2001) stars Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Read more
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In my storied career as an amateur blogger, I’ve pitched many wonderful ideas to my adoring audience, many films and a couple of TV shows that have failed to reach the producers and studio executives that could give them the adaptations they deserve. And I’ve finally realized the issue is I’m shooting too big. At Read more
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Hey, everybody! It’s time again for me to rank and rate the most monotonous and mundane things in this world! I’m the only one on Earth who wants to make it clear where things really stand. What’s the most fun way to spend time at the gym? How many ways can you do it while Read more
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As I’ve made it clear many times already, I am very psyched for the movie coming out next week. My inner child, the desperate fanboy, is so excited to see this movie and the newest trailers have only stoked the flames of said excitement. I’m aware people are frustrated the trailers are revealing so many Read more
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My week was long and weird, and my weekend was also. I was recovering from a surprise sickness and on Friday I’d spent two hours getting my beard trimmed before having dinner and drinks with some old friends from school. It is very much a surreal, out of body experience, reconnecting with people you’ve known Read more
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I’m at the starting line Waiting to begin another cross country relay I don’t want to be here, and my coaches couldn’t be more aware I’ve been a ridiculous nuisance for months now Not that it matters anymore, of course, it’s far too late A bald man waves a flag and the race begins Or Read more
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Hello, loyal reader! It’s me, John! If you’re reading this, surely you get the idea of the kind of person I am at this point. I love to write and talk about movies, but I’m also easily stressed and struggle with consistency when it comes to posting regularly or writing for myself regularly. And I’d Read more
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This is different from the usual blog posts I write in that I’ve never talked about going to concerts before but I went to one on Saturday and it was really fun and I want to talk about it. I’m seeing two of my favorite bands in concert this summer, so in July when I Read more
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This is my third Top 10 list ranking various things, and there are more to come, but I thought I’d shake up the format a little. As some of you may know, I started writing Top 10 lists because ranking is the big thing on the internet right now and I feel there are things Read more
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A year ago now I wrote three short stories for a short story class, and I released the first two, Substitute Fish and Don’t Kill The Rooster last year when I couldn’t think of anything to write. I dragged my feet on this one because I really liked it but wanted to edit it and Read more
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It took me a while to get here, but this is officially my 100th blog post! It’s been almost three years now and I’ve come a long way and thrown a lot of nonsense out in my movie reviews, pitches, and miscellaneous musings. I just wanted to use this post as an opportunity to catch Read more
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Welcome, one and all, to the second installment of my now reoccurring ranking column. There are so many things in this world to rank, and so little people willing to do it. Well here I am. As I said last time, I’ll eventually pivot slightly and use these to rank movies and comics I’d recommend, Read more
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Full spoilers for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, a movie that came out almost two decades ago. If you haven’t seen this movie, you’re probably not a fan of the incredibly niche rock biopic parody genre and don’t mind. Though I’ll give some more examples of that genre throughout. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Read more
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I’ve done a few of these movie pitch posts now and none of them have been made yet. Is it because I’m just throwing joke ideas onto my blog and hoping Hollywood will notice me? Perhaps. But I wouldn’t discount the complete lack of originality in most of the movies being released today. Much like Read more
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If there’s something in the world I really, truly hate, and there’s a lot of them, it’s the threat of artificial intelligence and what it represents to the world of moviemaking and writing at large. I especially despise that abominable creation ChatGPT, produced by the company OpenAI, and would very much like to see it Read more
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Hey, everybody! In my ongoing quest to improve myself as a human being and write weird shit on a consistent time table, I’m rededicating my efforts to this blog, the magnum opus through which I channel my most inane thoughts. You can expect more posts, more Ruddtrospectives, and more Flying Nun reviews in the near Read more
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Previously on http://www.TooManyServingsOfJohn.Com… A movie was bad!Specifically the movie was called Ghostbusters: Afterlife. And it wasn’t necessarily bad, but I didn’t like it. It was one of the first Paul Rudd movies I reviewed for this column, and I thought it was a weird disjointed mash of different tones that didn’t work. It was one Read more
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Now that the writer’s strike is over and the actor’s strike will definitely end soon (Because the AMPTP Jerks are definitely going to give the Actor’s Guild what they want) I’ve decided to start pitching my movie ideas to Hollywood again. Everybody knows the last few batches were conceptual gold and are just itching to Read more
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The answer is me, obviously. It’d be really weird if I said “My Grandma” and then put her thoughts below. But also maybe funny in its own way? Anyway, if you’re disappointed that that’s not the thing I’m doing, then I’m sorry. But yeah, I just watched all the Fast & Furious movies. I’d never Read more
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I recently wrote three short stories for a class and really enjoyed writing them, so I thought I’d post them here. This is the second story. Enjoy! Substitute Fish “The less you talk to me, the more I like you.” That partial recollection of vague quotation had been rolling through Walter’s mind a lot recently. Read more
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This past semester, I wrote three short stories for a writing class. I enjoyed doing it and I thought I’d share some of them on the blog. Sorry for the delay on my review of the Fast & Furious movies. I went on strike like all the other writers, and then I remembered that nobody Read more
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Hi. Hello. Just a quick disclaimer. As I said above, I will be ranting about The Flash, as I most likely have done before in small doses. But I wanted to clarify which The Flash I plan to complain about. I will not be yelling about The Flash, the 2023 movie starring (Notoriously garbage person)Ezra Read more
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Not sure if this story is interesting or not but it’s a weird experience and I felt it warranted mentioning. Also you don’t have to read it. You could go read a different blog, or write your own post. Let me live my life! Anyway. Before… Back when COVID-19 initially became a major inconvenience, I Read more
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I’ve decided to continue my weird, time-honored tradition of posting at least five brilliant movie ideas every three months. I’m not sure how much of a tradition it is because this is only my third time doing it. And is it really a tradition or is it just a pattern? How many times do you Read more
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I think I’ve mentioned before that I’m a little obsessed with comic books and comic book movies in general. They’re a pretty big part of my life, and they always have been. I’m sure I’ve said this before, but I know more about the worlds of Marvel and DC comics than I know about current Read more
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DISCLAIMER: This post was written one week before I plan on posting it, so by the time this is published I will no longer be in quarantine and I will have rejoined the real world. Just wanted to make that clear so as to dissuade any worries. So a few months ago I made a Read more
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Charlie had been staring at his computer screen for exactly one hour, forty-three minutes and seventeen seconds. In this time he had averaged two blinks every thirty minutes, and had only turned away from the computer three and a half times. Two of those times were so he could flip the novelty hourglass he kept Read more
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